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0:08 — Yara Hawari is a Senior Analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. She is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter. 0:33 — Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the center for antiracist research at Boston University. His newest book is How to Be a (Young) Antiracist.
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.
0:08 — Kristin Ohlson, author and freelance journalist. Her newest book is Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World.
0:08 — Paul Stamets is a legendary mycologist. This talk was the keynote lecture at a conference called exponential medicine in January 2020.
0:11 — George Monbiot, author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist, whose current research focus is on the global food system. His latest book is Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet.
0:08 — David F. Walker, award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator.
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.
0:08 — Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. 0:34 — Olena Gnes, Ukrainian tour guide, formerly living in Kyiv, now based in the US state of Georgia.
0:08 — Robin D. G. 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 — Zaina Erhaim, Syrian journalist based in the UK, formerly with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. 0:35 — Glenn Biasi, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center — we ask him why California hasn’t had more “Big Ones” lately, and he advises listeners to pay attention to the Hayward Fault.
