Coming From Left Field (Video)

Tariq Ali is a writer, activist, and longtime public intellectual.  He has authored many books and is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review. He contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.

His most recent book is a critical review that exposes Churchill’s leadership in the context of forgotten Imperial crimes.

Book:

“Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes” with Tariq Ali

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3971-winston-churchill

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Stansfield Smith is a member of Chicago ALBA Solidarity, formerly the Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5.  Stansfield is a long-time anti-war activist and opposed U.S. interference over the years in Latin America.  He is a prolific writer, and his works have appeared in publications such as CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, MLToday, Black Agenda, CovertAction Magazine, and MultiPolarisia.

Links:

https://tinyurl.com/yjpschj3

Part 2: Behind the Decline of the US Left  (Nov 28, 2022):

https://tinyurl.com/9f63ta9n

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Andy Campbell, the Senior Editor of Huffington Post, joined us today to discuss his book, “We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism .” Andy is considered an expert on American extremism, having covered the modern rise of the far-right at the ground level, including the neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Are-Proud-Boys-Right-Wing-Extremism/dp/0306827468 

Andy Campbell articles in Huff Post:

https://www.huffpost.com/author/andy-campbell 

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Today’s guest is an American poet, writer, scholar, and Vietnam veteran.  Bill (W.D.) Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." His activism in the form of his prolific literary work has been featured in numerous articles, books, periodicals, and even Ken Burns’ documentary, The Vietnam War.

Links:

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/?s=W.+D.+Ehrhart&search_id=product&post_type=product

W.D. Ehrhart Articles in the LA Progressive |Jun 2014 to Nov 2022:

Webpage:

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Our guest today is an award-winning New York Times best-selling historian Adam Hochschild to discuss his book, “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.” Adam Hochschild is a prominent historian, author of eleven books, and a co-founder, editor, and writer at Mother Jones magazine.

Links:

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/american-midnight-adam-hochschild?variant=40001056014370

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Our guests today are Joe Jamison (pen name: Thomas Kenny) and Roger Keeran, authors of “Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union.”  Although written two decades ago, it remains the definitive expose of what led to the overthrow of the Soviet Union. With the recent death of Mikhail Gorbachev, their book is especially relevant, providing a clear and insightful analysis of this historic event.

Links:

“Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union”:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/socialism-betrayed-behind-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-roger-keeran/7617565

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Our guest today is Kathryn Joyce, an investigative reporter at Salon. She recently authored a three-part series: ‘The war on public schools is being fought from Hillsdale College,” which focuses on a private Christian school playing an outsized role in nearly all our current fights about education.

Hillsdale is a “feeder school” for the Trump administration, its leadership directed Trump’s “patriotic education” 1776 Commission. Their lecture series and related magazine are the place where right-wing politicians and thinkers go to pilot their most ambitious ideas.

Links:

“The war on public schools is being fought from Hillsdale College”:

Kathryn Joyce website (articles and books):

Political Research Associates Articles – Ben Lorber Research Analyst: https://politicalresearch.org/bio/ben-lorber

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Our guest today is Dan Canon, a civil rights lawyer, teacher, and author of "Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class."  His book is a searing analysis of America’s assembly-line approach to criminal justice and the shameful practice at its core: the plea bargain.

Canon is also known as counsel for Kentucky and Indiana plaintiffs in the landmark cases successfully supporting changes in marriage equality laws.

Links:

Dan’s book:

“Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class”:

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Our guest today is Dan Kovalik, a prolific author of many books on Latin America.  He sheds light on the “pink tide,” the trend of numerous self-proclaimed socialist democracies moving away from neoliberal authoritarian regimes.

Links:

• Dan Kovalik Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Kovalik

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Our guest today, Eddie Smith, is a political scientist with expertise in anti-imperialism and socialist projects. He is co-host of the popular podcast, Midwestern Marx, which has over 24,000 subscribers. Today we discuss Michael Parenti’s classic, Blackshirts & Reds, and other topics regarding class, capitalism, and contemporary Marxism.

Links:

• Midwestern Marx YouTube: (https://www.youtube.com/c/MidwesternMarx/ )

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