Today our host Mitch Jeserich speaks with Nii Akuetteh, the founder of the Democracy and Conflict Research Institute based in Ghana and a current a policy analyst at the Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA). We discuss both the history of Zimbabwe and the recent developments taking place in the country regarding the house arrest of … Continued
During this Thursday’s episode, in light of a nationalist march with 60,000 participants that took place in Poland two days ago, we speak with Rafal Pankowski, co-founder of Polish anti-extremist association Never Again and widely-published author of The Populist Radical Right in Poland: The Patriots. He joins us to discuss the growing white nationalism in … Continued
Zimbabwe in Limbo As Military Seizes Control & Places President Mugabe Under House Arrest; African Activist Slams Trump for Reversing Ban on Elephant Trophies from Hunts in Zimbabwe & Zambia; Nigerian Environmental Activist: Displacement from Climate Change Contributed to Rise of Boko Haram; Activists at COP23 Decry Companies & Corporate Sponsors Pushing Fossil Fuel as … Continued
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
