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Do Your Own Research: Seed Oils, the CIA, and the Metabolic Shitshow w/ Jason Moore
Cheap food holds capitalism together. But to get it, we’ve had to cheapen almost everything on the planet: the work of women, nature and colonies.
…4 hours ago
Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser
In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the …
5 days, 12 hours ago
ACFM Trip 57: Ecology
Are humans distinct from nature? Are there natural limits to inequality? Can you have action without effort? Do bacteria have agency?
Jem, Nadia and …
6 days, 14 hours ago
Do Your Own Research: Megafarms and Megafamines: Secrets of the Global Food System w/ Charles C. Mann
There’s nothing in the world more important than the food system. The twentieth century was scarred by enormous famines – and, like the one in Gaza, …
1 week, 5 days ago
Downstream: Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism w/ Maurice Glasman
Just a week ago, the architect of Starmer’s rise to power, Morgan McSweeney, resigned over his connections to Peter Mandelson, after further proof of…
1 week, 5 days ago
Downstream: Vape Shops, Crypto and Luxury Watches: How Money Laundering Is Everywhere w/ Oliver Bullough
When it comes to the relationship between capitalism and crime, those on the left generally think of exploitation. People often turn to crime, so the…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei
Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expressing soli…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Downstream: 2008 Whistleblower on the Next Big Crash w/ Ann Pettifor
This week, Donald Trump continued his streak of threatening tariffs against any country that opposes him, increasing the odds of an escalating trade …
1 month ago
Downstream: Exposing the Lies of the 20th Century w/ Tariq Ali
Our guest this week was born in 1943, in what was then British India – modern day Pakistan. Unlike most, who have learned history through books and s…
1 month, 1 week ago
Downstream: Venezuela, China and the End of the Dollar w/ Glenn Greenwald
It has been a bellicose start to 2026, with the US army kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and threatening to annex Greenland, putting ma…
1 month, 2 weeks ago