https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-haqpv-ba00b5 Syriza lost the last Greek elections after 4 1/2 years in power. What happened to the party that for a time represented the European radical left's hopes? Did it achieve anything in power? Many talk about Tspiras' "betrayal" -…
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Preview: /73/ Eurosads ft. Anton Jäger & Catarina Príncipe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5uac4-b29710 [For the full episode, please subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast] On the European Parliamentary elections. Is this the day the 20th century truly died? Traditional social democratic and conservative parties took a pounding. The Greens surged. The populists didn't surge -…
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/61/ Making Plans for Naija ft. Sa’eed Husaini
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rxiaz-a7c66f On Nigeria's elections. Sa'eed Husaini fills us in on the stakes of this election. President Buhari dismissed the country's top judge weeks before the election, but the former military dictator is meant to be an anti-corruption figure. His main…
/51/ Oh, Brazil: What Now?
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7gtt8-9deaf4 In which we update the latest from Brazil, post-election. What will Bolsonaro's government look like? We plot best & worst case scenarios and discuss how bad this really is (really, really bad). And is "fascism" the correct term to…
/48/ Ultra-Politics in Brazil ft. Sabrina Fernandes
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ikn28-9b76fc In which we preview Brazil's election in which democracy itself is at stake. Who is Bolsonaro and why should Bolsonaro be understood as a neofascist? We discuss the #EleNão feminist resistance and the backdrop of 'antipetismo'. How has the…
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/42/ Erdogan Ever-Present? ft. Yasemin Yilmaz
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3y3v-948e65 In which we survey Turkey's election results in light of five years of tumult - Gezi, economic downturn, terrorist attacks, Syrian war, coup, repression. Are cracks beginning to show for Erdogan? He teamed up with ultranationalists, while opposition secularists and Islamists…
/41/ The Colombian Exception ft. Pablo Uribe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wmeej-9407ec In which we discuss how the Right won this month's election -- in a country that has never seen the Left in power. Is Colombia an exception? The civil war there feels like part of the Cold War that…
/33/ Hungary’s Illiberal Democracy ft. Tamas Gerocs
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-am99u-8ef651 In which we unpick another Fidesz's victory and ask whether neoliberalism in an nationalist-authoritarian shell is the future
/30/ Italy: Country of the Future? ft. David Broder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xqx9g-8b642c In which we debate the upcoming Italian elections. Also corruption, bunga bunga, communism, migrants, fascism, & Europe. In which we discuss the Oscar nominees. Also lame battles over representation & why hopelessness has replaced catastrophism.
Episode 12: Russia Stole My Picnic Basket
Episode Twelve: In which we scratch our heads at Russophobia. Plus, strong male role models: Engels, Putin, and the Night King(?!)
