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00:54:15

Will Lula Transform Global Power Dynamics? With Celso...

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2022/12/07

Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Will Lula Transform Global Power Dynamics? With Celso AmorimPub date: 2022-11-29In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Celso Amorim. Celso is a professor and professional diplomate. He served as Dilma Rousseff's Minister of Defense (2011-2014) and Lula's Minister of Foreign Relations (2003-2010). Celso also spent time as the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations and the World

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01:09:49

The History of US Sanctions on Cuba w/ Helen Yaffe

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2022/12/07

Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The History of US Sanctions on Cuba w/ Helen YaffePub date: 2022-11-25This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this excellent episode, we have a discussion with Professor Helen Yaffe on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Cuba, absolutely something that all anti-imperialists need to be fully aware of and engage with to act in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution.

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00:33:32

SEPADPod With Jannis Grimm

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2022/12/01

Podcast: Richardson InstituteEpisode: SEPADPod With Jannis GrimmPub date: 2022-11-16On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Jannis Grimm, head the Research Group Radical Spaces at the INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin. Jannis' work centres on political violence and state repression in the Middle East and North Africa as well as on processes of mass mobilization and regime contestation from below. He is the author of Contested

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00:30:27

The Right Wing Media Empire Hiding in Plain Sight

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2022/12/01

Podcast: Notes from America with Kai Wright (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Right Wing Media Empire Hiding in Plain SightPub date: 2022-11-17Far-right conspiracies and incitements to violence have found a comfortable home on the nation’s radio airwaves. This is the story of how. During the 2022 midterms, election-denying and pro-Trump candidates ran on a platform of falsehoods about voter fraud in 2020. But there's a much more present source introducing this narrative into

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00:53:12

The Mexican Revolution with Arise! author Christina...

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2022/12/01

Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Mexican Revolution with Arise! author Christina HeathertonPub date: 2022-11-17 The Russian Revolution of 1917 has long been considered the radical event that changed 20th century world history. Yet the first social revolution of the era took place in Mexico in 1910. In Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution, Christina Heatherton reveals how the revolution in Mexico inspired activists, organizers, and

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00:33:10

Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?:...

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2022/11/23

Podcast: New Books in Anthropology (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)Pub date: 2022-11-14Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments. But the show has a global reach as well, with more than thirty co-productions

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00:41:50

Ep. 153: A conversation with fellow Samah Fawzi about...

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2022/11/23

Podcast: Ufahamu Africa (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Ep. 153: A conversation with fellow Samah Fawzi about the Western Sahara (part 1)Pub date: 2022-11-12In this episode, our fellow from last season, Samah Fawzi, does a deep dive into the Western Sahara, its history, composition, and current affairs. She engages in discussions with Sahrawi people from different professional backgrounds and geographical location, with the aims of detangling complex and at times contradictory

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00:36:59

Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss Among Syrian...

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2022/11/23

Podcast: CBRL SoundEpisode: Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss Among Syrian Labourers in Beirut I Philip Proudfoot I Sept 2022Pub date: 2022-11-16Rebel populism tells the story of the Syrian uprising through the eyes of migrant workers in Beirut. Workers from Syria have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades. There was a time when their wages stretched further back home. However, from the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of poverty. Migration shifted from an

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00:41:50

Dr Jacqui Baker - Police Reform

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2022/11/16

Podcast: Talking Indonesia (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Dr Jacqui Baker - Police ReformPub date: 2022-11-09Preliminary investigations into the events at Kanjuruhan Stadium on 1 October, which claimed the lives of 135 people, have found that the use of tear gas by police was the primary cause of the tragedy. This and other recent high-profile scandals involving the Indonesian National Police (Polri) have led to a renewed focus on the failures of police reform. It is two decades

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00:50:31

15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s

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2022/11/16

Podcast: The Making of Modern Ukraine (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930sPub date: 2022-11-07Class 15 explores a very dark and terrifying couple of decades. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He speaks five and reads ten European languages. Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians

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00:45:58

Episode 74: Ruth Toulson, Department of Anthropology,...

