Fresh audio product: the war in Ethiopia, a common South American currency?
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 2, 2023 Ann Neumann, author of this article (sorry, probably paywalled), on the bloody war in Ethiopia • two views on a proposed South American currency arrangement launched by Brazilian president Lula, one from Andres Arauz, the other from Brian Mier
Fresh audio product: British rot and the fight for abortion rights 50 years ago
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 26, 2023 Josh White, author of Goodbye United Kingdom, on that country’s trajectory of decline • Felicia Kornbluh, author of A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life, talks about the fight for abortion rights in the late 60s and early 70s, and how it must be part of a larger struggle for reproductive justice
Fresh audio product: Afghanistan and port ecology
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 19, 2023 Matthieu Aikins, author of this article (among many), on the situation in Afghanistan with the US gone and the Taliban in control • Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of Oil Beach, on the ecology of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
Fresh audio product: the right speaks
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 12, 2023 Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist on the GOP: the meaning of the speaker fight, and what is the base of the Freedom Caucus anyway? • Sohrab Ahmari, co-founder of Compact Magazine, offers a left–right hybrid
Encore audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 29, 2022 historian David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class, on the uses of that term in US politics • economist Ellora Derenoncourt, co-author of this paper, on the US racial wealth gap, 1860–2020 [holiday-season encore presentation of interviews first broadcast in June]
fresh audio product: factions on the right, AI hype
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 22, 2022 Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles • Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism
Fresh audio product: class conflict on the rails and in the university
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 15, 2022 Intercept reporter Ryan Grim, author of this article, on the fight between workers and bosses in the rail industry • economist Sanjay Reddy on the fight between adjuncts and bosses in the neoliberal university
Fresh audio product: fitness in America, weak bourgeoisie in Italy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 8, 2022 Natalia Petrzela, author of Fit Nation, on the history of physical culture in the US • Paolo Gerbaudo on the weakness of the Italian bourgeoisie
Fresh audio product: right-wing school politics and black Communist women
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 1, 2022 Jennifer Berkshire on the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven’t been working for them) • Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of black Communist women’s writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s
Fresh audio product: COP27 climate conference, masculinity and militarism
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 24, 2022 Tina Gerhardt on the COP27 climate conference, and Lyle Jeremy Rubin, author of Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, on masculinity, the Marines, and imperial violence
Fresh audio product: Israel moves further right, Iran’s tripartite structure, Ontario labor upsurge
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 10, 2022 Joel Schalit on the return of Bibi Netanyahu in Israel, now in coalition with the religious right • Mohammad Salemy on the tripartite structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran • Megan Kinch, about a labor upsurge in Ontario
fresh audio product: Brazil and Iran
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 3, 2022 political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on the Brazilian elections • Mina Khani and Mohammad Salemy on the women-led uprising in Iran
fresh audio product: Saudi Arabia and British meltdown
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 20, 2022 Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute explains why Saudi Arabia cut its oil production dramatically • James Meadway, former adviser to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party and now director of the Progressive Economy Forum, explains why Britain is in economic and political crisis
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