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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Podcasts:
Activist Marisa Holmes examines Nuit Debout's model of direct democracy as the movement goes global. / Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on the hostile, rightwing takeover of Brazil's government.
Historian Elizabeth Hinton traces the roots of mass incarceration back to the Civil Rights Era.
Investigative journalist Michael Hudson finds American criminals well represented in the Panama Papers. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen pits himself against the pendulum.
Historian Donna Murch recalls how the Clintons built their political power over the top of Black lives. / The Radical Pessimist, Kevan Harris examines the factors behind Iran's involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Historian Andrew Bacevich reframes an American century of perpetual warfare across the globe. PLUS: Listener mailbag
Historian Ansley Erickson explains how racial inequality has survived decades of school desegregation. PLUS: Rotten History
Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah reports on the Syrian resistance movement and battle for Aleppo. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen puts the self-appointed lords of the future over his knee.
Author Rebecca Gordon makes the case for the prosecution of officials for post-9/11 war crimes.
Attorney Flint Taylor searches for evidence of Chicago police reform post-Homan Square. / Writer Sarah Jaffe explores the unfinished work of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising.
Historian Steve Fraser explains how the limousine liberal came to drive American political discourse.
Journalist Michael Griffin provides a comprehensive background on the conditions in the Middle East that lead to the rise of the Islamic State.
Writer Ayesha Siddiqi explains why the West wants a Malala without the war. / Attorney Vanessa Lucas reports on US complicity and profit from violence in the Philippines.
Ecologist Andreas Malm explores the links between fossil fuels and capitalism's 19th century explosion. PLUS: Rotten History and a letter from Ed Sutton on how to help refugees - http://www.sufr.ch/
Journalist Doug Henwood explains how American politics are 'Ready for Hillary' - and why that's the problem. / In a live, undead Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen is awakened by the ghosts of the living.
Law professor Mehrsa Baradaran explores the rise of predatory finance and the unbanked class. Mehrsa is author of How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy from Harvard University Press.
