STAFF PICKS: Toxic Capitalism Makes Us Sick / Elizabeth Grossman & Valerie Brown
Producer Lindsey plays a 2015 interview with science journalists Elizabeth Grossman and Valerie Brown on the failure of government regulatory agency and corporate greed in the chemical industry and ho...
3 Aug 20221h 6min
STAFF PICKS: Kurdish Freedom Movements and Alternatives to Capitalism / Dilar Dirik
Producer Dan introduces two interviews with Kurdish activist Dilar Dirik, talking about the movement for Kurdish liberation and how that movement's politics represent an alternate vision to the neolib...
3 Aug 20221h 57min
STAFF PICKS: The U.S. Wars and the Rise of ISIS / Robert Fisk, Patrick Cockburn
Producer Dan plays two interviews from the vault that deal with the U.S. war in Iraq, and the subsequent rise of ISIS in the region.
2 Aug 20221h 20min
Black Hawk Frown - U.S. Military Returns to Somalia / Amanda Sperber
We welcome investigative journalist Amanda Sperber back to the program to talk about her recent Baffler article "Prelude to a Redeployment - Listening for signs of the Americans in Kismayo, Somalia." ...
27 Jul 20221h 21min
Not Funny: Racist Humor and White Supremacy / Raul Perez
Sociologist Raul Perez talks about his book "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy," we have this week in Rotten History, and read more of your answers to this week's Questi...
26 Jul 20221h 16min
Texas, and the Origins of American Fascism / Gerald Horne
We welcome Gerald Horne back to the show to talk about most recent book "The Counter-Revolution of 1836 - Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism." Stay tuned and learn of this week's w...
25 Jul 20221h 29min
Rearming the Constitution / William E. Forbath
We welcome legal scholar and lawyer William E. Forbath to the program to talk about his book "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution." Chuck muses about 26 years of running God's favorite radio program with ...
20 Jul 20221h 25min
Not a Riot: Race Massacres & Capitalism / Dre Cummings & Kalvin Graham
We welcome law scholars Dre Cummings and Kalvin Graham to talk about their work published in Tulsa Law Review about the relationship between race massacres and capitalism. We also have This Week in Ro...
19 Jul 20221h 23min
