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Housing, Inflation and Jobs in the US War Economy; Plus, Lebanon and Israel Ceasefire Talks; And, “Fired 50” Google Employees Organizing Against War in Gaza Plan “Techlash”

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:59:58
Publish Date: 2026-04-16 07:00:00
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08:00 — Dean Baker is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

33:00 — Heiko Wimmen is Project Director for the Iraq/Syria/Lebanon project at the International Crisis Group.

45:00 — Scout helped organize the April 2024 Google sit-in protest, as a member of No Tech for Aparthied and is now co-hosting Techlash — a nine-hour livestream and fundraiser on Saturday, April 18th spotlighting Big Tech’s complicity in ICE surveillance, genocide, and oligarchy, while raising funds for the 50 Google workers fired for demanding accountability.

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