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Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic
At Novara, we focus on the trends that are remaking the world and affecting our lives: technological development and automation, multipolarity, the d…
3 months, 1 week ago
Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden
Investigative journalist Paul Holden has spent the last four years digging into the political machinations that brought Keir Starmer’s Labour Party i…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then a very young political scientist, declared that history was over. He wrote a book with the same title just a couple o…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
ACFM Microdose: What’s Going On With Your Party?
After last week’s episode on Parties, this time ACFM exposes the predicament facing Your Party, the new leftwing faction led by Zarah Sultana and Jer…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr
Iran has been in the news a lot in 2025. Over recent decades, it has been a variable in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine. But…
4 months ago
Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu
The Gaza Strip, home to 2.2 million people, is a tiny land mass about the same size as the Isle of Wight. Yet in terms of munitions by weight, Gaza h…
4 months ago
Downstream: What Really Changed on 7th October w/ Ahmed Alnaouq, Yara Eid and Tareq Baconi
Just over two years after the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, and just days after the announcement of a ceasefire, Aaron Bastani spoke to three Pa…
4 months, 1 week ago
ACFM Trip 55: Parties
Amid the bumpy launch of a new left-wing party and the rise of the Greens and Reform, the ACFM crew turn their attention to parties. Do we still need…
4 months, 1 week ago
Downstream: Democracy Is Under Massive Threat From AI w/ William MacAskill
Artificial intelligence is set to be one of the most disruptive technologies this century. For some, a machine capable of augmenting its own intellig…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
Economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis joins Aaron to discuss his most recent book Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of…
4 months, 3 weeks ago