News Analysis Episodes
The Roe v Wade Leaked Opinion: In conversation with Luke Boso, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, University of San Francisco School of Law.
May 10, 2022
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 pre…
The Great Firewall of China: How to build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet. Talking with author James Griffiths.
March 16, 2022
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 spreadin…
Assessing the Right wing terror threat one year after 1/6/21: In conversation with Professor Dan Byman.
Feb. 22, 2022
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.
Storytelling to build a better San Francisco: In conversation with Carly Schwartz, Editor in Chief, The San Francisco Examiner
Nov. 18, 2021
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 an…
Forced Sterilizations: Sonoma County's shameful history.
Oct. 25, 2021
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 messag…
Wildfire Arsonists: A disturbing trend ?
Oct. 15, 2021
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 S…
Did Critical Race Theory trigger school expulsion ? In conversation with Sam Stanton, Reporter at the Sacramento Bee.
Aug. 4, 2021
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 stude…
George Floyd Trial and Police Reform: A discussion with Martin Kuz, West Coast Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor.
April 9, 2021
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 …
FBI thwarts Militia plot to kidnap Governor
Oct. 11, 2020
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 plott…
Proud Boys: Stand Back, Stand By
Oct. 3, 2020
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 …
Antifa member Michael Reinoehl killed in a gunfight with US Marshals
Sept. 4, 2020
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, Washingto…
Antifa murders Patriot Prayer in Portland: an ominous start to the Presidential campaign.
Sept. 1, 2020
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 battl…
Wine Country Wildfires: the ungovernable State of California
Aug. 30, 2020
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…
Homelessness in the Tenderloin: San Francisco's Shame.
July 2, 2020
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 …
The Boogaloo Bois : Extremists or Fantasists ?
June 25, 2020
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 f…