KPFA - Behind the News
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Episodes
Jodi Dean talks about being suspended from teaching at Hobart and William Smith Colleges for writing an article the administration didn’t like • Keri Leigh Merritt on the lingering effects of antebellum Southern society (article here) • excerpts from an interview first broadcast in June 2023 with Samuel Bazzi, co-author of this paper, on the effects of the white migration out of the South after the Civil War on the recipient areas
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Yanis Varoufakis talks about being banned in Germany for supporting the Palestinian cause, and then about the transformation he analyzes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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April 11, 2024 • 59 mins
Heidi Matthews on the World Court and the cases against Israel pending there • Elijah Wald, author of Jelly Roll Blues, on Jelly Roll Morton and the hidden history of early blues
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Trita Parsi explains why Israel is trying to expand its war to Iran and Hezbollah • Natasha Lennard analyzes the Zionist appropriation of leftish “safe space” discourse • Stefan Yong explores the structure of the global shipping industry in light of the Baltimore bridge disaster
The post Why Israel is expanding its war, Zionists’ appropriation of safe space discourse, and the shipping industry and the Key Bridge disaster appeared f...
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March 28, 2024 • 59 mins
Pankaj Mishra, author of this article, on the propaganda-induced debasement of the Holocaust • Nancy Folbre, one of four authors of this report, on assigning a monetary value to care work
The post The Shoah after Gaza, valuing care work appeared first on KPFA.
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David Moore on how AIPAC is using Republican contributors’ money to go after progressive Dems • Meron Rapoport on how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel • Jamieson Webster on the social aspects of mental disorder among the young
The post AIPAC targets leftish Dems, how Schumer and the ICJ are playing in Israel, troubled youth as a symptom of social problems appeared first on KPFA.
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March 14, 2024 • 59 mins
Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos • Steve Fraser, author of this article, analyzes and mourns the death of any sense of a better future
The post Haitian chaos, the death of the future appeared first on KPFA.
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March 7, 2024 • 19 mins
Vijay Prashad on how the North American and European bourgeoisies are a spent force, with nothing to offer the world (article here)
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February 29, 2024 • 9 mins
Historian Donna Murch, author of Living for the City, takes on some myths about the Black Panther Party.
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February 22, 2024 • 59 mins
Jeet Heer on Indian Americans in politics and society (article here) • Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, authors of The Fall and Rise of American Finance, on the new finance capital
The post Fundraising special: the Desi diaspora, the newest finance capital appeared first on KPFA.
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February 22, 2024 • 59 mins
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February 15, 2024 • 59 mins
Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers’ Club, on the finance racket and how to transform it • Anna Kornbluh, author of Immediacy, on our sped-up, unmediated cultural eternal present
The post The bankers’ club and how to bust it • the culture of immediacy appeared first on KPFA.
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February 8, 2024 • 59 mins
Ajay Singh Chaudhary talks about his new book, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World • Matt Notowidigdo, co-author of this paper, on how recessions increase life expectancy
The post Exhaustion and the climate crisis • shocker: recessions increase life expectancy appeared first on KPFA.
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Sean Jacobs explores why South Africa brought the genocide case against Israel in the World Court • Eric Blanc (Substack post here) on organizing in a scattered and atomized society • Hassan El-Tayyab on the widening war in the Middle East
The post Why did South Africa charge Israel at the ICJ? • organizing unions in the society of sprawl • the widening war in the Middle East appeared first on KPFA.
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January 25, 2024 • 59 mins
Shireen Al-Adeimi of Michigan State and the Quincy Institute, on the Houthis • political scientist Aurélie Daher with another view of Hezbollah
The post Who are the Houthis? • more on Hezbollah appeared first on KPFA.
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January 18, 2024 • 59 mins
Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on electronic monitoring (the ankle bracelet kind) • Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God, on that demonized organization
The post Electronic monitoring, and who is Hezbollah? appeared first on KPFA.
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January 11, 2024 • 59 mins
political scientist Jacqueline Behrend on Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei • Benjamin Fong, author of Quick Fixes, on Americans’ love/hate relationship with drugs
The post More on Argentina, and Americans’ complicated relationship with psychoactive drugs appeared first on KPFA.
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January 4, 2024 • 18 mins
Samuel Moyn, law prof and historian, on the political and legal dubiousness of excluding Trump from the presidential ballot • labor journalist Alex Press on the year in labor (articles on that topic here and here)
The post Perils of striking Trump from the ballot and the year in organized labor appeared first on KPFA.
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December 28, 2023 • 59 mins
slaying sacred cows: M.E. O’Brien, author of Family Abolition, on doing that and “communizing care” • Jane Chung, author of this article, on what’s wrong with our cult of homeownership
[holiday encore presentation of a show first broadcast in June]
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December 21, 2023 • 11 mins
environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt on the recently concluded COP28 environmental summit, where limited good intentions were uttered and oil contracts were signed • historian Forrest Hylton on Javier Milei, the new libertarian/authoritarian president of Argentina
The post COP28 and Argentina’s new president appeared first on KPFA.
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