Wake up babe, new DinDeng series dropped.Come enter the stream with Samai and Dinali as they give an overview on the nexus between their interpretations of Buddhist Dharma and Materialist/Marxist philosophy.Consider this the pilot episode, and in future, they'll break down the topics mentioned in more detail in dedicated episodes - so DONT be concerned by the length and bredth of the ep :)

Breath in, Breath outDisclaimer: Dhamma is addictive please attain enlightenment responsiblySathu Website Dinali mentioned: mctb.org

www.dindeng.com

We compare notes on living and breathing ancient communism with Marcus from Return of the Repressed.

For the full Maniq episode go to Counterinsurgency 5.

I also thought adding some pictures from the book I'm currently translating and those I took of Speaker Kai might be nice.. Here you go:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1t8fUhOkk0836ixxWx1yvjtlmzdB9E_vG?usp=drive_link

www.dindeng.com

It's Vijay. What else can we say..?

Author of The Darker Nations, Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, Struggle Makes Us Human, The Poorer Nations, Arab Spring Libyan Winter, No Free Left, The Karma of Brown Folks and about a dozen other titles.

Not to mention his work as the executive-director of Tricontinental, editor of LeftWord Books, Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter, and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.

Finally, most importantly, of course, editor of our forthcoming book Ghosts of the Red Soil.

Also, if you havent already, sign up to his newsletter.

https://thetricontinental.org/newsletter/

www.dindeng.com

Samai is getting clean and, as such, takes the reigns as we once again revisit Plerng Phue Chiwit, Music for Life, Art for Life and Socialist Realism for the upteenth time. It's a good one though, really. This is kind of a part 2 for episode 46 Trap and Thalugaz.

www.dindeng.com

The Kongsi - Chinese Secret Societies and The Kongsi Republics of Western Borneo. We're joined by Yvonne Tan of Jentayu to talk about them. Pretty cool no?

https://pusatsejarahrakyat.org/events/psr-webinar-narrating-the-chinese-kongsi-unraveling-the-moral-economy-in-overseas-chinese-communities-during-colonial-expansion/

We met Thaksin. For real. We bring out friend Ton on to talk about it, also Ton went to jail recently so we chatted about that too.

This one is for the real Thai deep politics pilled heads only to be honest. If you're not that, maybe give it a skip sorry. We talk about the Thai left and the Thai Left. I know right.

https://www.samudra.dindeng.com/the-big-left/

He's back. We're back. He's been busy, we've been busy. We talk about village medicine.

https://www.samudra.dindeng.com/post-colonial-medicine/

Forest fires, the call of the mountain, more flak and the future.

https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/⁠

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All music we used can be found in this playlist.⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820⁠

Welcome to mythbusters, where we're busting myths. Sugarcane, rice, slash and burn, crossborder smoke. B-b-b-busted.

Hotspot readings: 22/04/2024

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jee2Qqb_gB09U0D87jf-HhU0JCUMjNwJ/view?usp=sharing

https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/

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All music we used can be found in this playlist.