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Do Your Own Research: The Israel-ification of the US Military w/ Susannah Glickman
The US military is changing shape: it’s increasingly high-tech, intelligence led, and focused on assassinations. In short, the Israeli model.
And the…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Downstream: The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why w/ John Rapley
The notion that the Global South is affected ‘first and worst’ by global shocks they didn’t cause, namely climate change, is one of the cornerstones …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
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.
…2 months, 3 weeks 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 …
3 months 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 …
3 months 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, …
3 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 1 week 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…
3 months, 2 weeks 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 months, 3 weeks 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 …
3 months, 4 weeks ago