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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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Israeli collusion with Trump, why the Rutgers faculty is on the verge of a strike

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04.06.23 - 12:00pm

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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 … Continued


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Follow-ups on Israel and AI

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03.30.23 - 12:00pm

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The writer and political adviser Nimrod Flaschenberg discusses the popular uprising in Israel against Bibi’s reactionary government • software engineer Dwayne Monroe revisits the hype around ChatGPT


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Snooping on sex workers (and the rest of us), varieties of fascism in Italy

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03.23.23 - 12:00pm

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Maxine Doogan and Tara Burns, contributors to this report, on how cops are snooping on sex workers, and using what they learn to spy on the rest of us • David Broder, author of Mussolini’s Grandchildren, on the fascist heritage behind Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and her party


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Bank drama, carceral state gets back into action, the Saudi-Iran deal

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03.16.23 - 12:00pm

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DH comments on the bank failures • Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative updates us on the state of the carceral state • Annelle Sheline on the Chinese-brokered deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran


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fundraising special: Florida revisited, and repression & resistance in Israel

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03.09.23 - 12:00pm

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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


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State-level repression: sex in Indiana, academic freedom in Florida

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03.02.23 - 12:00pm

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Journalist Judith Levine on moves to defund the Kinsey Institute, and on the trans kids panic • Phil Wegner of the University of Florida on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s moves to quash academic freedom in that state


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Fundraising special: nationalize the railroads, they suck!

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02.23.23 - 12:00pm

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Kari Lydersen, author of this In These Times article, and Ron Kaminkow, locomotive engineer and general secretary of Railroad Workers United, talk about the miseries of the industry and why it should be naitonalized.


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War fever in the US and corruption in Indian capitalism

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02.16.23 - 12:00pm

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Anatol Lieven on the slim prospects for peace in Ukraine and growing bellicosity towards China • Jairus Banaji, author of this Phenomenal World article, on the politicized structure of Indian capitalism generally, and the scandal surrounding Gautam Adani (Hindenburg report here)


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Behind the AI hype, and Lula returns to power in Brazil

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Software engineer Dwayne Monroe on the reality behind the hype around ChatGPT (and the sinister implications of AI) • Political economist Alfredo Saad-Filho on Lula’s return to the presidency of Brazil, and the landscape of the country’s politics generally


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The war in Ethiopia, and a common currency for Brazil and Argentina?

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Ann Neumann, author of this article (sorry, probably paywalled), on the bloody war in Ethiopia • two views on a proposed South American currency arrangement launched by Brazilian president Lula, one from Andres Arauz, the other from Brian Mier


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