The the Hello and welcome to Behind the News my name is Doug Henwood.

Two guests today as usual in moments we'll talk about the demonization of China

and US political discourse with Tobe to Chow.

And then we'll hear from the historian Donna Murch about how the Black Panther Party originated

in campus study groups in the early 1960s, a reminder that campus politics are real politics.

Before that a few words in the dismal economic news.

For the second week in a row new applications for unemployment insurance rose the total since the crisis began is over 54 million. That doesn't mean there are now 54 million

unemployed because some have been recalled to work, but there's a lot of

misery in the job market. And according to the Census Bureau's new household

pulse survey, as of last week there's been a decline in And according to the Census Bureau's new Household Survey,

as of last week there's been a decline of 32 million

in the number of people getting enough of the food they wanted

compared to pre-pandemic levels.

A rise of 24 million getting enough food, but not always what they wanted. A rise of 24 million getting enough food but not always what they wanted, a rise of

almost 7 million in those not always getting enough, and a rise of 1 million in those

often not getting enough. And that was before the $600 supplemental unemployment benefits evaporated.

For more, check out my blog, LBO hyphen news.com. There's quite a bit of new material in the crisis there.

Discourse around China has gotten seriously poisonous.

We have Trump's naked racism and xenophobia.

You can hear it in the way he pronounces the country's name,

but the Dembs are also beating cold war drums.

Why? Here to explore the roots of this rampant sonophobia is a Chicago-based to-beat a chow,

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