Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:15 - Literary scholar Emily Apter surveys the allness and everywhereness of micropolitics.
Emily is author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic from Verso.
10:00 - Our Man in Budapest, Todd Williams reports on the non-surprise of last week's Hungarian elections.
The results are definitely not suprising to anyone who caught Todd's last report in 2017 on Orban's political dominance.
10:35 - Live from São Paulo, Brian Mier reports on Lula's imprisonment and left resistance across Brazil.
Brian co-wrote the article Lula's Arrest and the True State of the Brazilian Left for NACLA.
11:05 - Historian Gerald Horne explores colonialism's apocalyptic history of slavery and dispossession.
Gerald is author of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean from Monthly Review Press.
12:00 - Writer Nick Murray examines the intersection of farming, corporate technology and country music.
Nick wrote the essay Agriculture Wars for Viewpoint Magazine.
12:35 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen figures out why no one can afford to live anymore.