Last Born In The Wilderness

Dr. Jonathan Howard returns to the podcast to discuss the collapse of public health in the United States. After coming on the podcast in 2023 to discuss his book, We Want Them Infected, Dr. Howard provides an update on some of the contrarian doctors and anti-vaccine influencers he has been following before and since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/jonathan-howard-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Dr. Jonathan Howard returns to the podcast to discuss the collapse of public health in the United States. After coming on the podcast in 2023 to discuss his book, We Want Them Infected, Dr. Howard provides an update on some of the contrarian doctors and anti-vaccine influencers he has been following before and since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Geographer, illustrator, author, and popular educator Dr. Linda Quiquivix joins me in this interview. Broadly speaking, we discuss the below: “a world where many worlds fit.” Much of this conversation is based on Dr. Quiquivix’s 2024 book, Palestine 1492: A Report Back, published by Wild Ox Books. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/linda-quiquivix // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Geographer, illustrator, author, and popular educator Dr. Linda Quiquivix joins me in this interview. Broadly speaking, we discuss the below: “a world where many worlds fit.” Much of this conversation is based on Dr. Quiquivix’s 2024 book, Palestine 1492: A Report Back, published by Wild Ox Books. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Science journalist and author Brandon Keim joins me to discuss the origins and evolution of H5N1—popularly known as bird flu—explored in his excellent article for Nautilus, The Unnatural History of Bird Flu. Brandon Keim deftly covers the recent evolutionary history and trajectory of avian influenza, with a focus on H5N1 and its subvariants as it has become more virulent and has evolved into an emergent public health threat for the human species. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenzas (HPAI) emerge under specific environmental pressures and contexts, and the highly consequential influenza strain, H5N1, is no different, with the main culprit for its troubling evolution being intensive animal production. / Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/brandon-keim // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Science journalist and author Brandon Keim joins me to discuss the origins and evolution of H5N1—also known as bird flu—explored in his excellent article for Nautilus, The Unnatural History of Bird Flu. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Essayist and commentator Indrajit Samarajiva joins me to discuss several concepts he works with for his blog, indi.ca, including White Empire and its decline, the Axis of Resistance and the shifting terrain of warfare in the 21st century, and finally, the limits to growth and collapse. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/indrajit-samarajiva // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Essayist and commentator Indrajit Samarajiva joins me to discuss several concepts he works with for his blog, indica.ca, including White Empire and its decline, the Axis of Resistance and the shifting terrain of warfare in the 21st century, and the limits to growth and collapse. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Anarchist writer Peter Gelderloos returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements, published through Pluto Press. We dialogue on topics such as movement heartbreak, memory as relationship, how enclosure produces memory loss, and how ruptures in generational continuity in liberatory struggles have brought us to where we are today. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/peter-gelderloos-3 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Anarchist writer Peter Gelderloos returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements, published through Pluto Press. We dialogue on topics such as movement heartbreak, memory as relationship, how enclosure produces memory loss, and how a loss of memory in liberatory struggles has brought us to where we are today. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Author and activist Xander Dunlap joins me in this wide-ranging interview to discuss permanent ecological conflict, as theorized and documented via numerous case studies in his new book, This System is Killing Us: Land Grabbing, the Green Economy and Ecological Conflict, published through Pluto Press. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/xander-dunlap // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Author and activist Xander Dunlap joins me in this wide-ranging interview to discuss permanent ecological conflict, as theorized and documented via numerous case studies in his new book, This System is Killing Us: Land Grabbing, the Green Economy and Ecological Conflict, published through Pluto Press. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) activists Corsi Rosenthal (CR) and Clean Air (CA), along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, discuss the recent direct action CR and CA participated in to disrupt the National Institute of Health's (NIH) first meeting for the RECOVER Initiative, ostensibly created to "understand, treat, and prevent Long COVID" in the United States. / Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/lcap-activists-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) activists Corsi Rosenthal (CR) and Clean Air (CA), along with journalist and LCAP founder Joshua Pribanic, discuss the recent direct action CR and CA participated in to disrupt the National Institute of Health's (NIH) first meeting for the RECOVER Initiative, ostensibly created to "understand, treat, and prevent Long COVID" in the United States. // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Political analyst, writer, and Three Way Fight contributor Matthew N. Lyons joins me to discuss his analysis of the upcoming US presidential election, and how the choices presented to voters is "between a Democratic option more abysmal than four years ago and a Republican option even more catastrophic than last time." This interview was recorded just a few days before voting day on November 5th, and is based on Matthew's article, Three Way Fight Analysis of Trump and the 2024 Election. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/matthew-lyons // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Author and scholar Dr. Mohamed Abdou returns to the podcast, one year after October 7, 2023. Our discussion flows across various subjects: Al-Aqsa Flood and the US-Israel genocide of Palestinians in Gaza; Islam and the crusading Euro-American imperial project; anti-colonial struggle as resistance, decolonization as "creating the world of many belows"; and Abdou's participation in the Palestine solidarity encampment at Columbia University, where he was targeted, threatened, and slandered by Zionists in the university administration, United States Congress, and by prominent media figures. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/mohamed-abdou-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Author and scholar Dr. Mohamed Abdou returns to the podcast, one year after October 7, 2023. // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Meteorologist Jeff Masters joins me in this interview to discuss the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in the southeastern United States, as he has written extensively about for the Yale Climate Connections blog, Eye on the Storm, and to contextualize this year's hurricane season within the larger trends of human-caused climate change. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/jeff-masters // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Meteorologist Jeff Masters joins me in this interview to discuss the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene in the southeastern United States, as he has written extensively about for the Yale Climate Connections blog, Eye on the Storm. // Support the work and listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Epidemiologist and writer Abby Cartus returns to continue our discussion about the so-called successes and failures of public health, particularly as it relates to the ongoing pandemic. In this interview, I asked Abby to clarify the kinds of data that are collected—mainly from wastewater sites—and how that data is modeled and presented at this phase of the pandemic. How does this impose limitations on our view of the current rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the US population? After establishing what can be understood, and not understood, from wastewater data, I asked Abby to raise her critique of how this data is being modeled and presented by the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative, a popular and well regarded resource often cited by covid cautious and public health advocacy individuals and groups, and what this indicates about not only where we are at this phase of the pandemic, but how data and statistics are underlaid by ideological assumptions that deserve examination. // Episode notes: https://www.last