Today on the Show: Are the progressives winning or losing in congress? Root’s Action Founder, Norm Solomon, has a whole bunch to say on that. And Pedro Castillo, a socialist- marxist president elected in Peru;\. We ask, what are the implications for the region and the US: and we’ll hear about the history of US … Continued
For the first part of the program, Bobby Seale explodes the myth of the armed street gang promulgated by Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover. The Panthers were a group of professional, semi-professional, and college students who formed this anti-segregation, broad-spectrum civil rights movement whose legal use of arms Bobby would substitute for video cameras … Continued
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Great powers rise and fall. But when their power wanes, as Britain’s did in the early 20th century and the U.S. is arguably waning now, who shoulders the costs of their decline? Is it elites or those on the bottom? Sociologist Richard Lachmann discusses what the past can tell us about the future of empires … Continued
Guest: Binyamin Appelbaum writes about economics and business for the editorial page of The New York Times. From 2010 to 2019, he was a Washington correspondent for the Times, covering economic policy in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis. He previously worked for The Charlotte Observer, where his reporting on subprime lending won a George Polk Award and was … Continued
Guest: Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and writes a column on world affairs for The Boston Globe. He is an award-winning foreign correspondent who served as The New York Times’s bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua and as The Boston Globe’s Latin America correspondent. He s the … Continued
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On today’s show: 0:08 – Is California ready for wildfire season? We discuss with prescribed fire practitioner and fire historian Jared Dahl Aldern (@JaredDahlAldern) and Lenya Quinn-Davidson (@lenyaqd) Fire Adviser with the University of California Cooperative Extension and director of the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council. 0:33 – From the KPFA archives, Mexican-American guitar legend … Continued
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