#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.
Read more#1085 A case against the myth of individualism (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 3-7-2017
#1685 Faux Populism and Neoliberalism: Working People Are Stuck Between Oligarchy and Disregard
Air Date: 1-21-2025
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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