Best Anti Capitalist Time Podcasts (2025)

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How Communities are Resisting San Diego’s Housing Crisis w/ Organizer Jose Lopez (G&R 422) 25:09

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In part two of our series on private equity giant Blackstone, Scott talks ACCE San Diego director Jose Lopez about housing crisis in San Diego and Blackstone’s role in it. Bio// Jose Lopez is the San Diego director for the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). -------------------- Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links 🎙…

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R.I.P. Robert Redford...Appreciation for an Iconic Actor, Director, Environmentalist and Activist (G&R 421) 21:06

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We've been long inspired and touched by Robert Redford's career in film and politics. He was a screen idol who challenged America's status quo. From acting in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Three Days of the Condor and All The President's Men to directing Ordinary People and the Milagro Beanfield War, he took on roles, and later directing proj…

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How to Wage Peace in These Dark Times w/ CODEPINK's Jodie Evans (G&R 420) 44:24

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In our latest, Scott talks with Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, about the recent disruption of Trump and co's dinner in D.C., ongoing protests against the genocide on Capitol Hill and the upcoming climate march in NYC. Bio// Jodie Evans (@MsJodieEvans) is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA, and serves on the …

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Jordan as a Structural Byproduct of US-Led Imperialism with Tara Alami 1:59:07

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This is an episode recorded this week with Tara Alami to talk about a piece she wrote about Jordan for Vox Ummah last Spring. The essay’s title is “The Price of Peace” and it delves into Jordan’s role within the US-Imperialist led world system. And Alami discusses the history of the Hashemite monarchy, and the political legacy of Jordanian rulers w…

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ENCORE: Remembering 911 and America's Forever War (G&R 419) 1:17:45

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This week, Israel bombed Hamas leadership in Qatar in a brazen attack within the Arab state. This is a two year genocide in Gaza, moves to annex the West Bank, a 12 day war with Iran, a two month war in Lebanon, and attacks on Tunis, Yemen and Syria. In this encore episode from 2020, we offered personal recollections, talked about the larger histor…

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Palestine & the Struggle Against the International Fascist Counterrevolution with Corinna Mullin 1:43:37

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In this discussion we talk with Professor Corinna Mullin who is a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. Corinna Mullin is an anti-imperialist academic who teaches political science and economics. Her research examines the historical legacies of colonialism and the role of capitalist expansion and imperialist imbrications in producing …

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The Defense Department wasn't Woke, It was an Agent for Empire and Repression (G&R 418) 48:31

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Donald Trump recently reverted the name of the Dept. of Defense to Dept. of War. He, and his cronies, claim that the Dept of Defense is too woke and needs to return to a "warrior culture." Never one to be confused with a genius, Trump misses the history of why the Department of Defense came into being in 1947 and how it was a blueprint for America …

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Tao Kroesche: Building a Business That Prioritises Health, Fun & Spaciousness (E86) 35:30

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Do you know what the most important ‘thing’ in your coaching business is? It’s you. You the human being and person and everything that makes up who you are and how you thrive. Prioristing our own needs as a person first and a coach second is vital if we want to build a business that is not only lasting and sustainable - but also fun and filled with…

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Civil Rights Attorney Ron Kuby on Flag Burning “This executive order means absolutely nothing” (G&R 417) 54:25

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In 1989, and again 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled flag burning a First Amendment protected action. In 2025, Trump has issued an executive order banning flag burning. Trump's executive order mean absolutely nothing. But, it is part of his administration's greater plan to roll back civil liberties in the U.S. In our latest, we talk with legendary…

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Best of G&R: Happy Scrappy Labor Day!! The Ruling Class vs Radical Organizing (G&R 414) 41:58

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Encore of our 2023 Labor Day episode. Green & Red celebrates (American) Labor Day . . . we talk a little about the history of the day, the co-optation strategy behind it, and current conditions for labor and unions in the U.S. Labor in the U.S. has momentum, and the organizing efforts and strikes are ramping up. ------------------------------------…

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Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later and "the long slow history of disaster..." w/ scott crow (G&R 413) 47:25

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20 years ago this week Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. On August 29th, the levees broke and created a humanitarian crisis rarely seen before, seen too often now. Over 1800 people died and over a million evacuated with hundreds of thousands being permanently displaced in the aftermath. In the neighborhood of Algiers, a group of an…

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Coaches Couch: Marketing As A Coach In Times Of Crisis (E85) 24:17

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If the world feels to you like it is metaphorically and literally ‘on fire’ right now it’s because in more ways than one - it is. Never before have we been witness to live streamed global and domestic atrocities that are impacting millions of people in devastating ways that are hard to comprehend, but genuinely happening. How do we as heart centred…

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"Just no place for street fighting man.." How Dems Shun Street Politics (G&R 412) 46:08

