Fresh audio product: Shoah after Gaza, valuing care work

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 28, 2024 Pankaj Mishra, author of this article, on the propaganda-induced debasement of the Holocaust • Nancy Folbre, one of four authors of this report, on assigning a monetary value to care work

Fresh audio product: AIPAC, Schumer and ICJ in Israel, why are the youth troubled?

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 21, 2024 David Moore on how AIPAC is using GOP contributors’ money to go after progressive Dems • Meron Rapoport on how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel • Jamieson Webster on the social aspects of mental disorder among the young

NYC is not a killing field

I have a weakness for the New York Post. Their politics are odious, but damn, they’re very skilled practitioners of the tabloid arts. Right now, though, they’re trying to convince New Yorkers—with some success, alas—that we’re in the midst of a horrid crime wave. Just as I was typing that, I got a notification from the Post on my phone reporting that four students were slashed in a fight inside a high school. The paper is tireless in its fearmongering. In this campaign, they’re assisted by Donald Trump, who bellowed on his Truth Social platform… Read More

Fresh audio product: chaos in Haiti, death of the future

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 14, 2024 Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos • Steve Fraser, author of this article, analyzes and mourns the death of any sense of a better future

Fresh audio product: empty Northern elites, Ukraine during and after the USSR

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 7, 2024 Vijay Prashad on how the North American and European bourgeoisies are a spent force, with nothing to offer the world (article here) • Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Toward the Abyss, on Ukraine during and after the USSR

Fresh audio product: Black Panthers, Pakistan

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 29, 2024 historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party • Saadia Toor and Rabia Mehmood on Pakistan