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Episodes
Germany’s Culture of Remembrance – Is it enough? 14.11.2024 28:30
Podcast : Common Ground Berlin (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Germany’s Culture of Remembrance – Is it enough? Pub date : 2024-11-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Since World War II, Germans have struggled with how best to deal with their history. But even with a formal government policy of “Never Again,” anti-Semitism...
Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar 14.11.2024 1:55:29
Podcast : The Dig (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Oligarchy, Empire, Revolution w/ Hilary Goodfriend & Jorge Cuéllar Pub date : 2024-11-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Featuring Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar on the history of Central America. This is the first episode in a two-part series covering the late-19th...
The Fight for The Congo w/ Vijay Prashad 30.10.2024 1:02:40
Podcast : Upstream (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Fight for The Congo w/ Vijay Prashad Pub date : 2024-10-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Democratic Republic of the Congo, or The DRC, is—despite being in one of the most resource-rich regions on the planet—one of the poorest countries in the world. It sits ato...
Episode 45: Georgia's Neoliberal Lock-in with Tato Khundadze 29.10.2024 1:17:23
Podcast : Reimagining Soviet Georgia (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 45: Georgia's Neoliberal Lock-in with Tato Khundadze Pub date : 2024-10-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Georgia’s trade dynamics with the EU have not improved, even though it signed a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) in 201...
One Year of Genocide: Diana Buttu on Israel's Brutality and the Fight for Justice 19.10.2024 58:38
Podcast : The Mondoweiss Podcast (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : One Year of Genocide: Diana Buttu on Israel's Brutality and the Fight for Justice Pub date : 2024-10-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today's episode was recorded just before the one-year anniversary of October 7th, the date marking the beginning of the m...
The Creation of Modern China 09.10.2024 35:45
Podcast : Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Creation of Modern China Pub date : 2024-09-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On the 1st of October 1949, a huge crowd gathered in Tiananmen Square. In the shadow of Beijing's imperial Forbidden City, they listened as Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chine...
From Rockefeller Republicanism to Trumpism: How Did We Get Here? 04.10.2024 59:10
Podcast : Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : From Rockefeller Republicanism to Trumpism: How Did We Get Here? Pub date : 2024-09-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “People think of Nelson Rockefeller as the epitome of moderate Republicanism.” But what appears to be a clean b...
Making Gender Great Again? The Legacy of Colombia’s Historic Agreement 13.09.2024 29:49
Podcast : The World Stage Episode : Making Gender Great Again? The Legacy of Colombia’s Historic Agreement Pub date : 2024-09-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 2016 in Havana, the Colombian government signed a peace agreement with the FARC-EP guerilla, after several years of first secret, and then official, negotiations. The Havana tal...
Episode 39 - Dill & Haque: IHL and the IDF's Conduct of Hostilities in Gaza 05.09.2024 1:34:20
Podcast : JIB/JAB Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 39 - Dill & Haque: IHL and the IDF's Conduct of Hostilities in Gaza Pub date : 2024-08-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Janina Dill of the University of Oxford and Adil Haque of Rutgers Law School return to the podcast to address the question of whether it...
Lobbying for Zionism: A History 05.09.2024 59:58
Podcast : KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Lobbying for Zionism: A History Pub date : 2024-08-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of E...
Episode 61 – Land and Identity in Africa with Kevin C. Dunn 18.08.2024 45:00
Podcast : Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 61 – Land and Identity in Africa with Kevin C. Dunn Pub date : 2024-07-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kevin C. Dunn, the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hobart and William Smith Colleges...
Transfeminism in Brazilian Literature | prof. Luciana Namorato (Indiana University) 11.08.2024 32:17
Podcast : NeoTalk Episode : Transfeminism in Brazilian Literature | prof. Luciana Namorato (Indiana University) Pub date : 2024-08-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 2016 Brazilian transgender activist and writer Amara Moira published her memoir titled “What if I was a prostitute” in which she wrote about her experiences as a prostitute...
3392 - The Profit Seekers Between Government and The People w/ Anne Kim 11.08.2024 1:13:42
Podcast : The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : 3392 - The Profit Seekers Between Government and The People w/ Anne Kim Pub date : 2024-07-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Happy Monday! Sam and Emma speak with Anne Kim , contributing editor at Washington Monthly magazine, to discuss her re...
