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Elon Musk Abandons Ship – The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

By MariaJune 3, 2025Newest Podcasts

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich says: “Trump’s tariffs are in turmoil, his big beautiful bill is buckling, and the Muskrat has left his sinking ship. Is this the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? Heather and I discuss it all on today’s Coffee Klatch”.
Here is a 27 minute excerpt of Robert Reich’s weekly podcast, recorded on May 31st, 2025. He is a professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator and worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter; and as Secretary of Labor for President Clinton. His co-host, Heather Lofthouse, is Executive Director of Inequality Media Civic Action.
The full version of this program is 38 minutes long and you can find it for free on YouTube [ . . . ]

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Today is day 585 of genocide. Prof. Noura Erakat’s Urgent Plea at the United Nations

By MariaMay 27, 2025Newest Podcasts

On May 15 Erakat delivered a searing statement at the UN Headquarters in New York to mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba – better known as The Catastrophe
The United Nations are commemorating the violent expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948 to make room for the state of Israel.
Noura Erakat is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and Rutgers University professor. In her address she focused on the ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. As trained lawyer Erakat confronts the narrative that frames this as, quote, War. This is not a legal controversy, she says, there is no question that this is genocide; it is a political controversy. And she urged the [ . . . ]

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Trump’s Gulf Visit: Chas Freeman Explains the US–Israel–Gulf Shift

By MariaMay 20, 2025Newest Podcasts

An interview by Jyotishman Mudiar on the channel: India and Global Left
Why did Donald Trump visit the Gulf in May 2025? What does it reveal about shifting US–Israel–Gulf relations? Ambassador Chas Freeman is a veteran U.S. diplomat and Middle East expert. He is being interviewed by Jyotishman Mudiar, a PhD research scholar at the University of Chicago and cofounder of the YouTube channel India and Global Left.
From Saudi Arabia and the UAE to Israel and Iran, Chas Freeman analyzes the power plays, diplomatic deals, and regional tensions shaping today’s geopolitics.
The interview took place on May 15, 2025 and lasted over an hour. You can watch their inspired conversation on YouTube under the title: Trump’s Gulf Visit: Chas Freeman Explains the [ . . . ]

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Prof. Richard Wolff on May Day 2025

By MariaMay 13, 2025Newest Podcasts

On the impact of President Trump’s first 100 days This is the replay of a special, Live, May-Day talk by Professor Richard Wolff on President Trump’s economic policies. Wolff had been invited by Women Building Up in Brooklyn, NY.(WBU). In spite of the serious topic, his presentation was also entertaining and full of surprises.
Richard Wolff is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs of the New School.
Prof. Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Among his many works are Understanding Capitalism; The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself; [ . . . ]

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Trump in Panic: Yemen Sinks a U.S. Fighter Jet

By MariaMay 6, 2025Newest Podcasts

Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuss the incident with Danny Haiphong The shocking status of U.S. military power has been exposed by Yemen forcing an F-18 to sink off the USS Harry Truman to the bottom of the Red Sea. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson call this the crisis facing America’s waning empire – and here are their comments – recorded on April 30.
Only four days later their discussion another incident confirmed their analysis: The NY Times reported on May 4 that a ballistic missile launched from Yemen struck near the main terminal of Israel’s international Ben Gurion Airport close to Tel Aviv, after the military failed to intercept the projectile.
These [ . . . ]

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How to bring peace to Ukraine – a war between two versions of history

By MariaApril 29, 2025Newest Podcasts

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is being challenged by Professor Klaus Larres In April/May 2025 the possible end to the war in Ukraine has world attention. But the peace agreement requires an accepted reading of history – and the two sides are still far apart. Here is an amazing debate over the end of the Soviet Union, the expansion of NATO, nuclear weapons, prior attempts to end the invasion, and even the reminder that Crimea has been the home of Russia’s naval base since 1783.
Professor Klaus Larres teaches at the University of North Carolina. Professor Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. In spite of their differences of opinion, Professor Larres introduces Jeffrey Sachs as a [ . . . ]

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Our Common Future Under Climate Change, Honoring Pope Francis’ Laudato Si

By MariaApril 22, 2025Newest Podcasts

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber recorded in Paris and at the Vatican in 2015
(Archival TUC Radio program from 2015) At 3am today, April 21, 2025, news services in California announced the death of Pope Francis. Among the many memories of his extraordinary life, his Encyclical on Climate Change, Laudato Si, on the urgently needed care of our common home, came to my mind.
Only nine days ago Pope Francis had announced the celebration, in September 2025, of the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si. Now we need to create the conditions for peace to prevent the destruction of our home without his help.
But Laudato Si has dual roots. Maybe for the first time in the history of papal encyclicals, Pope Francis invited scientists to [ . . . ]

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Alastair Crooke: Trump and Chaos

