Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The Unheeded Afghan Collapse Memo

<p><a href="https://prospect.org/topics/jonathan-guyer/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Jonathan Guyer</a> of <em>The American Prospect</em> joins Suzi to discuss his August 26 piece called, "<a href="https://prospect.org/world/unheeded-dissent-cable-white-house-misses-afghanistan-warning/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Unheeded Dissent Cable</a>." This is a knockout—a devastating memo, all the more so because it was sent to the State Department on July 13, and was then buried, never reaching the White House and National Security Council. We get Jonathan’s understanding of how this memo could have been ignored, and what it says about the Biden administration’s national security team.</p><p><a href="https://www.uchastings.edu/people/veena-dubal/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Veena Dubal</a>, Law Professor at UC Hastings, explains the August 20 decision [PDF: <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046832/castellanos-order.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046832/castellanos-order.pdf</a>] ruling Prop. 22 unconstitutional and “unenforceable in its entirety.” Written and funded by Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and Postmates, Prop 22 rewrote labor law in favor of the app-based transportation and delivery network companies, allowing their workers to be classified as independent contractors not employees. Prop 22 deprives workers of overtime pay, unemployment and workers’ compensation coverage, and the right to unionize. And the gig companies that authored Prop 22 made it nearly impossible to change, requiring a seven-eighths vote by the California legislature to modify it. But now Judge Roesch <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-08-24/proposition-22-worker-rights" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">has declared Proposition 22 unconstitutional and unenforceable</a>, and Veena Dubal explains the ruling, the grounds for the Judge’s decision, the response of the companies, and what is likely to happen next.</p>