Podcast appearances and mentions of Naomi Klein

Johann Hari is a New York Times bestselling author whose five books have sold more than two million copies in 40 languages. His acclaimed works include Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, Chasing the Scream and Magic Pill, exploring issues ranging from attention and mental health to addiction and obesity. His TED Talks have been viewed more than 93 million times, and Chasing the Scream was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Hari also served as Executive Producer of an eight-part television series with Samuel L. Jackson. His work has been praised by figures including Oprah Winfrey, Noam Chomsky, Elton John and Naomi Klein. A former journalist, Johann has written for many of the world's leading publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, The Spectator and Le Monde Diplomatique. He has appeared on major broadcast and podcast platforms including NPR's All Things Considered, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, The Joe Rogan Experience and the BBC's Question Time. Johann has twice been named National Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International and has also received Comment Awards for Cultural Commentator of the Year and Environmental Commentator of the Year.Johann Hari is our guest in episode 587 of My Time Capsule and he chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he'd like to preserve and one he'd like to bury and never have to think about again .For Johann's book, visit - https://johannhari.com .Follow Johann Hari on Instagram: @johann.hari .Visit our website! - https://mytimecapsulepodcast.com .Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter/X & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter/X: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people .To support this podcast and get all episodes ad-free, please sign up here - https://mytimecapsule.supercast.com. All money goes straight into the making of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tucker Carlson has emerged as one of the most influential voices opposing the U.S. relationship to Israel. He's also anti-Trump. So is he your friend now? Today, the inimitable Naomi KIein makes her A Bit Fruity debut to explain the Right's burgeoning realignment, why the Republican successor to Trump could be so much scarier (sorry), and how an inept Liberal establishment made the rise of an antisemitic nationalist movement inevitable. And, of course, what we can do. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today's sponsors! Sleep and dream well! Visit https://helixsleep.com/fruity to take advantage of their Memorial Day Sale exclusive partner offer — that's 27% off sitewide. Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity.  Naomi is currently platformless, but please preorder her forthcoming book, End Times Fascism. It will be brilliant. Also, read Doppelganger. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

这期节目，我想分享一位在华语世界或许略显小众，但绝对值得你用心聆听的伟大音乐人——ANOHNI（曾以 Antony and the Johnsons 的名字为人所知）。她的声音横跨了男女音域，带着一种极具辨识度的颤音。那是一种被世界狠狠拒绝过，却依然试图温柔拥抱世界的频率。她的声音像祈祷，也像伤口。它唱童年里没有位置的孤独，唱跨性别者对身体与灵魂合一的渴望，唱被河流带走的酷儿前辈，也唱正在消失的动物、树木、雪与地球。从一个在教堂和学校里找不到座位的跨性别孩子，到纽约东村地下俱乐部的前卫剧场；从凭借《I Am a Bird Now》拿下水星音乐奖，到用电子乐向气候危机与父权体制发出尖锐抗议。ANOHNI 的音乐轨迹，是一部从私密悲伤走向宏大史诗的生命线。我们常常把人生过成了一场寻找“标准答案”的巨大考试。当你发现自己的存在、你的真实感受与这个世界期待的“正确答案”背道而驰时，那种苦痛该如何度过？或许，你能从 ANOHNI 的故事里找到答案。她一路唱的，其实是人如何在被伤害之后，依然保留爱，最终把自己活成一条通往他人的路。如果你也曾感到自己不属于这里，如果你也曾在人群中感到格格不入，希望这期节目能为你造一间安全的房间，也为你带来直面真实感受的勇气。

"We carefully cultivate online personas - doubles of our 'real' selves - that have just the right balance of sincerity and world weariness." - Stine deelt een levenswijsheid van schrijver Naomi Klein. 

Martyr Loser King, the debut graphic novel of poet, musician, actor and director Saul Williams, with art by Morgan Sorne, not only exists in the same world as his feature film Neptune Frost, but also that of three of his albums, one of his poetry collections and a touring dance performance called The Motherboard Suite. All of these works, in their respective disciplines, explore the distribution of power, the intersection of technology and race, and how our digitally-mediated lives are sustained by the crudest and cruelest of analog exploitations. In Martyr Loser King we follow two Central African protagonists—a miner of coltan, the trace mineral that powers our smart phones and laptops, and an intersex hacker with designs on the system extracting wealth from their country and people. To borrow words from Saul’s song and poem “Coltan as Cotton,” in today’s conversation we hack into land rights and ownership, faith and morality, masculinity, femininity and sexuality. We hack into the rebellious gene, the storyboard, and the history of revolutions. We hack into the database and the panel marked “survival.” If you enjoy today’s conversation consider joining the Between the Covers community as a listener-supporter. One of the many benefits and rewards you can choose from is access to the bonus audio archive, with contributions from everyone from Dionne Brand to Isabella Hammad, N.K. Jemisin to Danez Smith, Naomi Klein to Viet Thanh Nguyen. You can find out more at the show’s Patreon page. Finally, here is the BookShop for today’s conversation.

In this episode we speak with three organizers of the United Jewish Peoples Order (UJPO) to explore their organization's storied century-long history, and its present work as a community organization committed to developing secular socialist Jewish life in Toronto (and Canada more broadly) through educational, cultural and social events and programs.Join UJPO, Naomi Klein and others on June 11th for UJPO's Centennial Celebration (Available virtually and in person)Follow the UJPO on instagram!Subscribe to our shared YouTube channelFollow us on InstagramIf you like the work we're doing here, please consider supporting us on Patreon!Big thank you to Aly Halpert for continuing to allow us to use her music!

One of the elements that makes Molly Crabapple’s latest book so remarkable is, not only the remarkable stories it unearths and retells, but more specifically how she tells these stories, these erased stories, these stories meant to be forgotten. Not only does she tell them in a dynamic, often thrilling, way, she also does so in a way that somehow opens up the history and gifts it to contemporary movements, organizers and their artists. You can feel how alive to the moment Molly’s book of history is in the words of everyone who praises it. Whether Naomi Klein calling it a “gripping, human story of love, idealism and betrayal” or Tareq Baconi “a road map for our revolution today” and we explore this together—how to write, in whatever genre, in a way that offers one’s work to anti-colonial movements of liberation. A great conversation to pair today’s with is the recent episode with Jordy Rosenberg, who asks many of these same questions, but within the realm of fiction. After Jordy and my conversation had aired, Jordy sent me a second contribution to the bonus audio archive, a reading of the Palestinian writer and performance artist Fargo Tbakhi’s “Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide.” This joins many contributions from past guests whether from Naomi Klein, Dionne Brand, Isabella Hammad, or Omar El Akkad. You can check out all the potential rewards and benefits of joining the Between the Covers community, including access to the bonus audio archive, at the show’s Patreon page. Finally here is the BookShop for today.

