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Lisa And Juan Podcasts
Hosted by Dr. Theresa Ashby, this show is for people who are influencing the way we do business through Heart, Hustle and Humor.
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The Sounds in My Head is a biweekly music show featuring songs and bands you might have missed. Hosted by Daniel since 2004. Musically The Sounds in My Head attempts to be fairly eclectic, but probably tends to lean towards "indie pop" music. Also, I try to squeeze in as much left-wing propaganda as possible between tracks.
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November 4, 2025 - Marion Nestle | Ryan Cooper | Dr. Ashley Koning
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After Offering to Half-Fund SNAP, Trump Turns Callousness Into Cruelty by Refusing to Fund It At All Until "Radical Left Democrats" Open Up the Government | The Billionaire-Funded Retention Election For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court That Is Going Under the Radar | The Mamdani race in NYC and Sherrill race in NJ as the Personification of the Strugg…
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November 3, 2025 - Javier Corrales | Paul Glastris | Daniel Harawa
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Trump Wants to Take Out Maduro Without a War But Replacing Venezuela's Corrupt and Criminal Hierarchy Will Not Be So Easy | Trump Has Project 2025 But the Democrats Have No Plan and They Need to Go On the Offensive With One | Will SCOTUS Shred Its Last Vestige of Legitimacy and Side With Trump on Tariffs? backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmaste…
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November 1, 2025 - Joseph Cirincione | Will Bunch | Fatemeh Jamalpour
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The Man With His Finger on the Button Doesn't Know What He is Talking About When it Comes to Nuclear Weapons | Trump Doesn't Need a Reichstag Fire, Mike Johnson Has Already Shut Down the Legislature | An Iranian Journalist Banned by Iran's Ministry of Intelligence on Her Book on the Third Anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom Movementbackgroundbr…
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October 30, 2025 - Miles Taylor & Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno | Jochen Hellbeck
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Today's Launch ofDEFIANCE.ORG to Help Americans Push Back Against Trump's Revenge | As Putin Behaves Like A Nazi Killing Ukrainian Civilians, Hitler's Murderousness Mobilized the Russians, 26 Million of Whom Died Defeating Nazismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmaste…
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October 29, 2025 - Gina Plata-Nino | Bartlett Naylor | Dennis Hogan
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As Trump Rewards Billionaires and Mike Johnson Protects Pedophiles, Americans and Their Children Are About to Go Hungry | The CEO to Worker Pay Ratio Has Gone From 20 to 1 to 360 to 1 But Now Musk Expects a $1 Trillion Paycheck | Trump's Theatrical War on Drugs Has Key Ally Colombia Exiting the Stage;…
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October 28, 2025 - Michael Hudson | Kent Harrington
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Reality Versus Fiction in Trump's Asia Tour of Japan Then on to South Korea To Meet Xi | An assessment of Trump's Claim of a "New Golden Age of the U.S. Japan Alliance" backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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October 27, 2025 - Dr. Bandy Lee | Stephen Marche | Sarang Shidore
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The Unbound Grandiosity of Trump's Ego and Its Frailty as the Most Powerful Man in the World Craves and Demands Praise and Flattery | Trump's Declaration of Economic War on Canada Over a Reagan TV Ad | An Assessment of What Was Achieved and What Was Not at the ASEAN Summit backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ian…
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October 26, 2025 - Sean Wilentz | Sidney Blumenthal | Timothy Shenk
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Dwarfing the White House, Trump's Monstrous Monument to His Ego Will be an Enduring Insult From the Worst President in Our History That Will Torment Us For the Ages | The Criminal Takeover of America as Trump Punishes His Enemies and Pardons His Friends While Rewarding Himself, His Family and His Cronies | Democrats Must Run With a Liberal/Populist…
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October 23, 2025 - David Faris | Richard Briffault | Tamar Jacoby
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How Blue States Can Defend Themselves Against the Divisive Partisan Warfare Trump is Waging Against Them | The White House is Being Trashed to Build a Massive Monument to the Worst President in Our History | A Report From Kyiv on Whether Europe's Tough Talk on Russia Will Translate Into Actionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 22, 2025 - Jared Abbott | Robert McElvaine | Priya Jain
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Although the Oysterman in Maine is Imploding and Senator Fetterman is a Disappointment, Authentic Populist Democratic Candidates Are Emerging on the Left | Disturbing Similarities With Today's Wall Street Bubble and the 1929 Crash | A Wakeup Call as the People's House is Torn Down to Build a Gilded Palacebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ian…
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October 21, 2025 - David Cay Johnston | James Zirin | William LeoGrande
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Trump Tears Down the East Wing For a Gilded Ballroom While Washington's Government Workers Aren't Getting Paid | Trump's Judges Overturn District Court Rulings For Troops to Intimidate Portland and Chicago | Will Trump Attack Venezuela to Please Little Marco? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.b…
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October 20, 2025 - Van Gosse | Dr. Annelle Sheline | Kim Lane Scheppele
