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News, politics, history, culture, and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman, Michael and Us, and occasional specials.
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    Michael and Us: Kung Fu Bicycles

    Michael and Us: Kung Fu Bicycles

    For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and, for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even be your entryway into the industry and the Billboard charts! But most assuredly it will not be. Was this industry exploitative? Did it produce art? What even is "art" anyway? We tackle all these questions and more as we discuss the documentary OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY (2003).
    Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

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    Behind the News: AIPAC Influence w/ David Moore

    Behind the News: AIPAC Influence w/ David Moore

    David Moore outlines how AIPAC is using GOP contributors’ money to go after progressive Democrats. Meron Rapoport discusses how Schumer and the ICJ are being received in Israel. Jamieson Webster speaks about the social aspects of mental disorder among the young.
    Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html

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    Dig: Thawra Ep. 5 - The Struggle for Syria

    Dig: Thawra Ep. 5 - The Struggle for Syria

    Featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti, this is the FIFTH episode of Thawra (Revolution), our rolling mini-series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century. Today’s installment lays out the early years of a struggle for Syria that would decisively shape the Arab world: the fight for independence from France, the first (CIA-backed) coup of 1949, and the rise of the Ba’ath and Communist movements.
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    Behind the News: Death of the Future w/ Steve Fraser

    Behind the News: Death of the Future w/ Steve Fraser

    Robert Fatton explains Haiti’s further descent into poverty and chaos. Steve Fraser, author of a recent article for Jacobin, analyzes and mourns the death of any sense of a better future.
    Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html

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    • 53 min
    Michael and Us: Fresh Prince of Persia

    Michael and Us: Fresh Prince of Persia

    In 1991, over 100 of the the most famous singers, movie stars, an athletes in America got together to record a song for the troops in the first Gulf War. We take a visit to the consent-manufacturing factory and discuss the "apolitical" James Woods-hosted TV special VOICES THAT CARE: STAND TALL, STAND PROUD (1991).
    Watch the special here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ1S_UNaWps
    Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

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    Behind the News: Global North in Decline w/ Vijay Prashad

    Behind the News: Global North in Decline w/ Vijay Prashad

    Vijay Prashad explains how the North American and European bourgeoisies have become a spent force with nothing to offer the world. Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Toward the Abyss, talks about Ukraine during and after the USSR.
    Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html

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