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Teaser - PTO Extra! Adam Tooze on China and the US Democrats and the return of austerity politics
In late March PTO spoke to Adam Tooze whilst he was in New York as the Covid19 crisis was escalating. In today's episode we return to some of the iss…
5 years, 10 months ago
#94 After the capitalocene w/ Rosie Warren
What will come after the capitalocene - and is that even the right term to describe our geological era? Rosie Warren joins me to talk about 'The Trag…
5 years, 10 months ago
Teaser - PTO Extra! Is time up for Lukashenko? w/ Nelly Bekus
On Sunday Alexander Lukashenko, ruler of Belarus since 1994 claimed a landslide victory in the country's presidential election with an implausible 80…
5 years, 10 months ago
Teaser - PTO Extra! Northern Ireland and the politics of John Hume w/ Daniel Finn
On Monday the Nobel laureate, and co-architect of the Northern Ireland peace process John Hume passed away at the age of 83. A giant of the political…
5 years, 10 months ago
#93 Towards a New Cold War? China and the US w/ Tobita Chow & Jake Werner
Tobita Chow and Jake Werner join me to talk about the roots of the increasingly antagonistic relationship between China and the United States, the re…
5 years, 10 months ago
Teaser - PTO Extra! Outsourcing and the UK's Covid-19 shock doctrine w/ Rachel Shabi
Rachel Shabi joins me to talk about her recent article in the New York Review of Books - 'The Pro-Privatization Shock Therapy of the UK’s Covid Respo…
5 years, 10 months ago
#RedHacks - Ana Naomi de Sousa on privilege and representation in journalism
In the latest episode of #RedHacks - a series of conversations on journalism in the neoliberal world - Joana Ramiro talks to filmmaker and writer Ana…
5 years, 11 months ago
#92 Covid-19 and transforming the global food system w/ Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese
Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese join me to talk about their recent article in the Guardian in which they argue that the principal driver of zoonotic di…
5 years, 11 months ago
Teaser - PTO Extra! Sweatshop reshoring - fast fashion and Leicester's lockdown w/ Ashok Kumar
On the 30th of June the city of Leicester, in the East Midlands of the UK was put back into lockdown following a spike in Covid-19 cases. The new out…
5 years, 11 months ago
#91 Corona, climate, chronic emergency w/ Andreas Malm
Andreas Malm joins me to talk about his new book, 'Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century'. We talked about wh…
5 years, 11 months ago