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Jun 22nd, 2021
FEATURING LUIS FELIZ LEON – Amazon’s Prime day events of June 21 and 22 have been heavily promoted as a major shopping event invented by the retail giant to boost sales at the start of summer. The company is gleefully advertising deals on all sorts of products but, the cost of the sale is borne...
Jun 22nd, 2021
FEATURING VARSHA GANDIKOTA-NELLUTLA – As representatives from the 7 wealthiest nations on the planet failed during their recent meeting to waive vaccine patents during a deadly global pandemic, leaders from the Global South met online recently to push back. The Summit for Vaccine Internationalism, convened by the group...
Jun 22nd, 2021
FEATURING FRANCESCA EMANUELE – Peru is facing an election crisis that appears to be devolving quickly into political instability. After a left-leaning Andean-born candidate Pedro Castillo eked out a narrow 44,000 vote win against his rightwing opponent, Ms. Keiko Fujimori denounced the result as a fraud. Taking a page ...
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Jun 15th, 2021
FEATURING TASNEEM ESSOP – The Group of 7, or G7 summit in Cornwall, England wrapped up on Sunday with Western leaders making effervescent pronouncements about global cooperation, sending warning signals to Russia and China, claiming a crackdown on global tax havens, and patting themselves on the back for taking bold ac...
Jun 15th, 2021
FEATURING KHURY PETERSEN-SMITH – Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is in trouble once more for calling out American imperialism and daring to say out loud what most lawmakers refuse to say. In a recent tweet showcasing her questioning of State Secretary Antony Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee, Omar sai...
Jun 15th, 2021
FEATURING SUYAPA PORTILLO – When Vice President Kamala Harris recently traveled to Central America, she delivered a strongly worded statement to the people of Guatemala telling the not to travel to the United States. Harris came under strong criticism for refusing to acknowledge why people flee their home countries in ...
Jun 8th, 2021
FEATURING MARCY WINOGRAD – There are exceedingly few pieces of legislation that Senate Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days and actually pass into law. Not the voting rights bill, or infrastructure spending, but often military spending, and, most recently, a lengthy bill to counteract the influence of Chin...
Jun 8th, 2021
FEATURING LIZA FEATHERSTONE – In just a few weeks, New York City residents will vote for a new mayor, picking their top five candidates out of a field of 13 Democrats and 2 Republicans. Using ranked-choice voting for the very first time, New Yorkers are being asked to choose from a spectrum of candidates who are...
Jun 8th, 2021
FEATURING DAIZY HERNANDEZ – As Americans cautiously emerge from a global pandemic, many of us are wondering what’s the next front in the war to protect public health? My next guest writes about a disease most of us have never heard of but that devastated her family and impacts hundreds of thousands of people in the...
Jun 1st, 2021
FEATURING DR. KARLOS K. HILL – It was on May 31, 1921 that a white mob in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, went on a racist rampage murdering hundreds of Black residents and setting fire to dozens of Black-owned businesses devastating what came to be known as “Black Wall Street.” For decades the story...
Jun 1st, 2021
FEATURING ANTONIA JUHASZ – A civil court in the Netherlands recently issued a landmark ruling against one of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, ordering Royal Dutch Shell to cut its emissions by 45% from 2019 levels. The Hague court, whose decision could have far-reaching implications, ruled that the British-Du...
Jun 1st, 2021
FEATURING SARAH LABOWITZ – Republican lawmakers in Texas are vowing to revive a harsh voter suppression bill after Democrats walked out in protest on Sunday leaving them without a quorum. The walk-out took place just days after the GOP-dominated state senate passed the hugely controversial S B 7 which has been likened ...
May 25th, 2021
FEATURING JOHN PAUL MEJIA – President Joe Biden, facing Republican obstructionism over most if not all of his legislative agenda, has decided to offer a compromise at the get-go on his infrastructure proposal. Initially billed at $2.25 trillion, the President offered a slimmed-down package to the tune of $1.7 trillion....
May 25th, 2021
FEATURING NANCY BEAULIEU – For years now, indigenous leaders have organized resistance to the Line 3 pipeline that cuts through Northern Minnesota. The pipeline, run by a Canadian oil company Enbridge, would carry 700,000 barrels per day of dirty tar sands oil from Canada. Indigenous leaders say the project violates t...
May 25th, 2021
FEATURING MOYA BAILEY – There is a new word in the modern American lexicon, coined by my next guest to describe the disturbing nexus of racism and sexism that Black women face—especially in the digital realm: Misogynoir. Exploring the landscape of racist and sexist stereotypes aimed at Black women, the harm such tropes...
May 18th, 2021
FEATURING SAREE MAKDISI: President Joe Biden on Monday said that in a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he “expressed his support for a ceasefire.” Israeli air strikes have killed hundreds of Palestinians including dozens of children in just 2 weeks in a conflict that began over Jewish ...
May 18th, 2021
FEATURING EMILIA MÁRQUEZ: Several weeks into a new chapter of violence in Colombia mass protests are continuing as police kill protesters. State violence in Colombia has reached a new high as law enforcement has fired shots into groups of unarmed protesters. The unrest has been sparked by underlying poverty and mass un...
May 18th, 2021
FEATURING NINA TURNER – The presence of progressive representatives of color in Congress, especially since 2018, has helped push the U.S. government into a markedly more liberal direction. Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley in particular have applied effective pressur...
May 11th, 2021
FEATURING HUWAIDA ARRAF – Israeli air strikes have killed dozens of Palestinians including 9 children over 48 hours on Monday and Tuesday as a conflict that began in East Jerusalem threatens to turn into a larger war. Saying it was responding to Hamas rocket fire, Israel sent over 130 air strikes into the heavily popul...
May 11th, 2021
FEATURING REV. DR. STEPHANY ROSE SPAULDING – The Senate Rules committee on Tuesday held a mark-up session to amend Senate Bill 1, the For The People Act, a sweeping reform bill to restore voting rights across the nation and undermine the influence of moneyed interests in elections. The House already passed its version ...
May 11th, 2021
FEATURING WALDEN BELLO – President Joe Biden, after months of pressure from advocacy groups and developing nation governments, announced that he supports the waiving of intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines. The governments of India and South Africa last October requested that the 1995 TRIPS agreement at t...
May 4th, 2021
FEATURING MAURICE MITCHELL – At Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress last week, the President laid out his vision for America that centered on government spending, rebuilding infrastructure and creating jobs. During the speech marking his first 100 days in the White House last week Mr. Biden articul...
May 4th, 2021
FEATURING GALINA ESPINOZA – Catholic Bishops in the United States have decided to draw a line in the sand over President Joe Biden’s support for abortion rights. Mr. Biden, who is only the nation’s second ever Catholic President, may not be allowed to take communion after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops release...
May 4th, 2021
FEATURING MIKE AFRICA JR. – Nearly 36 years ago, the worst incident of domestic state terror against the MOVE organization in Philadelphia took the lives of 11 people and injured many others. Only recently it emerged that the Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania had in their custody the remains of the victims...
Apr 27th, 2021
FEATURING AMANDEEP SANDHU – India has surpassed the United States for the world’s highest number of daily COVID-19 infections. For at least five days in a row, the world’s largest democracy documented at least 350,000 new cases of infection, up from about 10,000 new cases just a few months ago. Hospitals are strugglin...
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