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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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Recent Episodes
  • Capitalism and its critics, real abundance vs. bogue abundance
    May 29, 2025 – 59:59
  • Fundraising special: two views of Israel–Palestine
    May 22, 2025 – 17:35
  • Fundraising special: wobbly dollar, perpetual wars
    May 15, 2025 – 59:58
  • Fundraising special: Trumpian ideology
    May 8, 2025 – 59:58
  • The US empire, the state of the working class, and things need to be bigger
    May 1, 2025 – 59:58
  • How constitutional fetishism gave us Trump
    Apr 24, 2025 – 59:58
  • Hayek’s bastards: the second, cruder generation of neoliberals
    Apr 17, 2025 – 59:59
  • Financiers and universities, approaches to the climate crisis
    Apr 10, 2025 – 59:58
  • Tariff extravaganza: the UAW’s view, a critical view
    Apr 3, 2025 – 59:58
  • Trump and the courts, class and politics, hipster nihilism
    Mar 27, 2025 – 59:59
  • Professional class liberalism
    Mar 20, 2025 – 59:58
  • Marx’s ethics, and what did the BLM protests do to police budgets?
    Mar 13, 2025 – 59:58
  • Fundraising special: militancy and repression in the Valley, neofeudalism
    Mar 6, 2025 – 39:58
  • Fundraising special: worker-led organizing
    Feb 27, 2025 – 3:42
  • Trump, a new/old kind of imperialist? • Is Trump a neoliberal?
    Feb 20, 2025 – 59:58
  • The truth about DEI, a history of “choice”
    Feb 13, 2025 – 59:58
  • The theology of MAGA, “sovereigntism” and Trump
    Feb 6, 2025 – 59:58
  • Moguls and their scribes, the New York intellectuals
    Jan 30, 2025 – 59:58
  • The Gaza ceasefire, and sex work today
    Jan 23, 2025 – 59:58
  • Tech bros’ plans for SF, the Resnicks and water in California
    Jan 16, 2025 – 59:57
  • The Y2K era, the South Korean political crisis
    Jan 9, 2025 – 59:58
  • Best of 2024 retrospective
    Jan 2, 2025 – 22:10
  • Behind the News – December 26, 2024
    Dec 26, 2024 – 59:58
  • Syria and the failures of COP29
    Dec 19, 2024 – 59:58
  • Fundraising special: Gaza, the Constitution
    Dec 12, 2024 – 59:57
  • Fundraising special: what’s driving the populist right?
    Dec 5, 2024 – 59:57
  • Stashing money offshore, a new government in Sri Lanka
    Nov 28, 2024 – 59:58
  • Ethel Rosenberg’s innocence, problems of masculinity
    Nov 21, 2024 – 59:58
  • Trump prognostications: foreign policy, criminal justice
    Nov 14, 2024 – 59:57
  • Comments on Trump • Israeli public opinion • the role of Ukraine in Western politics
    Nov 7, 2024 – 59:58
  • The right’s war on higher ed • What Israel’s wars are all about
    Oct 31, 2024 – 59:57
  • How much US aid goes to Israel? • people actually like their jobs, a study shows
    Oct 24, 2024 – 59:57
  • The Biden/Harris vision of the world, the emptying of the Balkans
    Oct 17, 2024 – 59:58
  • Translating Marx’s Capital, Israeli society after October 7
    Oct 10, 2024 – 59:57
  • A century of war on Palestinians, a look at Hezbollah after Nasrallah
    Oct 3, 2024 – 59:58
  • Fires in Brazil, successes in Mexico
    Sep 26, 2024 – 59:57
  • The problem with boys and a history of inequality
    Sep 19, 2024 – 59:58
  • Fundraising special: durability of slaveholder wealth, a conservative looks at the election
    Sep 12, 2024 – 59:58
  • German neo-Nazis on the march, a look at the superrich
    Sep 5, 2024 – 59:58
  • Bangladesh uprising, writing India’s constitution
    Aug 29, 2024 – 59:57
  • A progressive China policy, and Petro’s record in Colombia
    Aug 22, 2024 – 59:58
  • Behind the News – August 15, 2024
    Aug 15, 2024 – 59:58
  • Who’s Jeff Yass, and more on those allegedly pro-worker Republicans
    Aug 8, 2024 – 59:58
  • World Court v Israel, crypto politics, psychoanalyzing Biden
    Aug 1, 2024 – 59:58
  • The French elections, Vance’s background, Jane McAlevey (very briefly) on power
    Jul 25, 2024 – 59:58
  • JD Vance, no friend of the working class • the chaos of the American political party system
    Jul 18, 2024 – 59:58
  • elections in Britain and Iran, in memory of Jane McAlevey
    Jul 11, 2024 – 59:58
  • Israel is killing a lot of people but losing its war, and the latest on the US carceral state
    Jul 4, 2024 – 59:58
  • Haiti and the death of the future
    Jun 27, 2024 – 59:58
  • Israel and the Arab states and the latest on the education wars
    Jun 20, 2024 – 59:58
Recent Reviews
  • Vibeeme
    Absolute best show for leftists who appreciate more signal and less noise
    Doug is one of the very few people on the left we have who is serious and professional. Hard to believe you could ever listen to a single episode and not have gained some important insight from diverse, studious leftists' perspectives on our world.
  • samtha25
    Provide Topics?
    I'm unsubscribing, because the episode description provides no clue as to topics covered. I wish I had the time to download and listen to every episode, but I don't. I think I'm probably not alone. Bad practice of KPFA generally.
  • H. Beale
    Henwood's show is a must
    Especially in these dark, uncertain times.
  • International Front Disco
    Episode info
    Can you not list the guests names, at least, on the information dropdown?
  • DavidZMorris
    Smart, funny, with punk rock
    Wow, no reviews? Henwood is incisive and has great guests. Of course, his perspective is no secret, but he's far more subtle and informed than the average talking head on the left or right - take, most obviously, his objection to Naomi Klein's simplistic reading of international finance. For those with an interest in social justice but conscious that the world is a very complicated place, this is the show.
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