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00:08 Omid Memarian is the Director of Communications at DAWN, where he also serves as the organization’s Senior Iran Analyst 7:33 David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect and co-host of the podcast Organized Money. The post Omid Memarian on Iran after Yemen’s Offensive; David Dayen on the the state of the midterm appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Shireen Al-Adeimi, associate professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University, where she’s also affiliated with the Asian Studies Center and the Muslim Studies Program. She’s been writing about the war in Yemen, and especially the US role in that war, for more than a decade. 00:33 Kelly Waldron is a reporter for Mission local, with a background in data analysis 00:45 Darwin BondGraham is the news editor at the nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside. The post Yemen war strands Saudi oil fields; big money in SF’s elections; coal in Oakland? 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.   The post Russia strikes train full of European officials; new studies on long-term impacts of COVID, influenza appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Aisha Jumaan is president of Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation. She has worked as a public health professional for thirty years with establishments such as the CDC, UNFPA and UNDP and is currently working as an Independent Consultant coordinating health-related projects in Yemen. 00:33 Manijeh Moradian is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of the book “This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States” and a member of the Feminists for Jina Network, which formed in solidarity with the women, life, freedom movemen The post Escalation in Yemen with Aisha Jumaan; Plus Manijeh Moradian on the 4th Anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom Movement appeared first on KPFA.

00:08 Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based writer who’s been reporting on Central Europe’s far right since the early 1990s. He wrote about this week’s electoral gains for the AfD for The Nation 00:33 Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. The post Extreme right ascendant in Germany; Plus Netanyahu besieged in Israel appeared first on KPFA.