Andie-Land: The Lost in Transition Podcast

C. Derrick Varn is a prolific analyst and vlogger, known for his own Varn Vlog show as well as frequently appearing on This is Revolution webcast. He quite generously granted me a two hour conversation where we discussed an anthology by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels, Ireland and the Irish Question (https://a.co/d/f4z6Dkw). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Peter Nightingale, the Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Rhode Island, is long known for habituating the various protests, picket lines, and demonstrations throughout the state, perhaps most frequently in the last decade regarding climate change. But he also brings a deeper knowledge of the state’s current affairs into discussion as with regards to nuclear energy since the URI campus hosts a reactor.Andie-Land: Lost in Transition is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.As we shall describe in this video, Rhode Island plays a very tiny yet pivotal role on the Eastern Seaboard within the War Economy. Sen. Jack Reed, mentored by the late Sen. Claiborne Pell, is a classic Pentagon Keynesian, one who targets public expenditure towards the munitions industry in a public-private partnership setup so to increase levels of demand in the local economy. Recently on the local bus advertising screens and booths, it has been easy to espy a hiring notice for Electric Boat, the submarine military contractor out of Quonset and Groton, CT. Our discussion is wide-ranging and includes a deep discussion of physics in producing nuclear weaponry, something that is both technical and yet very important to grasp. But don’t worry, this isn’t a nerd-fest; stick around for Dr. Nightingale and I discussing how brilliant Weldon is. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Gerald Horne speaks in retrospect about his historical monographs about the antebellum period of US history. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Originally published in 2015 while I was affiliated with Bob Plain’s RI Future blog, this discussion with Andy Blunden, a key facilitator and specialist at the vast Marxists Internet Archive website, focuses on the role Hegel in Lenin’s writings. Having now reprinted Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks, which includes his major writings on the German philosopher, I wanted to share it here…mostly to sell books. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

