Behind the News, 6/20/24 - guests: Steven Simon on Israel & the Arab states; Jennifer Berkshire on vouchers and other right-wing school reforms - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

Steven Simon on Israel and the Arab states’ relations with it • Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of The Education Wars, on the right-wing’s latest educational ploys. (And here’s Marcus Brown’s website that I mentioned in the intro.) The post Israel and the Arab states and the latest on the education wars appeared first on KPFA.…

Behind the News, 6/13/24 - guests: Edwin Ackerman, Joel Whitney - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

Sociologist Edwin Ackerman on the Mexican elections, and the reasons for AMLO’s immense popularity (Sidecar piece here) • Joel Whitney, author of Flights, on radical and revolutionaries’ battles with the CIA The post Mexican elections and radicals on the run appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

Behind the News, 6/6/24 - guests: Siddhartha Deb on India; Sean Jacobs on South Africa - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

Siddhartha Deb, author of Twilight Prisoners, on the Hindu right and its poor showing in India’s elections • Sean Jacobs, New School prof and publisher of Africa Is a Country, on the ANC’s poor showing in South Africa’s elections The post Ruling parties take a hit in India and South Africa appeared first on KPFA.…

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“I absolutely think housing for poor, homeless, and low-income queer folks is a huge issue for us, as is doing anti-violence work...” —Kenyon Farrow,

Behind the News, 5/30/24 - guest: Aziz Rana on the Constitution fetish - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy The post The Constitutional fetish appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

Behind the News, 5/23/24 - guests: Mouin Rabbani on Gaza etc. • Stefanie Stantcheva on why people hate inflation - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict The post Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

Behind the News, 5/16/24 - guests: Annelle Sheline on her resignation from the State Department to protest Gaza • Daniel Bessner on changing relations of production in Hollywood - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood

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). The post Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

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 The post Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism appeared first on KPFA.…

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) The post Criminalizing protest, exploiting transphobia appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

An interview with Sheila Bapat “The roots of domestic work are deeply connected to the history of slavery in the U.S. It’s no accident that a vast majority of domestic workers were African American women to begin with, and increasingly now, immigrant women of color.”

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 effect…

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 The post Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the new post-capitalist world of technofeudalism appeared first on KPFA.…

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 The post The World Court, and the world of Jelly Roll Morton appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

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 s…

Mother from Another…” is a story from Jess Clarke’s grand opus, “Imagining Liberation.” This episode takes place in Mendocino CA in 1970.

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"The Kingdom of Heaven in a Single Blade of Grass. An excerpt from The Earth Is the Only One Telling the Truth by Kelly Curry ...the apocalypse has already happened then that means that we are living in the beginning... THIS is the beginning. We are standing in the Garden of Eden... again...

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 The post The Shoah after Gaza, valuing care work appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

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 sym…

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 The post Haitian chaos, the death of the future appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

Vijay Prashad on how the North American and European bourgeoisies are a spent force, with nothing to offer the world (article here) The post Global bourgeois rot appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

"We want to make visible not only the work that women do in the workplace but also outside--in the sphere of social reproduction."

Historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party. The post Correcting the record on the Black Panthers appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

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 post Fundraising special: the Desi diaspora, the newest finance capital appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

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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 The post The bankers’ club and how to bust it • the culture of immediacy appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

Ajay Singh Chaudhary talks about his new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World • Matt Notowidigdo, co-author of this paper, on how recessions increase life expectancy The post Exhaustion and the climate crisis • shocker: recessions increase life expectancy appeared first on KPFA.…

Sean Jacobs explores why South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel in the World Court • Eric Blanc (Substack post here) on organizing in a scattered and atomized society • Hassan El-Tayyab on the widening war in the Middle East The post Why did South Africa charge Israel at the ICJ? • organizing unions in the society of sprawl • the wid…

“Because of the white bias of the environmental movement, there was almost no talk about cities, even though 85 percent of the population of the United States lived in cities and metropolitan area.”

Shireen Al-Adeimi of Michigan State and the Quincy Institute, on the Houthis • political scientist Aurélie Daher with another view of Hezbollah The post Who are the Houthis? • more on Hezbollah appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on electronic monitoring (the ankle bracelet kind) • Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God, on that demonized organization The post Electronic monitoring, and who is Hezbollah? appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

political scientist Jacqueline Behrend on Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei • Benjamin Fong, author of Quick Fixes, on Americans’ love/hate relationship with drugs The post More on Argentina, and Americans’ complicated relationship with psychoactive drugs appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA

Samuel Moyn, law prof and historian, on the political and legal dubiousness of excluding Trump from the presidential ballot • labor journalist Alex Press on the year in labor (articles on that topic here and here) The post Perils of striking Trump from the ballot and the year in organized labor appeared first on KPFA.…

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“We need folks to value our difference and to value our uniqueness and to say that there just might be something as innovative as jazz to come out and solve this climate change problem.”

slaying sacred cows: M.E. O’Brien, author of Family Abolition, on doing that and “communizing care” • Jane Chung, author of this article, on what’s wrong with our cult of homeownership [holiday encore presentation of a show first broadcast in June] The post transcending the family, questioning homeownership appeared first on KPFA.…