Oil Slick: Bechtel, Halliburton, and the White House
…ct, we look at a controversial pipeline deal that now-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally negotiated with Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Bechtel Corporation during the Reagan administration. We also examine Halliburton’s $7 billion dollar oil contract in Iraq. Featuring: Jim Vallette (Sustainable Energy and Economy Network) and Daphne Wysham (Institute for Policy Studies), co-authors of the investigative report Crude Vision: How Oil I…
Presumed Guilty: American Muslims and Arabs (9-11 Encore Edition)
…Black; Tsuyako Kitashima, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress spokesperson; Donald Tamaki, lawyer for Fred Korematsu; Peter Irons, UC San Diego Constitutional Law Professor. —WEB EXCLUSIVES— NYC Town Hall on Preemptive Prosecution Full audio from December 2010 NYC Town Hall featuring family members of “wrongly accused” terrorists. Recorded by Jaisal Noor. https://www.radioproject.org/sound/2011/MakingCon_110323_townhall.mp3 Full-length Interview wi…
The Costs of War: A Reflection on Eight Years in Iraq
…W News in San Francisco. Featuring: George W. Bush, former U.S. President; Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense; Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State; Yara Badday, Iraqi-American; Paul Bremer, former U.S. Administrator to Iraq; Richard Becker, West Coast Coordinator for ANSWER Coalition; Paul Wolfowitz, former Deputy Secretary of Defense; Ghazwan Al-sharif, Iraqi translator; Ryan Berg, U.S. Marine; Starlyn Lara, U.S. Army; Jordan To…
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment ENCORE
…e! Local 2 president; Mike Hannigan, Give Something Back company director; Donald Washington, Juan Filomeno, Shirley Hollis, formerly incarcerated; Lois Ahrens, Real Cost of Prisons Project prisoner advocate; Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts; Aaron Tanaka, Boston Workers Alliance executive director; Michael Corwin, private investigator; Julie Roberts, Northeastern University School of Law board of directors’ member. — SEGMENTS FR…
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
…e! Local 2 president; Mike Hannigan, Give Something Back company director; Donald Washington, Juan Filomeno, Shirley Hollis, formerly incarcerated; Lois Ahrens, Real Cost of Prisons Project prisoner advocate; Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts; Aaron Tanaka, Boston Workers Alliance executive director; Michael Corwin, private investigator; Julie Roberts, Northeastern University School of Law board of directors’ member. — SEGMENTS FR…
Breaking the Cycle: Juvenile Crime and Positive Solutions
…twork of community organizations that empower juvenile offenders by teaching them how to rebuild their neighborhoods. Featuring: Antoine Bennett, graduate of YouthBuild USA; Dorothy Stoneman, YouthBuild USA; Jason Ziedenberg, Justice Policy Institute; Donald Lacy, LoveLife Foundation; Gaylon Logan, Infusion One. For more iInformation: Justice Policy Institute –San Francisco, CA LoveLife Foundation –Oakland, CA info@lovelifefoundation.org Infusion…
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (ENCORE)
…ning for the last 30 or 40 years. What changed in the pandemic is that the Trump administration then, and then the Biden administration subsequently had to justify what they were doing for the pandemic. And so instead of hiding these vast, essentially federal subsidies, To the private pharmaceutical industry, they had to publicize them. That is why for the first time, I think we’re aware of the extent of taxpayer money. That’s going into these dru…
Data Boom! Rana Foroohar on Surveillance Capitalism
…ible for about a quarter of the $407 billion in buybacks announced since a Trump tax bill was passed in December of 2017. But buybacks have bolstered mainly the top 10 percent of the U.S. population that owns 84 percent of all stock. The fact that share buybacks have become the biggest single use of corporate cash for over a decade now has buoyed markets. But it’s also increased the wealth divide, which many economists believe is not only the sing…
Best of Making Contact 2021
…to be a striver, a Crusader, an explorer and a conqueror. PROTESTOR: Hail Trump, hail our people, hail, victory. REPORTER: After more than 15 years of research into this world, what bothers me is how little attention is being paid to the sources of propaganda that feed the ideology of white supremacy. And I’m not talking about Fox News. I’m talking about a century of unscientific claims from social scientists, psychologists, anthropologists. Some…
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
…aking Contact · The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore) Given the Trump Election and the difference between popular votes and Electoral votes, we explore the Electoral College. Who are the electors, anyway? And will the United States ever join the rest of the world, and adopt a popular vote for president? Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the Electoral College discourages voting, lessens the power of t…
