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On today's episode, I talk to political cartoonist Dwayne Booth AKA Mr. Fish. For over 20 years, Dwayne has been creating political cartoons for publications like Harper's Magazine, Truthdig.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, The Advocate, and many, many others. In addition, he was an animated character designer for Bento Box Entertainment and is the subject of a 2017 award-winning documentary by Pablo Bryant called Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End. HIs books and collections include Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People, WARNING! Graphic Content, And Then the World Blew Up, Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books into Cartoons, and his most recent Nobody Left, which was published by Fantagraphics. This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter. Check out my free philosophy Substack where I write essays every couple months here and my old casiopop band's lost album here! And the comedy podcast I do with my wife Naomi Couples Therapy can be found here! Theme song by the fantastic Savoir Adore! Second theme by the brilliant Mike Pace! Closing theme by the delightful Gregory Brothers! Podcast art by the inimitable Beano Gee!  

Welcome to Scheer Intelligence, where the true brainpower comes from our guests. Today, join Robert Scheer as he engages in a thought-provoking conversation with the talented Natasha Hakimi Zapata. A former award-winning poet and influential journalist at Truthdig, she now sheds light on her new book, Another World is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe. With insights drawn from her unique upbringing and experiences across nine different countries, Natasha brings forth stories and solutions that challenge the prevailing narratives about our world today. In a time when despair seems so pervasive, she offers a refreshing look at what has been achieved globally—combined with actionable lessons that could inspire real change in America. Don't miss this enlightening discussion as we explore how we can pave the way toward a more equitable and hopeful future.Copy

Americans have come to assume that heavy medical debt, unaffordable housing and lack of quality child care are normal features of life. Is there another way?Journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata traveled the world to find out how other countries are solving problems that plague the United States. From housing, climate change and public education, to addiction and health care, Hakimi Zapata found innovative and affordable approaches that do better. She reports on her globetrotting investigation in her new book, “Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe.”Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer and translator. She is the former foreign editor of Truthdig, and her work has appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times and elsewhere.Hakimi Zapata said she “took a crib-to-crypt approach to policy,” including a look at universal healthcare in the UK, family friendly policies in Norway, "public-housing-for-all in Singapore, universal public education in Finland, drug decriminalization in Portugal, ...internet as a human right policies in Estonia, renewable energy transition in Uruguay, biodiversity protections in Costa Rica, and then finally, sort of the end of a lifetime, with universal non-contributory pensions in New Zealand.”Hakimi Zapata spoke about Portugal's decision in 2000 to decriminalize personal drug possession. “Not only did addiction rates fall — overdose deaths fell, HIV/AIDS rates fell, but so did drug use.”Portugal has demonstrated that “if you treat this as a public health issue … you allow people to reach out for help without the fear of incarceration.”Hakimi Zapata noted, “There's this myth at the core of American society that somehow places like Norway can afford these great policies because everyone pays more taxes. And the truth is they have a more progressive stepped tax system than we do. They do not have off ramps for the wealthiest Americans or corporations to pay less, or nothing, like we do in the US.”Hakimi Zapata insisted that progressive social policies often take root in difficult times. The National Health Service in the UK came “out of the ashes of World War II. You have Uruguay's renewable grid transition coming out of long periods of literal darkness in which they couldn't keep the lights on in their own country.”“At this moment, remember that things can change for the better nearly as quickly as they can change for the worse, and we can still make things better.”

This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Natasha Hakimi Zapata, the author of the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe. Natasha Hakimi Zapata, who is joining us from London, is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, and elsewhere. She is former foreign editor of Truthdig.

Website(s): www.Gerispieler.com Facebook: Geri Spieler Twitter: None Regina of Warsaw is a story of extraordinary bravery and survival against all odds that mirrors much of what is happening in the world today Based on True Events: Regina of Warsaw an Unforgettable Story of Heartbreak and Survival PALO ALTO, Calif., June 3, 2024 ― By all accounts, Regina Anuszewicz was a woman ahead of her time. She defied the female norms and stereotypes of the early 1900s and fled the violence unfolding in Warsaw on her own, with an infant. And because she left Poland before the wars, she survived. And because she survived, her granddaughter, Geri Spieler, can share Regina's unforgettable story in the new book, Regina of Warsaw: Love, Loss and Liberation. “Readers will appreciate the premise of the story because, in some ways, it mirrors what is happening in the world today,” Spieler said. “It's a story of bravery and survival.” From the first page, readers are transported to 1906 Bialystok, Poland, where Regina Anuszewicz was visiting her sister and looking forward to a late June stroll along the Bialy River. It should have been an exciting time to stay overnight in the women's boarding house, but a violent pogrom blasted those plans as a rage of violence shook the town and Regina's hopes. Stormtroopers swarmed the streets and homes, and once they reached her sister's boarding house, all Regina could do was hide inside a closet, barely able to breathe as she heard screams and people begging for their lives. The trauma of that day shaped Regina's life and ignited her passion to take a more active role in fighting antisemitism. The atrocities that her family endured impacted every decision she made in life as she moved through the days and years, coloring her approach to every event that took her from Poland to the United States, and how she cared for the four children she sought to protect. About the Author Geri Spieler is a journalist, investigative reporter and award-winning speaker. She has written for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, and as a research director for Gartner, a global technology advising company. She regularly contributed to Huffington Post and Truthdig.com, an award-winning investigative reporting website. She is also the author of San Francisco Values: Common Ground for Getting America Back on Track, and the multiple award-winning Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried To Kill President Ford, which has been optioned for a movie. She lives in the San Francisco Bay with her husband, nine chickens and 10 fruit trees. To learn more, please visit https://gerispieler.com/, or follow her on Instagram (gspieler124), Facebook (Geri Spieler) and Substack (Geri Spieler). Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Regina-Warsaw-Love-Loss-Liberation-ebook/dp/B0CZ6R2H69/ Regina of Warsaw: Love, Loss and Liberation Publisher: Speaking Volumes Release Date: June 17, 2024 ISBN-979-8-89022-149-0 Available from Amazon.com, BN.com and other booksellers

About Peter:Peter Grinspoon, M.D. is a primary care physician and a cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of the new book ‘Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Expert Untangles the Truth about Marijuana'. He is a TedX speaker, a certified physician life coach, a board member of the physician advocacy group, ‘Doctors for Drug Policy Reform' and an advisor to 'The Parabola Center'. He is the author of the groundbreaking memoir ‘Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction'. He is frequently cited in the national media as a thought leader on cannabis, psychedelics, drugs of misuse, and addiction, and has had bylines in TIME, Newsweek, CNN, Salon, TruthDig, Reason, The Nation, Psychiatric Times, STAT, The Boston Globe, The L.A. Times, and MedPage Today.

