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
Downstream: Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism w/ Maurice Glasman
Just a week ago, the architect of Starmer’s rise to power, Morgan McSweeney, resigned over his connections to Peter Mandelson, after further proof of Mandelson’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein emerg...
16 Feb 1h 34min
Downstream: Vape Shops, Crypto and Luxury Watches: How Money Laundering Is Everywhere w/ Oliver Bullough
When it comes to the relationship between capitalism and crime, those on the left generally think of exploitation. People often turn to crime, so the thinking goes, because they can’t make ends meet b...
9 Feb 1h 22min
Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei
Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expressing solidarity with Palestinians has given Western governme...
2 Feb 49min
Downstream: 2008 Whistleblower on the Next Big Crash w/ Ann Pettifor
This week, Donald Trump continued his streak of threatening tariffs against any country that opposes him, increasing the odds of an escalating trade war and further destabilising the global economic s...
26 Jan 1h 16min
Downstream: Exposing the Lies of the 20th Century w/ Tariq Ali
Our guest this week was born in 1943, in what was then British India – modern day Pakistan. Unlike most, who have learned history through books and second-hand sources, he has witnessed first-hand a g...
19 Jan 1h 50min
