David Shulkin’s Firing at the VA Is Latest Step in Trump-Koch Push to Privatize Veterans’ Healthcare; Meet the Doctor Suing Trump: Dr. Eugene Gu on Gun Violence, Privatization of VA & White Supremacy; Remembering Stephen Hawking, Groundbreaking Physicist and Advocate for Climate, Palestine & Peace; Why Are So Many Unarmed Black People Being Killed by … Continued
Join Sarah Holmes for an exploration of grief. She includes herbs that can support us in this process.
Fake news, net neutrality, Cambridge Analytica; Bob McChesney has a lot on his mind. He joins us to share. PLUS: a Spring rant from Scoop Nisker. With host Kris Welch.
Mitch Jeserich talks to Norman G. Finkelstein about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the humanitarian disaster created after Israel’s invasion of Gaza and the military operations and illegal blockade against the Palestinian population. Filkenstein is the author of ten books including The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering and, his most recent, GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom. … Continued
7:34 – Norman Finkelstein, scholar and frequent commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict. His new book is Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom 8:08 – Scott Yundt, staff attorney for Tri-Valley CARES, a watchdog organization whose mission is the global abolition of nuclear weapons. 8:34 – Radhya Al-Mutawakel is the chairperson of the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights based in Yemen. She … Continued
As North Korea Talks with China, South Korea & Japan, Could Bolton Derail Denuclearization Progress? NYC Minister: I’m Willing to Be Arrested If ICE Comes for Immigrant Mother in Sanctuary in My Church; “I Am Raising My Voice”: Guatemalan Mother in Sanctuary in NYC Accuses Border Patrol of Sexual Abuse; Family to Bury Slain Sacramento … Continued
Mitch Jeserich talks to Amy Chua about her latest book Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. About the book: In Political Tribes, Chua argues that humans are tribal and that we need to belong to groups. In many parts … Continued
7:34 Jeremy Adam Smith, editor of Greater Good, published by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. He’s the author and editor of books on topics ranging from compassion to racism to fatherhood. His recent article for Scientific American is entitled Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns? 8:08 Marc Levine, Democratic assemblymember representing California’s 10th district. He’s the … Continued
Journalist Ari Berman: If Trump Is Allowed to Rig the Census, Then All of U.S. Democracy Is Rigged; Chelsea Manning’s Platform for U.S. Senate: Abolish ICE, Dismantle Prisons, Healthcare for All; Killed in Cold Blood: Alton Sterling’s Family Decries Decision Not to Charge Officers for Murder.
Well over a million people protested against gun violence last Saturday in 800 marches around the country and world. The March for Our Lives events were spearheaded by student survivors of the Parkland shooting. Here in Southern California where our program is based, our correspondent Nic Cha Kim attended the satellite march in downtown Los … Continued
