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The Rise of a New Left / Raina Lipsitz

This Is Hell!

This Is Hell!

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Chucks describes his recent family vacation. Raina Lipsitz discuses her Verso Books title, "The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics." Rotten History of the 1953 coup d’état in Iran.

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0:00.0

The Lord is You're welcome here.

0:13.0

The Lord is with the

0:15.0

I'll get our power.

0:17.0

You're welcome to come up.

0:18.0

Bigger!

0:20.0

You're welcome heel. This is hell.

0:37.0

hell. Okay, ... ... ...

0:43.0

Proud and poor victims of corporate cancel culture,

0:48.0

and proving there's no meritocracy in the United States since 1996.

0:56.0

This is hell and back when the show did start in 1996,

1:01.0

27 years ago this summer there were hopes that a new left was in fact

1:07.0

emerging while President Bill Clinton was advancing anti-labor ideas like NAFTA

1:12.4

as well as continuing the illegal bombing of Iraq and supporting

1:16.4

huge media corporations with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, killing independent broadcasters and ushering in an era of far right talk radio being

1:26.8

ubiquitous.

1:27.8

While all that was going on, organizers and activists on the left were creating an anti-globilization and anti-war campaign.

1:35.8

Some argue that all ended with 9-11.

1:39.3

It did not.

1:40.3

A year and a half after 9-11, the US and the world witnessed the largest anti-war protests in human history.

1:48.0

Still, that movement seemed to fade with the election of Barack Obama as president as many mistakenly believed

1:54.7

Obama to be a progressive not what he was and is that is a member of the

2:00.2

moderate conservative wing of the Democratic Party.

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