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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
Please visit and bookmark the new site. You can search show archives here.
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with guest host Toby Miller |
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We begin with Jonathan Cohn of the New Republic where he just wrote the article, "The Republicans May Lose but So Will You". We discuss progress towards reopening the government, bringing an end to the two week shutdown.
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Then we are joined by Andrew Ross, a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. We look at alternatives to debt in terms of personal and student debt as well as his new book, "Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal". |
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Finally, we speak with Sara Ayech, a climate and oil campaigner at Greenpeace UK, to examine the seizure and imprisonment of the Arctic 30 by Russia. |
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Taking listeners deep into the underlying issues and forces that shape our world.
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