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Contrary to what happens in many other parts of the world and within Trump’s GOP, the Democratic Party leadership shuns street protests. In fact, discouraging street politics is part of the it’s strategy of punching left. In the latest G&R, we talk about street protests, the corporate Democrats and how political parties and figures have used protes…

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How Corporate Landlord Blackstone Perpetuates the Housing Crisis w/ Jordan Ash of PESP (G&R 411) 32:22

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Since 2008, and even more since 2018 and 2023, private equity firms have been buying up real estate and rental properties across the U.S. No firm has preyed up on peoples' precarity more than private equity firm Blackstone. The fimr is the largest landlord in the United States by... a LOT. It owns 100,00 more rental units than its next closest comp…

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Frontline Resistance to Fossil Fuel Finance From the Gulf South to Richmond, CA (G&R 410) 1:25:28

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We’re living in challenging times with an escalating climate disaster devastating communities from Texas and Louisiana to Richmond, CA. Few institutions are as responsible for these crisis as Wall Street and Big Insurance companies. We’re also living in a time where large numbers of people have taken to the streets to confront those responsible for…

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"Fraud of Recycling": Industry Promotes Recyclingas False Solution to Plastic Crisis (G&R 409) 47:26

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This week as the negotiations for a Global Plastic Treaty fail in Geneva, Switzerland over a cap on plastic production, we look at the undue influence of the fossil fuel and plastic industries. False solutions to the climate crisis, and now the plastic pollution crisis, are part of an industry playbook to misinform the public and deflect from actua…

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Success Story: Bec Sands (E84) 34:39

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The wonderful Bec Sands joins us on Inspired Coach Podcast today to share her amazing success story. Bec came to coaching from the high flying world of PR, marking and communications and despite carving out an incredibly successful and impactful career for herself in that world - knew that even while at the top of her game - she wanted something mo…

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“The Story Where Truth Goes to Die” - Nora Barrows-Friedman on the Genocide in Gaza 2:09:10

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This is the lightly edited audio from a recent livestream episode we hosted with Nora Barrows-Friedman. Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014). She hosts the Electronic Intifada (EI) Livestreams…

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Democrats Skip Out of Texas, Non-Compliance Trainings and DC Free w/ Patrick Young (G&R 408) 44:48

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Scott talks with organizer and comrade Patrick Young (@patrickjyoung.bsky.social) about the state of resistance eight months into the Trump Administration. They get into the act of disobedience that the Texas Democrats take to avoid federal redistricting. They also talk about the mass non-compliance trainings happening, how DC is preparing for a po…

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Best of G&R: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and "Atomic Diplomacy", 80 years later (G&R 407) 37:10

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It's the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight, while Trump moves nuclear submarines closer to Russia in response to social media posts by Russian officials. Aerial photographs of the Gaza Strip look eerily similar to Hiroshi…

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Hala Sabbah from the Sameer Project (Recent Livestream Audio) 2:11:57

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We hosted an emergency livestream with Hala Sabbah of the Sameer Project back on July 21st to talk about the absolutely horrific situation in Gaza as a result of the US-funded and supported Israeli enacted genocide. Since conditions have not changed substantially, I wanted to also make sure to get a lightly edited version of that conversation out t…

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Muscles, Swagger and Politics: The Cultural Impact of Hulk Hogan w/ Jason Myles (G&R 406) 49:23

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Hulk Hogan died recently. He's been denounced by some, praised by others. On his impact on the sport, pro wrestling historian Brian Soloman remarked on his passing "Wrestling history is divided in two parts: Before Hulk Hogan, and after Hulk Hogan…He was larger than life, inspired millions of people, many of whom spent decades being gradually let d…

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Trump vs. Comedy . . . Colbert and South Park, w/ Prof. Sophia McClennen (G&R 405) 40:44

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We had another fantastic interview w/ Professor Sophia McClennen (@mcclennen65) of Penn State who's the foremost authority and satire and politics. We had lively discussions of the firing of Stephen Colbert and the South Park episode showing Trump in bed with Satan, as well as the general role of comedy in taking on Trump. Trump is thin-skinned and…

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Texas Floods... Epic Fails and Mutual Aid in the Hill Country w/ journalist Candice Bernd (G&R 404) 40:50

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In our latest, we talk to Texas based journalist Candice Bernd (@candicebernd.bsky.social) about the devastating floods that hit the Hill Country on July 4th weekend. We discuss the effect of the floods on locals, failures of early warning systems, how DOGE's cuts to the federal government contributed to it, and how mutual aid has stepped in to sup…

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“Arrested in the Office of DEI” - On the New Racial Regime with Alana Lentin 2:11:57