The book Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World is structured as a debate between Alvin Wang Graylin and Louis Rosenberg, who each have over 30 years of experience in XR and AI. Graylin embodies the eternal optimist and leans towards techno-utopian views while Rosenberg voices the more skeptical perspectives while leaning more towards cautious optimism and acknowledging the privacy hazards, control and alignment risks, as well as the ethical and moral dilemmas. The book is the strongest when it speaks about the near-term implications of how AI will impact XR in specific contexts, but starts to go off the rails for me when they start exploring the more distant-future implications of Artificial Superintelligence at the economic and political scales of society. At the same time, both sides acknowledge the positive and negative potential futures, and that neither path are necessarily guaranteed as it will be up to the tech companies, governments, and broader society which path of the future we go down. What I really appreciated about the book is that both Graylin and Rosenberg reference many personal examples and anecdotes around the intersection of XR and AI throughout each of their three decades of experience working with emerging technologies. Even though the book is structured as a debate, they also both agree on some fundamental premises that the Metaverse is inevitable (or rather spatial computing, XR, or mixed reality), and that AI has been and will continue to be a critical catalyst for it's growth and evolution. They both also wholeheartedly agree that it is a matter of time before we achieve either an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), but they differ on the implications of these technologies. Graylin believes that ASI has the potential to lead humanity into post-labor, post-scarcity, techno-utopian future reality where all of humanity has willingly given up all cultural, political, and economic control over to our ASI overlords who become these perfectly rationally-driven philosopher kings, but yet still see humans as their ancestors via an uncharacteristically anthropomorphized emotional connection with compassionate affinity. Rosenberg dismisses this as a sort of wishful thinking that humans would be able to exert any control over ASI, and that ASI would be anything other than cold-hearted, calculating, ruthless, and unpredictably alien. Rosenberg also cautions that humanity could be headed towards cultural stagnation if the production of all art, media, music, and creative endeavors is ceded over to ASI, and that unaligned and self-directed ASI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Graylin acknowledges the duality of possible futures within the context of this interview, but also tends to be biased towards the more optimistic future within the actual book. There is also a specific undercurrent of ideas and philosophies about AI that are woven throughout Graylin's and Rosenberg's book. Philosopher and historian Dr. Émile P. Torres has coined the acronym "TESCREAL" in collaboration with AI Ethicist Dr. Timnit Gebru that stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism and Longtermism. Torres wrote an article in Truthdig elaborating on these interconnected bundle of TESCREAL ideologies are the underpinnings of many of the debates about ASI and AGI (with links included in the original quote): At the heart of TESCREALism is a “techno-utopian” vision of the future. It anticipates a time when advanced technologies enable humanity to accomplish things like: producing radical abundance, reengineering ourselves, becoming immortal, colonizing the universe and creating a sprawling “post-human” civilization among the stars full of trillions and trillions of people. The most straightforward way to realize this utopia is by building superintelligent AGI.

Journalist Sarah Sunshine Manning discusses the politics of indigenous feminism - both inside today's Women's movement, and as a longer historical force in resistance to settler colonialism and environmental destruction - and calls on social movements to recognize, respect and listen to the voices of Native American women. Sarah wrote the article No Indigenous Women, No Women's Movement for Truthdig. Writer and Bitch Media co-founder Andi Zeisler explores 50 years of tension between feminism and capitalism in popular culture, and explains how mass media has adapted and amplified the language of empowerment, but in a depoliticized form in service of selling products, and why she's hopeful that a young generation of connected girls and women can reclaim feminism's radical, libratory potential. Andi is author of We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement from PublicAffairs.

Suzi talks to journalist Marc Cooper, Salvador Allende's former translator, for part two of our commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile. Marc returned to Chile for a month this year to probe what has and has not changed in 50 years, and to understand why the new leftist millennial government of Gabriel Boric is having such a hard time. His multipart series for Truthdig, "Chile's Utopia Has Been Postponed," features articles, photo essays, interviews and discussions looking at the ways Pinochet's legacy continues to haunt Chile. Chilean society is once again deeply polarized, with up to 40% of the population saying the coup was a good thing. Was Allende's Popular Unity government from 1970-1973 a stab at utopia that has been postponed, or was the trauma inflicted by the Pinochet years so deep as to cancel future attempts at a more just and profoundly democratic social order? You can read Marc's personal testimony, evoking the atmosphere and strategic debates within the left before the coup d'état in Jacobin America Latina, also part of our discussion.Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every night, more than a million people read Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter about the day's political events. Now she has a new book out, “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.” It's about the history of Americans' fight for equality—about which she remains optimistic, despite Trump's current polling.Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: September 11th is the 50th anniversary of the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in Chile, ending 150 years of democracy there and putting the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Power. Marc Cooper wrote about Chile since the coup for Truthdig.com. He joins the show to discuss the legacy of that coup and the deep divisions in Chile today, both economic and political.

Every night, more than a million people read Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter about the day's political events. Now she has a new book out, “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.” It's about the history of Americans' fight for equality—about which she remains optimistic, despite Trump's current polling.Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: September 11th is the 50th anniversary of the coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in Chile, ending 150 years of democracy there and putting the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Power. Marc Cooper wrote about Chile since the coup for Truthdig.com. He joins the show to discuss the legacy of that coup and the deep divisions in Chile today, both economic and political.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Are you a writing instructor or student who's prepared to turn over all present and future communication practices to the magic of ChatGPT? Not so fast! On today's show, we are joined by Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington and a pre-eminent academic critic of so-called “generative AI” technologies. Dr. Bender's expertise involves not only how these technologies work computationally, but also how language is used in popular media to hype, normalize, and even obfuscate AI and its potential to affect our lives.Dr. Bender's most well-known scholarly work related to this topic is a co-authored conference paper from 2021 entitled, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” In our conversation, Emily explains why she and her co-authors chose the “stochastic parrot” metaphor – how this helps us to understand large language models and other related technologies more accurately than many competing metaphors. We go on to discuss several actual high-stakes, significant issues related to these technologies, before Dr. Bender provides a helpful index of some the most troublesome ways they are talked about in the media: synthetic text “gotcha”s, infancy metaphors, linear models of progress, inevitability framings, and many other troublesome tropes. We conclude with a close reading of a recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about using synthetic text generators in writing classrooms: “Why I'm Excited About Chat GPT” by Jenny Young. Young's article exemplifies many of the tropes Emily discussed earlier, as well as capturing lots of strange prevailing ideas about writing pedagogy, genre, and rhetoric in general. We hope that you enjoy this podcast tour through the world of AI hype media, and we ask that you please remain non-synthetic ‘til next time – no shade to parrots!

Today's episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the second of a two-part Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen. Brian Mier is a Chicagoan who immigrated to Brazil in the 1990s. He is a sociologist and geographer. He is also Brazil Correspondent for TeleSur English, co-host of Globalistas on TV 247, Brasilwire, FAIR, COHA, Truthdig, Geopolitical Economy Report, Carta Capital, Outras Palavras.

