Here's what Chuck is reading to prepare for Saturday's show:
Brexit, Pursued by Despair - Laurie Penny [The Baffler]
“There is no negotiation whatsoever”: Union leader Douglas Izzo talks about labor rights in post-coup Brazil - Brian Mier [Brasil Wire]
#31M: Brasil Prepares For General Strike - Brasil Wire
Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future - Thomas Shapiro [Basic Books]
Listen Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People? - Thomas Frank [Metropolitan Books]
And further recommended reading:
A Planet of Trumps - Alfred W. McCoy [In These Times]
Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives - Matt Taibbi [Rolling Stone]
Agroecology Case Studies - Oakland Institute
The Anarchism of Blackness - William C. Anderson & Zoé Samudzi
Lipstick Fascism: On Lana Lokteff, the women of the alt-right, and the feminization of fascism. - Sam Miller [Jacobin]
The Zuma Dilemma: Hell No, he just won’t go! - Ranjeni Munusamy [Dailiy Maverick]