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On this week’s show Aaron Bastani is joined by David Graeber author of ‘Debt: the First 5,000 Years’ as they discuss debt embedding it within the context of the Great Recession.

Debt>Debt>Debt - Interview With David Graeber

On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani are joined by David Harvey.

Contradictions Of Capitalism  In Conversation With David Harvey

Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928

Brené Brown — The Courage to Be Vulnerable

Sociologist Dr Jeff Miley summarises some of his observations following a recent field visit to Rojava in northern Syria, and gives an overview of the political and social ideologies underpinning the Kurdish revolution.

Can the Revolution in Kurdish Syria succeed?

Anarchist anthropologist and lecturer at Goldsmiths University, David Graeber discusses his new book 'Debt; the first 5000 years' at THBTP salon. He discusses the relevance of debt to understanding our world today, the direct relationship of debt to morals, three modes of interaction (of which debt, through the mode of exchange, has a hegemony over others) and finally some discussion on monetary transactions and the relationship of money to power and nation states.

David Graeber on Debt at THBTP Salon

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the bureaucratic dimension that rules our lives, takes our money, and stretches between the public and private, the right and the left, between capitalism and whatever comes next.

David's new book is The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.

http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/

David Graeber is an anthropologist, writer and activist.


David Graeber follows the rules, to the boring / fascinating heart of bureaucracy itself.

Historian Joyce Mao examines the long, shifting influence of China (as both threat and promise) on American conservatism - from McCarthyite Republicans looking for a political identity, to the muddled, ambigous ideas of today's GOP presidential candidates - and explains how it drew in blueprints for a conservative agenda of unilateral foreign policy and military expansion paid for by cuts to domestic spending.

Joyce is author of Asia First: China and the Making of Modern American Conservatism from University of Chicago Press.

How Chinese communism gave American conservatives something to believe in.

Historian Ray Raphael explores the politics behind America's revolutionary moment.

Filmmaker Leslee Udwin follows a rape, a backlash, and a political movement in India.

Episode 867: Revolution Brewing (Full Broadcast - September 19th, 2015)

Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey | David Harvey's politicised work on geography, social theory, urban political economy and capitalism has shaped academic debate for decades. He is one of the most cited social scientists in the world, and his works have been translated into multiple languages. Here, Harvey joins a panel of experts to explore his ideas - and alternative views. David Harvey (@profdavidharvey) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Michael Storper (@michaelstorper) is Professor of Economic Geography at LSE, and holds Professorships at Sciences-Po and UCLA. Jane Wills is Professor of Human Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. Murray Low is Associate Professor of Human Geography in the LSE Department of Geography & Environment. The LSE Department of Geography & Environment (@LSEGeography) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey [Audio]

Sarah Leonard and Bhaskar Sunkara explain why the current economic landscape - of crippling debt, starved social programs, general existential precarity - has young activists looking beyond mainstream party politics for both the tools of organizing, and the type of future they want for themselves and the rest of the world.

Sarah and Bhaskar both edited and contributed to the essay collection The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century from Metropolitan books.

Not afraid of socialism: A young person's guide to revolution.

Educator Andrew Hacker explains why America's current mathematic education policy is failing students - from Algebra's barrier to higher ed for many students, to the STEM advocates dehumanizing classrooms to push for more testing and lower wages - and makes the case for teaching "numeracy," a greater arithmetical understanding of the numbers in our lives and workplaces, so we can get back to work innovating and pursuing our strengths.

Andrew is author of "The Math Myth And Other STEM Delusions" from The New Press.

http://thenewpress.com/books/math-myth

Against math: The case for rethinking American education.

Social scientist Mary Mellor re-examines economics from the very beginning - the creation of money itself - to explain why the privatization of money works against the public interest, how the ironic mechanisms of debt serve to punish the public with austerity while bailing out finance capital, and what changes in a society that reclaims the use of money for the good of all its citizens.

Mary is author of the book "Debt or Democracy: Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice" from Pluto Press.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo22357860.html

Debt or democracy: The radical choice to reclaim money for the public good.

This interview with J. Sakai was conducted June 17, 2003 on KPFT Pacifica Radio. Sakai is author of "Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat" as well as many articles on race, class and radical politics. The transcript of this audio became the pamphlet, "Stolen At Gunpoint: Interview with J. Sakai On the Chicano-Mexicano National Question," but the audio is being offered for those interested to hear Sakai in his own words.

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