[caption id="attachment_377804" align="alignnone" width="601"] Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 2016. | Image by Adam Jones [1] is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 [2][/caption]

On today's show:

0:08 - Shaun Burnie (@ShaunBurnie [3]), senior nuclear specialist with Greenpeace East Asia. He joins us from Scotland to discuss the power outages at Chernobyl.

0:26 - Jehlen Herdman, KPFA reporter, brings us a story about Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Poladko, who fled with her family to Warsaw, Poland. See the full story here [4].

0:33 - Au Loong-Yu, a founder of Globalization Monitor [5], a Hong Kong-based group which monitors labor conditions in China; and author of Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China [6] joins us from London to discuss the COVID waves in Hong Kong and China.

0:45 - Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13 [7]), senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research joins us to discuss the downstream impacts of China's manufacturing slowdowns.

1:08 - Michael Kunzelman (@Kunzelman75 [8]), a reporter for the Associated Press joins us to discuss the Department of Justice's prosecution of the capitol rioters.

1:33 - Matthew Stewart discusses his book The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture [9].

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chernobyl_Reactor_4_-_Where_Disaster_Occurred_-_Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone_-_Northern_Ukraine_-_01_(27099656425).jpg

[2] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

[3] https://twitter.com/ShaunBurnie

[4] https://kpfa.org/featured-episode/familyfleesukraine/

[5] https://www.globalmon.org.hk/

[6] https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341460/hong-kong-in-revolt/

[7] https://twitter.com/DeanBaker13

[8] https://twitter.com/Kunzelman75

[9] https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-9-9-Percent/Matthew-Stewart/9781982114183