How Google Monopolized Almost Everything

Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024. Photo by rawpixel.com The post Lets Talk About The Election Part 2 appeared first on KPFA.

Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024.   Photo by visuals on Unsplash The post Lets Talk About The Election Part 1 appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Paola Caridi is a journalist, historian, and the author of Hamas: From Resistance To Government (2nd edition, translated to English). The post Hamas & Its Multiple Facets appeared first on KPFA.

Guests: Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College.  He has written several books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change, most recently, he is the co-author with Yale Magrass of Who Owns Democracy? The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America. Yale Magrass is a Chancellor Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He is the author/co-author of many books, most co-authored with Charles Derber, his latest is Who Owns Democracy? The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America.   The post Is There a Deep State? appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. He writes regularly for Haaretz with a focus on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Most recently, he is the author of The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe.  He has won a number of humanitarian awards for his work on the Israel/Palestine conflict including the Olaf Palme award in 2016 and in 2021, Israel’s top award for Journalism, the Sokolov Award. The post Gideon Levy on Israel’s Assault on Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Corey Brettschneider is a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University.  He is the author of The Oath and the Office and his latest, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It.    The post When President John Adams Tried to Overthrow Democracy appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Market Institute, the author of Liberty from All Masters, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.  His latest article THE ANTITRUST REVOLUTION: Liberal Democracy’s last stand against Big Tech can be found here. Featured image: Harper’s Magazine Cover Story, October, 2024 The post How Google Monopolized Almost Everything appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism. She is the author of Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings.   The post Shirley Chisholm, A Revolutionary Thinker appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nathan J. Robinson is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine. He is the author of Why You Should Be a Socialist, Responding to the Right, and his latest, The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona. The post Nathan Robinson on The Elections and U.S. Foreign Policy appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.   Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism  Guest: Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d’économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Appropriates Our Future, and his latest, How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy.  He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review. The post Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism appeared first on KPFA.