Episodes

  • Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei

    Downstream: China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown w/ Ai Weiwei
    Feb 2 2026
    Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expressing solidarity with Palestinians has given Western governments an excuse to crack down on dissenters. There has been intimidation and job insecurity at one end of the scale, through to brutal […]
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    50 mins
  • Downstream: 2008 Whistleblower on the Next Big Crash w/ Ann Pettifor

    Downstream: 2008 Whistleblower on the Next Big Crash w/ Ann Pettifor
    Jan 26 2026
    This week, Donald Trump continued his streak of threatening tariffs against any country that opposes him, increasing the odds of an escalating trade war and further destabilising the global economic system. But according to this week’s guest, the system is in desperate need of reform. Indeed, she thinks without a complete structural overhaul, it will […]
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Downstream: Exposing the Lies of the 20th Century w/ Tariq Ali

    Downstream: Exposing the Lies of the 20th Century w/ Tariq Ali
    Jan 19 2026
    Our guest this week was born in 1943, in what was then British India – modern day Pakistan. Unlike most, who have learned history through books and second-hand sources, he has witnessed first-hand a great deal of the 20th and 21st centuries. Tariq Ali founded Verso Books, the leading left-wing publishing house in Britain, as well […]
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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • Downstream: Venezuela, China and the End of the Dollar w/ Glenn Greenwald

    Downstream: Venezuela, China and the End of the Dollar w/ Glenn Greenwald
    Jan 12 2026
    It has been a bellicose start to 2026, with the US army kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and threatening to annex Greenland, putting many more nations, including Mexico and Colombia, on high alert. On Downstream this week is investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, who’s best known for helping Edward Snowden’s disclosures about the NSA’s global surveillance […]
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Downstream: Exposing the Israeli Capture of British Politics w/ Peter Oborne

    Downstream: Exposing the Israeli Capture of British Politics w/ Peter Oborne
    Jan 5 2026
    After ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ on October 7th, a specific narrative quickly emerged and pervaded the entire Western mainstream media. Namely, that unprecedented horrors were committed against the state of Israel and that whatever way it responded was justified. Any deviation from this narrative was quickly shut down. In the intervening years, the British state has […]
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Downstream: 2025: What Actually Happened? w/ Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani

    Downstream: 2025: What Actually Happened? w/ Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani
    Dec 29 2025
    Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani joined each other on 17th December for a special end-of-year Downstream, wrapping up the year in politics.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Downstream: ‘Gaza Is Over, It’s Gone. There’s Nothing Left’ w/ Norman Finkelstein

    Downstream: ‘Gaza Is Over, It’s Gone. There’s Nothing Left’ w/ Norman Finkelstein
    Dec 22 2025
    Norman Finkelstein is one of the west’s leading anti-Zionist scholars. The son of Holocaust survivors, he has spent his life studying and critiquing Israel’s assault on Palestine, decades before it became socially acceptable to do so. Yet despite having dedicated his career to it, by the day before Hamas’ attack in October 2023, Norman had […]
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction

    ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction
    Dec 21 2025
    After a Trip episode about the meaning of mainstream, this time the gang go deeper into ‘Mainstream’ – that is, the new soft-left faction inside Labour. Yes, a festive episode about the inner workings of a political party! Don’t say we don’t spoil you. Jem, Nadia and Keir explain the emergence of Mainstream’s ‘radical realists’ […]
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    1 hr and 34 mins