Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.
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May 5, 2026 · 1:13:07
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The 6-3 ruling, along partisan lines, ends 61 years of voter protections for African-Americans…
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Apr 29, 2026 · 1:05:43
In our latest, Scott discusses the roots of populist politics in American history, from the anti-robber baron movements of the Gilded Age to the New Deal era to the current Trump…
Apr 28, 2026 · 1:02:40
In a part two episode with journalist and author Will Potter, we discuss his recent book "Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth From Farm to Fable." We talk about the hidden…
Apr 21, 2026 · 55:45
Journalist Will Potter returns to Green and Red, in part one of two episodes, to discuss the current state of state repression under the Trump administration. bio// Will Potter…
Apr 17, 2026 · 37:43
Israel's brutal campaign against Lebanon launched on March 2 has run parallel to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. When Trump and Iran declared a ceasefire in the second week of…
Apr 16, 2026 · 50:41
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has initiated a major overhaul of the Pentagon leadership, firing over a dozen high-ranking military officials, including Army Chief of Staff Gen.…
Apr 14, 2026 · 40:45
It’s the 50th anniversary of Project Censored, so we had another great discussion w/ its director Mickey Huff of Project about the history of muckraking and how it evolved into…
Apr 10, 2026 · 35:01
The Trump administration is taking its targeting of it's political enemies to new levels. Last summer in Texas, a noise demo that escalated has led to nine people being convicted…
Apr 9, 2026 · 34:12
In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi have heavily…
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Mar 31, 2026 · 40:32
Nine people were recently convicted of federal charges, including "material support for terrorism," by a jury in Texas after a noise demonstration and exchange of gunfire at the…
Mar 19, 2026 · 45:35
Across the country, photojournalists, videographers, live steamers and other documentarians are telling the story of resistance to ICE. They do this at great personal risk, both…
Mar 18, 2026 · 35:04
March 16th was the 58th anniversary of the My Lai massacre and the 23rd anniversary of the murder by Israeli forces of International Solidarity activist Rachel Corrie in Gaza. In…
Mar 17, 2026 · 51:42
Professor Giuseppe Acconcia has been traveling, studying, and writing about the Middle East for decades and joined me for a great discussion of the U.S./Israeli war on the…
Mar 13, 2026 · 37:12
It's Oscar season and in another episode in the G&R Arts and Culture segment, we're talk about the resistance politics of "One Battle After Another." A popular hit that has been…
Mar 12, 2026 · 1:39:57
In our latest, Bob talked w/ Fadi Kafeety, a scholar of Arab and Middle Eastern history, about the current crises in the region which have been intensified by the US attacks on…
Mar 11, 2026 · 1:08:16
The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran and killing some of the Islamic Republic's top leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has responded with attacks on Israel, U.S.…
Mar 9, 2026 · 56:50
Russia invade Ukraine four years ago and has resulted in a bloody conflict that has bled both countries and scrambled global politics. Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 on a…
Mar 4, 2026 · 12:47
Mondelēz International — the food giant behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone — has spent years cultivating an image as a sustainability leader, earning high environmental scores…
Mar 3, 2026 · 55:18
After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the movement had largely…
Feb 28, 2026 · 44:08
It's our 6th anniversary and we talk about the underlying themes in our shows and some of our favorite moments. ------------------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody…
Feb 26, 2026 · 52:40
The Epstein Files is one of the biggest stories in the world... and it isn't. In our latest, we dive into the media coverage of the Epstein Files with professor of media studies…
Feb 25, 2026 · 1:09:23
Donald Trump's long-time aggression against Iran--abrogating the nuclear treaty, assassination officials, ramping up sanctions, and last June's prolonged attacks--is ramping up.…
Feb 24, 2026 · 55:07
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, capture national attention, most…
Feb 23, 2026 · 53:30
In our latest, we talk with return guest Dr. Stephen Bezruchka about how structural inequality and economic policies that favor the ultra rich are causing a health crisis in…
Feb 18, 2026 · 35:54
Rev. Jesse Jackson passed away today at the age of 84. A civil rights giant and candidate in the 1984 and 1988 presidential elections, he had a vision that kept hope alive and…
Feb 17, 2026 · 52:06
In our latest, we talk again with the great Mickey Huff, director of Project Censored (@projectcensored) and professor of journalism at Ithaca College. We talk about Project…
Feb 16, 2026 · 1:03:47
Bob and Scott celebrate President's Day by discussing the recent history of the presidency and look at how neoliberals Clinton, Bush and Obama paved theway for the rise of Trump…