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Dedicated to all the Black trans/nonbinary siblings incarcerated now as Trump rolls back their protections. Abolish these cages now.Taken from Wikipedia:Brendan Francis Aidan Behan[1] (christened Francis Behan)[2] (/ˈbiːən/ BEE-ən; Irish: Breandán Ó Beacháin; 9 February 1923 – 20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican,[3] an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. His widely acknowledged alcohol dependence, despite attempts to treat it, impacted his creative capacities and contributed to health and social problems which curtailed his artistic output and finally his life.[4]An Irish Republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Behan was born in Dublin into a staunchly republican family, becoming a member of the IRA's youth organization Fianna Éireann at the age of fourteen. There was also a strong emphasis on Irish history and culture in his home, which meant he was steeped in literature and patriotic ballads from an early age. At the age of 16, Behan joined the IRA, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and imprisonment in Ireland. During this time, he took it upon himself to study and became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. Subsequently released from prison as part of a general amnesty given by the Fianna Fáil government in 1946, Behan moved between homes in Dublin, Kerry and Connemara and also resided in Paris for a time.In 1954, Behan's first play, The Quare Fellow, was produced in Dublin. It was well received; however, it was the 1956 production at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London, that gained Behan a wider reputation…Behan became a member of Fianna Éireann, the boy scout group of the Anti-Treaty IRA. He published his first poems and prose in the organisation's magazine, Fianna: the Voice of Young Ireland. In 1931 he also became the youngest contributor to be published in The Irish Press with his poem Reply of Young Boy to Pro-English verses.At 16, Behan joined the IRA and embarked on an unauthorised solo mission to England to set off a bomb at Cammell Laird shipyard. He was arrested while in possession of explosives. British prosecutors tried to persuade him to testify against his IRA superiors and offered in return to relocate him under a new name to Canada or another distant part of the British Commonwealth.Refusing to be turned, the 16-year-old Behan was sentenced to three years in a borstal (Hollesley Bay,[14] once under the care of Cyril Joyce[15]) and did not return to Ireland until 1941. He wrote about the experience in the memoir Borstal Boy.In 1942, during the wartime state of emergency declared by Irish Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, Behan was arrested by the Garda Síochána following a protest of the execution of IRA man George Plant[16] Later that same year Behan was arrested at another commemoration - which the IRA had planned to take place during a Dublin commemoration ceremony for Theobald Wolfe Tone. When the group of IRA men were confronted by the police one member pointed his revolver at them but did not fire. Behan urged him to "use it use it", when no shot was fired Behan shouted: "Give it to me and I will shoot the bastards". When Behan received the gun he fired two shots at police and escaped the scene but was later arrested (10 April 1942). ”[17] He was put on trial for conspiracy to murder and the attempted murder of two Garda detectives, Behan was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.[18]He was first incarcerated in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin where he sketched out his play the Quare Fellow, based on a fellow prisoner.[19] In June 1944 Behan was interned both with other IRA men and with Allied and German airmen at the Curragh Camp in County Kildare. He later related his experiences there in his memoir Confessions of an Irish Rebel. Released under a general amnesty for IRA prisoners and internees in 1946, Behan's active IRA career was largely over by the age of 23. Aside from a short prison sentence in 1947 for trying to break an imprisoned IRA man out of prison in Manchester, Behan effectively left the organisation, but remained friends with the IRAs long term Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding…Behan's fortunes changed in 1954, with the appearance of his play The Quare Fellow. Originally called The Twisting of Another Rope and influenced by his time spent in jail, it chronicles the vicissitudes of prison life leading up to the execution of "The quare fellow", a character who is never seen. The prison dialogue is vivid and laced with satire but reveals to the reader the human detritus that surrounds capital punishment. Produced in the Pike Theatre, in Dublin, the play ran for six months. In May 1956, The Quare Fellow opened in the Theatre Royal Stratford East, in a production by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. Subsequently, it transferred to the West End. Behan generated immense publicity for The Quare Fellow as a result of a drunken appearance on the Malcolm Muggeridge TV show. The English, relatively unaccustomed to public drunkenness in authors, took him to their hearts. A fellow guest on the show, Irish-American actor Jackie Gleason, reportedly said about the incident: "It wasn't an act of God, but an act of Guinness!" Behan and Gleason went on to forge a friendship. Behan loved the story of how, walking along the street in London shortly after this episode, a Cockney approached him and exclaimed that he understood every word he had said—drunk or not—but had not a clue what "that bugger Muggeridge was on about!" While addled, Brendan would clamber on stage and recite the play's signature song, The Auld Triangle. The transfer of the play to Broadway provided Behan with international recognition. Rumours still abound that Littlewood contributed much of the text of The Quare Fellow and led to the saying, "Dylan Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood, Brendan Behan wrote under Littlewood". Littlewood remained a supporter, visiting him in Dublin in 1960. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

I originally created this while I was writing for Bob Plain’s RI Future. I’ve always had a certain soft spot for this music and wanted to create an interesting program for listeners about a conflict that seems to barely register for anyone but the most devout afficianados. In 1936, General Francisco Franco led a military coup attempt against the democratically-elected Spanish government. The coalition of progressive and leftist forces, including Socialists and Communists, created a Popular Front government during the 1930s that had legalized abortion, implemented land redistribution to the peasantry, and stripped the Catholic Churh of power and stature via education reforms. This in turn generated a tremendous amount of reactionary fervor within the entrenched powers of large landowners, the clergy, and capital. Meanwhile, Hitler and Mussolini were approaching what we retrospectively can correctly designate as the peaks of their respective powers. Il Duce had served as a preliminary exemplar that was inpiring fascist formations across Europe to assert themselves and the successful election of Der Fuhrer in 1933, followed rapidly by the Reichstag fire, preliminary measures of what became the Holocaust, and German rearmament, made it seem as though the Western democacies would fall rather rapidly. Gen. Franco was not a fascist, he was a monarchist, but he took fascist money, weapons, and military recruits in order to defeat the Spanish Republic during the period of 1936-1939. Other Western democracies, like Britain and the US, intentionally sat on their hands, most damnably in the case of the Texas Oil Company (Texaco). The American petro-powerhouse opted to sell gas products to Franco as part of what became a four-decade Cold War relationship between Madrid and Washington.By contrast, the Soviet Union did supply the Spanish Republic, both with imports and military aide. This included the International Brigades, a volunteer armed militia populated by recruits from across the globe. The American Communist Party played a significant role in creating the Abraham Lincoln Brigade but it was not composed solely of Communists; instead, the Party’s own ecumenicism, embraced after nearly two decades of bitterly divisive sectarianism, made it into a hub for American volunteers who believed in the importance of confronting the further expansion of the Axis Powers.The most impressive cinematic rendering of this history I can suggest is a 1984 documentary titled The Good Fight, directed by Noel Buckner, Mary Dore and Sam Sills. Featuring interviews with surviving Lincoln Brigadiers and their kin, it provides a compact history of this Quixotic attempt to “make Spain the tomb of fascism.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Danny Haiphong is an activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the forthcoming book entitled American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Fake News of Wall Street, White Supremacy, and the US War Machine (Skyhorse Publishing)..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

