Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can  politicize and radicalize people.  We've already done shows on sports  and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and the Sopranos and other such themes.    So, continuing our pop culture arc, we talk about our favorite political-radical television shows.   We start with our "t...

Oliver Stone's new documentary "JFK Revisited" have been hitting the  airwaves of late claiming to have a "smoking gun" about the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK). Stone and his team of assassinologists main thesis is that the military-industrial complex  conspired to have JFK killed because Kennedy was a secret dove and  wanted to pull the troops out of Vietnam, end the Cold...

In celebration of MLK's 93rd birthday, we're re-posting two episodes about Martin Luther King Jr.  Here's the second one from January 18th, 2021. In it, we talk about the radical politics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We discuss King's democratic socialist beliefs, his stance against the war in Vietnam, the campaigns he worked on, --including the 1968 Olympic Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign...

In celebration of MLK's 93rd birthday, we're re-posting two episodes about Martin Luther King Jr. Here's the first one from April 4th, 2020, the 52nd anniversary of his assassination.  In this episode, Bob and Scott get into the politics of Martin Luther King and how he's WAY more radical than most people realize.  Today, everyone from the Libertarian  Party to the anti-abortion mov...

Noam Chomsky returns to the Green and Red Podcast!     In a new interview, Bob talks with Prof. Chomsky in detail about Oliver Stone's new documentary "JFK Revisited," the Vietnam War, and how both  liberal and conservative elites have use big lies to put leaders from JFK to Reagan to Trump in a pantheon of great leadership. They also talked about the anniversary of the Capitol...

We go into a deep background on Chevron, their poisoning of the Ecuadoran Amazon and the company's persecution of attorney Steven Donziger.   While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, Texaco deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the for...

For many years, black and brown Americans living in cities, towns and rural areas across the nation have rightfully been afraid of uniformed  officers. Far too often, police officers engage in indefensible violence against the very people they are supposed to serve and protect.      The long arm (and brutal violence) of the law also extends to homeless popul...

*Citizen Cash: The Political Life of Johnny Cash* is a fantastic new  book by Michael Stewart Foley, and we sat down and talked to him all about it.  This is a must-listen, must-see episode. We talked about Cash's upbringing in the depression and how the New Deal helped his family and led him to develop a "politics of empathy."  We  discussed his views on race, and especially h...

Hi all- As 2021 comes to an end, we just wanted to say a very heartfelt " THANKS " to all of you.  We've seen our audience double in size this year.   We've tackled some big issues and have a scrappy take on all of them.  This year our program has included talks with Noam Chomsky, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, economist Richard Wolff, labor writer Sarah Jaffe and many organizers,...

Cited as "America's greatest intellectual," Noam Chomsky is know for his deep critique of the ruling class and his role in supporting movements fighting it. As Chris Hedges has said he "makes the powerful, as well as their liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.” December 7th is Noam's 93rd birthday and we are celebrating him with this new segment and sharing our past episodes about and with him...

Mike Elk, frequent guest and great friend of Green & Red, sat down with Bob to discuss the Major League Baseball owners lockout of the players amid talks for a new collective bargaining agreement.  Mike and Bob discussed the history of free agency and the economics of baseball--billionaire owners pinching pennies with players, the way that service time is rigged against players, the way team owner...

It’s the 22nd anniversary of the direct action shutdown of the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle. The WTO is a transnational economic institution created to regulate and facilitate global (corporate) trade. Organized by a scrappy group of organizers, the shutdown kicked off an anti-corporate globalization moment in North America which challenged austerity and the capitalist politi...

Mike Elk of Pay Day Report joined Bob to talk about the current state of labor conflicts in the U.S.  Huntington Steel, a Warren Buffet company, is on strike amid demands for givebacks.  The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is on strike.  The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and workers at John Deere just settled.    We also talked about the...

In our final interview from COP 26 in Glasgow, Scott welcomes Lisa Winter and (welcomes back) Alex Cohen with Rising Tide North America (@risingtideNA) to Green and Red. The three of them have a lively discussion about direct action and mass disruption to meet the scale and urgency of the climate crisis from COP to frontline battles around the world.    They reflect on mass actions in Se...

It's a liberal bashing Friday!   Bob and Scott talk about the state of the Democrats in the wake of the Virginia, New Jersey and Buffalo elections.  They talk about how the Democrats continue to act like it's 1993 and put up tired old Clinton hacks like Terry McAuliffe and ex-Goldman bankers like Phil Murphy and expect things to be different. Furthermore, they undermine democratic social...

The UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (COP26) is in its second week. It's been marked by large street protests, a "greenwash trade show" inside the meetings and empty promises by world leaders in the face of climate disaster. Green and Red focuses on movements and what's happening in the streets, so we'll be talking more with organizers and "outside voices" in Glasgow than you'll hear from mainstream m...

Green & Red Goes Hollywood!   At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can  politicize and radicalize people.  We've already done shows on sports  and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and  the Sopranos and other such themes. So.....in an upcoming series of episodes, we're periodically going to talk about our favorite...

In this episode, Bob had a conversation with Executive Director Sera Koulabdara (@SeraKoulabdara) of "Legacies of War" about the 50+ year crisis of unexploded ordnance (UXOs) in Laos.  Scott was away on assignment. At the same time as it was attacking Vietnam, the U.S. conducted a "secret war" against Laos through the air, dropping 2 million tons of bombs as part of its "sideshow" to the main...

In this episode, we celebrate All Hallows Eve by talking about something the really scares us... cancel culture on campus!  (We're joined by the scariest guest host ever, who uses the most amazing words you can imagine.)   We talk about how the capitalist political economy turns students into consumers, universities into corporations & crushes dissent with cancel culture, revoking te...

We talked with Clinton Fernandes, professor at University of New South  Wales in Canberra, Australia, which is part of the Australian Defence  Force Academy, about his role in getting documents showing Australia's  role in the 9/11/73 coup in Chile to depose Salvador Allende.   He talked  about the background to the coup, Australia's role in supporting  American polic...

Green & Red Goes Hollywood!   At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can politicize and radicalize people.  We've already done shows on sports and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and the Sopranos and other such themes. So.....in an upcoming arc, we're  going to talk about our favorite political/radical films, television and...

In Cochabamba Bolivia in 2011, tens of thousands were present on Mother  Earth Day as the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth was  declared in response to the "privatization" of nature by the corporate  state. This was in alignment with Indigenous worldviews that have  accelerated the development of rights of nature law.  Both Ecuador and Bolivia, as well a...

Green and Red has become the go-to media site for a lot of people who want to hear about the environment, anti-capitalist politics, and radical history.    We also talk about pop culture, and especially Left culture.  We've done shows on sports activism with Dave Zirin; we've talked about progressive politics in Country music; we analyzed The Sopranos and Socialism.....and there's m...

The Pacific Northwest has a long history of organizing and direct action around logging and timber industries. From the Wobblies trying to organize the logging sector in the early twentieth century to Earth First!'s campaigns to stop old growth logging to the new generation of forest defenders linking the struggle for wild places and communities to the climate crisis, direct action has always trie...

Green and Red had a great conversation with the well-known scholar (and  Retired Colonel) Andrew Bacevich, whose new book is *After the  Apocalypse.*  We began by getting his views on the recent revelations regarding JCS Chair Mark Milley's role in opposing Trump's attempt to steal the election.     Then we discussed the key points in his book--his view on the dangers...