In 1999 publiceerde de Canadese schrijfster Naomi Klein haar boek 'No logo', een felle kritiek op neoliberalisme, mondialisering, massacultuur en uitbuiting. Daartegenover plaatst Klein: kleinschaligheid, zelfbeschikking en rebellie. De afgelopen decennia groeide het boek uit tot een bijbel voor de antiglobalistische beweging. Voor auteur Marian Donner blijft het een zeer inspirerend boek.

As right-wing streamers like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have become more outspoken against Israel and against Zionist influence in American politics, their content has found new audiences online, even in a Palestine movement traditionally more associated with the left. Though the fracture on the right around Israel is a welcome development, the anti-Israel right's racist, misogynist, anti-trans, anti-immigrant, and antisemitic views raise questions about how the left should relate to this development, and what it can offer instead.On this episode of On the Nose, Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with Izz al-Din Mustafa, co-executive director of the Palestinian-led advocacy organization Adalah Justice Project, and Stefanie Fox, executive director at Jewish Voice for Peace, about whether the ubiquity of right-wing anti-Israel voices online was showing up in their face-to-face organizing. They discuss the perils and opportunities created by the growing popularity of conservative anti-Israel voices, the importance of IRL organizing, and how the left might reclaim the conversation. Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Media Mentioned and Further ReadingAdalah Justice ProjectJewish Voice for Peace“The Bondi Memo's Quiet Rewriting of Domestic Terrorism Rules,” Thomas E. Brzozowski, Lawfare“Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk,” David Ingram, NBC News“Meta's Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” Human Rights Watch“Joe Kent's Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis Was Faulty,” Peter Beinart, Jewish Currents“American Evangelicals' Declining Support for Israel,” Jonathan Kuttab, Arab Center Washington DCChristians for a Free Palestine“We need an exodus from Zionism,” Naomi Klein, The Guardian“MAGA Catholics In Revolt,” On the Nose“The Democratic Party debate over Hasan Piker is really a fight over Palestine's new place in U.S. politics,” Walter Lucken IV, Mondoweiss“Why do elite Democrats fear Hasan Piker?” Bhaskar Sunkara, The GuardianTranscript forthcoming.

» Lees dit nummer online Met onder andere: » Alle Zwitsers kunnen ondergronds overleven » De aanstelling van Irans derde opperste leider » De omgekeerde wereld: AI huurt mensen in Xenia Gastvrijheid staat in veel culturen hoog aangeschreven. Het oude Griekenland kende xenia: de band tussen gast en gastheer, die Zeus persoonlijk beschermde. Volgens Arabische tradities moet een vreemdeling minstens drie dagen worden verzorgd, zonder vragen. In India leeft het idee Atithi Devo Bhava: de gast is goddelijk. En in Japan houdt omotenashi in dat je anticipeert op de behoeften van de gast, zonder dat deze ze hoeft uit te spreken. Filippo Grandi, voormalig Hoge Commissaris van de VN voor de Vluchtelingen, noemt ‘asiel (…) een van de mooiste gebaren die de mensheid te bieden heeft'. In een reportage vanFinancial Times maakt hij de balans op van een decennialange carrière in het humanitaire veld. Migratie, zegt Grandi, is de prijs die je voor rijkdom betaalt. Of, zoals Naomi Klein het eens krachtig verwoordde: ‘Onze manier van leven is afhankelijk van andermans ellende.' Asiel is dan ook geen gunst, zoals de gast die vraagt, maar een recht, vastgelegd in het Vluchtelingenverdrag uit 1951, dat vanwege de aard van de wereldwijde problemen steeds weer moet worden bijgesteld. Migratie is de prijs die je voor rijkdom betaalt Niet iedereen denkt er zoals Grandi over, en het aantal ontheemden is in tien jaar tijd bijna verdubbeld. Ece Temelkuran, van wie we een fragment uit haar prachtige en intieme nieuwe boek Nation of Strangers publiceren, verliet Turkije in 2016 omdat ze gearresteerd kon worden wegens kritiek op Erdoğans regime, en woont momenteel in Hamburg. Ze spreekt niet van alt-right of extreemrechts, maar steevast van fascisme – een term die velen volgens haar vermijden omdat die hen eraan herinnert dat ze iets moeten doen. Als ontheemde gedraagt ze zich wenselijk. Bestond tussen haar en andere vluchtelingen de stilzwijgende overeenkomst om ‘zonder sentimenteel gedoe door te gaan met ons leven, wat mijn bevroren hart goed uitkwam', op de steeds terugkerende vragen van de Duitsers om haar heen heeft ze geleerd vrolijk te glimlachen, haar onverschilligheid te verbergen. En haar heimwee. Een van de schrijnendste gegevens uit de reportage met Grandi is dat, ondanks de grote ellende in het land, mensen uit omliggende landen toch naar Soedan vluchten. Ook keren veel gevluchte Soedanezen ondanks de gevaren terug. ‘De Soedanees is sentimenteel', aldus een van hen. Ondertussen worden in Omaha (het Amerikaanse Midwest) nieuwkomers verwelkomd om vergeten buurten nieuw leven in te blazen en trekt het Japanse dorp Shichikashuku migranten aan om de bevolkingsdaling af te remmen. Dat mag eigenbelang zijn, gastvrij is het wel.

While Trump made public statements this week about bringing the war to an end soon, there is significant troop movement in the Middle East suggesting the opposite. There is no telling what comes next, and there is no path to opening up the Strait of Hormuz without a huge escalation. Iran now has control over the Strait and who passes through, benefiting their allies and America's adversaries. Meanwhile higher energy prices won't go away when the war stops and if we get another dose of inflation - which tends to fuel political radicalization - can the centre hold? In the second half of the show Rudyard and Janice turn to the NDP and the election of Avi Lewis as the new party leader. He is moving the NDP further left, promising free public grocery stores and transportation. What is the appetite in Canada for this kind of hard-left politics? Can Lewis excite the public with the same energy that propelled Zohran Mamdani to victory in New York City? And are we underestimating the combination of Avi Lewis and his wife Naomi Klein as a powerful political force capable of reworking the NDP into a populist party? Become a Munk Donor ($50 annually) to get 72-hour advanced access to the full length editions of Friday Focus. Go to www.munkdebates.com to sign up.

