We plug into the real world Matrix – the digital Wild West of surveillance capitalism that dominates this Age of Information. Behind it is the unholy alliance between Big Tech and Big Brother. Privacy is the first casualty and democracy dies with it. Our guide is Cindy Cohn, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation, with her … Continued
The nuclear industry is pushing hard to be part of our energy future, but the realities of massive cost, long construction times, and radioactive waste just can’t be wished away. This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the words we use to describe environmental poisons, marketing of junk food to communities of … Continued
This Monday on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to 3 Iranian and Iranian American scholars and activists to get an Iranian feminist perspective on the U.S. attack on Iran to help us better understand what a feminist response to Iran is. We talk to Iranian graduate student, playwright and cartoonist Sepehr Jafari who … Continued
The global rise of the authoritarian right has confounded classification and led to contentious debates on the left. Do politicians like Modi, Bolsonaro, Orban, and Trump represent an extreme form of right-wing populism? Or are they fascists, as some claim? Historian and scholar of populism and fascism Federico Finchelstein argues that we’re seeing something new … Continued
On to day’s show: Ralph welcomes sociologist and historian Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi to discuss the United States’ war of aggression on Iran. Ralph Nader talks about what’s happening in America, what’s happening around the world, and most importantly what’s happening underneath it all.
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On today’s show: Headlines Iran Picks New Supreme Leader; Toxic Black Rain Falls After Israeli Strikes on Iranian Oil Depots “Racist Regime”: Iranian Israeli Editor Orly Noy on Israel Denying Bomb Shelter Access to Palestinians “Trump Has Been Anointed by Jesus” to Wage War on Iran: U.S. Commanders Accused of Promoting Holy War Democracy … Continued
Guest: Eliana Rubin is an anti-Zionist organizer, somatic practitioner, full spectrum doula and author of the book Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism. — Subscribe to this podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: [email protected] Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
On today’s show: Headlines Iran Picks New Supreme Leader; Toxic Black Rain Falls After Israeli Strikes on Iranian Oil Depots “Racist Regime”: Iranian Israeli Editor Orly Noy on Israel Denying Bomb Shelter Access to Palestinians “Trump Has Been Anointed by Jesus” to Wage War on Iran: U.S. Commanders Accused of Promoting Holy War Democracy … Continued
