Episode 1083
Carbon Cowboys from Norway / The Symposium
Oct 16 2019
The US has been “bringing freedom” to the world at the point of a gun. It's fascinating to see the extent to which this has been the chosen discourse, because I think the alternative, the reality is really not bearable. It's not bearable to the people that are standing at the point of the bayonets, of the weapons. And it is certainly not bearable for the people that serve in the military and who have to cope with the fact that they are very often committing war crimes, whether directed by higher ups, or under that equally offensive term, “fog of war.”
Laleh Khalili returns to discuss her new piece at the London Review of Books, "Guns, Money and Opium." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.
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Oct 4 2019
Sep 22 2019
Posted by Matthew Boedy
Here's what we read this week.
For Saturday's show:
Waste Only: How the Plastics Industry is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World - Sharon Lerner / The Intercept
Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes - Anne Nassauer / University of California Press
Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right - Jack Jackson / University of Pennsylvania Press.
Extra Reading:
Can you hear me? - Greta Thunberg / Communists in Situ
Immigrants as a Weapon: Global Nationalism and American Power - Yasha Levine / Substack
The Reactionary Heartland Is a Myth - Matthew E. Stanley and Paul M. Renfro / Dissent
Basic income bows to the master - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein / openDemocracy
The voice from the black hole - Sam Kriss /
More Than A Wall Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US borders - Todd Miller / Transnational Institute
Everything Must Go - Whitney Curry Wimbish / The Baffler
Sep 20 2019
Posted by Matthew Boedy
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9:20 - Journalist Sharon Lerner investigates the global environmental disaster of plastic waste.
Sharon wrote the article Waste Only: How the Plastics Industry is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World for The Intercept
10:05 - Sociologist Anne Nassauer examines power and violence in political protests.
Anne wrote the book Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes for Oxford University Press.
11:05 - Law scholar Jack Jackson explains how the American right seized power beyond law.
Jack is author of the book Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right from University of Pennsylvania Press.
12:10 - Former autoworker Thomas Adams explores a history of concession and class betrayal from UAW leadership.
Thomas wrote the article A tale of corruption by the United Auto Workers and the Big Three American automakers for Monthly Review.