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KPFA - Behind the News

KPFA - Behind the News

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 Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.2025KPFA 312700 Political Science Politics & Government
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  • Fundraising special: the problem with lithium

    Fundraising special: the problem with lithium
    Dec 18 2025
    Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, on the complications of using lithium batteries to green our future (think tank here) The post Fundraising special: the problem with lithium appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr
  • Fundraising special: Trump’s natsec strategy, the US gov as private equity firm

    Fundraising special: Trump’s natsec strategy, the US gov as private equity firm
    Dec 11 2025
    Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy • Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here) The post Fundraising special: Trump’s natsec strategy, the US gov as private equity firm appeared first on KPFA.
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  • Honduras, Sudan, sewer socialism

    Honduras, Sudan, sewer socialism
    Dec 4 2025
    David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard of the Progressive International on the Honduran elections • Elfadil Ibrahim on the Sudanese civil war • Eric Blanc on the lessons of Milwaukee’s decades of “sewer socialism” for Mamdani and Wilson The post Honduras, Sudan, sewer socialism appeared first on KPFA.
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