Auto safety expert, Byron Bloch, joins us to tell the story of how citizens in conjunction with the Sierra Club defeated a highway widening boondoggle in Maryland. Then we welcome microgrids manager at the Green Justice Coalition, Sari Kayyali, to tell us how microgrids in his community have saved money and the environment. Finally, we catch up with the director of Progressive Democrats of America, Alan Minsky, in Washington DC to talk about high speed rail and the post-Bernie progressive movement.Byron Bloch is an independent consultant and court-qualified expert in Auto Safety Design and Vehicle Crashworthiness. Over the years, he has fought for safer fuel tanks, stronger seats, the need for airbags, better truck underride guards, and has testified on these safety issues at Congressional Hearings, and to NHTSA. He contributed to the Sierra Club's successful campaign to strongly oppose and stop the proposed widening of the 1-270 and Capital Beltway and the scheme to also add privatized toll lanes.What we have to do is refocus and say, “We are a people-oriented nation. Not a vehicle-oriented nation.” And if you look at it in those terms—people-oriented nation— then you say, “Well, what are the economics, what are the health and safety issues that affect people?” But instead, it becomes the almighty vehicle-ization of the nation and that means more lanes, more traffic, more lanes, and then more traffic.Byron Bloch Activist and auto safety expertThe corporate state arrives in different manifestations— the military industrial complex, the Pentagon, and this is what's going on at the state level. It doesn't get many national headlines, but it's the merger of corporations with state government. And there's a lot of secrecy involved, a lot of phony promises, a lot of misleading rhetoric, and the legislators are compromised by the campaign contributions and the pressure from the governor's office.Ralph NaderSari Kayyali is a mechanical engineer and the Microgrids Manager at Microgrids Chelsea and Chinatown Power.The technology around clean electric generation—solar panels and battery storage—are experiencing a revolution. Just in the last decade alone, solar panels have dropped to a third of what they used to cost to manufacture. Battery storage has improved dramatically in terms of energy density, cost, and reliability. And so, a lot of places around the country are looking to these as solutions. Microgrids have been around for a while, they don't necessarily need to use clean technology but specifically clean microgrids are really catching on all around the country, and around the world.Sari Kayyali Microgrids Manager at the Green Justice CoalitionAlan Minsky is a lifelong activist, and Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America. Alan has worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades, he was Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018, and he has coordinated Pacifica Radio's national coverage of elections. He is the creator and producer of the political podcasts for The Nation and Jacobin, as well as a contributor to Common Dreams and Truthdig.There's a whole bunch of elements that the progressive movement hasn't been that attentive to. Including things like industrial production and the transformation it requires between business and government to transform American society, so that it's operating on clean energy, so that its industrial manufacturing doesn't have breaks in supply chains… So I got involved with a lot of projects that aren't that common for progressives to be involved in.Alan Minsky, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of AmericaIn Case You Haven't Heard with Francesco DeSantis1. CNBC reports that the FTC is mulling a proposal to bar Meta (formerly Facebook) from monetizing the data of minors. This follows the agency's allegation that the company violated a 2020 privacy order. The FTC quoted an independent assessor who found “several gaps and weaknesses in Facebook's privacy program” that posed “substantial risks to the public.” Hopefully, this action will put other tech companies on notice regarding monetization of children's data.2. Dr. Steve Feldman, a Jewish dermatologist, is being penalized by the state of Arkansas for his refusal to sign a loyalty pledge to the state of Israel, the Arkansas Times reports. After giving a lecture to medical students in Little Rock, he was prompted to check a box agreeing not to boycott Israel, which he refused to do. As a result, the state is withholding his payment for the lecture. The Arkansas Times also refused to sign the pledge. Feldman said “What's nuts is they're asking a newspaper to say they won't boycott Israel, they're asking Americans who have a conscience, who know Israel is keeping Palestinians from their homes.” The ultra-conservative Supreme Court declined to hear the newspaper's legal challenge to the state law, and therefore it is still in place.3. In Rochester, New York, Coca-Cola is building a new facility. The company predicts this development will yield 250 new jobs. However, the Rochester Beacon has broken down the corporate welfare the conglomerate stands to receive in exchange: $41 million in state and local subsidies, or about $164,000 for each job created.4. A stunning expose in the Guardian shines a light on the beef industry, and specifically, their “messaging machine.” “The beef industry has developed a ‘Digital Command Center” that tracks media outlets and social media for more than 200 beef-related topics” Based in Denver, Colorado, the project which “looks like a military operation” is staffed 24/7 with personnel redundancies to “make sure someone's always watching.”5. In another law enforcement bombshell, longtime LAPD SWAT officer, Sgt. Timothy Colomey, has blown the whistle on the reality of the elite unit. According to Sgt. Colomey, LAPD SWAT is controlled by a violent inner circle known as the “SWAT Mafia” which has perpetuated itself using “excessive force...insubordination, sabotage and cover-ups.” Colomey has put his allegations into a detailed new deposition, available at the LA Times.6. The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has officially opened an investigation into charges that the George Washington University discriminated against Palestinian students, according to the GW Hatchet. Palestine Legal, which filed the complaint on behalf of three GW students, responded to the news by writing “This is an important step that shows the Office of Civil Rights is taking anti-Palestinian discrimination seriously.” Radhika Sainath, a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal added “Even if pro-Israel groups don't like it and complain, the law is clear – Palestinian students are entitled to the same educational opportunities and services as other students.”7. In other Palestine news Rep. Rashida Tlaib held an event commemorating the Nakba – literally the catastrophe – of May 15th, 1948 when 700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled from their homeland. This event was originally slated to be held at the Capitol Visitors Center, but Speaker McCarthy blocked the ceremony, per CNN. Tlaib responded with a statement, saying, “Speaker McCarthy wants to rewrite history and erase the existence and truth of the Palestinian people, but he has failed to do so.” Finally, Bernie Sanders stepped in and facilitated the event in the Senate HELP Committee hearing room.8. AL.com reports that the Democratic Party of Alabama has abolished the DNC-mandated minority caucuses for youth, LGBTQ, and disabled Democrats. Until now, “those caucuses had the power to nominate at-large members to ensure representation proportionate to Alabama Democratic voters.” State party boss Joe Reed had long opposed theses caucuses, which dilute the influence of the state's Black caucus on the executive committee. Former Senator Doug Jones, the only Democratic Senator in Alabama since 1997, is quoted saying “What the leadership of the Alabama Democratic Party did — was to essentially say that we don't represent the Democratic electorate in Alabama anymore.”9. Kimberly Gardner, St. Louis's elected prosecutor, is being forced to resign from her position under threat from the Missouri state government, per the Missouri Independent. Gardner, a reformist prosecutor, has drawn ire from conservatives and the police union in St. Louis since her tenure began; this came to a head when the Republican legislature threatened a state takeover of her office. In her resignation letter, Gardner wrote “I can neither enable nor allow the outright disenfranchisement of the people of the City of St. Louis.”10. The International Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America announced on Twitter that the Washington DC Council has passed a unanimous resolution urging President Biden to “dismantle the US blockade” and remove Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism list. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Christopher Ketcham on his Truthdig article, “The Green Growth Delusion: Advocates of “Green Growth” promise a painless transition to a post-carbon future. But what if the limits of renewable energy require sacrificing consumption as a way of life?” Christopher writes for several outlets, including his journalism non-profit, Denatured. Jeff Dorchen muses about advice in a new The Moment of Truth. You can find Christopher's article here: https://www.truthdig.com/dig/green-tinted-glasses/

