#1133 Understanding Authoritarianism
#1131 Inflicting pleasure (Media and Propaganda)
#1129 The free press has been bought (Corporate Media and Billionaires)
#1127 White supremacy requires violence and there is more to come (Charlottesville)
#1126 Explaining the concept you need to understand, Neoliberal Economics
Air Date: 8-15-2017
Today we look at the origins, underpinnings and effects of neoliberal economic thinking and policies. #1, it has nothing to do with who Americans think of as “liberals”. #2, both major US political parties are on board with it to varying degrees. #3, it’s pretty much what everyone in the world is pissed off about without necessarily knowing that there’s a name for it
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#1125 Understanding and surviving the age of anger
Air Date: 8-8-2017
Today we look at the forces causing a great deal and anger and upheaval all around the world, how that anger is being misdirected and what we can do in our own lives to face it
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#1113 Tax cuts and deregulation have failed before and will fail again
Air Date: 6-20-2017
Today we take a look at the legacy of conservative economics in Kansas, the new federal budget being pushed that would echo the Kansas disaster, deregulation that will cost citizens billions and the intellectual underpinning of modern conservative philosophy that is driving all this
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