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| Beneath The Surface
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| Alan Minsky, Linda Farthing, Ansar Fayyazzuddin
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| Iowa Caucuses, Bolivia coup aftermath, geo-engineering
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Alan Minsky in Iowa, ahead of the Feb 3 Caucuses that officially kick off the 2020 Presidential primary election. We catch up with him to get a sense of what campaigning in single digits amidst a Presidential impeachment looks like. He says it is joyful.
Linda Farthing, Bolivia based journalist and writer on what has happened in the two+ months since the coup that ousted President Evo Morales, sending him into exile. What led to the coup, who has reaped the benefits, and what has happened to the largely indigenous social movements that propelled Evo Morales to power and now face a horror show of violence? We also ask what lies ahead given elections have been called for May 2020.
Ansar Fayyazuddin, theoretical physicist, with his lucid, devastating critique of the framework of solutions proposed to mitigate climate disaster. Ansar sees geo-engineering as a superficial scientistic alternative, a 'popular' approach that puts forward false solutions filled with fallacies bound to create unforeseen consequences. He argues that geo-engineering technological fixes will not get us out of this mess, but will further entrench us in a profoundly eco-destructive mode of life. He finds hope in the social movements demanding fundamental change and that means not just a Green New Deal, but conceiving the possibility of the end of capitalism.
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Sunday, February 2, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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Sunday, January 26, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Stathis Kouvelakis, Loren Balhorn
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| French strike wave; 100 yrs Rosa Luxemburg Karl Liebknecht
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Stathis Kouvelakis, King's College, on the continuing, protracted massive strike movement in France now in its 7th week, expanding its already huge base of activity and support. What began as a dispute about pension reform from railway workers has drawn in teachers, nurses, students and the general population who see this as a struggle against President Macron’s neoliberal agenda to dismantle the French welfare state. We get Stathis Kouvelakis’ analysis of this broad strike movement that is taking on the dynamic of a mass strike, as Rosa Luxemburg famously analyzed.
Loren Balhorn of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin on the centenary of the assassination of revolutionary leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on the late night of January 15, 1919, a cold-blooded murder that inflamed popular passions and transformed Germany’s revolutionary political climate. We hear about the way the centenary has been marked in Germany from Loren Balhorn, who also discusses Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical analyses and legacy. Verso Books just published a new book that Loren translated, The Murder ofRosa Luxemburg by Klaus Geitinger (Verso Books), and we’ll get his understanding of the gigantic political significance of that act that proved to be catastrophic not just for Germany, but the world.
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Sunday, January 19, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:11 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Marc Cooper
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| Journalism in the Digital Age
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| Marc Cooper, longtime journalist and USC Professor of Journalism on the changing world of journalism today, looking at the dynamic evolution of knowledge, the written and spoken word in our digital age. How does the predominant carrier of information (which used to be newsprint, then TV, now digital), change our concept of knowledge? As the new technologies make it possible for the democratization and de-professionalization of journalism, we ask, who is a journalist? And how do we interact with the new media landscape?
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Sunday, January 12, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Juan Cole, Yousef Baker
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| Impact of Soleimani assassination in Iran and Iraq
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Juan Cole of "Informed Comment" examines the decision by Pres. Trump to launch the strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani -- escalating the stand-off with Iran to a new level of violence that could trigger a much broader and more lethal direct conflict. We get Juan’s views on the ramifications for US-Iranian relations, the domestic considerations for each regime, and the wider implications at home and in the Middle East.
Yousef Baker of CSULB writes about the Iraqi Protest movement. He says the American attacks and Trump’s assassination of General Soleimani has not just fanned the escalating regional conflict, it is a death blow to the Iraqi protests. Iraqis have been pushed into the eye of the storm and every Iraqi political force has to now pick a side with deadly consequences. The US has made Iraq into its battlefield once again, making this escalation the most consequential action in Iraq since 2003. We get Yousef’s analysis and perspective.
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Sunday, January 5, 2020 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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| Beneath The Surface
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| Achin Vanaik, Kevan Harris
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| India protest movement, Iran mass protests
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Achin Vanaik, scholar-activist in Delhi on the protests that were sparked by the new Citizenship Amendment Act, which introduces discriminatory religious qualifications into citizenship laws, excluding India's 200 million Muslims. The state has responded to the massive protests with brutal and deadly force, killing dozens. The government clampdown, (blocked mobile internet, banned large gatherings, repressive force) has only added fuel to the protests, and more protests and strikes have been called beginning January 1. We’ll get the big picture of Modi’s far right government and Hindutva policies from Achin Vanaik. Also:
Kevan Harris on the Iranian mass protests that reached their height in November, initially over a hike in gas prices, and were then exacerbated – as in India -- by the regime’s crackdown, and the week-long shutdown of the internet. More than 300 were reported killed (with some reports of a death toll up to 1000) and thousands arrested. The spark produced a conflagration in an already existing environment marked by economic insecurity, the breakup of the social contract, high inflation, and negative economic growth.
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Sunday, December 29, 2019 10:00 am | 1:00:12 |
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