2023 – Page 4 – Green and Red Podcast

Will Potter on How the State and the Media Go After Radical Movements

August 15, 2023Climate, Direct Action

We’re in an unprecedented rollback of civil liberties. States are passing laws to outlaw protests and direct action, charging non-violent protesters with “domestic terrorism” and legalizing the running over of…

“Socialist” Leigh Phillips defends private planes

August 12, 2023Materialism and Economics, politics

In a recent article on the Breakthrough Institute’s blog, Leigh Phillips makes a case for “private jets for all.” This comes amidst increasing criticism from environmental and social justice critiques…

Gulf of Tonkin and the Atomic Bomb . . . Green & Red’s Radical (and real) History this week

August 9, 2023Peoples' History

Green & Red commemorates this week in radical history with brief lessons about the Gulf of Tonkin attacks (August 2 and 4, 1964) and the use of the atomic bomb…

Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline w/ Appalachians Against Pipelines

August 8, 2023Climate, Direct Action

The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 300 mile long fracked gas pipeline cutting across the mountains and waterways of Appalachia. For the past five years, Appalachians Against Pipelines (@stopthemvp) has…

Hiroshima and “Atomic Diplomacy,” 78 Years Later

August 7, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

It's the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. With decisions to drop atomic bombs being discussed with the release of Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," we thought we'd repost this episode…

Scrappy Sunday | Oppenheimer, Private Jets for All! and APEC

August 7, 2023Peoples' History, politics

Scrappy summer continues! This week, we’re back with a hearty dose of radical history and snarky politics. We kick off with some thoughts on Trump’s third indictment and “unindicted co-conspirator…

Noam Chomsky on 9/11 . . . Interview w/ Bob Buzzanco on 9/13/2001, from the Green & Red Archives

July 26, 2023Chomsky, Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

On September 13th, 2001, G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco was fortunate to have one, if not the, first interviews w/ Noam Chomsky about the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Here the Green…

Cornel West–Don’t Run for Prez! What do we get out of Lefty Celeb campaigns? A G&R Commentary

July 26, 2023politics

Scott and Bob discuss the big questions--how do we get what we want? Will it work? What can we do to win? And we do it in the context of…

Scrappy Summer | Strikes, Israel, Heatwaves and More

July 23, 2023Labor

Summertime rolls! It’s too damn hot and the bosses are ripping us off! In the latest Scrappy Sunday, Bob and Scott riff and rant on strikes galore, the Democrats (including…

Cluster Bombs and Biden’s Wider War . . . a Green & Red Commentary

July 18, 2023Foreign Policy

G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco here discusses Biden's decision to use cluster bombs--a war crime--in Ukraine. Cluster bombs were widely used in Laos by the U.S. and 80 million didn't explode,…