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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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 A report from Hungary’s right turn / Hillary Clinton’s carceral feminism. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:57

Live from Budapest, Todd Williams reports on the power of right wing populism, in Hungary and the US. / Writer Yasmin Nair examines the cost and consequence of Hillary Clinton's carceral feminism. PLUS: Mailbag

 The rise of Five Star Movement and the fall of the Italian left. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:05

Historian David Broder explains how Italy's radical left lost ground to the xenophobic Five Star Movement. David wrote the recent Jacobin piece on Italian politics and the Five Star Movement, "Losing Ground." / PLUS: Rotten History

 Work resistance and radical leisure / Hostage situationalism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:48

Social historian Eva Swindel makes the case for reclaiming time, not money, from the demands of capitalism. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tries to talk us out of shooting our hostage before we have the ransom.

 The West’s corporate agenda for African agriculture / A 2016 guide to disenfranchisement | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:00:53

Anuradha Mittal exposes a Western corporate takeover plan aimed at agriculture across Africa. / Investigative journalist Greg Palast presents your guide to not being able to vote in the year 2016.

 Exoneration’s false freedom: Hard times outside prison. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:44

Journalist Alison Flowers explores the uncertain life beyond bars faced by exonerated prisoners. Alison wrote "Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity," available now from Haymarket Books.

 Pipeline promises and extractive politics in Chad. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:44

Sociologist Lori Leonard examines the collapse of a corporate pipeline project's social and environmental promises in Chad.

 Hillary’s history of rightward triangulation / What’s It All About, Algae? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:47

Public policy researcher Kathleen Geier deflates Hillary Clinton's newfound economic populism. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen mulls over humanity's long-range goals.

 A correspondent’s goodbye to London / The dangers of the meat industry | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:45

David Skalinder says goodbye to the cultural quirks and social geography of London after 12 years. / Journalist Elizabeth Grossman reports on the underreported health costs of meat processing work.

 How American Christianity embraced the gospel of capitalism. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:53

Writer Chris Lehmann explores the long business partnership between Christianity and capitalism.

 Behind a hospital bombing in Afghanistan / Of mice and lice | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:53

Journalist Matthieu Aikins explains how a hospital bombing reveals America's contradictory role in Afghanistan. / In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen agrees: the best laid plans, et cetera!

 A critical rethinking of community and state responses to gang violence. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:50

Sociologist Robert Vargas connects gang violence in Chicago to a turf war between local politicians. PLUS: Question From Hell!

 The Clinton-Obama-fracking sales push / Priced out of the courtroom | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:01:01

Investigative journalist Steve Horn reports on the Clinton State Department's global fracking push. / Lawpagandist Brian Foley explains how the American middle class got priced out of legal representation.

 BComú is reclaiming political power for the people of Barcelona. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:48

Democracy advocate Kate Shea Baird explores the radical disobedience of Barcelona's BComú movement.

 Hillary and You: A guide to dissent / Our nerfed presidency | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:46

Writer Amber A'Lee Frost on the sexism and allegations of sexism around the Clinton campaign / Jeff Dorchen commiserates with our powerless president.

 Buying and selling feminism in the marketplace of capitalism. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:01

Cultural critic Andi Zeisler explores the bankrupt feminism that capitalism sells back to women. PLUS: Question from Hell!

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