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Coming From Left Field (Video) — 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 Rockhill

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

“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

11

“Capitalism: A Global History" with Sven Beckert

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

"Fighting Oligarchy" with Charles Derber

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

Simplifying Socialism: Reclaiming Marxism with A.J. Horn

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

“Chile in Their Hearts” with John Dinges

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

“Smart Fish Don’t Bite” with Bill Ehrhart

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

Overview of Coming From Left Field Podcast

42

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

43

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

44

"Obscene Wealth” with Greg Godels & Pat Cummings

45

"Antonio Gramsci: Theirs and Ours” Interviewing Greg Godels

46

"What’s Left” in conversation with Stephen Gowans

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

“Crossroads of Change” and Media Reflections with Jim Painter

53

Update on Syria with Dan Kovalik

54

“Unlikely Alliances” with Zoltán Grossman

55

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

56

“Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre” with Aran Shetterly

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

“Blue Collar Empire” with Jeff Schuhrke

62

“Who Owns Democracy” with Charles Derber and Yale Magrass

63

“Mastering the Universe” with Rob Larson

64

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

65

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

66

“Surveillance Education” with Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler

67

“Marx’s Ethical Vision” with Vanessa Wills

68

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

69

“Dynamite Nashville” with Betsy Phillips

70

“Zinnophobia” with David Detmer

71

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

72

“Armed Struggle?” with Gerald Horne

73

“If We Burn” with Vincent Bevins

74

The Case for Palestine” with Dan Kovalik

75

“More Than a Score” with Jesse Hagopian

76

“They Came For The Schools” with Mike Hixenbaugh

77

“The Bill Gates Problem” with Tim Schwab

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

Update on the Julian Assange Trial with Kevin Gosztola

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

“Alphabet Boys Podcast: Trojan Hearse” with Trevor Aaronson

95

“The Human Rights Industry” with Alfred de Zayas

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

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

100

“Moms for Liberty” with Walker Bragman