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KPFA - Behind the News

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

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19:26

Global bourgeois rot

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2024/03/07

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.

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9:36

Correcting the record on the Black Panthers

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2024/02/29

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.

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59:59

Fundraising special: the Desi diaspora, the newest...

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2024/02/22

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

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59:59

Behind the News 02-22-24

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2024/02/22

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59:58

The bankers’ club and how to bust it • the culture of...

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2024/02/15

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.

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59:58

Exhaustion and the climate crisis • shocker:...

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2024/02/08

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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59:58

Why did South Africa charge Israel at the ICJ? •...

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2024/02/01

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 widening war in the Middle East appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Who are the Houthis? • more on Hezbollah

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2024/01/25

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.

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59:58

Electronic monitoring, and who is Hezbollah?

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2024/01/18

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.

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59:58

More on Argentina, and Americans’ complicated...

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2024/01/11

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.

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18:34

Perils of striking Trump from the ballot and the year...

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2024/01/04

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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59:57

transcending the family, questioning homeownership

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2023/12/28

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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11:28

COP28 and Argentina’s new president

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2023/12/21

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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59:58

Fundraising special: problems of philanthropy, and...

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2023/12/14

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 KPFA.

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59:58

Fundraising special, featuring Angela Davis

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2023/12/07

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.

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59:57

Cats and capitalism, understanding capitalism in...

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2023/11/30

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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59:57

Small island nations, libertarian enclaves

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2023/11/23

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.

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59:57

Profile of an “ecoterrorist” • What makes Israel do...

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2023/11/16

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.

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59:58

Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; preferences in economic...

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2023/11/09

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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59:57

Palestinians in Israel and Israel’s plans for...

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2023/11/02

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 Palestinians, and how Nagorno-Karabakh is a taste of the newest world disorder appeared first on KPFA.

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