This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole reports from New York on Occupy Wall Street and Palestinians at the U.N. Also: The politics of immigration; women still earn less than men; and a jury convicts the Irvine 11.

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Juan Cole says there hasn’t been a good-faith peace process in years and, with ongoing Israeli settlement construction, “It’s like negotiating with somebody over a piece of pie while they have a fork and are actively eating it.”

Henry Weinstein on the Irvine 11.

Ruben Luengas on the politics of immigration.

David Cay Johnston on jobs, free trade and the income gap between men and women.

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