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Downstream: Gaza Has Exposed the Hypocrisy of the West w/ Omar El Akkad

Three years ago, just weeks after the genocide began, writer Omar El Akkad posted a tweet, attached to some footage showing the extent of the ruin that Israel had already

Do Your Own Research: 150 Years of Constant Revolution w/ Rebecca Karl

For a century, China underwent a series of invasions, revolutions and counter-revolutions. In China, it’s known as the Century of Humiliation. It was a time of immense u

Downstream: Former Scottish Leader: How My Family Escaped Gaza & Why I Can’t Forgive Starmer w/ Humza Yousaf

This week marked three years since the Hamas attack of October 7th, and the beginning of the Israeli state’s genocidal onslaught against the Palestinian people. In that t

Do Your Own Research: The Chinese Company That Terrifies the West w/ Eva Dou

Huawei makes the pipes and cables that power the Chinese internet. Its global reach has made China into a superpower. Huawei is often accused of spying for China. But ho

Downstream: Trauma Farming and the Politics of Public Suffering w/ Catherine Liu

Are we in the era of trauma Top Trumps? ‘Lived Experience’ has become a byword for standpoint authority and progressive politics. It has allowed people from marginalised

Do Your Own Research: Secrets of the Chinese Internet w/ Tianyu Fang

Welcome to Series 2 of Do Your Own Research. Until the end of the year, I will be focusing on the most important and interesting country in the world: China. We’re start

Downstream: Porn Addiction Defines Our Political Age. Here’s How w/ Ash Sarkar

The effect of pornography on the people who consume it is often moralised about, generally due to its influence over the nascent sexuality of young men. But the business

ACFM Microdose: Reading The Society of the Spectacle

Following their recent Trip episode on Situationism, the gang offer a close reading of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, first published in France in 1967. Nadi

Downstream: AI Will Destroy Liberal Democracy w/ Daron Acemoglu

When and why did liberal democracy stop working for the many? On Downstream this week is Daron Acemoglu, joint recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, who

Downstream: The Next Big Shock Is Coming. Green Energy Is the Only Way Out w/ Tessa Khan

This summer’s extreme heat, wildfires and thousands of excess deaths have shown that the climate is destabilising faster than predicted. In the face of this undeniable cr

ACFM Trip 63: Situationism

What did the Situationists actually achieve? Nadia, Jem and Keir look back on the antics and manifestos of the socialist revolutionaries who gathered under the banner of

Downstream: The Big AI Lie w/ Cory Doctorow

AI is set to take all of our jobs. It will irrevocably transform our relationships – and it might even kill us all. These are some of the big claims made about artificial

Downstream: Multiculturalism Will Save the Working Class w/ Jonas Patrick Marvin

We live in a moment when the working class is fractured along a great many lines. Gone are the days of solidarity built around a shared experience of factory work that fo

Downstream: Elites Have No Plan for Climate Change w/ Bill McGuire

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2026 is roughly the same as when, in the very, very distant past, the Earth was between 6 and 8 degrees warmer. If the E

Downstream: The Journalist Who Terrifies Corporate America w/ Amy Goodman

The genocide of Palestinians, carried out by the Israeli army with backing from the US and the British state, has lead to an almighty breakdown in public trust in the Wes

ACFM Microdose: How Britain’s Coastal Communities are Reclaiming Power w/ Hazel Sheffield

Nadia visits reporter and author Hazel Sheffield in her Hastings beach hut to talk about the coastal communities that are reimagining their economies in the face of gover

Downstream: Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: “We Face Collapse” w/ Kevin Anderson

The summer of 2026 will go down in history books as the hottest, driest and most deadly set of heatwaves Britain has ever experienced. This weather isn’t normal – but it

ACFM 62: The Beach

Nadia, Keir and Jem wonder why humans are drawn to the beach in a weird-left conversation that spans geological deep-time, the birth of surf culture, the politics of fade

Downstream: The West is Over. Here’s Why w/ Pankaj Mishra

In the years since October 7th, the world has been bitterly polarised over how to make sense of the violence. While polling shows that a majority of people do believe Isr

Do Your Own Research: Is This Podcast the Problem? w/ Joshua Citarella

Joshua Citarella built his reputation by mapping synthetic e-deologies of terminally online politics, expressed in memes, micro-disputes and merch drops. Now the artist,