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The Troubling History of Texas Eugenics w/ Dr. Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf

October 27, 2025Peoples' History

In our latest episode, we talk with Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf about their new book "The Purifying Knife" and the history of eugenics in Texas and beyond. Listen in:…

ENCORE: The Movement to Save the Rainforest w/ “environmental pitbull” Randy Hayes

October 6, 2025Climate, Peoples' History

It's the 40th anniversary of the founding of Rainforest Action Network. So we're reposting this 2021 interview with RAN co-founder Randy "Hurricane" Hayes. The 1980s saw a new consciousness of…

Political Violence Isn’t a “Both Sides” Issue…Ruling Class Repression in America

September 29, 2025Peoples' History, politics, Uncategorized

Trump issued an executive order last week saying he was directing the federal government to “a national strategy to investigate and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence…

ENCORE: Remembering 911 and America’s Forever Wars

September 11, 2025Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

This week, Israel bombed Hamas leadership in Qatar in a brazen attack within the Arab state. This is after a two year genocide in Gaza, moves to annex the West…

Media Release: The Department of Defense wasn’t “Woke” . . . It was an agent of intervention and repression

September 10, 2025Foreign Policy, Peoples' History, politics

*For Immediate Release* The Department of Defense wasn’t “Woke” . . . It was an agent of intervention and repression Available for Interviews... Robert Buzzanco, emeritus professor of history, co-host…

The Defense Department wasn’t Woke, It was an Agent for Empire and Repression

September 10, 2025Foreign Policy, Peoples' History, politics

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…

Best of G&R: Happy Scrappy Labor Day!! The Ruling Class vs Radical Organizing

September 1, 2025anti-capitalism, Labor, Materialism and Economics, Peoples' History

Encore of our 2023 Labor Day episode. Listen in: Green & Red celebrates (American) Labor Day . . . we talk a little about the history of the day,…

Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later, and “the long slow history of disaster…” w/ scott crow

August 30, 2025Climate, Direct Action, Peoples' History

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…

“Just no place for street fighting man..” How Dems Shun Street Politics

August 25, 2025Direct Action, Peoples' History, politics

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…

Best of G&R: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and “Atomic Diplomacy,” 80 years later

August 7, 2025Peoples' History

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…