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In this conversation we’re exited to welcome Alana Lentin back to the show to talk about her new book The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy, which works with the concept of the racial regime put forth by Cedric Robinson in his book Forgeries of Memory and Meaning. The book features a foreword by Elizabeth Robinson, long time inte…

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MAGA vs. Trump: Iran, Israel and Epstein (G&R 403) 42:23

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In our latest, we start off with an important "This Day in History" and Bob talks about the 79th anniversary of the Irgun's attack on the King David Hotel in Palestine. Then we get into the increasing divisions in the MAGA coalition around Iran, Israel and the Epstein files. We also discuss how this plays into continuing divisions between Trump and…

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Trump vs. Lula . . . US tariffs as political retaliation w/ Mike Elk of Payday Report (G&R 402) 22:10

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Bob had a great discussion w/ Mike Elk, founder and senior labor reporter of Payday Report and our Brazil correspondent, about Trump's tariffs on Brazil to retaliate against it for indicting Bolsonaro, and the decision to arrest him for his attempts to overthrow the election and assassinate Lula. They also discussed Lula's political prospects and B…

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"Vietnam Then, Palestine Now" . . . Bob Buzzanco at the Jerusalem Center (G&R 401) 1:38:25

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Green & Red co-host, professor of history emeritus, and scholar of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the Vietnam War, Bob Buzzanco recently spoke at the Jerusalem Fund/Palestine Center Lunchtime Lecture Series on the way the U.S. subverts liberation movements, with a comparative emphasis on Vietnam and Palestine. In this lecture, he discussed the o…

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Mamdani Beats Cuomo . . . Billionaires Attack, and Democrats Punch Left (Again) (G&R 400) 50:37

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Zohran Mamdani's big win in the NYC mayoral primary has shaken the political establishment in both parties, with the GOP predictably shrieking hysterically about "Socialism," Wall Street trying desperately to find an alternative candidate, and the Dems, as always, punching Left and showing their reluctance to endorse him. And that's our segue to an…

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Stephanie Mackinnon: Becoming An Anti-Capitalist Coach (E83) 41:56

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If you are a heart centered coach or desiring to become one then you will care about your business and work having an anti-capitalist lens. And it’s vital to know that this is not about suggesting that your business should not make money - and even money in plentiful amounts that will see you thrive. This is much more about issues of perfectionism,…

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Eric Mann’s Radical Journey through the Long 1960s (Part 2) 1:44:56

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This is part two of a two-part episode. This part of the conversation deals more with the actions that led to Mann's political imprisoment and his experiences as a political prisoner. In this two-part episode, we are joined by special cohost PM, and we speak with veteran civil rights organizer Eric Mann about his journey from his upbringing in New …

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Eric Mann’s Radical Journey through the Long 1960s (Part 1) 1:42:27

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In this two-part episode, we are joined by special cohost PM, and we speak with veteran civil rights organizer Eric Mann about his journey from his upbringing in New York to his involvement in political struggles during the 1960s. Mann discusses his early influences, including his parents' activism. He reflects on his work with the Congress of Raci…

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Purge Palantir Shuts Down Tech Fascist Billionaires w/ Planet Over Profit's Alice Hu (G&R 399) 13:04

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Billionaires are ravaging our democracy. One of the worst culprits is tech fascist billionaire Peter Theil. His company Palantir's technology allows ICE to identify, locate, and kidnap migrants en masse. Their spy-cop tools track activists and organizers. The IDF uses Palantir tech to commit genocide in Gaza. On Thursday, hundreds of activists disr…

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How Los Angeles is Resisting Trump's I.C.E. Raids w/ Prof. Enrique Ochoa (G&R 398) 1:04:51

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Los Angeles is under attack by the Trump Administration. Every day we hear new stories about I.C.E. attacking, detaining and arresting citizens and non-citizens. But we're also seeing lots of stories of community resistance to the I.C.E. raids. In our latest, Bob and Scott talk with Enrique Ochoa about LA's long history of resistance and how differ…

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The Korean War... the 75th Anniversary w/ journalist and Asia Expert Tim Shorrock (G&R 397) 1:04:56

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It's the 75th anniversary of the Korean War. Looking at the politics and history of the "Forgotten War," we talk with journalist Tim Shorrock. We disucss the Open Door in Asia, the Japanese occupation of Korea, communist resistance to it, the rise of right wing South Korean forces, North Korea crossing the 38th parallel, the Cold War and more. Bio/…

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Cuba: Present and Future, with Cuban solidarity activist Greg LaMotta (G&R 396) 32:59

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Greg LaMotta has a Ph.D. in Caribbean and Latin American history and is a longtime activist on behalf f Cuba and has visited the island numerous times over the past 40 years. Here we talked about his most recent trip, for May Day, and the current situation there, including food and power shortages and strains on the medical system. But despite this…