Brian Mier returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his recent publication, "Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United States in Brazil’s Long Coup," in Latin American Perspectives. This is the first peer-reviewed study confirming that the United States played a crucial role in Brazil's long coup, which threw the left out of power in 2016 and brought about far-right rule in 2018 under the guise of anti-corruption. After that, the rest of your answers to the Question from Hell, including the week's winner, and another Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.
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Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
John Kay - Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance [Public Affairs Books]
John Cassidy - Five Things Jeremy Corbyn Has Right [New Yorker]
Morten Jerven - Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong [Zed Books]
Alice Dreger - Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science [Penguin]
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Ray is co-author (along with Marie Raphael) of the book The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began from the New Press.
Leslee is the director of the documentary India's Daughter. She'll be screening and talking about the film on Wednesday night at the Siskel Film Center. Listen live to win tickets!
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Michael is author of the new book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
Megan's new book is Class War: The Privatization of Childhood from Verso Books.
Javier is co-author (along with María Fernanda Berti) of In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence from Princeton University Press.
Michelle wrote the article The Unionization of Digital Media for The Nation.
We're worried that many left turns puts Jeff on the right.
Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
Michael Hudson - Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
Megan Erickson - Class War: The Privatization of Childhood
Javier Auyero & María Fernanda Berti - In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Michelle Chen - The Unionization of Digital Media
Heather wrote the chapter Whose Arctic Is it? in the Worldwatch Institute's report State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability.