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0:08 – John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus. 0:33 – Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
0:08 – Dana Mattioli is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal where she has worked since 2006. She has written investigative pieces about Amazon since 2019 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Journalism for her work on Amazon. Her new book is The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own … Continued
0:08 – Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God. 0:33 – Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur. He fled China and now lives near Washington, DC. His latest book is a memoir entitled Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir … Continued
0:08 – John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 0:33 – Negar Mortazavi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and host of The Iran Podcast.
00:10 – Ioan Grillo, Mexico city-based journalist who’s made his beat crime and drugs. His most recent book is Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels [rebroadcast] 00:35 – Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History Emeritus at Stanford University.
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.
00:08 — Nate Powell is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist, whose latest work is a comic adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me.
00:08 — John Perlin, is a visiting scholar at the UC Santa Barbara Physics Department. His latest book is A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization.
00:08 — Jeff Miller is the founder and Executive Director of the Alameda Creek Alliance. He also works with the Center for Biological Diversity on media, outreach, writing endangered species listing petitions, and working on biodiversity issues. His latest book is Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide.
00:08 — Justin Salhani is freelance a journalist who’s been reporting from Beirut since 2011. 00:33 — Joel Beinin a Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.
