CounterPunch Radio

Feb 20 2025 259 ep. 64 mins 5k
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A biweekly podcast on world politics, culture and economics, hosted by Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank.

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Reclaiming Environmentalism w/ Vijay Kolinjivadi & Aaron Vansintjan

Feb 20 2025 53 mins  
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan about their new book, The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists. Vijay Kolinjivadi is an assistant professor at the School for Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is also a co-edit

Between Bombs: The Art of Palestinian Storytelling w/ Eman Alhaj Ali

Feb 13 2025 41 mins  
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt discusses storytelling, writing, and reading during the Palestinian genocide with Eman Aljhaj Ali in Gaza. Eman Alhaj Ali is a Palestinian writer, translator, and storyteller from Gaza. Reading and writing are her passions with her byline appearing on a number of international news outlets - The Nation, Mondoweiss, El

The Struggle for Anti-Racist Education w/ Jesse Hagopian

Feb 06 2025 53 mins  
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with Jesse Hagopian about his new book Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education. Jesse has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s

Building the Worlds that Kill Us w/ David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Jan 30 2025 64 mins  
This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, "Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in American History" (Columbia University Press). David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and S

Labor in the Age of Trump w/ Kim Kelly and Hamilton Nolan

Jan 10 2025 51 mins  
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Kim Kelly and Hamilton Nolan about what to expect in the next four years of Trump and how to build labor power in a world dominated by billionaires. Kim Kelly is a writer and labor activist based in Philadelphia. She is the author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. Hamilton No

Environmentalism from Below w/ Ashley Dawson

Dec 29 2024 68 mins  
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Ashley Dawson about his new book, Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet (Haymarket Books). Ashley is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of several books

The Battles Ahead w/ Silky Shah and Eman Abdelhadi

Dec 16 2024 48 mins  
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Silky Shah and Eman Abdelhadi join Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg to discuss how we should gear up to take on the Trump administration, and the best way to empower our movements going forward, from immigration to Palestine. More

The Battle in Seattle, 25 Years On w/ Jeffrey St. Clair

Dec 05 2024 57 mins  
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Jeffrey St. Clair, editor-in-chief of CounterPunch, and author of many books, including Been Brown so Long it Looked like Me and Grand Theft Pentagon, is interviewed by Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank about the 25th anniversary of the WTO protests in Seattle. They discuss Jeffrey's dispatches from the streets of Seattle and the book that was

COP29, Leonard Peltier and the Future of Indigenous Resistance w/ Janene Yazzie

Nov 26 2024 69 mins  
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Janene Yazzie, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the NDN Collective, joins Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg to talk global climate policy, the plight of Leonard Peltier, and the push for clemency from President Biden. Janene, who just returned from COP29, also addresses how we move forward under a second Trump term. As a bonus, we've included

Acción Palestina Chiapas: From Resistance to Revolution

Nov 21 2024 71 mins  
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with members of Acción Palestina Chiapas, grassroots organizers in southern México raising awareness around Palestinian resistance within their communities. They discuss the vínculos, the connections, between local Indigenous struggles against displacement, forced migration, and narco-violence and the Palest