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World War III????

The increasing tensions between the U.S. and China (Taiwan, Uighers, HongKing, Wuhan, etc.!) are giving rise to fears of the worst case scenario: some minor mistake could lead to World War III.  Arms and China expert Michael Klare explains. Hosted by Kris Welch.


Guest: Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of twenty books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971. Frances is the cofounder of three organizations including the Oakland-based think tank Food First and the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna … Continued


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The Week That Was

Congress is roiling with progressives, moderates and the prez., “negotiating” the Biden Agenda.  And that’s just the Democrats!  We get insight, and maybe predictions, from John Nichols.  Then a reminder about the biases of mainstream media, from  Jeff Cohen.  Hosted by Kris Welch.


Guest: Nancy MacLean is William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Her new study for the Institute for New Economic Thinking is: “How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to … Continued