#AmericanPrestige welcomes #TheaRiofrancos for a great interview about her book #Extraction: The Frontiers of #GreenCapitalism

https://americanprestigepod.com/episodes/7058544218
#energyTransition #greenwashing #environment #lithium #lithiumMining #extractivism #geoeconomy #politicalTheory #degrowth #ecosocialism #ecomarxism #books @bookstodon

"This is the first war since the Second World War that is directly impacting cities that we can consider hubs in the #globalEconomy."

#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #EsfandyarBatmanghelidj to discuss the economic consequences of #Trump's #warOnIran

https://americanprestigepod.com/episodes/5052012542
#Iran #IranWar #USpol #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy #régimeChangeWars #GulfStates #MiddleEast

#TheNation magazine's Jack Mirkinson talks to #AmericanPrestige pod about how February 3rd is "A Day for #Gaza," (https://www.thenation.com/article/world/a-day-for-gaza-intro-explainer/) and why today The Nation's entire website will be devoted to coverage of Gaza, running pieces exclusively authored by people in and from Gaza.

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/the-nation-s-a-day-for-gaza-w-jack-merkinson
#Palestine #warOnGaza #GazaGenocide

#AmericanPrestige talks w/ #GregGrandin about the US attack on #Venezuela

"They talk about the removal of Nicolás #Maduro while leaving the existing state structure intact, implying America’s preference for coercion over governance; the role of oil in US rhetoric; internal divisions within the #Trump administration; comparisons to past interventions in the region; and the weakening of regional resistance to US dominance"

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e241-venezuela-latin-america-and-the-future-of-u-s-foreign-policy-w-greg-grandin
#USpol #USforeignPolicy #LatinAmerica

#AmericanPrestige welcomes Daniel Waite Penny, host of Non-Toxic, to talk about how the "#manosphere" and masculinist right promote #climateChange denial and disinformation - "how gendered ideas about strength, autonomy, and grievance have fused with #climateDenial and hostility toward environmental regulation"

https://americanprestigepod.com/episodes/5839457275
#masculinism #farRight #altRight #NewRight #climate #environment

#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #OmarZahzah, author of #TermsOfServitude: Zionism, #SiliconValley, and Digital #SettlerColonialism. Discussion includes the #SheikhJarrah uprising, the repressive weaponizing of #tech and #AI against #Palestinians, and Palestinian use of #socialMedia to change the narrative of their struggle.

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e334-silicon-valley-and-the-israeli-occupation-w-omar-zahzah

#media #digitalMedia #mediaCriticism #BigTech #oPt #censorship #digitalCensorship #cyberharassment #digitalRights #Gaza #books @bookstodon

this episode of #AmericanPrestige about free speech is great. i love podcast episodes when they talk to book authors cause then i get to add more books to my towering "to read" list

E331 - The Myth of Free Speech w/ Fara Dabhoiwala

#podcast

#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #GregGrandin for Part 1 of an interview about his recent book, #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World. Discussion includes the #SpanishConquest, aspects of English and Spanish #settlerColonialism, as well as the evolution of US-Latin American relations

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e226-a-new-history-of-the-americas-pt-1-w-greg-grandin

#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #bookstodon #books @bookstodon

#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes back historian #RashidKhalidi to talk about #ColumbiaUniversity's entente with the #Trump Administration, #Columbia's measures to bring in "outside monitors," and how powerful donors and neoliberal management models are affecting humanities departments and #MiddleEastStudies.

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e223-columbia-trump-and-the-palestine-exception-w-rashid-khalidi

#studentProtests #ColumbiaU #academicFreedom #campusActivism #stateRepression #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #USpolitics #UShigherEd @palestine @israel