Suzi talks to veteran journalist Marc Cooper, who was a translator to President Salvador Allende in the Popular Unity government from 1970-1973. Marc has memorialized his experience in Chile in Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti Memoir (2001). Marc just returned from a month in Chile looking at Chilean politics 50 years after the coup and one year since the new leftwing government of Gabriel Boric was elected in a landslide. The first installment of Marc's writing on Chile went online March 8 on Truthdig with more to come: the series of articles is called “Chile's Utopia Has Been Postponed.” We get Marc's analysis of Chile today.Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, protest movements. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this KEEN ON episode, Andrew talks to RISING UP author Sonali Kolhatkar about how the American healthcare system combines glaring inefficiencies with even more profound injustice. Journalist, activist, and artist, Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host, and executive producer of Pacifica's  popular drive time program Rising Up With Sonali which airs on KPFK and KPFA and also as a TV show on Free Speech TV. She is a Writing Fellow with Independent Media Institute and was formerly a weekly columnist at Truthdig. Sonali is also the founding Co-Director of the Afghan Women's Mission, a US-based non-profit solidarity organization that funds the work of RAWA. She is the author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2006, Seven Stories). She lives in Pasadena with her husband and co-author James Ingalls and two sons. In addition to her journalistic and political work, Sonali is also an accomplished artist and has won awards for her work and displayed her pieces at many exhibits. Her favorite medium is acrylic on canvas but she also dabbles in lino cut printing, wood burning, sewing, crochet, papier mache, soap making. She is also an avid baker and chocolatier. She is a singer/songwriter and has performed with her husband James Ingalls at local coffee houses under the name “Love and Subversion.” Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Peaceful Political Revolution in American Podcast.In Season 1 Episode 2  last year, I spoke with Professor Emeritus of Democracy & Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Harvey J. Kaye. He is an award-winning author and editor of 18 books on history and politics -including Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again and FDR on Democracy.  In S1 E2, we talked about his book Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. He's a really gifted speaker and a real pleasure to talk to.  At that time, Harvey suggested he come back for another conversation, this time about FDR's Economic Bill of Rights.  I'm really happy to say that that conversation has finally arrived. In addition, we will be joined by his friend, activist, and Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, Alan Minsky. Alan is a lifelong activist, who has worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. He was the Program Director at KPFK in Los Angeles from 2009-2018. He also has coordinated Pacifica Radio's national coverage of elections. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He is the creator and producer of the political podcasts for The Nation and Jacobin Magazine, as well as a contributor to Commondreams and Truthdig.Alan's activism began in college with union solidarity work and opposition to US involvement in Central America. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Alan was active in the counter-globalization and media democracy movements. In 2011, he began organizing for Occupy Wall Street in the months leading up to the occupation of Zuccotti Park. Alan began working with PDA in 2014.This country has seen its share of opulence and struggle. But what about its share of democracy? We live in an era, not unlike the Gilded Age, which flourished from 1877 to 1900. The Gilded Age was marked by extreme concentrations of wealth and the rise of powerful industrial titans known as the Robber Barons; men like Jay Gould, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie. Corruption, unprecedented immigration, and the concentration of wealth by the 1% were just a few of the things that characterized that period of American history. This explosion of economic prosperity for a few arose only 12 years after the Civil War, which raged between 1861 and 1865, and only a few months after Reconstruction which lasted until 1877. The Age of the Robber Barons or the "Gilded Age" was followed by a very different set of challenges, including events like WWI, which began in 1914 and ended in 1918. Along come the roaring twenties, then there was the Great Crash of 1929, and the Great Depression which lasted until 1939. In addition to all these hardships, Americans had to confront the Great Dust Bowl, from 1930 until 1936, caused by shortsighted federal land policies, changes in regional weather, and new mechanized farming techniques which led to the erosion of vital topsoil.FDR won the election to the New York State Senate in 1910 as a democrat and quickly became associated with the progressives of the party.  He was elected governor of New York in 1928 and again in 1930. He was first elected President in 1932. He was re-elected President in 1936, 1940, and once again in 1944. He died in office during his historic 4th term in office and is largely credited with bringing the United States out of the worst economic disaster America had ever faced, as well as a devastating World War.Harvey, Alan, it's an honor to be able to share your insights into FDR and as importantly, your proposal for a new Economic Bill of Rights. There's a lot to get into, but first, how are you doing?

On today's show Meghan Murphy discusses gender ideology and why we need to push back against the radical trans agenda. GUEST OVERVIEW: Meghan Murphy is a writer, the founder and editor of Feminist Current, and host of The Same Drugs. Her work has been published in The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, TruthDig, Vice, the National Post, The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, i-D, New Statesman, and more. You can read her Substack at https://meghanmurphy.substack.com/   

Chris Hedges is surprisingly cheery for someone who has, by his own admission, “a dark view of human nature.” When we met for this conversation at Substack's office in San Francisco, he was full of smiles and good humor—at least during the times we weren't discussing death and destruction. He had just come from the gym, a habit that borders on a fixation for him, since he works out as a way to deal with the trauma from years of covering war in some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones: the former Yugoslavia, El Salvador, and Iraq, to name a few. It has been 20 years since his groundbreaking book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning came out. Its force was so powerful that it was quoted at the start of Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 film The Hurt Locker: “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” At the time, Chris was a bureau chief for the New York Times, covering the Middle East and the Balkans, but he quit that position following criticism of a speech he gave denouncing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He has been publishing in independent media ever since, first at Truthdig and later with an interview show, On Contact, on Russia Today (RT). YouTube wiped out the archives to that show when it removed RT from the platform following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. “They're embracing censorship, let's be clear,” Chris says. In this conversation, we talk about why journalists like him keep getting drawn to war despite its dangers, why he sides with the suffering (including in his side role as a Presbyterian minister), and what he thinks is wrong with today's media.Chris recommends this post from Jonathan Cook's newsletter.Show notes* Subscribe to The Chris Hedges Report on Substack* Find Chris Hedges on Twitter (as explained in the episode, not run by him)* War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning* Other writers on Substack Chris recommends: Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Paul Street, Jonathan Cook* The Catullus poem Chris quotes* Eunice Wong's website* [02:05] Navigating war zones (and avoiding being killed)* [04:43] Being taken prisoner in Basra* [5:55] The mental stability of a war correspondent* [06:51] How Chris got into war reporting* [08:40] “You don't stay lucky forever”* [09:09] Becoming a recluse* [15:19] Writing a memoir * [21:03] The Presbyterian minister* [22:33] The ordination to journalism* [25:47] The state of today's journalism * [31:33] Why social media sound bites are “world without context”* [33:27] The problem with independent media* [34:06] Mainstream media and WikiLeaks * [36:37] What has happened to our institutions* [37:03] Is there hope? * [40:40] Meeting his wife, Eunice WongThe Active Voice is a podcast hosted by Hamish McKenzie, featuring weekly conversations with writers about how the internet is affecting the way they live and write. It is produced by Hanne Winarsky, with audio engineering by Seven Morris, content production by Hannah Ray, and production support from Bailey Richardson. All artwork is by Joro Chen, and music is by Phelps & Munro. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.substack.com

It's been 12 years since the catastrophic explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 workers and causing the largest marine oil spill in human history. A lot of forgetting can happen in that time. A lot of cultural amnesia and historical distortion has been able to set in over the past 12 years, whether that came in the form of a years-long PR campaign from British Petroleum (BP), the high-budget Hollywood-ification of the disaster in the 2016 movie starring Mark Wahlberg, or just the general lack of workers' voices and stories in the media. In this episode, we talk with Leo Lindner, who worked for 10 years at the mud company M-I, the last 5 of which were spent working on the Deepwater Horizon. Leo was on the rig on April 20, 2010, the day of the explosion. We talk to Leo about his life, about moving to and growing up in Louisiana as a kid, working on tugboats and in oil fields, and about the experience of being a worker in the midst of one of the most devastating industrial and environmental disasters of the modern era.  Additional links/info below... Leo's Twitter page Richard Pallardy, Encyclopedia Britannica, "Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010)" Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, "Ten Years After Deepwater Horizon, US Is Still Vulnerable to Catastrophic Spills" James B. Meigs, Slate, "Blame BP for Deepwater Horizon. But Direct Your Outrage to the Actual Mistake" Alison Rose Levy, TruthDig, "The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Was a Cover-Up, Not a Cleanup" Associated Press, "Short Portraits of 11 Who Died on the Deepwater Horizon" Megan Milliken Biven, Current Affairs, "Dredging Up the Past" Oliver Milman, The Guardian, "'I Pray to God It Never Happens Again': US Gulf Coast Bears Scars of Historic Oil Spill 10 Years On" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People Theme Song

