Coming From Left Field (Video)

“I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!” with Norman Finkelstein

We welcome Norman Finkelstein to our podcast, a prominent political scientist known for his writings, research, and scholarship on the middle east.  In 2020, he was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world.

In his new book,” I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom,” he discusses how the Left undermines class politics from within, the misguided legacy of Barack Obama, the censorious culture within US academia and his new book, and the crazy politics of social activists like Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Robin DiAngelo.

 

Norman Finkelstein website:
https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

 

Order the book: I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!:
https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9798986788425

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:
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“Moms for Liberty” with Walker Bragman

Walker Bragman is a journalist, JD, occasional cartoonist, and co-founder of OptOut Media Foundation. He writes for Salon, The Hill, Truth Out, Huffington Post and other publications. His recent reporting involves “Moms for Liberty,” an astroturf organization influenced by right-wing dark money that has been accused of using "parental rights" as a cover for strategically harassing public schools.

Links to Walker Bragman’s journalism:

Important Context News: https://www.importantcontext.news/

OptOut News: https://www.optout.news/

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:
http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

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“The Land Is Not Empty” with Sarah Augustine

Sarah Augustine, a Pueblo (Tewa) descendant, is the founder and co-chair of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal principal that originated in the 15th and 16th centuries to justify colonial expansion and domination of indigenous land rights and tribal sovereignty.  We discuss impact of this doctrine, native boarding schools, combating the “extractive logic” of exploiting nature for profit rather than social value and rights for indigenous people.

Book:
The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery
 

Website:
The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:
 

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Undercover Labor Organizing & the William Z. Foster Playbook with Chris Townsend

William Z. Foster was one the most recognized and respected labor leaders in U.S. history. Chris Townsend is his prodigy. A long-time union organizer and, with the support of others, is instrumental in the unionization of Starbucks stores across the country.

 

Book:
Working Class Giant by Arthur Zipser
https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/working-class-giant/

Links:

The Undercover Organizers Behind America’s Union Wins-Portside
https://portside.org/2023-04-04/undercover-organizers-behind-americas-union-wins

 

Secret Union Tactic Fuels Unprecedented Labor Wins- Bloomberg News Original- YouTube:
https://youtu.be/6xDlvGn0F6A

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:

http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

 

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”Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream” with Alissa Quart

The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. Not so fast…. Acclaimed journalist Alissa Quart argues that at the heart of our suffering is a do-it-yourself ethos, the misplaced belief in our independence, and the conviction that we must rely on ourselves alone.

 

Alissa Quart website:

http://www.alissaquart.com/

 

Book:

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart

https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9780063028005

 

Economic Hardship Project

https://economichardship.org/

 

Podcast:

Going For Broke

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-for-broke/id1585501973

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:

http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

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”The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism” with Carlos Garrido

Carlos Garrido provides a comprehensive development of his concept of the purity fetish, tracing the outlook to the Eleatic school of Ancient Greek philosophy and showing how it has appeared in 20^th and 21^st  century Western Marxism and contemporary U.S. socialism.

Book:
"The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism" by Carlos Garrido
https://www.midwesternmarx.com/books.html 

 

Please subscribe to the Midwestern Marx YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@MidwesternMarx 

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:
http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

 

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“Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments” with Nathan Robinson

Nathan Robinson is the editor of Current Affairs magazine and is a leading voice of millennial left politics. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, Salon, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

We discuss his new book where he gives a detailed explanation of how conservative arguments work and why we need to resist them, then goes through twenty-five separate talking points, showing precisely why each one fails.

Book:
Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments by Nathan J. Robinson
https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9781250777744

 

Magazine:
Current Affairs: A Magazine of Politics and Culture
https://www.currentaffairs.org/ 

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:
http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

 

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Smedley D. Butler “War Is A Racket” with Bill Ehrhart

Our “friend of the show,” Bill Ehrhart returns to our podcast to discuss General Smedley D. Butler, one of the most colorful officers in the Marine Corps' long history; he was one of the two Marines who received two Medals of Honor for separate acts of outstanding heroism.

Butler and Ehrhart are both cut from the same cloth, Marines, opinionated, and on the correct side of politics.

 

Supplemental pictures and videos:

https://ComingFromLeftField.com/sb  

Books:

War Is A Racket by Smedley D. Butler

 

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

 

Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story of the Man Who Saved America (Pulp History) by David Talbot (Author), Spain Rodriguez (Illustrator)

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:

http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

 

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“Strongmen: From Mussolini to Present ” with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She is an MSNBC Opinion Columnist and commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets about authoritarianism, Fascism, and threats to democracy around the world..  Her latest book, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, looks at how illiberal leaders use propaganda, corruption, violence, and machismo - and how they can be defeated.

 

The book:

Strongmen- Mussolini To The Present

https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9780393868418

 

Substack:

Ruth Ben-Ghiat Lucid Substack

https://lucid.substack.com/

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:

http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

 

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“The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas” with Tom R. Hulst

Tom  Hulst was a policy advisor to Washington Governor Daniel J. Evans, an administrator in the State Office of Public Instruction, superintendent of Peninsula School District, and college political science teacher. His book “The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas” is a remarkable tribute to Douglas, hiking, place, and family.

 

Tom’s book:

The Footpaths of Justice William O. Douglas: A Legacy of Place

https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9780595330409

 

Greg's ZZs Blog:

http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/

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