Interviewed by Moe Ali Nayel
27 August 2015 | English
Hana Slieman takes Status deep below the American University in Beirut building where a vast archive is housed, keeping Palestinian memory alive. 

"Archiving Palestine: Building a Digital Platform for Oral History" with Hana Slieman [English]

Listentothis

The problem with being on the left is that we are much more certain about what went wrong in the past than what to do in the present, but the rise and endurance of neoliberalist policies might signal we are less right than we think about the present, and that's stopping us from fighting austerity, inequality and greed in future.

In his book "Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown," historian Philip Mirowski explains why the financial elite have enjoyed success after success, despite failure after failure, and why the left offers so little resistance. Naturally, Chuck has a ton of questions about this and Philip has a ton of thoughts. Listen to this if it feels to you like being on the left is like being left out of American politics.

Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Philip is author of 2002's "Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science" and 1999's "More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics." 

Historian Philip Mirowski explains why neoliberalism keeps surviving its own disasters.

Two delegates on a recent African Heritage delegation to Palestine with Interfaith Peace-Builders speak to The Electronic Intifada about making connections between communities struggling for liberation in Palestine and in the US. (Photo: Delegate Jennifer Copeland in front of Israel's wall in the West Bank, with graffiti reading "Human rights, not white privilege." Courtesy of IFPB)

Ajamu Baraka and Trina Jackson: Black solidarity with Palestine

Part 3, Inside the Operations Room with the Team Digitizing Archives - Hana Slieman [English]

Part 2, About Hana - Hana Slieman [English]

Part 1, About Oral History Archive Project - Hana Slieman [English]

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

Laleh Khalili and Lisa Hajjar Discuss Their Books

Egypt without Morsi

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