I have two things out on CounterPunch Media this month- an article on the website and an appearance on CounterPunch Radio, the in-house podcast.

On the CounterPunch website: I wrote an article about a project I’m working on with Indonesian printmaking cooperative Taring Padi about the 60th anniversary of the Indonesian genocide of 1965. I talk about the genocide and its aftermath, and about the art and cultural action that groups like Taring Padi engaged in to break the spell of the regime that it created. The article traces a crucial contemporary theme: the genocide of Indonesia’s communists in 1965 set the stage for the next sixty years of murdering the opponents of empire- and Gaza is the heir to that policy.

On CounterPunch Radio: an hour-long conversation with hosts Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg about my work on the nuclear history of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan Project. Our talk touches on my weird family connection to Congo, the contemporary scramble for a whole new slice of Congolese resources, and connects this history to the history of the Indonesian genocide, in this 60th year since both the slaughter in Indonesia and the grim victory of the US intelligence services in Congo. In both cases the US installed dictators that served their interests for the next 35-40 years, and both situations set the precedent for how the US would treat the parts of the world it wanted stuff from for the rest of the 20th Century and into the 21st. Find the CounterPunch Radio podcast wherever you get your audio: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.