Avi Lewis has won the leadership of Canada's NDP.Desmond Cole was live at the party's convention, talking about what this left turn means for the NDP's future with Naomi Klein, Matthew Green, Leah Gazan, and more. The Breach Show is our podcast featuring sharp analysis on politics and social movements in Canada. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Iheartradio, Youtube Music or your favourite service.____________________________________________________Want to see more videos like this? Become a sustaining member at https://breachmedia.ca/support-us/ An hour of your wages each month will fuel independent and progressive journalism, free of corporate agendas – and never behind a paywall.___________________________________________________________Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBreachMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebreachcommunity Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/breachmedia.ca TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebreachmedia

pWotD Episode 3253: Avi Lewis Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 142,187 views on Sunday, 29 March 2026 our article of the day is Avi Lewis.Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born May 1967) is a Canadian politician and former journalist who has served as leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2026. Raised in a political family, Lewis began his career in broadcasting, hosting several programs for Citytv, CBC News and Al Jazeera English including The NewMusic, CounterSpin, On the Map with Avi Lewis, The Big Picture with Avi Lewis, and Fault Lines. With his wife Naomi Klein, Lewis directed the documentaries The Take and This Changes Everything. Along with Klein and several other activists, Lewis launched the Leap Manifesto in 2015. Lewis was also an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and a lecturer at Rutgers University. Lewis first became involved in politics with the Leap Manifesto in the 2010s. He later ran as an NDP candidate in the 2021 and 2025 federal elections, placing third each time. He was elected the party's leader in March 2026 on the first ballot, with 56 per cent of the vote.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:31 UTC on Monday, 30 March 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Avi Lewis on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Bluesky at @wikioftheday.com.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Ayanda.

Today’s conversation with Jordy Rosenberg is many things but at its heart it explores the question of what it means to write revolutionary literature (or as Trotsky would call it “October literature”). Whether we are talking about trans horror or a Marxist surreal, the originating violence of early capitalism or writing toward utopian horizons; whether we are getting granular on the level of craft and form or looking more broadly at the role of art and artists, the question of how our writing can lend itself toward conjuring an elsewhere and otherwise is, I think, the animating force behind it all. Jordy’s provocative choices in his latest novel Night Night Fawn bring these questions urgently to the fore as it centers and is narrated by someone whose worldview Jordy strongly opposes. Night Night Fawn is an opioid-addled, deathbed rant by one Barbara Rosenberg, a transphobic Zionist woman modeled after Jordy’s own mother. Barbara holds court not only on her life’s disappointments, but on Marxism and gender delivered through her cracked lens. All while her greatest disappointment, her transgender son, who may or may not want to kill her, visits her at her bedside. What opportunities, challenges and dangers does this approach create for a writer with revolutionary aims? How can looking back at originary violences, within a family or a nation or an ideology, be a liberatory act? And when confronting structural or familial violence, what is the role of humor and satire? Perhaps it is best summed up by Book Page in its starred review when they say Night Night Fawn is “comedic fiction as political firepower.” For the bonus audio archive Jordy contributes a reading of Kay Gabriel & Andrea Abi-Karam’s “What is the Project of Trans Poetics Now?” This joins supplemental readings by Torrey Peters, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Rickey Laurentiis, Randa Abdel-Fattah, Isabella Hammad, Naomi Klein, Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, Layli Long Soldier, Natalie Diaz and many others. To learn how to subscribe to the bonus audio, and about the many other potential benefits and rewards of joining the Between the Covers community as a listener-supporter, head over to the show’s Patreon page. Finally, here is the BookShop for today. Given Jordy’s generous citational practice, it is more robust than most.

Naomi Klein saw where our politics was headed before most people on the left. Her 2023 book “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World” is hard to describe. But among other things, it traces the new coalitions Klein saw forming on the right, the ways they were co-opting issues long associated with the left, and finding huge audiences and influence outside existing institutions. The people and coalitions that Klein wrote about run our world now. We are all living in the mirror world. As she put it, it's “doppelgangers at the wheel.” So I wanted to have Klein on the show to help understand how that happened, what the left failed to see at the time and the lessons the left should take from it now. As Klein told me: “The thing about doppelgangers is, in literature, they're always a message telling you a warning: You have to look at yourself. There's something about yourself that you're not seeing.” Note: We recorded this episode before the war in Iran. Mentioned: Doppelganger by Naomi Klein No Logo by Naomi Klein “Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong” by Adam Serwer End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Book Recommendations: Empire of AI by Karen Hao Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple Fire Alarm by Michael Löwy Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Few figures in Canadian broadcasting spark debate like Don Cherry. Now, a push to see the former Coach's Corner star appointed to the Order of Canada—championed by voices in the Conservative Party of Canada, including MP Andrew Lawton and backed by Alberta premier Danielle Smith—is reigniting old arguments about one of the country's most polarizing personalities. Cherry is celebrated by supporters as a hockey icon and outspoken patriot, but critics point to years of controversial comments about immigrants, Indigenous people, and women in sports media—controversies that ultimately ended his run on Hockey Night in Canada. The proposal is already drawing criticism, including from Conservatives in Quebec, setting up a national debate: should a cultural lightning rod like Cherry receive one of Canada's highest honours? We get into it with Supriya Dwivedi (3:15) in our feature interview presented by Mercedes-Benz Edmonton West.  TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: talk@ryanjespersen.com  THIS EPISODE IS PRESENTED BY RapidEX FINANCIAL. THE CRYPTO WORLD MOVES FAST, BUT YOUR TRUST IN AN EXCHANGE SHOULDN'T BE A GAMBLE. RapidEX IS SECURE, FINTRAC-REGISTERED, AND NON-CUSTODIAL. SAVE 50% ON FEES ON ONLINE INTERAC E-TRANSFER TRADES WITH PROMO CODE RYAN50 AT https://rapidexfinancial.com/. MBEW: https://www.mercedes-benz-edmontonwest.ca/ 49:30 | Did you hear Manitoba premier Wab Kinew's comments about the war in Iran and the Epstein files? We get Supriya's take on it before covering MP Lori Idlout crossing the floor from the NDP to the Liberals (53:20), Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein poking fun at former Alberta cabinet minister Shannon Phillips (59:30), and Edmonton police chief Warren Driechel's controversial trip to Israel (1:05:00).  1:18:30 | Real Talkers chime in on Don Cherry's legacy in our Live Chat powered by Park Power.  SAVE on INTERNET, ELECTRICITY, and NATURAL GAS: https://parkpower.ca/realtalk 1:28:00 | We love stories like this! Real Talker Aubrie shares about Edson's Abilities Hockey Program in this week's Positive Reflections presented by Solar by Kuby.  SHARE YOUR POSITIVE REFLECTION: talk@ryanjespersen.com GET A FREE SOLAR QUOTE TODAY: https://kuby.ca/ FOLLOW US ON TIKTOK, X, INSTAGRAM, and LINKEDIN: @realtalkrj & @ryanjespersen  JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: @ryanjespersen  REAL TALK MERCH: https://ryanjespersen.com/merch RECEIVE EXCLUSIVE PERKS - BECOME A REAL TALK PATRON: patreon.com/ryanjespersen THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS! https://ryanjespersen.com/sponsors The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Relay Communications Group Inc. or any affiliates.

Arundhati Roy's first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize and made her an international household name. She has gone on to publish multiple acclaimed books—including The Ministry of Utmost Happiness—and to challenge injustices around the world as a prominent political and environmental activist. She joined us with her debut memoir, in conversation with award-winning author Naomi Klein. One of the best reviewed books of the year, Mother Mary Comes to Me is a soaring account of how Roy became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother.

