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Obama to visit Israel/Palestine;Jamal Dajani , Media development expert, news producer, filmmaker and Middle East analyst.and Yousef Munayyer, Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund A tax on sugar?; Bill Monning, California State Senator. and Finally an interview with Robert Lustig , author of Sugar: The Bitter Truth
Economic Crisis in Cyprus ; Richard Wolff , professor of economics emeritus at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, currently teaching in the International Affairs Program at New School University. 10 Years Later:Who’s Making Money off Iraq’s Oil Fields? ; Antonia Juhasz , Investigative journalism fellow at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and author most recently, of … Continued
Latest on Syria; Yasser Munif, Syrian-born activist and sociologist at Emerson College. and an interview with Laurence Wright, author of Going Clear
New Unemployment Figures; Women and the Minimum Wage; Heidi Schierholz , economist with the Economic Policy Institute New Campaign Launches to pass CA Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights; Fiona Cruz, worker organizer with Filipino Advocates for Justice, and Emiliana Ocopio, unemployed caregiver. Selma James;co-author of the women’s movement classic The Power of Women and the … Continued
