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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 — 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 James K. Galbraith is professor of Economics and Social Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1993 to 1997 he served as chief technical adviser for Macroeconomic Reform to the State Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China. His latest book, co-authored with Jing Chen,  is Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production

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00:08 — Negar Mortazavi is a journalist, political commentator, and host of the Iran Podcast.

00:33 — Mark Joseph Stern is a senior writer at Slate Magazine, covering courts and the law.

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00:08 — Elisabeth Malkin is Deputy Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Crisis Group.

00:33 — Daniel Miller is Executive Director of Spiral Gardens, a non-profit community food security project located in Southwest Berkeley.

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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 — 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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00:008 — Katie Rodger is a Lecturer at UC Davis and President of UC-AFT.

00:20 — Max Flynt, a San Francisco State University student and member of the General Union of Palestine Students at SF State.

00:33 — Lori Wallach is the director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project. 

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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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