On today’s show Mitch Jeserich talks to Nicholas Hope, former director of Stanford Center for International Development’s China research program, and former Country Director for the World Bank in China and Mongolia, about Xi Jinping meets Donald Trump.   Source Image:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xi_Jinping_in_British_Parliament.jpg   Then, Cat Brooks interviews Howard Ryan about Educational Justice, his new book. About the book: … Continued


This Endless Nightmare Must Stop: Syrian Author Speaks Out as Chemical Attack Death Toll Rises; Meet the Lawyer Who Is Going After Bill O’Reilly & Donald Trump for Sexual Harassment; Boycotting Bill O’Reilly: Over 50 Advertisers Pull Ads on Fox Show over Sexual Harassment Scandal; During Campaign Trump Accused China of “Raping Our Country,” Today … Continued



Mitch Jeserich plays clips from this morning’s emergency security council meeting, and speaks with Reese Erlich, independent journalist and author of Inside Syria, about yesterdays chemical bombings in Syria. Then, Mitch interviews Marge Baker, Executive Vice President for People for the American Way, about the evolving controversy over Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation.


On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich talks to Marge Baker Executive vice president at People for the American Way about Neil Gorsuch nomination process. Source Image: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Judge_Gorsuch_official_portrait.jpg Then, Cat Brooks interviews John Pfaff on his book Locked In. About the book: A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as … Continued


Syria Has Become a Circus of Death: Doctor Warns of Growing Humanitarian Crisis as War Rages On; “The Assad Regime is a Moral Disgrace”: Noam Chomsky on Ongoing Syrian War; Noam Chomsky on Fascism: Could It Happen Here?; Silence is Not an Option: Rev. Barber on Dr. King’s Historic “Beyond Vietnam” Speech 50 Years Later; … Continued


Was the emergence of capitalism a preordained affair?  Was it natural and inevitable that capitalism developed in England and spread to the rest of the world, as conventional accounts would have it?  Or was capitalism’s emergence contingent, arising out of social conflict in the countryside?  Marxist scholars Christopher Isett and Stephen Miller explore what the … Continued