Astra Taylor on the Age of Insecurity
Astra Taylor, filmmaker, writer, and organizer, most prominently with the Debt Collective. Her new book is entitled The Age of Insecurity: Coming together as things fall apart [re-broadcast from September 2023]
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Jehad Abusalim on life inside (and outside) Gaza
Jehad Abusalim, Palestinian scholar from Gaza, currently completing a doctorate in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU. He’s also serving as executive director of the Jerusalem Fund, which works to educate the US public about Palestinian history. He is co-editor of a recently-published collection of writing by Gazans, called Light in Gaza: Writings Born of … Continued
Ussama Makdisi on the history of coexistence in the Arab world
In the later years of the Ottoman empire, big areas were consumed by religious conflict and nationalist independence movements. But not the Arab near east, including present-day Israel,/Palestine, where Christian, Muslims, Jews, and others basically just . . . got along. We’ll discuss the deep foundations for peace with with Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History … Continued
[Rebroadcast] Amjad Iraqi on Palestinian Politics
Amjad Iraqi is a senior editor at +972 Magazine, and a policy member of the think tank Al-Shabaka. He’s a Palestinian citizen of Israel, currently based in London. [Rebroadcast of an interview originally recorded on November 16, 2023]
UpFront – December 25, 2023
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Brian Merchant on what workers today can learn from the Luddites
Brian Merchant is a technology columnist for the LA Times, and a founder of the speculative fiction outlet Terraform. His new book is Blood in the Machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech.
UpFront – December 21, 2023
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UpFront – December 20, 2023
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No Tech for Apartheid Opposes Google and Amazon’s Contribution to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, UNSC Votes On New Gaza Resolution; Plus, California’s $68 billion Budget Deficit
0:08 — Josh Marxen is a software engineer at Google and has worked there since 2016. He is also an organizer with No Tech for Apartheid since May 2021. 0:20 — Phyllis Bennis is a Middle East analyst and directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her book Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli … Continued
Russia’s War in Ukraine; Plus, Corona Calls with Dr. Swartzberg
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.