Conflict Between Ukraine and Russia Escalates

Conflict Between Ukraine and Russia Escalates

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 954 , Segment 1

Episode: Ukraine/Russia, Closing GM Factories, Mars InSight

  • Nov 29, 2018 10:00 pm
  • 19:35 mins

Guests: Celeste Beesley, Professor of Political Science, BYU; Scott Cooper, PhD, Professor of Political Science Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian navy ships and their crews over the weekend in disputed waters between the two countries. Russia says Ukraine was provoking it. Ukraine says Russia is trying to seize more of its territory. In 2014 Russia annexed Crimea, which belonged to Ukraine. There’s been ongoing conflict along the border since then. What does this latest dispute mean, and what comes next?

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(Originally aired July 25,2018) Guest: Sacoby Wilson, Associate Professor of Applied Environmental Health University of Maryland Earlier this month, jurors in Raleigh, North Carolina settled down for a month-long federal lawsuit about pig poop. In August, a North Carolina jury in another federal trial handed down a $470 million dollar judgment against one of these massive pig farms. If you’ve ever passed a large pig farm or cattle operation and rolled up your windows to keep out the stench, imagine living next door to it. Neighbors believe the regulations that govern how smelly and messy a hog farm can be haven’t kept pace with just how huge these farms have become. So they’ve been suing the farms under nuisance laws – and winning those cases. What will that mean for meat production in the US.

(Originally aired July 25,2018) Guest: Sacoby Wilson, Associate Professor of Applied Environmental Health University of Maryland Earlier this month, jurors in Raleigh, North Carolina settled down for a month-long federal lawsuit about pig poop. In August, a North Carolina jury in another federal trial handed down a $470 million dollar judgment against one of these massive pig farms. If you’ve ever passed a large pig farm or cattle operation and rolled up your windows to keep out the stench, imagine living next door to it. Neighbors believe the regulations that govern how smelly and messy a hog farm can be haven’t kept pace with just how huge these farms have become. So they’ve been suing the farms under nuisance laws – and winning those cases. What will that mean for meat production in the US.