Published by Truthdig.com on November 5, 2015

Part of an industrial oven creating coal coke in Turkey in 2013. (Kefca / Shutterstock)

For more than 20 years, delegates from all over the world have met annually to discuss ways to mitigate the devastating impacts of a changing climate. This December, the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …

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GUEST: Steven Hill, a Senior Fellow with the New America Foundation and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He is a political writer and author of five books, including the just published Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers.

San Francisco voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure that would have placed some restrictions …

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GUEST: David Dayen, contributing writer to Salon, weekly columnist at The Fiscal Times, contributor to The Intercept.

Republican Matt Bevin beat Democrat Jack Conway on Tuesday to win the governorship of Kentucky. Bevin has vowed to end the state’s Obamacare programs. A Republican also won in Mississippi – incumbent Gov. Phil Bryant defeated Democrat Robert Gray. In that same state, a constitutional amendment designed …

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GUEST: Andrea Cristina Mercado, campaign director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and co-chair of We Belong Together.

Undocumented women at Hutto Detention Center in Texas are on an indefinite hunger strike, demanding that they be immediately released. A significant portion of the approximately 500 women being held at Hutto, are refusing food. Most of the detainees fled violence from their home countries of …

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GUEST: Anne Keala Kelly, is an award winning, Native Hawaiian filmmaker and journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation and Indian Country Today, and her broadcast journalism has aired on the Pacifica Network, Al Jazeera, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer. She is currently working on a film about the struggle to protect Mauna Kea called Why The Mountain.

Voting has begun in …

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GUEST: Abdel Bari Atwan is a Palestinian journalist and writer and the long-time editor-in chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi. He now edits the Rai Al-Youm news website, the Arab world’s first Huffington Post-style outlet. He is a contributor to the Guardian newspaper and Scottish Herald. He interviewed Osama Bin Laden twice in the 1990s. His books include The Secret History …

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GUEST: Dan Barber is the executive chef at a restaurant in Manhattan West Village called Blue Hill, and works with a non-profit called Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. He writes about food and agricultural policy for the New York Times and has won a number of awards including the James Beard award.

California has hundreds of farmers markets all over the state. Whether you live in a big or …

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GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Executive director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.

Haitians went to the polls on October 25th for the first round of voting in Presidential elections. The elections were to be held in August but were postponed due to violence. Current President Michel Martelly who has long enjoyed US government support, has campaigned heavily for his favored candidate, Jovenel Moise, an …

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GUEST: Reese Erlich, veteran freelance foreign correspondent who has traveled widely across the Middle East. He has written a number of books including, Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire.

The Obama Administration on Friday dropped a major bombshell, announcing that it would send special forces troops into Syria, after years of refusing to send in ground troops. While it is an …

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GUEST: Vicki Abeles, filmmaker whose 2009 documentary Race to Nowhere exposed the detrimental nature of high-stakes testing in public schools. Her new film Beyond Measure, shares its name with her new book Beyond Measure: Rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation.

President Obama in late October, made a surprise announcement on the White House Facebook page against high-stakes testing in public schools. The issue of high-stakes testing, …

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