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Housing, Inflation and Jobs in the US War Economy; Plus, Lebanon and Israel Ceasefire Talks; And, “Fired 50” Google Employees Organizing Against War in Gaza Plan “Techlash”

08:00 — Dean Baker is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. 33:00 — Heiko Wimmen is Project Director for the Iraq/Syria/Lebanon project at the International Crisis Group. 45:00 — Scout helped organize the April 2024 Google sit-in protest, as a member of No Tech for Aparthied and is now co-hosting Techlash — … Continued


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Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face | How Google and Big Tech Are Trying to Stop States From Regulating AI | The Enduring Scandal That A

Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face We begin with the latest display of Putin’s capture of Trump who, after standing next to Zelensky at Mar a Lago saying he was 95% of the way to a peace deal to end Russia’a war on Ukraine, reversed himself after a call from … Continued


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Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face | How Google and Big Tech Are Trying to Stop States From Regulating AI | The Enduring Scandal That A

Evidence That Putin Owns Trump is Staring Us in the Face We begin with the latest display of Putin’s capture of Trump who, after standing next to Zelensky at Mar a Lago saying he was 95% of the way to a peace deal to end Russia’a war on Ukraine, reversed himself after a call from … Continued


UpFront

Texas Bill Allowing Resident to Sue Out-of-State Providers of Abortion Pills; Plus, Judge Rules Google Can Keep Chrome Browser, Must Share Data with Competitors

00:08 — Jessica Mason Pieklo is Chief Content Officer of Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered. 00:33 — David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His most recent book is “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power” (2020).


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No Tech for Apartheid Opposes Google and Amazon’s Contribution to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, UNSC Votes On New Gaza Resolution; Plus, California’s $68 billion Budget Deficit

0:08 — Josh Marxen is a software engineer at Google and has worked there since 2016. He is also an organizer with No Tech for Apartheid since May 2021. 0:20 — Phyllis Bennis is a Middle East analyst and directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli … Continued


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Turkey-Syria earthquake causes devastating humanitarian impact; Plus, Youtube music workers on strike at Google’s Austin office; Also, Multi-state battle over the Colorado River continues

0:08 — Zaina Erhaim, a Syrian journalist based in the UK, formerly with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Hoshang Hesen, is a journalist currently in the Kurdish city of Qamishli in northeast Syria. 0:25 — Sam Regan, is a music generalist on the Youtube charts team, also on the organizing committee for the … Continued