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01:25:19

Who Gentrifies the Gentrifiers? / Leslie Kern

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2022/12/12

We welcome environmental scholar Leslie Kern to talk about her new book "Gentrification is Inevitable - And other Lies." We also present you this week's (long) Question from Hell!, and have another Icelandic hangover cure. Producer Sebastian has this week's Past Inside the Present, in which he details some of the reasons for Germany's awkward relationship with Israel.

01:02:31

Staff Picks: Wesley Willis

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2022/12/08

Today's guest had to reschedule, so we replay a past episode, Lindsey has a hellride to work and is called to play back a musical episode featuring artist Wesley WIllis, recovered from the vaults by producer Dan Hill.

01:29:56

Monstrous Torture by the Depraved Police / Flint Taylor

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2022/12/07

Lawyer and activist Flint Taylor returns to the program to discuss his recent article in the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report "The Wrongful Conviction of Johnnie Lee Savory. Taylor’s work in fighting against police torture in Chicago over the past 29 years has been instrumental in obtaining the conviction and imprisonment of police torture ringleader Jon Burge and the precedent setting decision that upheld the inclusion of former Mayor Richard M. Daley as a co-conspiring defendant in

01:33:58

Death by (Online-)Advertising / Matthew Crain

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2022/12/05

We welcome Associate Professor of Media and Communication Matthew Crain to the show to talk about his Boston Review article "How Capitalism and not a Few Bad Actors Destroyed the Internet." We also present this week's Question from Hell!, have a brand new Hangover Cure, and producer Sebastian talks about how railroad strikes getting cracked down upon by the government is a tradition in this country almost as old as railroads themselves in this week's Past Inside the Present.

01:20:07

Chicago's Housing Crisis / Mick Dumke

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2022/11/30

Mick Dumke is a reporter for ProPublica. His work has focused on politics and government, including investigations of local and federal gun policies, secret police databases and corruption at Chicago City Hall. Mick is on to discuss his reporting on the growing Chicago Housing Authority scandal. Mick's most recent article on the topic at ProPublica is headlined, "Chicago Officials Withhold Key Financial Information as City Hands Public Housing Land Over to Wealthy Ally of the Mayor.

01:22:00

The Meat Merchants Feeding Climate Catastrophe /...

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2022/11/29

Chuck Mertz speaks with science writer Spencer Roberts and political economist Jan Dutkiewicz about their New Republic Article, "How the Meat Industry Undermines Effective Climate Policy". https://newrepublic.com/article/168766/meat-industry-lobbying-climate This week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell! Spencer Roberts is a science writer, ecologist, musician, and engineer from Colorado. His writing focuses on corporate greenwashing and science corruption. It is featured

01:35:15

Policing ourselves out of Democracy / Austin McCoy

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2022/11/28

Chuck returns to the studio, we have this week's Hangover Cure where Sebastian mispronounces Icelandic names, an all new Question from Hell! for the week, and a brand new installment of The Past inside the Present, talking about the connection between billionaire worship, the Puritans and the history of the prosperity gospel movement. Chuck welcomes historian, writer, and activist Austin McCoy to talk about his Baffler Magazine article "After Floyd - If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save

00:49:29

STAFF PICKS: How Black Girls are Criminalized /...

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2022/11/23

Board Operator Dan selects a Golden Oldie from the This is Hell! vaults while Chuck recuperates from the Creeping Crud. In this selection, Dr. Monique Morris talks about how racism and sexism collide to criminalize Black girls. After which, this week's Question From Hell contest culminates thunderously.

01:10:48

STAFF PICKS: Ecosocialism vs Extractivism / Thea...

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2022/11/22

Producer Lindsey Gorry replays an interview from 2019 with political scientist Thea Riofrancos while Chuck recovers from Covid-19. More info on Thea Riofrancos work here: http://www.theariofrancos.com/about And find her on twitter here: https://twitter.com/triofrancos

00:57:32

STAFF PICKS: Corruption Ball - FIFA's Bribery...

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2022/11/21

Chuck is out sick this week, so the producers run the show in Limbo Mode. Sebastian presents a 2015 interview with South African political economist Patrick Bond, talking about the FIFA bribery scandals of which the now (in 2022) ongoing world cup in Qatar is a fruit.

01:28:39

Democracy in Iran / Nojang Khatami

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2022/11/09

We speak with political science scholar, Nojang Khatami who is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Justitita Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Beginning in the fall of 2023, he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. Nojang is on to talk about his Boston Review article, “The Lifeblood of Iranian Democracy: From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.”

01:11:54

The Elite Academic Experts Propagating the Police...

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2022/11/08

Alec Karakatsanis joins Chuck Mertz to discuss his piece "Warning to Journalists About Elite Academia" published at https://equalityalec.substack.com/ . Alec is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps and Author of Usual Cruelty. New responses to the Question from Hell and this week in Rotten History.

01:25:12

The Road to Partisan Violence in America / Lilliana...

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2022/11/07

Chuck interviews political scientist Lilliana Mason on her books on partisan violence in the United States. We also introduce this week's Question from Hell!, and the weekly Hangover Cure. Producer Sebastian talks about why it's really better to not use the term "Kristallnacht" to talk about the pogroms against German Jews on November 9, 1938.

01:14:26

Staff Picks: John Perkins, 2007-8

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2022/11/02

Board Operator Dan spins some golden oldies; two classic interviews with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman. Regular shows resume next week!

01:10:15

Staff Picks: Jenny Odell, 2019

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2022/11/01

Lindsey replays an interview with Jenny Odell from May 18th, 2019. Odell is an artist and author of the books How to Do Nothing and the forthcoming, Saving Time. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672377/saving-time-by-jenny-odell/

00:44:52

Staff Picks: Michael Parenti, 2005

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2022/10/31

We revisit an interview with Michael Parenti from November 2005. Chuck is back next week.

01:34:35

Suburbia's Bad Bargain for American Immigrants /...

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2022/10/26

Sudip Bhattacharya talks about his article at HardCrackers.com, "Socialism or Suburbia." Sudip is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Rutgers University. He is also a writer, organizer, and you can find his other work at outlets like Protean Magazine, CounterPunch and Reappropriate, and the Aerogram.

01:20:00

Power, Corruption, and Lies in Brazil's Presidential...

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2022/10/25

Correspondent Brian Mier connects with host Chuck Mertz to discuss the upcoming run-off 2022 Brazilian presidential election between Jair Bolsenaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Also featuring this week's Rotten History, Chuck has Christmas in October, and Lindsey shares the pear harvest from Oriana's Orchard. Brian is an editor and contributor to, “Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imperialism in Brazil,” co-editor of Brasilwire, Brazil correspondent for TeleSur English's News

01:12:24

Florida Will Try To Kill You / CD Davidson-Hiers and...

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2022/10/24

CD Davidson-Hiers and Jeff Vandermeer speak with Chuck about their article "Is Florida Becoming a Failed State?" published October 11th, 2022 by The Nation. This week's Hangover Cure and new Question from Hell. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/florida-hurricane-ian/ CD Davidson-Hiers is a native Floridian who grew up on a 40-acre horse farm in North Florida. Her work has appeared in the Bitter Southerner, Flamingo Magazine, and USA Today. She works for the nonprofit Education Writers

01:29:27

The Legacy of Harold Washington / Joe Winston

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2022/10/19

We have filmmaker Joe Winston on to discuss his new movie, ‘Punch 9 for Harold Washington, “The story of Harold Washington, elected in 1983 as Chicago's first African-American Mayor, the political battles he fought, and his legacy to Chicago and the nation.”

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