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Trump's Outlandish Vulgarity Has Support in the GOP and Deep Roots in American Politics | Witkoff and Kushner in Israel to Plug Holes in the israel/Hamas Peace Plan With VP Vance Arriving tomorrow For More Damage Control | The Contentious Trump/Zelensky Meeting at Which Trump Parroted Putin's Talking Points and Russian Propaganda backgroundbriefing…
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S22,E08: 10/20/25 (Still Corners, Automatic, Hibou, Beauty Queen and Henry Nowhere, Wombo, Los Bitchos, Jesse Welles)
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SEASON 22 EPISODE 8: OCTOBER 20TH, 2025 The Creeps - Still Corners Black Box - Automatic mq9 - Automatic Eidolon - Hibou Aix - Hibou In the Garden - Beauty Queen & Henry Nowhere Tied to You - Beauty Queen Danger in Fives - Wombo Common Things - Wombo Hi! - Los Bitchos La Bomba - Los Bitchos Red - Jesse Welles This episode features a clip from Sam H…
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October 19, 2025 - John Nichols | Joe Feagin | Stephen Kinzer
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Resistance to Trump is Growing With 2,600 No Kings Protests Across America | In Spite of JD Vance's Craven Lies, Group Chat Reveals Trump's Appeal to Young Republican Racists, Misogynists and Even Incels | Signs that Trump and Rubio's Plan To Use Military Force Against Venezuela Are Behind the Head of Southcom Stepping Downbackgroundbriefing.org/do…
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October 16, 2025 - Michael Kimmage | David Smilde | Kenneth Vogel
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Trump and Putin to Meet in Budapest Soon For Another Summit After the Alaska Fiasco | Trump Authorizes CIA Covert Action Against Venezuela Announcing "We Are Looking at Land Now" | Friends and Relatives of Our Political Leaders Cash in on Dirty Money From Disreputable Despotsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/i…
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October 15, 2025 - David Daley | Dustin Wahl | Richard P. Swanson
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SCOTUS Appears Poised To Gut the Voting Rights Act Again to Give Republicans 10 to 12 New House Seats at the Expense of Black Voters Before Votes Are Cast in the Midterms | Younger Candidates Challenging the Gerontocracy Ruling Our Politics | The Weak and Vindictive Case Trump Has Ginned Up Against Leticia Jamesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.…
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October 14, 2025 - Asher Kaufman | Harold Meyerson | Nina Burleigh
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Hamas Moves to Assert Control Over Gaza Making the Prospect of an Arab/Muslim Police Force Taking Over Dubious While Trump, Miller and Vance's Demonization of the American Left is Ludicrous, We Look Into Rifts Between the Fundis and the Realos | How Far Will the Country Sink Into the Trump Abyss of Corruption, Venality, Malevolence and Vulgarity?ba…
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October 13, 2025 - Aaron David Miller | Sarah Leah Whitson | Paul Pillar
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A Veteran Middle East Negotiator on the Gaza Peace Deal and Trump's Middle East Peace Plan | The Absence of Palestinian Representatives in the Peace Deal and Reconstruction Plans Underway | So Far So Good But Can All the Benchmarks Be Met? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.c…
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October 12, 2025 - Alejandro Velasco | Gil Duran | Thom Hartmann
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And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to...Maria Corina Machado Not Donald J. Trump | The Latest Moves by the Shadowy Power Broker Who Owns J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel | Thom Hartmann on His Latest Book The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brinkbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ia…
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October 9, 2025 - Mitchell Plitnick | Michael Klare | Danny Goldberg
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The Peace Deal Underway With Trump In Israel on Monday to Greet the Hostages | Not If But When Trump and Miller Will Invoke the Insurrection Act | Liberals With Attitude in the Past Needed Now in the Present backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 8, 2025 - Lawrence Douglas | Robert Pape | Lincoln Mitchell
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The James Comey Show Trial by Trump and Bondi Gets Underway | Trump's "War Within" is Underway and It Will Be a Long One | America's Sea Change of Views on Israel Two Years After October 7backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 7, 2025 - William Hartung | Garrett Epps | Cory Doctorow
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By Ian Masters
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October 6, 2025 - Dr. Allen Frances | Maria Victoria Murillo | Chuck Collins
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By Ian Masters
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October 5, 2025 - Steven Simon | Katherine Stewart | James Carroll
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Will Peace Happen in Gaza and Trump Get His Nobel Prize? | The Second Trump Coup Is Underway and Will We Have an Election Next November? | What Happens After This Long, Cruel Is Over? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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October 2, 2025 - Elizabeth Goitein | Lisa Graves
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October 2, 2025 - Elizabeth Goitein | Lisa Graves by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters
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October 1, 2025 - Ken Klippenstein | Stephen Marche | Sasha Abramsky
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Trump and Miller's National Security Directive NSPM-7 Outlaws the Common Beliefs of Over Half of the Country | Trump Is More the Latin American Caudillo Than the European Fascists of the 1930's | Trump and Vought Use the Government Shutdown to Gleefully Inflict Trauma on Public Service Workers and Their Families backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter…
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