September 6, 2013
September 6, 2013 - Segment 4 - We talk with youth from both the U.S. and Mexico about what it’s like to be caught in the middle of America’s War on Drugs.
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September 6, 2013
September 6, 2013 - Segment 3 - It's time for our weekly segment Get Up, Stand Up! with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco, where we learn about the social movements and protests taking place this week across America.
September 6, 2013
September 6, 2013 - Segment 1 - We continue our coverage and analysis on Syria and ask the question: what should the United States' response to Syria be?
September 4, 2013
September 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin our show with a look at the situation in Syria. Our panel of guests includes Phyllis Bennis, the Rev. Dr. Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II, and Sabith Khan.
August 31, 2013
August 30, 2013 - Segment 1 - We begin with out weekly roundup of national and international news. This week we discuss the situation in Syria, President Obama's speech at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, marijuana legislation and more.
August 28, 2013
August 28, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn our attention to Syria. Were chemical weapons used in the civil war there? If so, who was responsible? Should there be a Western intervention? We'll wrestle with these questions.
August 22, 2013
August 22, 2013 - Segment 3 - Dr. Shibley Telhami joins us for a conversation on the Middle East. He joins us to speak about the Israeli/Palestinian peace process, protests in Egypt and the ongoing conflict in Syria.
August 19, 2013
August 19, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with a Middle East roundtable with: Dr. Neil Rubin, writer, educator, and former Senior Editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times; and Phyllis Benis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
August 16, 2013
August 16, 2013 - Segment 1 - We start the show at with an update on the situation in Egypt, as over 600 people have been killed and almost 4000 wounded following the Cairo police raid of two camps housing pro-Morsi supporters. Joining us from Cairo is Egyptian journalist Shahira Amin, former Deputy Head of the state-run Nile TV and former contributor to CNN.
August 15, 2013
August 15, 2013 - Segment 4 - We remember the anniversary of the 1945 bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with elin o'Hara slavick, professor of Visual Art, Theory and Practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography and After Hiroshima.
August 12, 2013
August 13, 2013 - Segment 3 - Shahira Amin, former Deputy Head of Egypt's state-run Nile TV and former contributor to CNN, gives us an update on the situation in Egypt.
August 12, 2013
August 12, 2013 - Segment 3 - We close out the show with a roundtable on the Middle East to discuss the situation in Egypt and Israel/Palestine peace talks.
August 2, 2013
August 2, 2013 - Segment 2 - We talk with youth from both the U.S. and Mexico about what it's like to be caught in the middle of the War on Drugs and grow up in violent communities. We hear their inspiring ideas for positive change, from Baltimore to Ciudad Juarez.
August 2, 2013
August 2, 2013 - Segment 1 - On this morning's weekly roundtable on national news headlines we discuss a range of topics including new NSA revelations, the Bradley Manning trial verdict, the Pope's stance on gay marriage and homosexuality, and peace talks between Israel and Palestine.
August 1, 2013
August 1, 2013 - Segment 2 - A roundtable of guests reflects on the Bradley Manning trial verdict, which found the whistleblower guilty of 17 of 22 counts brought against him -- but not guilty of aiding the enemy.
July 22, 2013
July 22, 2013 - Segment 1 - The award-winning Amy Wilentz joins us to discuss her newest book, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti. Wilentz tackles the objectification of Haiti’s victimization and searches for why Haitians – in the eyes of the West – are not seen as active controllers of their own destiny.
July 17, 2013
July 17, 2013 - Hour 1 - Author Robert McChesney joins us to talk about his latest book, "Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy," about the relationship between economic power and the digital world.
July 9, 2013
July 9, 2013 - Segment 2 - We turn to Egypt, where massive political unrest continues and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was removed from office last week.
July 9, 2013
July 8, 2013-Segment 2-We shift to a national and international roundtable, discussing Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance, the George Zimmerman trial, and more.
July 3, 2013
July 3, 2013 - Segment 4 - We discuss Egypt, where protests against the Morsi government, and counter-protests supporting it, have erupted across the country. The Egyptian Army has issued an ultimatum calling for President Morsi's ouster that expires today.
July 3, 2013
July 3, 2013 - Segment 3 - We discuss the latest news from Brazil, where demonstrations against bus fare hikes have ballooned into massive anti-government protests.
July 2, 2013
July 2, 2013 - Segment 3 - In the latest episode of Sound Bites, we reflect on Paula Deen and southern cuisine, the Supreme Court's decision that impacts sustainable development, slave labor and shrimp, and the Farm Alliance of Baltimore City.
July 2, 2013
July 2, 2013 - Segment 2 - In light of President Obama's trip to Africa, we discuss US policy in Africa. Our guests include: Elmira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies; and Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire.
June 21, 2013
June 21, 2013 - Segment 3 - We have our weekly round table on national headlines, including NSA surveillance, the Senate's debate over immigration reform, and the conflict and impending U.S. involvement in Syria.
