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We be begin with the growing globalization of white supremacy and nationalism along with right wing terrorism associated with its rise that mirrors the transnational threat posed by the Islamic State. Mark Potok, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence project and editor of its award-winning quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report, joins us from Budapest, Hungary where there is a conference underway addressing the dangers of transnational white supremacism that is not only reflected in the recent tragedy at the AME church in Charleston, but is also emerging as a political threat in Europe where the far-right National Front in France just came in second in parliamentary elections as neo-fascist parties in Hungary and Greece also gain ground.

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Then we assess the impact of Tuesday night’s speech to the Iranian people by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei who laid down red lines in the nuclear talks that are facing a June 30 deadline, hardening Iran’s stance in a way that appears to undercut a framework deal that was announced in April. Mohsen Milani, the Executive Director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida joins us to discuss whether this is a last-minute deal-breaker or a reiteration of previous red lines.

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Then finally, with the announcement today of the 13th entrant into the Republican presidential primary race, Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, we will look into whether the nation’s first Indian-American governor could be an unlucky thirteen given his plummeting approval ratings in a state struggling with a $1.6 billion shortfall. Julia O’Donoghue, a Louisiana politics reporter based in Baton Rouge for the Times Picayune and NOLA.com joins us to discuss whether Bobby Jindal’s pandering to the Republican Right by introducing the teaching of creationism and opposing same-sex marriage will improve his negligible poll numbers.   

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with a victim of a previous mass shooting at a house of worship who just attended the memorial service at the AME church in Charleston where he found comfort from the latest victims on Father’s Day in remembrance of his father who in 2012 was gunned down in his Wisconsin Sikh temple by a white racist. Amardeep Kaleka, an Emmy Award winning film director, who since his father’s murder has been an advocate for gun control and hate crime legislation, joins us to discuss his article at The Huffington Post “American Dream Disturbed” and the governor of South Carolina’s call to take down the Confederate flag that was the only flag not lowered to half-mast at the state capitol.

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Then we speak with Naomi Oreskes, a Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and the co-author of the new book “The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future”. We discuss how her work helped inform Pope Francis in the preparation of his encyclical on the environment and how her new book, grounded in science, portrays our planet in the not-too-distant future as the “pile of filth” the Pope warns against.

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Then finally, with the release of a new study in the journal Science Advances by Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley scientists, we examine the sixth mass extinction phase that the earth has now entered following the fifth 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. An expert on mass extinctions, Peter Ward, a paleontologist who teaches biology and earth and space sciences at the University of Washington joins us. He is the author of “Under a Green Sky”, a book that points out that all but one of the major extinction events in history have been brought on by climate change.