Stephen Gilpin, former Trump University professor and author of “Trump U: The Inside Story of Trump University,” explains what it was like to work at the for-profit real estate training program before it went defunct amidst class action lawsuits and allegations of fraud.
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SHARMINI PERIES: It’s the Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. Senate confirmation hearings for Mike Pompeo as President Trump’s nominee for secretary of state took place on Thursday. Pompeo would be Trump’s second secretary of state, following Rex Tillerson’s sacking last month. When Pompeo entered the room for his hearing he was greeted by shouting protesters from Code Pink. The hearing went on to cover major hotspots around the world as well as Pompeo’s views on the Robert Mueller investigation and how he would manage the State Department. Here’s a clip from an exchange on the Iran nuclear deal./blockquote>
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The United States under President Donald Trump is fully committed to an all-out assault on immigrants. Much of Trump’s ire is directed at MS-13, the transnational gang known primarily for its brutal slayings. But what’s often lost in the discussion is the fact that the United States inadvertently helped create MS-13 after providing millions to El Savador’s oppressive right-wing regime during its civil war in the ’80s. A refugee crisis ensued, causing thousands of young Salvadorans to flee to America. Many were penniless and found themselves hanging out in the streets of Los Angeles, where the gang was born.
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Plenty of women are whistleblowers, and plenty more work for the organisations that aid them. So why do we rarely hear about these women? And who are they?
In 2010, British journalist Sarah Harrison, then in her mid-20s, began working for WikiLeaks, the website created by Julian Assange to help expose large-scale injustices and cover-ups. It was the year that the site received and published some of its most explosive information to date; the Iraq War Logs, the Afghan War Diary and Cablegate were a collection of classified documents that were leaked out of the American military by Chelsea Manning, including a video showing the killing of civilians in a 2007 Baghdad airstrike.
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This week JJ was joined by award winning author Alex Nunns to talk about his book The Candidate: JEREMY CORBYN’S IMPROBABLE PATH TO POWER. We also discuss a range of issues including the Labour Party (pre Corbyn) and the events that made it possible for him to run for Labour leader. We also discuss the infamous coup, media bias & the general election.
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While the President of the United States seems to be able to shock with each new tweet, and no depth seems too low for him to sink to, we’ve yet to hear from someone who was at the heart of one of his signature outrages–Trump University, the infamous and elaborate scheme to con hundreds of earnest citizens out of their hard-earned dollars. Until now.
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Today’s guest on Mediabistro’s Morning Media Menu was Colin Robinson, co-founder of the new publisher, OR Books. The company focuses on a stripped-down distribution model with the unofficial motto, “No book printed until it’s sold.”
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Read the interview with Moustafa Bayoumi, author of Midnight on the Mavi Marama, in The Chronicle.
Next month, OR books will publish Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, a collection of essays about Israel’s recent raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla. The book will be edited by Moustafa Bayoumi, an associate professor of English at the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College. Bayoumi is the author of How Does it Feel to be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America (Penguin Press, 2008).
I caught up with Bayoumi, who is currently in Seoul, and he answered my questions by e-mail.
