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Saturday morning's complete radio broadcast, four hours, unedited - uploaded Saturday afternoons.
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Journalist Colin Kinniburgh on his article "Can Extinction Rebellion Survive?" for Dissent / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen dissects a human millipede. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/can-extinction-rebellion-survive
Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher on their book "The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/books/3149-the-conservation-revolution PLUS: Chuck visits the mall, and this week in Rotten History...
Writer and researcher Samuel Woolley on his book "The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth" from PublicAffairs, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen vets the DNC's savior. https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/samuel-woolley/the-reality-game/9781541768253/
1124: AMLO's first year.

1124: AMLO's first year.

2020-02-0501:01:56

International studies scholar Humberto Beck on the Dissent article "Year One of AMLO’s Mexico." https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/year-one-of-amlos-mexico
Sociologist Josh Seim on the work of paramedics under neoliberal precarity and his book "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300231/bandage-sort-and-hustle
Political economist Martín Arboleda on the globalized system of resource extraction and economic imperialism, and his book "Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism" https://www.versobooks.com/books/3078-planetary-mine PLUS: Chuck falls off the Trump Unity Bridge, and this week in Rotten History...
Architect Stephanie Carlisle on the building industry's role producing climate change, and her article "I’ve been polluting the planet for years. I’m not an oil exec—I’m an architect" for Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/90435650/these-are-the-last-years-of-design-as-we-know-it PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen beholds the elder gods of American politics.
Civil Society and Community Studies scholar Jennifer Gaddis on the politics of school lunch programs in America, and her book “The Labor of Lunch Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools” from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520300033/the-labor-of-lunch#about-author
1119: Capitalism in Space.

1119: Capitalism in Space.

2020-01-2801:02:08

Journalist Peter Ward on capitalism’s push to space, the future of exploitation, accumulation and the rest of us on planet Earth, and his book “The Consequential Frontier: Challenging the Privatization of Space” from Melville House. https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-consequential-frontier/ PLUS: Chuck watches a newscast collapse time.
Historian Vincent Brown on the geopolitics of the transatlantic slave trade and its resistance movements, seeing our history (and our present) beyond borders, and his book “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” from Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737570 PLUS: Chuck reads the news you didn’t, and this week in Rotten History.
Sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard on her book "Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action" from Rutgers University Press. PLUS: In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen stops breathing in 2020. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195
Intercept journalist Sharon Lerner on the right's gutting of toxic chemical regulations and her article "The War on the War on Cancer" https://theintercept.com/2020/01/12/cancer-trump-administration-epa-carcinogens-regulations/
Journalist Kim Baca reports on the work of a Native American coalition to build tribal food sovereignty. [Rebroadcast Interview] / PLUS: Chuck beefs with a Central Illinois letter to the editor writer, and this week in Rotten History.
Sociologist Adaner Usmani on his paper "The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration" for Catalyst Journal. https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no3/the-economic-origins-of-mass-incarceration PLUS: Chuck can't get high after not talking about his show.
Historian Maria Ryan explores the rise of irregular warfare in the 21st century, and her book “Full Spectrum Dominance: Irregular Warfare and the War on Terror” from Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27429 PLUS: Chuck wonders who the Clintons were triangulating with on immigration.
Journalist Daniel Denvir on the rise of anti-immigrant politics on the right and center, and his book "All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It" from Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism PLUS: Chuck visits the future, and this week in Rotten History.
Writer Alex Niven on the non-state of British politics, the promise of regional devolution, and his book “New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England” from Repeater Books. https://repeaterbooks.com/product/new-model-island-how-to-build-a-radical-culture-beyond-the-idea-of-england/ PLUS: Listener Feedback
Anthropologist Maggie Dickinson on food assistance, poverty and her book Feeding the Crisis Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net from University of California Press. PLUS: Chuck flips through the NRA’s official magazine before turning the gun on himself, and Question From Hell.
Theorist Albena Azmanova explores the new realities of precarity capitalism, the failures of class struggle and her book "Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia" from Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/capitalism-on-edge/9780231195379 PLUS: Chuck passes on legal weed and the week in Rotten History.
Sociologist Brendan McQuade on his book "Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Supervision" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen attends the theater of trauma.
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