Sonali Kolhatkar

Afghanistan

Meeting Juan Felipe Herrera, Thank God for Childcare, Freaky Zika Virus, Barbie’s New Curves, and Badass Eva Schloss

In this episode of Uprising Uncut, host Sonali Kolhatkar describes her interview with US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, launches a diatribe against the lack of subsidies for childcare, puts the scary Zika virus into perspective, rails against Barbie’s new…

How to Understand the Complexity of Middle East Wars, Plus News From Haiti, the South China Sea, and More. And, GOP Debate Disgustingness, Plus, Will The Young Black Girl in SC Ever Get Justice For Being Brutalized by a Cop?

In this episode of Uprising Uncut, host Sonali Kolhatkar discusses Us policy in the Middle East, including Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, and more. And, she assigns listeners to read up on news of Haiti’s elections and the South China…

Media Ignores Drone Papers, Benghazi Hearing Obscures Libya Chaos, Yes I Got to Interview Shirin Ebadi, BLM Hold DNC Feet to Fire, and Yay – Prison Phone Costs Slashed!

In this episode of Uprising Uncut, host Sonali Kolhatkar discusses her latest column in Truthdig about the Intercept’s Drone Papers and how Obama should be considered a mastermind of international murders. Plus how the Republicans are fiddling with Benghazi while…

Why Bernie Sanders Lost Me In the Dem Debate, New Revelations on the Drone War in Afghanistan, and the Beauty and Power of Trans-National Solidarity

In this episode of Uprising Uncut, host Sonali Kolhatkar discusses the Democratic Presidential Debate and why Bernie Sanders needs us to hold him accountable on everything other than economic policy. And a shout out to The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill on…

Why I Am Against All Homework and Testing, the Wars in Afghanistan and Syria, and Why We Shouldn’t Indulge Gun Nuts With Facts

In this sixth episode of Uprising Uncut, Sonali APOLOGIZES for skipping last week’s podcast, goes off on a crazy-sounding rant about why homework and testing are the devil’s work, and then moves on to the grim anniversary of US war…

Our Child-Raping Afghan Allies, Pope Francis’ Genocidal Blindspot, Martin Shkreli’s Public Shaming, VW’s Deception and More

In this fifth episode of Uprising Uncut, Sonali discusses her latest column in Truthdig, focusing on the US war in Afghanistan and how we’ve overlooked the dirty deeds of our warlord allies. She also examines the love-fest over the Pope…

Charlie Hebdo Vs. Adrian Grenier, Matt Damon Vs. Effie Brown, Standing With Ahmed

In this fourth episode of Uprising Uncut, Sonali discusses Charlie Hebdo’s callous mocking of Alan Kurdi, actor Adrian Grenier’s 9/11 comments on Iraqi deaths, Victoria Law’s incredible stories about mothers incarcerated in federal prisons on drug charges, the women scientists…

Clinton, Sanders, KPFK, A New Study on Unions, Musings on Sept 11th Anniversary, and Yet More Anti-Twitter Ranting

In this third episode of Uprising Uncut, Sonali discusses Hillary Vs. Clinton and Sanders Vs. BLM, more Twitter-hate, KPFK’s internal woes, a new cool study on unions, yay for Seattle teachers, and ‘Did you see the Hungarian Camerawoman trip a…