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This idea that the mark of how civilized the country is is based on its free speech rights is rooted in the Cold War. It's funny that you mentioned this because one of the most popular old school respected journalists in Brazil recently wrote a column about Glenn Greenwald down here, saying Glenn Greenwald has to stop acting like he's down here to convert the natives to his free speech absolutism. I think you should judge a nation about how democratic it is by how it treats its poor people, by how it guarantees the basic human rights like food, water, education, and housing. That should be the real gauge of judging how civilized the country is, not how free Nazis are to goose step around threatening people.

Correspondent Brian Mier on the Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting article, “‘I Knew They Had Fabricated a False Narrative’: An Interview with Estela Aranha on 'Twitter Files Brazil.'” Estela Aranha is former secretary of digital rights in the Brazilian Justice Ministry. "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. We also announce this week's best answer to the Question from Hell!

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Episode 1108

Capitalism on Edge.

Jan 6 2020
Posted by Alexander Jerri
Books2019

Chuck picks his 18 favorite books from the 100+ he read for the show this year:


A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

DaMaris Hill / Interview

 

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Kellie Carter Jackson / Interview

 

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Anna Merlan / Interview

 

Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo

Mithu Sanyal / Interview

 

Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family

Sophie Lewis / Interview

 

White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela

Gerald Horne / Interview

 

Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism

Marquis Bey / Interview

 

How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram Kendi / Interview

 

Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

Jodi Dean / Interview

 

The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

Corey Robin / Interview

 

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now

Jenny Brown / Interview

 

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

Wendy Brown / Interview

 

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

Keeanga Yamhatta Taylor / Interview

 

The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago

Flint Taylor / Interview

 

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Charles King / Interview

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