Paul Pillar / Nancy Okail
How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics
How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump’s “America First” Unilateralism and Biden’s “America is Back” Nostalgia
Featured Episode
Green Street is preempted today by a one-hour special with Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, on the collapse of the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Israel’s post-collapse bombings, incursions in Syria, and what comes next. Bennis’s forthcoming book, Understanding Palestine and Israel, is available as a thank-you gift … Continued
Katie Gaddini on Christian Rt Women and Deborah Craig on Sally w/ Kerby Lynch on BALA
This Monday December 9th at 1pm on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Lisa Dettmer talks to scholar Dr. Katie Gaddini who is an expert on young conservative evangelical women in the U.S. and the UK in order to try and find out why so many young conservative christian women supported Trump, what gender politics have to … Continued
Christopher Bache, a professor emeritus of philosophy and religious studies, discusses his twenty-year psychedelic journey, which is described and interpreted in his book “LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven.”
Craig Mokhiber on Israel’s Wall of Impunity
Ralph welcomes international human rights lawyer and activist, and former senior United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber to discuss Israel and Gaza — asking whether Israel should be thrown out of the UN, how Trump’s positions will compare to Biden’s, and whether we’re starting to see cracks in Israel’s wall of impunity. Craig Mokhiber … Continued
Guest: Catherine Nixey is a journalist and a classicist. She is the author of The Darkening Age and her latest, Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – December 9, 2024
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Palestine Post: Latest in Lebanon; UC Irvine Professor Retaliated Against for Pro-Palestine Position – Holiday Fund Drive Special
Today’s guests for our weekly Palestine Post segment are: Samer Araabi is a member of AROC and co-hosts the weekly Palestine Solidarity Announcements every Friday at noon. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is a tenured professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine. She was arrested in a May pro-Palestinian demonstration on campus along with about 50 others. FUND DRIVE … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls
00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
Democracy Now 6am – December 9, 2024
On today’s show: “Assad Is Gone”: Writer Yassin al-Haj Saleh on Syria, His 16 Years in Prison, and His Wife’s Disappearance Syrians Are Celebrating Fall of Assad, Even as “the Bigger Picture Is Grim”: Scholar Bassam Haddad “Remarkable Moment”: After Fleeing Syria, “For Sama” Director Waad Al-Kateab Celebrates End of Assad