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

Jeremy Gilbert hits the road for a musical microdose accompanying the #ACFM Trip on Folk. Connecting different strands of folk music with their various political tendencies, Jeremy looks at the communism of Woody Guthrie and the singers of the Dust Bowl era, the Vietnam protest music of Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village scene, and the folk psychedelia of the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan.

The episode includes over 40 musical examples spanning a period of around 100 years.

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music

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141 // The Birds (1963) w/ Will Menaker

Tying up loose ends. A ragtag collection of stray material. Only sounds terrible for the first 10 mins. Covered herein: Trump's Milk Speech, The Dersh, melt scientist Brian Cox, and our hash out our beef with the latest in a long line of terrible journalists to come at your kings (us): potato-esque Conservative Willard Foxton Todd.

Reel Politik

Episode 167 - The Donald Trump Milk Speech

Mohamed Abdou on his essay "Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution" for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/

1257:  Let it all fall / Mohamed Abdou

On this week's,Global Research News Hour, we recall aspects of World War II which reveals the sordid aspects of Canada, the U.S. and the UK and their original support for the Nazis. In our first half hour, Richard Sanders discusses the former Prime Minister's high regard for Hitler and the anti soviet Eastern European Emigres who came to Canada. In our second half hour, Canadian Historian Jacques Pauwels explains how US and UK support for the Nazis affected the conference at Yalta and how the US altered its strategy in 1945 and beyond.

The Never Ending War During the Time We Should Never Forget

Ward Anseeuw on the International Land Coalition report "Uneven Ground: Land inequalities at the heart of unequal societies.

"https://www.landcoalition.org/en/uneven-ground/report-and-papers/

1269: Land inequality, social inequality / Ward Anseeuw

Sociologist Bram Büscher on his new book "The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism" from University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520371453/the-truth-about-nature

1275: Telling the truth about nature / Bram Büscher

Historian Gerald Horne on the intertwined histories of boxing and Black men in America, and his book “The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing” from International Publishers.

https://www.intpubnyc.com/product/the-bittersweet-science-racism-racketeering-an-the-political-economy-of-boxing/

1278: Boxing and Blackness / Gerald Horne

Historian Elizabeth Catte on Virginia's forced sterilization campaign in the mid-20th century, the intersection of race, medicine and social control, and her book "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" from Belt Publishing.

https://beltpublishing.com/products/pure-america

1296: The long shadow of eugenics / Elizabeth Catte

The US State “is using the so-called insurrection at the Capitol…to impose an ideological conformity that supports and sustains the neoliberal project” at home and abroad, said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace.  Speaking on a Dissenters webinar, Baraka warned that Democrats, especially, are “setting us up” to “usher in a form of neofascism” that could win liberal and even progressive support because it is ostensibly aimed at Trump’s older brand of fascism.

1275: Telling the truth about nature / Bram Büscher

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