129 (December 18, 2025)
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Human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik discusses the case of Carranza Medina, a Colombian fisherman killed when the US military bombed his boat in the Caribbean, and his petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging that the US committed an extrajudicial killing.
128 (December 9, 2025)
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Investigative journalist John Dinges journeys back to early 1970s Chile, where young Americans came to witness Salvador Allende's democratic socialist experiment, and traces what happened to two of them after Pinochet's 1973 coup changed everything.
127 (November 26, 2025)
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Carla Kaplan discusses the extraordinary life of Jessica 'Decca' Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters, a British-American communist, civil rights activist, and muckraking journalist who exposed the funeral industry and fought injustice with fierce wit.
126 (November 19, 2025)
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Labor historian Jeff Schuhrke traces the century-long official alliance between the US labor movement and Zionism, documenting how AFL-CIO leadership aligned with Israeli state interests and the ongoing grassroots struggle within unions for Palestinian solidarity.
125 (November 4, 2025)
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Historian Richard Bell challenges the mythology of the American Revolution, presenting it as a more contested, contingent, and globally significant event than patriotic narratives allow, and examining its complex legacy for democracy worldwide.
124 (October 21, 2025)
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Law professor Joan Williams diagnoses the political rift between the professional and working classes, arguing that progressive cultural priorities and condescending attitudes have alienated workers who might otherwise be natural allies of the left.
123 (October 14, 2025)
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Former Congressional national security analyst Ivan Eland presents a provocative reassessment of US military history, arguing that domestic economic interests, political calculations, and elite ambition, not genuine foreign threats, have been the primary drivers of American wars.
122 (October 7, 2025)
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World-renowned neuroscientist Robert Zatorre explores the brain science of music, why abstract sound sequences produce such powerful emotional responses, how music activates the reward system, and what this tells us about the evolutionary role of music in human life.
121 (September 9, 2025)
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Vietnam veteran and poet W.D. Ehrhart discusses his poetry collection, which moves beyond war to a full-life reckoning with nostalgia, love, friendship, and biting political satire, demonstrating the range of a major American poet whose moral clarity never wavers.
120 (September 3, 2025)
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Historian Richard Beck examines how the War on Terror reshaped an entire generation's relationship to the state, security culture, and political possibility, analyzing the cultural and political legacy of post-9/11 America through the eyes of those who grew up in it.
119 (August 24, 2025)
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Historian Gerald Horne challenges the myth of America's progressive founding by documenting Washington, D.C.'s central role as a hub of the slave trade and pro-slavery politics, showing that the nation's capital was built on and for the perpetuation of human bondage.
118 (August 12, 2025)
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Author Leigh Claire La Berge examines the proliferation of meaningless, performative labor under capitalism building on David Graeber's 'bullshit jobs' concept to explore why so much modern work feels hollow and what this reveals about value under capitalist production.
117 (August 7, 2025)
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Poet Janice Cummings O'Mahony discusses her new poetry collection, poems that move between personal memory, family, and loss on one hand, and sharp political witness on the other, exploring what it means to speak and be heard in an age of noise.
116 (July 31, 2025)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a sweeping reinterpretation of American history from a hemispheric perspective, showing how the project of dominating the Americas shaped US capitalism, racial ideology, and global imperial ambition.
115 (July 15, 2025)
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Pam Beal, a board member of Radio Tacoma (KTAH 101.9), discusses this grassroots low-power FM station in Tacoma, WA, examining how community radio offers an alternative to corporate media consolidation and amplifies local voices on a shoestring budget.
114 (July 12, 2025)
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Playing around with a 10-minute AI-generated 'deep dive' overview of the Coming From Left Field podcast, created with Google's NotebookLM research tool to summarize the podcast's political perspective, recurring themes, and key episodes for new listeners.
113 (June 26, 2025)
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Sociologist Charles Derber introduces the concept of 'sociocide,' the systematic destruction of social bonds by neoliberal capitalism, arguing that the collapse of civic, communal, and political relationships is tearing American democracy apart at its roots.
