Novara Media

Mar 24 2025 300 ep. 72 mins 8.4k
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Novara Media is an independent media organisation addressing the issues—from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change—that are set to define the 21st century.

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Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard

Mar 24 2025 145 mins  
Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelations published in Declassified UK. In an extensive conversation about the shifting sands of global security, the author of The Racket also discusses the elimination of USAID, America’s U-turn on Russia, and the rearmament of Europe

Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like? w/ Jodi Dean

Mar 20 2025 66 mins  
After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism’ as the best way to describe our growing society of serfs and servants in her new book, Capital’s Grave. She talks to Eleanor Penny about a vision of class […]

Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton

Mar 17 2025 93 mins  
The ‘special relationship’ is central to how Britain conducts its foreign policy and perceives itself as a country. The argument goes: proximity to Washington allows London to maintain a semblance of its former prestige and power. The media and political class can’t get enough of it. But what if Britain’s relationship to the United States […]

Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican

Mar 13 2025 74 mins  
In the wake of Assad’s regime collapse and the call for the Kurdish Worker’s Party to disband, Elif Sarican talks to Richard Hames about how to make sense of this new world, and whether or not the Kurdish revolution in Rojava can survive. Comments, corrections, suggestions? [email protected]

Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly

Mar 11 2025 77 mins  
The US is no longer supporting Ukraine, and in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. Germany is taking off its hallowed ‘debt brake’ to allow it, while Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capabilities of the British armed forces. In a world still dominated by the American military, what does it matter? And […]

Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White

Mar 11 2025 89 mins  
When we talk about politics – whether it’s the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that’s at stake is an idea of ‘the future’. These days, the idea of imminent societal or ecological breakdown necessarily means adopting the framing of the present as being a ‘state of emergency’. This is an obvious […]

ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield

Mar 09 2025 70 mins  
What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create Better World. They discuss Dan Edelstyn […]

Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?

Mar 06 2025 60 mins  
Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. Contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwined, from the plantation to the infirmary, the leper colony to the stay-at-home order. In The History of the World in 6 Plagues, Edna Bonhomme investigates how fear, power, race science and colonial violence […]

Downstream: Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong w/ Josephine Quinn

Mar 03 2025 111 mins  
In 1996 Samuel Huntington published ‘The Clash of Civilizations’. At the time its hypothesis was counter-intuitive. Despite the supremacy of the United States after the Cold War, the ascent of globalisation would not lead to the end of history, but a return to distinctive and competing civilisations. Rather than homogeneity we would see a growing […]

Novara FM: The Decades Long Plan that Made Trump Possible w/ David Adler

Feb 27 2025 56 mins  
Read any of the mainstream press at the moment and you’ll hear the same thing: unprecedented things are happening in America. But what if this sudden shift was an illusion? David Adler is co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, a group that brings together forces from across the progressive left. He tells Richard Hames that […]