This week, Harvey J. Kaye and Alan Minsky stop by the Macro N Cheese clubhouse to talk to Steve about the 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights. Kaye, a historian, brings stories of FDR's four freedoms and the impetus for what he called the 2nd Bill of Rights – an Economic Bill of Rights. Minsky brings his experience in progressive politics, both as a journalist and with Progressive Democrats of America. Of course, the Minsky name holds a special place in our MMT hearts – our own Randy Wray studied under Alan's dad, Hyman. When listening to Alan, one might suspect he's also related to friend-of-the-podcast Robert Hockett, who coined the term “metabolic optimism.” Whether or not we share Alan's optimism, we agree with his insistence that “our winning political hand is our economic message.” The economy is central to everyone's life and should be central to our agenda. He believes the 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights is the avenue to achieve that centrality in the left progressive program. As Harvey takes us through it, he adds historical details; many of these points can be traced back to FDR. 1. The right to a useful job that pays a living wage. 2. The right to a voice in the workplace through a union and collective bargaining. 3. The right to comprehensive quality health care. 4. The right to a complete, cost-free public education and access to broadband Internet. 5. The right to decent, safe, affordable housing. 6. The right to a clean environment and a healthy planet. 7. The right to a meaningful endowment of resources at birth and a secure retirement. 8. The right to sound banking and financial services. 9. The right to an equitable and economically fair justice system. 10. The right to recreation and participation in civic and democratic life. Roosevelt believed the American promise of “the pursuit of happiness” is not possible without economic security. FDR's agenda lived on after his presidency – though without much success. Harvey names Jimmy Carter as the president who dealt the death blow to the New Deal: “Let me make it clear, ever since the 1970's the Democratic Party has not simply turned its back on the FDR legacy – the Jimmy Carter presidency was the launching pad of neoliberalism in the United States. People like to talk about Reagan. They like to talk about Clinton in the 1990s. Jimmy Carter was the first neoliberal president. The deregulation of finance, the deregulation of transportation, it all stems from Carter's determination ... It's Carter who first used the term austerity to promote the neoliberal agenda.” Alan adds: “the truth is, as every listener to Macro N Cheese certainly knows, that one party has been willing to run up deficits, the other party generally has not.” Democrats have wrapped themselves in a mantle of fiscal austerity and would sooner lose elections than change. This episode gives you history, it gives you economics, it gives you policy, and it engages in ever-popular political speculation. Did we mention Bernie? Yeah, his name comes up a few times. Harvey J. Kaye is Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of the newly published "The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great," "Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again," and "FDR on Democracy." Alan Minsky is the Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America. Alan worked as a progressive journalist for the fifteen years before joining PDA. He was the Program Director at KPFK Radio in Los Angeles, and the coordinator of Pacifica Radio's national broadcasts. He was the creator and original producer for the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, as well as the political podcasts for The Nation and Jacobin Magazine. His many articles can be found at Common Dreams, The Nation, Truthdig and other platforms. Alan is the son of the late economist Hyman Minsky....

Valentina Musmeci"Premio Ostana"https://www.premioostana.it/Sabato 25 giugno 2022 - ore 16.15Cause e conseguenze del declino della biodiversità e dell'estinzione delle lingue minoritarie:il caso dell'altopiano tibetano.Conversazione conBhuchung D. Sonam Lingua tibetana (Nepal)A cura di Valentina Musmecicon la partecipazione di Nicolas Tournadre, linguista.A seguire: Songs of the water spirits presentato dall'autore Nicolò BongiornoBhuchung D Sonam è un poeta, saggista, editore e traduttore.La sua opera di valorizzazione della lingua tibetana è tra le più importanti del panorama mondiale, la sua forza nel cercare di rendere udibile la voce censurata degli scrittori del suo paese d'origine è un gesto coraggioso di cura per la comunità di tibetani esiliati e per quelli rimasti in terra tibetana. La poesia può essere un'arma o uno scudo, nel caso di Bhuchung Sonam, la sua poesia è stimolo e fonte di riflessione per noi occidentali e per tutti i Tibetani nel mondoBhuchung D. Sonam è nato in Tibet. In esilio, ha studiato alla Tibetan Children's Village School, in una piccola città nel nord dell'India, concludendo gli studi di Economia presso la Indian University.Ha lavorato presso il Dipartimento di Informazione e Relazioni Internazionali del Governo Tibetano in Esilio con sede a Dharamsala.I suoi libri includono Yak Horns: Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing, Music, Film and Politics, Songs of the Arrow e Songs from Dewachan. Ha curato Muses in Exile: An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry.Le sue traduzioni includono Mindful Education: Theory and Practice, Handbook for Tibetan Journalists e Twenty Years of My Life in China's Death Camp.Ha compilato e curato un libro intitolato Auto-immolazione tibetana: notizie, opinioni e risposta globale, una documentazione definitiva sull'auto-immolazione tibetana dal 1998.Ha anche compilato e tradotto Burning the Sun's Braids: New Poetry from Tibet.Bhuchung D. Sonam è membro fondatore di TibetWrites e del suo marchio Blackneck Books, circolo tibetano di scrittori che promuove e pubblica il lavoro creativo dei tibetani.I suoi scritti sono pubblicati tra gli altri sul Journal of Indian Literature, HIMAL Southasia, Hindustan Times, Tibetan Review, Truthdig e Seminar Journal.Premio OstanaDal 24 al 26 giugno 2022, Ostanascritture in lingua madre – ecrituras en lenga maireè un appuntamento con le lingue madri del mondo che ogni anno riunisce a Ostana, paese occitano di 85 abitanti in Valle Po ai piedi del Monviso, autori di lingua madre da tutto il mondo, per un festival della biodiversità linguistica.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Chris Hedges, originally aired in June of 2019. All too often our conversations around the consolidation of wealth and power in America blindly fixate on the politics of the Right and Trump as the anti-hero archetype. We must deepen our analyses and rethink our movements beyond the two-party divide in order to truly understand and hold accountable the socio-political and economic forces that have brought us to such a crisis. This week, we speak with journalist and author Chris Hedges who guides us through the history and inner workings of neoliberalism, the rise of corporate capitalism, and our descent into fascism. Chris Hedges is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 12 books and writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig and hosts a show, “On Contact,” on RT America. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Music by Charlie Parr. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

Sign-up for Michael Moore's FREE email list at: MichaelMoore.com Join Michael Moore for a FREE screening of "Fahrenheit 9/11" Friday, September 10th at 9pm ET https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-free-worldwide-screening-of-fahrenheit A transcript of this episode will soon be available at: https://rumble.media/category/podcast/transcripts/ *********** Chris Hedges is one of the great journalists, thinkers, war reporters and truth-tellers of our time. He won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on global terrorism while at the New York Times, who later fired him for speaking out against the Iraq war. He joins Michael to speak on Afghanistan, the collapse of the American empire, the upcoming 9/11 anniversary, and the end of abortion rights in Texas (and around the U.S.) Hedges was a war correspondent for many years and has seen awful human degradation, societies in collapse, social bonds being ruptured, and people turning to “self-destructive behavior and magical thinking.” Alarmingly, he sees all of these signals of decay here in America. Hedges has also studied the Evangelical Christian Right in America and wrote a prescient book in 2008 titled, “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” He details the decades-long battle on women's reproductive rights, the cynical and dishonest methods used to restrict access to abortion and how this pernicious form of fascism has only grown stronger since that book was published. However, as a teacher, an ordained Presbyterian minister, and a graduate from Harvard's Divinity School, Hedges draws on the teachings of great philosophers and theologians to lay out a moral imperative for solidarity and struggle and explains why we must not succumb to despair. Episode Notes: His most recent piece on the Christian Right in ScheerPost – The evil within us: How Christian fascist ideology led to the Atlanta killings https://scheerpost.com/2021/03/22/hedges-the-evil-within-us/ Hedges in Truthdig on abortion rights back in 2007 – The Greatest Threat to Choice: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-greatest-threat-to-choice/ And Hedges' piece on The Collective Suicide Machine and the Fall of Kabul in ScheerPost: https://scheerpost.com/2021/07/26/hedges-the-collective-suicide-machine/ You can order “A Bomb in Every Issue How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America” here: https://thenewpress.com/books/bomb-every-issue And pre-order Hedges' forthcoming book here: https://bookshop.org/a/1381/9781982154431 Music in the episode: "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" - George Harrison https://open.spotify.com/track/4XMRt4xFqLzGs4wDKkSSeu? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rumble-with-michael-moore/message

