A discussion with Calla and Fergie from Palestine Action US about the theory of direct action and how activists have tried stop the flow of Western weapons that are being deployed against Palestinians

A horrible event shocks the world. The affected power, enraged, threatens war and gives an ultimatum. Looking around for allies, its given a blank cheque by its powerful patron one of the great p

Joined by Jon Elmer and Nora Barrows-Friedman from The Brief / Electronic Intifada to talk about the War on Gaza, including the preparation for ground invasion, the siege, and the attack of October 7.

The near-revolution in Spain in 1909 turns out to be more of a cause of World War 2 than a cause of World War 1 but it includes anarchism, conspiracy, revolution, and ends in a show trial. Our final p

Leading up to 1914 socialist movements all over Europe, notably in France and Germany, had become so strong that they were in the very halls of power. But when faced with the onset of the Great War, t

Was the collapse of the international gold standard established in 1873 in 1914, a sure sign that war was coming? Was gold a peaceful metal, as Michael Hudson has argued? Does the history of fin

In the August 2023 edition of In Real Time with Stan Cox (yes I know its September) we talk about his dispatch, The Hubris of Plutocrats, and the escape fantasies (and condos) of the super-rich. St

How close did Britain come to a civil war over the issue of Irish Home Rule? We talk about the long parliamentary road led by Parnell, the settler trick culminating in the seditious maneuvers in Ulste

In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro attacked the moribund Turkey to take its remaining territories and get Turkey out of Europe. In the Second Balkan War, they fought one

Stan Cox and I talk about Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR)s 2020 book, The Ministry for the Future, which is a hugely important book because it pictures how we could get from our current situation to a wor