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Sonali Kolhatkar

Sonali Kolhatkar Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Uprising, a popular, daily, drive-time program on KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles.

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Police
Taking a Hard Look at Police Killings

Taking a Hard Look at Police Killings

Sonali Kolhatkar

By Sonali Kolhatkar | – ( Otherwords.org ) – Last year was the deadliest on record for police killings in the United States. According to a Washington Post database, law enforcement officers shot and killed 1,096 people in 2022.  And that’s likely an understatement.  According to Abdul Nasser Rad, a research director at Campaign Zero, […]

Banking
Tackling Inflation By Rewarding the Rich Is a Fool’s Errand

Tackling Inflation By Rewarding the Rich Is a Fool’s Errand

Sonali Kolhatkar

By Sonali Kolhatkar | – ( Otherwords.org ) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss recently resigned after just 45 days in office, disgraced by her own economic prescriptions. There’s a lesson here for the United States, a nation beset by similar economic troubles. The main takeaway? Tackling inflation by rewarding the rich is a fool’s […]

Uncategorized
How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids to the Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?

How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids to the Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?

Sonali Kolhatkar

( Otherwords ) – Mass shootings are good for gun sales. In the days following the horrific school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, firearm stocks rose. Gun buyers, conditioned to fear new restrictions, tend to run out and buy more weapons after shootings like this one. They seem to believe that lawmakers will respond to mass […]

Climate Crisis
There’s No Better Time to Buy an Electric Car and Kick Our Oil Addiction

There’s No Better Time to Buy an Electric Car and Kick Our Oil Addiction

Sonali Kolhatkar

( Otherwords.org ) – Long used to cheap gas at the pump, Americans are experiencing serious sticker shock these days. News headlines link this sharp increase to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But that assumes oil companies have no control over the price of oil — that high prices stem “naturally” from things like the war […]

Democratic Party
If the US Gov’t Can Swing into Action on Covid, why Can’t it provide us Universal Health Care?

If the US Gov’t Can Swing into Action on Covid, why Can’t it provide us Universal Health Care?

Sonali Kolhatkar

( Othwerwords.org ) – There has been a Jekyll and Hyde quality to American health care over the past two years. One the one hand, the federal government has been actively intervening to help people avoid COVID-19 or recover from it. On the other, it’s standing by as Americans struggle with other ailments, exposing the […]

Climate Crisis
We Don’t Need Another Oil Pipeline

We Don’t Need Another Oil Pipeline

Sonali Kolhatkar

By Sonali Kolhatkar | – ( Otherwords.org ) – A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade. That has sparked fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route. Line 3 is being replaced to transport nearly 800,000 barrels of dirty tar sands […]

Militarization
Defund the Pentagon, Too

Defund the Pentagon, Too

Sonali Kolhatkar

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – When Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a resolution recently to cut $350 billion from the Defense budget, the only media outlets that covered her bill were independent progressive ones. In a statement on her website Lee said, “For years, our government has failed to invest in programs that actually keep […]

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