Becky, Holly, Jakob, and Austin talk about books of the 2020s, trends in reading and publishing, our hopes for the future, and a couple of predictions for the next big thing. This reading data: https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump Books mentioned include: Spillover by David Quammen, The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, The Plague by Albert Camus, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez,  These Precious Days and Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, There is a Door in This Darkness by Kristin Cash ore, All Fours by Miranda July, Book Lovers by Emily Henry, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, What Were We Thinking by Carlos Lozada, Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen, Just Us by Claudia Rankine, The Trees by Percival Everett, Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette, Intimacies and A Separation by Katie Kitamura, Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Ducks by Kate Beaton, The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty, The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, The Most by Jessica Anthony, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, Autocracy Inc by Anne Applebaum, Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, Doppleganger by Naomi Klein, Detransition, Baby by Torry Peters, Woodworking by Emily St. James, Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan, Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks, Jesus Wept by Philip Shenon, Romney by McKay Coppins, Motherland by Julia Ioffe, The Gales of November by John U. Bacon, Murderland by Caroline Fraser, King of Kings by Scott Anderson, All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilberty, Challenger by Adam Higginbotham, More Everything Forever by Adam Becker, Red White and Whole by Rajani LaRocca, The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, Wanderhome by Jay Dragon, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, The House in the Cerulean sea by TJ Klune, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, The Women by Kristin Hannah, Dog Man series by Dav Pilkey,  The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, Alchemised by SenLinYu, Convent Wisdom by Ana Garriga and Carment Urbita, The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, Berry Song by Michaela Goade, Legendary Frybread Drive-In edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley, The Tragedy of True Crime by John J. Lennon, The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne,  We Tell Ourselves Stories by Alissa Wilkinson, Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik, Enshittification by Cory Doctorow, The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Back After This by Linda Holmes, The Caretaker by Ron Rash And authors Patricia Lockwood,  Claire Keegan, Rachel Kushner, Timothy Snyder, Helen Garner, Casey Plett, Mr Beast/James Patterson, Stephen Graham Jones, Silvia Moreno Garcia, and more!

AI boosters and the US military are engaged in a lethal love affair. Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein joins Emily and Alex to discuss how glitchy technology supports global imperialism — and vice versa. Plus, we explore which Dr. Strangelove characters are currently running the US war machine.Naomi Klein is a columnist for The Guardian and the international bestselling author of nine books published in over 35 languages. Her new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, written with Astra Taylor, will be published in September 2026.References:War Department press release on GenAI.milOld-school racism from Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey"How artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of war"Previous episodes referenced:Episode 61: Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan)Episode 50: Petro-Masculinity Versus the Planet (with Tamara Kneese)Fresh AI Hell:"Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog""Amazon outbids WA utility for one of nation's largest solar projects""AI data centers are forcing dirty 'peaker' power plants back into service""Mamdani Targets 'Unusable' AI Chatbot for Termination"Check out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see. Our merch store is now live on the DAIR website! Find our book, The AI Con, here. Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown. Follow us! Emily Bluesky: emilymbender.bsky.social Mastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBender Alex Bluesky: alexhanna.bsky.social Mastodon: dair-community.social/@alex Twitter: @alexhanna Music by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

Are we navigating reality, or just a highly optimized map of the past? In this episode, we dive into the architecture of our modern ghost story. We explore how the digital systems built to reflect our world have instead consumed it, replacing human experience with statistical prediction, algorithmic herding, and mechanical objectivity. Drawing on a wide synthesis of philosophy, media theory, and history, we deconstruct how the "map ate the territory." From Jean Baudrillard's simulacra to the predictive text of modern Large Language Models, we examine the uncanny reality of living inside a model that only knows what the dead have written. If the internet is a séance and your digital profile is a voodoo doll, what happens to the biological original? In this episode, we unpack: The Precession of Simulacra: How credit scores and algorithmic risk models generate the reality they claim to measure. The Bureaucracy of the Dead: Why modern AI is less an artificial intelligence and more an industrialization of our ancestors, echoing the warnings of James Hillman. Digiphrenia & The Voodoo Doll: Douglas Rushkoff's narrative collapse and Jaron Lanier's terrifying metaphor for the modern attention economy. The Numbers Shield: Theodore Porter's revelation that "mechanical objectivity" and rigid quantification are actually defense mechanisms used by fragile institutions. Spheres & Foam: Peter Sloterdijk's theory on why we retreat into fragile, toxic digital bubbles when our shared reality fractures. We didn't just build tools; we built environments. And when the machine becomes the environment, its logic becomes our logic. Join us as we look for the gap in the code—the unquantifiable silence where true human agency still survives. Concepts & Thinkers Discussed: Adam Curtis, Jean Baudrillard, Marshall McLuhan, Naomi Klein, Shoshana Zuboff, James Hillman, and Peter Sloterdijk.

This week, we examine the “Elbows Up” movement and Mark Carney's Davos speech through the framework of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. When crisis rhetoric meets elite policy, what changes — and what stays the same?A philosophical and political breakdown of neoliberal continuity disguised as renewal.

Recently, the Department of Justice released millions of files from disgraced financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Since their release, part of the discussion has revolved around the way Jewishness appears in the files. Epstein and his friends make clannish jokes about Jews and “goyim,” many of them simultaneously self-deprecating and chauvinistic. Epstein himself is extremely interested in genetics, sending out a number of DNA Kits to Jews and non-Jews alike, and referencing a natural Ashkenazi intelligence. The files also show close—and sometimes criminal—relationships to a number of prominent Jewish men. These details, along with information about Epstein's role as fixer for former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, have fueled conspiracy theories about Jewish power. But what do we do with a story whose real-life details are so fitted to antisemitic conspiracy? In this episode of On the Nose, editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with author, thinker, and activist Naomi Klein about how to make sense of the capitalist conspiracy outlined in the files, and the grave importance of holding our depraved elites accountable.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Media Mentioned and Further ReadingDoppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi KleinHarsha Walia on Epstein and sexual violenceA collection of Epstein's comments on “Jews” and “goyim” from Tikkun Olam“Eugenics Isn't Dead—It's Thriving in Tech,” Julia Métraux, Mother Jones“Jeffrey Epstein's assistant ordered so many 23andMe kits, the company asked why,” Ariana Bindman, SFGate“The Myth of the Chosen Nation: The Colonial Period,” Richard T. Hughes“The crisis in modern masculinity,” Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian

After our livestream this week with Naomi Klein and Yanis Varoufakis, we sat down to pull out what actually matters in practice. Not a recap, but a tactical discussion: on how dissent is neutralised today — through platforms, finance, and institutions — and where we can realistically apply pressure. We talk about public contracts, platform dependency, crisis moments, and why some fights are winnable now while others require building power over time. If you're an organiser or activist, don't miss this! FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Mehran Khalili (newsletter): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe  Davide Castro (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/dcpcastrooo/  SUPPORT US Join DiEM25: https://diem25.org/join ​ Donate to DiEM25: https://diem25.org/donate Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official

James Stewart (J.D.M.) speaks with Catherine McKenna about her book, Run Like A Girl. From Olympic dreams to the frontlines of politics and climate action, Run Like A Girl charts McKenna's personal and political journey – from leading Canada's climate plan to withstanding sexist attacks as “Climate Barbie.” Through a unique scrapbook-style format, McKenna blends candid personal stories, political insights, and reflections on motherhood, ambition, and activism. McKenna recounts her fight for climate policy, the ups and downs of public service, the tough decision to leave politics, and her mission to empower women in leadership. For readers of Becoming by Michelle Obama and No Logo by Naomi Klein, Run Like A Girl is a timely and deeply personal call to action – about finding your own path, breaking the rules, fighting for the future – on your own terms. Catherine McKenna is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions. She is Canada's former minister of environment and climate change (2015-19) as well as minister of infrastructure (2019-21). The chair of the UN Secretary General's Expert Group Net Zero, she is a frequent speaker on climate action and women empowerment. If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society's mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada's past. Image Credit: Sutherland House

Naomi Klein joins Yanis Varoufakis for a live conversation on what public life on the left looks like today. From recent deepfakes using Yanis' image for viral gain, to his latest police harassment over events from decades ago, the discussion opens onto larger questions Naomi explores in Doppelgänger (identity, imitation, credibility, and what "truth" means when noise travels faster than institutions — and institutions still hold power) before moving on to current affairs and lessons for the left from the tumultuous way 2026 has begun. Hosted by Mehran Khalili. FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Naomi Klein (site): https://naomiklein.org/ Yanis Varoufakis (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu Mehran Khalili (newsletter): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe SUPPORT US Join DiEM25: https://diem25.org/join ​  Donate to DiEM25: https://diem25.org/donate  Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official

Christopher & Jobst im Gespräch mit Magdalena. Wir reden über eine Neudefinition von Luxus, selbstgestaltete Sweater, viel schwarz tragen, "Never Mind the Bollocks" auf CD dank der Hippie-Mutter einer Freundin, viel Wut in der Pubertät, die Casba in Konstanz, Chemie war gut, endlich mal wieder Verbal Razor, endlich weg aus Konstanz, zu groß für die Schwaben, das Altersheim am Bodensee, sich mit Vivienne Westwood verbunden fühlen, Hennes & Mauritz, in einer alten Villa in Halle, die BSE-Krise, Wechsel nach Berlin, zum eigenen Label erzogen werden, die Firmenkultur von H&M, "No Logo" von Naomi Klein, Baby-Bodies von Bayern München, superspannendes Projekt von der Senatsverwaltung, als Punk wieder zurück ins Leben kam, jetzt endlich in den Moshpits, die unglaubliche Energie von Musik, mehr Freude und ein paar blaue Flecken, ein Gefühl von frei sein, Eisbaden, da sein wenn´s drauf ankommt, uvm.

Dělníci kultury #38 mimo jiné o plánu zrušit koncesionářské poplatky, portrétu Timothéeho Chalameta, knize Dvojnice od Naomi Klein nebo desku Atheny Chlebové Vodsrdce.V dalším díle videopodcastu týdeníku Respekt Dělníci kultury spolu Jindřiška Bláhová, Pavel Turek a Jan H. Vitvar debatují o tom, co je v uplynulém týdnu v kultuře zaujalo a o své aktuální práci. Tentokrát došlo na: - nápad ministra kultury zrušit koncesionářské poplatky - desku Atheny Chlebové Vodsrdce - klauzurní výstavu na AVU - portrét herce Timothéeho Chalameta - román Ilony Ferkové AMEN (Kher) - rozhovor s archeologem Jiřím A. Svobodou o jeho knize Paleolit českých zemí (Academia) - knihy Naomi Klein Dvojnice (Alarm) a Zbigniewa Rokity Odřanie (Absynt)- album Secret Love londýnské čtveřice Dry Ceaning- filmy Věry Chytilové Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliště a Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledneKdyž už člověk jednou je, tak má sledovat kulturu v Respektu.

Inspirada por mi nueva lectura que le deseo recomendar a todo el mundo, Doppelganger de la autora Naomi Klein, esta semana hablamos acerca del uso de lenguaje y la usurpación de lenguage de liberación utilizada para promover la derecha extrema y la opresión. También cómo el lenguaje que utilizamos puede ayudar a explicar o alejarnos de la población con la cual trabajamos.

It's another Best of 2025 episode On today's program: Live-streamed on April 17, 2025 Emma is joined by writer, activist and professor Naomi Klein about her new essay The rise of end times fascism. Naomi points out the new form that right wing authoritarianism has taken in finding ways to exit society and Earth itself. Naomi co-wrote the essay with Astra Taylor, which you can read here in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/n... All that and more. The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Check out IceRRT.com to find an ICE rapid response team nearest to you. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: SUNSET LAKE: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% on their full lineup of CBD products to support your New Year wellness goals and Dry January aspirations at SunsetLakeCBD.com  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com

Welcome to The Cluttered Desk! In our annual Simpsons episode, Andrew and Colin discuss the 2007 movie, The Simpsons Movie. Enjoy! *** The Coda: Great Lakes Brewing Company's Christmas Ale (Andrew) and Topo Chico (Colin) *** Here are links for this episode: Andrew's recommendation: Listen to audiobooks through Spotify Colin's recommendation: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and The Simpsons episode "Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" ***  Please contact us at any of these locations: Website: www.thecdpodcast.com Email: thecluttereddeskpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @TheCDPodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/thecdpodcast Andrew is on Twitter @AndrewPatrickH1 (Twitter non grata) Colin is on Twitter @ColinAshleyCox *** We want to thank Test Dream for supplying The Cluttered Desk's theme music. You can find Test Dream at any of these locations: Website: testdream.bandcamp.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/testdream Twitter: @testdream *** Our entire catalogue is available through iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.    