By MariaApril 15, 2025Newest Podcasts

Judge Andrew Napolitano brings you the sources of Chaos from Ukraine to Iran to Gaza to Tariffs to the first deep splits inside the Trump Administration
This interview of Alastair Crooke was streamed live on April 14, 2025. Before he retired Crooke was a ranking figure in both British Intelligence with MI6 and European Union diplomacy. He is founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum. They promote engagement between political Islam and the West.
Judge Andrew Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995. Two years after retiring the Judge became a legal and political analyst for Fox News. He now runs a very popular podcast channel under the title “Judging Freedom”
This conversation was streamed Live [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis Dissects Trump’s Tariffs

By MariaApril 8, 2025Newest Podcasts

The former Greek Finance Minister in conversation with Novara Media’s Michael Walker They spoke on April 8, 2025, when Donald Trump’s tariff’s had just collapsed the global stock markets and governments around the world were searching for a response.
Yanis Varoufakis is a university teacher, author in economics and technology, and engaged in European politics. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of DiEM25, that’s Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 a left-wing pan-European political party that he co-founded in 2016.
Varoufakis is being interviewed by Michael Walker, contributing editor at Novara Media. That’s an independent, non-profit media organization based in the United Kingdom.
Walker brings up questions not raised by many analysts in this extraordinary crisis in April 2025 – and Varoufakis answers are [ . . . ]

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How the demonstrations in Turkey and the US bombing of Yemen affect the fate of Gaza – and will Iran be next

By MariaApril 1, 2025Newest Podcasts

Mohammad Marandi from the University of Teheran gives a close-up portrait of the countries surrounding Israel/Palestine Marandi was interviewed by Nima on the podcast channel Dialogue Works. They spoke on Monday, March 24, 2025.
The bombing of Yemen, that the U.S. Trump administration had launched, was continuing as they spoke. Analysts describe it as one of the largest bombing attacks on Yemen in years.
There also have been ongoing demonstrations in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators show support for the city’s jailed mayor. He is seen as the main rival of President Erdogan in the upcoming elections.
Nima’s guest, Mohammad Marandi, is an Iranian-American academic and political analyst. He is currently a professor of English Literature and [ . . . ]

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Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill Hundreds, Francesca Albanese

By MariaMarch 25, 2025Newest Podcasts

Reaction to the breach of the cease fire on March 18 Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. She was in London, England, when Israel broke the Cease Fire in Gaza on March 18, 2022, and killed more than 400 people in that first night.
She was being interviewed on Channel4News on the topic of genocide. And I’m presenting this half hour with minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs to build into the exchange in order to avoid the accusation of antisemitism. The interview is dated March 18 and, just a week later, had over a quarter million views.
This program has minimal edits to show how many challenges an interviewer needs [ . . . ]

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Michael Parenti: Fascism, The False Revolution, Archive TWO

By MariaMarch 18, 2025Newest Podcasts

How western capitalist states cooperated with Fascism as bulwark against communism The overwhelming response from those who heard this program was disbelief – how can an analysis of Fascism made in 1995 be so relevant for 2025! This talk was recorded before a standing room audience of 1,200 in Berkeley, CA, on September 23, 1995.
Fascism, as Mussolini allegedly said, should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” And history, as told by Michael Parenti, shows that in all fascist societies, be it Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain, and into the present, corporate power increased. When the power of capital is untrammeled, Parenti says, all of us are at risk. The environment, the sacred [ . . . ]

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, Michael Parenti – Archive

By MariaMarch 11, 2025Newest Podcasts

A People’s History of Ancient Rome with Lessons for Today Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing.
This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti called Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories.
Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Chas Freeman Explains Why Trump and Zelensky Argued

By MariaMarch 4, 2025Newest Podcasts

Freeman speaks from 30 years of experience in diplomacy for the U.S. in China, the Middle East, and Europe Just one day after the world famous fight between Presidents Trump and Zelensky in the oval office on February 28, the podcaster Jyotishman Mudiar asked Ambassador Chas Freeman the following questions:
Why doesn’t Zelensky want a ceasefire? What is the reason for US-Russia normalization and why are there divisions within Europe regarding Russia and NATO. Will the US Deep State survive and are we watching a U.S. Coup d’Etat??
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired American diplomat and writer. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years.
Most notably, he worked as the [ . . . ]

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Jeffrey Sachs’ Explosive Speech to the EU Parliament Shakes Europe

By MariaFebruary 25, 2025Newest Podcasts

On February 19, 2025, in the middle of an uproar over President Trump’s start of peace negotiations for Ukraine with Russia’s President Putin, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gave a 100 minute long information session to members of the European Parliament about the Geopolitics of Peace.
His candid and personal account made a deep impression. In only 24 minutes Prof. Sachs covered many important flashpoints in the region, among them:
The Nato expansion beginning in 1999 – with the US claiming the right to place missile systems into the new Nato members – including later Ukraine.
To the US decision, in September 2001, that it would launch seven wars in 5 years (according to General Wesley Clark) – beginning with Iraq – and only Iran [ . . . ]

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