Oct 6, 2021
Kabul’s US-backed government collapses as its soldiers surrender en masse to the Taliban. We are joined by Max Blumenthal, author of The Management of Savagery, to discuss the end of the US occupation of Afghanistan.
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Sep 14, 2021
Historic prison escape by Palestinian militants from Jenin. Fighters from Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades tunneled out of Israel's maximum security Gilboa prison and spirited into the night. Tarek Loubani joins Jon Elmer and Nora Barrows-Friedman to discuss the great escape and their experiences of life in...
Sep 1, 2021
Geo Maher joins us to reflect on the summer of rebellion that
followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and how we build
toward 'A World Without Police.'
On the Bookend, it's Peter Collins' posthumous collection of
artwork 'Free Inside: The Life and Work of Peter Collins'. We
hear an archival interview of...
Jun 29, 2021
A Canada Day reckoning as Indian Residential School properties become crime scenes with the (re)-discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children. We are joined by Tyler Shipley to discuss Canada’s first foreign policy – its genocide of the Indigenous nations in the path of capitalist settlement.
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Jun 15, 2021
We discuss early US labour militancy and the birth of modern policing with Robert Ovetz, author of When Workers Shot Back.
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