Fantastic interview! The NIN thing made me laugh ("The Downward Spiral" -- with it's pulverizing bouts of cyber-noise and songs like 'Piggy', 'Ruiner', 'March of the Pigs', et cetera seems to be quite topical to some of the themes of your show. 😷

Abby Martin interviews Palestinian-American activist Suhair Nafal and her attorney Haytham Faraj, who just won an important and shocking legal case where an Israeli firm tried to punish Suhair in California under Israeli law for a Facebook post. The drama of the case reveals the major, multi-pronged legal assault attempting to criminalize BDS activism and all forms of pro-Palestine speech.

Empire Files

Israeli Law Comes to US: Shocking Legal Saga to Silence Pro-Palestine Speech

Climate change is better understood as climate systems breakdown, and it's only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. Aaron Bastani is joined by Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book, Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown.

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

Downstream: Why It's Eco-Socialism or Collapse

Writer Brendan O'Connor on opening the pandemic economy, the accelerationist right and his article "The Accelerating Gyre" for The Baffler.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-accelerating-gyre-oconnor

1206: The reactionary coalition / Brendan O'Connor

Researcher Christian Sorensen on his book "Understanding the War Industry" from Clarity Press.

https://www.claritypress.com/product/understanding-the-war-industry/

1232: On the war industry / Christian Sorensen

There is no more fundamental form of work than work that provides us with food. Yet most of us have only a vague sense of the round-the-clock work done to put food on our plates – which some workers say is like 'sacrificing your life' to feed the rest of society. Can that last? 

As part of Novara Media's Future of Work focus, Sophie Hemery and Craig Gent have been out talking to workers throughout the food supply chain, from dairy farmers to wholesale traders and grocers. They join James Butler in the studio. This work is supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (London Office). 

Our special thanks to Matt Huxley for his production work, and to 65daysofstatic for their music. 
https://novaramedia.com/?p=25885

Novara Media Podcast

Work All Day, Work All Night: 'Sacrificing Your Life' for the Food Supply Chain

Global Justice Now director Nick Dearden on his book "Trade Secrets: The truth about the US trade deal and how we can stop it" and his article "We must defeat the US trade deal" for openDemocracy.

https://tradesecrets.globaljustice.org.uk/

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/we-must-defeat-us-trade-deal/

1237: Against the US-UK trade deal / Nick Dearden

Writer Fabian Scheidler examines the collapse of a 500-year system at (or already beyond) its social and ecological limits, and calls for an urgent un-coupling of both political power from corporate hands, and our way of life from capitalism's constant demands for expansion and growth.

Fabian is author of "The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization" from Zero Books.

https://www.megamaschine.org/en/

Death and choice at the megamachine's end.

Writer Hadas Thier on her book "A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics" from Haymarket Books.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalism

1256: A Marxist lens  on capitalism's crisis / Hadas Thier

Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic join PTO to talk about the US election results, why the 'blue wave' failed to materialise and how Joe Biden will govern with a Republican senate and a republican majority on the supreme court.

#101 What happened to the 'blue wave'? w/ Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic

This week, the Global Research News Hour brings a special presentation proximate to the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Michael Parenti delves into the reality of the elite class within society engaging in these plots in order to protect their own power. Michael Parenti is an internationally known author and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1962 and is one of the nation's leading progressive political thinkers.  His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad. His books include Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, History as Mystery, and Contrary Notions.

Conspiracy and Class Power: A Talk by Michael Parenti

Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter join PTO to talk about whether Joe Biden's election victory represents a comprehensive repudiation of Trumpism, what we can expect from the Republican Party after Trump, and we also chatted about the significance of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

1237: Against the US-UK trade deal / Nick Dearden

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