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00:08 Hajar Yazdiha  is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California; now author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement  [repeat – originally recorded in 2024]

00:33 David K Randall, senior reporter at Reuters, discussing his book Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague [repeat – originally recorded in 2019]

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00:08  Christopher Mathias, journalist who’s covered the far right for most of the past decade, now out with the forthcoming book To Catch a Fascist, the fight to expose the radical right  (due out February 3) .

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00:08 — Miguel R. Tinker Salas is Professor Emeritus of History at Pomona College. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela.

00:33 — Renee Saldana is Press Secretary for SEIU-UHW.

00:45 — Aisha Wahab is California State Senator representing Senate district 10.

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00:08 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation.

00:33 — Kat Tenbarge is an independent journalist and founder of Spitfire News, a newsletter about internet culture, violence, and media.

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00:08 — Sussan Tahmasebi is executive director of FEMENA.

00:24 — Christopher Sweat is a technologist and journalist. He is the founder of GrayStak Media, they have been covering ICE activity around the country.

00:33 — JW Mason is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College of the City University of New York, and a senior fellow at the Groundwork Collaborative. 

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00:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus.

00:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

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00:08 — Narges Bajoghli is Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. She is the author of How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare.

00:33 — Mitchell Plitnick, is a political analyst and writer. He is the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, and is co-author, with Marc Lamont Hill, of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics.

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00:08 — Ryan Goodman is co-editor-in-chief of Just Security and Professor at NYU Law School. He served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense(2015-2016).

00:33 — Rafael Osío Cabrices is Editor in Chief at Caracas Chronicles.

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00:08 — John Nichols, Executive Editor of the Nation

00:33 — Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the American Prospect.

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00:08 — Miguel R. Tinker Salas is Professor Emeritus of History at Pomona College. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela.

00:33 — Geo Maher is an abolitionist educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He has taught previously at Vassar College, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. His latest book is Anticolonial Eruptions (2022).

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