The Arts of Travel
By Matthew Dagher-Margosian
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The founder of Asia Art Tours, Matthew Dagher-Margosian interviews the world's most unique people for conversations on art, travel, politics and creativity.
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Dr. Brad East - On Faith in a Better World when 'Losing is Likely'
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Chang Che on Wang Huning: The Mind behind Xi & the Modern CCP
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May 22, 2022 |
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Paul Passavant: The Policing of Public Space in America
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May 15, 2022 |
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Colleen Wood: Russian Imperialism in Central Asia
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May 01, 2022 |
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Ananth Krishnan: How India sees China & how China sees India
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Temur Umarov: The Economic Relationships of Central Asia, Russia & China
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Lokman Tsui: The Loss of Press Freedom in Hong Kong
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Black Science as Black Power: Dr. Quito Swan on the Life of Pauulu Kamarakafego
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Sabina Knight on China's Literature (Part 2): The Cultural Revolution & Mo Yan's Nobel Prize
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Maria Repnikova: Manufacturing Consent in China & Russia
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: On Liberalism
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Huizhong Wu: Little Plum Blossom & Patriarchy in China
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Joe Kassabian: On Armenia, Azerbaijan & the war for Artsakh
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Sabina Knight on China's Literature (Part 1 - Daoism, Confucianism & Anti- War Poetry)
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Jessica Namakkal on Auroville: India's Settler Utopia
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Joanna Lillis: The Aftermath of Kazakhstan's Protests
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Jessica Namakkal: Decolonizing French India (Part 1)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Taylor Moore: Abuse & Corruption in Chicago Slam Poetry
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Theft is Property! Robert Nichols on Indigenous Resistance to Capitalism
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Nga Pham: The Stories Shaping Vietnam Today
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Zikri Rahman: On Malaysia's Lawan Protests
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Dean Spade: On Mutual Aid - Healing Ourselves to Heal the World
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Jesse Appell: On Performing Standup In China & Selling Tea in the US
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Minsun Ji: On Squid Game, Jeon Tae-il & South Korea's Labor Movements
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Bathsheba Demuth - How Capitalism & State Socialism Transformed the Arctic
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Sam Holden: On Saving Sento & Akiya, Japan's Past & Future Commons
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Journalist Haris Zargar: On Kashmir's Freedom Struggle
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Brian Kahn of Earther: Climate Change Reporting on a Dying Planet
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Wendy Trevino: What's Poetry's Role in Revolutionary Times?
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Shaq Koyok: Orang Asli, The Indigenous People of Malaysia
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Dr. Khatchig Mouradian: How Armenians Resisted Genocide Through Legal & Armed Struggles
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Elaine Hui: How the CCP built Capitalist Hegemony in China
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Sam Lavigne: Sabotaging Silicon Valley
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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S.L. LIM : Burnt Koalas & Australia's Anthropocene
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Xuandi Wang: The Escapism of China‘s Youth
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Dr. Duncan McCargo on Patani & Political Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Steve Ducey of NØlympics LA - The Problems and Flaws of the Modern Olympics
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Joy James: On Ella Baker, John Brown & Rebuilding Maroonage
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Edward Ongweso Jr: Peter Thiel & The Post-Capitalism of Tech's Far Right
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Hathairat "Wist" Phaholtap on Isaan, Thailand's Northeast & Identity in Thailand
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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Rodrigo Nunes: On Neoliberalism, Denialism & The Shape of Things to Come
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Lauren Kaori Gurley: The Bessemer Amazon Union, Why it Failed & where Workers go from here
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May 30, 2021 |
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Joey Ayoub: On Israel's Hatred & Palestine's Freedom
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May 23, 2021 |
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Zafar Aafaq: On India's Twin Epidemics of Covid & Hindutva
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May 16, 2021 |
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Viola Zhou: Uber meet Didi - Reporting on China's Gig Economy
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May 09, 2021 |
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Joanna Lillis: On the Real Politics & Lives of Central Asia
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May 02, 2021 |
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Eli Friedman: Researching China's Gig Economy
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Let Let Sein on Myanmar: The Violence they've Suffered, The Hope that's Endured, & How the World can Help
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Shahram Khosravi: Home without Homeland, The Violence of Borders & Imagining a World without Them
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Vicky Osterweil: On Maroonage & Abolition in the Anthropocene (Conclusion)
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Hyo Yoon Kang - On IP Law, Monopolies & Why We Don't have a People's Vaccine for Covid-19
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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Chu May Paing: On the Feminism & Feminists of Myanmar's Freedom Struggle
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Warren Stanislaus: A History of Black Japan & Afro-Japanese Identity
