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: 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: 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

Fresh audio product: war in Gaza, the life and work of Joan Didion

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 26, 2023 Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza • Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, on her life and work

Fresh audio product: failed protests, Israel–Palestine

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 12, 2023 Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, on the decade of protest movements that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse • Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 Magazine, on the latest horror in Israel–Palestine

Fresh audio product: Israeli collusion with Trump, the Rutgers labor battle

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): April 6, 2023 James Bamford, author of this article in The Nation (and of the just published Spyfail) on Israeli collusion with Donald Trump in 2016 • Donna Murch, associate professor of history at Rutgers and president of the New Brunswick campus’s faculty union, on why the teaching staff is on the verge of a strike and why it matters well beyond that institution

Fresh audio product: Israeli uprising and AI

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 30, 2023 writer and political adviser Nimrod Flaschenberg discusses the popular uprising in Israel against Bibi’s reactionary government • software engineer Dwayne Monroe revisits the (useful) hype around ChatGPT

Fresh audio product: reaction and resistance in Florida and Israel

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 9, 2023 Florida follow-up: historian and union president Paul Ortiz on the DeSantis agenda and resistance to it • human rights lawyer Noa Levy on the far right agenda in Israel and resistance to it (the Ayelet Shaked Fascism ad is here)

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

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 20, 2021 Joel Schalit and Orly Noy (separately) on the politics of Israel: what are the internal dynamics that make it so bellicose and repressive?