ACFM Trip 52: Cleaning
In the socialist utopia of our dreams, who exactly is doing the cleaning? Nadia, Jem and Keir confront a tricky topic in this ACFM Trip. With music from X-Ray Spex, The B-52s and more, they offer thei...
29 Jun 20251h 59min
Novara FM: Israel-Iran War, Escalation Pauses w/ Eskandar Sadeghi
Escalation towards war with Iran has hit a pause. But for how long? Eskandar Sadeghi is the author of Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran. He joined Richard Hames to e...
25 Jun 20251h 37min
Downstream: Trump’s Plan is to Make His Friends Even Richer w/ Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian is a Canadian historian. His new book, Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right is a deep dive into the set of far-right ideologues currently dominating US politics...
23 Jun 20251h 19min
Novara FM: How BlackRock and Global Finance Stole Your Future w/ Michael A. McCarthy
Got a pension? Or a savings account? Arguably, its purpose is to align your interests with the interests of capitalism: when the market goes up, you benefit too. All this means that the working class ...
19 Jun 20251h 17min
Downstream: American Democracy Is Collapsing, and This Man Predicted It w/ Joseph Stiglitz
During the 2008 economic crisis, the Obama administration had an opportunity to enact widespread market reforms. Instead, they bailed out the banks and laid the groundwork for mass inequality and a po...
16 Jun 202556min
Novara FM: How to Redistribute the Globe w/ Jo Guldi
Assuming you’re not reading this on your yacht, then the most contentious thing in the world is right beneath you. Since the dawn of agriculture, peasants, farmers, landlords, and states have vied for...
13 Jun 20251h 18min
Downstream: The IDF Killed My Entire Family, and the British Government Helped Them w/ Ahmed Alnaouq
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and author. In October 2023, while he was in the UK, an Israeli airstrike hit his home in central Gaza, killing 21 of his immediate family, including his fath...
10 Jun 20251h 25min
Novara FM: Palantir Technologies and the Age of Automated Genocide w/ Matt Mahmoudi
The genocide in Gaza has been the most automated in history. Systems like ‘Lavender’ and ‘Where’s Daddy?’ reportedly speed up the process of tracking and targeting Palestinians. The genocide’s brutali...
5 Jun 20251h 16min
