0:08 — Omar Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College and founding director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs
0:33 — Tariq Kenney-Shawa is a US Policy Fellow at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
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Could Israel’s Offensive on Gaza Expand to a Regional War? Plus, Limitations of US Policy on Gaza

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0:08 — Walter Turner, host of KPFA’s Africa Today, professor of contemporary African affairs at College of Marin, president of Global Exchange.
0:33 — Tim Redmond, founder of 48hills.
0:45 — Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate and host of the podcast “Amicus”
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African National Congress Loses Majority in South Africa Elections; Budget Battle in San Francisco; Plus, A Look at Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions

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0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, Institute for Policy Studies.
0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
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00:08 John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation
Steve Phillips is founder of Democracy in Color, and author of How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good  (just re-released in a revised second edition)
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Guilty on all counts. What’s next?

00:09 Donald Trump’s first criminal prosecution is now in a jury’s hands/
Jeremy Stahl is Jurisprudence editor at Slate. 
Shirin Ali is an associate writer for Slate.
00:27 UAW Strike over UC’s response to Pro-Palestinian protests spreads to UCLA, UC Davis
Aya Konishi, Graduate Student in UCLA Department of Sociology and Recording Secretary for UAW Local 4811’s UCLA Unit

00:35 California’s legislature prepares its response to Governor Newsom’s proposed budget cuts
Chris Hoene is executive director of the California Budget and Policy Center
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Could Israel’s Offensive on Gaza Expand to a Regional War? Plus, Limitations of US Policy on Gaza

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