This final episode of 2025 reflects on a year of transitions and healing, focusing on themes of intergenerational trauma, collective grief, and social justice, especially in the context of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Through diverse voices including Dr. Gabor Maté, Naomi Klein, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Ashira Darwish, Omid Safi, Kazu Haga, and others, the episode delves into personal and collective fields of healing. It emphasizes the importance of remembering, ritualizing healing, community action, indigenous knowledge, and a para-politics of grief and relationship. The episode also highlights the significance of interconnectedness, resilience, and the continuous effort towards justice and transformation. Topics and Speakers 00:00 Introduction and Year in Review 02:03 Minds Under Siege: Dr. Gabor Mate and Naomi Klein 17:38 We Will Not Look Away: Vigil for Gaza with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Ashira Darwish and Omid Safi 37:33 Fierce Vulnerability: Kazu Haga 46:16 Belonging Without Othering: john a. powell 50:51 The Limits of Solution-Driven Thinking: Bayo Akomolafe 55:47 Complexity and Phase Transitions: Jeremy Lent 01:02:03 Intergenerational Trauma and Healing: Jungwon Kim and Linda Thai 01:18:40 Generational Trauma and Community Healing: Dr. Thema Bryant 01:23:16 Decolonizing Therapy and Ancestral Healing: Dr. Jennifer Mullan 01:26:30 Indigenous Perspectives on Colonization and Wellbeing: Dr. Diana Kopua, Tina Ngata and Mark Kopua 01:40:30 Plant Medicine and Connection to Nature: Donna Kerridge 01:53:07 Grief, Ritual, and Communal Healing: Orland Bishop and Francis Weller 02:02:39 Presence and Receptive Awareness: John J. Prendergast 02:09:26 Conclusion and Membership Invitation Links Naomi Klein Dr. Gabor Maté Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb Omid Safi Kazu Haga john a. Powell Bayo Akomolafe Jeremy Lent Jungwon Kim Linda Thai Dr. Thema Bryant Dr. Jennifer Mullan Te Kurahuna (Mark and Dr. Diana Kopua) Tina Ngata Francis Weller Orland Bishop John Prendergast Where Olive Trees Weep The Eternal Song (Film series and course) Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member

This final episode of 2025 reflects on a year of transitions and healing, focusing on themes of intergenerational trauma, collective grief, and social justice, especially in the context of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Through diverse voices including Dr. Gabor Maté, Naomi Klein, Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Ashira Darwish, Omid Safi, Kazu Haga, and others, the episode delves into personal and collective fields of healing. It emphasizes the importance of remembering, ritualizing healing, community action, indigenous knowledge, and a para-politics of grief and relationship. The episode also highlights the significance of interconnectedness, resilience, and the continuous effort towards justice and transformation. Topics and Speakers 00:00 Introduction and Year in Review 02:03 Minds Under Siege: Dr. Gabor Mate and Naomi Klein 07:15 We Will Not Look Away: Vigil for Gaza with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Ashira Darwish and Omid Safi 27:24 Fierce Vulnerability: Kazu Haga 36:08 Belonging Without Othering: john a. powell 41:28 The Limits of Solution-Driven Thinking: Bayo Akomolafe 46:24 Complexity and Phase Transitions: Jeremy Lent 53:56 Intergenerational Trauma and Healing: Jungwon Kim and Linda Thai 58:19 Epigenetic Trauma and Healing Rituals: 01:10:34 Generational Trauma and Community Healing: Dr. Thema Bryant 01:15:11 Decolonizing Therapy and Ancestral Healing: Dr. Jennifer Mullan 01:18:30 Indigenous Perspectives on Colonization and Wellbeing: Dr. Diana Kopua, Tina Ngata and Mark Kopua 01:32:30 Plant Medicine and Connection to Nature: Donna Kerridge 01:45:07 Grief, Ritual, and Communal Healing: Orland Bishop and Francis Weller 01:54:39 Presence and Receptive Awareness: John J. Prendergast 02:01:26 Conclusion and Membership Invitation Links Naomi Klein Dr. Gabor Maté Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb Omid Safi Kazu Haga john a. Powell Bayo Akomolafe Jeremy Lent Jungwon Kim Linda Thai Dr. Thema Bryant Dr. Jennifer Mullan Te Kurahuna (Mark and Dr. Diana Kopua) Tina Ngata Francis Weller Orland Bishop John Prendergast Where Olive Trees Weep The Eternal Song (Film series and course) Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with author Naomi Klein about her new essay, "Surrealism Against Fascism," (published in the Equator, 11/26/25), and the questions of whether we need new institutions, what happens next in Palestine, the meaning of fascism and what resistance to it can and may look like. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and the international bestselling author of nine books published in over 35 languages including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, On Fire, and Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World which won the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction in 2024. A columnist for The Guardian, and contributor to Zeteo, her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world. She is the honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University and is Associate Professor in Geography at the University of British Columbia where she is founding co-director of UBC's Centre for Climate Justice. Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza and a 2025 Fellow at FMEP. He is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books) and is currently writing a book about Palestine. He also currently serves on the board of the Independence Media Foundation. His work has been published in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP at Harvard University. You can follow Ahmed on Substack at: https://ahmedmoor.substack.com Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

Re-Air Date: 11–18-25 Unless you were a member in December of 2024, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! If you were a member back then, THANK YOU and this one is worth a re-listen. We're slowing down production for a little bit to reorganize our production processes, so enjoy this episode from our archives (and B.Y: before YouTube) where Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:   Ch. 1 - The political origins of SimCity and how capitalism warps our choices Ch. 2 - A new video game offering a very different vision of societal management Ch. 3 - Naomi Klein's insights on the Left's missteps responding to the Mirror World Ch. 4 - Applying cynicism and skepticism in moderation   FOLLOW US ON: YouTube (This full episode premieres on YouTube on Friday - please share!) Bluesky Instagram Facebook Mastadon Nostr public key: npub1tjxxp0x5mcgl2svwhm39qf002st2zdrkz6yxmaxr6r2fh0pv49qq2pem0e   REFERENCES: SimCity Isn't a Model of Reality. It's a Libertarian Toy Land - Wired Build-a-Brrr - The Baffler Naomi Klein on her doppelganger (and yours) - Vox Be Like Claud Cockburn: Tell Truths to the Masses - Counter Punch   TAKE ACTION: No Kings Next Steps Free DC Project: FOR ALLIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY - Tell Congress to stand down the federal escalation One Million Rising Trainings In a blue state? Help stop ICE overreach Use the 5 Calls app for scripts and to reach all your elected officials Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 Find your Indivisible group - or start one Write to the DNC   Join our Discord Server Reach us via Signal: Bestoftheleft.01 Leave a message at 202-999-3991   Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on Apple Podcasts!

In this crossover episode with The Time of Monsters--a podcast of The Nation Magazine--Jeet Heer and Van Jackson discuss the worldmaking of Jeffrey Epstein and the complicity of America's entire ruling class in his crimes, from Larry Summers and Leon Panetta to Trump himself. Thousands of leaked emails reported by DropSite News have revealed something about Jeffrey Epstein that few people realized: He was one of the world's preeminent geopoliticians during the unipolar moment, and that's not a good thing. We now know that Epstein actively promoted the interests of the global far right; worked with Israeli security services to export the tools of oppression to the Global South; helped strengthen Russia's oligarchy and deal intimately with Putin; lobbied to bomb Iran and kill the Iran nuclear deal; secured the US and Russian removal of chemical weapons from Syria FOR Israel; and capitalized on the global instability caused in part by US foreign policy. Epstein's work as a geopolitician reveals a dark side to American hegemony not previously known or seen. It's one giant case study of Naomi Klein's disaster-capitalism thesis. Subscribe to The Time of Monsters Podcast: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/ Subscribe to the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com/ Watch Un-Diplomatic Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@un-diplomaticpodcast Catch Un-Diplomatic on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/undiplomaticpodcast Disclaimer: The views expressed are those of the individuals and not of any institutions.

