Podcast recommendations and episode discussions
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Leftist alternative to NPR Up First?
I like getting a 10-15 min survey of the day's news, but NPR Up First is fairly cringelib. Are there any good leftist alternatives? I used to do Rising Up with Somali but they changed formats.
Thanks comrades!
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How Stalin Tried to Prevent World War 2 w/Michael Jabara Carley • Actually Existing Socialism
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A really good smaller podcast which focuses on interviewing academics on socialist topics in their areas of expertise
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Ron DeSantis’s Military Secrets: Torture & War Crimes
soundcloud.com Ron DeSantis's Military Secrets: Torture & War CrimesA journey into Ron DeSantis's shadowy military career reveals shocking new details about his complicity in illegal torture. Featuring exclusive never-before-heard testimony from former Guantanamo pris
While normally I discourage the death penalty, Ron DeSantis facing a firing squad would be among the least of my concerns.
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Alex Jones & the 20-Year-Long Poison Pill to Destroy the Alt Media Ecosystem
soundcloud.com Alex Jones & the 20-Year-Long Poison Pill to Destroy the Alt Media Ecosystem, Part 1 of 2Abby and Robbie are joined by Mike Prysner for a special two part Media Roots Radio on Alex Jones. Part one goes over the real history of Alex Jones dominating alternative media and poison pilling gov
I hate to break it to you, but Jones is a multimillionaire with a large, mindless audience that gladly obey his instigations. We can no longer brush him off as a fringe anticommunist.
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Coming Down from the Shock of Overturning Roe & J. Peterson Unravels
soundcloud.com Coming Down from the Shock of Overturning Roe & J Peterson UnravelsAbby and Robbie talk about the fentanyl epidemic hitting home, anti-BDS legislation being ruled constitutional and heading to the Supreme Court next, Jordan Peterson’s evolution into a manic homophobe
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Something Rotten in Ukraine | Conversation with Moss Robeson
callin.com Something Rotten in Ukraine | Unredacted With Glenn Greenwald and Q. Anthony OmeneGlenn and Q speak to Moss Robeson about the connections between Ukrainian community organizations and charities in North America, far right militants in Ukraine, and a Western media sphere committed to downplaying the alarming outcomes.
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“Write from experience.” “Show, don’t tell.” Self-knowledge. Self-discipline. Well-known conventions like these, whether delivered in classrooms, writing seminars or simply from one writer to another, often anchor traditional writing advice...
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Guerrilla History: Washington Bullets w/ Vijay Prashad | Rev Left/Guerilla History
revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com Revolutionary Left Radio: Guerrilla History: Washington Bullets w/ Vijay PrashadIn this debut episode of Guerrilla History, we interview Vijay Prashad on his newest book "Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations" Subscribe to Guerrilla History on any podcast app! Email GH: Find GH on Twitter: @guerrilla_pod Support GH on Patreon:
Really good episode if you haven't listened to it yet. Covers the broad patterns of US imperialism, the western left's ignorance of it, and Vijay's history writing and studying this stuff. I recommend skipping the first 19-20 minutes until Vijay comes in as it's all the usual preamble you expect.
I haven't read Washington Bullets yet, but it's available on Libgen and only 100 pages: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=EAE8286EA39190EB53C1E2105A6188FF
I wish there were more condensed texts like this because #1 people just need to know the broad movements of history and they probably can't even use most of the information used in more standard academix texts and #2 because it's much easier to get people to read a few 100-page books they could read individually in an afternoon than a single tome (just look at how few people have read all three volumes of Capital). I also recommend his book Red Star Over the Third World if you haven't read it yet.
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News Brief - Review: Netflix's Charles Murray-Themed Hallmark Film 'Hillbilly Elegy' | Citations Needed Podcast
soundcloud.com News Brief - Review: Netflix's Charles Murray-Themed Hallmark Film 'Hillbilly Elegy'In this Sight Unseen film review, we recap the ideological currents and industry backers of J.D. Vance's white trash whisperer shtick and how it blames everyone for Appalachian poverty but corporation
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Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective. By Revolutionary Left Radio.
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Comrades! A deep deep dive into the history and the man that was Josef Stalin. Nearly 3 full hours! o7
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TMBS #150.
RIP Michael. The team takes Q & As & discusses where we go from here along with book recommendations & much more.
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Nice White Parents 1: The Book of Statuses
podcasts.google.com Nice White Parents - 1: The Book of StatusesIt’s 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students. In this episode, Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter, follows what happens when the School of International Studies’ 6th grade class swells from 30 mostly Latino, Black and Middle Eastern students, to 103 — an infl...
From the description: *It’s 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students.
In this episode, Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter, follows what happens when the School of International Studies’ 6th grade class swells from 30 mostly Latino, Black and Middle Eastern students, to 103 — an influx almost entirely driven by white families.
Everyone wants “what’s best for the school” but it becomes clear that they don’t share the same vision of what “best” means.*
Comrades, I'd be very interested to read your reactions, there are two episodes so far I have listened to the first episode only. A pure Marxist interpretation of the various class/race antagonisms and the subtle way they are enshrined in one Brooklyn public school. Check it out!
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Spanish Language Podcasts Recommendations?
I'm looking for a Spanish language podcast, overtly political in some way, preferably with a decent number of existing episodes. I'm trying to have something to maintain the Spanish that I've learned in school.
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Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American Dream POSTED ON JUNE 25, 2020 BY DANIEL DENVIR
www.thedigradio.com Mike Davis on Prisoners of the American DreamMike Davis on his classic book about why the US has long lacked strong socialist and labor politics. One recurrent answer: racism.
A pure & in-depth Marxist analysis of nearly a century of US political economy, labor and race/class antagonism. So much ground covered. The interview is based on Davis' book by the same name written at the height of Reaganomics with most elements totally relevant today.
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Antibody - from The Dig Radio
A 3 pt series looking at life under capitalism in the midst of a pandemic. Described as a "Commie This American Life" by the host Daniel Denvir.
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I'm listening to Marx Madness on Black Reconstruction
And it slaps!
It's moving, informative, and I can't help laughing out loud often. They have so many episodes that it's a daily ritual for me go for a walk at sunset and listen to an episode.
This book is really enforcing the idea that the vanguard in the USA must be lead by BIPOC.
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Did the Good Guys Win in 1776? Historic.ly w Gerald Horne
historicly.substack.com Did the Good Guys Win in 1776? w Gerald HorneListen now (56 min) | In our audio podcast, we have Gerald Horne to talk about the founding of our Nation. He is a professor and the author of countless books including The Counter-Revolution of 1776 and the upcoming The Dawning of the Apocalypse, which is set to be released later this year. In toda...