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NLD Victory in Myanmar Elections Myanmar’s election results are in – last Sunday’s elections have resulted in a historic victory for Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy. The election commission announced this morning that the NLD has won 37 additional seats, giving it a majority in Parliament. This election marks a … Continued
Philip Maldari speaks to journalist Reese Erlich who has been on the ground in Syria where the United States, Russia, Turkey and many others are operating in the multitude of overlapping conflicts. We focus on Turkey’s role. Who are they targeting and with what intent? In the second half, we talk to East Bay Express journalist David Downs. He’ll tells … Continued
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in town again and he’s here to ask President Obama for more money and weapons. Though Israel already receives more of America’s foreign aid budget than any other nation, Netanyahu is requesting an increase in aid from 3 billion dollars to 5 billion per year for the next 10 years. Then, an Antarctic … Continued
Historian Tomas Sandoval joins to make the case that Latin America’s very first melting pot was here, in San Francisco, where the first miners in the Gold Rush were from Chile. But first: there are labor actions across the nation today pushing for a $15 minimum wage — we’ll go live to a protest, look … Continued
President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline that would have moved oil from Canada’s heavily-polluting tar sands to refinery complex on the US gulf coast. Is it just a symbolic victory, or will it actually impact oil extraction? We’ll talk to analyst Antonia Juhasz. Then: a look at how an asian mega-state is managing … Continued
“Don’t Be a Puppet” Last month, the FBI invited Arab, Muslim, and Sikh organizations to preview a new interactive website that they’ve designed for teachers and students. It features a series of games called “Don’t Be A Puppet” and it’s designed to teach students to identify peers who may be under the influence of what … Continued
A hunger strike is spreading at a for-profit detention center housing asylum-seekers in Texas–we talk to someone who’s been in the center, and is in touch with the strikers. Guests: Nadia Ben Youseff, US Representative of Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Anonymous individual who regularly visits women participating in the … Continued
We take you through the fallout from the housing wars that went to the ballot in San Francisco — we’ll talk to the winners and the losers about what happened, and what’s next. Guests: Calvin Welch, long-time housing activist; lecturer in Urban Affairs at University of San Francisco; one of the principal proponents of Proposition … Continued
The only socialist on the ballot for re-election today in America has just broken campaign fundraising records — we will take a look at what’s happening in Seattle, and what it might mean if Kshama Sawant wins. Plus, we speak to an archaeologist who works on the US-Mexico Border — cataloguing abandoned supplies and human … Continued
We spend the hour with Marlon James, who just won the Man Booker Prize for fiction – with A Brief History of Seven Killings. We’ll talk Bob Marley, why Jamaican gangs moved into the international drug market, and what it’s like to make the move from Kingston . . . to Minneapolis.
