Left Reckoning

support the show and hear our Sunday Shows, most recently with Emma Vigeland on crime and public saftey at patreon.com/leftreckoning Biden is bringing massive cuts to appease the GOP. Corey Pein (@coreypein) joins us to talk about the rich in space, and Isi Baehr-Breen (@isaiah_bb) fmr. Communications Director for Ilhan Omar joins us to talk about Minnesota politics, and how the state has been able to push for progressive legislation. We also talk the debt-ceiling deal and Paxton's impeachment in Texas.

Journalist Nick Turse (@nickturse) joins David to talk about Henry Kissinger turning 100, and his breaking reporting on new revelations about the scope of Henry Kissinger's involvement in brutal war crimes in Cambodia. KISSINGER'S KILLING FIELDS: Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-survivors/ MERCH 4 SALE - https://leftreckoning.com/store ------- Get our booklist here: https://bookshop.org/lists/left-reckoning-big-book-list/ Left Reckoning goes live Tuesdays @ 7 Central. Along with the main show, there is a Griscom stream every Thursday afternoon. To get access to all the bonus episodes, including more Hitchens conversations & deep dives into radical US history, Lenin, James Connolly & more support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning - for just $5 you help make the public show possible and get double the bonus content. Support us on patreon.com/LeftReckoning Twitter: @LeftReckoning - @mattlech - @davidgriscom Instagram: @LeftReckoning Check out our Twitch streams at Twitch.tv/LeftReckoning

Support the show and hear this Sunday's talk with Emma Vigeland at patreon.com/leftreckoning We are joined by Donald Parkinson, editor & writer at Cosmonaut Magazine, to talk about their recent piece in the print issue of Jacobin on Lyndon LaRouche. https://jacobin.com/2023/05/how-lyndon-larouche-said-goodbye-to-marxism-and-hello-to-crazy Check out Cosmonaut Magazine: https://cosmonautmag.com/

This is audio from this week's Griscom Stream - catch them live Thursday afternoons on Youtube! Reporter Miles Kampf-Lassin (@MilesKLassin) and labor organizer & Executive director of In These Times Alex Han (alex__han) David Griscom to talk about Brandon Johnson's campaign for mayor of Chicago. WHY CHICAGO’S MAYORAL ELECTION IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT RACES OF 2023 https://perfectunion.us/why-chicagos-mayoral-election-is-one-of-the-most-important-races-of-2023/ Brandon Johnson Took on Republican Megadonors—and Won. Is Helen Gym Next? https://inthesetimes.com/article/brandon-johnson-chicago-vallas-helen-gym-philadelphia

Support the show and get the postgame (this week with Matt Huber) and Sunday Show at patreon.com/leftreckoning We are joined by Vivek Chibber, professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, to talk about his book The Class Matrix, the post-bernie left, and what the left gets wrong about imperialism. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674245136

Get the Sunday show and postgame, as well as support the show, at patreon.com/leftreckoning David & Matt break down Texas Governor Greg Abbott's border militarization. Gus Bova (@gusbova) of the Texas Observer joins us to talk about how a Texas worker died at Tesla's Gigafactory: HE DIED HELPING BUILD TESLA’S GIGAFACTORY. TESLA DIDN’T TELL LOCAL OFFICIALS https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-t... And our friend FDR Scholar and advisor to Marianne Williamson Harvey Kaye (@harveyjkaye) joins us to assess Biden's first term in office and break down why he has decided to support Marianne Willamson in 2024.

Support the show and get the postgame and sunday bonus shows at patreon.com/leftreckoning We talk about how climate change has a clear class war angle. Chris James (@theCJS) the mind behind Not Even A Show joins us to talk about clowning on the Right. https://t.co/SjhCDIUpMb Check out the Rank & File Project: https://rankandfileproject.com/ MERCH 4 SALE - https://leftreckoning.com/store

Support David and Matt and get the members-only Postgame and Sunday show at patreon.com/leftreckoning Matt & Dave are joined by Elias Cepeda (@EliasCepeda) to talk about Andrew Tate & the right wing manosphere influencers. Then Matt & Dave break down why Tucker Carlson was no anti-imperialist.

Get the postgame and Sunday shows by supporting us at Patreon.com/leftreckoning Matt & Dave respond to the recent push from the right to roll back child labor law. Journalist Cole Stangler (@ColeStangler) joins us to talk about the protests in France, why Macron is targeting workers' retirements, and how successful the resistance has been. https://colestangler.com/ Bernie is right, the Democratic Party has turned their backs on workers.

We are joined by Paul Prescod (@paul_prescod) Jacobin contributor, Teamsters For A Democratic Union organizer, and fmr. candidate for Pennsylvania State Senate joins us to talk about the legendary labor leader Tony Mazzocchi.   Chip Gibbons (@ChipGibbons89) policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent joins us to talk about this historic letter calling for the Biden admin to drop charges against Julian Assange.    Support Defending Rights & Dissent  https://www.rightsanddissent.org/   Other coverage of Assange w/ Chip  EXPOSED How the CIA Spied on Assange ft. Chip Gibbons  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAPrKUW27RA  LR 72 - UK Railway Strike, Free Assange, & TX GOP Off The Rails https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeVzDFbWkEw