https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
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/121/ Those Murdering Bastards ft. Vincent Bevins
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
Excerpt: /120/ Damaged Beyond Repair ft. Anton Jäger
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9eraj-da98c3 On the end of Left Populism. This is a sample. For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/BungaCast Friend of the podcast Anton Jäger joins us to discuss the fate of Left Populism, investigate the response of the Left…
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Excerpt: /119/ Reading Club: Digital Socialism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ubvmn-da4935 On whether new tech can help build decentralised socialism. We discuss Evgeny Morozov's New Left Review essay, Digital Socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data. A useful companion to this (mentioned by George in the episode)…
Excerpt: /118/ Three Articles: Covid
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-492cn-d96a59 This episode is for subscribers only. To hear the full thing, go to patreon.com/bungacast In this latest Three Articles, we discuss responses to Covid-19. Articles Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract, Editorial, FT Herd…
/117/ Against The Virus ft. John McAfee
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kvcrs-d90f9b On freedom in coronavirus times.John McAfee joins us to address the lockdown, privacy and armed insurrection. Plus: why he prefers Fidel to Che, and how it came to be that his US presidential campaign HQ is in Havana, Cuba.Subscribe:…
/116/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-r8kzh-d86200 In the first of an occasional series of episodes on the US presidential election and the Left, we talk to Nick Frayn, a volunteer with the Bernie Sanders campaign in New England. How have things gone on the campaign…
Excerpt: /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ccqxm-d7a248 Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this…
Excerpt: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q3anv-d761f8 This episode is for our $10 and up patrons. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On the end of the Age of Imitation. We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning and their arguments for why…
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/113/ Globoville ft. Richard Williams
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7tamf-d5d889 On global cities. Global cities flaunt themselves to global capital and are shaped by it. They are self-conscious and eager to transmit 'globalness'. But why? And how has the city under globalisation been reshaped? What is the role of money…
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