From Elizabeth May's permanent iron grip on the Green party; to Jagmeet Singh's self-destructive Liberal alliance; and the sabotaging of NDP campaigns by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's “leap manifesto”: Mark Leiren-Young, a committed environmentalist, saw all of it from a front-row seat. He had worked to help elect the politicians he thought were committed to fighting for his cause. But, as he tells Brian — and describes in his new book Greener Than Thou: Surviving the Toxic Sludge of Canadian Ecopolitics — he discovered they turned out to be more committed to fighting with each other, while being lousy at politics. For people truly interested in his kind of change, Leiren-Young explains why these parties might be better to disappear entirely. (Recorded October 31, 2025) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we are joined by Elina Xenophontos as we center Palestine while unpacking a rapidly shifting global landscape. From the UN's new “Two State Solution” resolution to Israel's expanding regional ambitions in Syria, Cyprus, and beyond, the conversation dives into how imperial powers continue to use war and crisis as tools for control.We look closely at the concept of disaster capitalism—first outlined by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine—and how Gaza risks becoming the latest case study, following Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. Political elites and international institutions routinely exploit chaos, stripping local communities of sovereignty, resources, and the ability to chart their own futures.At the same time, Washington is floating reckless military objectives: threatening Venezuela over oil and rare earths, retaking Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to pressure China, and destabilizing Pakistan under the guise of nuclear containment.Meanwhile, Israel appears to be preparing for a long struggle against Turkish interests in West Asia, while U.S. allies like Argentina's President Javier Milei remain entangled in IMF debt and neoliberal experiments. This episode connects the dots between Palestine, imperial strategy, and the global machinery of resource extraction. If you want to understand how “humanitarian aid” and “reconstruction” are often code words for privatization, dispossession, and permanent war economies, you won't want to miss this.You can follow Elina here: https://www.instagram.com/elina.xenophontos/

R.U. Sirius, Founding Editor of Mondo 2000 and author, discusses how intentional weirdness is a powerful tool for community and resistance when the fight for reality is being waged.Names referenced in this episode:Alex Jones, Art Bell, Richard Linklater, Robert Anton Wilson, Abby Hoffman, Paul Krasner, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Alfred E. Newman, Timothy Leary, Genesis P-Orridge, Joe Coleman, Aaron Black, Donna Haraway, David Byrne, Jesus, Bob Dylan, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Cory Doctorow, Sandy Pearlman, Lester Bangs, Frank Zappa, Gomez Addams, Andy Warhol, Jerry Garcia, Mark Andreessen, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Marty Balin, Susan Sarandon, Charlie Manson, Donald Trump, Patty Hearst, Joseph Stalin, Ben Goertzel, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Perry Farrell, Jacques Vallée, Kathy Acker, John Barlow, John Oswald, Sam Altman, Walter KirnTeam Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone's Earth.Learn more about Everyone's Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Use the code “rush10” to receive 10% off of Cobi Dryer sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhumanFollow Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff:Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/douglasrushkoffBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rushkoff.comGet bonus content on Patreon: patreon.com/teamhuman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a preview — for the full episode, subscribe: https://newmodels.io https://patreon.com/newmodels https://newmodels.substack.com Our guest is American media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. He is the author of such seminal books on digital culture and networked communication as Cyberia (1994), Media Virus (1995), and Coercion (1999); and numerous further titles including, Program or Be Programmed (2010/2025) and Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires (2022). He is also the host of Team Human and a professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics as CUNY/Queens. On this episode, Doug speaks with us about the evolution (and devolution) of digital culture across web 1, 2, 3, and beyond via a synthesis of media theory, psychedelic thinking, and practical wisdom for navigating our contemporary networks. Names cited: Adam Curtis, Alex Garland, Allan Kaprow, Amazon, Art Bell, AT&T, Bernie Madoff, CNN, Cyberia, CVS, Dan Rather, Daniel Dennett, David Bowie, David Hershkovitz, David Lynch, Donna Haraway, Douglas Rushkoff, Elon Musk, Emmanuel Levinas, Francis Bacon, Genesis P-Orridge, Jake Tapper, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Jesse Armstrong, Joe Rogan, John Brockman, John Perry Barlow, Joseph Chaikin, Kamala Harris, Lauren Sanchez, Louis Rossetto, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Madonna, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Media Virus, Michael Jackson, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, Neil Simon, New Models, New York Times, Norbert Wiener, Orit Halpern, Paper Magazine, Peter Thiel, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Present Shock, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Dawkins, Robert Anton Wilson, Ross Douthat, Skinny Puppy, Spinoza, Star Trek, Team Human, Temple of Psychic Youth, The Long Boom, The Process Church, The Simpsons, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Walter Benjamin, William S. Burroughs, Wired Magazine

For episode 200 (!) of The Fire These Times, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join Dana & Elia to talk about their piece "the rise of end times fascism." Naomi Klein is the author of Doppelganger, On Fire, How to Change Everything, the Shock Doctrine & No Logo, among others. Astra Taylor is the co-founder of the Debt Collector and is the author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, among others.The Fire These Times is a proud member of⁠ ⁠From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective⁠⁠. Check out other projects in our media ecosystem: Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, From The Periphery Podcast, The Mutual Aid Podcast⁠, ⁠Politically Depressed⁠, ⁠Obscuristan⁠, and ⁠Antidote Zine⁠.Support FTP on Patreon!Referenced:Sitt Marie Rose by Etel AdnanCool People Who Did Cool Stuff podcast (on all podcast apps)Resistance is Fertile: The Star Trek Anarchist Podcast (on all podcast apps)The Book of Records For more:Naomi Klein has a website, a newsletter, and is on Instagram and BlueskyAstra Taylor has a website and is on BlueskyElia Ayoub is on ⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠, ⁠Mastodon⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ and blogs at ⁠Hauntologies.net⁠ Dana El Kurd is on BlueskyThe Fire These Times is on Bluesky,⁠ IG⁠ and⁠ YouTube⁠ and has a⁠ ⁠website⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠From The Periphery is on⁠ ⁠Patreon⁠⁠, ⁠Bluesky⁠, ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠,⁠ Instagram⁠, and has a⁠ website⁠⁠Transcriptions: Transcriptions are done by⁠ Antidote Zine⁠ and will be published on⁠ The Fire These Times' transcript archive⁠.Credits:Elia Ayoub (host, producer, sound editor, episode design), Dana El Kurd (host), ⁠⁠Rap and Revenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Music), ⁠⁠Wenyi Geng⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (TFTT theme design), ⁠⁠Hisham Rifai⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP theme design) and ⁠⁠Molly Crabapple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (FTP team profile pics). 

