House Republicans are racing to pass their behemoth 429-page tax reform bill just days after the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the $1.5 trillion in tax cuts will automatically trigger major cuts to Medicare. The Senate version of the same bill includes an end to the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, leaving many … Continued
Pacific Climate Warriors Roll Out Anti-Coal “Red Carpet” for Angela Merkel at U.N. Climate Talks;’ Special Report from the Occupied Forest: Meet Activists Fighting Europe’s Largest Open-Pit Coal Mine; Trump Climate Adviser Tells Democracy Now! Coal Needs a “Level Playing Field” at U.N. Climate Talks; Scientists Issue Dire Warning on Climate Change & Key Researcher … Continued
Climate justice activists at this year’s United Nations COP23 meeting in Bonn, Germany, confronted both speakers promoting fossil fuels at a White House panel, and California governor Jerry Brown. On today’s show we’ll speak with two indigenous activists Isabella Zizi and Daniel Ilario, from the US who were part of those actions. Then, we’ll spend … Continued
Kumi Naidoo: United Nations Shouldn’t “Pander to Madness That Comes Out of the Trump Administration”; Special Report: Revolt at Trump’s Pro-Coal, Pro-Nuclear & Pro-Gas Panel Rocks U.N. Climate Summit; 1st Female President of the Marshall Islands & Her Poet Daughter: We Need Climate & Nuclear Justice; “Climate Apartheid”: South African Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo Slams … Continued
Donald Trump has wrapped up his 12-day tour of Asia in the Philippines where he met with his counterpart Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte has launched a bloody war on drugs in the Philippines that has empowered police and vigilantes to kill thousands of people suspected of drug use or sales. On our show today we’ll turn … Continued
Today, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Toby Craig Jones, associate professor of History at Rutgers University, about the main role of oil and water management in Saudi political system. In his book Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia, he shows how Modern Saudi Arabian authoritarianism has its origins in the control of a … Continued
Brian Hofer, Chair of Oakland’s Privacy Advisory Commission, and 7 other oakland residents filed an internal affairs complaint against OPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick for false statements made about an August 16th ICE raid. We hear from Hofer this morning about the details of the complaint and the ICE raid in question. Afterwards, in light of … Continued
CA Gov. Jerry Brown Tells Indigenous Activists Protesting Fracking He’ll Put Them “In the Ground”; COP23: Activists from Puerto Rico to Island Nations Demand Climate Reparations, End to Fossil Fuels; Thousands Protest in Manila as Trump Hails “Great Relationship” with Philippines President Duterte; Amid Sea Level Rise & Devastating Storm, Island Nations Call for “Real … Continued
A year after Donald Trump won the presidency are we at the nascent stages of a progressive electoral backlash? On our show today we’ll turn to Laurel Wales of the group People’s Action about what the wave of progressive wins last Tuesday at the local and state levels means. Then, Medea Benjamin joins us to … Continued
