Successful launch of reusable rocket; UFOs and the presidential campaign; will a planet hit the earth next month? Guest: Dan Charles, author of book on Nobel Laureate Fritz Haber, who worked for the Nazis Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
Featured Episode
Shortening the Work Week, Moving Beyond Work
More than a century ago, the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, called for the four-hour workday. Should we be considering something similar now? Kathi Weeks explores why radicals should envision a world where work is not central to our existence. She also discusses cutting the work week, without a cut in pay, and … Continued
Jack Blum spent years as a staff attorney for the Senate Anti-Trust Subcommittee specializing in white-collar corporate crime and off-shore tax evasion. He’ll join us for a conversation on what the Panama Papers tell us about the global financial world and the difficulties in stopping questionable business practices. Then, Peter Manseau, author of the book … Continued
HRW Finds Saudis Used US Bombs in Yemen Massacre; Democracy Awakening: Mass Activist Coalition Descends on DC; Clinton Lectures Black Couple About Crime Bill, Issues Non-Apology. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
Democracy Spring: Over 400 Arrested at U.S. Capitol Protesting Corruption & Money in Politics; Lee Fang: Dark Money & Lobbyists Serving as Superdelegates Could Decide the 2016 Race; Beauty Secrets of the Spies: CIA Begins Investing in Skin Care Products That Collect DNA; Death by Gentrification: Alex Nieto Killed by Hail of Police Bullets in … Continued
We speak with Minister Christopher Muhammad about SFPD aggression and the attempts to push Black and Brown people out of the Mission and Bayview areas of San Francisco.
Who finances the Congressional Black Caucus? And the fight for restaurant worker rights.
Color of Change Executive Director Rashad Robinson on who finances the Congressional Black Caucus; Atty Hector Ramirez and Restaurant Workers Movement Organizer Paul Blasenheim on the class action lawsuit against Calavera Restaurants.
With Robert Norrell, author of Alex Haley: And the Books that Changed a Nation. And Somini Sengupta, New York Times UN Bureau Chief and author of the book The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India’s Young. About Alex Haley: It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that … Continued
New Report Shows Disturbing Spike in Violence Aimed at Abortion Clinics; Coming Of Age in the Other America; Las Cafeteras Takes Their Music And Politics on Tour. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
Another police shooting in San Francisco — this time Luis Gongora, a homeless man who’d been living on the sidewalk. Two night later, police raid the encampment where Gongora had been staying — we talk to Jennifer Friedenbach of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. Plus: the Oakland City Council has unanimously approved a 90-day … Continued