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Longtime classics and antiwar themes, wrapping up with "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte Marie, 1964) and "I Ain't Marching Any More" (Phil Ochs, 1965).

Marjorie Cohn: Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Disregards International Law; Jessica Helm: Hair Products for Black Women Contain Mix of Toxic Chemicals; Jackie DiSalvo: U.S. Labor Movement Confronts Historic Challenges, Opportunities; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary

Now Americans have seen images of the Yemeni schoolchildren on a field trip killed by U.S.-made bombs. Is there a bridge from concern to change? Also: Elite media reported Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s claim that her rewrite of rules on rape, assault and harassment in schools was about fairness to all parties (“not just students who survived assault, but those wrongly accused of assault”). Really? Not when you read the changes.

Whether immigrants workers, documented or undocumented, seek to hold crooked and exploitative bosses accountable for wage theft, and pay that is below the prevailing wage or work just too many hours for too little pay and benefits and are subject to abusive treatment to their personage, such as sexual harassment or want the freedom to push for decent jobs and organize unions without risking arrest, they deserve legal protections. Now with Trump threatening to bring a reign of lawlessness to American cities, the most precarious workers are subjected to more militarized and extensive workplace raids, mass arrests, family separation and expedited deportations.

Farewell to Ice in the Arctic This program is being produced in Mendocino County at the beginning of September 2018 only 16 miles east of where the largest wildfire in California history is slowly coming under control. Prof. Peter Wadhams is the UK’s most experienced sea ice scientist and was Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge from 1992 to 2015.

Touman-Sliman focuses on the details of the Orwellian "nation state" law, which runs roughshod over international law. Also discussed: Trump's continuing weaponization of U.S. foreign aid, including cessation of funds for UNWRA.

Loewen uncovered the thousands of “sundown towns”—almost exclusively white towns where the rule was that blacks could not live there—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. These towns used everything from legal formalities to violence to create homogenous Caucasian communities—and their existence went unexamined until this book. James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, and Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Colombus, as well as Teaching What Really Happened, The Mississippi Chinese, and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.

"In this episode, Dan goes back in time to the days of MLK and the progress made by President Lyndon Johnson in getting civil rights and immigration reform passed. But this is contrasted with the racism and divisiveness stoked by President Trump: Trump sees immigration as an invasion, when in fact it is a central part of American life that has made the country stronger throughout its history."