2024 GUESTS
94 (Dec 19, 2024)
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Labor historian Jeff Schuhrke reveals how the AFL-CIO, working with the CIA and State Department during the Cold War, actively undermined left-wing unions and labor movements around the world, subordinating worker solidarity to American imperial anti-communism.
93 (Nov 25, 2024)
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Sociologists Charles Derber and Yale Magrass argue that American democracy has been effectively purchased by corporate capitalism, systematically examining how money corrupts elections, legislatures, courts, and media to serve elite interests over the public good.
92 (Nov 15, 2024)
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Economist Rob Larson examines the monopolistic power of Big Tech corporations, arguing that Amazon, Google, Apple, and Meta function as unaccountable private governments that exploit workers, crush competition, and capture the regulatory bodies meant to restrain them.
91 - (Nov 12, 2024)
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Nathan Robinson (with Noam Chomsky) systematically debunks the myth that US foreign policy is driven by democratic idealism demonstrating through historical evidence that American power has consistently supported authoritarianism when it serves corporate and geopolitical interests.
90-(Oct 28, 2024
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Former Christian Right strategist and critic Frank Schaeffer explains the true nature and danger of Project 2025, arguing that it represents a blueprint for dismantling democratic governance and installing authoritarian rule in the United States.
89- (Oct 18, 2024)
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Two media scholars examine how surveillance technologies, such as facial recognition, social media monitoring, and data harvesting, are being deployed in schools, and what this means for student privacy, critical thinking, and the democratic purposes of education.
88- (Sep 30, 2024)
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Philosopher Vanessa Wills argues that Karl Marx had a coherent ethical framework that is often overlooked, examining the moral dimensions of his critique of capitalism and showing that historical materialism is inseparable from a vision of human flourishing.
87- (Sep 19, 2024)
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Historian Vijay Prashad reflects on the 70-year history of the Cuban Revolution, its extraordinary achievements in health, education, and anti-imperialism, alongside its ongoing challenges, including the US blockade and economic pressures.
86- (Sep 5, 2024)
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Author Betsy Phillips uncovers the largely forgotten history of racial terror in Nashville, Tennessee, including a series of bombings targeting Black homes and institutions and the community resistance that confronted white supremacist violence in the postwar South.
85- (Aug 29, 2024)
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Philosopher David Detmer mounts a rigorous defense of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States against its critics, examining the ideological motivations behind attacks on Zinn and the broader battle over whose history gets taught.
84- (Aug 20, 2024)
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Author Matthew Ferrence explores the contradictions of political engagement in rural Pennsylvania, his ambivalence about place and community, his decision to run for local office, and what his experience reveals about the possibilities and limits of local democracy.
83- (Aug 8, 2024)
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Historian Gerald Horne discusses the history of armed anti-colonial resistance movements, examining the historical and strategic context of armed struggle, its successes and failures, and what it means for contemporary liberation politics.
82- (July 11, 2024)
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Journalist, author, and foreign correspondent Vincent Bevins examines the global wave of mass protest movements from 2010 to 2020, Arab Spring, Occupy, Brazil, Egypt, Ukraine, and Hong Kong, asking why, despite unprecedented scale, these uprisings largely failed to produce lasting change.
81- (July 4, 2024)
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Human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik makes the legal and moral case for Palestinian rights and statehood, drawing on international law, historical documentation, and on-the-ground reporting to argue that justice for Palestinians is inseparable from global human rights.
80- (June 10, 2024)
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Teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian discusses the movement against high-stakes standardized testing, arguing that test-and-punish policies harm students, de-skill teachers, and serve as a tool of privatization rather than a genuine educational improvement.
79- (June 4, 2024)
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Education reporter Mike Hixenbaugh investigates the coordinated right-wing campaign to take over public schools, documenting the dark money networks, political operatives, and culture warriors behind the wave of book bans and school board takeovers.
78- (May 15, 2024)
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Investigative journalist Tim Schwab dissects the Bill Gates philanthropic empire, arguing that Gates's billions buy political influence over global health, agriculture, and education policy, while the 'good billionaire' mythology insulates him from democratic accountability.
77- (May 7, 2024)
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The podcast's third poetry episode features poet Janice O'Mahony reading and discussing her work, poems that weave political consciousness with personal experience, memory, and the natural world.
76- (May2, 2024)
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Two authors challenge the dominant narrative that education is the solution to economic inequality, arguing that the 'education myth' depoliticizes structural economic problems and that the 'fantasy economy' obscures who truly benefits from economic growth.
75- (Apr 18, 2024)
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Labor researcher Les Leopold analyzes how Wall Street's financial engineering, particularly private equity buyouts, has devastated American workers and communities, exposing the mechanism by which financialization systematically strips wealth from workers.
74- (Apr 2, 2024)
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Journalist Kevin Gosztola provides a detailed update on the latest developments in the Julian Assange extradition case, examining the UK court proceedings, the behind-the-scenes political maneuvering, and what the outcome means for investigative journalism globally.
73- (Mar 28, 2024)
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Katherine Yeske Taylor's book celebrates and critically examines how women in rock music from Patti Smith to Bikini Kill shaped feminist consciousness and culture, while also confronting the sexism they faced within the music industry.
72- (Mar 20, 2024)
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Pioneering psychiatrist Judith Herman discusses her landmark work on trauma recovery and her newer book on truth-telling and societal repair for survivors of abuse and injustice, extending her framework from individual survivors to collective trauma.
71- (Mar 7, 2024)
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Journalist Kevin Gosztola chronicles the decade-long political persecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arguing the case is not about espionage but about punishing journalism that exposed US war crimes, setting a terrifying precedent for press freedom.
70- (Jan 25, 2024)
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Project Censored's associate director, Andy Lee Roth, discusses the 25 most censored and underreported stories of 2023, examining how corporate media systematically suppresses news that threatens powerful interests while amplifying celebrity and distraction.