Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Annelle Sheline, who’d been on BtN three times before, on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here).
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Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism
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Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
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Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn’t like • Keri Leigh Merritt on the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society (article here) • excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on the recipient areas
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Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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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
The post Why Israel is expanding its war, Zionists’ appropriation of safe space discourse, and the shipping industry and the Key Bridge disaster appeared first on KPFA.
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
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David Moore on how AIPAC is using Republican 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
The post AIPAC targets leftish Dems, how Schumer and the ICJ are playing in Israel, troubled youth as a symptom of social problems appeared first on KPFA.
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
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Vijay Prashad on how the North American and European bourgeoisies are a spent force, with nothing to offer the world (article here)
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