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Latest Unemployment Figures; Doug Henwood,editor of the Left Business Observer, and host of Behind The News , which airs on KPFA thursdays at noon Israel bombing inside Syria;Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan , 49ers in the Super Bowl, LBGT issues at the forefront; Dave Zirin writes about the politics of … Continued
Senate hearing on Chuck Hagel nomination for DOD director; William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Project at the New America Foundation , and Alice Slater , New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Progressive Change and the Political System;Norman Solomon author, media critic, and co-founder of rootsaction.org and John Nichols , … Continued
Egypt ; Ashraf Khalil , independent journalist based in Cairo, and author of the book Liberation Square Plutonium Shipments to Lawrence Livermore; Scott Yundt , Staff Attorney, Tri-Valley CAREs Speaks with us about a new Government Proposal that involves transporting plutonium bomb cores from Los Alamos National Laboratory In New Mexico, to the Lawrence Livermore … Continued
California and the Coming Immigration Reform Debate; Anoop Prasad , Staff Attorney for Immigrant Rights with the Asian Law Caucus and David Bacon , UpFront Labor Correspondent and author of the forthcoming The Right to Stay Home: Ending Forced Migration and the Criminalization of Immigrants join us in studio. Does CEQA need to be reformed?; … Continued
State of the State Analysis ; a look at governer Jerry Brown’s state of the state address with Lenny Goldberg , Executive Director of California Tax Reform Association Palestine ; Sonali Kolthatkar is joined in studio by Palestinian activist Lyad Burnat about a new wave civil uprising that could mark the beginning of a third … Continued
Foodopoly ; Wenonah Hauter speaks with us about her book Foodopoly: The Battle over the Future of Food and Farming in America Moving College Classes Online? ; Mohammad Qayoumi , President of San Jose State University, Bob Miester , Professor of Social Science and Political Thought at UC Santa Cruz, and Cinthia Flores Second Year … Continued
