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This is Hell!

Summary: Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.

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 Cider booms and craft beer coups / The Hollywood Retorter | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:43

The Hopleaf's Michael Roper explains how investor turmoil is dethroning craft beer founders. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen examines the jobs available in Hollywood, large and small.

 A deep look into Egypt’s economic and political dilemmas. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:17

Political economist Amr Adly examines the authoritarian Catch-22 facing Egypt's regime. Amr is author of the paper "Egypt’s Regime Faces an Authoritarian Catch-22" for the Carnegie Middle East Center.

 Labor’s long road to crisis / Rio’s Olympic burden. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:33

Jacobin's Nicole Aschoff explores the long, managed decline of American auto worker unions. Nicole wrote the article "The Long Road to Crisis" in the latest issue of Jacobin.  / Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on the state of dissent and democracy in Brazil. Brian has been writing about Rio and the Olympics for Brasilwire for months now.

 Accounting for Donald Trump’s business history. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:00

Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston dives deep into the business history of Donald Trump. David is author of the new book "The Making of Donald Trump from Melville House Books.

 Baltimore and police violence a year after Freddie Gray’s killing. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:07

Journalist Anjali Kamat profiles the Baltimore Uprising, and all that happened (and didn't) after.

 Inside the corporate control of special economic zones. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:00:57

Journalist Matt Kennard tours the parallel world of work and protest in Special Economic Zones.

 Zika goes viral / Terror and politics in Bangladesh. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:00:24

Zika goes viral / Terror and politics in Bangladesh.

 How emerging powers challenged the WTO’s neoliberal economics. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:48

Sociologist Kristen Hopewell explains how Brazil, China and India pushed back against the World Trade Organization. PLUS: Rotten History

 A history of neoliberal policing in New York City. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:10

Alex S. Vitale and Brian Jordan Jefferson outline the rise of 'command and control' policing in New York City.

 How the US trains military and police forces around the world. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:29

Journalist Douglas Gillison uncovers America's global network of foreign police and military training.

 Venezuela after Chavez / Zimbabwe against Mugabe. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:59

Latin America specialist Julia Buxton examines Venezuelan politics and the fate of Chavismo after Chávez. / Writer Jacquelin Kataneksza profiles #ThisFlag and the emergence of protest movements across Zimbabwe.

 A guide to what happened (and didn’t) in Turkey. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:23

Live from Ankara, journalist Max Zirngast explains why the coup attempt happened, and why it failed. PLUS: Rotten History

 What Brexit means for the British far-right / In praise of the free lunch | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:26

Historian Nicole Longpré traces six decades of far-right, anti-immigrant British politics. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen finds a free lunch, and you'll never guess where!

 Where Black resistance goes now / How police impunity happens. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:34

Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford explores the state of Black resistance after Dallas. / Civil rights attorney Flint Taylor surveys the municipal mechanisms of police impunity.

 A post-Brexit chance to fix finance / Wars abroad into wars at home. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:08

Economist Dean Baker rethinks the financial sector in post-Brexit Europe. / Peace activist Kathy Kelly connects America's violence abroad to the police war at home.

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