Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff discusses the positive and negative lessons we need to learn from the New Deal.
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Host Marie Choi – #Save E12th, Greece Debt Crisis, Syriza and Greek Social Movements – July 10, 2015
#SaveE12th Oakland’s City Council is under fire for moving forward with an land deal to sell off city owned land to build luxury apartments. A report by the East Bay Express earlier this week shows that the City Attorney Barbara Parker had advised the Council back in February that the deal violates the State’s Surplus … Continued
Tonight, we learn about Chea Bou, a Cambodian refugee who is facing deportation. Linda Tam with the East Bay Community Law Center and Chea Bou’s wife, Sambath Nhep talk about his case. To support Chea, here’s the link to the petition. Then we take you to Detroit with tape from the Allied Media Conference, an … Continued
Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies at Trinity College and author of several books including The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. We’ll talk about the similarities and differences between the Greek debt crisis and the debt crises of the Global … Continued
Representative Barbara Lee on Democracy Now!
Mustafa Barghouti joins us to mark the one-year anniversary of the last Gaza War, take stock of how it’s changed politics internationally, and among Palestinians, and discuss the path forward to a just peace in the Middle East.But first: European negotiators are digging in over the crisis in Greece — will the left-wing Syriza government … Continued
The End of Encryption? NSA & FBI Seek New Backdoors Against Advice from Leading Security Experts; Matt Taibbi: Eric Holder Back to Wall Street-Tied Law Firm After Years of Refusing to Jail Bankers; Has the World Abandoned Gaza? Region Remains in Ruins a Year After Deadly Israeli Assault
How God Wound Up In the Pledge, and Why Berkeley’s Curbside Recycling Director is Facing Deportation
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is poised to deport Daniel Maher, the director of Berkeley’s Curbside Recycling Program – a man who’s lived in this country since the age of three. And it’s all because of increased cooperation between the US and China. We’ll get the details from an attorney working on his case. But first: … Continued
Cindy Sage, co-editor of the ongoing Bioinitiative Report, discusses the alarming new research on EMF and wireless radiation exposure and how that information has been suppressed. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
With Mansour Farhang, professor of international relations at Bennington College, Vermont. He resigned from his post as revolutionary Iran’s first ambassador to the United Nations when Khomeini’s regime refused to accept the UN’s recommendation to release its US hostages. He is author of U.S. Imperialism: The Spanish-American War to the Iranian Revolution and co-author of … Continued