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Marshall Auerback is a fellow of Economists for Peace and Security. A global portfolio strategist for the Denver-based investment group Madison Street Partners, LLC, he has over 28 years’ experience in investment management. Since 2003, he has been a consulting economist for PIMCO, and until July 2010 was a global portfolio strategist for fund manager RAB Capital PLC. From 1983 to 1987, Auerback was an investment manager at GT Management (Asia) Limited in Hong Kong, where he focused on the markets of Hong Kong, the ASEAN countries (Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand), New Zealand, and Australia. From 1988 to 1991, he was based in Tokyo, where his Pacific Rim expertise was broadened to include the Japanese stock market. From 1992 to 1995, Auerback managed an emerging markets’ hedge fund for the Tiedemann Investment Group in New York, and from 1996 to 1999 he served as an international economics strategist for Veneroso Associates. From 1999 to 2002, he managed the Prudent Global Fixed Income Fund for David W. Tice & Associates, a USVI-based investment management firm. Auerback graduated in English and philosophy from Queen’s University in 1981 and received a law degree from Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, in 1983.

Sarah Lahm is a Minneapolis-based writer and researcher. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The Progressive, where she writes the Midwest Dispatch column and contributes pieces to the Public School Shakedown site. Previously, she taught composition and literature courses to college students before pausing to travel the back roads of Minnesota in a restored 1969 International school bus. Since then, she's been covering progressive social movements in the Minneapolis region. 

 

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This week, Vince and Sergio discuss the recent presidential debates, the normalization of despair, religion, and the Supreme Court of the United States. 

 

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Natasha Erskine is a native of Chicago's South Side. During her senior year of high school, she enlisted in the US Air Force and would go on to spend 20 years on active duty, retiring in 2016. Natasha is a proud mother of a high school senior and currently works in public education advocacy. Natasha is also a member of Veterans For Peace, a national antiwar veterans organization based in the United States. 

 

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Christian Parenti is an Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. His undergraduate and graduate teaching, and research, focus on American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change, and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His books include 'Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder,' (Verso, 2020); 'Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence,' (Nation Books, 2011); 'The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq,' (The New Press, 2004); 'The Soft Cage: Surveillance from Slavery to the War on Terror,' (Basic Books, 2003); and 'Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis' (1999/2008, Verso). Previously, as a journalist, he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review Books, The New York Times, and various other publications.

 

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Christian Parenti is an Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. His undergraduate and graduate teaching, and research, focus on American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change, and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His books include 'Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder,' (Verso, 2020); 'Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence,' (Nation Books, 2011); 'The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq,' (The New Press, 2004); 'The Soft Cage: Surveillance from Slavery to the War on Terror,' (Basic Books, 2003); and 'Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis' (1999/2008, Verso). Previously, as a journalist, he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review Books, The New York Times, and various other publications.

 

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Michael Albert is an American economist, speaker, writer, and political critic. Since the late 1970s, he has published books, articles, and other contributions on a wide array of subjects. He is known for helping to develop the socioeconomic theory of participatory economics. In 1965, Albert was studying physics at MIT, where Albert met long-time friend and collaborator, Noam Chomsky. Albert publicly objected to the US military's funding of the university. This, along with the civil rights movement, led Albert to become politically active. He became a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and opposed the Vietnam War. He was expelled from MIT, in January 1970, for disruptive behavior, although he claimed the charges were 'cooked-up'. Albert founded South End Press in 1977 along with Lydia Sargent and Juliet Schor, among others. In 1987, Albert founded Zeta Magazine with Sargent. The magazine focused on libertarian and anarchist socialist thought. It was renamed Z Magazine in 1989. In 1990–91, Albert and Robin Hahnel worked on outlining their ideas around participatory economics. They published 'Looking Forward' and 'The Political Economy of Participatory Economics,' with the latter including an economic model of the system. By 1995, the organization Z Magazine had branched out providing online content and media training. Along with the magazine the ventures are collectively known as Z Communications. In 2003, 'Parecon: Life After Capitalism' was published further outlining participatory economics in a more accessible, less academic format. The book was translated into 20 languages. Albert was a founding member of the International Organization for a Participatory Society, in 2012. Sean Michael Wilson created a comic book based on Albert and his ideas in 2013. His latest book, 'Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society,' was published in 2017. Albert is the co-founder of 'C20,' a group of activists, scholars, and writers from around the world who write under the pseudonym, 'Collective 20.' 

 

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Kim Scipes is a former elected Chicago Chapter Chair and long-time member of the National Writers Union, UAW #1981.  He’s previously been a member of the Graphic Communications International Union, the National Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers.  He lives and works in Northwest Indiana, teaching at Purdue University Northwest for the past 16 years.  He has published three books, and over 225 articles and book reviews, mostly on labor, in the US, and around the world.  His latest book, Building Global Labor Solidarity:  Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States, will be published late this summer. His writings–many with links to the original article–can be accessed at https://faculty.pnw.edu/kim-scipes/publications/#2 

 

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Bridget Meehan is based in Ireland and is a community activist and public policy researcher. She is co-founder of Our Money, the campaign for a mutual bank in the north of Ireland, and co-founder of Collaboration for Change, a network of progressive activists across Ireland. She is also a member, along with Vince, of the writing group 'Collective No. 20.' Collective No. 20 is a group of writers being assembled who are located in different geographical regions throughout the globe. Some young, some older; some long-time activists and writers, others just getting started, but all equally dedicated to providing analysis, vision, and strategy useful for winning a vastly better society than we currently endure. The members of Collective No. 20 hope their contributions concerning social, political, economic, and ecological issues will generate more useful content and better outreach through a collective publication effort as opposed to individuals doing so on their own. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIA Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_Emanuele Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.faceboo

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a talk show host, writer, activist, and trade unionist. He is the executive editor of The Global African Worker, a co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of 'Solitary Divided,' and the author of 'They’re Bankrupting Us–Twenty Other Myths about Unions.' Bill is one of the leading voices on the American Left and has been working with social movements and unions for the past four decades. 

 

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