Mitch Jeserich talks to Yasha Levine about the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist for Pando Daily, a San Francisco-based news magazine focused on covering the politics and power of big tech. He is the author of the book Surveillance Valley: The Secret … Continued


Mitch Jeserich talks to legal scholar Peter Afrasiabi about the history of the agency that is tasked with capturing, detaining, and deporting people, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and how immigration went from a labor issue to a national security one. Peter Afrasiabi is a federal court litigation lawyer at One LLP, he founded and directs the Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic … Continued


Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with National Security Analysts Melvin Goodman and Lawrence Korb to talk about the ousting of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State and the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him. Guest: Melvin A. Goodman, served as a senior analyst and Division Chief at the CIA from 1966 to 1990.  … Continued


Today we are in conversation with Vegas Tenold.  He embedded himself with members of three of America’s most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party.  Vegas Tenold is an award-winning journalist. He has covered the far right in America for years, as well as human rights in Russia, conflict … Continued


On this International Women’s Day, we dive into the story of twenty’s century American anarchist and radical Emma Goldman who FBI’s director J. Edgar Hoover called her the most dangerous woman in America. We bring a conversation with Candace Falk, who is an Emma Goldman scholar, Director of the Emma Goldman Papers, and author of several books … Continued


We talk to Professor Rose Cuison-Villazor about the Trump administration filing a lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws alleging obstruction of federal immigration law and violation of the Constitution. Rose Cuison-Villazor is a professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Then, excerpts from the film Paul Robeson: Portraits of … Continued