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Edward Ongweso - Proposition 22, Gig Economics & why Obama Liberals support Far-Right Capitalists (Part 1)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Garrick Cooper: Aotearoa, Māori Resistance and Decolonizing New Zealand
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Hussein Kesvani: The Online World of British Muslims
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Vicky Osterweil: On Defending ' In Defense of Looting ' (Part 1)
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Reflections on 2020 - Best Southeast Asia Interviews
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Sylvia Alajaji - Music & The Armenian Diaspora
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Bianca Tylek: On the NBA, BLM & the Carceral Capitalism of Detroit Pistons' Owner Tom Gores
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Reflections on 2020 - Best India Interviews
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Navyug Gill: On India's Farmer Protests & Sikhism as Resistance
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Mikkel Frantzen - Capitalism, Depression & Revolution as Therapy
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Long T. Bui - On the Ghost Nation of South Vietnam & The Absence of Vietnam Studies in American Universities
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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Matthew Christopher on the Photography & Stories of 'Abandoned America'
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Mukaddas Mijit: On the Music of Xinjiang
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Geoff Aung: On The Capitalist Dreamworlds and Nightmares of Myanmar
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Soumya Shankar - 'Will Joe Biden Oppose Hindutva?' On the Complex Politics of Indian American Voters
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Krithika Varagur: On Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Battle for Hearts, Wallets & Minds in the Islamic World
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Editor Nicholas Haggerty - On Studying with Dr. David Graeber and Reflecting on his Legacy.
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Yannick Giovanni Marshall - Franz Fanon, Black Lives Matter and Destroying the Colony
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Thum "PJ" Ping Tjin of New Naratif: On Colonialism, Capitalism & Dissent in Singapore
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Scientist Yangyang Cheng - The Limits of Science under Capitalism & The State
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Vincent Wong - Abolition & Internationalism
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Lebanon's Apocalypse - Organizer Joey Ayoub: On the August 4th Explosion and Beirut in the Aftermath.
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Pavin Chachavalpongpun, on Digital Activism, Thailand's Protests and Facing down the Monarchy
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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William Andrews - Author of Dissenting Japan - On Protests, Direct Action and Riots in Japan's 60s, 70s & 80s
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Kunthida Rungruengkiat - How Thailand's Elites destroyed the Future Forward Party, and where Thai Politics goes next
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Journalist April Zhu: On the Difficult Questions of Chinese Capital & the Kenyan State
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Keri Blakinger of the Marshall Project on America's Prisons & Covid-19
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Tuck Woodstock on the Portland Protests + Preview w. Lausan's Vincent Wong on Hong Kong & Mutual Aid
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Dr. Laurence Ralph on Chicago Police Violence and the Torture of Black Americans
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Author Vincent Bevins on 'The Jakarta Method', Past Violence & Present Capitalism
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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Journalist Barnaby Lo - Concerns over Philippines Anti-Terror Bill & the silencing of Duterte's Media Critics
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Academic Ruodi Duan: On Mao, Black Radicals and the Tragic End of Black-China Solidarity
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Attorney Alec Karakatsanis: On Abolishing the Racial Capitalism & White Supremacy of the US Legal System
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Fascists F*ck Off ! Researcher Gregor Wakounig on Japan's ANTIFA history and fighting Racism in Japan
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Journalist Hyunsu Yim: K-Pop, Black Lives Matter, and the Complex Politics of Global Fandom
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Author Shon Meckfessel - Observations, Insights & Politics from Seattle's CHAZ Autonomous Zone
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Harsh Mander - On India's Protests, Violence against Muslims & The Poor, and Radical Love
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Writer Cassie Da Costa - Race, Gender & Celebrity in an Unequal World
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Vicky Osterweil on US Left Media: How Riots expose the Distance between The People and the Pundits
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May 31, 2020 |
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Writer Yi-Ling Liu on Blued: How the World's Largest LGBTQ App was built in China & the Limits of Tolerance in the PRC
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May 25, 2020 |
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Writer & Researcher Mita: On Anarchism, Mutual Aid & What the Western Left could Learn from Indonesia (Conclusion)
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May 17, 2020 |
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Writer and Researcher Mita: On Indonesia , Covid-19 & The Hidden Violence of the Status Quo (part 1)
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May 11, 2020 |
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Minicast w. Washington Post's Regine Cabato on Press Freedom in the Philippines
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May 06, 2020 |
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Regine Cabato of the Washington Post on The Philippines, Covid-19 and Global Labor
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May 04, 2020 |
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Haeryun Kang on the Nth Room Scandal, Digital Harassment and Sexual Violence in South Korea (Content Warning)
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May 01, 2020 |
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Why aren't we Talking About Vietnam's Success w. Covid-19? Guests: Mike Tatarski of Saigoneer & Academic Mai Truong
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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The End of Shinzo Abe? - Michael Penn of Shingetsu News on The Political Fallout of Covid-19 in Japan.
