With Marion Nestle, Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. Marion Nestle is the author of many books. Her most recent is Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning). About the book: Sodas are astonishing … Continued
A hunger strike is spreading at a for-profit detention center housing asylum-seekers in Texas–we talk to someone who’s been in the center, and is in touch with the strikers. Guests: Nadia Ben Youseff, US Representative of Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Anonymous individual who regularly visits women participating in the … Continued
Actor Viggo Mortensen: Warrior-King in Lord of the Rings’ Middle Earth is Peace Activist on This One; “You Have to Speak Up”: Viggo Mortensen Defends Quentin Tarantino’s Criticism of Police Killings; Actor Viggo Mortensen: On Foreign Policy, Democratic Candidates Aren’t Too Far from the Hawks; Acclaimed Actor Viggo Mortensen on the Pope, Poetry and Art … Continued
Today on flashpoints: A major protest planned this weekend against Donald Trump and NBC, outside the building where Saturday Night Live is produced. Also, what comes next in the battle for immigrant rights in the wake up Obama’s cruel policy of mass deportation and private imprisonment.
A revolutionary socialist, fervent opponent of colonialism, staunch anti-sectarian, and maverick champion of gay liberation — the French writer and activist Daniel Guérin’s life spanned many of the key radical movements of the 20th century, with an unusual twist: he was in turn a Marxist, then an anarchist, and then synthesized the two traditions. Scholar … Continued
With Jimena Canales, Professor of History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of the book The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time. And Gerry Spence, trial lawyer who has been practicing law since 1952 and author of Police State: How America’s Cops Get Away with Murder. … Continued
We take you through the fallout from the housing wars that went to the ballot in San Francisco — we’ll talk to the winners and the losers about what happened, and what’s next. Guests: Calvin Welch, long-time housing activist; lecturer in Urban Affairs at University of San Francisco; one of the principal proponents of Proposition … Continued
Facing Health Crisis, Puerto Rico Protests Unequal Federal Payments for Medicare, Medicaid; Election Day 2015: GOP Takes Kentucky, Ohio Rejects Pot Monopoly, and Houston Shuns LGBT Equality; With Historic Release of Drug Offenders & Help for Re-Entry, US Takes “First Step” on Prison Crisis; Power Wars: How Obama Continued Bush’s National Security State After Campaigning … Continued
Today on Flashpoints: Did Marco Rubio deal Jeb a 1, 2 knock blow in the latest debate? And huge news for the Rubio team, that billionaire hedge funder, Paul Singer, has jumped into the ring full force for the upstart senator. Also, the battle against expensive useless and racist over testing in public schools, picks … Continued
Guest: Dr. Greg Stock talks about redesigning the human race via genetic engineering. Dr. Kaku answers questions from listeners.
