Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

Support Green and Red Podcast and get analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. Here is a repost of our May Day episode from 2021. In it, we talk about the history of May Day from pagan rituals to the Haymarket Affair to International Workers’ Day to Labor Day and Loyalty Day. And we discuss how the ruling class’s “wa...

In our latest, Scott discusses the roots of populist politics in American history, from the anti-robber baron movements of the Gilded Age to the New Deal era to the current Trump era with Professor Charles Derber. Guest Bio// Charles Derber is an American academic, author and political activist. He is a professor of sociology at Boston College. His work focuses on capitalism, globalization, corpor...

In a part two episode with journalist and author Will Potter, we discuss his recent book "Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth From Farm to Fable." We talk about the hidden brutality of factory farms, undercover activists and investigators bringing the truth to light and the industry's attempts to silence them. We get into how this industry was an early architect of corporate and state repression mo...

Journalist Will Potter returns to Green and Red, in part one of two episodes, to discuss the current state of state repression under the Trump administration. bio// Will Potter (@will_potter) is a thought leader and award-winning investigative journalist and author whose work has focused on social justice movements and attacks on civil rights post-9/11. He has been invited to speak about human rig...

Israel's brutal campaign against Lebanon launched on March 2 has run parallel to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. When Trump and Iran declared a ceasefire in the second week of April, on terms that included a ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel launched a brutal bombing campaign on April 8th attacking over 100 targets in ten minutes. Israel's war against Iran-backed Hezbollah has targeted civil...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has initiated a major overhaul of the Pentagon leadership, firing over a dozen high-ranking military officials, including Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr., and Adm. Lisa Franchetti. The moves, often executed without specific reasons, are part of a broader, controversial effort to remove officers deemed misaligned with the...

It’s the 50th anniversary of Project Censored, so we had another great discussion w/ its director Mickey Huff of Project about the history of muckraking and how it evolved into the corporate media we have today. We also discussed evolution of media in the Vietnam, Watergate eras and after toward a more complicit approach with government which has led us to the current moment of Trump’s threats and...

The Trump administration is taking its targeting of it's political enemies to new levels. Last summer in Texas, a noise demo that escalated has led to nine people being convicted of federal charges, including "material aid for terrorism." The "North Texas antifa cell" has raised concerns on the left about future prosecutions. In our latest, Scott talks with Jay with the DFW...

In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi have heavily invested in and financed companies that have profited from contracts with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and enabled the deportation crisis and the surveillance, violence and repression of U.S. citizens resisting th...

**Right wing billionaires are taking over media companies and social media platforms, now, more than ever, scrappy independent media needs your support. Become a Patron of Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Episode details// The Grateful Dead's long strange trip through the latter half of the 20th century had a huge influence on American politics, culture and counterc...

🎉 🎉 Right wing billionaires are taking over media companies and social media platforms, now, more than ever, scrappy independent media needs your support. Become a Patron of Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcastEpisode// As the war enters its fifth week, we're hearing more and more about a possible ground invasion as well as military dissent in the U.S. and in the Gulf...

Nine people were recently convicted of federal charges, including "material support for terrorism," by a jury in Texas after a noise demonstration and exchange of gunfire at the Prairieland Immigration Detention Center in North Texas. The Trump administration has turned this protest and shootout into a high profile prosecution of "antifa." In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman about...

Across the country, photojournalists, videographers, live steamers and other documentarians are telling the story of resistance to ICE. They do this at great personal risk, both physical and legal. In our latest, we talk with movement photojournalists Brooke Anderson and Rae Breaux about their work in telling the story of anti-ICE movements, as well as many other movements, in the Bay Area and Los...

March 16th was the 58th anniversary of the My Lai massacre and the 23rd anniversary of the murder by Israeli forces of International Solidarity activist Rachel Corrie in Gaza. In our latest, we talk about the My Lai massacre, Rachel Corrie's murder and how it fits in with a larger story of atrocity by the U.S.-Israeli war machine while it unleashes on the people of Iran. --------------- 🎸 Outro-...

Professor Giuseppe Acconcia has been traveling, studying, and writing about the Middle East for decades and joined me for a great discussion of the U.S./Israeli war on the region. We discussed the various states being attacked, the damages done so far to Iran, the decision-making process in Tehran--including the roles of the military, revolutionary guard, and political elite, the economic impact o...

It's Oscar season and in another episode in the G&R Arts and Culture segment, we're talk about the resistance politics of "One Battle After Another." A popular hit that has been getting lots of attention in awards ceremonies, the movie tells the story of disappointed burnt out radicals, community resistance, state repression and non-traditional families. In our latest, Scott...

In our latest, Bob talked w/ Fadi Kafeety, a scholar of Arab and Middle Eastern history, about the current crises in the region which have been intensified by the US attacks on Iran and Israel's continued wars of colonialism and expansion. Among the topics discussed were the continued centrality of Palestine and the ongoing genocide there; the intensification of Israeli and American violence i...

The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran and killing some of the Islamic Republic's top leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has responded with attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Gulf Region, oil infrastructure and by closing the Strait of Hormuz. There is a long history of Iranian and U.S. relations and this war is another part of it. In our latest, we talk with Prof. Afshin Matin-...

Russia invade Ukraine four years ago and has resulted in a bloody conflict that has bled both countries and scrambled global politics. Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 on a platform of ending America's "forever wars" and in 2024, he and J.D. Vance said they were the "most pro-peace" campaign in history. We now know neither of those things are true as Trump attacked the Islamic Republic with Israel...

Mondelēz International — the food giant behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone — has spent years cultivating an image as a sustainability leader, earning high environmental scores and pledging to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuses from its supply chains. But as has been documented over and over, Mondelēz' continues to fail at any effort to stop tropical deforestation and human rights ab...

After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the movement had largely gone silent. What happened? And given the threat from climate, why haven't more radical tactics re-emerged? In our latest, we talk with Thomas Zeitzoff (zeitzoff.bsky.social) about his latest book "No Option But S...

It's our 6th anniversary and we talk about the underlying themes in our shows and some of our favorite moments. ------------------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🎙️ Follow Green and Red 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 💬 Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/uuP6yVQr 📰 Follow us on Substack: https...

The Epstein Files is one of the biggest stories in the world... and it isn't. In our latest, we dive into the media coverage of the Epstein Files with professor of media studies Nolan Higdon(@NolanHigdonCML).Bio// Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author, host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and...

Donald Trump's long-time aggression against Iran--abrogating the nuclear treaty, assassination officials, ramping up sanctions, and last June's prolonged attacks--is ramping up. So I talked to our good friend and one of the best-respected scholars of the region--Eskandar Sadeghi of the University of St. Andrews--about the current crisis . . . the ongoing brutal impact of sanctions--the inf...

Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, capture national attention, most victims remain nameless, their stories untold. Professor Terence Keel's new book, "The Coroner’s Silence" reveals a disturbing truth about these cases: coroners and other death investigators are often complicit in obscuring...