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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).

Gretchen Borchelt: Kavanaugh Poses Dire Threat to Reproductive Rights and Healthcare Access; Bartlett Naylor: As Mulvaney Dismantles Consumer Protection Bureau, Trump Nominates Kraninger to Finish the Job; Amirah Sequeira: House Democrats Launch Medicare For All Caucus, Embracing Universal Health Care; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

Like all discrimination, Islamophobia is political and personal, individual and institutional, subtle and not at all subtle. A recent incident led Maha Hilal to connect those dots in an essay. Maha Hilal is co-director of the Justice for Muslims Collective and an organizer with Witness Against Torture. We’ll talk with her about her piece, “White Supremacy in the Courtroom,” and the story behind it.

Kate Raworth came to international attention in 2017 with the publication of her most recent book: Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. She critiques the Gross Domestic Product system of accounting – including the so-called Green or sustainable growth models. In Kate Raworth’ doughnut model the goal is to raise the well being of humans trapped inside the doughnut hole, while placing limits on climate change and pollution that are near or have crossed the outer circle of the doughnut.

This is the first half of the show RE posted on 6-20-2018. Canadell reports a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, mostly coming from China. We talk about whether we are inevitably headed for much more than 2 degrees C. (3.6 degrees F.).

The three panelists and their subjects are as follows: Lawrence Davidson (West Chester University), Balfour and the Zionist Project; Susan Akram (Boston University School of Law), Balfour and International Law; and Thomas Suárez (Author, "State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel"), The Role of Terror in the State-Building Process. The panel was facilitated by Hilary Rantisi of the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. A replay.

The obvious trigger for this discussion is Trump's audacious claims of smartness, etc. Fallows and his wife Deborah are the authors of the new book "Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America."

Levine traces the history of the internet back to its beginnings as a Vietnam-era tool for spying on guerrilla fighters and antiwar protesters–a military computer networking project that ultimately envisioned the creation of a global system of surveillance and prediction. Levine shows how the same military objectives that drove the development of early internet technology are still at the heart of Silicon Valley today. Did you really think Google's "free" services were paid for by angels? Think again.

Public Citizen showed in a new report on Friday that news reports largely ignore the link between the climate crisis and the extreme heat that is currently enveloping cities and regions all over the world. The report is posted at citizen.org/sites/default/files/public_citizen_extreme_silence_how_the_u.s._media_have_failed_to_connect_climate_change_to_extreme_heat_in.pdf

It seems some people are unhappy with their "president." After others' less successful efforts, a lone but resolute patriot took a pick-axe to Trump's long-dubious, frequently vandalized star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, obliterating it once and for all. Many feel that the resulting wreckage offers an apt, if sorrowful, metaphor for what Trump's doing to America. ...