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#943 No human being is illegal (Throwback)

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Air Date: 08-04-15

Today we take a look at the dysfunctional state of the US immigration system and the political fight brewing over what to do about it

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#1690 Oligarchy Unmasked: Why Billionaires Hate Democracy and How They're Dismantling It

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Air Date: 2-11-2025

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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.

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#1689 The Media and the Moguls: Corporate Media is not equipped for Trump

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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.

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#1688 International Decline: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

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Air Date: 2-4-2025

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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.

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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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