Long Reads: Israel's Triple Jeopardy w/ John Reynolds 31.07.2024 1:03:28
Podcast : Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Long Reads: Israel's Triple Jeopardy w/ John Reynolds Pub date : 2024-07-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Last week, the International Court of Justice issued a landmark ruling on the status of Israel’s occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Israel...
Ibrahim Shikaki on the Political Economy of Palestine 17.07.2024 1:15:01
Podcast : Conjuncture (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Ibrahim Shikaki on the Political Economy of Palestine Pub date : 2024-07-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Jordan T. Camp speaks with economist Ibrahim Shikaki about the political economy of Palestine, the economic impacts of prolonged occupation, and...
What is Populism? From the Farmers' Alliance to Trump 12.07.2024 36:28
Podcast : American History Hit (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : What is Populism? From the Farmers' Alliance to Trump Pub date : 2024-07-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the long unanswered question of whether the established elite truly support the concerns of ordinary people, a supposed hero arises: Populism. But w...
Downstream: The Israel Lobby Is Real. Here’s Exactly How It Works w/ Illan Pappé 05.07.2024 1:30:40
Podcast : Novara Media (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Downstream: The Israel Lobby Is Real. Here’s Exactly How It Works w/ Illan Pappé Pub date : 2024-06-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If you mention the Israel lobby in the mainstream media then, more often than not, you’ll face accusations of antisemitism. There ar...
Commune to Capitalism - Decollectivization of Agriculture in China w/ Zhun Xu 27.06.2024 1:49:07
Podcast : Guerrilla History (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Commune to Capitalism - Decollectivization of Agriculture in China w/ Zhun Xu Pub date : 2024-06-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of Guerrilla History, we once again have our great friend and comrade Zhun Xu, whom you should remember from two p...
Behind the News: The Hindu Right w/ Siddhartha Deb 20.06.2024 53:01
Podcast : Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Behind the News: The Hindu Right w/ Siddhartha Deb Pub date : 2024-06-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Siddhartha Deb , author of Twilight Prisoners , dives into the Hindu right and its poor showing in India’s elections. Sean Jacobs , professor at the New School a...
Part One: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories 15.06.2024 1:06:10
Podcast : Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Part One: Fábricas Ocupadas: When Workers In Argentina Took Over Their Factories Pub date : 2024-06-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Margaret talks with Prop about how people all over Argentina resisted neoliberalism and took over their factories...
Mark Mazzetti on ‘How Extremists Took Over Israel’ 06.06.2024 55:43
Podcast : KQED's Forum (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Mark Mazzetti on ‘How Extremists Took Over Israel’ Pub date : 2024-05-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A recent New York Times investigation reveals how violent radical elements in Israel’s settler movement in the West Bank have been allowed to operate with impunit...
How Latin America Fits into the Biden-Trump Battle 02.06.2024 36:09
Podcast : Latin America in Focus (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : How Latin America Fits into the Biden-Trump Battle Pub date : 2024-05-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Buckle up: U.S. politics are headed for a bumpy ride. And the issue of migration, particularly at the U.S. Southern border, will significantly influence...
Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh) 02.06.2024 1:34:04
Podcast : Know Your Enemy (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Consider the Cranks (w/ David Austin Walsh) Pub date : 2024-05-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historian David Austin Walsh joins to discuss his excellent new book Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right — a fascinating re-description o...
Mateo Jarquín, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024) 17.05.2024 33:59
Podcast : New Books in Diplomatic History Episode : Mateo Jarquín, "The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History" (UNC Press, 2024) Pub date : 2024-05-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Sandinista Revolution and its victory against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua gripped the United States and the world in the 1980s....
Ep. 198: AFCON and the Politics of Southern African Football 10.05.2024 40:33
Podcast : Ufahamu Africa (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Ep. 198: AFCON and the Politics of Southern African Football Pub date : 2024-04-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Fellow Gopolang Botlhokwane speaks to journalist and editor Njabulo Ngidi about the recent AFCON in Ivory Coast and the politics of football (or soccer,...
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