Fresh audio product: the World Court, the secret history of Jelly Roll Morton
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 11, 2024 Heidi Matthews on the World Court and the cases against Israel pending there • Elijah Wald, author of Jelly Roll Blues, on Jelly Roll Morton and the hidden history of early blues
Fresh audio product: Israel expands its war, Zionists appropriate “safety” discourse, the shipping industry and the Baltimore bridge disaster
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 4, 2024 Trita Parsi explains why Israel is trying to expand its war to Iran and Hezbollah • Natasha Lennard analyzes the Zionist appropriation of leftish “safe space” discourse • Stefan Yong explores the structure of the global shipping industry in light of the Baltimore bridge disaster
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
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
Fresh audio product: the Desi diaspora, finance capital today
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 22, 2024 Jeet Heer on Indian Americans in politics and society (article here) • Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, authors of The Fall and Rise of American Finance, on the new finance capital
Fresh audio product: the bankers’ club and how to bust it, the problem with immediacy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 15, 2024 Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers’ Club, on the finance racket and how to transform it • Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy, on our sped-up, unmediated cultural eternal present
Fresh audio product: why did SA bring case against Israel, organizing amidst sprawl, the widening war in the Middle East
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 1, 2024 Sean Jacobs explores why South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel • Eric Blanc (Substack post here) on organizing in a scattered and atomized society • Hassan El-Tayyab on the widening war in the Middle East
Fresh audio product: Houthis, Hezbollah
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 25, 2024 Shireen Al-Adeimi of Michigan State and the Quincy Institute, on the Houthis • political scientist Aurélie Daher with another view of Hezbollah
fresh audio product: electronic monitoring, Hezbollah, an introduction
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 18, 2024 Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on electronic monitoring (the ankle bracelet kind) • Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God, on that demonized organization
Fresh audio product: perils of striking Trump from the ballot, a good year for labor
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 4, 2024 Samuel Moyn, law prof and historian, on the political and legal dubiousness of excluding Trump from the presidential ballot (article here) • labor journalist Alex Press on the year in labor (articles on that topic here and here)
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