I spend the hour with long-time professor of political economy, Terry Flynn, mostly trying to understand the nature of the precipice we're standing on in the US at the moment.

Our landlord doesn't read my letters, as far as we know, but it feels like it's only fair to write a letter each month, if we're not going to be paying the rent.

Fra interviewed me for a piece he's working on, and I recorded the interview, so I thought I'd share it. I think I was fairly coherent, if I don't say so myself.

My best effort to describe the current precipice we're on, in 2,000 words, with a song at the end.

Here's the fourteenth open mic in the pandemic series.

I livestreamed a concert, with commentary, from my living room yesterday, here in southeast Portland, Oregon.  It was ostensibly a fundraiser for an album project, working title:  Pandemic Sessions.

I spend the hour with filmmaker and activist, Elsa Rassbach, who joins us from Berlin, Germany.  Her award-winning film, the Killing Floor, originally released in 1984, has just been restored and re-released via filmmovement.com.

I spend the hour with musician, professor and author, Will Kaufman, who has written three books on the life and times of Woody Guthrie, along with many other books and articles.

Chris Cook hosts a longstanding and excellent show on CFUV Radio in Victoria, BC, and he had me on for the hour.

We spend the hour with regular Fifth Estate contributor Eric Laursen. co-founder of the NYC Anarchist Book Fair and author of many books, including Understanding the Crash, about the economic crash of 2008.