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9:15 - Historian Nancy MacLean profiles the libertarian architect of the right's revolutionary plan for America.
Nancy is author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America from Viking Press.
10:00 - Live from Athens, anarchist Tasos Sagris discusses working within the gaps of austerity-era Greece.
Tasos is a member of the anarchist collective Void Network.
10:35 - Anthropologist Nazia Kazi examines class and complicity in an age of anti-Muslim surveillance.
Nazia wrote the article Against a Muslim Misleadership Class for Jacobin.
11:05 - Writer Peter Moskowitz explores the legal and corporate mechanisms of gentrification in America.
Peter is author of the new book How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood from PublicAffairs.
12:05 - Sociologist Joshua Murray explains how capital manufactured Detroit's long decline.
Josh is co-author of the paper "Collateral Damage: How Capital’s War on Labor Killed Detroit" for the journal Catalyst.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen goes in half-cocked on American gun culture.
You can't go full-cocked on the radio in our timeslot. Sorry.
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9:15 - Live from London, Richard Seymour examines Corbyn's rise and a new path for the British left.
Richard wrote the op-ed Corbyn: shifting the possible for the Times Literary Supplement and the essay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Centre for Salvage.
10:05 - Writer Andrea Flynn explains why a class-only politics fails to deliver justice for women of color.
Andrea wrote the report Justice Doesn’t Trickle Down: How Racialized and Gender Rules are Holding Women Back for the Roosevelt Institute.
10:35 - Jacobin's Nicole Aschoff charts the downward prospects of Whole Foods-style conscious capitalism.
Nicole wrote the Guardian op-ed Whole Foods represents the failures of 'conscious capitalism.'
11:10 - Writer Angela Nagle surveys the dark politics of mass hatred, from Malthus to Pepe.
Angela wrote the Baffler article Enemies of the People and is the author of the soon to be released Kill All Normies, which we'll talk about with her in a few weeks.
12:05 - Journalists Maureen Mitra and Candice Bernd explore the toxic (literally) state of mass incarceration.
Maureen and Candice are co-authors of the Truthout / Earth Island Journal report America's Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen ponders our destiny, such as it is. Or might be.
Jeff wasn't super clear about this one.
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On This Day in Rotten History...
In 1962 – (55 years ago) – in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a fire set deliberately to clear trash out of an underground landfill ignited an ancient coal seam in a nearby abandoned mine. The coal fire gradually spread underneath the town and became a threat to public health and safety. It created dangerous sinkholes, spewed sulfur smoke and carbon monoxide from openings in the ground, and defied all attempts to put it out. By 1984 a mass exodus from the town began, and in 1992, all real estate properties were officially condemned. Centralia, Pennsylvania, once home to a thousand people, is now a ghost town. Nothing remains there but a few derelict buildings and a crumbling network of empty streets covered with graffiti by curious visitors. In some places the ground is still hot to the touch, and cracks in the earth belch poisonous smoke from an underground fire that, experts say, could continue burning for another two hundred years.
In 1971 – (46 years ago) – in the district of Pabna in East Pakistan, units of Pakistan army troops and paramilitaries massacred more than two hundred unarmed members of the local Hindu minority. The killings were a part of Operation Searchlight, a military campaign meant to suppress a Bengali nationalist movement in what was then East Pakistan. Ever since the partition of India after independence in 1947, the new and predominantly Muslim nation of Pakistan had consisted of two sections or “wings” more than a thousand miles apart, with the massive territory of India in between. The two parts of the country had their religious, cultural, and political differences, and as an independence movement grew in East Pakistan, the national government in the West launched a systematic campaign of genocide that led to all-out war, in which India joined on the side of the separatist East. After nine months of air strikes, mass murder, rape, and other atrocities, the war ended with East Pakistan proclaiming itself the newly independent nation of Bangladesh. Body counts vary, but most researchers believe that the war killed about half a million people, and created some thirty million refugees.
Rotten History is written by Renaldo Migaldi
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9:15 - Law scholar Michael J. Glennon examines Trump's battle with the national security state.
Michael wrote the June cover story Security Breach: Trump’s tussle with the bureaucratic state for Harper's.
10:05 - Live from Sáo Paulo, Brian Mier reports on the massive resistance movement sweeping post-coup Brazil.
Brian wrote the article Brasilia 24/5: A View from the Ground for Brasilwire.
10:35 - Gay Liberation Network's Andy Thayer explores Gay Inc.'s mainstreaming of LGBTQ politics.
Andy wrote the article The LGBTQ Movement is an Intersectional Fail for Counterpunch.
11:05 - Geographer Andrew Brooks explains how the Western development agenda expands global poverty.
Andrew wrote the book The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity for Zed Books.
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9:05 - Writer China Miéville explains what Russia, 1917 can teach the post-Soviet, pre-revolutionary world.
China is author of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution from Verso.
10:00 - Military whistleblower Lisa Ling reports on life and death inside the secret US drone war.
Lisa, a former technical sergeant on drone surveillance systems, was profiled in the documentary National Bird.
11:00 - Journalist Duff McDonald tours the school at the golden heart of global capitalism.
Duff is author of the new book The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite from Harper Collins.
12:00 - Organizer Mariame Kaba looks beyond reform, to the destruction of the prison industrial complex.
Mariame wrote the article Free Us All: Participatory defense campaigns as abolitionist organizing for The New Inquiry.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen yanks your physical and mental chains.
