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Jan 20, 2022 • 1h 27min
Kazakhstan's Oyan protest movement / Paolo Sorbello
Journalist Paolo Sorbello on his article "‘Our activism won't stop': The Oyan movement recounts the January protests in Kazakhstan" for Global Voices, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tangles with all-pervasive networks.
https://globalvoices.org/2022/01/14/our-activism-wont-stop-the-oyan-movement-recounts-the-january-protests-in-kazakhstan/

Jan 19, 2022 • 1h 21min
Psychedelic inequality / Roberto Lovato
Writer Roberto Lovato on his article "The Gentrification of Consciousness" for Alta Journal.
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a38326035/psychedelic-drugs-gentrification-roberto-lovato/

Jan 18, 2022 • 1h 22min
Today's militia movement / Amy Cooter
Sociologist Amy Cooter on her article "Citizen Militias in the U.S. Are Moving toward More Violent Extremism" for Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/citizen-militias-in-the-u-s-are-moving-toward-more-violent-extremism/

Jan 12, 2022 • 1h 32min
Carbon dominance / Jeff Nesbit
Jeff Nesbit on his article "How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning," co-written with Naomi Oreskes for Covering Climate Now / Gizmodo, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen surrenders to his happy place.
https://gizmodo.com/how-big-oil-rigs-the-system-to-keep-winning-1848180128

Jan 11, 2022 • 1h 18min
Student loan debt numbers don't add up / John R. Brooks
Law scholar John R. Brooks on his article "The Big Student Loan Lie" for The American Prospect.
https://prospect.org/education/big-student-loan-lie/

Jan 10, 2022 • 1h 19min
Radical hope and apocalyptic cynicism / Henry Giroux
Cultural critic Henry Giroux on his article "Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year" for Truthout.
https://truthout.org/articles/amid-apocalyptic-cynicism-lets-embrace-radical-hope-in-the-new-year/

Jan 5, 2022 • 1h 25min
Climate change's mirror worlds / Aaron Vansintjan
Writer Aaron Vansintjan on his essay "Faith in a frail world" for Uneven Earth, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen's forbidden words for this year are all numbers.
http://unevenearth.org/2021/12/faith-in-a-frail-world/

Jan 4, 2022 • 1h 18min
Sanctions are a weapon / Nicholas Mulder
Historian Nicholas Mulder on his book "The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War" from Yale University Press.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapon

Jan 3, 2022 • 1h 26min
Frederick Douglass in Haiti / Peter James Hudson
Historian Peter James Hudson on his essay "Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti" for Boston Review.
https://bostonreview.net/articles/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/
Dec 31, 2021 • 45min
2021 FAVORITE: Alexander Zaitchik / Bill Gates and vaccine monopolism
Journalist Alexander Zaitchik on his article "How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines" for The New Republic. Suggested by Rocktaster and David G.


