We speak to the Sheriff of San Francisco and the two people hoping to unseat him on November 3rd–and take a hard look at everything from how the city runs its jails, to how it works with federal immigration authorities. Guests: John Robinson, former lieutenant in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, now CEO of Inter-State … Continued
“Domestic Terrorism”: Spate of Black Church Burnings Near Ferguson Raise New Hate Crime Fears; Shaker Aamer: After 5,000 Days of Torment, Last British Prisoner at Guantanamo is Set for Release; U.S. Ally Saudi Arabia Prepares to Behead, Crucify Pro-Democracy Protester Ali Mohammed al-Nimr; “Where Does This End?”: After Drone Papers Leaks, U.K. Gov’t Has a … Continued
With David Talbot, author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and the acclaimed national bestseller Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon, and was a senior editor at Mother Jones … Continued
We’ll take you live to the site of the latest violence in Israel/Palestine — Hebron, a heavily-partitioned city in the West Bank, where Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint shot and killed two Palestinian teenagers who allegedly tried to attack them. We also speak to international law expert George Bisharat about the history behind the latest … Continued
Prison for Exxon Execs? Lawmakers Seek Probe of Oil Giant for Hiding Knowledge of Climate Change; Bill McKibben: Climate Activists Celebrate Obama’s Arctic Drilling Freeze & Harper’s Canadian Defeat; U.S. Sells New Warships to Saudi Arabia Despite Warnings of War Crimes & Civilian Deaths in Yemen; How a $100M Facebook Donation for Neoliberal School Reform … Continued
Q and A: UFOs, science and politics, religion. Guest: Randall Strauss, biographer of Thomas Edison. With Host Michio Kaku.
With Laurence Shoup, author of several books, including Imperial Brain Trust (with William Minter) and Rulers and Rebels: A People’s History of Early California, 1769-1901. His most recent is Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014. About the book: The Council on Foreign Relations is the most influential … Continued
Canadians Oust Stephen Harper, Right-Wing PM Who Ignored Climate Change & Shunned First Nations; “Heritage of Hate”: Univ. of Miss. Students Seek Removal of Confederate Battle Flag from Campus; Joe Biden for President? Media Buzz Ignores How Veep Worsened Student Debt on Big Banks’ Behalf.
Davey D speaks with Anyka Barber, director of the Betti Ono Gallery in Oakland and Donald Lacy of the Lovelife Foundation RALLY at CITY KICKOFF EVENT & DESIGN WORKSHOP Monday October 19th 6pm Rally Rotunda Building, 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Featuring Favianna Rodriguez, Young Gifted & Black, Oakland Creative Voices Choir and more! … Continued
In conversation with retired Army Colonel and historian Andrew Bacevich about the War in Afghanistan and historical parallels to Vietnam. Bacevich is a Professor Emeritus at Boston University. Then, Leroy Moore, race and disability social justice activist on his new film Where Is Hope: The Art of Murder about people with disabilities and police violence.
