Episodes

  • ADSA Ukraine Special 8: Trump

    ADSA Ukraine Special 8: Trump
    Apr 1 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ On Trump's damage to democracy: https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/historian-of-fascism-timothy-snyder-warns-of-trump-s-damage-to-democracy-99472453603 More on 2016 electoral interference (2019): https://workingclassfightbackmemorandum.tumblr.com/post/185319025134/in-2020-we-can-bury-the-republic Shimer, David. Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference. Vintage, 2021. Krastev, Ivan, and Stephen Holmes. The light that failed: A reckoning. Penguin UK, 2019.
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    52 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 7: The Maidan

    ADSA Ukraine Special 7: The Maidan
    Mar 30 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ On Putin/Trump (2017): https://workingclassfightbackmemorandum.tumblr.com/post/158085169044/donald-trump-is-an-american-assad Trump's Playboy interview: https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990 Ukraine Maidan: https://www.e-ir.info/2020/07/01/the-maidan-revolution-in-ukraine/ Re: accusations of a "false flag" operation at the Mariupol theater. https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1506394055672213505?s=27 Re: Ukrainian far right "Nazis." https://twitter.com/AnnaGunin/status/1505917682583015426?s=20&t=i9-kcOqJIJOToGLpTN5uhQ
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    29 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 6: Putin's Rise

    ADSA Ukraine Special 6: Putin's Rise
    Mar 28 2022
    Trigger warning: discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call for help: 800-273-8255. To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ How Russians are unwilling to fight: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/putins-killing-machine-that-isnt-working/ Alexievich, Svetlana. "Second Hand Time, trans. Bela Shayevich." (2013).
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    39 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 5: What Syria can Teach about Ukraine

    ADSA Ukraine Special 5: What Syria can Teach about Ukraine
    Mar 23 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ Joey Ayoub in conversation with Peter Pomerantsev: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-fire-these-times/archive-disinformation-EvHGKPg3ndD/ Bana Al-Abed: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/world/middleeast/bana-alabed-aleppo-syria.html David Shimer: Shimer, David. Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference. Vintage, 2021. Majed al-Dik's eye-witness testimony of the sarin gas attack in 2013: https://workingclassfightbackmemorandum.tumblr.com/post/187270420139/the-people-of-zamalka-are-dead more: https://newlinesmag.com/review/chomsky-is-no-friend-of-the-syrian-revolution/
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    31 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 4: "Real Existing Socialism"

    ADSA Ukraine Special 4: "Real Existing Socialism"
    Mar 21 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ Czapski, Józef. Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp. New York Review of Books, 2018. On Germany's responsibility: https://euromaidanpress.com/2017/06/23/nazi-dreams-of-an-enslaved-ukraine-the-blind-spot-of-germanys-historical-responsibility-colonialism/
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    18 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 3: The Mass Starvation of Ukraine

    ADSA Ukraine Special 3: The Mass Starvation of Ukraine
    Mar 19 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ On the impact of Putin's invasion on food prices around the world: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/03/12/war-in-ukraine-will-cripple-global-food-markets Timothy Snyder discusses Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the Holodomor and more: https://player.fm/series/the-ezra-klein-show/timothy-snyder-on-the-myths-that-blinded-the-west-to-putins-plans Masha Gessen discusses Putin's 2015 destruction of European foodstuffs: Gessen, Masha. The future is history: How totalitarianism reclaimed Russia. Granta Books, 2017. (p.445). Regarding the DSA's terrible Ukraine statement: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv/ An excellent movie about the Holodomor: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/ Photos of the Holodomor: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-holodomor-photographs-directory-wienerberger-abbe-whiting-bokan/31235172.html
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    25 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 2: Austrian Ukraine and Lenin's Final Testament

    ADSA Ukraine Special 2: Austrian Ukraine and Lenin's Final Testament
    Mar 16 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ On Chechen Islamist fighters in Ukraine: https://newlinesinstitute.org/russia/the-kadyrovtsy-putins-force-multiplier-or-propaganda-tool/ On the Austrian Empire: Judson, Pieter M. The Habsburg Empire. Harvard University Press, 2017. On what it means to be a socialist after the failure of the Soviet Union: Judt, Tony, and Timothy Snyder. "Thinking the 20th century." (2010). On Lenin's Last Testament: Hensman, Rohini. Indefensible: Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism. Haymarket Books, 2018.
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    23 mins
  • ADSA Ukraine Special 1: Early Ukraine History

    ADSA Ukraine Special 1: Early Ukraine History
    Mar 14 2022
    To help Ukrainians donate: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ Slava Ukraini! John Mearsheimer's latest: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis Better articles about John Mearsheimer's latest: https://www.duckofminerva.com/2014/09/why-john-j-mearsheimer-is-wrong-on-ukraine.html https://newrepublic.com/article/165603/carlson-russia-ukraine-imperialism-nato
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    21 mins