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**Jacobin Radio**

News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.

Latest Episodes:

The Dig: War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 2 Sep 15, 2021

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Episode two of The Dig’s War on Terror trilogy with Spencer Ackerman: Obama, ISIS, and the Sustainable War.

Subscribe to Spencer’s Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman

Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and (starting next week) get our weekly newsletter

Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Escalating Fascism in Brazil Sep 15, 2021

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Alex Sammon at the American Prospect says Democrats who believe we should keep the filibuster think that offensively they are at their limit, and need to keep the filibuster to prevent things from getting any worse. It is a defensive stance against the Republicans. His article, “The Vanishing Case for Liberal Inaction” makes the case that when Democrats in Congress have power, they act as placeholders until handing it back. The Republicans, on the other hand, push their strategic goals, using whatever tactical means available.

Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos, Political Economist at UNICAMP in Brazil, says that President Bolsonaro is setting the stage for a coup to remain in power. Borrowing from Trump’s playbook, Bolsonaro is sowing doubt about Brazil’s highly-prized electronic voting system, undermining confidence in the Supreme Court, democratic institutions and the media. Bolsonaro has also borrowed the Republican stance on the pandemic and vaccinations, with catastrophic results for Brazil. Overall Bolsonaro’s approval ratings have sunk, but he remains popular among the poor and ever-growing evangelical movement, despite his extreme authoritarian proto-fascist politics. We get Pedro Paulo’s analysis of the state of Brazilian democracy. His latest piece is called “Live and Let die: Bolsonaro and the Fascist Escalation in Brazil."

Weekends: How COVID Shook the World's Economy w/ Adam Tooze Sep 14, 2021

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Economist Adam Tooze joins Weekends to discuss how the economic crisis brought on by the pandemic differs from prior economic crashes, how elites have responded to the pandemic, and how COVID might shape the future development of China’s political and economic power.

Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from September 10, 2021.

Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub

Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

Michael and Us: Ghosts Sep 13, 2021

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In Apichatpong Weerasethakul's UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010), the boundaries between life and death, past and present, ghost and human, and human and animal fade away. We discuss some possible philosophical and political readings of this cryptic masterpiece. PLUS: the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the media is covering the Canadian election.

"Why Justin Trudeau’s snap election is backfiring" by Luke Savage - https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2021/09/why-justin-trudeau-s-snap-election-backfiring

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. To hear weekly bonus episodes, subscribe to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/

Long Reads: Ho-Fung Hung on China's Future Under Xi Jinping Sep 11, 2021

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Ho-Fung Hung, professor at Johns Hopkins University, joins Long Reads for a discussion on the Chinese economy, COVID, and the future under Xi Jinping. Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.

You can read Ho-Fung Hung's piece on US-China rivalry here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/us-china-competition-capitalism-rivalry

Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

The Dig: War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 1 Sep 10, 2021

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Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.

Subscribe to Spencer's Substack: foreverwars.substack.com/people/2576701-spencer-ackerman

Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and (very soon) get our weekly newsletter

Jacobin Show: American Empire After 9/11 w/ Noam Chomsky Sep 10, 2021

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Noam Chomsky joins the Jacobin Show to discuss the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the War on Terror, and the future of American imperialism after the disastrous invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from September 7, 2021 with Paul Prescod, Cale Brooks, Ariella Thornhill, and Jen Pan hosting.

Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT

Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

Behind the News: Police Against Protest Sep 09, 2021

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Doug speaks with Paul Passavant, author of Policing Protest, on the change in how cops treat protesters since the 1960s. Plus: Marisol Cantú and Shiva Mishek (co-author of this article: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/richmond-california-police-rpd-defund-budget-social-services-progressive-alliance-city-council) on how activists won a shift of public funding from cops to social services in Richmond, California.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

Weekends: Will Infrastructure Sink Biden? Sep 08, 2021

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David Sirota joins Weekends to explain why corporate America is working to dismantle the infrastructure bill and how progressives can fight to retain the climate and anti-poverty measures in the bill. Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from September 3, 2021, with Paul Prescod filling in for Nando.

Verso book club: https://www.versobooks.com/bookclub

Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

Jacobin Show: Why Liberals Love Losing w/ Luke Savage Sep 04, 2021

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Jacobin staff writer Luke Savage joins us to discuss American liberalism after Trump: Has Trump Derangement Syndrome permanently altered liberalism in the US? Why do liberals still act like they're losing? Is liberalism in crisis?

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from August 31, 2021 with Paul Prescod and Jen Pan hosting.

Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=JACOBINYT

Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jacobinmag

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