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Coming From Left Field (Audio) — 100 episodes

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"Stalin Over Wisconsin” - The Union They Had To Break with Roger Keeran

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- Black Marxism, Class Politics, and the Questions We Cannot Avoid with August Nimtz

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"Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key” with Gabriel Rockhilll

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“Can Grand Strategy Save the Left?” (Backbone Campaign / Solutionary Rail) with Bill Moyer

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“Everything the West Gets Wrong About Vietnam” with Luna Oi

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“Illinois Coal Country: Immigrants, Unions & the Fight for Justice” with Jackie Dana

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“Chomsky and Me: A Memoir” with Bev Boisseau Stohl

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“Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund” with Molly Crabapple

9

“Getting Shot At: Essays on War, Conflict & Culture Clash” with Bill Ehrhart

10

“"When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class" with Chris Smalls

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“When the Revolution Comes" with Chris Smalls

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“Capitalism: A Global History" with Sven Beckert

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“The Billionaires Have Two Parties, We Need a Party of Our Own" with Les Leopold

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“The Yellow Vests and The Battle for Democracy” with Ida Susser

15

“Saving the American Dream: Meditations for Dark Times” with John K. Roth

16

“Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage” with Heather Ann Thompson

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"Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?" with Gabriel Rockhill

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"Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States“ with J. Albert Mann

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- "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" with Caroline Fraser

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"Fighting Oligarchy" with Charles Derber

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"Square UP: Building Labor's Power in the Gilded Age" with Lorri Nandrea, Tony Pecinovsky and special guest Chris Townsend

22

“Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980” with Nicholas Wolfinger and Matthew McKeever

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“Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music” with Toby Manning

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Simplifying Socialism: Reclaiming Marxism with A.J. Horn

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“Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2026” with Andy Lee Roth

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“Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News” with Alec Karakatsanis

27

“Justice for Colombian Fisherman, Carranza Medina” with Dan Kovalik

28

“Chile in Their Hearts” with John Dinges

29

“Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford” with Carla Kaplan

30

“No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, & the Struggle for Palestine” with Jeff Schuhrke

31

“The American Revolution and the Fate of the World” with Richard Bell

32

“Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class & How to Win Them Back” with Joan Williams

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“Domestic Causes of American Wars: Economic & Political Triggers” with Ivan Eland

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“From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music & Why We Love It” with Robert Zatorre

35

“Smart Fish Don’t Bite” with Bill Ehrhart

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“Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life” with Richard Beck

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“The Capital of Slavery: Washington, D.C. 1800-1865” with Gerald Horne

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Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke” with Leigh Claire La Berge

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“Raise Your Hand If You Hear My Voice,” poetry with Janice Cummings O’Mahony

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“America, América: A New History of the New World” with Greg Grandin

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“Radio Tacoma: A Low-Power FM Media Revolution” with Pam Beal

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Overview of Coming From Left Field Podcast

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“Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, & the Quest for Democracy” with Charles Derber

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"DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living & Hospice" with Judy Karofsky

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"Obscene Wealth” with Greg Godels & Pat Cummings

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"Antonio Gramsci: Theirs and Ours” Interviewing Greg Godels

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"What’s Left” in conversation with Stephen Gowans

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"Military AI Watch” A Project Censored Exposé with Peter Byrne

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“What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis” with Malcolm Harris

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“Professors Speak Out: The Truth about Campus Investigations” with Nicholas Wolfinger

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"Where Politics, Philosophy & Mental Health Intersect" with Dr. Russell Razzaque

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“The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir” with Sarah Kendzior

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“Crossroads of Change” and Media Reflections with Jim Painter

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Update on Syria with Dan Kovalik

55

“Unlikely Alliances” with Zoltán Grossman

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“Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” with Jesse Hagopian

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“Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre” with Aran Shetterly

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“Bad News from Venezuela” and “Propaganda in the Information Age” with Alan MacLeod

59

“Minneapolis Reckoning- Race, Violence & the Politics of Policing in America” with Michelle Phelps

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“You Can’t Please All-Memoirs 1980-2024” with Tariq Ali

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“Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025” with Andy Lee Roth

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“Blue Collar Empire” with Jeff Schuhrke

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“Who Owns Democracy” with Charles Derber and Yale Magrass

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"Mastering the Universe” with Rob Larson

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“The Myth of American Idealism: How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World” with Nathan Robinson

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“Duty to Warn: May I Tell You What Project 2025 Really Is?” with Frank Schaeffer

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“Surveillance Education” with Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler

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“Marx’s Ethical Vision” with Vanessa Wills

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“On Cuba: Reflections on 70 years of Revolution and Struggle” with Vijay Prashad

70

“Dynamite Nashville” with Betsy Phillips

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“Zinnophobia” with David Detmer

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“I Hate It Here, Please Vote For Me” with Matthew Ferrence

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“Armed Struggle?” with Gerald Horne

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“If We Burn” with Vincent Bevins

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“The Case for Palestine” with Dan Kovalik

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“More Than a Score” with Jesse Hagopian

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“They Came For The Schools” with Mike Hixenbaugh

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“The Bill Gates Problem” with Tim Schwab

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“Poetry – Take 3!” with Janice O’Mahony

80

“The Fantasy Economy” & “The Education Myth” with Neil Kraus & Jon Shelton

81

“Wall Street’s War on Workers” with Les Leopold

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Update on the Julian Assange Trial with Kevin Gosztola

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She's a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism with Katherine Yeske Taylor

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“Trauma & Recovery” and “Truth & Repair” with Judith Herman

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“Guilty of Journalism: The political case against Julian Assange” with Kevin Gosztola

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“Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2024” with Andy Lee Roth

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”Musing About Our Podcast” with Greg Godels and Pat Cummings

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”Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19’S Health Lessons For The World” with Stephen Bezruchka

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“They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent” with Sarah Kendzior

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“Dying for Capitalism: How Big Money Fuels Extinction and What We Can Do About It” with Charles Derber

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“Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny” with Theresa Amato

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“How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement” with Fredrik deBoer

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“Hattie’s War: A Novel” with Peter Serko

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“The First Privilege Walk” & “Radical Hamilton” with Christian Parenti

95

“Alphabet Boys Podcast: Trojan Hearse” with Trevor Aaronson

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“The Human Rights Industry” with Alfred de Zayas

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“What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism and American Life” with Bill Ehrhart

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The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power with Vijay Prashad

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Peace Activist, Dan Kovalik, reports on his trip to Russia & Crimea

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