Now here's the latest in new releases:

  Stephen Magusiak sits down with Progress Report host Duncan Kinney for the inside story on how he became the target of a massive police surveillance operation.  (Calgary/Edmonton)

  In an eerily prescient end-of-year episode El Jones and Martin Lukacs discuss the establishment media’s infatuation with Ottawa palace intrigue and the endgame for a hobbled Trudeau government in the wake of Chrystia Freeland’s explosive mid December exit.  (Halifax/Montreal)

  Molly White, Brian Merchant and Eric Wickham join Paris Marx to discuss the highs and lows of the year in tech news, economics scholar Cecilia Rikap unpacks the ways generative AI exacerbates the problem of Big Tech gaining power from companies becoming dependent on their cloud services and Logic(s) Magazine's Ali Alkhatib explains why sometimes it makes sense for people to destroy AI systems that are harming them on three new episodes.  (St. John's/Toronto/Los Angeles/etc.)

  Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson sit down for their annual end of year quiz featuring Green Majority's Stefan Hostetter, Cited's Gordon Katic and friend of the show Ryan MacRae, an advocate for migrant worker rights featured earlier this season for his work on the Cooper Institute report Permanent Jobs, Temporary People. (Vancouver/Ottawa/Toronto)

  Justin Podur unpacks the changes World War I made to the world we recognize today, from the transformation of technologies of war like railways, air travel, wireless, tanks and poison gas, to the changes to institutions of daily life on a new edition of the show's history segment 'World War Civ' (Toronto)

  Host David Kattenburg discusses Bashar al-Assad’s downfall with Dimitri Lascaris and explores Israeli apartheid and the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination with ICERD expert and Irish legal scholar Dave Keane on two new episodes. (Amsterdam/Ottawa/Dublin)

  The team review wins for 2024 like progressing dialogues for energy democracy and the Rights of Nature and achieving progress on national energy policy and discuss how to stand up against the suddenly looming potential threat of US annexation of Canada on two new episodes.  (Montreal/Toronto)

  Vancouver Co-op Radio's flagship news and current affairs show's 45th season continues with conversations exploring Imperial Metals Corp's charge of 15 federal Fisheries Act violations at the BC Supreme Court, plus six new interviews with writers including Desmond Cole on The Skin We're In, Miranda Brady and John Kelly on We Interrupt This Program and more.  (Vancouver/Victoria/Toronto)

  Husband-and-wife hosts Aaron Giavannone and Naomi K. Lewis reflect on their creative writing journeys for the year in a conversation discussing Robert Eggers’ visually stunning yet narratively unsatisfying Nosferatu and how primal fears influence the horror genre. (Calgary)

  Joshua Nicholas Pineda joins host Dr. David Camfield to unpack the recent English translation of 'Western Marxism: How it was born, how it died, how it can be reborn' by the Italian historian of philosophy Domenico Losurdo.  (Winnipeg/Toronto)

  Stefan and David Hostetter and Lauren Latour sit down with The Energy Mix's Mitchell Beer to talk about American LNG and Canadian emissions targets, then The Narwhal's Fatima Syed explains how green building standards in Ontario are being challenged by developers on two new episodes. (Toronto/Ottawa)

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* THE PROGRESS REPORT host Duncan Kinney is being targeted by the Edmonton Police and Alberta Crown Prosecution for a 10 year prison sentence on the charge of vandalism of a 14th Waffen SS cenotaph. He has pled 'not guilty' support his legal defense fund here.

* VICTOR'S CHILDREN host David Camfield's new book Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future is available now for pre-order from Fernwood Publishing - use code 'DC15' for 15% off any of Camfield's books.

* TECH WON'T SAVE US host Paris Marx has a new weekly tech news show with critic Brian Merchant you won't want to miss called System Crash - find new episodes wherever you get your podcasts - and don't forget to vote in Round 2 of TWSU's annual 'The Worst Person in Tech' event beginning tomorrow!

* THE END OF SPORT co-hosts Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derik Silva's new book The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game is available now from UNC Press - use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30%. 

* PIVOT is celebrating their 10th birthday - support Quebec's #1 french-language independent progressive journalism co-op de solidarité with a little 'cadeaux' here.

* UNRIGGED is a national journalism community featuring 25 publishers covering news and current events including Briarpatch, The Independent, The Breach, The Hoser, le Co-op de Solidarité Pivot, the Harbinger community and nineteen others - find out more at unrigged.ca. 

* BIG SHINY TAKES & FORGOTTEN CORNER co-host Jeremy Appel's best-selling critical political biography 'Kenneyism' is available now at Dundurn Press and at your local library or bookstore.

* TAKE BACK THE FIGHT and THIRTYWOOD's Nora Loreto releases 10 minute news headlines every weekday morning on Sandy and Nora Talk Politics.

* ROB ROUSSEAU discusses topics of interest to the left M-F from 12-4 EST on Twitch with highlights available on Youtube.

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