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Novara FM: How BlackRock and Global Finance Stole Your Future w/ Michael A. McCarthy

Got a pension? Or a savings account? Arguably, its purpose is to align your interests with the interests of capitalism: when the market goes up, you benefit too. All this means that the working class actually already owns lots of the assets around us…

Downstream: American Democracy Is Collapsing, and This Man Predicted It w/ Joseph Stiglitz

During the 2008 economic crisis, the Obama administration had an opportunity to enact widespread market reforms. Instead, they bailed out the banks and laid the groundwork for mass inequality and a political culture that has given us a second Trump a…

Novara FM: How to Redistribute the Globe w/ Jo Guldi

Assuming you’re not reading this on your yacht, then the most contentious thing in the world is right beneath you. Since the dawn of agriculture, peasants, farmers, landlords, and states have vied for control of the land.

Downstream: The IDF Killed My Entire Family, and the British Government Helped Them w/ Ahmed Alnaouq

Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist and author. In October 2023, while he was in the UK, an Israeli airstrike hit his home in central Gaza, killing 21 of his immediate family, including his father, two brothers, three sisters and their children…

Novara FM: Palantir Technologies and the Age of Automated Genocide w/ Matt Mahmoudi

The genocide in Gaza has been the most automated in history. Systems like ‘Lavender’ and ‘Where’s Daddy?’ reportedly speed up the process of tracking and targeting Palestinians. The genocide’s brutality has been concealed behind the facade of technic…

Downstream: Britain’s Most Powerful Multi-Millionaire Hippy w/ Dale Vince

Dale Vince is a former new age traveller. In 1985 he was beaten up by police and arrested during the infamous Battle of the Beanfield at Stonehenge. And he’s also the inventor a string of transformative technologies: the world’s first green energy co…

ACFM Microdose: Superheroes

Following the recent Trip episode on Heroes, Keir and Jem return with a Microdose focusing on the masked, the winged and the mutated. Why are superheroes such a cultural mainstay? What psychological and political desires do they fulfil?

Novara FM: How Enoch Powell Explains British Politics’ Rivers of Shit w/ Kojo Koram

Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his ‘Island of Strangers’ speech. But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism? And how did he shape the far right’s existential struggle to understand Britain once it ceased …

Novara FM: The New Party, Beyond London w/ Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam

There will be a new party. And also, there already is one. We put the strategies of Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam head to head: do we need a new party? Should it be led by Jeremy Corbyn, or someone new?

Downstream: How to Be a Morally Effective Person w/ Rutger Bregman

This week’s guest is best known for hijacking a panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, where he told a room full of billionaires to stop avoiding taxes. He now claims that this form of protest has been proven ineffective in the …