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2022/11/16

Podcast: Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Episode 74: Ruth Toulson, Department of Anthropology, Maryland Institute College of ArtPub date: 2022-11-03To enter the giveaway, fill out our listener survey here. In our latest episode, Francine sits down with Dr. Ruth Toulson, Professor of Anthropology at Maryland Institute College of Arts, to unpack her book project on Chinese funeral parlors and the politicization of funeral rites in Singapore. Lightning

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01:30:12

Threatening Dystopias: politics of climate change...

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2022/11/09

Podcast: LSE: Public lectures and events (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Threatening Dystopias: politics of climate change adaptation in BangladeshPub date: 2022-10-13Contributor(s): Professor Alpa Shah, Professor Nikhil Anand, Dr Kasia Paprocki | Bangladesh dominates mainstream narratives of climate disaster. Frequently described as the ‘world’s most vulnerable country to climate change’, the oversimplified spectre of a major country slipping underwater has yielded a crisis

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00:24:25

Learning from the Afterlife of Genocide: Chronicles...

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2022/11/09

Podcast: GDP - The Global Development Primer (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Learning from the Afterlife of Genocide: Chronicles of Guatemala.Pub date: 2022-10-27The Guatemalan genocide was the systematic murder of Maya civilians during the government rule in the 1970s and 1980s. Some 200,000 lives were taken by military and paramilitary operations during this era, all the while the government denied it was occurring. Governments are notoriously lousy at hiding secrets forever, and

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00:54:36

Europe Self-Destructing for U.S. Proxy War In...

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2022/11/09

Podcast: Rania Khalek Dispatches (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Europe Self-Destructing for U.S. Proxy War In Ukraine, with Prabhat PatnaikPub date: 2022-10-26When the war in Ukraine began, Western officials bragged that they were going to “turn the ruble into rubble” and bring Russia to its knees. Seven months later, as the war and sanctions drag on with no end in sight, it’s the Euro that is turning to rubble and Europe being brought to its knees. It turns out sanctioning your

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00:59:10

Indigenous access, political ecology in settler states

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2022/11/02

Podcast: Berkeley Talks (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Indigenous access, political ecology in settler statesPub date: 2022-10-22Clint Carroll, an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, gives a talk called "Reuniting with Our Lands and Waters: Indigenous Access and Political Ecology in Settler States.""The early periods of what is known as the U.S. Federal Indian Policy are defined in terms of the specific

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01:07:08

2952-The History Of Libertarian Attempts At A Brave...

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2022/11/02

Podcast: The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: 2952-The History Of Libertarian Attempts At A Brave New World w/ Raymond CraibPub date: 2022-10-24Sam and Emma host Raymond Craib, Professor of History of Cornell University, to discuss his recent book Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. First, Sam and Emma dive into updates on early voting and the GOP’s abandonment of New Hampshire, before

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01:29:02

The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran w/...

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2022/10/26

Podcast: Guerrilla History (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran w/ Muhammad SahimiPub date: 2022-10-14This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fascinating episode, we have a discussion with Professor Muhammad Sahimi on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Iran, which is both an immensely enlightening and heartbreaking conversation. This episode is particularly timely given the

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00:48:50

Defending Exarcheia: Athens Neighborhood Takes on the...

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2022/10/26

Podcast: PUSHBACK Talks (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Defending Exarcheia: Athens Neighborhood Takes on the Big GunsPub date: 2022-10-13Send us a Text Message.For years, the Athens neighborhood of Exarcheia Square has been under attack by right-wing politicians. The area, along with nearby Strefi Hill, is a long-standing bastion of political resistance full of cafés, squats, and social centers, and the last remaining free public space in the neighborhood.Now, the City has begun

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00:28:59

Author S.C. Gwynne: Empire of the Summer Moon

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2022/10/26

Podcast: Dialogue with Marcia FranklinEpisode: Author S.C. Gwynne: Empire of the Summer MoonPub date: 2022-10-16 S.C. “Sam” Gwynne is the author of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and the winner of both the Texas and Oklahoma Book Awards. It paints the epic story of the Comanches, whose territory comprised

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00:42:30

Frank Dikötter on the History of China After Mao

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2022/10/19

Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Frank Dikötter on the History of China After MaoPub date: 2022-10-11This is a party absolutely determined to maintain a monopoly of power and absolutely determined to crush any attempt by any group to suggest that there ought to be anything like separation of powers. No labor unions. No civil society. No freedom of press. No judicial independence. The mere suggestion of it seems to be so offensive that people end up in jail

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