CounterPunch Radio

Dec 05 2024 252 ep. 64 mins 5k
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A weekly podcast on world politics, culture and economics, hosted by Eric Draitser.

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

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

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

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

Ralph Nader – American Tragedy

Nov 13 2024 33 mins  
This week on CounterPunch Radio, the tenacious Ralph Nader talks to Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank about why Kamala Harris lost, Israel's influence in American politics, and demise of working class America. More

Why Harris Lost: Joshua Frank

Nov 08 2024 17 mins  
CounterPunch co-editor Joshua Frank explains why abandoning the working class sunk the Harris campaign - blowback for 30 years of neoliberal capitalism. More

Zionism’s Tenuous Future: Ramzy Baroud

Oct 10 2024 39 mins  
This week Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Ramzy Baroud about the genocide in Gaza, Zionism's shaky future and the role of the international left in helping shape its future. Ramzy is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is “These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli P

Israel’s October 7th Propaganda Machine: Arun Gupta

Oct 07 2024 85 mins  
On this re-aired episode of CounterPunch Radio, Eric Draitser interviews Arun Gupta about Israel's propaganda campaign, the failed reporting of The New York Times, and how it's all been used to dehumanize and justify genocide in Gaza. More

Supporting Mental Health in the Occupied West Bank: Jumana Kaplanian & Psychology Spa

Sep 26 2024 49 mins  
Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Jumana Kaplanian, psychologist and founder of Psychology Spa, a mental health clinic in the West Bank. Jumana shares her experience supporting the mental health of youth and women in her community in Bethlehem throughout the genocide, the day-to-day impacts of the occupation, and the most recent invasion of the West Bank. Jumana Kaplanian is t

All Things Palestine, From Organizing to Liberation: Eman Abdelhadi and Khury Petersen-Smith

Sep 17 2024 59 mins  
This week, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank interview Eman Abdelhadi and Khury Petersen-Smith on all things Palestine, from organizing to liberation. Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist and writer who thinks at the intersection of gender, sexuality, religion and politics. She is an assistant professor and sociologist at the University of Chicago, where she researches American

Degrowth Communism: Kōhei Saitō

Sep 08 2024 76 mins  
Unavoidable evidence of the catastrophic consequences of climate change confronts us at every turn. Record high ocean temperatures. Once-a-century storms that appear every other year. And on and on. In the face of ongoing ecological disaster, international best-selling author Kōhei Saitō asks why our society continues to prioritize corporate profits (and the rapacious expansion o