The World Court, and the world of Jelly Roll Morton
Heidi Matthews on the World Court and the cases against Israel pending there • Elijah Wald, author of Jelly Roll Blues, on Jelly Roll Morton and the hidden history of early blues
Behind the News
12:00 PM (Noon) Pacific Time: Thursdays
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Why Israel is expanding its war, Zionists’ appropriation of safe space discourse, and the shipping industry and the Key Bridge disaster
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 Shoah after Gaza, valuing care work
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
AIPAC targets leftish Dems, how Schumer and the ICJ are playing in Israel, troubled youth as a symptom of social problems
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
Haitian chaos, the death of the future
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
Global bourgeois rot
Vijay Prashad on how the North American and European bourgeoisies are a spent force, with nothing to offer the world (article here)
Correcting the record on the Black Panthers
Historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party.
Fundraising special: the Desi diaspora, the newest finance capital
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
The bankers’ club and how to bust it • the culture of immediacy
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