This week on Talk World Radio: Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army officer, director of the new Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), senior fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP), and contributing editor at Antiwar.com. His work has appeared in the LA Times, NY Times, The Nation, HuffPost, The Hill, Salon, BuzzFeed News, Tom Dispatch and Truthdig.com, among other publications. He hosts the Fortress on a Hill podcast and has a website at https://skepticalvet.com

Mark O'Connell LCSW Mark O'Connell, LCSW-R, is a New York City-based psychotherapist in private practice.  He is author of the books "The Performing Art of Therapy: Acting Insights and Techniques for Clinicians" (Routledge) and "Modern Brides & Modern Grooms: A Guide to Planning Straight, Gay, and Other Nontraditional 21st Century Weddings" (Skyhorse). Mark's popular writing has also appeared in The Psychotherapy Networker, Huffington Post, Out Magazine, and Truthdig among others. His clinical writing has been published in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Journal of Lesbian and Gay Mental Health.  He speaks publicly on issues related to mental health, identity, and relationships. Mr. O'Connell graduated with Honors from Hunter College School of Social Work, and has been mentored in relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy by Ken Corbett and Lewis Aron among others.  He has an MFA in acting from Trinity Rep Conservatory (associated with Brown University), and is co-founder of the NYC-based theater company Lynx Ensemble Theater; creating performances that promote empathy and expand concepts of identity.  He is also a proud alum of Bard College at Simon's Rock. Mark practices psychodynamic psychotherapy in Manhattan's Gramercy district, working with a wide variety of individual adults, adolescents, and couples, including actors, artists, and the LGBT communities. His website is www.markoconnelltherapist.com. Robin Weigert (from Wikipedia) Weigert was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Dionne Laufman and Berlin-born Wolfgang Oscar Weigert, a psychiatrist.[1] She is Jewish.[2][3] After graduating from Brandeis University in 1991, Weigert attended New York University, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in the Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.[4] After a decade as a stage actress based in New York City, she moved to Los Angeles and has appeared in various films, television shows and mini-series. Weigert is best known for her much-lauded portrayal of the unkempt, cantankerous and foul-mouthed drunkard Calamity Jane in the HBO television series Deadwood, which ran from 2004 to 2006.[5] In 2004, Weigert was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role. In 2006, she won Hollywood Life magazine's "Breakthrough of the Year" award.[3] Mark O'connor Video for Psychotherapy Networker Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

Armistice Day November 11, 2020 Daniel 'Danny' Sjursen is a retired Major in the US Army, a graduate and history teacher at Westpoint and a combat veteran from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. His wartime experiences and discoveries about the true history of the US military role in the world led him to do an intellectual and spiritual “About Face.” He is now a regular contributor to antiwar.com, Truthdig, The Nation, Tom Dispatch, The Huffington Post, and The Hill. His work has also appeared in Harper's, The LA Times, and Buzz Feed. His latest book "Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War" offers a new, more complex notion of patriotism. Danny co-hosts the progressive veterans' podcast “Fortress on a Hill.” (Twitter @SkepticalVet). He gives us new perspectives on these challenging times of political turmoil. -- See the video at: PeoplePoweredPlanet.com -- Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM Also, check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis at: www.theworldismycountry.com

Building a career around solidarity is never easy. Sonali Kolhatkar chose solidarity instead of a career in academia or the private sector. Though there have been trade-offs, she has no regrets as she explains in this discussion. WATCH NEXT: Coaching v Teaching: https://youtu.be/p8inj_fNKl8Gaza and Resistance: https://youtu.be/01JfnVtM1asEnding White Privilege: https://youtu.be/n_oWs4twSzUSonali Kolhatkar is the host and creator of Rising Up with Sonali, airing on numerous Pacifica radio stations and affiliates and on Free Speech TV (Dish Network, DirecTV, Roku, SlingTV). She has won numerous awards including Best TV Anchor from the LA Press Club, and also been nominated as Best Radio Anchor 4 years in a row. She is a Writing Fellow with Independent Media Institute and was previously a weekly columnist for Truthdig.com. She won First Place at the Los Angeles Press Club Annual Awards for Best Election Commentary in 2016 for a Truthdig essay. She is the author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence, and the co-Director of the non-profit group, Afghan Women's Mission. She has a Masters in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Watch her 2014 Tedx talk, My journey from astrophysicist to radio host. Originally from India and born and raised in the United Arab Emirates, she is also an artist and chef and lives with her husband and two children in Pasadena, California. Visit her personal website, www.sonalikolhatkar.com. Time Stamps: 0:00 - I write my own words0:19 - Intro2:12 - Early life7:04 - Patriarchy, Love and Solidarity10:52 - The revolutionary women of Afghanistan14:47 - Choosing social justice19:35 - Letting Afghan women lead22:02 - Independent journalism 26:37 - Family and tradeoffs35:25 - Upside of independent journalism40:05 - Twitter "journalism"42:44 - Sonali's career advice

Can art still be used as a weapon against neoliberalism and capitalism? Or has the commodification of subversive art neutered it's dangerous ideas/themes?   About Mr. Fish: Dwayne Booth (a.k.a. Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist and freelance writer whose work can most regularly be seen on ScheerPost.com.   He has been a cartoonist and freelance writer for 20 years, publishing under both his own name and the pen name of Mr. Fish with many of the nation's most reputable and prestigious magazines, journals, and newspapers. In addition to Harper's Magazine and Truthdig.com, his work has appeared in: the Los Angeles Times the Village Voice Vanity Fair Mother Jones Magazine The Advocate Z Magazine The Utne Reader Slate.com MSNBC.com   He was an animated character designer for Bento Box Entertainment and is the subject of a 2017 award-winning documentary by Pablo Bryant called Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End. His most recent books are Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People (Akashic Books 2011), WARNING! Graphic Content (Annenberg Press 2014), And Then the World Blew Up (Fantagraphics Books 2017), Long Story Short: Turning Famous Books into Cartoons (Akashic Books 2020), and Nobody Left (Fantagraphics Books 2020).   Get "Nobody Left" Here: https://bookshop.org/books/nobody-left/9781683962939   Mr. Fish Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mrfish     Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland   Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d   Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/black-godfather...

