Episodes
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Thea Riofrancos: Confronting Contradiction and Working for the Planet
I am delighted to talk with scholar, journalist, and activist Thea Riofrancos about her new book, Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. She takes us deep into the mining of lithium and the production of lithium batteries, which have been welcomed as a key...
The Final Phases of Genocide: What Global Civil Society Must Do. A Conversation with International Jurists Lara Elborno, Penny Green & Richard Falk
On May 15, international legal experts Lara Elborno, Richard Falk, and Penny Green joined me to...
What’s Left?—Addressing the Disaster of Capitalism with Malcolm Harris
Today we welcome Malcolm Harris back to the show. Previously he talked with us about his mammoth...
Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons–A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy Liu
Ever since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism has...
War-Making as Worldmaking: A Discussion with Samar Al-Bulushi on Kenya and the Workings of Blackness, Place, and International Politics
Today we talk with Samar Al-Bulushi about her rich and complex work on Kenya, which, across...
ICE’s “Photo-Op” Military Attack on MacArthur Park and Community Pushback: Talking with Journalist Mel Buer
Last week, over 100 agents from nine federal agencies stormed a bucolic public park in Los...
Bombs Will Never Liberate Iran: Persis Karim and Manijeh Moradian in Conversation
Today on Speaking Out of Place we have a special episode on Israeli attacks on Iran that resulted...