Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 6 hours 40 minutes
Nomiki Konst speaks with Ewa Majewska, PhD, to discuss feminism as the bulwark against fascism as well as her book Feminist Antifascism: Counter-Publics of the Common. In this exciting, innovative work, Dr. Majewska proposes a specifically feminist politics of antifascism...
On today’s program Nomiki Konst speaks with Dr. Manuel Pastor about the news that Beto O’Rourke is jumping in the 2022 race for Governor of Texas. The Latino voting bloc in Texas is huge, and after swings towards Republicans not just statewide but nationwide, including in the most recent elections--what lessons have Democrats learned, and what can they do to keep the Latino vote swinging in their direction?
Dr...
For this week’s #FemFriday Nomiki Konst is joined by Dr. Rajika Bhandri to discuss her book America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility. Dr. Bhandri is a global expert in international education, the author of six academic and nonfiction books and several publications that touch upon the themes of movement, migration, and crossing borders...
On today’s program Nomiki Konst speaks with Frank Vogl about his latest book, “The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption — Endangering Our Democracy.” Frank Vogl, former senior World Bank official and foreign business and economics correspondent for The Times of London, teaches a graduate course at Georgetown University titled, Corruption, Conflict Resolution and Security...
Because of circumstances beyond our control, this week’s #FemFriday will be shorter than intended, but no less fantastic! Thank you everyone for your understanding.
For this week’s #FemFriday Nomiki Konst is joined by Akela Lacy to discuss her latest article for The Intercept entitled “As States Prepare for Redistricting, Prison Gerrymandering Will Skew New Lines.” Akela Lacy is a politics reporter with The Intercept...
On today’s program Nomiki Konst is joined by Patrick Lovell, a writer and producer who is the Producer & Protagonist of The Con: an in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making, Who did it, why it happened and how our country went from “of, for and by the people,” to “of, for and by the corporation...
This week's #FemFriday is Frantastic as Nomiki Konst is joined with perennial show favorite Francesca Fiorentini on the heels of the recent election to discuss the extraordinary short-comings of the Establishment Democratic party. Francesca is the host of The Bitchuation Room, producer with AJ+ news channel & contributor to The Young Turks.
Link to Francesca's website: https://www.francescafiorentini.com/
One of many links to Francesca's podcast: https://podcasts.apple...
On today’s program we begin with a fantastic panel comprised of Representative Chris Rabb who represents the people of the 200th District (Philadelphia County) in Pennsylvania, as well as political filmmaker and host of Committee Arun Chaudhary. They join Nomiki to talk about the champions of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the unending source of frustration that is the corporate establishment wing of the Democratic party, the media that runs 24/7 defense for them, and more...
Nomiki Konst speaks with Professor Richard Wolff about the past, present and future of our current system, providing insight and framing that is unfortunately absent in the American mainstream discourse. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City...
For this week’s #FemFriday Nomiki Konst is joined by Dr. Jillian Jacklin to discuss the importance of de-stigmatizing migrants and the role the media can and does play in shaping negative representations of refugees. Dr. Jacklin is a Lecturer in Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She is a historian of the United States and places her work in a comparative and transnational context...