Today on Sojourner Truth: Today kicks off what for many is week of travel and preparation for the U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving. This, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. But increasingly, those in support of Indigenous rights are referring tot he holiday as a Day of Mourning. Others are referring to it as Thankstaking. Our guest is Jacqueline Keeler, a journalist and author with Dine and Ihanktonwan Dakota roots. Jacqueline serves as Editor-in-chief of Pollen Nation Magazine, Editor of Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Bears Ears and creator of #NotYourMascot. Jacqueline also has a book coming out in March looking at the political divide in the United States and its origins, entitled Standoff. The latest in what are increasingly failed attempts by Donald Trump to hold on to the presidency, even as the administration is finally allowing the Biden-Harris team to access the transition of power process. Our guest is Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Cohn has testified before Congress and debated the legality of the war in Afghanistan at the prestigious Oxford Union. Her columns appear on Truthout, HuffPost, Salon, Jurist, Truthdig, Portside, Alternet, CommonDreams and Consortium News, and she has provided commentary for CBS News, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. The crisis in Ethiopia, causing alarm across the continent of Africa. There are growing concerns about a civil war and/or massacres by the African Union. There is also growing concern in the transition team of Joe Biden. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won a Nobel Prize for bringing peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, has now unleashed his forces against the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The Front has accused the Prime Minister of a power grab and ethnic cleansing. What's going on? We speak with Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr Horne has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Today kicks off what for many is week of travel and preparation for the U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving. This, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. But increasingly, those in support of Indigenous rights are referring tot he holiday as a Day of Mourning. Others are referring to it as Thankstaking. Our guest is Jacqueline Keeler, a journalist and author with Dine and Ihanktonwan Dakota roots. Jacqueline serves as Editor-in-chief of Pollen Nation Magazine, Editor of Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Bears Ears and creator of #NotYourMascot. Jacqueline also has a book coming out in March looking at the political divide in the United States and its origins, entitled Standoff. The latest in what are increasingly failed attempts by Donald Trump to hold on to the presidency, even as the administration is finally allowing the Biden-Harris team to access the transition of power process. Our guest is Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Cohn has testified before Congress and debated the legality of the war in Afghanistan at the prestigious Oxford Union. Her columns appear on Truthout, HuffPost, Salon, Jurist, Truthdig, Portside, Alternet, CommonDreams and Consortium News, and she has provided commentary for CBS News, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. The crisis in Ethiopia, causing alarm across the continent of Africa. There are growing concerns about a civil war and/or massacres by the African Union. There is also growing concern in the transition team of Joe Biden. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won a Nobel Prize for bringing peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, has now unleashed his forces against the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The Front has accused the Prime Minister of a power grab and ethnic cleansing. What's going on? We speak with Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr Horne has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Today kicks off what for many is week of travel and preparation for the U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving. This, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. But increasingly, those in support of Indigenous rights are referring tot he holiday as a Day of Mourning. Others are referring to it as Thankstaking. Our guest is Jacqueline Keeler, a journalist and author with Dine and Ihanktonwan Dakota roots. Jacqueline serves as Editor-in-chief of Pollen Nation Magazine, Editor of Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Bears Ears and creator of #NotYourMascot. Jacqueline also has a book coming out in March looking at the political divide in the United States and its origins, entitled Standoff. The latest in what are increasingly failed attempts by Donald Trump to hold on to the presidency, even as the administration is finally allowing the Biden-Harris team to access the transition of power process. Our guest is Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Cohn has testified before Congress and debated the legality of the war in Afghanistan at the prestigious Oxford Union. Her columns appear on Truthout, HuffPost, Salon, Jurist, Truthdig, Portside, Alternet, CommonDreams and Consortium News, and she has provided commentary for CBS News, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. The crisis in Ethiopia, causing alarm across the continent of Africa. There are growing concerns about a civil war and/or massacres by the African Union. There is also growing concern in the transition team of Joe Biden. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won a Nobel Prize for bringing peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, has now unleashed his forces against the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The Front has accused the Prime Minister of a power grab and ethnic cleansing. What's going on? We speak with Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr Horne has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Today kicks off what for many is week of travel and preparation for the U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving. This, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. But increasingly, those in support of Indigenous rights are referring tot he holiday as a Day of Mourning. Others are referring to it as Thankstaking. Our guest is Jacqueline Keeler, a journalist and author with Dine and Ihanktonwan Dakota roots. Jacqueline serves as Editor-in-chief of Pollen Nation Magazine, Editor of Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Bears Ears and creator of #NotYourMascot. Jacqueline also has a book coming out in March looking at the political divide in the United States and its origins, entitled Standoff. The latest in what are increasingly failed attempts by Donald Trump to hold on to the presidency, even as the administration is finally allowing the Biden-Harris team to access the transition of power process. Our guest is Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Cohn has testified before Congress and debated the legality of the war in Afghanistan at the prestigious Oxford Union. Her columns appear on Truthout, HuffPost, Salon, Jurist, Truthdig, Portside, Alternet, CommonDreams and Consortium News, and she has provided commentary for CBS News, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. The crisis in Ethiopia, causing alarm across the continent of Africa. There are growing concerns about a civil war and/or massacres by the African Union. There is also growing concern in the transition team of Joe Biden. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won a Nobel Prize for bringing peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, has now unleashed his forces against the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The Front has accused the Prime Minister of a power grab and ethnic cleansing. What's going on? We speak with Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr Horne has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Today kicks off what for many is week of travel and preparation for the U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving. This, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. But increasingly, those in support of Indigenous rights are referring tot he holiday as a Day of Mourning. Others are referring to it as Thankstaking. Our guest is Jacqueline Keeler, a journalist and author with Dine and Ihanktonwan Dakota roots. Jacqueline serves as Editor-in-chief of Pollen Nation Magazine, Editor of Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Bears Ears and creator of #NotYourMascot. Jacqueline also has a book coming out in March looking at the political divide in the United States and its origins, entitled Standoff. The latest in what are increasingly failed attempts by Donald Trump to hold on to the presidency, even as the administration is finally allowing the Biden-Harris team to access the transition of power process. Our guest is Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Cohn has testified before Congress and debated the legality of the war in Afghanistan at the prestigious Oxford Union. Her columns appear on Truthout, HuffPost, Salon, Jurist, Truthdig, Portside, Alternet, CommonDreams and Consortium News, and she has provided commentary for CBS News, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. The crisis in Ethiopia, causing alarm across the continent of Africa. There are growing concerns about a civil war and/or massacres by the African Union. There is also growing concern in the transition team of Joe Biden. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won a Nobel Prize for bringing peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, has now unleashed his forces against the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The Front has accused the Prime Minister of a power grab and ethnic cleansing. What's going on? We speak with Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr Horne has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Today kicks off what for many is week of travel and preparation for the U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving. This, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. But increasingly, those in support of Indigenous rights are referring tot he holiday as a Day of Mourning. Others are referring to it as Thankstaking. Our guest is Jacqueline Keeler, a journalist and author with Dine and Ihanktonwan Dakota roots. Jacqueline serves as Editor-in-chief of Pollen Nation Magazine, Editor of Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Bears Ears and creator of #NotYourMascot. Jacqueline also has a book coming out in March looking at the political divide in the United States and its origins, entitled Standoff. The latest in what are increasingly failed attempts by Donald Trump to hold on to the presidency, even as the administration is finally allowing the Biden-Harris team to access the transition of power process. Our guest is Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Cohn has testified before Congress and debated the legality of the war in Afghanistan at the prestigious Oxford Union. Her columns appear on Truthout, HuffPost, Salon, Jurist, Truthdig, Portside, Alternet, CommonDreams and Consortium News, and she has provided commentary for CBS News, BBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR and Pacifica Radio. The crisis in Ethiopia, causing alarm across the continent of Africa. There are growing concerns about a civil war and/or massacres by the African Union. There is also growing concern in the transition team of Joe Biden. Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won a Nobel Prize for bringing peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, has now unleashed his forces against the Tigray People's Liberation Front. The Front has accused the Prime Minister of a power grab and ethnic cleansing. What's going on? We speak with Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History & African-American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr Horne has written more than 30 books. His most recently published book is The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, published in June 2020.

Today on Sojourner Truth: The latest on the presidential race, including Donald Trump's court challenges. What happened in down ballot races? Why are Democrats worried about control of Congress? Is there any good news for progressive candidates and initiatives? Our guests are Alan Minsky and Marjorie Cohn. Alan Minsky is the Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. A lifelong activist, Alan worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. Alan was the Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018; and he regularly coordinated Pacifica Radio's national political coverage. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He has also worked with The Nation Magazine and Jacobin on their audio projects and has been a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Truthdig. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II also joins us to discuss the ongoing 2020 elections and what's at stake for poor and impacted communities across the United States. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the author of four books .

Today on Sojourner Truth: The latest on the presidential race, including Donald Trump's court challenges. What happened in down ballot races? Why are Democrats worried about control of Congress? Is there any good news for progressive candidates and initiatives? Our guests are Alan Minsky and Marjorie Cohn. Alan Minsky is the Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. A lifelong activist, Alan worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. Alan was the Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018; and he regularly coordinated Pacifica Radio's national political coverage. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He has also worked with The Nation Magazine and Jacobin on their audio projects and has been a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Truthdig. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II also joins us to discuss the ongoing 2020 elections and what's at stake for poor and impacted communities across the United States. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the author of four books .