70 Million: How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix
…· 70 Million: How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right. They’re also locking up asylum seekers for months or years, until they either win their case, are returned to their home countries, or self deport. Reporters Valeria Fernández and Jude Joffe-Block follow two asylum seekers as they endure detention, legal cases, and family…
Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy Part Two
…of color, in particular, to the polls in 2020 – turning out the incumbent Trump regime. We speak with voter turnout expert Andrea Miller, union organizer Carolina Miranda, and pro-democracy activist Pam Wilmot, about what must come next to protect democracy in the USA. (Part Two – #39 is Part One) Image Credit: Carolina Miranda photo – Carolina Miranda; Andrea Miller photo – The Tennessee Tribune; Pam Wilmot photo – The Boston Globe Caption: Voti…
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines
…ning for the last 30 or 40 years. What changed in the pandemic is that the Trump administration then, and then the Biden administration subsequently had to justify what they were doing for the pandemic. And so instead of hiding these vast, essentially federal subsidies, To the private pharmaceutical industry, they had to publicize them. That is why for the first time, I think we’re aware of the extent of taxpayer money. That’s going into these dru…
Queens Memory Podcast: Seeing Signs
…mismo is racist. Na tumaas ang hate crime. …Because that was the time that Trump called COVID Chinese virus. Rosalind Tordesillas: In August 2021 Potri was handing out free masks on the subway. She offered them to a couple. The man grabbed the masks. Potri Ranka Manis: “Mind your own business, chink. Go home to your dirty country.” Rosalind Tordesillas: The woman hit her over and over. Potri counted more than 20 blows. She wanted to fight back. Po…
I Am Because I Am: The Expansion of Gender Identity (Encore)
…eas of what is male, female, masculine or feminine. Especially considering Trump’s administration attempts to redefine gender to be solely based on a person’s genitalia at birth. Thus potentially threatening Transgender, Intersex and Non-Binary Identity. In this show we’ll ask the questions, what does it mean when individuals challenge specific societal expectations of gender? In the case of intersex individuals, how are these ideas of gender chal…
How to Hold Back the Ocean
…with some draft alternatives and then the project lost funding during the Trump administration but now it is. Refunded and coming back. So we’re all waiting with bated breath. The current deadline is this September. Salima Hamirani: The army Corps plan is to armor the shoreline against a storm like Sandy, by building concrete structures that would sit in the water permanently like a fence with movable pieces between them like big swinging gates….
How to Hold Back the Ocean (ENCORE)
…with some draft alternatives and then the project lost funding during the Trump administration but now it is. Refunded and coming back. So we’re all waiting with bated breath. The current deadline is this September. Salima Hamirani: The army Corps plan is to armor the shoreline against a storm like Sandy, by building concrete structures that would sit in the water permanently like a fence with movable pieces between them like big swinging gates….
The Fight Over the Indian Child Welfare Act Is Not Just A Custody Battle
…rs its head for a second time, allowing tribes to play the proverbial ICWA Trump card at the 11th hour. This flouts the promise of equal justice under the law. Salima Hamirani: So the plaintiffs are arguing that ICWA is racist, but that kind of falls apart if you look at any of the details of the case. Because if there’s racism in the child welfare system, then the story of the Librettis and Baby O shows us that is definitely not against white peo…
What the SVB Failure Teaches us About Investment Banking
…o at the level they were supposed to because in 2018, the Congress and the Trump administration changed the rules and they said, if you’re a quote unquote regional bank, and I mean that’s a bank with, you know, under $250 billion, you don’t have to be as strictly monitored. And so they basically created a circumstance where this was almost destined to happen, where some bank was gonna, you know, be under-regulated, under-examined, and crash and bu…
Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality
…across the centuries here, and do so in a way that normalizes stuff that, Trump began to normalize by saying, “Oh, they’re nice people, you know, on both sides,” to “Oh, those are nice people taking guns to the capital. The governors should sit down with them.” This normalization is an incredible danger. And we’ve got to stop seeing it as just fringe politics. We’ve got to see it as potentially the politics of the future. <M…
