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Feb 3, 2022

In this repost of a previous interview, Professor Antony Beevor speaks here with Claudia Cragg about his book 'D Day, The Battle for Normandy'.   

It is, horribly, more relevant today than it should be.

Why do 'those in power' constantly push for war, and what about the aftermath, the 'cleanup' with the so-called...


Jan 20, 2022

In view of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics (officially the XXIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Beijing 2022) this interview is a repost. 

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled...


Jan 6, 2022

What better way to jump into 2022 than with a boost from a rebroadcast of our Maya Angelou interview?

This month the US Mint will start shipping quarters featuring Angelou, the first black woman to ever grace the coin. The program was conceived in 2017 and was officially signed into law in 2020. Potential honorees were...


Dec 23, 2021

(That Senator may have made damn sure they'll be NO Child Tax Credits for you coming up, Kiddos!)

The authors, Joanne Samuel Goldblum, (@jgoldblum), founder of the National Diaper Bank Network, and journalist Colleen Shaddox argue that the systems that should protect our citizens are broken and that poverty results from...


Dec 9, 2021

Tanja Hester, @TanjaHester is the author of Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change (November 2021).

Clear-eyed and practical, #WalletActivism helps angry, overwhelmed, and disillusioned consumers cut through the marketing lies of companies that have rebranded their...