An interview with Norman Spinrad about his classic novel The Iron Dream..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

A discussion on local music and the founding of the colonial enterprise in North America..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. Today we talk with Prof. Anne Garland Mahler about her new book From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity published by Duke University Press..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

A special episode about racism and the welfare state. First we talk with David Roediger , author of The Wages of Whiteness and Class, Race, and Marxism , about the white working class (if such a thing even exists)....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Syndication of a panel previously filmed by Don DeBar of CPR Radio..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

A zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. Featuring interviews with Mike Araujo and Vijay Prashad along with a syndicated speech by Noel Ignatiev..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Margaret Kimberley discusses the death of Erica Garner and the future of the Green Party in American Politics. Dr. Tony Monteiro discusses W.E.B. Du Bois, "Darkwater", the short story 'The Comet', and Philadelphia Read Du Bois..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

A special extended episode commemorating the centennial of the Russian Revolution featuring Yevgeniy Fiks, Dr. Gerald Horne, and Dr. Paul Street..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

A special extended episode about sex workers and their human rights featuring sex worker activist and organizer Bella Robinson..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. We talk with Manisha Sinha of University of Connecticut about her book The Slave's Cause and then syndicate Noel Ignatiev's lecture The Civil War: Back to the Future ..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

An interview that deals with the relationship between Hegel and Marx featuring Andy Blunden on the zany podcast for progressives..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. Gary Chartier of the Center for a Stateless Society talks a bit about anarchism and we address the Caitlin Johnstone fiasco..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. Today we interview Green Party 2016 VP nominee Ajamu Baraka and talk with Louis Proyect about the North Star project founded by the late Peter Camejo....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. This special two-part episode asks what is possible in the future of left politics in terms of a united front..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. This special two-part episode asks what is possible in the future of left politics in terms of a united front..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

An interview with Paul Street about the Obama legacy..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

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A zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. A special episode dedicated to the life and work of James Baldwin. First a speech by the great man and then a lecture by Tony Monteiro on his life and work..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

The zany podcast for progressives who need a laugh. Here we talk with Dr. Mark Naison and Glen Ford..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Political Gingervitis, the zany podcast for progressives, features an interview with Jeffrey St. Clair and Dr. John Geyman..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Political Gingervitis, the zany podcast for progressives, features an interview with Dr. Gerald Horne in honor of Black History Month 2017..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

A continuation of our last episode. Don DeBar of CPR Metro stops by to describe what it is like to have witnessed the collapse of the Clinton machine and Dr. David Abraham explains what factors led to the rise of the Nazi government and where Trump's ascent is both like and different from the 1930s..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Don DeBar of CPR Metro stops by to describe what it is like to have witnessed the collapse of the Clinton machine and Dr. David Abraham explains what factors led to the rise of the Nazi government and where Trump's ascent is both like and different from the 1930s..This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

A conversation with Ray Rickman about his mentor Grace Lee Boggs and the Russians seem to have an in with our host!.This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe

Kevin Carson of the Center for a Stateless Society sits down for an interview where he describes the political economy of mutualism and how it could provide the template to create a pro-union pro-tenure charter school....This item has files of the following types: Archive BitTorrent, Columbia Peaks, Item Tile, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, PNG, VBR MP3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit stew312856.substack.com/subscribe