#1690 Oligarchy Unmasked: Why Billionaires Hate Democracy and How They're Dismantling It
Air Date: 2-11-2025
The very rich, as has been noted before, are not on the side of regular people. And even if you think that the federal government needs a major reboot, no one but the ultra-wealthy are going to be happy with what they build in the aftermath of the administrative coup currently underway.
Read more#1689 The Media and the Moguls: Corporate Media is not equipped for Trump
Air Date: 2-7-2025
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Trump came in with a plan to subdue the media and large swaths of the media came in with a plan to acquiesce. But it's important to understand why because it's not a conspiracy or people wanting to do harm, it's structural to the system.
Read more#1688 International Decline: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
Air Date: 2-4-2025
The era of unquestioned US hegemony is undoubtedly on the decline but the future is much more complicated and uncertain than the straightforward idea of China rising to take our place that we've been told. Though Trump is not the cause of US decline, he may send us out in a tragic blaze of glory.
Read more#1687 Respite: Ceasefire in Gaza and the Legacy of Imperial Folly in the Middle East
Air Date: 1-31-2025
The genocide and subsequent ceasefire in Gaza is only the latest horrifying consequence of botched military misadventures in the Middle East and if the history of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons can teach us anything it's that atrocities have long shadows.
Read more#1686 Temperatures Rising, Tempers Flaring: LA Fires, Climate Emergencies, Conspiracies, and Water Wars
Air Date: 1-28-2025
The existence of out-of-control wildfires in Los Angeles amid the rising climate crisis is not confusing or strange. How to deal with such an emergency during our ongoing political and information crisis is a completely different story.
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