#1132 800,000 hostages (Immigration and DACA)
Air Date: 9-12-2017
Today we look at the combination of racism and cold political calculations that went into the decision to hold 800,000 DACA recipients hostage in order to placate the GOP’s scared white base and create leverage to force through funding for the southern board wall (also to placate the GOP’s scared white base)
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#1131 Inflicting pleasure (Media and Propaganda)
Air Date: 9-8-2017
Today we look at our vapid media landscape and see how it lead, some would say inevitably, to the election of someone like Donald Trump
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#1130 Schoolyard bully with nuclear weapons (Foreign Policy)
Air Date: 9-5-2017
Today we look at just a couple of the major international conflicts Donald Trump is severely under-qualified to navigate
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#1129 The free press has been bought (Corporate Media and Billionaires)
Air Date: 8-29-2017
Today we look at the systemic problem with advertiser-driven, for-profit media and how billionaires have begun exploiting the system to their own benefit even more
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#1128 Confronting fascism in the land of free speech
Air Date: 8-25-2017
Today we look at the constant struggle between the freedom to speak and the necessary limits placed on that freedom due to the rights of others to not be substantially harmed by that speech
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