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July 13, 2021 Weekends: Latin America's Fight Against Imperialism and Neoliberalism w/ Greg Grandin
Well over a century of US intervention has shaped Latin America in disastrous ways. Historian Greg Grandin discusses that history, and the region's ongoing fight against imperialism and neoliberalism.
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from July 10, 2021, with Paul Prescod filling in for Ana.
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2 hr 4 min
July 12, 2021 Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: Haiti in Crisis w/ Frantz Voltaire
Suzi talks to Frantz Voltaire, Haitian historian, filmmaker, and publisher, about the chaotic situation in Haiti. President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated at his home in the middle of the night on July 7 by men wearing DEA uniforms, some speaking Spanish and English. A hit squad of Colombian attackers have been arrested along with two Haitian Americans, but everything is murky about the assassination. The country was already in a political and constitutional crisis with both a non-functioning Parliament and Judiciary — and that crisis has now greatly increased with two different men claiming interim authority, while armed gangs fight to command the streets. Some Haitian officials have called for US military assistance, while others are adamantly opposed to more outside intervention whether by the US, UN, or aid groups. We get Frantz Voltaire's understanding of the current situation, how and why the assassination took place, the political-economic context from which it arose, and what we can now expect to happen.
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57 min
July 12, 2021 Behind the News: Economic Reform in China w/ Isabella Weber
Doug speaks with Isabella Weber, author of How China Escaped Shock Therapy, on Chinese economic reform debates and how the country dodged post-Soviet-style collapse.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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54 min
July 10, 2021 A World to Win: Imperial Nostalgia w/ Peter Mitchell
This week, Grace speaks to Peter Mitchell, author of Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves, which considers how the memory of empire continues to inflect British culture and politics.
They discuss how imperial nostalgia manifests itself in our politics today, the role of the Labour Party in supporting these trends, and how the Left should respond to emotive calls for a return to a better age.
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46 min
July 09, 2021 Jacobin Show: Against Elon Musk, For Scientific Socialism w/ Leigh Phillips
Jacobin contributor and science writer Leigh Phillips joins us to discuss why socialists should embrace technological innovation and what science might look like if it were freed from the profit motive.
Every Wednesday at 6 PM ET, The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from July 7, 2021 with Paul Prescod and Cale Brooks hosting.
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1 hr 39 min
July 09, 2021 Michael and Us: Conquest of the Useless
The classic documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982) captures director Werner Herzog as he's mounting the most ambitious feat of his career: attempting to haul a literal steamship over a literal mountain for his film Fitzcarraldo. We discuss how this legendary saga of directorial megalomania in a world where directorial megalomania has gone out of fashion. PLUS: the complicated reasons why there are no nice things in American politics.
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50 min
July 08, 2021 Primer: On the Shop Floor
Part II of our look at Amazon in Europe. We speak to Magda Malinovska and Agnieszka Mroz, both of whom work in an Amazon warehouse in Poznan, Poland.
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27 min
July 06, 2021 Weekends: Miami Condo Disaster, Hustle Culture, and America's Radical Past w/ Harvey Kaye
Professor Harvey J. Kaye joined us for Independence Day weekend to discuss how to disentangle America's radical past from its failings to provide for the needs of most laboring people. We also discussed the completely avoidable tragedy of a condominium collapse in Miami and the pervasiveness of "hustle culture" on social media.
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from July 3, 2021.
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2 hr 12 min
July 06, 2021 Michael and Us: Enemy at the Gaetz
The HBO documentary THE SWAMP (2020) follows three "maverick" Republican congressmen who seek to fulfill Donald Trump's promise to "drain the swamp," even if that means alienating their party leaders. But what you really need to know about this documentary is that the main one is Matt Gaetz, and he is a huge doofus. PLUS: thoughts on Canada Day, Alex Gibney's Agents of Chaos, and a look back at the media coverage of the War in Iraq.
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56 min
July 04, 2021 Behind the News: How White Men Won the Culture Wars
Doug speaks with Joseph Darda, author of How White Men Won the Culture Wars, on the role of the Vietnam vet in establishing white identity. Plus: Joshua Adams, author of this article, on the critical race theory controversy.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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53 min

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