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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The Thai Enquirer's Jasmine Chia: The Failures of Capitalism & The State in Thailand under Covid-19
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Abolish Silicon Valley w. Repeater Book's Wendy Liu and Vice's Edward Ongweso Jr. (Part 2 - Conclusion)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Taiwan: Asia's Queer Casablanca - Dr. Wen Liu of Lausan & New Bloom on Taiwan, LGBTQI & Diaspora Politics
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Abolish Silicon Valley w. Repeater Book's Wendy Liu and Vice's Edward Ongweso Jr. (Part 1)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Deborah Augustin of New Naratif on Malaysia's Response to Covid-19 and Recent Political Coup
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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A Fragile Peace in the Pandemic- Discussing South Korea & Covid-19 w. Grace Moon of AAJA and Dasl Yoon of the Wall Street Journal
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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The Lion City vs. The Pandemic - L.A. Times Reporter Shashank Bengali on Singapore's Response to Covid-19
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Journalist William Yang on Taiwan's response to the Coronavirus & the power of Universal Heath Care
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Crisis and Collapse: Vicky Osterweil on the Death of Neoliberal Multiculturalism & the Rise of Neoliberal Fascism
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Leila Al-Shami on Syria, Assad and the silence of the Western Left
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Candy Colored Clowns (Finale) w. Jake Flores on Mental Health in Stand-Up and the Emotional Labor of Comedians
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Nicole Curato on Rodrigo Duterte and Western Stereotypes of the Philippines
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Not so Golden - Cora Currier of The Intercept, on Homelessness & California
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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'Trump - Modi! Brother - Brother!' Eviane Leidig on Narendra Modi and the BJP's Evolving Relationship with the Global Right
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Film Scholar Keung Yoon Bae on Parasite, Korean Cinema and the Limits of Revolutionary Art
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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Candy Colored Clowns - Comedian Jake Flores on ICE, The Brooklyn Left and Podcast Leftism (Part 1)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Professor Joshua Hendrick on Fethullah Gülen, Turkey, and 'Neoliberal Islam'
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Journalists Karen Ho and Tony Lin on White Privilege in Media & Reforming (or Revolting Against) Elite Institutions
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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Is Celebrity an Inequality? Naomi Burton of Means TV on Building Progressive Media & The U.S Left's Relationship with Fame
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Writer Aruni Kashyap on using Fiction to understand Assam, Assamese Identity and India's Protests
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Kirsten Han of New Naratif Magazine: On Singapore, Censorship and Decolonization
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Journalist Surabhi Tandon on the "F*cking Insanity" of Kashmir's Historic and Contemporary Suffering
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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A Conversation w. Dr. Martin Hägglund on his book - This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Between Authoritarianism and Democracy: A Conversation on Contemporary India w. Debasish R Chowdhury
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Author Kyle Chayka on AirBnB, "Airspace" & how Minimalism became the Design Aesthetic of Global Capitalism
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Big Brother, Big Tech & Big Modi: Pranav Dixit of Buzzfeed News on Survelliance and Silicon Valley's Broken Promises in India
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Journalist Neha Dixit on India's Protests, Feminism and the Hindu Supremacy of the BJP
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Cod Satrusayang on Thailand's Political Landscape // Teirra Kamolvattanavita on Youth and Feminism in Thai politics
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Dec 28, 2019 |
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Social Work Pioneer Jeffrey Andrews on Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong's South Asian and Muslim Communities & Domestic Laborers
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Activists Xiaowen and Mimi on China's Patriarchy, 米兔(Me Too), Gender Roles and the Struggle of Chinese Feminists
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Dec 21, 2019 |
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"There is No American Left!" - The Intercept's Jon Schwarz on Global Struggles and the Silence of the American Left
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Jojje Olsson on China's Abduction of Swedish Citizen Gui Minhai, and Scandinavia's Complicated Relationship with China
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Asia Art Tours in conversation w. Francis Wade - Author of Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Why WeWork Won't Work! Vice's Edward Ongweso Jr on Monopoly, Venture Capitalism and Silicon Valley's Moral Rot
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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All of Them Means All of Them! Researcher Joey Ayoub on Lebanon's Protests and Global Solidarity
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Dr. Kecheng Fang on Cyber-Nationalism and the Cross-Pollination of the Global Right
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Absolute (Samantha) Power Corrupts Absolutely: Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen, Media Hypocrisy & the Cruelty of Obama and Trudeau
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Febriana Firdaus on the corporate, religious and political struggles of West Papua and Indonesia
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Newly Elected San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin - on Homelessness, Tech in the Carceral System, and reflecting on Prison Abolition
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Rafe Bartholomew on the NBA, Social Justice and Hooping in the Philippines
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Chris Arnade - On Dignity, Politics and Homelessness in ' Back Row' America
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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The Youth Awaken! Kharishar Kahfi of the Jakarta Post on the West Papua, Jakarta and Indonesia Protests.
