politics

On the 2020 presidential election in Taiwan, protests in Hong Kong, and Chinese power

We speak with Brian Hioe about the recent Taiwanese presidential election, the protests in Hong Kong, and Chinese power in the region. Brian Hioe is a founding editor of New Bloom. New Bloom is an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific. New Bloom was founded by a group of students and activists after the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan.

190616_HK_Protest_Incendo_03.jpg

If you like the show please go to iTunes and give us a review. It helps other people find A Correction.

Please don’t hesitate to let us know what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.

Do you get the newsletter?

How to end extreme inequality in the U.S.? Try an inheritance tax (and not a wealth tax)

We talk with Henry Aaron about why both Sanders and Warren have it wrong. Mr. Aaron is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

47699392292_ca7b1fdcdd_o.jpg

If you like the show please go to iTunes and give us a review. It helps other people find A Correction.

Please don’t hesitate to let us know what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.

Do you get the newsletter?

On Liberals, Empire and the Coup in Bolivia

We speak with Netfa Freeman about the coup in Bolivia. Netfa Freeman is an organizer in: Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and the International Committee for Peace Justice and Dignity, on the coordinating committee of the Black Alliance for Peace. Netfa is also the Events Coordinator and a Policy Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies and co-producer/host of the radio program Voices With Vision on WPFW.

Aymara_ceremony_copacabana_1.jpg

If you like the show please go to iTunes and give us a review. It helps other people find A Correction.

Please don’t hesitate to let us know what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.

Do you get the newsletter?

Why Microfinance Failed in The Global South

We speak with Ahilan Kadirgamar about microfinance. Ahilan Kadirgamar is a member of the Collective for Economic Democratisation. He is also Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).

Microfinance

If you like the show please go to iTunes and give us a review. It helps other people find A Correction.

Please don’t hesitate to let us know what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.

Do you get the newsletter?

Music by Podington Bear

, ,

On Cinema, Literature and Neoliberalism in Tunisia and Morocco

, ,

We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East Critique, Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

books-1163695_1920.jpg

Please don’t hesitate to let us know what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.

Do you get the newsletter?

Music by Podington Bear

Why Fake News Is So Successful

We speak with Thomas J. Froehlich about Fake News. Thomas J. Froehlich, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, School of Information, Kent State University (27 years). His teaching areas included:  information science, information ethics, information architecture, knowledge management, network and software resources, online searching, computer programming and user interface design. He was the chief architect and former Director of the Master of Science Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State University (2001-2011), recently transformed into Master’s degrees in Knowledge Management, User Experience Design and Health Informatics.  Dr. Froehlich is currently working on a book titled 10 Lessons for the Age of Disinformation.  

camera-2792230_1920.jpg

If you like the show please go to iTunes and give us a rating. It helps other people find A Correction.

Last month over 9,000 people listened to the podcast and lots of people are giving feedback. Thank you. Please don’t hesitate to let us know what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.

Do you get the newsletter?

Music by Podington Bear