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Interchange – Exporting Jim Crow: Big Tobacco and Sharecropping in China

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday’s show is a repeat of “Roll Jim Crow” (April 30, 2019) about the very intentional practice of white supremacy by the corporate managers of the American Tobacco Company and how, via corporate imperialism, that same racial project found expression in countries all over the world, most …

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Interchange – Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBorn in 1866 Art Young was the exact contemporary of W. E. B Du Bois though Du Bois would outlive him by 20 years, and he was about a decade younger than the great Indiana Socialist Eugene V. Debs. Young was the most widely recognized and beloved …

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Interchange – Roll Jim Crow: The Racial Project of the American Tobacco Company

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:19 — 45.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “Lucky Day.” This is Judy Garland’s version from the London sessions of 1960. The first performance of the song was by Harry Richman in a 1926 Broadway revue. “Lucky Day” became a theme song for the 1940s NBC radio show Your Hit Parade …

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Interchange – For Love of Money: Libertarian Opportunists

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 43.4MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn his new book Capitalism vs. Freedom, Rob Larson goes after the high priests of Capitalism, those deep thinkers such as Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand. But more directly and pointedly, Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize Winning economist, and debate society pugilist who did …

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