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Chatting w. Isabelle Niu of Chinese Storytellers and Loud Murmurs Podcast about Discrimination, Media Bias and best practice in China Reporting ( 媒体偏见与性别歧视)
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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The Unbearable Heaviness of a Thai Woman's Labor- Artist Kawita Vatanajyankur on Feminism, Capitalism and Labor in Thailand
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Sep 28, 2019 |
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'This is Not a Protest, This is a Fight for our Survival' - Spokesperson Raki Ap, of Benny Wenda's Office on the violence in West Papua (Part 2 in our series)
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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West Papua- Past History, Present Protests, and Indonesia's role in the current crisis - A Conversation w. Karina Tehusijarana of the Jakarta Post
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Marx, Monsters & White Men- A Conversation on Whiteness, Capitalism and Film w. The Horror Vanguard
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Punching Left - Joe Bernstein of Buzzfeed News on The Right Wing Media Machine that made Andy Ngo a Star.
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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'Even a Bishop will Steal if he's Hungry ' - Dr. Mark Galeotti on the Vory- Russia's Super Mafia and the Future of Crime under Capitalism
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Aug 04, 2019 |
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Mauna Kea Protests & The Hawaiian People (Part 2) - The Philosophy & Spiritual Resistance of Hawaii w. Nobel Peace Prize Nominee H.E. Leon Kaulahao Siu
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Mauna Kea Protests & The Hawaiian People (Part 1) - The History of Hawaii w. Nobel Peace Prize Nominee H.E. Leon Kaulahao Siu
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Jul 27, 2019 |
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'Wat' is to be Done? - Thailand's 'Guided Democracy', The Royal Family and Dissent w. Professor in Exile: Giles Ji Ungpakorn
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Jul 21, 2019 |
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Stuart McDonald, founder of Travelfish on the Travel Industry's confrontation with Big Tech and Over-Tourism
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Aloha means Goodbye, it also means Get Out! - A 4th of July interview w. Rob Kajiwara on Fighting Stereotypes and Imperialism in Hawaii and Okinawa.
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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In Cambodia, "Women are White Cloth and Men are Gold"- Feminism, Gender & Art with Phnom Penh Artist Sophal Neak
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Riley Quinn of Trash Future-That's Dialectics Baby! ( Champagne Socialists & Theodor Adorno Vs. Mark Fisher & Dirtbag Leftists)
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Everything you wanted to know about the Tokyo Underworld but were afraid to ask! Chatting w. Author Jake Adelstein on Yakuza, Shinzo Abe and Neoliberalism!
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World- A Conversation with Dr. Samuel Moyn
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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The Japan-opticon: Author William Andrews of Dissenting Japan on The History of Japan's Left (Part 1)
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May 26, 2019 |
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Moshing in the Middle Kingdom- Talking Rock and Roll w. Beijing's Michael Pettis, Owner of Maybe Mars Records
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May 20, 2019 |
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Extinction, Orangutans, Street Art and Capitalism- Interview with Malaysia-based Artist Ernest Zacharevic
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May 10, 2019 |
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"Take away the Right to say F*ck, you take away the Right to say F*ck the Government"- The Artist Mr. Fish
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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Green Shinto - Japan's Shinto Faith and Climate Change with Dr. John Dougill
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Art after Genocide-Discussing Cambodia with Artist Lauren Iida
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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"Everything is Awful and Some Things are Worse"- On Food, Wealth and Writing with Ex-New York Times Frugal Traveler Matt Gross
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Mar 31, 2019 |
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Art isn't cool, it's work.- An Interview w. Bangkok's Alex Face on Brands, Big Business and Street Art
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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The Pattani Tapes: An Interview on Thailand's Feminism and Thailand's Islam with Anticha and Noona
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Fried Chicken, Elon Musk and the Capitalocene - A chat on the "cost of cheap" with Dr. Raj Patel
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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Korea, Japan and American Empire: A chat with Tim Shorrock of The Nation Magazine
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Save the Seeds, Save the World - An interview with Jon Jandai of Pun Pun Farms
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Betraying Big Brother- Discussing China's Feminist Movement with Author and Academic Leta Hong Fincher
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Dec 29, 2018 |
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Interview with Australian Photographer Hugh Brown
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Jul 03, 2018 |