KPFA - UpFront

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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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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00:08 — Mark Joseph Stern is a legal analyst who covers courts and the law for Slate. He is also co-host of the Amicus podcast.

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00:08 — John Nichols is the executive editor of The Nation.

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

00:33 — David K Randall is a senior reporter at Reuters. His latest book is “Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague.”

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00:08 — Joel Beinin is Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.

00:20 — Nadya Tannous is a long-time organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement.

00:33 — Craig Aaron is resident of Free Press.

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00:08 — Will Carless is National Correspondent for USA Today, covering extremism and emerging issues.

00:20 —  Joe Eskenazi is managing editor and columnist at Mission Local.

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 — Rick Perlstein is a Historian and Columnist for the American prospect. He is the author of a four-volume series on the history of American politics and the rise of conservatism.

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00:08 — Katie Rodger is a Lecturer at UC Davis and President of UC-AFT. Peyrin Kao is a lecturer in the Engineering Department at UC Berkeley and currently on a hunger strike in protest of the Israeli war on Gaza. 

00:33 — Miguel R. Tinker Salas is Professor Emeritus of History and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies. He is the author of “Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know” and “The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela.”

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