Dr. Adolph Reed, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, political scientist, and editor of Nonsite (https://nonsite.org/) and Jane McAlevey (https://twitter.com/rsgexp), organizer, author, and scholar join the show to talk about neoliberalism, identity politics, labor, the election, what happened, what's happening, and what needs to happen. Anders Lee guest co-hosts!(https://twitter.com/andersleehere).

Adolph Reed writes about and works around racial and economic inequality; American and African-American politics and political thought; urban politics, and American political development.

Jane McAlevey (https://janemcalevey.com/) is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center, part of the Institute for Labor & Employment Relations. Her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy, argues that despite, if not because of, the withering attacks on working people from the US Supreme Court, conservative state and local governments, and the corporate class, the survival of American democracy depends on rebuilding unions.

Her first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The Nation Magazine. Her second book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, published by Oxford University Press, was released late in 2016. From 2010-2015, she earned a Ph.D., followed by a two-year Post Doc at the Harvard University Law School. She is a regular commentator on radio and TV.

F*ck Pollsters & Neoliberalism with Adolph Reed &  Jane McAlevey

The harrowing story of a VA long-term care facility where veterans watched friends die of Covid, then sentenced to a solitary-confinement lockdown. Special guest Spencer Ackerman joins to discuss this story, his new book Reign Of Terror, and more.

The VA Covid Prison & The Reign of Terror

Thomas Frank joins us to dig into the history of populism in the U.S. and tell us why it matters in today's political moment. 

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Find out more about his book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250220110

What is Populism and Why Does it Matter? w/ Thomas Frank

Lawyer and farmer activist Avik Saha on the planned corporate takeover of Indian agriculture.

1281: India's farm law disaster / Avik Saha

Social ecologist Andreas Malm on the failures of environmental pacifism, the urgent need to destroy capital's carbon infrastructure, and his book "How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire" from Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline

1282: Escalating the climate fight / Andreas Malm

Anthropologist Ida Susser on her FocaalBlog article "Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen revisits the US military’s violations of the hospitality code.

http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/12/03/ida-susser-covid-police-brutality-and-race-are-ongoing-french-mobilizations-breaking-through-the-class-boundaries/

1284: Police violence, protest and working class convergence / Ida Susser

Sneak peek of our Patron-only episode coving hidden, shocking details of Jan. 6 and the likelihood that Trump will go to jail. Get the full episode at Patreon.com/EmpireFiles

New Details of Jan. 6: Darker Picture, Deeper Conspiracy

William Callison and Quinn Slobodian on their article "Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol" for Boston Review.

https://bostonreview.net/politics/william-callison-quinn-slobodian-coronapolitics-reichstag-capitol

1285: Crisis diagonalism / William Callison + Quinn Slobodian

Attorneys Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas on their report "New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder" for Truthout.

https://truthout.org/articles/new-documents-suggest-j-edgar-hoover-was-involved-in-fred-hamptons-murder/

1288: The FBI's role in the assassination of Fred Hampton / Flint Taylor + Jeff Haas

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Eyewitness Apartheid: Abby & Mike's Month in Palestine [PREVIEW]

Andrew and Lucy are joined by piss merchants Demi Lardner and Tom Walker for the third installment of Godfuckers Inc., the spin-off series about being gross. In this episode: diarrhea, jacking off, euthanasia, the films of Sia, and the Crazy Frog themselves.
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1282: Escalating the climate fight / Andreas Malm

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