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COP30 and Lula's politics of class conciliation w/ Sabrina Fernandes

Last month the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference - better known as COP30 - was held in the Amazonian city of Belem in northern Brazil. The conference was widely seen as a disappointment - with a binding agreement for a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels being blocke ...  عرض المزيد

Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly

In 2006, the music streaming service Spotify, founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon was launched in the context of widespread music piracy, file sharing, and declining profits for the music majors. Presenting themselves as music fans who were intent on s ...  عرض المزيد

Excerpt - Richard Seymour responds to listener questions

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Rewind: Alexander Gallas on the Thatcherite offensive

PTO has now been going for more than seven years and some of the earlier episodes unfortunately have truly abysmal audio quality - because of the podcasting technology of the time. But, thanks to the wonders of audio editing software in 2025, it's been possible to quite significa ...  عرض المزيد

The Sunlight Managers w/ Sofia Menemenlis

Sofia Menemenlis joins PTO to chat about her recent article in The Breakdown on the concept and history of solar geoengineering - or “solar radiation management" as it has become known. We talked about how the implementation of SRM is imagined, what the potentially catastrophic s ...  عرض المزيد