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00:08 — Tim Redmond, is the founder of 48hills.

00:20 — Andrea Bernstein is a journalist and cohost of the WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc.

00:33 — David Wooley is a Lecturer and Director of the Environmental Center at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.

00:45 — Lauren Feiner is the senior policy reporter at The Verge.

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00:08 — Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, previously principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria.

00:33 — Natalie Orenstein covers housing and homelessness for The Oaklandside.

00:45 — Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.

The post Foreign Relations for a New Syria Under HTS; Plus, Alameda County Data Report Traces Homelessness in Oakland; And, San Francisco’s Houseless Population in Recent Storms appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.

00:33 — Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University.

The post A Look at Washington Before Trump Takes Office; Plus, What’s Driving Israel to Increase Settlements in the Golan Heights appeared first on KPFA.

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 — Nathan Thrall is an American writer living in Jerusalem. In 2024, he received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.

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00:08 — Omar Dahi is a professor of economics at Hampshire College and founding director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs.

00:33 — Hoshang Hasan is a journalist based in Syria, currently working for North Press Agency.

The post Political Economic Future of Syria; Plus, How Has the Kurdish Population Reacted to the Rise of HTS appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 — Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. His latest book is Erasing History.

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00:08 — Phyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies with a focus on Middle East, Palestine, and US militarism. The new edition of her book Understanding Palestine and Israel will be out soon.

The post Fund Drive Special: Phyllis Bennis on the Fall of the Syrian Government & Israel’s Occupation of Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

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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