Downstream: We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations w/ Rana Dasgupta
Nearly all of us on Earth live within a ‘nation-state’. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructure that forms our society: the water we swim in. Rar...
9 Mar 1h 37min
ACFM Microdose: The Green Party
[Audio error updated! Please refresh or re-download if correct episode isn’t playing.] Have the Greens got what it takes to become the main political vehicle of the radical left? Following their Trip ...
8 Mar 1h 57min
Do Your Own Research: The Israel-ification of the US Military w/ Susannah Glickman
The US military is changing shape: it’s increasingly high-tech, intelligence led, and focused on assassinations. In short, the Israeli model. And the changing shape of war means changing flows of mone...
7 Mar 1h 43min
Downstream: The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why w/ John Rapley
The notion that the Global South is affected ‘first and worst’ by global shocks they didn’t cause, namely climate change, is one of the cornerstones of leftist thought. But what if it’s not entirely t...
2 Mar 1h 34min
Do Your Own Research: Seed Oils, the CIA, and the Metabolic Shitshow w/ Jason Moore
Cheap food holds capitalism together. But to get it, we’ve had to cheapen almost everything on the planet: the work of women, nature and colonies. We’ve made strange new ecologies all over the world, ...
28 Feb 1h 32min
Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser
In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for wh...
23 Feb 1h 10min
ACFM Trip 57: Ecology
Are humans distinct from nature? Are there natural limits to inequality? Can you have action without effort? Do bacteria have agency? Jem, Nadia and Keir find themselves dwarfed by the concept of ecol...
22 Feb 2h 9min
Do Your Own Research: Megafarms and Megafamines: Secrets of the Global Food System w/ Charles C. Mann
There’s nothing in the world more important than the food system. The twentieth century was scarred by enormous famines – and, like the one in Gaza, they are still deliberately engineered. But since t...
16 Feb 1h 45min
