UpFront – December 21, 2023
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UpFront – December 20, 2023
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
No Tech for Apartheid Opposes Google and Amazon’s Contribution to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, UNSC Votes On New Gaza Resolution; Plus, California’s $68 billion Budget Deficit
0:08 — Josh Marxen is a software engineer at Google and has worked there since 2016. He is also an organizer with No Tech for Apartheid since May 2021. 0:20 — Phyllis Bennis is a Middle East analyst and directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi and Nora Barrows-Friedman
0:08 — Rashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, among them the award-winning Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, and The Iron Cage. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and many other publications. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern … Continued
Fund Drive Special History of the Modern Arab World with Ussama Makdisi
0:08 — Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. His latest book is Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World.
Kenneth Roth on the UN Security Council and Ceasefire Possibility in Gaza
0:08 — Kenneth Roth is a Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs. Previously, he served for nearly three decades as the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations.
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, No Move Toward Call for Ceasefire by the Biden Administration
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies 0:33 — Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. His most recent book is The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance
UpFront – December 8, 2023
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.