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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.
0:08 — Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and the faculty director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. He studies the science of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and how emotions shape our moral intuition.
