Latest News: Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

“What stands in the way of the urgently needed transition to clean energy?” — PEOPLE’S POWER author Ashley Dawson interviewed on Against the Grain

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

What is energy democracy, and what role can it play in the struggle against fossil capitalism? According to Ashley Dawson, a decisive shift toward renewable energy is impossible without a collective struggle to take control of the grid.

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“Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi writes for TK News

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

Meet the Censored: Andre Damon

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“Feminism Not Militarism: Medea Benjamin on the Movement to Oppose Michèle Flournoy as Pentagon Chief” — INSIDE IRAN author interviewed on Democracy Now!

Monday, November 30th, 2020

“Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Red Scare

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Matt Taibbi talks about Russia, Substack, and what’s happened in journalism and politics since he published his last book, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another.

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“Roediger exposes middle-class mythology, and shows its role as a major obstacle to progressive change.” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS recommended by Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Important reading at a time when millions of people have voted for Donald Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic is driving even more into poverty.

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“Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2020: From Kim Stanley Robinson to Diane Cook, visions of a climate emergency-ravaged near future came to the fore” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor Kim Stanley Robinson featured in the Guardian

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Robinson is a writer who believes fiction can make a difference to the world. His latest is a bold docu-fictional extrapolation of how humanity might tackle the climate crisis, blending practical ideas and information with vivid prose… A crucial book for our time.

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“A novel approach to truth-telling” — ISTANBUL ISTANBUL recommended in the Financial Times

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Istanbul Istanbul features four prisoners held in one of Istanbul’s jails who fill the time between sessions of interrogation and torture by telling each other their stories, reviving memories of coffeehouse conversations.

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“You Can’t Just Come With a Camera and Shoot” — LUCID DREAMING author Pamela Cohn’s interview with Ulrike Ottinger featured in Variety

Monday, November 30th, 2020

Ulrike Ottinger Reflects on Life as a Nomad Director

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“Big Waves, Exotic Dancers, The Life Of UK’s First Pro Surfer, Viscount Deerhurst” — SURF, SWEAT AND TEARS author Andy Martin interviewed for the Sportsman

Monday, November 30th, 2020
The Sportsman spoke to Andy Martin, journalist and writer of ‘Surf, Sweat and Tears’ about Lord Ted’s career.

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“Do Global Financial Crises Inevitably Reinforce Capitalism?: A Conversation Between Maja Kantar and the Late David Graeber” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! excerpt published on Lit Hub

Monday, November 30th, 2020
Everything Must Change!: The World after COVID-19, edited by Renata Ávila and Srećko Horvat, is available now.

Read the excerpt here.

“How the Biden Administration Can Free Americans from Student Debt” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor Astra Taylor writes for the New Yorker

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
Joe Biden, who as a senator represented Delaware, the credit-card capital of the world, will need to be pushed to stand up for debtors.

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“America and Britain are the big losers on the world stage as they fail to control Covid” — WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP author Patrick Cockburn writes for the Independent

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
The pandemic is accelerating the shift of power to nation states and an Asia-centred world, writes Patrick Cockburn.

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“Brooklyn borough president candidate Robert Cornegy rails against ‘political gentrification’ by socialist upstarts while lining his coffers with campaign contributions from high-end real estate developers.” — BERNIE’S BROOKLYN author Theodore Hamm writes for the Indypendent

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
For Brooklyn Real Estate Interests, Robert Cornegy Is a Premium Investment

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“Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on Biden, Trump, Assange & Censorship” — EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE! contributor interviewed on Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi & Katie Halper

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

“As Journalists Flock to Substack, Is There a Limit to the Newsletter Boom?” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi featured in Vanity Fair

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

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“Why are public thinkers flocking to Substack?” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi featured in the Guardian

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

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“Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi featured in the New York Times

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

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“The Biden plan for Central America: Militarised neoliberal hell” — EXILE author Belén Fernández writes for Al Jazeera

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

The policies a Biden administration will pursue are unlikely to bring prosperity and security to Central Americans.

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NEW BOOK CLUB: PEOPLE’S POWER discussed by Democratic Socialists of America: San Francisco Ecosocialist Book Club on 12/1, 12/8 & 12/15

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Dec 1, 8, and 15th at 7pm PST

More details here.

“What the election result means for the US and the world” — AMERICAN MONSTROSITY author Nathan J. Robinson in conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara and more for Tata Literature Live!

Friday, November 20th, 2020

“Tiyo Attallah Salah-El’s exemplary life (without parole) is testament to the human spirit and the cause of abolition… Inspiring.” — PEN PAL reviewed by David Gilbert for Black Agenda Report

Friday, November 20th, 2020

David Gilbert has been incarcerated in New York State since 1981.

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“Stalking the Middle Class with David Roediger” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author interviewed on Interchange

Friday, November 20th, 2020

Listen to the interview here.

“The Shrinking Middle Class” — THE SINKING MIDDLE CLASS author David R. Roediger interviewed for CounterPunch

Friday, November 20th, 2020

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“Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor interviewed for Jacobin

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020

Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than twenty books, including New York 2140Red Moon, and the Mars trilogy. He talked to Jacobin about his latest work, his vision of socialism, and why we must fight to imagine the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world.

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“What to expect from the new presidency” — MY TURN author Doug Henwood interviewed on Renegade Inc

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020

“The Joe Biden Presidency: Will It Be Neoliberalism & Regime Change or Progressivism? ” — HATE INC author Matt Taibbi interviewed on Going Underground

Monday, November 16th, 2020

Carl Weathers and Paul Alan Smith discuss PEN PAL on the Mo’Kelly Show

Monday, November 16th, 2020

“Kim Stanley Robinson Bears Witness to Our Climate Futures” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor interviewed for the Nation

Monday, November 16th, 2020

A conversation with the acclaimed sci-fi novelist about the climate crisis, activism, utopia, and his new novel, The Ministry for the Future.

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“Kim Stanley Robinson Is One of Our Greatest Ever Socialist Novelists” — REDISCOVERING EARTH contributor featured in Jacobin

Monday, November 16th, 2020

For more than 40 years, Kim Stanley Robinson has written radical science fiction that offers readers not an easy vision of utopia, but a hopeful alternative that still confronts the ecological devastation wrought by capitalism.

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“Biden’s Election Is Not A Mandate For Centrism” — AMERICAN MONSTROSITY author Nathan Robinson writes for Current Affairs

Friday, November 13th, 2020

The painful, floundering ordeal of centrist Joe Biden’s win is not, in fact, a great case for his (lack of) politics.

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