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Behind the News: Gaza, Ukraine, and the US w/ Anatol Lieven Nov 13, 2023

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Anatol Lieven discusses the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of United States power. Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of a recent paper on "economic policy and partisan realignment" in the US, talk about class differences in economic policy preferences ("predistributionist" vs. redistributionist).

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 online.

Jacobin Radio: The UAW Strike Victory w/ Nelson Lichtenstein Nov 09, 2023

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Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein returns to Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman to talk about the Tentative Agreements (TAs) the United Auto Workers (UAW) reached—still to be ratified—with the Big Three auto companies after six weeks on strike. It was the first time the UAW hit the Detroit Three at once. As Nelson wrote in his recent Jacobin piece, the UAW strike victory is historic and transformative, ending a forty-three-year era of concession bargaining and labor movement defeat. “With its successful strike, the UAW has broken with decades of concessions, won on pay and workplace democracy, and launched a new national labor leader. There’s much more organizing to be done, but this is an unmitigated victory for the entire working class.” We talk to Nelson about the transformative nature of this victory—the best news in the world today—and get his broader perspective on what it means for American politics and the working class writ large.

Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.

Michael and Us: The Dinosaur Hour Nov 08, 2023

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What if Britain's notorious right-wing GB News channel gave fading comedy hero and current "anti-woke" nuisance John Cleese a weekly show to do whatever he wants? Folks... the results may surprise you. We discuss the first few episodes THE DINOSAUR HOUR, the Monty Python legend's baffling new show. PLUS: Checking in on the Doug Burgum and Chris Christie campaign juggernauts.

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

The Dig: J. Edgar Hoover's America w/ Beverly Gage Nov 07, 2023

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Featuring Beverly Gage on her masterful biography G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht.

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Behind the News: Palestinian Citizens of Israel w/ Amjad Iraqi Nov 06, 2023

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Amjad Iraqi talks about what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel—and what the Israeli state has in mind for Gaza. Georgi Derluguian, author of a recent guest essay in the Times, analyzes how the expulsion of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh exemplifies a new world disorder.

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 online.

Michael and Us: Nosferatu, the Wrath of Pod Nov 02, 2023

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For the week of Halloween, we offer a fond nod of the hat to our old, old friend Count Dracula by discussing NOSFERATU, PHANTOM DER NACHT (1979). And because we've both just read Werner Herzog's new autobiography, we discuss how its depiction of science versus the unknown fits squarely into the larger Herzog project. PLUS: More reflections on the crisis in Gaza. This podcast was originally broadcast October 31st.

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

Long Reads: Palestine and the New McCarthyism w/ Rashid Khalidi Nov 01, 2023

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This is another special episode of Long Reads about Israel’s war on Gaza. Dan spoke to Rashid Khalidi, one of the leading historians of modern Palestine, on Monday, October 30th.

Last week, Joe Biden used a press conference at the White House to cast doubt on the casualty figures from Gaza. Neither Biden nor the White House offered any evidence to justify their alleged skepticism. An article in the Huffington Post showed that the State Department had been perfectly willing to rely on casualty figures from the Gaza health ministry in the last few weeks. The UN and other international bodies have also found those figures to be reliable. In response to Biden, Gaza's health ministry published a list of almost 7,000 people whose bodies had been identified up to that point. Reporters from the Interceptshowed that the list was a credible source of information. They looked in particular at a single Palestinian family that had lost more than forty people since the Israeli offensive began.

In the context of what Israel has been doing over the past few weeks, the comments from Joe Biden were a green light for more violence against Palestinian civilians. The Israeli military received the message loud and clear: Yesterday it carried out a major attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing dozens of people. Israel bombed the refugee camp again today.

Find a lightly edited transcript of this interview here: https://jacobin.com/2023/10/rashid-khalidi-biden-netanyahu-palestine-israeli-occupation-hamas-war

And for more on the historical background, see Rashid's book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.

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. Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.

Behind the News: Catastrophe in Gaza w/ Rami Khouri Oct 30, 2023

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Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza. Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, talks about the life and work of a groundbreaking writer.

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 online.

The Dig: Hamas w/ Tareq Baconi Oct 27, 2023

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Featuring Tareq Baconi on the history of Hamas. This is the context we need. And it is precisely what mainstream discourse mystifies, denies, and disavows.

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Behind the News: UAW's Strategy w/ Stephanie Ross Oct 23, 2023

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Stephanie Ross outlines the UAW’s innovative strike strategy against the Big Three automakers. Christopher Morten and Amy Kapczynski discuss how corporate America profits off publicly funded research and how to stop them from doing that.

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 online.

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