Marcy Wheeler: Mike Flynn’s Guilty Plea to FBI Will Shape How GOP Handles Russia Investigation; GOP Quietly Moves to Open Arctic Refuge to Oil & Gas Drilling While Earth Undergoes 6th Extinction; New Investigation Finds U.S. Special Forces Massacred Somali Civilians & Orchestrated a Cover-Up; Is Trump Plan to Replace Rex Tillerson a Push for … Continued
Pope Francis is visiting Bangladesh after his historic trip to Myanmar this week. While he thanked Bangladesh for accepting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar, he did not mention the word Rohingya publicly in Myanmar. We’ll turn to Edith Mirante today to hear part 2 of our 2-part conversation about it. Then, … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: NSA Whistleblower, Thomas Drake, blows an information hole through Russia-Gate, as Flashpoints Special correspondent, Randy Credico is compelled by to testify before congress. And, we take an in-depth look at the republican tax cut proposal now before the senate
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Today on Hard Knock we speak with George Galvis, the Co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice about Dream Beyond Bars Youth Justice Town Hall, a community discussion to develop a vision to “Close Youth Prisons, Build Youth Leaders”. photo credit @ East Bay Express copyright @ East Bay Express
Caroline welcomes fellow public dreamer, Joel Solomon, author of “The Clean Money Revolution,” that money may be liberated – dedicated to collective well-being – and that “We can all do better with our relationship to money.” Let all good-hearted people release disdain for wealth, and be willing to direct its swoosh in the desirable direction, … Continued
Join Sarah Holmes for a discussion of immunity. She focuses on staying healthy through the winter and plants to support.
Today, our host Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Gigi Sohn, who was the senior advisor to former-FCC Chair Tom Wheeler when he implemented net neutrality rules in 2015. We discuss the upcoming vote regarding net neutrality, which would also end the ability of the FCC to oversee how telecommunications provide internet. Then, our … Continued
HIV/Aids impacts black communities in specific and particular material ways. Cat Brooks interviews Dr. Cleo Manago, behavioral health, and cultural analyst, political commentator for TV1 and C-SPAN, about the distinct manner that the virus shapes sexual health for impacted black folks. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin joins UpFront to discuss homelessness in Berkeley, a particular legal case between Bay … Continued
Mehdi Hasan Rips Thomas Friedman’s “Nauseating” Column in NYT Praising Saudi Arabia; White House Defensive as Trump Shares British Hate Group Videos, Drawing International Condemnation; Will Trump’s Latest Islamophobic Tweets Impact Court Rulings on His Mostly-Muslim Travel Ban? Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Trump Tax Plan to Worsen Inequality, Expand Loopholes; Anti-Globalization in the Era … Continued
Pope Francis’s historic visit to Myanmar has let human rights observers and activists down – the outspoken religious leader chose not to mention the word “Rohingya” publicly, despite a systematic pogrom of ethnic cleansing against the Muslim minority that has been well-documented and denounced worldwide. On today’s show we’ll turn to long-time expert on the … Continued
