Against the Grain – April 16, 2008
Michael Klare discusses his new book "Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy."
Against the Grain
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Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is co-produced and co-hosted by Sasha Lilley and C. S. Soong.
Against the Grain – April 15, 2008
Susan Greenbaum criticizes federal policies that disperse public housing residents in the name of reducing poverty. And radical historian Eric Hobsbawm discussed socialism, democracy, Poland, and the USSR in a 1981 Pacifica Radio interview.
Against the Grain – April 14, 2008
Eyal Press examines the abortion debate and traces the rise of the evangelical anti-abortion movement in his book "Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America."
Against the Grain – April 9, 2008
The geographer Saed Engel-Di Mauro discusses soil degradation and its impact on agriculture and the environment. And Paul Paz y Mino of Amazon Watch talks about a historic lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador.
Against the Grain – April 8, 2008
Co-editor William Minter and contributor Lisa Brock discuss the new book “No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000.”
Against the Grain – April 7, 2008
Jen Angel, author of Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine, talks about the lessons that can be gleaned for media and left institutions from the experience of the radical publication Clamor. With host Sasha Lilley.
Against the Grain – April 2, 2008
There is no stable working class under capitalism, contends Yale scholar Michael Denning. He looks at how global labor has been represented, and emphasizes the importance of wageless people to the project of resisting neoliberal globalization.
Against the Grain – April 1, 2008
In his new book "Chechnya: The Case for Independence," Tony Wood, an assistant editor at New Left Review, examines the historical relationship between Russia and Chechnya and makes an argument for Chechen self-determination.
Against the Grain – March 31, 2008
Environmental lawyer and journalist Claire Hope Cummings has written a new book entitled "Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds." Wes Jackson of The Land Institute is working to transform the major grain crops into hardy perennials.
Against the Grain – March 26, 2008
Philosopher and author George Caffentzis critiques Peak Oil and describes how Enclosures continue to devastate workers around the globe.