- The Koch Bros. & Their Billionaire Web
- Bernie Sanders Explained Plus Sue Grafton’s X
- Eric Laursen, THE PEOPLE’S PENSION & Greg Palast, BILLIONAIRES AND BALLOT BANDITS.
- Doug Henwood, MY TURN: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency
- Gerald Friedman: A Bernie Sanders Presidency Boosts Incomes & Jobs
- Comix as Art and Politics: Art Spiegelman and Greg Palast
- Paul Theroux, DEEP SOUTH & Ted Rall, BERNIE
- DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGIOUS LEFT
- Ron Suskind, THE WAY OF THE WORLD and ELIZABETH WINTHROP, COUNTING ON GRACE
- David Cay Johnston, FREE LUNCH
- The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
- Margot Livesey, HOUSE ON FORTUNE STREET
- Deborah Paredez, YEAR OF THE DOG & Vincent Emanuele, The New Normal
- Call for Independent Exit Polling
- Web Extra: 9-11 Press for Truth video
- The Vote Count Protection Project
- URGENT: Stealth bill threatens democracy
- Voting Problems?
- Danielle Allen, OUR DECLARATION & Katy Simpson Smith, THE STORY OF LAND AND SEA
- Bill de Blasio’s Civic Experiment – Is It Working?
- Linda Coleman: Radical Descent & Greg Guma on Bernie
- Greg Guma on Bernie Sanders’ “Insurgent” Run
- Cicero’s End, Dust Up over Sanders’ Plan, & Remembering Quentin Young
- Is Hillary Clinton Good For Women?
- Historian Donna Murch on The Clintons’ War On Drugs, Mass Incarceration & The Black Vote
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We talk with poet Deborah Paredez about her new volume of poetry, Year of the Dog. It bears powerful witness to the legacy of war, violence and the struggle for social justice.
Then, whither the Left in a moment of institutional meltdown? We talk with writer, activist and Iraq War veteran Vincent Emanuele about his article in Counterpunch, The New Normal: Cascading and Multilayered Crises.
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Deborah Paredez
In a time of crisis, like our current pandemic, poetry becomes essential to our survival. Nothing illustrates this better than the poetry of Deborah Paredez.
In her new poetry collection, Year of the Dog, Paredez witnesses with a spare and eloquent ferocity the injustices of our time and the courage of those who contest them.
Paredez’ view is intensely personal and also broad, historical, and contextual. In this episode, we get to hear her read her poems and discuss them.
Deborah Paredez is a poet and scholar whose lectures and publications examine Black and Latinx popular culture, poetry of war and witness, feminist elegy and cultural memory. She is co-founder and co-director of Canto Mundo, a national organization for Latinx poets and is a professor at Columbia University.
Vincent Emanuele
The COVID19 pandemic has exposed deep fissures and failures in our society: the catastrophe of our private health care system privileging profit over preparation for disaster; the cruel inequities that condemn the poor, the homeless, prisoners, and above all black and brown people to much higher risk of death from the virus; and the flagrant disregard for the safety of essential workers by corporate owners.
And that’s just a start. We’ve seen our voting system being discarded as an afterthought by the Supreme Court and State Legislatures from Wisconsin to New York. We’ve seen a presidency and a Congress who care more for the survival of the privileged few than the people they were elected to serve. It’s a bipartisan epic fail.
In his April 9 article for Counterpunch, The New Normal: Cascading and Multilayered Crises, activist and Iraq War veteran Vincent Emanuele explores the roots of our institutional meltdown, the current situation, dire prospects for the future and how the Left should respond.
Vincent Emanuele is a writer, activist and Iraq War veteran. He’s a member of Veterans for Peace.