We discuss another patron request, this time it's a two part essay by Robert Brenner, written as the Soviet Union was beginning to unravel: "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - The Roots of The Crisis."

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2490-the-soviet-union-and-eastern-europe-the-roots-of-the-crisis

#138 - "The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe"

Sebijan Fejzula on her essay "The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation" for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/roma-protest-political-agenda/

Toward Roma liberation / Sebijan Fejzula

Chuck Collins on the IPS report "Silver spoon oligarchs: How America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality."

https://ips-dc.org/report-americas-wealth-dynasties-2021/

On dynastic wealth in America / Chuck Collins

(Un) universo (nace). Visualiza, escucha y va creciendo. (Este) universo (seres sintientes) van mutando su capacidad para ver, oír y percibir información en el tiempo. Y (ese) universo total, entero y sensible se encuentra absorbiendo la vida que tiene por delante, los lados, por arriba y por abajo. Y va mutando, va observando, va entendiendo y sigue escuchando.

Ya no es (un) universo sino (cosmos) de elementos, recuerdos, registros y encuentros nuevos. De paisajes visuales y sonoros; un campus infinito de belleza y horrores que transpora en (elle) como maleta, recorre y explora lo desconocido para seguir (creciendo).

Sonidos y paisajes sonoros de Mar del Plata, grabaciones de zorzales colorados y benteveos en Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fotografía: Damián Alférez 
Edición: María Emilia Pérez

#paisajesonoro #deeplistening #womeninsounds #fieldrecordist #fieldrecording #soundart #contemporaryarts #soundscape #environment #mardelplata #buenosaires #argentina #ambient

(Un) universo (nace)/ Paisaje sonoro de Buenos Aires y Mar del Plata.

Neil Vallelly on his book "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" from MIT Press.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/futilitarianism

The futilitarian condition / Neil Vallelly

Schallfeld Ensemble
Conductor: Leonhard Garms
Recorded on 17.08.2021 at KUG, Theater im Palais, Graz, as part of impuls Festival (www.impuls.cc) - Schallfeld Ensemble as Ulysses Network Young Ensemble in Residence, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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Elisa Azzarà - flute
Szilárd Benes - clarinet
Diego García Pliego - saxophone
Maria Flavia Cerrato - piano
Lorenzo Derinni - violin
Myriam García Fidalgo - cello
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka – double bass
Leonhard Garms - conductor

Recorded on 17.08.2021 at KUG, Theater im Palais, Graz, as part of impuls Festival (www.impuls.cc) - Schallfeld Ensemble as Ulysses Network Young Ensemble in Residence, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

It - Franck Bedrossian

Director of the Tricontinental Institute For Social Research, author of Washington Bullets, and trained mime Vijay Prashad joins the boys to talk mass movements in India and how to find hope in your politics. We also listen to that Madison Cawthorn abortion speech everyone was so mad about.

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Clown Politics w/ Vijay Prashad

Max Liboiron on their article "Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion" for Nature Geoscience.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00861-7

On science and colonialism / Max Liboiron

Writer David Dayen on his article "The Great Escape" for The American Prospect, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen picks egg over chicken.

https://prospect.org/labor/great-escape-why-workers-quitting-pandemic-trauma/

Why workers quit working / David Dayen

On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how Joe Manchin took his war on workers to new lows over the weekend as he announced on Fox News that he was pulling out of negotiations with the White House over the “Build Back Better” social programs. But these negotiations have long been a farce. From the beginning, Biden pursued a ridiculous strategy, praising Manchin in public instead of building pressure and offering concession after concession. Now the situation has reached an impasse that only mass struggle can break.

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can check out his work at rdwolff.com.

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Manchin is the Symptom, Capitalism is the Disease

Each generation must encounter the Communist Manifesto anew, deciphering Marx and Engels’ text for their own era. So what gives this short book its enduring power? In his new book A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto, China Miéville explains how its various facets – being part political treatise, part gothic literature, and part spell to bring about a different reality – continue to act upon the world. 

The author of The City & The City joins Ash Sarkar to discuss sadism, sci-fi, blockchain utopias, Lord of the Rings and the politics of Sally Rooney's fiction.

On science and colonialism / Max Liboiron

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