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)
Fresh audio product: what’s driving Israel’s war on Gaza, what’s with philanthropy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 14, 2023 Joel Schalit, editor of The Battleground, on what it is in Israeli politics and society that’s behind the carnage in Gaza • Amy Schiller, author of The Price of Humanity, on what’s wrong with philanthropy and how to fix it
Fresh audio product: Gaza in a global context, Israeli spying on US campuses, fascism: this year’s model
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 7, 2023 Trita Parsi on the global context of the Gaza war • James Bamford, author of this article, on how Israel spies on US campuses • Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, on the latest iteration of the rough beast
Fresh audio product: political economy—the feline angle; understanding capitalism to smash it
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 30, 2023 Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Marx for Cats, on political economy and the human–feline relationship • Michael Zweig, author of Class, Race, and Gender, on understanding capitalism in order to transform it
Fresh audio product: the mind of the “ecoterrorist,” the collective mind of Israel
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 16, 2023 Christopher Ketcham, author of this Harper’s article, looks inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist” • Neve Gordon on what in Israeli society leads to bombing hospitals
Fresh audio product: wars, economic policy preferences
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 9, 2023 Anatol Lieven on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of US power • Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of this paper, on class differences in economic policy preferences (predistributionist vs. redistributionist)
Fresh audio product: Arab citizens of Israel and Israel’s plans for Gaza; Nagorno-Karabakh and the latest version of the new world disorder
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): November 2, 2023 Amjad Iraqi on what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and when what the Israeli state has in mind for Gaza • Georgi Derluguian (author of this article) on how the expulsion of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is an example of the latest iteration of the new world disorder
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