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Gerald Horne with Charisse Burden-Stelly on the longue durée of apocalypse

February 20, 2024

Interviewer Charisse Burden-Stelly begins, "....apocalypse represented, for African and indigenous folks, the end of life as they knew it—that is, a life free from enslavement, genocide, and ongoing violence wrought by the insatiable drive of the group that came to be known as “whites” for endless profit. This ending was simultaneously the beginning of a capitalist world economy rooted in racial hierarchy, imperial domination, and militarized social relations, of which neoliberalism is merely the most recent enunciation."

Michael Tigar recounts the story of Terry Nichols (Listen: For the Defense)

Michael Tigar recounts the story of Terry Nichols (Listen: For the Defense)

February 20, 2024

Federal criminal defense attorney David Oscar Markus periodically interviews famed trial lawyers about their most fascinating cases for his podcast, "For the Defense." This week, he featured Michael Tigar, published several times by Monthly Review. Markus introduces the episode: "Michael Tigar is exactly what action is all about... I mean, in 1999 there was a vote for lawyer of the century: Clarence Darrow was #1, Thurgood Marshall was #2, and you know who was #3?"

Chavista Government or Chavismo movement? (Listen: This is Hell)

February 20, 2024

Seemingly the only people supporting the opposition and their supposed leader, Juan Guaidó, are outsiders like the United States government and the Biden administration, which continues to recognize Guaidó as President despite Guaidó never getting a vote...

Tigar on “Sensing Injustice” and almost every case imaginable (Listen: Law and Disorder)

Tigar on “Sensing Injustice” and almost every case imaginable (Listen: Law and Disorder)

February 20, 2024

If you want to hear more of the details and stories around the trials of the Chicago 8, Julian Assange, Lynne Stewart, Pinochet, and dozens more dramatic court cases with direct impacts on each of our daily lives, then it will be well worth your while to give your ear to Law and Disorder's most recent conversation with Michael Tigar. Still, in his book Sensing Injustice, Tigar goes well beyond merely, if magnificently, narrating a profound array of legal battles. Tigar well understands the limits of law in the fight for justice, and of the role of the lawyer — as do his fellow lawyers Heidi Boghosian and Michael Smith —and challenging existential questions about the nature of the legal profession also come up in the Law and Disorder interview.

Why the sudden interest in Vietnam era movies? Coauthor of “Dissenting POWs” weighs in

Why the sudden interest in Vietnam era movies? Coauthor of “Dissenting POWs” weighs in

February 20, 2024

"'Why do we go back?' she asked sardonically, 'because they go back,' the pro-war hawks and military establishment. The 'patriarchy,' as she put it, ruminates the defeat in Vietnam like a bad sandwich growling in its stomach through a night that will not end. The defeat in Vietnam struck at a pillar of American manhood. Vietnam veterans would sometimes be chided by older veterans: they had won their war; Vietnam veterans had lost—what kind of men were they?"

“Dead Epidemiologists:” A personalized, enlivening take on Covid-19

“Dead Epidemiologists:” A personalized, enlivening take on Covid-19

February 20, 2024

Author Rob Wallace made a decision: His new book Dead Epidemiologists would take a personal approach. How could it not? While he introduces his work through this intimate lens, Wallace's perspective is global, tracking "the implications of capitalist agricultural production, distribution and consumption that is harming the web of life...."

Reason for common cause: A review of “The Robbery of Nature,” from Against the Current

Reason for common cause: A review of “The Robbery of Nature,” from Against the Current

February 20, 2024

"Foster and Clark show that the exploitation of wage labor in the capitalist production process is essentially tied to the expropriation of the natural world, the refusal to socially acknowledge care labor as socially necessary labor, the privatization of our common cultural heritage, the treatment of non-white communities as places where the social pathologies of capitalism (unemployment, poverty, and so on) can be concentrated, and so on. From this perspective workers, environmentalists, feminists, community activists, and anti-racists have good reason to make common cause."

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