by Graham Fitzgibbon | Sep 3, 2019 | Briefings
How the Democratic Presidential Candidates Differ on the Climate Crisis Today we have Alan Minsky, the former Program Director at KPFK, sitting in for Ian Masters while Ian is on assignment in Europe until Sunday, September 8. We begin with journalist Kate...
by Graham Fitzgibbon | Sep 2, 2019 | Briefings
Will the Democrats Run Away from Their Progressive Majority? On this Labor Day we look back on stories that we covered in 2019 on the challenges working Americans face as our democracy succumbs to plutocracy in this new gilded age. We begin with an...
by Graham Fitzgibbon | Sep 1, 2019 | Briefings
The Gig Economy Turns Us Into a Nation of Rickshaw Drivers On this Labor Day weekend we begin and speak with Stacy Mitchell, the Co-Director of the Institute for Local Self Reliance, who recently testified before the United States House Judiciary Committee at a...
by Graham Fitzgibbon | Aug 29, 2019 | Briefings
The Deadly Legacy of David Koch We begin with the passing last Friday of David Koch who, despite being eulogized in the right-wing press as a philanthropist, along with his brother Charles was a greater funder than even Exxon Mobile of climate change denial,...
by Graham Fitzgibbon | Aug 28, 2019 | Briefings
Why Does the CIA Not Spy On the UAE? We begin with the stunning news from Reuters that the CIA doesn’t spy on the UAE even though the United Arab Emirates finances a warlord fighting against the U.S. and the U.N. in Libya and it was revealed that former NSA...
