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00:08 Tony Platt, currently Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society; author of the just-released The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley
00:08 Anti-government protests in Syria enter third week Sarah Hunaidi is a Syrian Writer and Human Rights Advocate Kareem Chehayeb is a Beirut-based reporter for the Associated Press, reporting on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. 00:33 A report card on a short-lived harm reduction effort in San Francisco Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission … Continued
00:08 Hurricane Idalia makes landfall as a Category 3 storm Mitch Perry is Senior Reporter with the nonprofit newsroom The Florida Phoenix. He joined us from St Petersburg. Kasha Patel is the deputy weather editor for the Capital Weather Gang at The Washington Post, covering weather, climate change and the environment. 00:33 The Rediscovery of America … Continued
0:08 — Robert Katzberg, former federal prosecutor, turned defense attorney. Author, most recently of The Vanishing Trial. 0:33 — Bill Frelick, Director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. 0:45 — Cassondra Curiel, teacher at Visitacion Valley Middle School, and president of United Educators of San Francisco.
00:08 John Feffer, Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, on the mid-flight explosion that killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s largest mercenary group. 00:33 John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley, on the COVID subvariant nicknamed Pirola (B.2.86), and why it’s prompting concern in public health circles. (More detailed information, along … Continued
00:08 Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis) is an associate professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair Tier II of Indigenous History Healing and Reconciliation at Algoma University. Her new book is The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere. [This interview was originally recorded in August 2022]
0:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. 0:33 — Tony Thurmond, is the CA State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
0:08 — Sarang Shidore is director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute and adjunct faculty at George Washington University, where he teaches a class on the geopolitics of climate change. 0:33 — Tim Redmond is a long-time San Francisco investigative reporter and founder of 48 Hills. 0:45 — Scott Wiener represents CA … Continued
0:08 – Eugene Cordero, professor meteorology and climate science at San Jose State University; also founder of the educational publisher Green Ninja 0:17 – Mark Becker, professor of history at Truman State University, author most recently of Contemporary Latin American Revolutions 0:33 – Nate Gartrell, reporter for the Bay Area News Group covering crime and corruption in Contra … Continued
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
