Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What do you get when you cross Adam Smith’s economic classic, The Wealth of Nations, with E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful? Something like John Michael Greer‘s latest book, The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered. Greer not only diagnoses why most economists are usually wrong when they peer into the future, he explains why the exuberant growth of the fossil fuel age is ending and suggests some steps you can take for a less insecure economic future.
Carl Etnier hosts.
Historically, the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait have been a strategic region for trade and political dominance; today, we are still shaped by their influence as we remain fragilely interconnected.
September 25, 2026
Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.
September 8, 2026
To rebuild the trade union movement, to meaningfully defend the right to strike, and to begin a serious fightback against the imposition of the costs of capitalism’s crisis on the working class, we need to put our energy into workplace and community organising
September 7, 2026
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