Oct 01 2015
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GUEST: Joel K. Bourne Jr., an award winning journalist and former senior editor for the Environment at National Geographic. He’s the author of The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World.
The human population of the earth is currently upwards of 7 billion people. By 2040 it’s estimated to reach 9.4 billion, despite declining birthrates in many industrialized countries. While there are many …
Sep 23 2015
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GUESTS: John Nichols is the Washington DC correspondent for the Nation Magazine, a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times, and associate editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. Bob McChesney is a Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has authored or edited nearly two dozen books. The book by Nichols and McChesney is called Dollarocracy: How …
Sep 22 2015
GUEST: Deepa Iyer, former Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), who teaches in the Asian American Studies program at the University of Maryland. Her new book is entitled “We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Share Our Multiracial Future.
Discussion of race in the United States usually groups people into several broad categories: white, black, Latino, Indigenous, and Asian – …
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Sep 21 2015
GUEST: David Vine, author of Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, An associate professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and Mother Jones, among other publications.
Takeshi Onaga, the governor of the Japanese Island of Okinawa, has decided to defy Japan’s government, as well as the …
Sep 18 2015
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GUEST: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement, writes for the Nation, Monthly Review, Salon, and Jacobin.
September 17th marks the 4th anniversary of the start of the historic Occupy Wall Street movement which was born in New York City and spread around the world. We turn today to examine it with the benefit of hind-sight. A new book by …
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Sep 18 2015
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Republicans often accuse President Obama of waging a “class war.” Progressives often wish that were so. While many of us acknowledge class as a crucial factor in political analysis, we don’t place nearly enough emphasis on it in our political organizing.
Now, a …
Sep 15 2015
GUEST: Eileen Pollack, author of The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy’s Club. She was one of the first two women to have ever earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Yale University. Today she is a writer whose earlier books include Breaking and Entering, and Paradise, New York. She is a Professor of Creative writing at the University of …
Sep 14 2015
GUEST: Michael Hudson, author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy.
The Federal Reserve this week is considering raising interest rates above levels that have hovered at zero since 2008. News media are characterizing the debate over whether or not to increase rates, as “Should we be more concerned about the pace of job growth or the threat of inflation?” …
