Adam McKay's VICE (2018) sought to give Dick Cheney the full reckoning for his crimes through art that he will never receive in life. Is the film necessary cinematic intervention in the ongoing Cheney reclamation project, or a condescending failure? Your hosts disagree sharply on this cinematic polemic. PLUS: fiery hot takes on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover."'Damn right,' I said" by Eliot Weinberger - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n01/eliot-weinberger/damn-right-i-saidMichael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.
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News, politics, history and more from Jacobin. Featuring The Dig, Long Reads, Confronting Capitalism, Behind the News, Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman, and occasional specials.
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Folge vom 04.11.2022Michael and Us: Decision Points
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Folge vom 01.11.2022The Dig: Iran, 1941-1953. Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 CoupFeaturing Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three.Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDigCheck out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class
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Folge vom 01.11.2022Behind the News: The New New Left w/ Raina LipsitzJamieson Webster, author of a recent opinion piece in the Times, examines what severe psychological distress among adolescents is telling us about American society. Then Raina Lipsitz, author of The Rise of a New Left, looks at the history, personnel, and status of today’s radicalism.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html
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Folge vom 28.10.2022Jacobin Radio w/ Suzi Weissman: The Long War in UkraineSuzi talks to Michael Cox, Cold War and International Relations expert, about his forthcoming article in Critique, “In the shadow of the Russian revolution: Putin, Xi, and the long war in Ukraine.” Mick looks at the state of the war and the shock to the world system it has provoked, wreaking havoc with energy prices and the financial system. He examines the relationship between Russia and China within a reconfigured world order. Russia’s war on Ukraine has created strange bedfellows, left and right, north and south. We don’t know how it will turn out, but Mick argues that this war has changed the trajectory of the 21st century. We get his analysis.Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, protest movements.