Journalist Rania Khalek talks about her reporting trip to Ethiopia, where armed group the TPLF is waging war on the central government, apparently with Western support, and Eritrea, one of the world's most sanctioned countries. We discuss the geopolitical importance of the Horn of Africa, and how the area has been affected by the US new cold war on China.

PART 2 OF 2

VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=LZ4Q9zIB2xA

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And follow Rania at twitter.com/RaniaKhalek

Inside Ethiopia and Eritrea, facing war and sanctions, with journalist Rania Khalek

This interview is the first in the Pitt REEES Spring Series "Openness, Acceleration, Restructuring: The Soviet 1980s." See the full schedule: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/crees/spring-series-2022

Guest:

Tom Junes is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and as a postdoctoral researcher he has held fellowships in Poland, Austria, Hungary, Finland, Germany, Bulgaria, and Italy. He’s the author of Student Politics in Communist Poland: Generations of Consent and Dissent published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2015.

Ditching Communism in Poland

Puerto Rican public workers are protesting the neoliberal policies imposed by US colonialism and Washington's unelected Financial Oversight and Management Board. 

I speak with Ángel Rodríguez Rivera, president of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors, about how teachers are rising up, after the minimum wage hasn't increased in 13 years.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hCKxWXuEYUc

Puerto Ricans rise up against US-imposed austerity, protest poverty wages

Poliittinen talous -podcastissa keskustellaan Venäjän sotaretkestä Ukrainassa, kun vieraana on Helsingin yliopiston Aleksanteri-instituutin johtaja Markku Kangaspuro. Kangaspuro analysoi niin Vladimir Putinin ajattelua kuin Venäjän hyökkäyksen laajempia geopoliittisia taustojakin. Millainen voisi olla Euroopan turvallisuusarkkitehtuuri, joka ei nojaisi sotilaallisen uhan jatkuvaan kasaamiseen? Voiko Venäjän aggressioita yrittää ymmärtää Venäjän talouden rakenteen kautta, ja miten Venäjää rankasti koetellut, Neuvostoliiton romahduksen jälkeinen talouspolitiikan shokkiterapia on vaikuttanut Venäjän kehitykseen ja Putinin asemaan maan johdossa?

Jakso 45: Venäjän sotaretken taustat (feat. Markku Kangaspuro)

https://www.douglasvalentine.com/

Our Hidden History Original Interview: We speak with Douglas Valentine about the history of the CIA and the agency's involvement in Ukraine. We discuss the Vietnam-era precedents for highly motivated and indoctrinated paramilitary units like the Azov Battalion which the CIA has created in Ukraine.

Douglas Valentine: The CIA and the war in Ukraine (2022)

What is "socialism with Chinese characteristics," and how does it differ from Western neoliberal capitalism? Economist John Ross, who has taught in China and written books about its economy, explains.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2wJwhkRz4Lk

Follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnRoss43

What is 'socialism with Chinese characteristics'? Inside China's economic model

Patreon-only full interview here https://www.patreon.com/posts/67069775

Journalist Branko Marcetic (https://twitter.com/BMarchetich) talks to Katie about mass shootings, what people don't get about guns in his native New Zealand, online censorship and why Mayo Pete is so OK with babies being hungry. 

Branko is a writer at Jacobin, the co-host of the  1 of 200 podcast and the author of "Yesterday's Man: the Case Against Joe Biden"

relevant articles
Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic “War on Terror” (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-biden-house-squad)
Pete Buttigieg: Hungry Babies, Regrettably, Are Just the Price of the Free Market
(https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism)
The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us
(https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/buffalo-attack-mass-surveillance-terrorist-security-state-protection)

Pete Buttigieg & Hungry Babies + Mass Shootings With Branko Marcetic

Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord about: sus things to do and see in LA and the San Francisco Bay Area, the 2016 Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony/mass ritual in Switzerland, John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”, Secret Sun’s grand unified synchromystic conspiracy, and the chronology of the Joker as a (political) symbol.

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#118a - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XV, Part 1

ekmeles:


Charlotte Mundy soprano · Elisa Sutherland mezzo-soprano
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek mezzo-soprano · Steven Bradshaw tenor
Jeffrey Gavett baritone & artistic director · Steven Hrycelak bass

premieres 2022

May 27, 2022 
The Crypt at the Church of the Intercession

Live recording by Craig Slonczewski

Ekmeles - Harmony for six voices

Dimitri and Khalid continue answering questions from the Discord Grotto on: the longevity of the neoliberal status quo, the susness of AOC and the Justice Democrats, why the bourgeoisie drop/allow hints of future catastrophes in mass media, Fabian socialism (briefly), and whether or not the New Deal really ended the Great Depression.

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#118b - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XV, Part 2

Chris and Molly read Infinite Jest, part 106. Pages 827-837. Don and the wraith. Discussion starts at 43:24.

Infinite Cast

Part 106

A p*dcast where Dimitri (@drposhlost) and Khalid (@khalidbinyaqub) explore deep politics, occult history, conspiracy, and ontological ops from a critical-paranoid perspective.

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#118b - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XV, Part 2

Subliminal Jihad