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0:08 — Heiko Wimmen is Project Director for the Iraq/Syria/Lebanon project at the International Crisis Group. 0:33 — Jeff Goodell is an American author and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. His latest book is “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.”
00:08 Jenny Odell, multidisciplinary artist turned bestselling author. Her new book is Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
0:08 — Yaffa A.S. is the Executive Director of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual & Gender Diversity. Yaffa is a trans Muslim and displaced Indigenous Palestinian. 0:30 — Gabrielle Canon is a climate reporter and extreme weather correspondent for The Guardian. 0:45 — Alexei Koseff is a reporter for Calmatters covering CA state politics.
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 Asaf Elia-Shalev, staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, just out with the book Israel’s Black Panthers: the radicals who punctured a nation’s founding myth. [This is an extended cut of an interview broadcast in abbreviated form during KPFA’s May fund drive]
0:08 — Oliver Milman is an environmental correspondent for The Guardian, and author of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run The World. 0:33 — Veena B. Dubal is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
0:08 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. 0:33 — Jeff St. John is the director of news and special projects at Canary Media, a nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis.
0:08 — Yanis Varoufakis is former finance minister of Greece, now Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, and co-founder of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. 0:33 — Emily Weintraut is a doctoral student in UC Davis’ Department of Food Science and Technology and unit chair of the UC Davis chapter of UAW. 0:45 … Continued
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 – Reza Aslan, scholar of religion, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. His latest book is A Kids Book About Israel & Palestine.
