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Developments in Afghanistan; Plus, OPD Chief Leronne Armstrong suspended
0:08 — Shaharzad Akbar(@ShaharzadAkbar), is the former chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, now executive director of the new Afghan human rights organization Rawadari. 0:33 — Jim Chanin, Civil Rights attorney who got the Oakland Police Department into a court-supervised reform process now in its 20th year.
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest developments from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 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.
An “intimate portrait of South Africa’s racial reckoning” with Eve Fairbanks
0:08 — Eve Fairbanks, is a former political writer for The New Republic. She’s lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, for thirteen years. Her debut book is The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning.
What’s ahead for the House Republican agenda and nearing debt ceiling deadline; Plus, Andy Campbell on We Are Proud Boys and the January 6 Trial
0:08 — Robert Kuttner(@rkuttnerwrites), is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine; also a professor at Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management. 0:20 — John Nichols (@NicholsUprising), is national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine. 0:33 — Andy Campbell(@AndyBCampbell), is a senior editor and reporter at HuffPost, and the author of … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukrain; Plus, Covid call-ins with Dr. Swartzberg
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.
MLK Day Special – Martin Luther King Jr. in London
On December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King gave a major address in London on segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
Daniel Swain on mega floods; Plus Anya Kamenetz on how the pandemic changed children’s lives
0:08 — Daniel Swain (@Weather_West), is climate scientist at UCLA and The Nature Conservancy who co-authored an article in the journal Science Advances modeling the likelihood, and impacts, of California’s next megaflood. 0:33 — Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya), is author of The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now.