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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

Location:

Berkeley, CA

Genres:

Podcasts

Description:

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

Language:

English

Email:

dhenwood@panix.com

Episodes

Lebanon’s Troubles, and the Allure of Conspiracism

Milton Friedman and segregation, and preparing our cities for the climate crisis

The Politics of Sports

A Look at Local Gentry, a Neglected Part of the Elite

Duration:00:59:58

Black men in the job market, and the meaning of Cara Delevigne’s “Peg the Patriarchy” outfit. Plus fundraising.

The Kaepernick effect and the politics of sports, and deflating the hype around AI.

How reactionaries maintain control in Texas, and the Blob’s worries about China and Afghanistan.

Cops: how’d they come to repress protest so, and how can they be defunded (without using the word)

Cuba: economic history and those recent protests

Trump and fascism, German anti-vaxxers. A backward glance.

Antivaxxers’ outlandish claims and labor’s strange alliance with shareholders

Why did South Africans riot? And here’s a finance economist calling for central planning!

Duration:00:59:59

How colonial capitalism makes you sick.

Duration:00:59:59

A look at the assassination in Haiti, and the long history leading up to it. Plus fundraising.

Duration:00:59:58

Sucking CO2 out of the air, and has real estate development become the Palestinian national project?

Chinese economic reform: how they dodged the shock therapy bullet.

Duration:00:59:58

The Vietnam vet and the consolidation of white identity, and the stakes of the critical race theory debate

Duration:00:59:58

Why workers don’t revolt, fighting Amazon in South Africa, the horrors of solitary confinement.

Behind the News – June 17, 2021

The Peruvian election and the truth of Andrew Cuomo

Duration:00:59:58