Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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After losing in the first round of elections and given little chance of victory, Lula, with a powerful mobilization of working people and a head-on confrontation with Meta and tech bros, came back and won a big victory in the final vote.

Mike Elk of "Payday Repor...

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In the latest, Scott and Bob talk about the history of the Democratic centrists waging war on the left flank in the party for corporate interests, how it led us to Trump and how the centrists actions in the 2026 elections haven't changed at all. -------------------------------------------------------------

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In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman (@adamfederman) about the latest developments in the Prairieland case.

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Adam works at Type Investigations as a reporting fellow. He has written extensively on corporate and police spying on environmental activists, much of which has appeared in the Guardian. He's been published in the Int...

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It's the third anniversary of the October 7th attacks that sparked war and genocide in Gaza and other parts of the Middle East. In commemoration, we're sharing this encore episode with Arab history scholar Fadi Kafeety.

In this episode, Bob talked w/ Fadi Kafeety, a scholar of Arab and Middle Eastern history, about the current cr...

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In our latest, we talk with author and historian Aaron Leonard about the Federal Government's long war against American communism.

Guest bio//Aaron J. Leonard is a writer and historian. He is the author of The Folk Singers and the Bureau:The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppressio...

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In our latest, we talk with author and labor historian John Hanson about the 1934 Teamsters strike in Minneapolis..

Guest bio//John Hanson is the author of "Fight & Win: Minneapolis Teamsters Strike, 1934."

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We joined THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast, co-hosted by Jason Myles, M.C. Toussaint and Pascal Robert to talk about blacks and socialism.

Bio// Jason Myles is the host of THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast with bylines in Current Affairs Magazine,Damage Magazine and Black Agenda Report.

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In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman about Arctic politics as the Trump administration moves to fast track drilling.

Guest Bio// Adam Federman (@adamfederman) is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations who has written widely on environmental policy, public lands, the Arctic and corporate and police spying on...

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It's the 15th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. In our latest, we talk with scholar Michael Gould-Wartofsky (@mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social) about the conditions that led to the emergence of Occupy, the two months that occupiers held Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan and the lasting effects of the movement on U.S. politics.

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In our latest, we talk with investigative journalist Eli Clifton about the Israeli lobby and U.S. foreign policy. Guest Bio//Eli Clifton is cofounder and senior advisor at the Quincy Institute. An investigative journalist, he focuses on money in politics and U.S. foreign policy. Clifton is coauthor of the book, "Israel’s Lobby: Ame...

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In our latest, Scott talks with Grace with Siskiyou Rising Tide about the campaign to stop lithium mining in southeast Oregon and the recent action they did at the state capital. Guest Bio//Grace is a member of Siskiyou Rising Tide.

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In our latest, we look at the watershed event of September 11th, 2001. We discuss how the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon led to dramatic shifts in U.S. policy in the Middle East, the military industrial complex, the surveillance state and created a new global anti-war consensus.

It's a moment t...

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Dolly Parton passed away last week. She’s remembered as a legendary singer-songwriter, country superstar, LGBQT icon and champion for kids literacy, but she was also very important in telling the stories of working class women. In the comedy 9 to 5, with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Dolly centered women working in offices (often treated as o...

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In our latest, journalist Candice Bernd returns to talk about Trump's border wall in Big Bend and the groups resisting it.

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Candice Bernd (@candicequestions.com) is a special investigative correspondent for the Observer covering the climate and ecological crises.

She is a freelance journalist based in Austin whose work has also appeared in The...

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In our latest, we talk with Adam Johnson, co-host of Citations Needed podcast, and author of "How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza." We discuss how the liberal media systematically downplayed, obscured, and repackaged an emerging campaign of extermination into a “war on terror” framework.

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Adam Johnson is a media analyst...

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In our latest, Scott and guest co-host Hep Ingham talk with sports writer and author Dave Zirin about his new biography of peoples' historian Howard Zinn.

