Updates on UK’s Liberal Democrats advocating serious reduction of wealth and income inequality, Sears CEO blames pensions for Sears’ problems, JP Morgan predicts next financial collapse in 2020, failure to deal with opioid crisis, G-20 meeting in Argentina evades real issues, Europeans clash with US over trade with Iran, trivial SEC fine for Citigroup dishonesty … Continued


The Environmental Protection Agency is tasked with safeguarding the public from toxic exposure.  But Jonathan Latham, executive director of the Bioscience Research Project, says that The Poison Papers — an enormous trove of documents — indicate that the EPA and the chemical industry often work hand in hand to mislead us into thinking that toxic chemicals … Continued


This week the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report that we are set to see significant changes caused by the earth warming in the next two decades. We discussed the report with professor Kristie L. Ebi co-author of the report. Guest: Kristie L. Ebi is professor of Public Health Sciences and Director of the … Continued


Alexandra Ruiz Castillo discusses the film HOME TRUTH with filmmakers April Hayes and Katia Maguire. Their new film Home Truth is a powerful documentary about domestic violence and how the trauma from these tragedies can linger through the generations  Ayoltzinapa: La Raza Chronicles joins the international commemoration of the 4th anniversary of the disappearances of the 43 Mexcian students with a moving poem excerpted … Continued