Weird Catastrophe by Kody Cava
by Kody Cava
Weird Catastrophe features independent political commentary, interviews, audio essays, poetry, and visual art with a radical perspective. We're choosing to create things during our weird and catastrophic times. weirdcatastrophe.substack.com
Episodes
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There Was Another World Before This One. I Saw It. I Am Telling You It Was Better.
The internet was a mistake. It’s not just that online life has been privatized and controlled by powerful, unseen forces. It’s that it’s very structure is antithetical to what is innately human, to what connects people, to the only things that really matter in this fleeting existence. We, all of...
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The Purgatory of Working in Live Theatre in America
For those who don’t know, prior to the pandemic, I spent my entire working life in the technical side of the live entertainment industry. This was primarily as a lighting designer for theatre and as a scenic carpenter, welder, and rigger. But more generally, I worked as a jack-of-all-trades event...
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Sam Harris and Yuval Noah Harari Are Wrong About Palestine
This episode is a response to pro-Israel arguments made by Sam Harris and Yuval Noah Harari in the midst of Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinians. Weird Catastrophe by Kody Cava is a reader and listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a...
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This is Why You Shouldn't Celebrate the Death of Henry Kissinger
The case against Henry Kissinger as an indictable war criminal has been amply demonstrated for decades. And yet he died a free, comfortable, and highly lauded man in the West. He should have died by the hangman’s noose. The fact that his millions of victims were robbed of this justice is yet...
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George Floyd Had Very Little to Do With the 2020 Uprisings
The particular details of any case such as George Floyd's are largely, unfortunately, immaterial to the response such cases provoke in the society at large. A healthy society would be able to deal with single instances of injustice such as these on their own terms. We do not have a healthy…
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Examining Aaron Bushnell's Sacrifice
This episode of Weird Catastrophe is an examination of Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice. Our society is not able to comprehend people like Aaron Bushnell and their actions because we have totally spurned the ability to be morally serious people, along with the vulnerability, earnestness, and humanity...
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The Folly of American Militarism
What hope is there for a society that is hell-bent on perpetuating its insane imperial ventures? The United States, through its powerful propaganda machine and its cruel, coercive economic system, churns out generation after generation of fresh canon fodder. This episode of Weird Catastrophe is…
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The American Political System Is Broken
There is a deep nihilism in America today. Nihilism is not a kind of mopey cynicism or depression or edgy lifestyle. Nihilism is an ultimate separation between what our values are and the means by which we can assert and affirm those values. When no value can be truly honored or protected in…
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In Memory of the Great American Novelist Russell Banks
The novelist Russell Banks, who died recently at the age of 82, made a life out of bearing witness to the forgotten, and of recording memory for the sake of survival itself. Author of "Cloudsplitter," "The Sweet Hereafter," "Continental Drift," and many other works, Banks has left an enduring...
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Dessa Has A New Album Out. Let's Review It.
Dessa, the eternally rising hip-hop artist from Minneapolis, takes a turn for pop with her new album, "Bury The Lede." This is my review of the album, seeing how it compares to her previous work. Get full access to Weird Catastrophe by Kody Cava at weirdcatastrophe.substack.com/subscribe
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Dispatches from Atlanta and the Movement to Stop Cop City
The movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta is gearing up for another mass action to halt construction in the Weelaunee Forest. This episode is an in-depth look at where the movement stands, what it can expect going forward, and what it can learn from movements of the past. Get full access to Weird...
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Let Me Tell You About Garth Hudson - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
This episode is a deep appreciation of Garth Hudson and his work with The Band as their main keyboardist and horn player. I’m really proud of this piece. I had a lot of fun making the video for it and I think the audio/visual elements really add something nice to the written word. If you like it...
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Israel Had No Gloves to Take Off - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
The latest explosion of violence in Palestine and Israel is yet another in a long line of atrocities in the region. Who authored the violence? So long as the system of apartheid is imposed by Israel upon the Palestinians, there will be no peace. Get full access to Weird Catastrophe by Kody Cava…
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NPR Is Not Your Friend - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
This is an in-depth look at how the liberal NPR (National Public Radio) serves the dominant structures of neoliberalism and capitalism all while claiming that it is objective, balanced, and fair. Get full access to Weird Catastrophe by Kody Cava at weirdcatastrophe.substack.com/subscribe
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The Terror That Goes Around Comes Around - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
The following is a video and audio version of the article, “The Terror That Goes Around Comes Around,” published on October 12th, 2022. You can watch the video on the players below or you can listen to an audio-only version on the player above. This is an in-depth look at why and how the U.S. has...
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The Self-Immolations of Climate Activists Exposes the Need for An American Reckoning - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
This is an in-depth look at recent political self-immolations carried out by climate activists such as Wynn Bruce and David Buckel and how these immolations are related to antiwar demonstrators like Alice Herz and Norman Morrison. As the climate crisis worsens, we can expect to see more such acts...
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What's The Matter With NPR? An Interview With The First Producer of "All Things Considered," Jack Mitchell
I sat down with Dr. Jack Mitchell, the very first producer of NPR’s flagship news program All Things Considered. Mitchell wrote a book about the history of American Public Radio called Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio. He gives insight to how NPR has changed over the...
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How Western Media Fuels the War in Ukraine - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
The following is a video and audio version of the article, “As Western Media Again Becomes A Cheerleader For War, Bias in the Press Mirrors Imperial Ideology,” published on Mar. 11th, 2022. You can watch the video on the players below or you can listen to an audio-only version on the player…
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Nancy Pelosi Is Running For Her 19th Term In Congress. Her Challenger, Shahid Buttar, Has Something To Say About That - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
The following is a video and audio version of the article, “Nancy Pelosi Is Running For Her 19th Term In Congress - Her Challenger, Shahid Buttar, Has Something To Say About That” published on Feb. 28, 2022. Click the previous hyperlink to read the original article, or watch the video on the…
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"The Democratic Party Needs To Be Burned To The Ground" - The Full Interview With Shahid Buttar, Leftwing Candidate Challenging Nancy Pelosi For Her Seat In The House
Today, I am releasing an interview that I conducted with congressional candidate, civil rights activist, and constitutional lawyer Shahid Buttar. Buttar is running against Nancy Pelosi this year for her seat in the House of Representatives and to represent San Francisco. In the 2020 general...
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American Terrorism | Part 1: We Must Not Look the Fool - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
This is an audio version of the first part of the ongoing “American Terrorism” series on Weird Catastrophe. “In 1964, the FBI sent an anonymous package to Martin Luther King Jr. In it, was audio recordings illegally obtained through the FBI’s extrajudicial bugging of King’s phone calls, as well…
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Something Is Rotten With Our Food Banks - the Weird Catastrophe Podcast
My friend David told me that he can’t be bothered to read anything more than 2,000 words at one time. So I recorded the “Open Letter to Our Food Banks” for people like him who would rather listen to the text. “Food banks in the U.S. have become institutions and the people that work at them have...
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Weird Catastrophe features independent political commentary, interviews, audio essays, poetry, and visual art with a radical perspective. We're choosing to create things during our weird and catastrophic times.
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