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Hep Ingham co-hosts KGNU's Hemispheres and is the executive producer of Green and Red.

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Dave Zirin is the sports editor at The Nation. He is the author of 11 books on...

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This week is the 73rd anniversary of the U.S. coup in Iran. In our latest, we give a background on the geopolitics of the Cold War, U.S.-Soviet tension in Iran after World War Two, the politics of oil, and how it played into the overthrow of democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. We discuss the current war in Iran and how...

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After decades organizing from within the labor establishment, Joe Uehlein realized that winning real climate and economic justice meant moving beyond the limits of traditional labor and environmentalism. As former secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO’s Industrial Division and director of the AFL-CIO's Center for Strategic Campaigns, Joe fought from the inside. But in 2005, he stepped away from the AFL-CIO to found the Labor Network for S...

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In our latest, we talk with Prof. Valena Beety, Professor of Law at Indiana University, about her new book "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity." We discuss how the state has been criminalizing motherhood, pregnancy, abortion and queer identity.

Guest bio//Valena Beety (@innocenceprof) is a law professor, innocence litigator, and former federal pro...

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The spectre of socialism is haunting America . . . Bizarrely enough in 2026, a new Red Scare has taken over American politics, with the GOP, the Democratic Establishment, plenty of media, and liberals raising alarms about the recent success of candidates identifying as Democratic Socialists and Progressives, especially those endorsed by the political group the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Given Trump's various crises, invoking the...

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In our latest, Scott and guest co-host Laurel Sutherlin (@laurelsutherlin) talk with author and environmentalist Jason Mark (@jasondovemark) about his new book "The Earth Said Remember Me: How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet." They discuss "shifting baseline syndrome", how the authoritarians work to erase our memories and normalize environmental crisis, and, most importantly, how people are responding to environmental amnesia.

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We're back from summer break!

In our latest, we talk with journalist and author Jasper Craven (@Jasper_Craven) about his new book, "God Forgives, Brothers Don't," discussing the history of military education and toxic masculinity, the impacts of combat in America's forever wars on veterans and how it has effected Pete Hegseth, Graham Platner and others.

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In our latest, Scott talks with Yannis, an activist on the ground in southern Arizona, about the tree-sit that launched this week to block construction of Trump's border wall as it encroaches into the San Rafael Valley.

Yannis is on the ground in the San Rafael Valley.

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In a special crossover, Green and Red co-host Prof. Bob Buzzanco joins Jason Myles and Pascal Robert on THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast to talk about the Black Political Class and the Democratic Party.

Bio// Jason Myles is the host of THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast with bylines in Current Affairs Magazine,Damage Magazine and Black Agenda Report

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The Little Falls Textile Strike of 1912-1913 was a pivotal but long-neglected event in American labor history. The story includes the dramatic struggle of immigrant women against powerful mill owners, brutal police repression, and a hostile press as they fought for their dignity and survival. The history chronicles how a walkout over reduced wages grew into a major labor conflict, drawing in powerful allies lik...

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"MAGA Inc.: A Guide to Trump's World of Crypto Czars, Tech Titans and Prison Profiteers" - CorpWatch's latest report - is a deep dive into the companies that have bankrolled and benefited the most from the 'Make America Great Again' movement launched by President Donald Trump.

In our latest, we talk with one of the report's authors, Pratap Chatterjee, Executive Director of Cor...

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Fifty years ago, America celebrated its bicentennial with a coast-to-coast displays of bunting, flags, community ceremonies, and constant talk about "hope" and "unity." Now as we face our semi-quincentennial, the country is riven worse than it has been in at least a century, and perhaps since the civil war.

What happened in those intervening 50 years?

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Last week, the nine convicted anti-ICE protestors were sentenced to a barbaric amount of time ranging from 30 to 100 years. One of them, who wasn't even at the protest, was sentenced to 30 years for moving antifascist zines out of this apartment.

