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#1687 Respite: Ceasefire in Gaza and the Legacy of Imperial Folly in the Middle East

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Air Date: 1-31-2025

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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.

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#1686 Temperatures Rising, Tempers Flaring: LA Fires, Climate Emergencies, Conspiracies, and Water Wars

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Air Date: 1-28-2025

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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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​#1085 A case against the myth of individualism (Throwback)

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Original ​Air Date: 3-7-2017

Today we look at the dangerous myths of individualism and the American Dream™, some of their origins and some of their consequences
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#1685 Faux Populism and Neoliberalism: Working People Are Stuck Between Oligarchy and Disregard

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Air Date: 1-21-2025

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Decades ago, the conscious decision was made to exacerbate inequality for the sake of economic growth that would supposedly lift all boats. What probably wasn't understood at the time is that the logical conclusion of that choice would be to break democracy and usher in oligarchy. Now working people are left with only bad choices and empty promises.

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#1684 The Last Honest President: The imperfect life and legacy of Jimmy Carter

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Air Date: 1-18-2025

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We are looking back on Jimmy Carter's life and legacy as a lens through which to more clearly see and understand the current state of our politics, our incoming president, the Middle East, the climate, and more.

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