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Pages tagged "Conservatives"


#1137 A perfect blend of colonialism, racism and disaster capitalism (Puerto Rico)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · October 03, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 10-03-2017

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Today we look at the current and ongoing disaster befalling the US territory of Puerto Rico that all began long, long before the most recent hurricanes laid all of the injustice bare
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​#1134 Unnatural Disasters (Hurricanes and Humans)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · September 19, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 9-19-2017

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Today we look not so much at hurricanes and the climate science behind them (though we touch on that as well) but focus more on what we can see more clearly when it’s illuminated by so-called “natural” disasters, the structural inequality and legacies of decision-making that make these disasters worse than they need to be
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​#1133 Understanding Authoritarianism

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · September 15, 2017 6:00 PM · 1 reaction

​Air Date: 9-15-2017

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Today we look at the history and structures of authoritarianism and explore how they relate to at Trump campaign and administration
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#1131 Inflicting pleasure (Media and Propaganda)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · September 08, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 9-8-2017

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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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#1129 The free press has been bought (Corporate Media and Billionaires)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · August 29, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 8-29-2017

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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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#1127 White supremacy requires violence and there is more to come (Charlottesville)

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · August 22, 2017 6:00 PM · 3 reactions

​Air Date: 8-22-2017

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Today we look at what may be the violent death throes of white supremacy. As Trump and the GOP embolden white supremacists to action and violence, the rest of the country is awoken to the need to deal swiftly and decisively with the relics of our racist past
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​#1126 Explaining the concept you need to understand, Neoliberal Economics

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · August 15, 2017 6:00 PM · 4 reactions

​Air Date: 8-15-2017

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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

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · August 08, 2017 6:00 PM

Air Date: 8-8-2017

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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

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · June 20, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 6-20-2017

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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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​#1111 Hamstringing American innovation and restricting growth industries

Posted on Podcast by Amanda Hoffman · June 13, 2017 6:00 PM

​Air Date: 6-13-2017

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Today we take a look at the ways America is being left behind by the rest of the world in the future of energy production thanks to the climate denialism of the Republican party.
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