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**“Corruption and its Consequences” — HATE INC. author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Bret Weinstein’s Dark Horse podcast**

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

“Towards a global energy commons” — PEOPLE’S POWER author Ashley Dawson interviewed on This Is Hell!

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

This is Hell! · 1210: Towards a global energy commons / Ashley Dawson

“People are totally disoriented. This is the moment of philosophy.” — PANDEMIC! author Slavoj Žižek interviewed for Infobae

Wednesday, July 29th, 2020

“Once Upon a Time, When America Paid Its Writers” — THE DEEP END author Jason Boog interviewed for Lit Hub

Wednesday, July 29th, 2020

Jason Boog on the struggle to find security and creativity in the same life.

Read the interview here.

NEW VIDEO: PEOPLE’S POWER author Ashley Dawson in conversation with Patrick Bond & Trevor Ngwane

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

“Trump is running against Biden—and the virus” — WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn writes for the Independent

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

The US president again faces a lacklustre Democratic candidate but his real opponent is Covid-19, writes Patrick Cockburn.

Read the article here.

“6 Books About Defunding The Police That Will Inspire You To Protest” — ABOLISH ICE featured in Bustle

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

ICE is yet another new development in law enforcement, and it’s that many are calling for the defunding of. Published late in 2019, Natascha Elena Uhlmann’s Abolish ICE examines how poorly regulated and critically damaging Immigration and Customs Enforcement truly is.

See the full list here.

“Scoring Fascism” — New art by CRUEL author Sue Coe featured in CounterPunch

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Inciter by Sue Coe.

See more of Coe’s artwork here.

NEW PODCAST: Episode #2 of LUCID DREAMING with author Pamela Cohn and filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz

Monday, July 27th, 2020

“Extremely thoughtful and probing interviews with boundary-pushing non-fiction filmmakers” — LUCID DREAMING featured in Filmmaker Magazine

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Pamela Cohn’s Lucid Dreaming Podcast Debuts with Documentary Filmmaker Penny Lane

Critic and programmer Pamela Cohn recently published her first book, Lucid Dreaming, a collection of extremely thoughtful and probing interviews with boundary-pushing non-fiction filmmakers. (Read an excerpt of the book’s conversation with Donal Foreman here.) And now an extension of the book, the Lucid Dreaming podcast, has just launched. The first guest is Penny Lane, well-known to Filmmaker readers for films like Our Nixon and Hail, Satan?, as well as for her occasional Notes on Real Life column. You can listen to Lane’s interview and subscribe so you don’t miss future episodes here.

Read the article here.

“Unemployment Benefits Have Saved the US From Economic Calamity. They Expire at the End of the Month.” — MY TURN author Doug Henwood writes for Jacobin

Monday, July 27th, 2020

The only thing keeping workers in the United States from absolute destitution has been unemployment insurance and other social welfare benefits. If Congress doesn’t extend unemployment benefits at the end of the month, the economy will hurl off a cliff — and millions will be immiserated, writes Doug Henwood.

Read the full article here.

“Churchill’s secret chemical war” — WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn writes for the Independent

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Had the German invasion of Britain gone ahead in 1940 – with Churchill deploying mustard gas – the Second World War would have taken a very different turn, writes Patrick Cockburn.

Read the full article here.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, we’re all going to be arrested.'” — TRUMP U. author Stephen Gilpin interviewed for the Washington Post

Monday, July 27th, 2020

Spin, deride, attack: How Trump’s handling of Trump University presaged his presidency

Stephen Gilpin was one of Trump University’s instructors. He recalled sitting in on another instructor’s class shortly after joining the school in 2007. It was nothing more than an up-sell, he said, laden with false promises.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, we’re all going to be arrested,’ ” Gilpin said.

Now, he and others said, the Trump administration is trying a similar tactic again, by asking people to believe Trump’s rosy predictions about the pandemic — in the face of an increasingly grim reality.

“It’s the same thing he does today,” said Gilpin, who left the school in 2011. “His behavior has now become our norm.”

Read the full article here.

WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn interviewed for Interzine

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Patrick Cockburn is an acclaimed journalist specializing in conflicts in the Middle East. He has published numerous books on Iraq and Syria, having worked as a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times from 1979 before starting with The Independent in 1990. He has received multiple prizes for his work, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009, Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year at the 2014 British Journalism Awards, and Foreign Reporter of the Year at the 2014 Press Awards.

Cockburn has just published a new book entitled War In the Age of Trump. He recently sat down with Monia Al-Haidary to discuss the US intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as his observations on the role of history and journalism in these long-running conflicts.

Read the interview here.

“Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter is a double revolution that opens a possibility for Africa to change its relationship with the west” — TRADE IS WAR author Yash Tandon interviewed for the Canary

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

In his youth, Professor Yash Tandon was a presidential adviser to Uganda’s government soon after the country’s political independence. Because president Milton Obote tried to change the economic structure of the country in order to achieve real independence, as the first president of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah advocated, a coup d’etat broke out which lead to the bloody regime of the dictator Idi Amin Dada between 1971 and 1979.

Throughout a long career standing by the humble of the earth in such countries as Zimbabwe and Tanzania and learning from them, Tandon has also been the founder-chair of SEATINI (Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute), an organisation which aims at helping African countries to get negotiate more effectively in neocolonial international institutions.

Tandon has also written a number of books, like Ending Aid Dependence and Trade is War. Back in Uganda, Tandon agreed to talk with journalist Alex Anfruns about different issues like his work as an intellectual, the balance sheet of the West’s development cooperation aid programs in Africa, the 60th anniversary of African independence, the risks related to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic but also the opportunities it may offer to strengthen African sovereignty.

Read the interview here.

“Virus Gives Erratic El Salvador Strongman Excuse to Fill Jails” — EXILE author Belén Fernández writes for the Washington Spectator

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Read the article here.

“How we can truly repay our frontline health workers: clear their debts” — THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS author Alissa Quart writes with Astra Taylor and Brittany M Powell for the Guardian

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020

Many of the workers risking their lives amid the pandemic are burdened with student debt. We owe them more than just applause.

Read the article here.

WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn interviewed on ABC Radio National Late Night Live

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Listen to the interview here.

**WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn interviewed on Radio War Nerd (subscribers only)**

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Listen to the interview here.

“A must-read… [Mike] Davis concludes that the worst is yet to come and that the monster has much more in store.” — THE MONSTER ENTERS reviewed by CounterPunch

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

This Pandemic and the Ones to Come

The Monster Enters by Mike Davis, published this week, is a warning for future generations.

Read the full review here.

“In Bernie’s Brooklyn, Political Revolution Was Mainstream” — BERNIE’S BROOKLYN excerpt published in Jacobin

Monday, July 20th, 2020

To many Americans, Bernie Sanders’s brand of socialism seemed to leap onto the national stage from out of nowhere. But in the postwar Jewish Brooklyn where he grew up, the socialist tradition and a veneration for the New Deal were central touchstones of mainstream politics.

Read the excerpt here.

“Inciter in Chief” — New art by CRUEL author Sue Coe in the Nation

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Trump promotes division.

View the art here.

“The UK and US are starting a new Cold War with Russia and China—so what are these governments trying to hide?” — WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn writes for the Independent

Monday, July 20th, 2020

It is just possible to forget amid the threats and counter-threats—and the intention is certainly that we should forget—that the world is failing to contain a pandemic that has killed half a million people, writes Patrick Cockburn.

Read the article here.

“Matt Taibbi weighs in on Bari Weiss’ resignation from the New York Times” — HATE INC. author interviewed on Rising

Monday, July 20th, 2020

“Israel’s Annexation Plan Is the Latest Stage in a Long History of Violent Dispossession” — THE WRONG STORY author Greg Shupak writes for Jacobin

Monday, July 20th, 2020

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has missed its first deadline for annexing part of the West Bank, but this Trump-backed scheme for land theft is still firmly on the table. The goal of Netanyahu and his US sponsors is simple: they want to liquidate Palestinian national aspirations.

Read the article here.