News Analysis Episodes
Feb. 10, 2025
Tusk: Building a new search engine. Talking with founder and CEO, Jeff Bermant
Search Engines like Google are a major source where Americans get their news. But Google News has a 63% left bias versus 6% right bias. Other search engines have similar biases.
Feb. 28, 2024
Putin's Exiles: Talking with author Paul Starobin.
1 million Russians have gone into exile since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. And Putin’s political adversary, Alexei Navalny, died suddenly and unexpectedly in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024.
July 24, 2023
The Titan Submersible: An accident waiting to happen. Talking with Professor Stefan Williams, University of Sydney.
Stefan is Professor of Marine Engineering at University of Sydney. He talks about the Titan submersible disaster.
July 3, 2023
Fentalife ads focus on San Francisco's failed approach to drugs. Talking to Kanishka Cheng, CEO of Together SF.
A controversial ad campaign about Fentanyl use has stirred controversy in San Francisco.
July 26, 2022
The long arm of Chinese censorship and author Geling Yan. In conversation with Larry Walker.
Acclaimed Chinese American author with 28 novels to her credit and translated into 18 languages has run afoul of the Chinese censors. This episode recounts how she and her husband fought to get credit for a Chinese film based on one of her books.
June 25, 2022
Roe versus Wade overturned. In conversation with Associate Professor of Constitutional Law Luke Boso at University of San Francisco School of Law.
The United States Supreme Court overturned this 49 year landmark precedent which gave a woman the right to an abortion. As a result of this decision, regulation of abortion will be de-constitutionalized and returned to the st...
June 16, 2022
Patriot Front plot to disrupt Gay Pride March is foiled. Talking with Quinn Welsch, reporter for the Spokane Spokesman Review
The white supremacist group the Patriot Front, planned a riot in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on Saturday, June 11 during the Gay Pride Parade. They were apprehended and arrested and charged before they could carry out their plan. Qu...
May 10, 2022
The Roe v Wade Leaked Opinion: In conversation with Luke Boso, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, University of San Francisco School of Law.
It looks as though the US Supreme Court is about to strike down Roe v Wade that gave women the right to have an abortion. Assuming the decision is confirmed, it will fundamentally change American society and 49 years of precedent.
March 16, 2022
The Great Firewall of China: How to build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet. Talking with author James Griffiths.
China’s concept of internet sovereignty has ushered in censorship and control of what used to be the freewheeling World Wide Web. Russia has recently clamped down on its’ citizens internet access too. Is this virus spreading ?
Feb. 22, 2022
Assessing the Right wing terror threat one year after 1/6/21: In conversation with Professor Dan Byman.
The rise of the global white supremacy movement. US groups like Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and Boogaloo Bois played a prominent role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol Siege.
Nov. 18, 2021
Storytelling to build a better San Francisco: In conversation with Carly Schwartz, Editor in Chief, The San Francisco Examiner
The venerable SF Examiner is under new ownership and management. Editor in Chief Carly Schwartz, after stints at The Huffington Post and Google has a 5 prong strategy to reorganize the paper: Findings, Fixes, Faces, Forum and...
Oct. 25, 2021
Forced Sterilizations: Sonoma County's shameful history.
California legalized involuntary sterilizations in 1909. Between 1919 and 1952, 5500 such procedures were performed, representing 25% of the involuntary sterilizations which occurred in California. --- Send in a voice message...
Oct. 15, 2021
Wildfire Arsonists: A disturbing trend ?
Three recent arson cases in Northern California's forests, during our dangerous annual wildfire season, have raised the fear that deliberately set fires are on the rise and contributing to the megafires plaguing the Golden St...
Aug. 4, 2021
Did Critical Race Theory trigger school expulsion ? In conversation with Sam Stanton, Reporter at the Sacramento Bee.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) and teaching it in public schools has been banned in 30 states. California may have just entered the fray with the filing of a federal discrimination lawsuit by the parents of a Latino former studen...
April 9, 2021
George Floyd Trial and Police Reform: A discussion with Martin Kuz, West Coast Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.
Minneapolis and the nation as a whole are holding their collective breath as the George Floyd murder trial unfolds. Just as the repercussions of his killing by police officer Derek Chauvin last year are still working their w...
Oct. 11, 2020
FBI thwarts Militia plot to kidnap Governor
The Wolverine Watchmen, a Michigan based militia group, plotted to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, try her for treason, storm the State Capitol in Lansing with 200 men and foment a civil war. The FBI arrested the 13 plotte...
Oct. 3, 2020
Proud Boys: Stand Back, Stand By
Who are the Proud Boys and why did Joe Biden and Chris Wallace give them oxygen at the Presidential debate ? A right wing group the Anti-Defamation League calls Alt-Lite, with a Disney film inspired name wasn't deserving of m...
Sept. 4, 2020
Antifa member Michael Reinoehl killed in a gunfight with US Marshals
Michael Reinoehl, the confessed murderer of Patriot Prayer member Aaorn Jay Danielson, in Portland Saturday, August 29, has died in a gunfight with a law enforcement Task Force led by US Marhalls, close to Olympia, Washington...
Sept. 1, 2020
Antifa murders Patriot Prayer in Portland: an ominous start to the Presidential campaign.
Aaron Danielson a 39 year old Trump supporter and Patriot Prayer was shot and killed by Michael Reinoehl, 48, years old and a self described 100% Antifa follower. The killing brings into sharp contrast the ideological battle...
Aug. 30, 2020
Wine Country Wildfires: the ungovernable State of California
11,000 dry lightning strikes hit the Golden State overnight August 16 and 17, igniting 347 wildfires. Here in Wine Country, 50 miles North of San Francisco, the fires continue to burn two weeks later, sending massive columns ...
July 2, 2020
Homelessness in the Tenderloin: San Francisco's Shame.
The mushrooming of 443 homeless tents on the sidewalks of the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco's poorest and most disadvantaged neighborhoods, caused a group of neighbors, including the well-connected UC Hastings Law School t...
June 25, 2020
The Boogaloo Bois : Extremists or Fantasists ?
When Steven Carrillo scrawled BOOG in his own blood across the hood of his white van, the US Air Force Sergeant cast his fate with the extremist anti government movement, the Boogaloo Bois. Facing two death penalty charges fo...
June 10, 2020
Assassination of Olof Palme Solved. Maybe....Maybe not.
Swedish prosecutors have named Stig Engstrom as Palme's assassin. It's taken 34 years of mystery, conspiracy and botched investigations in which 130 different people claimed to be the assassin since 1986 to reach a conclusi...