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01:07:39

1331: The idea of whiteness / Robert P. Baird

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2021/05/03

Writer Robert P. Baird on his article "The Invention of Whiteness: A Long History of a Dangerous Idea" for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea

01:15:32

1330: Prison uprisings and self-emancipation / Adofo...

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2021/04/29

Assistant Public Defender Adofo Minka on his article "Spirit of Self-Emancipation Continues to Rise at the St. Louis City Justice Center" for Black Agenda Report, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen processes his reaction to the greatest cosmic blunder. https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/spirit-self-emancipation-continues-rise-st-louis-city-justice-center

01:11:43

1329: Anti-communism and planetary Americanization /...

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2021/04/28

Writer Vincent Bevins on his book "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World" from PublicAffairs. https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/vincent-bevins/the-jakarta-method/9781541724013/

01:06:49

1328: Race, consumption and the politics of sugar /...

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2021/04/27

Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on sugar, diabetes, racialized science and his book "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" from University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sweetness-in-the-blood

01:08:19

1327: What do we do with MMT? / James K. Galbraith

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2021/04/26

Economist James K. Galbraith on modern monetary theory, public spending and possibility of post-neoliberal policy, and his article "Who's Afraid of MMT?" for Project Syndicate. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-central-bankers-fear-modern-monetary-theory-by-james-k-galbraith-2020-12

01:33:31

1326: Paying for Bitcoin with carbon / Ketan Joshi

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2021/04/22

Writer Ketan Joshi on his article "Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen wants to help you design your own dementia. https://ketanjoshi.co/2021/03/11/bitcoin-is-a-mouth-hungry-for-fossil-fuels/

01:12:10

1325: Mass shooter society / Seamus McGraw

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2021/04/21

Journalist Seamus McGraw on his new book "From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter" from University of Texas Press. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/mcgraw-from-a-taller-tower

01:07:46

1324: The UK's protest crackdown / Adrian Kreutz

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2021/04/19

Political theorist Adrian Kreutz on the UK's proposed anti-protest “Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill," and his article "What good is a right to toothless protest?" for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/uk-crime-police-protest-bill/

01:14:45

1323: Bill Gates and monopoly medicine / Alexander...

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2021/04/15

Journalist Alexander Zaitchik on his article "How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines" for The New Republic, and in a Moment of Truth Jeff Dorchen foils another dictatorship before it can start. https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines

01:05:53

1322: Infrastructure, mobilization, survival / Laleh...

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2021/04/15

Political scientist Laleh Khalili on her article "Apocalyptic Infrastructures" for Noēma Magazine. https://www.noemamag.com/apocalyptic-infrastructures/

01:03:07

1321: Slavery's westward reach / Kevin Waite

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2021/04/13

Historian Kevin Waite on his book "West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire" from UNC Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469663197/west-of-slavery/

01:07:31

1320: The authoritarian grip on Greece / Guilio D'Errico

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2021/04/12

Writer Giulio D'Errico on police violence, the state and expanding rifts in Greek society, and his article "Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism" co-authored with Giovanni Marenda for ROAR Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/greece-lockdown-koufontinas-protests/

01:13:47

1319: LA's police gangs / Cerise Castle

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2021/04/09

Journalist Cerise Castle on her investigative series "A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department" for Knock LA, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen reflects on how Godzilla and King Kong massacre our fear of massacres. https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/

01:05:12

1318: Pandemics and land use / Luis Fernando Chaves

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2021/04/07

Disease ecologist Luis Fernando Chaves on his dispatch "Scientists say land use drives new pandemics. But what if 'land' isn’t what they think it is?" for Pandemic Research For The People. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cW-PkPU9Z5TtoEMqKuhPnUGsmOLVp16/view

01:04:43

1317: Personal data, public trusts / Anna Artyushina

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2021/04/06

Public policy scholar Anna Artyushina on her article "The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy" for MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006555/eu-data-trust-trusts-project-privacy-policy-opinion/

01:02:32

1316: Music's future on repeat / Rich Woodall

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2021/04/05

Writer Rich Woodall on the financialization of music catalogues and his article "Mass Hipgnosis" for The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mass-hipgnosis-woodall

01:16:49

1315: Growth, carbon, death / Ben Ehrenreich

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2021/04/02

Writer Ben Ehrenreich on his article "We're Hurtling Toward Global Suicide" for The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide

01:07:24

1314: Water and democracy in Detroit / Curt Guyette

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2021/03/31

Writer Curt Guyette on his article "The Fight for Affordable Water" for ACLU Michigan. https://www.aclumich.org/en/news/fight-affordable-water

01:02:58

1313: Biden and the imperial past / Andrew Bacevich

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2021/03/30

Historian Andrew Bacevich on his article "On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Biden Defers to the Blob" for TomDispatch. https://tomdispatch.com/on-shedding-an-obsolete-past/

01:10:16

1312: When universities swallow cities / Davarian L....

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2021/03/29

Urbanist Davarian L. Baldwin on the dynamics between urban universities and the communities outside their walls, and his book "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" from Bold Type Books. https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/davarian-l-baldwin/in-the-shadow-of-the-ivory-tower/9781568588919/

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