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0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
00:08 Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, author, and former finance minister of Greece. His latest book is Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
00:08 Vincent Bevins, formerly Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, and southeast Asia correspondent for the Washington Post, both of which jobs gave him a front-row seat to recent social upheavals. His new book is If We Burn: the mass protest decade and the missing revolution.
0:08 — Negar Mortazavi is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the Iran Podcast. She joins us from Washington D.C. 0:20 — Juan Carlos, an immigrant and US Veteran currently detained by ICE at Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Bakersfield, CA. Priya Arvind Patel, Supervising Attorney with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice. … Continued
0:08 — Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng is a Physician and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. 0:33 — Maritza Perez Medina is the Director of Federal Affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance. 0:45 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills. Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than … Continued
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus 0:33 — Dr. Peter Chin-Hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease physician at UCSF Medical Center.
Brian Merchant, founder of the speculative fiction outlet Terraform, recently laid-off technology columnist for the LA Times, and author most recently of Blood in the Machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech. [This is a repeat of an interview originally recorded in December 2023]
00:08 Cory Doctorow, blogger, digital rights activist, author of many books of science fiction, and a few of non-fiction, the most recent of which is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
0:08 — Ana Raquel Minian is a professor of history at Stanford University. Their latest book is “In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States.”
0:08 — Zahra Billoo serves as the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area (CAIR-SFBA) office. Molly Sampson, BUSD parent. 0:33 — Jack Poulson is an independent journalist writing about the intersection of technology and the military. He is also the Executive Director of Tech Inquiry, a tech accountability non-profit … Continued
