Behind the News: University Unionism w/ Donna Murch

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🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

James Bamford, author of Spyfail and a recent article in The Nation, discusses Israeli collusion with Donald Trump in 2016. Then Donna Murch, associate professor of history at Rutgers and president of the New Brunswick campus’s faculty union, talks about why the teaching staff is on the verge of a strike and why it matters well beyond that institution.

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:34.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henwood.
0:36.0	The utterly traditional two segments today will hear from James Bamford,
0:40.0	who's been writing about US intelligence for four decades.
0:43.0	He'll talk about Israeli interference and elections around the world,
0:46.0	particularly their collusion with Donald Trump in 2016.
0:49.0	And then the historian and faculty union president Donna Merch will explain
0:53.0	why the Rutgers teaching staff is in the verge of a strike.
0:56.0	For years we've been hearing about alleged Russian collusion
0:59.0	with the Trump campaign in 2016.
1:01.0	But repeated investigation has turned up no evidence that it actually happened.
1:05.0	Now we've got good evidence of a collusion that did happen,
1:08.0	Israel's with the Trump campaign.
1:10.0	James Bamford, who first became known for his book, The Puzzle Palace,
1:14.0	in 1982 about the National Security Agency,
1:17.0	has a cover story in the nation magazine about that topic,
1:20.0	which is attracted virtually no interest from US media.
1:23.0	And it's not just the US.
1:25.0	Israel interferes with elections all over the world.
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