We talk to Naomi Klein about her recent article with Astra Taylor, "The Rise of End Times Fascism," and what it tells us about the moment we're living in.

Air Date: 5-19-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, and Deon (Erin was on vacation) discuss: The origins of and problems with “the one way” Christian mindset Why Finland's happiest country title and happiness itself are terribly misunderstood by Americans How our globalized world is messing with perceptions of our cultural similarities and differences The link between genocides, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories Naomi Klein's analysis on the problems with how we talk about the Holocaust How we get back to humanization and recognizing our core similarities as beings floating on a rock in space Some Finnish wisdom that encapsulates life, the universe, and everything   FOLLOW US ON: Bluesky Mastadon Instagram Facebook YouTube   REFERENCES: My Miserable Week in the Happiest Country on Earth - The New York Times Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!) The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!) A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!) “Pale Blue Dot” - An excerpt from Carl Sagan's book “Pale Blue Dot” (If you buy via this link, you can support indie bookstores and SOLVED! at the same time!)   SOLVED! SONG! “Pale Blue Dot” - Concepts: Human Intelligence. Song: Artificial Intelligence.   TAKE ACTION: June 14th - “No Kings” Nationwide Day of Action   Join our Discord Server Signal: Bestoftheleft.01 Leave a message at 202-999-3991   Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com

Headlines for May 05, 2025; “Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Him; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future”

Headlines for May 05, 2025; “Chilling”: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Pushes Back After Trump’s Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Him; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future”

It's a busy Thursday here at MR HQ, and Emma dives right into the significance Judge James Boasberg's finding cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for not adhering to his previous order on deportations. Meanwhile, Senator Chris Van Hollen is in El Salvador where he's been prevented from visiting his Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Then, Emma is joined by writer, activist and professor Naomi Klein about her new essay The rise of end times fascism. Naomi points out the new form that right wing authoritarianism has taken in finding ways to exit society and Earth itself. Naomi co-wrote the essay with Astra Taylor, which you can read here in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk After that, infectious disease doctor MarkAlain Déry joins Emma in the studio to discuss the challenges facing public health under the Trump regime, especially from Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. who continues to spread misinformation about any number of things, including about autism and vaccines. MarkAlain expresses his concern that essential programs that receive federal funding could now be in jeopardy, especially those that cater to marginalized communities, especially undocumented people. In the Fun Half, Matt Binder and Brandon Sutton are here to break down the video of Republican senator Chuck Grassley getting yelled at by his constituents at a town hall over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The group talks about how entrenched some of the support for Trump is among his base, even when his policies cost them their jobs. They also discuss how the attention on the Abrego Garcia is a moment when Democrats need to keep their foot on the gas and show voters that they are willing and able to fight for justice. Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Follow us on TikTok here!: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here!: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here!: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase! Check out today's sponsors: Fast Growing Trees: Get 15% off your first purchase.  FastGrowingTrees.com/majority Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @RussFinkelstein Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder – https://majorityreportradio.com/

Chris Barnard is president of the American Conservation Coalition, which has some 75,000 members. He joins Bob to discuss the unfortunate pattern of ceding concern for the environment to the political left, and what the ACC is doing (especially on college campuses) to shatter that stereotype.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:The YouTube version of this interview.Chris Barnard's bio at American Conservation Coalition.The Market Environmentalism Academy.Bob's article showing that Naomi Klein supported the Green New Deal for non-climate reasons.The link for Monetary-Metals.com.Help support the Bob Murphy Show.

Ryan and Emily discuss China unleashing payback tariffs as Trump doubles down, majority think Republicans are tanking economy, Elon rages at Peter Navarro, freedom caucus revolt over Trump budget, Dem congressman breaks from party ranks on tariffs, Hamas demands off UK terror list, and Naomi Klein busts Trump tariffs. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 27, 2025 is: archetype • AHR-kih-type • noun Archetype refers to someone or something that is seen to be a perfect example. It is also a word for the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies. // The college's most popular philosophy professor is the archetype of the preoccupied academic, complete with the messy desk, disheveled hair, and brilliant theories. // The film is considered a sci-fi archetype for its pioneering use of special effects and prosthetics to depict an alien world. See the entry > Examples: “One of the most notable features of folktales, fairy tales, myths, and legends are their simplicity. These stories, many of them passed down to us across generations, are compelling because of the recognizable archetypes they incorporate (the evil stepmother, the dutiful daughter, the greedy king, etc.), their straightforward moral arcs, and their use of magic and transformation as catalysts for the plot.” — Gina Chung, LitHub.com, 13 Mar. 2024 Did you know? In her 2024 book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, author Naomi Klein writes that “the doppelganger archetype has appeared across time to explore issues of life and death, the body versus the soul, the ego versus the id …” Klein doesn't mean that the same double, evil twin, or changeling keeps popping up throughout history, of course, but that the original concept of a doppelganger has served as a pattern, model, or template for writers to use in different ways, each supplying it with their own imagined details. Archetype's origins are in two Greek words: the verb archein, meaning “to begin,” and the noun typos, meaning “type.” Since its debut in English in the mid-1500s, archetype has taken on uses specific to the ideas of Plato, John Locke, and Carl Jung, but in everyday prose, archetype is most commonly used to mean “a perfect example,” as in “Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is considered an archetype of doppelganger fiction.”

On this week's show, we preview the Oscars and Trump's demolition throughout renowned institutions of art. Isaac Butler — author of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act and host of the new Criterion Channel series, The Craft of Acting — sits in for Stephen Metcalf. First, the hosts discuss I'm Still Here and the continued addition of non-English speaking films getting some of the biggest Oscar buzz. Then we tackle the latest Trump shakeups at the National Endowment for the Arts and The Kennedy Center. Finally, Dana and Julia sit down with the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Bill Kramer. Endorsements: Dana: The documentary Pictures of Ghosts (2023) Julia: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, also discussed on Culture Gabfest in September 2023 Isaac: The film Z (1969), available on streaming Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's show, we preview the Oscars and Trump's demolition throughout renowned institutions of art. Isaac Butler — author of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act and host of the new Criterion Channel series, The Craft of Acting — sits in for Stephen Metcalf. First, the hosts discuss I'm Still Here and the continued addition of non-English speaking films getting some of the biggest Oscar buzz. Then we tackle the latest Trump shakeups at the National Endowment for the Arts and The Kennedy Center. Finally, Dana and Julia sit down with the CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Bill Kramer. Endorsements: Dana: The documentary Pictures of Ghosts (2023) Julia: Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein, also discussed on Culture Gabfest in September 2023 Isaac: The film Z (1969), available on streaming Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices