This week we were planning to bring you an episode about money in the digital age, but with everything that is currently unfolding in occupied Palestine we felt that this conversation between two leading thinkers on the subject was an important contribution to current discourse.
In this episode, recorded on October 6th, Ghada Karmi and Antony Loewenstein s ... Show More
Oct 1
Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C (trailer)
Today we're posting a trailer for OVERSHOOT, an exciting new series forthcoming from our friends over at Planet B Productions. OVERSHOOT is hosted by Laurie Laybourn, author of Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown, published by Verso Books. In 2015, ... Show More
4m 5s
Nov 2024
AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli
This week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The Verso Pod ... Show More
58m 29s
Mar 2024
How Israel tests its weapons in Gaza then sells them to the world | Antony Loewenstein
In this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein to talk about how for decades, Israel used its occupation of Palestinians as a testing ground for new weaponry, which it then packages and sells to governments around the worl ... Show More
1h 5m
Nov 2023
Israel, Gaza and the West Bank: A History
<p>In light of the complex and tragic situation unfolding in Gaza and Israel, this episode looks at the past 100 years of the history of the region of Palestine. As well as explanation from Dan, we hear from experts who have been on the podcast before to explain the background to ... Show More
1h 4m
Nov 2023
What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand
<p>Earlier this week, we heard a Palestinian perspective on the conflict. Today, I wanted to have on an Israeli perspective.</p><p>Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the author, most recently, of “<a href="https://www.harpercoll ... Show More
1h 4m