#1306 Kochland: How We All Became Residents of a Libertarian Fever Dream
Air Date: 9–17-2019
Today we take a look at the lives and legacies of the Koch Brothers. Or, put more pointedly, we look at how two decedents of a bonafide conspiracy theorist have almost single-handedly doomed us to endure runaway climate chaos while suffering from severely degraded labor standards and a broken democracy.
Read more#1304 The Coming Recession and How Progressives Can Prepare For It
Air Date: 9–10-2019
Today we take a look at the economic indicators portending a recession, the global impacts of Trump's trade war with China and then look ahead to what policies progressives should be ready to implement when the next inevitable recession eventually hits.
Read more#1297 Corporate Media is Designed to Ruin Political Discourse in America
Air Date: 8–16-2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the ways that it is in the nature of corporate media to ruin political discourse by dismissing progressive perspectives and preferring hype and controversy over substance
Read more#1291 The Life and Death Politics of Health Care
Air Date: 7–23-2019
Today we take a look at the fight for Medicare for All through the lens of the Democratic Primary elections.
Read more#1285 Naked Capitalism has a Fig Leaf
Air Date: 6–28-2019
Today we take a look at the ways that extreme inequality and many of the worst instincts and repercussions of capitalism are being upheld and perpetuated by our culture of philanthropy. It turns out that what we see as the rich giving back is really more of a purchase on their part, a purchase of our acceptance of inequality and the right of the wealthy to rule.
Read more#1284 How progressive philanthropy strangles progress
Air Date: 6–25-2019
Today we take a look at the surprisingly varied ways that progressive, well-meaning, do-gooding philanthropists have consistently held back the social movements they are attempting to help and have strangled attempts to implement truly egalitarian policies designed to help everyone
Read more#1270 Surveillance Capitalism is threatening democracy itself
Air Date: 5–7-2019
Today we take a look at the impacts, from personal to global, of the paradigm of companies profiting off of surveillance of their users, otherwise known as surveillance capitalism.
Read more#1269 Following the thread of the global Great Transition
Air Date: 5–3-2019
Today we take a look at several topics that, at first glance, may seem to be unrelated but that I think are all tied together with a thread that runs through all of them and points the way toward The Great Transition we are currently in the middle of.
Read more#1264 Protesting neoliberalism the only way they could think to (Brexit)
Air Date: 4–12-2019
Today we take a look at everything there is to know about Brexit, Lexit, Remain and Reform, the Irish question, The Troubles, the neoliberalism of the EU and the senses of local and national identity in an age of globalism
Read more#1260 Gearing up for the fight for Medicare for All
Air Date: 3–29-2019
Today we take a look at the history of why we don't already have Medicare for All, just a handful of the overwhelming reasons why we need it and the fight ahead to make it a reality
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