This Is Hell!

Former FBI special agent Michael German on his report "Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement" for The Brennan Center.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law

Anthropologist David Graeber's three interviews on This Is Hell!, talking about fun, bureaucracy and bullshit jobs. RIP David.

The Transnational Institute's Niamh Ni Bhriain on the crises of capital and Covid-19 under the global external border regime, and her article "The deadly politics of colonial borders under COVID-19" for ROAR.

https://roarmag.org/essays/colonial-borders-covid-19/

Anthropologist Wade Davis on his article "The Unraveling of America" for Rolling Stone, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen is ready for action... later.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206

Historian Rick Perlstein on modern American conservatism's realignment around Ronald Reagan, and his new book "Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980" from Simon & Schuster.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Reaganland/Rick-Perlstein/9781476793054

Historian Edward Onaci on his book "Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State" from UNC Press.

Chuck vacation monologue

Christian Parenti on police and prisons in the US [13:00]

Andreas Toupedakis on quitting nuclear weapons work [48:14]

Joyce Horman remembers the 1973 Chilean coup d'etat [1:13:23]

Manuel Calahan from Accion Zapatista [1:45:18]

Christopher Hitchens on the lies of Bill Clinton [2:22:21]

Vernon Bellecourt from the American Indian Network [3:07:35]

Jon Sinclair from the MC5 [incomplete 3:48:00]

Inequality.org's Sarah Anderson on the political and economic crises hitting the US Postal Service, and her recent article "USPS Needs Financial Aid to Continue Providing Essential Services" for Inequality.org, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen publishes the Rotten Egg Manifesto.

Historian David Broder on the right's multi-decade rise to power in Italian politics and his book "First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy" from Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2974-first-they-took-rome

Organizers Andi W. and Promise Li on the Hong Kong protest movement, the case for solidarity from the transnational left, and their article "Left on an Island" for Tempest.

https://www.tempestmag.org/2020/08/solidarity-with-hong-kong/