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KPFA - Behind the News

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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59:58

The French elections, Vance’s background, Jane...

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/07/25

Cole Stangler on the monumentally inconclusive French elections • David Palumbo-Liu on the Silicon Valley world that launched JD Vance as a politician • a brief bit from Jane McAlevey on powerThe post The French elections, Vance’s background, Jane McAlevey (very briefly) on power appeared first on KPFA.

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JD Vance, no friend of the working class • the chaos...

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2024/07/18

Brandon Mancilla of the UAW looks behind the GOP’s pro-worker facade • Adam Hilton, author of True Blues, on the bizarre nature of the US political party systemThe post JD Vance, no friend of the working class • the chaos of the American political party system appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

elections in Britain and Iran, in memory of Jane...

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2024/07/11

Richard Seymour discusses the British election (Sidecar article here) • Trita Parsi, the Iranian election • remembering Jane McAlevey with a 2017 BtN interview (catalog of interviews here)The post elections in Britain and Iran, in memory of Jane McAlevey appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Israel is killing a lot of people but losing its war,...

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/07/04

Robert Pape on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning (article here) • Wanda Bertram on how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively), and other news on crime & punishment (report here)The post Israel is killing a lot of people but losing its war, and the latest on the US carceral state appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Haiti and the death of the future

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/06/27

Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos • Steve Fraser, author of this article, analyzes and mourns the death of any sense of a better future [holiday-induced reprise of a show first broadcast on March 14, 2024]The post Haiti and the death of the future appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Israel and the Arab states and the latest on the...

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/06/20

Steven Simon on Israel and the Arab states’ relations with it • Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of The Education Wars, on the right-wing’s latest educational ploys. (And here’s Marcus Brown’s website that I mentioned in the intro.)The post Israel and the Arab states and the latest on the education wars appeared first on KPFA.

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59:57

Mexican elections and radicals on the run

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/06/13

Sociologist Edwin Ackerman on the Mexican elections, and the reasons for AMLO’s immense popularity (Sidecar piece here) • Joel Whitney, author of Flights, on radical and revolutionaries’ battles with the CIAThe post Mexican elections and radicals on the run appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Ruling parties take a hit in India and South Africa

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/06/06

Siddhartha Deb, author of Twilight Prisoners, on the Hindu right and its poor showing in India’s elections • Sean Jacobs, New School prof and publisher of Africa Is a Country, on the ANC’s poor showing in South Africa’s electionsThe post Ruling parties take a hit in India and South Africa appeared first on KPFA.

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59:59

The Constitutional fetish

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/05/30

Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracyThe post The Constitutional fetish appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/05/23

Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflictThe post Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

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Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/05/16

Annelle Sheline, who’d been on BtN three times before, on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here). The post Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class...

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/05/09

Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism The post Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Criminalizing protest, exploiting transphobia

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/05/02

Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here) The post Criminalizing protest, exploiting transphobia appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Professor silenced for controversial article, the...

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/04/25

Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn’t like • Keri Leigh Merritt on the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society (article here) • excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on the recipient areas The post Professor silenced for controversial article, the lingering

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59:58

Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on...

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2024/04/18

Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed CapitalismThe post Yanis Varoufakis on being banned in Germany, and on the new post-capitalist world of technofeudalism appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

The World Court, and the world of Jelly Roll Morton

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2024/04/11

Heidi Matthews on the World Court and the cases against Israel pending there • Elijah Wald, author of Jelly Roll Blues, on Jelly Roll Morton and the hidden history of early bluesThe post The World Court, and the world of Jelly Roll Morton appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Why Israel is expanding its war, Zionists’...

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/04/04

Trita Parsi explains why Israel is trying to expand its war to Iran and Hezbollah • Natasha Lennard analyzes the Zionist appropriation of leftish “safe space” discourse • Stefan Yong explores the structure of the global shipping industry in light of the Baltimore bridge disasterThe post Why Israel is expanding its war, Zionists’ appropriation of safe space discourse, and the shipping industry and the Key Bridge disaster appeared first on KPFA.

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59:57

The Shoah after Gaza, valuing care work

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/03/28

Pankaj Mishra, author of this article, on the propaganda-induced debasement of the Holocaust • Nancy Folbre, one of four authors of this report, on assigning a monetary value to care workThe post The Shoah after Gaza, valuing care work appeared first on KPFA.

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59:59

AIPAC targets leftish Dems, how Schumer and the ICJ...

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/03/21

David Moore on how AIPAC is using Republican contributors’ money to go after progressive Dems • Meron Rapoport on how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel • Jamieson Webster on the social aspects of mental disorder among the youngThe post AIPAC targets leftish Dems, how Schumer and the ICJ are playing in Israel, troubled youth as a symptom of social problems appeared first on KPFA.

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59:58

Haitian chaos, the death of the future

KPFA - Behind the News ·

2024/03/14

Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos • Steve Fraser, author of this article, analyzes and mourns the death of any sense of a better futureThe post Haitian chaos, the death of the future appeared first on KPFA.

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