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01:11:39

1295: Experiments in medium design / Keller Easterling

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2021/02/09

Writer Keller Easterling on new ways of seeing the world and its possibilities, and her book "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3245-medium-design

01:05:44

1294: All the other epidemics / Lynn Parramore

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2021/02/08

Cultural theorist Lynn Parramore on the deep social effects of economic precarity, and her article "Epidemic of Despair Could Haunt America Long After COVID" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/epidemic-of-despair-could-haunt-america-long-after-covid

01:14:06

1293: Crisis, law and the health of the people /...

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2021/02/04

Write Elliot Sperber on his essay "Four crises, one crisis (or the health of the people)" for Monthly Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen sees the up side of the down side of success. https://mronline.org/2021/01/26/four-crises-one-crisis-or-the-health-of-the-people/

01:05:59

1292: Corporate platforms, corporate censorship /...

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2021/02/01

Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes on their article "Beware Corporate ‘Democracy Washing’: Twitter, Trump, and the Danger of Privatizing the Fight Against Fascism" for Common Dreams. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/23/beware-corporate-democracy-washing-twitter-trump-and-danger-privatizing-fight

01:13:39

1291: Native stories, establishment journalism /...

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2021/01/28

Julian Brave NoiseCat on his article "Apocalypse Then and Now" for Columbia Journalism Review, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen watches the detectives. https://www.cjr.org/special_report/apocalypse-then-and-now.php

01:08:59

1290: Five years of poison for Flint / Anna Clark

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2021/01/27

Journalist Anna Clark on her article "The Unfinished Business of Flint's Water Crisis" for ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-unfinished-business-of-flints-water-crisis

01:00:59

1289: How Bolsonaro sold off Brazil / Brian Mier

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2021/01/26

Journalist Brian Mier on his documentary "Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda" via redfish. https://youtu.be/_ToGVJ3Zk2I

01:08:29

1288: The FBI's role in the assassination of Fred...

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2021/01/25

Attorneys Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas on their report "New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder" for Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/new-documents-suggest-j-edgar-hoover-was-involved-in-fred-hamptons-murder/

01:13:46

1287: Fascism and liberal democracy / Robert Cavooris

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2021/01/21

Writer Robert Cavooris on his article "We Need a Popular Antifascist Movement" for Partisan, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen admits to digestive relief. https://partisanmag.com/we-need-a-popular-antifascist-movement/

01:06:58

1286: Violence, expansion and the rule of law / Rose...

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2021/01/20

Law scholar Rose Parfitt on her article "Mob Constitutionalism: The Riot in the Rights" for Critical Legal Thinking. https://criticallegalthinking.com/2021/01/12/mob-constitutionalism-the-riot-in-the-rights/

01:22:33

1285: Crisis diagonalism / William Callison + Quinn...

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2021/01/19

William Callison and Quinn Slobodian on their article "Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol" for Boston Review. https://bostonreview.net/politics/william-callison-quinn-slobodian-coronapolitics-reichstag-capitol

01:16:08

1284: Police violence, protest and working class...

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2021/01/14

Anthropologist Ida Susser on her FocaalBlog article "Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen revisits the US military’s violations of the hospitality code. http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/12/03/ida-susser-covid-police-brutality-and-race-are-ongoing-french-mobilizations-breaking-through-the-class-boundaries/

01:09:57

1283: McDonald's in Black America / Marcia Chatelain

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2021/01/13

Historian Marcia Chatelain on the economic and social dynamics of fast food corporations and Black American life, and her book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" from Liveright. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631493942

01:11:49

1282: Escalating the climate fight / Andreas Malm

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2021/01/12

Social ecologist Andreas Malm on the failures of environmental pacifism, the urgent need to destroy capital's carbon infrastructure, and his book "How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire" from Verso. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline

01:05:35

1281: India's farm law disaster / Avik Saha

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2021/01/11

Lawyer and farmer activist Avik Saha on the planned corporate takeover of Indian agriculture.

01:14:23

1280: Opioid deaths and deindustrialization / Peter...

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2021/01/07

Sociologist Peter Ikeler on the link between mass opioid death and deindustrialization in the US, and his paper "Labor relations and the overdose crisis in the United States" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/16066359.2020.1793962?journalCode=iart20

01:07:32

1279: Mobility and climate disaster / Mimi Sheller

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2021/01/06

Sociologist Mimi Sheller on the politics of movement and refuge under climate change, and her book "Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene" from Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/island-futures

01:15:10

1278: Boxing and Blackness / Gerald Horne

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2021/01/05

Historian Gerald Horne on the intertwined histories of boxing and Black men in America, and his book “The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing” from International Publishers. https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/the-bittersweet-science-racism-racketeering-an-the-political-economy-of-boxing/

00:40:15

Four border stories from Chuck's youth on drugs.

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2020/12/25

Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio host Chuck Mertz shares four stories of crossing the US-Canada border on/with drugs sometime in the early 1980s. Unlocked from the Patreon podcast. Merry Christmas everybody.

00:55:04

1277: Ad hoc, end of year.

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2020/12/17

Chuck explains what he learned about farmer strikes in India from a cancelled interview, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tells how he'll win the war.

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