In our latest, we talk with journalist Adam Federman about the sentencing of the Prairieland Nine, NPSM-7, Trump's crackdown on his opposition and the targeting of...

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Today we had another conversation with our frequent guest and comrade Professor Eskandar Sadeghi of The University of St. Andrews in Scotland, who's an international authority of Iranian history and politics and the region generally. We talked about the impact of the war on Iran, how the Iranian government and military responded, and often succeeded, in fighting the Israeli and U.S. aggression, the current status after the...

🎉 Don't like liberal media attacks on the Left? Then support independent media channels like the Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. How do we build mass powerful movements? Why does the left often implode and self-destruct as it makes gains to challenging the ruling class? How to raise to the occasion of stopping an authoritarian state in the midst of a widening economic divide and the climate crisis? Yotam Marom's new book, "For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness", looks at this.In our latest, Scott talks with exp...

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Last week, they opened the Obama library in Chicago. You saw speeches by Barack and Michelle Obama, and all the living ex-presidents and first ladies celebrating the event. But all the fanfare left out his never ending support of neo-liberal economics, brutal wars abroad and how his progressiveness faded away quickly after "Hope and Change" propelled him into the White House.

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In our latest, Scott talks with Hannah Kass and Priscilla Grim, both Stop Cop City activists, and defendants in the campaign's legal struggles.

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Hannah Kass one of the Cobb Country 3. She earned a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026. Her scholar-activism explores repression and resistance within struggles for land, food, and abo...

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In Minneapolis this week, federal prosecutors have announced charges against 15 anti-ICE activists who took part in protests against the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The 15 individuals are accused of being part of anti-fascist, or “antifa,” groups that “violently oppose immigration law enforcement" and are charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer." At least five of the indicted are...

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In our latest, we talk about how the liberal establishment find itself in a war with it's anti-Zionist anti-ruling class progressive left. This has been most visible with the recent character assassination of Graham Platner by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the centrist Democrats. Punching left is the norm with the centrist Democrats against anyone talk about economic justice and challenging the status quo...

🎉 Independent media is more vital than ever. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, we dive deep into the bitcoin mine and AI data center boom in Texas and the emerging faultlines in the states politics. We discuss with Texas Observer special correspondent Candice Bernd (candicebernd.bsky.social). Guest Bio//

Candice Bernd is a special investigative correspondent for the Texas Observer covering the climate and ecological crises. She is a freelance journalist based in Austin whose work has also appeared in The Nation, The American Pro...

🎉 Independent media is more vital than ever. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast or https://greenandredpodcast.org/donate-to-green-and-red/. In our latest, we talk with activist and writer Ann Larson (@annllarson) about her experience working in a Salt Lake City grocery store during the early part of the pandemic. We talk about the economic precarity all grocery workers face there while performing an essential task for our society. We get into corporate policing and surveillance of employees, and the poverty wages and zero benefits they give to the workers.

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Rainforest Action Network (RAN) emerged in 1985, when it took over a fledgling effort to protect rainforests from transnational corporations funding the expansion of tropical cattle ranching. It excelled at using nonviolent, civil disobedience in dramatic campaigns that captured the attention of the public, media, and RAN’s corporate adversaries.

In our latest, Scott, joined by guest co-host Laurel Sutherlin, talks with Prof. David Benac (History Dept., Western Michigan University) about his new book...

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In our 500th episode, we talk about the secret history of the Green and Red Podcast with our long time friend, comrade and music director Moody. Guest Bio//Moody is the music director of the Green and Red Podcast. You can hear him play the Green and Red Blues at the intro and outro of every episode of the Green and Red Podcast. ------------------------------Outro// "Green and Red Blu...

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Bolivian social movements [labor, farmers, civil society, indigenous communities] are pressing neo-liberal President Rodrigo Paz' centrist government to roll back austerity measures and address rising living ⁠costs. This has led to thousands in the streets and at road blockades around the country voicing their demands. Paz has responded with state violence targeting movements and former president Evo Morales.

In our latest, we do a deep dive into...