Natasha Hakimi Zapata/What Different Parts of the World Has That the US Lacks

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata joins us to discuss her new book, “Another World Is Possible: Lessons For America From Around The Globe”, published by The New Press. Her articles can be found be found in In These TImes, The Nation, and The New York Times. Purchase the book at this link: https://thenewpress.com/books/another-world-possible Natasha Hakimi Zapata’s website: https://www.natashahakimizapata.com/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	Bigging down.
0:03.0	Bigging down! This is hell.
0:32.6	This is hell.
0:36.6	Manufacturing dissent since 1996 is hell.
0:40.6	Manufacturing dissent since 1996.
0:49.4	This is hell and the dissent we have been churning out since we began this show includes the very unpopular opinion that what is known as neoliberalism and putting profits before people is a
0:56.0	freaking nightmare. For those of you who may not know, neoliberalism is what they call
1:02.0	the public-private partnership, where that partnership is dominated by the private sector,
1:09.0	over the will of the people, allowing an unregulated economy to run roughshod over citizens and workers' rights, as well as any protections for the environment, you know, the world on which we live and depend upon for our very survival.
1:20.6	So, no big deal.
1:23.6	It all started back in the Carter administration, became entrenched under President's Reagan,
1:30.2	and the first Bush, was further and reinforced under Clinton when it attained near complete
1:36.3	bipartisan support and has become the dominant religion of both parties.
1:41.8	British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, went so far as insisting there is no alternative,
1:47.8	and many who were benefiting from the expanded exploitation of workers were claiming it was the end of history.
1:55.8	That way, the status quo could continue to thrive and inequality could increase,
2:00.0	lining the pockets of what would eventually be called the 1%.
2:04.6	We then covered the, we even covered the uprisings against neoliberalism, whether it was the Battle for Seattle in opposition to the World Trade Organization meeting in 1999, which locked out all labor, human and environmental
2:18.8	rights groups from any and all discussions, or any of the other protests at the turn of the
2:23.6	century. The global left reacted and resisted the WTO by responding with their own organization
2:30.5	to counter the WTO, and that was the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre, Brazil, which began in 2001 prior to 9-11.
2:40.5	And we discussed that frequently here on the show with live reports throughout many world social forums in the first century of this decade.
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