Episode 386 - Kenyans vs The IMF (w/ Dr. Grieve Chelwa)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast UC Santa Barbara Professor and 2024 Green Party Vice Presidential nominee Dr. Butch Ware joins Bad Faith for an extensive conversation that includes behind-the-scenes insights into his viral interview on the Breakfast Club, why Ta-Nehisi Coates' CBS interview on Palestine has made such a splash, and how the Green Party plans to grow and win beyond the current campaign cycle. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Wayne University scholar Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly -- better known as Dr. CBS -- returns to Bad Faith two years after offering up her predictions on what at 2024 Kamala run would look like. She offers her perspective on Kamala endorsements from the radical Black left, Jill Stein and Butch Ware's viral performance on The Breakfast Club, Ta-Nehisi Coates' return to political writing in the form of an anti-Zionist cover story for New York Magazine, and more. Dr. CBS & Brie end the episode in an extended debate about the theory of change the left should adopt in the wake of the Squad's "inside strategy" failing. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Stephen Semler, Co-Founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute (SPRI), a think tank that develops policies for the working class, returns to Bad Faith to talk about the latest bombshell from ProPublica, which revealed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken lied to Congress about Israel blocking aid to Gaza in order to avoid a disruption to the shipment of US weapons to Israel. Semler also weighs in on Israel's escalation in Lebanon, the controversy around pop artist Chappell Roan’s refusal to endorse Kamala, and Biden's latest bid on The View. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Journalist Julia Doubleday joins Bad Faith to interrogate whether inconsistencies exist between the left’s commitment to universal healthcare and our willingness to criticize Democrats on a range of public safety failures, and the indifference from some on the left to the Biden administration’s declaration that Covid is "over" — even as multiple refinfections present the threat of long Covid and massive public health problems. Have legitimate concerns about CDC misinformation and overly broad vaccine mandates made it difficult to discuss Covid health risks without being pegged as "authoritarian?" Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Middle Eastern history expert Dr. Assal Rad joins Bad Faith to talk about how international law, the Uncommited movement, and the fourth estate are failing to impose accountability on Israel as it escalates violence in the region. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Former Socialist Seattle City Councilmember and founder of Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant joins Bad Faith to download about the Harris/Trump debate and to provide a "fact check" on the Gaza misinformation included therein. Kshama also discusses the killing of American demonstrator Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, whom Kshama knew personally from her engagement in left politics in Seattle. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast The labor organizer who led workers at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse to the first labor victory in the US against Amazon Christian Smalls returns to Bad Faith to discuss 2024 and labor's role in manufacturing consent for corporate candidates. The Amazon Labor Union co-founder weighs in on the claim that Biden-Harris has been the most "pro-union" administration of our lifetimes and whether Biden's relatively worker-friendly NLRB is sufficient reason to vote blue despite the Democrats' ongoing support for Israel's genocide in Gaza. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Duke Professor of Public Policy, Economics, & African American Studies William Darity Jr. is probably the most cited scholar on the issue of the racial wealth gap and reparations. So what does he make of Kamala's agenda for Black America and the state of reparations discourse, post-2020? With more and more Arab and Muslim voters threatening to withhold  their votes over the siege in Gaza, why has there never been an "abandon Dems" movement over the party's broken promises to Black Americans? What types of policies would actually close the racial wealth gap, and why isn't the wealth tax discussed more frequently in these terms? Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Host of Sabby Sabs Sabrina Salvati returns to Bad Faith to break down AOC's very bad faith attack on Jill Stein and discuss the Democratic Party's ramped-up attacks on Greens in the wake of a disasterous-for-Kamala poll showing Muslim voters are looking to Stein as an alternative. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution Vincent Bevins joins Bad Faith to discuss how to turn protests into revolutionary change. In If We Burn he analyzes over a dozen movements from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street to the protests in Hong Kong and Brazil to establish the conditions that create mass movements. Then he takes it a step rather, investigating why those movements have not manifested in progress and have, at times, actually preceded a political regression. In this sprawling three hour conversation we do “applied history” and try to break down what went wrong after the BLM protests of 2020 and how to prevent those failures now that we’re in the middle of global protests over Israel’s genocide on Gaza. Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).