Behind the News with Doug Henwood
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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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Behind the News, 7/11/24 - guests: Richard Seymour on British elections, Trita Parsi on Iranian elections, remembering Jane McAlevey - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood
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Richard Seymour discusses the British election (Sidecar article here) • Trita Parsi, the Iranian election • remembering Jane McAlevey with a 2017 BtN interview (catalog of interviews here) The post elections in Britain and Iran, in memory of Jane McAlevey appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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Behind the News, 7/4/24 - guests: Robert Pape on how Hamas is winning • Wanda Bertram on the US carceral state - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood
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Israel is killing a lot of people but losing its war, and the latest on the US carceral state
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Robert Pape on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning (article here) • Wanda Bertram on how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively), and other news on crime & punishment (report here) The post Israel is killing a lot of people but losing its war, and the latest on the US carceral state …
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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 [holiday-induced reprise of a show first broadcast on March 14, 2024] The post Haiti and the death of the future appeared first on KPFA.…
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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
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Israel and the Arab states and the latest on the education wars
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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.…
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Behind the News, 6/13/24 - guests: Edwin Ackerman, Joel Whitney - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood
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Mexican elections and radicals on the run
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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
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Behind the News, 6/6/24 - guests: Siddhartha Deb on India; Sean Jacobs on South Africa - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood
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Ruling parties take a hit in India and South Africa
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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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Behind the News, 5/30/24 - guest: Aziz Rana on the Constitution fetish - Doug HenwoodBy Doug Henwood
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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
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Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine
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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
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Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle
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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
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Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism
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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 The post Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism appeared first on KPFA.…
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Criminalizing protest, exploiting transphobia
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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) The post Criminalizing protest, exploiting transphobia appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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Professor silenced for controversial article, the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society
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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 effect…
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Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the new post-capitalist world of technofeudalism
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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 The post Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the new post-capitalist world of technofeudalism appeared first on KPFA.…
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The World Court, and the world of Jelly Roll Morton
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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
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Why Israel is expanding its war, Zionists’ appropriation of safe space discourse, and the shipping industry and the Key Bridge disaster
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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 s…
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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
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AIPAC targets leftish Dems, how Schumer and the ICJ are playing in Israel, troubled youth as a symptom of social problems
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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 sym…
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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
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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) The post Global bourgeois rot appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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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
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Fundraising special: the Desi diaspora, the newest finance capital
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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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The bankers’ club and how to bust it • the culture of immediacy
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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
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Exhaustion and the climate crisis • shocker: recessions increase life expectancy
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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.…
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Why did South Africa charge Israel at the ICJ? • organizing unions in the society of sprawl • the widening war in the Middle East
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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…
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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
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Electronic monitoring, and who is Hezbollah?
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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
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More on Argentina, and Americans’ complicated relationship with psychoactive drugs
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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
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Perils of striking Trump from the ballot and the year in organized labor
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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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transcending the family, questioning homeownership
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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.…
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environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt on the recently concluded COP28 environmental summit, where limited good intentions were uttered and oil contracts were signed • historian Forrest Hylton on Javier Milei, the new libertarian/authoritarian president of Argentina The post COP28 and Argentina’s new president appeared first on KPFA.…
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Fundraising special: problems of philanthropy, and what in Israel is producing the carnage in Gaza?
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Amy Schiller, author of The Price of Humanity, on what’s wrong with philanthropy and how to fix it • Joel Schalit, editor of The Battleground, on what it is in Israeli politics and society that’s behind the carnage in Gaza The post Fundraising special: problems of philanthropy, and what in Israel is producing the carnage in Gaza? appeared first on …
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Fundraising special, featuring Angela Davis
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Fundraising special featuring a speech from a November 1 teach-in on Gaza by Angela Davis. The post Fundraising special, featuring Angela Davis appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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Cats and capitalism, understanding capitalism in order to fight it
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Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Marx for Cats, on political economy and the human–feline relationship • Michael Zweig, author of Class, Race, and Gender, on understanding capitalism in order to transform it The post Cats and capitalism, understanding capitalism in order to fight it appeared first on KPFA.…
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Small island nations, libertarian enclaves
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Tina Gerhardt, author of Sea Change, on the effects of rising oceans on small island nations • Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism, on libertarian enclaves insulated from democracy [rebroadcast of a May 2023 show] The post Small island nations, libertarian enclaves appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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Profile of an “ecoterrorist” • What makes Israel do the things it does
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Christopher Ketcham, author of this article, looks inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist” • Neve Gordon on what in Israeli society leads to bombing hospitals The post Profile of an “ecoterrorist” • What makes Israel do the things it does appeared first on KPFA.By KPFA
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Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; preferences in economic policies
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Anatol Lieven on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of US power • Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of this paper, on class differences in economic policy preferences (predistributionist vs. redistributionist) The post Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; preferences in economic policies appeared first on KPFA.…
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Palestinians in Israel and Israel’s plans for Palestinians, and how Nagorno-Karabakh is a taste of the newest world disorder
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Amjad Iraqi on what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and when what the Israeli state has in mind for Gaza • Georgi Derluguian (author of this article) on how the expulsion of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is an example of the latest iteration of the new world disorder The post Palestinians in Israel and Israel’s plans for Palestin…
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