Feb 12, 2026 · 44:32
ICE's surge into Minneapolis-St. Paul continues. After the ICE murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, labor and community groups mobilized against the federal intervention. In…
Feb 10, 2026 · 55:12
In our latest, we talk with legendary filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist John Sayles. We start with a discussion about his new novel "Crucible." But also talk about labor,…
Feb 7, 2026 · 45:46
On January 23, 2026, we saw the first general strike in 80 years in Minnesota after the murder of Renee Good by ICE (one day before their murder of Veteran’s Administration ICU…
Feb 3, 2026 · 47:27
Demonized by Republicans and Democrats alike, a myth emerged around “antifa” during Donald Trump’s first term. But few understand the dangerous work antifa does to disrupt and…
Jan 31, 2026 · 43:25
February 1st is the 66th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins where four African-American student sat in at a Woolworth's, suffering abuse from white racist patrons and…
Jan 27, 2026 · 36:04
The past month has seen the new Syrian government in Damascus move politically and military against the autonomous state of Rojava. In our latest, Scott talks with writer and…
Jan 26, 2026 · 54:48
Mexico is at the crossroads of an elite culinary destination and extreme social and economic injustice. The corporate takeover of Mexico's food sector has polarized the nation's…
Jan 17, 2026 · 45:45
It's MLK Day weekend. We discuss the radical legacy of King. His opposition to the Vietnam war, the Poor Peoples' Campaign, his campaign to boycott the 1968 Olympics and his…
Jan 15, 2026 · 1:17:47
Today was Martin Luther King's actual birthday, so we're posting an encore of our 2021 episode remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: Radical, Democratic Socialist and Opponent of…
Jan 10, 2026 · 45:11
President Trump's saber rattling on Greenland has escalated with threats of military invasion, annexation or purchase of the world's largest island. Today, Trump said that the…
Jan 9, 2026 · 45:07
Trump attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, and declares that U.S. will be "running" Venezuela. And as we know, it's all about the…
Jan 6, 2026 · 57:28
It's the fifth anniversary of the Capitol Riot. As Trump part two has been in power for a year and he's begun a new era of American empire, we're re-posting our take on this…
Dec 31, 2025 · 1:03:30
Happy New Year! In our close out to this year, we talk about the best of Green and Red in 2025, those people that impacted us that we lost and the only real American beaut right…
Dec 22, 2025 · 50:10
Over the past twenty years, one state after another has shuttered its youth prisons and stopped trying youth as adults, slashing the number of children locked in cages by a…
Dec 20, 2025 · 39:55
The 1970s was the decade that changed the television landscape forever dealing with issues of race, gender, sexuality to the war in Vietnam. No show broke the barriers of turning…
Dec 18, 2025 · 1:02:56
In a wide-ranging discussion w/ the eminent historian of Latin America Aviva Chomsky we laid out the motives and purposes of Trump's aggression against the region currently…
Dec 17, 2025 · 29:03
While, maybe, in murky legal waters, Attorney General Pam Bondi is building out the infrastructure for greater spying, policing and prosecution of social movements, and anyone…
Dec 16, 2025 · 38:34
Chevron has been awarded $220 Million in the Ecuadoran Amazon pollution case. The award comes from the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system, part of Hague-based…
Dec 12, 2025 · 51:28
Beginning in 2021, when Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (now X) censored posts by Palestinians protesting their expulsion from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah…
Dec 5, 2025 · 47:54
Eugene Hasenfus died this week. He had been part of a covert operation to supply weapons to the anti-Sandinista group known as the "contras." As part of this activity, he was in…
Dec 3, 2025 · 1:06:32
This week is the anniversary of two events which define the State in the U.S., both in the past and today. In 1969, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago…
Dec 2, 2025 · 41:53
Mark Kelly and other former military and intelligence community members now in Congress posted a video calling on active service members to refuse illegal orders. This happened…
Nov 26, 2025 · 1:02:48
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City Mayor's race , Marjorie Taylor Green splits from Trump, Schumer and Jefferies punch to their left and Trump wages war on everyone . As the…
Nov 21, 2025 · 59:12
Green & Red has been at the forefront of refuting the various romantic versions, lies,and conspiracy theories about JFK and we once again discuss the reality of Kennedy. For…
Nov 18, 2025 · 51:53
When World War II ended 80 years ago, the fighting ended but global stability and peace did not emerge. Instead, a "Cold War" between the forces of capitalism and communism,…
Nov 14, 2025 · 20:37
In our latest, Scott talks with climate campaigner Collin Rees (@collinrees) in Belem Brazil for COP 30. They discuss what's happening on the ground, the high concentration of…
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