112 June 24, 2025
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Author Judy Karofsky exposes the systemic failures of America's for-profit elder care industry, documenting how the commodification of assisted living and hospice care produces neglect, worker exploitation, and undignified deaths for the elderly.
111 (June 17, 2025)
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We discuss Greg's MLToday article on Gabriel Zucman's research revealing that in 2024 the wealth of America's ultra-rich grew to obscene levels examining what extreme wealth concentration means for democracy, politics, and the possibility of reform.
110 (June 4, 2025)
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Host Greg Godels is interviewed about his MLToday article, which examines how Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony has been appropriated across the political spectrum and distinguishes authentic Gramsci from liberal and right-wing appropriations that distort his revolutionary project.
109 (May 22, 2025)
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Canadian political analyst Stephen Gowans, known for his rigorously anti-imperialist and socialist analysis of US foreign policy, discusses current geopolitical affairs, the state of the global left, and what 'what's left' of socialist politics today.
108 (Apr 14, 2025)
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Award-winning investigative reporter Peter Byrne discusses his Project Censored investigation into military artificial intelligence development, examining the Pentagon's AI weapons programs, their lack of democratic oversight, and the terrifying implications for autonomous warfare.
107 (May 9, 2025)
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Author Malcolm Harris outlines three distinct paths forward amid the compounding crises of climate change, economic inequality, and political dysfunction, arguing that the choice among these paths is the central political question of our time.
106 (May 2, 2025)
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Sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger exposes the reality of campus investigations targeting faculty, documenting how due process is routinely violated, how political pressures distort proceedings, and the chilling effect on academic freedom.
105 (Apr 28, 2025)
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London psychiatrist and politician Dr. Russell Razzaque discusses the intersections of mental health, political philosophy, and social structure drawing on his clinical practice and political engagement to examine how power and inequality shape psychological well-being.
104 (Apr 22, 2025)
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Bestselling author Sarah Kendzior discusses her memoir about a road trip across America, bearing witness to the country's beauty and brokenness, the communities surviving on the margins, and her own reckoning with the advance of authoritarianism.
103 (Mar 3, 2025)
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Veteran journalist Jim Painter, with 40 years as a reporter, photojournalist, and managing editor, discusses his book and reflects on the profound transformation of American media, from local newsrooms to the age of social media and AI-generated content.
102 (Feb 25, 2025)
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Dan Kovalik reports on what is really happening in Syria following Assad's fall, examining the new de facto government brought to power with US involvement and what the transition means for the Syrian people and regional geopolitics.
101 (Feb 18, 2025)
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Geographer Zoltán Grossman documents the surprising coalitions between Native American nations and white rural communities formed to resist extractive industries, showing that shared threats to land and livelihood can overcome historical divisions.
100 (Feb 13, 2025)
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Teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian rallies educators to defend honest, antiracist education amid mounting censorship, book bans, and political intimidation, arguing that truth-telling in classrooms is an act of solidarity with students and communities.
99 (Feb 4, 2025)
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Author Aran Shetterly recounts the 1979 Greensboro massacre, when a caravan of Klansmen and neo-Nazis ambushed a Communist Workers Party rally, killing five. It is a largely forgotten atrocity that exposes the connections between white supremacist terror and state impunity.
98 (Jan 17, 2025)
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Media scholar Alan MacLeod discusses his research on media coverage of Venezuela and propaganda, documenting how Western media systematically misrepresents Latin American socialist governments and how social media platforms amplify state and corporate propaganda.
97 (Jan 14, 2025)
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Sociologist Michelle Phelps traces the history of the Minneapolis Police Department from its founding through the murder of George Floyd, examining policing as a form of state violence that protects some while terrorizing others.
96 (Jan 7, 2025)
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Prolific anti-imperialist intellectual Tariq Ali discusses the second volume of his memoirs, a sweeping account of four decades of political engagement, writing, and activism spanning from the Thatcher years to the present global crisis.
95 (Jan 2, 2025)
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Project Censored's Andy Lee Roth discusses the most censored and underreported stories of 2024, highlighting how corporate media lost coverage of significant events to celebrity stories and examining the state of press freedom in the US.