PoliTalk EDU

Mohsen Omar

Mission: To launch a PODCAST to encapsulate and capture many of the unique ideas and activities at Northeast Lakeview College. Format: A dialogue; host with one guest or multiple guests…… Frequency: once or twice a month (30 minutes or 45 minutes…. depending of the guest and the subject matter). Host Mohsen K. Omar to have conversation, interviews about important issues that are germane to the students and community at large. PoliTalk EDU will serve as educational, and teaching life lessons at the political and educational arenas. PoliTalk: Education - Discussions - Unlimited. Join us!

  1. APR 10

    Professor Michael S. Yoder: A discussion - Project 2026: Oil, War, and the USMCA Review: Trump, and the World Cup—Is the Texas-Mexico Corridor the Last Stand for the Global Economy?

    Episode # 20The Episode Description / "The Big Picture" "As the Iran conflict chokes the Strait of Hormuz and global sea lanes fall into chaos, the American economy has one remaining lifeline: the Texas-Mexico Corridor. But in 2026, that lifeline is under fire. In this high-stakes episode, join Mohsen Omar and Dr. Michael S. Yoder as they navigate a perfect storm: the Trump Administration’s aggressive posture toward the USMCA review, the looming political heat of the 2026 Midterm Elections, and the unprecedented logistical 'stress test' of hosting a World Cup on a continent at a crossroads. Dr. Michael S. Yoder Brief Biography Michael S. Yoder, Ph.D. is a geographer who received his doctorate at Louisiana State University in 1994 and his masters at The University of South Carolina in 1989. His early research addressed changing agricultural land-use patterns and related policy in the South Carolina Piedmont, Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, and the Mexican State of Yucatán. He is presently a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and the Environment at The University of Texas at Austin. From 2008 to 2017 he was Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Central Arkansas, where he served as Director of the Master of Science in Community and Economic Development between 2010 and 2017. Most recently, he has researched industrial and transport geography in Northern Mexico and Texas, agricultural transportation, and economic development in small cities of Arkansas and South Texas. He is author of the book Geographical Scale and Economic Development: Lessons Learned from Texas and Mexico (Springer 2023).

    1h 10m
  2. 03/27/2025

    Professor Judith Norman & Professor Katherine Gillen: A discussion about Academic Freedom, Palestine and ongoing conflict in the Middle East, Trump's Presidency, and dissolving the Dep. of Education.

    Episode # 18 Bio - Professor Judith Norman Judith Norman has been engaged with community organizing for 20 years. She has worked with movements for economic justice, anti-militarization,educational justice, decarceration, and the liberation of Palestine. The latter is closest to her heart, and she has worked with Jewish Voice for Peace and San Antonio for Justice in Palestine. She is a Murchison DistinguishedProfessor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity University. The opinions she expresses are her own, and do not represent her employer or any of the organizations with which she is affiliated *********************************************************************************************************** Bio – Professor Katherine Gillen Katherine Gillen is Professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. She is the author of Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s Stage (EUP, 2017) and several essays on race, gender, and economics in early modern drama and Shakespeare appropriation. She is working on a monograph tentatively titled Shakespeare’s Racial Classicism: Whiteness, Slavery, and Humanism, which examines Shakespeare’s use of classical sources within the context of emerging racial capitalism. With Kathryn Vomero Santos and Adrianna M. Santos, she co-founded the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, which has received funding from the Mellon Foundation and the NEH.

    1h 20m

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Mission: To launch a PODCAST to encapsulate and capture many of the unique ideas and activities at Northeast Lakeview College. Format: A dialogue; host with one guest or multiple guests…… Frequency: once or twice a month (30 minutes or 45 minutes…. depending of the guest and the subject matter). Host Mohsen K. Omar to have conversation, interviews about important issues that are germane to the students and community at large. PoliTalk EDU will serve as educational, and teaching life lessons at the political and educational arenas. PoliTalk: Education - Discussions - Unlimited. Join us!