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Song: Anamanaguchi - Territorial Pissings (Nirvana Cover)

Joshua Frank, an investigative journalist and editor at Counterpunch, talks to us about his new book Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who Are Selling Off Our Future!

Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage for the FUN HALF! in which we give our takes on the climate satire that's driving X dead-enders insane: DIGGER!

More from Joshua Frank at Counterpunch

Jasper Bernes piece mentioned: https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/

Thea Riofrancos piece mentioned: https://viewpointmag.com/2019/05/16/plan-mood-battlefield-reflections-on-the-green-new-deal/

Song: Juice WRLD - Bad Energy

Our French correspondent, Henry JK Wallis calls in to talk about the student riots throughout France.

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The "RED ENGINEER" Nick Chavez returns to the Wreckage to discuss his Heatwave Magazine contribution, The Black Box of Production.

The essay explains how technical expertise is divided within the capitalist production process, and how it must be redistributed and transformed during revolution for the construction of communism.

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Read the essay at Heatwavemag.info: https://heatwavemag.info/magazine/issue03/black-box-of-production/

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Check out FOREST AND FACTORY: https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/forest-and-factory and our episode on it: https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage/posts/e236-forest-and-96073396

Song: The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field

NEWS EP! AI apocalypse and regulation scenarios. Global shipping disrupted big time. Xi winning. Flights are grounded; nature is healing. AFD surge in Germany. All hail the Great and Powerful Theil!

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Show notes:

Riley on AI vs market capitalism: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/blind-guesses

China's AI Great leap forward: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/business/china-ai-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Global shipping in crisis: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/5761d9f3-1150-4323-ab8e-41c9a56e3099

AI doomsday scenarios: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/17/tech/how-will-ai-exterminate-humanity-cec

European Jet Fuel shortage: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europe-faces-q4-jet-fuel-supply-deficit-even-south-korea-becomes-latest-big-2026-09-21/

Karp audio: https://youtu.be/2YVCdwvG548?si=PJJLcaHdDeeb6SUs&t=447

Xi rolls Trump on trade: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/xi-rolls-into-trump-summit-with-chinas-trade-engine-roaring-2026-09-21/ Ukraine / Russia war analysis: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-battlefield/

German elections: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/world/europe/germany-merz-pressure-afd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Song: Johnny Cash - Legend of John Henry

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Sean and Andy are joined by historian Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his recent book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 1865-1981 out now from University of Chicago Press.

Without the taxes and jobs generated by wealthy firms and households, we are told, our communities cannot survive. But what if the costs of elite-driven growth outweighed its benefits? What if the wealthy were not the fiscal saviors of American cities, but their assassins? What if relying on the rich to “take care of everyone else” was neither politically nor financially sustainable? And what would all this mean for how our communities should develop economically?

His history is particularly timely as the Mamdani administration tries, within the bounds of political economy, to open up what Daniel calls the 'fiscal imaginary' of what is possible on a municipal level.

Song: Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Part II

Brooklyn vs. Dallas. Brownstones vs McMansions. Jelly Roll Morton vs. Jelly Roll. The Braves vs. The Savannah Bananas.

The authors of "Alphabet America" (Liam and Jackson) claim that their theory of a cosmopolitan America A and a psuedo-rural America B is "the most explanatory method of understanding the cultural divide," and that " the vast majority of people, whether they can name it or not, experience life in America this way more than they do under any other schema of social categorization we have seen."

We define the two Americas, pick apart their origins, speculate on if they're heading towards a civil war, and question how to engage with this specific type of polarization.

Alphabet America: https://newmoralworld.substack.com/p/alphabet-america

Gladio Free Europe: https://www.patreon.com/GladioFreeEurope

Phil Neel interview about Hinterland: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/field-notes/PHIL-NEEL-with-Paul-Mattick/

Songs: Dolly Parton - Tennessee Homesick Blues & Coat of Many Colors

Audio from our LIVE SHOW in Chicago at the first national ILC Convention!

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Song: Chicago - Saturday in the Park