Today on Sojourner Truth: The latest on the presidential race, including Donald Trump's court challenges. What happened in down ballot races? Why are Democrats worried about control of Congress? Is there any good news for progressive candidates and initiatives? Our guests are Alan Minsky and Marjorie Cohn. Alan Minsky is the Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. A lifelong activist, Alan worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. Alan was the Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018; and he regularly coordinated Pacifica Radio's national political coverage. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He has also worked with The Nation Magazine and Jacobin on their audio projects and has been a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Truthdig. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II also joins us to discuss the ongoing 2020 elections and what's at stake for poor and impacted communities across the United States. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the author of four books .

Today on Sojourner Truth: The latest on the presidential race, including Donald Trump's court challenges. What happened in down ballot races? Why are Democrats worried about control of Congress? Is there any good news for progressive candidates and initiatives? Our guests are Alan Minsky and Marjorie Cohn. Alan Minsky is the Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. A lifelong activist, Alan worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. Alan was the Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018; and he regularly coordinated Pacifica Radio's national political coverage. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He has also worked with The Nation Magazine and Jacobin on their audio projects and has been a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Truthdig. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II also joins us to discuss the ongoing 2020 elections and what's at stake for poor and impacted communities across the United States. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the author of four books .

Today on Sojourner Truth: The latest on the presidential race, including Donald Trump's court challenges. What happened in down ballot races? Why are Democrats worried about control of Congress? Is there any good news for progressive candidates and initiatives? Our guests are Alan Minsky and Marjorie Cohn. Alan Minsky is the Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. A lifelong activist, Alan worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. Alan was the Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018; and he regularly coordinated Pacifica Radio's national political coverage. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He has also worked with The Nation Magazine and Jacobin on their audio projects and has been a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Truthdig. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II also joins us to discuss the ongoing 2020 elections and what's at stake for poor and impacted communities across the United States. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the author of four books .

Today on Sojourner Truth: The latest on the presidential race, including Donald Trump's court challenges. What happened in down ballot races? Why are Democrats worried about control of Congress? Is there any good news for progressive candidates and initiatives? Our guests are Alan Minsky and Marjorie Cohn. Alan Minsky is the Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. A lifelong activist, Alan worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. Alan was the Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018; and he regularly coordinated Pacifica Radio's national political coverage. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He has also worked with The Nation Magazine and Jacobin on their audio projects and has been a regular contributor to Common Dreams and Truthdig. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law where she taught for 25 years. The former president of the National Lawyers Guild and criminal defense attorney is a legal scholar and political analyst who writes books and articles, and lectures throughout the world about human rights, US foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II also joins us to discuss the ongoing 2020 elections and what's at stake for poor and impacted communities across the United States. The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the author of four books .

Robert “Bob” Scheer, famed journalist, interviewer, activist, and editor-in-chief of TruthDig.com, stops by the podcast to discuss his career, his interviews with presidents from Nixon to Clinton, and his radio […]

Robert “Bob” Scheer, famed journalist, interviewer, activist, and editor-in-chief of TruthDig.com, stops by the podcast to discuss his career, his interviews with American presidents from Nixon to Clinton, and his […]

From the Story Vault: Megan Collins is an author whose debut novel THE WINTER SISTER is being called gripping, luminous, and mysterious. She holds a MFA in creative writing and has taught her subject at a university level. Her work has been published by Blinders Literary Journal, Truthdig, The American Journal of Poetry, Quail Bell Magazine, and numerous others.

Repeat guest Pulitzer Prize and Emmy winning Chris Hedges, was a NYTimes foreign correspondent for 15 years. He' s a columnist for Truthdig and His new book is America: The Farewell Tour

Chris Hedges is a cultural critic and author who was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. Chris reported from Latin American, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for the web site Truthdig. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. =============================== Please Buy Chris Hedges New Book “America: The Farewell Tour” A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair—drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate. America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In , Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d'état is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. A poignant cry reported from communities across the country, America: The Farewell Tour seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time. =============================== Chris Hedges Quotes It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one's own country, than an outcast from one's self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind. Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible. I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything – the natural world, human beings – that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits. The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock. There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice. The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world. I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists. The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention. Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour, Pulitzer Prize, Journalist, freedom advocate, civil rights, author, economic collapse, tyranny, democracy, justice, truth, Outer Limits of Inner Truth  

Renowned author Chris Hedges paints a bleak picture of our world today, in rapid economic, environmental, and religious decline.  He says we have a chance to turn things around—but only if we stand up for our rights, and stop holding out hope that political parties, or other global leaders will act in our interests.  On this edition, Chris Hedges speaks about his new book, The World as it is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.    Special thanks to KPFA Radio in Berkeley.   Featuring:   Chris Hedges, author of “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress,” columnist for Truthdig and senior fellow for The Nation Institute. For More Information: Chris Hedges: http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges#bio Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/ The Nation Institute http://www.nationinstitute.org/ New York Times articles by Chris Hedges http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=chris+hedges&more=date_all Daniel Berrigan http://www.webster.edu/~barrettb/berrigan.htm Chris Hedges on War is a Force that Gives us Meaning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2SaM8RJ30c Chris Hedges on the death of Osama bin Laden: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/chris_hedges_speaks_on_osama_bin_ladens_death_20110502/ The post Making Contact – Chris Hedges on the Myth of Human progress appeared first on KPFA.

    We are witnessing a pivotal time in history. People are unifying in ways never before seen – from the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia to Madison, Wisconsin – solidarity is evident. But solidarity is shifting both in our understanding and the mediums of which it is expressed. On this edition, we go to Left Forum, one of the largest annual gatherings of progressive thinkers. This year's theme, ‘Towards a Political Struggle,' explores solidarity amidst a vast political changing climate and new technology.   Featuring:  Laura Flanders, author, host, and founder of Grit TV, Paul Mason, Economics Editor for BBC's Newsnight and author of “Live Working, Die Fighting,” Cornel West, author of numerous books and Professor at the Center for African American Studies and Department of Religion at Princeton University. For More Information:   Left Forum  Cornel West  Laura Flanders  Paul Mason  Barbara Ehrenreich  World Social Forum 2011  Brecht Forum You Tube Videos of Related Talks: Paul Mason, Left Forum: 2011 Opening Plenary, Pace University, New York, NY, March 18, 2011 Cornel West, Left Forum: 2011 Opening Plenary, Pace University, New York, NY, March 18, 2011 Laura Flanders, Left Forum: 2011 Opening Plenary, Pace University, New York, NY, March 18, 2011 Articles and Books:   What's left of the American left? There's no denying its historic decline, but the left does not lack for issues. It needs only organisation by Richard Wolff The new solidarity Series, The Guardian     BBC NEWS –Idyl Scrawl , Paul Mason's Blog  Where Liberals Go To Feel Good,Truthdig, Chris Hedges  Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom, The Nation  Plutocracy Now: What Wisconsin Is Really About, Mother Jones Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, by Bill Fletcher Jr. & Fernando Gapasin, University of California Press, 2009 The post Making Contact – April 22, 2011 appeared first on KPFA.

The Great American Stick-Up (Nation Books) Robert Scheer, editor-in-chief of Truthdig.com and co-host of "Left, Right, and Center" on KCRW, will discuss and sign his new book, The Great American Stick-Up. "One of the best reporters of our time." ―Joan Didion Robert Scheer, former national affairs correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is the Editor-in-Chief of the Webby Award-winning Internet magazine Truthdig and a professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Scheer also is a co-host of the syndicated weekly radio program "Left, Right and Center" on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, CA. He is the author, most recently, of The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America. He lives in Los Angeles. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS NOVEMBER 22, 2010.