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0:08 — Lois Henry, is a reporter, editor and CEO at SJV Water, an independent, nonprofit news site dedicated to covering water in the San Joaquin Valley 0:20 — Kayode Kadara, is co-founder of TAC farm in Allensworth, where he’s been organizing neighbors to defend against floodwaters 0:33 — Phyllis Bennis is a Middle East … Continued
0:08 — Rasha al Aqeedi, Middle East deputy editor at New Lines Magazine; when US-led forces invaded, she was living with her parents in Mosul, in northern Iraq. 0:33 — Andrew Bacevich is co-founder of the Quincy Institute and Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University.
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
0:08 — Robin DG Kelley, is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He is the author of seven books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
0:08 — Tony Cross, is long-time radio journalist in France, currently a lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. 0:20 — Jake Werner, Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute, looking at great power conflict between the US and China. 0:33 — Edward Ongweso Jr. is a journalist based in New York City. He’s a reporter-in-residence at the … Continued
0:08 — Niina H. Farah is an energy law reporter for E&E News. 0:33 — Joe Eskenazi, Managing Editor and Columnist at Mission Local. 0:40 — Caron Creighton, currently directing a documentary on the Wood Street encampment’s fight against eviction as a resident filmmaker at SFFilm FilmHouse.
0:08 — Khury Petersen-Smith is Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Eugene Cordero is a professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University, also founder and director of the environmental educational publisher Green Ninja. 0:45 — Eric McDonnell, Chair of the African American Reparations Advisory … Continued
0:08 — Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.’ 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer listeners’ COVID questions.
In the award-winning film Aware, six thinkers weigh in on the nature of consciousness.
0:08 — Dr. Gabor Maté, physician best known for his work on addiction, attention deficit disorder, and the psycho-social dimensions of disease. His new book, co-authored with his son Daniel, is The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.
