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01:16:45

Yukon salmon collapse / Zachariah Hughes

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2021/09/15

Journalist Zachariah Hughes on his three-part series "The Last Wild Kings: A World Without Salmon?" for Anchorage Daily News and the Pulitzer Center. https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/last-wild-kings-world-without-salmon

01:17:30

Faith and work on the slaughterhouse floor / Kristy...

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2021/09/14

Kristy Nabhan-Warren on her book "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663494/meatpacking-america/

01:21:18

Neoliberal jihad / Suzanne Schneider

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2021/09/13

Historian Suzanne Schneider on her book "The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2565-suzanne-schneider

01:26:47

The politics of disinformation / Joseph Bernstein

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2021/09/08

Journalist Joseph Bernstein on his report "Bad News" for Harper's. https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/

01:21:17

The social movement left and Chile’s new constitution...

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2021/09/08

Bree Busk on her article "Defending the legacy of Chile’s 2019 uprising" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/chile-constitutional-convention-loncon/

01:25:56

What the US government knew about climate change /...

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2021/09/02

James Gustave Speth on his book "They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis" from MIT Press, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gets to the power-bottom of Ripley. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/they-knew

01:19:24

Disability, abolition, emancipation / Keith Rosenthal

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2021/09/01

Writer Keith Rosenthal on his article "Carceral Histories of Disability:An Abolitionist Analysis" for Spectre Journal. https://spectrejournal.com/carceral-histories-of-disability-an-abolitionist-analysis/

01:18:59

Racism, medical inequality and Black health / Anne...

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2021/08/30

Global health scholar Anne Pollock on her book "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" from The University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sickening

01:27:17

The ends of Roman history / Edward J. Watts

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2021/08/25

Historian Edward J. Watts on his book "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-eternal-decline-and-fall-of-rome-9780190076719?cc=us&lang=en&

01:20:53

The Taliban returns to power / Martine van Bijlert

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2021/08/24

Writer and researcher Martine van Bijlert on her articles "The Taleban leadership converges on Kabul as remnants of the republic reposition themselves" and "Afghanistan Has a New Government: The country wonders what the new normal will look like" for The Afghanistan Analysts

01:23:58

Safety and justice after policing / Geo Maher

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2021/08/23

Writer Geo Maher on his book "A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3783-a-world-without-police

01:19:53

South Africa's ruling party crisis / Niall Reddy

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2021/08/05

Writer Niall Reddy on his article "A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future" for Africa Is A Country, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen seeks relief in our nation's capital. https://africasacountry.com/2021/08/a-terrifying-vision-of-south-africas-future

01:13:01

Oaxaca's indigenous insurrection / A. S. Dillingham

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2021/08/04

Historian A.S. Dillingham on his book "Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico" from Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29754

01:07:32

Protests, police, post-democracy / Paul A. Passavant

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2021/08/03

Political scientist Paul A. Passavant on his book "Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection" from Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/policing-protest

01:16:17

Toward Roma liberation / Sebijan Fejzula

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2021/08/02

Sebijan Fejzula on her essay "The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/roma-protest-political-agenda/

01:18:37

On Zionist violence / Avi Garelick

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2021/07/29

Writer Avi Garelick on his article "The Violence is the Point" for Hypocrite Reader. http://hypocritereader.com/98/violence-is-the-point

01:06:23

Tyranny, language and history / Jorge Majfud

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2021/07/28

International studies scholar Jorge Majfud on his article "Cuba and the US: The Difference Between Dictatorship and Tyranny" for Common Dreams. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/20/cuba-and-us-difference-between-dictatorship-and-tyranny

01:18:47

The palm oil disaster / Jocelyn C. Zuckerman

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2021/07/27

Journalist Jocelyn C. Zuckerman on her book "Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything—and Endangered the World" from The New Press. https://thenewpress.com/books/planet-palm

01:12:17

Maps of a dying planet / Christina Conklin

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2021/07/26

Artist Christina Conklin on her new book "The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis," co-written with Marina Psaros for The New Press. https://thenewpress.com/books/atlas-of-disappearing-places

01:17:59

1368: Haiti and empire / Seth Donnelly

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2021/07/22

Haiti Action Committee's Seth Donnelly on Haitian politics and US / Western imperialism, and his article "The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?" for Black Agenda Report, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gives an avowed centrist a lesson in radical socialist leisurism https://blackagendareport.com/assassination-jovenel-moise-what-next-haiti

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