June 18, 2013
June 18, 2013 - Segment 3 - We turn our attention again to the situation in Turkey. We will talk to a number of activists demonstrating there, including Azim Turan, a Turkish citizen living in Istanbul.
June 18, 2013
June 17, 2013-Segment 3-We turn to international news with a discussion on the U.S. increasing support for Syrian rebels and analysis of what the election of reformers means for Iran.
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013 - Hour 2 - We turn to the stories of two writers: poet George Evans, who served as an Air Force medic, and the late Lynda Van Devanter, an Army surgical nurse in 1969 and 70.
June 13, 2013
June 13, 2013 - Hour 1 - We bring you the story of the five Gilchrest brothers, four of whom were actively involved with the war in some way but who had never discussed it among themselves before our interview.
June 11, 2013
June 10, 2013-Segment 3-Our round table of panelists discuss the economic and political growth of China.
June 8, 2013
June 7, 2013 - Segment 2 - We return to Turkey to hear from a voice inside that turbulent nation. Azim Turan, Turkish citizen who lives in Istanbul with a background in international politics, shares a first-hand perspective on the public unrest there.
June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - This week in Turkey, a small sit-in in the heart of Istanbul over government plans to demolish a park for a shopping complex turned into a massive protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, elected ten years ago.
June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013 - Segment 1 - We talk with investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, about his new book on the U.S. drone wars, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - We analyze the conflict occurring right now in Syria with Omar Hossino, Stephen Zunes, and Adil Shamoo.
May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 - Segment 2 - Jesselyn Radack and Kevin Zeese update us on the trial starting next week for US Army soldier Bradley Manning, who was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of handing over classified Army documents to whistle blower Wikileaks.
May 29, 2013
March 29, 2013 - Segment 1 - Medea Benjamin joins us to talk about her new book "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control." A prominent anti-war activist and co-founder of Code Pink, Benjamin made headlines last week when she disrupted President Obama's foreign policy speech.
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013-Segment 2-A veteran from the Baltimore ghetto tells how he survived the despair of war and transformed himself.
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013-Segment 1-We continue the journey with Vietnam Veteran Homer Steedly as he meets with the family of the Vietnamese soldier he killed forty years before.
May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 - Segment 2 - We look at at the events unfolding in Guatemala following last week's guilty verdict for former dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt, its overturning, and possible implications for the U.S.
May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 - Segment 3 - We talk with artist Mina Cheon, AKA Kim IL Soon, and Ethan Cohen of Ethan Cohen Fine Arts in New York City about the work of this Socialist Realist painter from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and how her work is tied to a quest for the reunification of Korea and global peace.
May 7, 2013
May 6, 2013 - Segment 2 -We talked to Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies, and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, and author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and The Roots of Terrorism, who gave us an update on the conflict in Syria.
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013 - Segment 3 - We discuss the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh that left nearly 400 people dead last week.
April 29, 2013
April 29, 2013 - Segment 1- We will examine the state of affairs in Syria and what, if anything, the US should do about it.
March 27, 2013
March 26, 2013 - Segment 1 - We continue our reflection on the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. We will examine the role the media played in the conflict, with Stephen Zunes, professor of Politics and International Studies and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, and author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and The Roots of Terrorism.
March 20, 2013
March 20, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear perspectives on life in Palestine and Israel from two women: Hekmat Biseso, activist from Gaza living in Ramallah, and Tamar Sharabi, independent artist and activist spending time in Palestine.
March 20, 2013
March 20, 2013 - Segment 1 - We discuss President Obama's visit to the Middle East with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Jason Isaacson of the American Jewish Committee. Then, we speak to Craig and Cindy Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, who was killed by the Israeli military ten years ago this month.
March 19, 2013
March 19, 2013 - Hour 2 - We reflect on the Iraq War on the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of the country with Dr. Shibley Telhami, Dr. Adil Shamoo, Dr. Richard Vatz, and Dr. Thabit Abdullah - some of the guests on our show who have weighed in on the conflict over the past decade and beyond.
March 13, 2013
March 13, 2013 - Segment 4 - We talk to Sister Mary Aquin O'Neill, Sister of Mercy, theologian, and co-founder of Mount Saint Agnes Theological Center for Women, about the newly elected Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aries, Argentina.
March 13, 2013
March 13, 2013 - Segment 2 - We discuss the complicated legacy of Hugo Chavez with George Ciccariello-Maher and Margarita Lopez Maya.
March 4, 2013
March 4, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear from Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW (Pan-African News Wire) Editor, who has been covering the Kenyan elections.
February 18, 2013
February 18, 2013 - Segment 2 - We hear from Dr. Tom Catena, an American surgeon at a hospital in the Nuba Mountains, a war torn part of southern Sudan where innocent lives have been lost to a brutal civil war. Catena will talk about his work and the devastation that has deeply impacted the region.