Bonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work
Original Air Date: 4–16-2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss a few of the aspects of life during a pandemic that's causing mental fog and affecting our work.
Read more#1465 Epidemic of Patent Protection and Propaganda
Air Date: 1–9-2022
Today we take a look at some of the explanations for why life-saving vaccines against COVID-19 are unavailable in much of the world while being refused by substantial numbers of people where they are widely available.
Read more#1397 Vaccine Rollout Once Again Exposes the Divide in Our Global Medical Apartheid
Air Date: 2–10-2021
Today we take a look at the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the US and around the world. Between White and Black in the US, Israeli and Palestinian in Israel and the Global North and Global South broadly, the legacies of colonialism and racism predictably play themselves out.
Read more#1369 The Business Model That Ate the World (Facebook)
Air Date: 9–22-2020
Today we take a look at the rising concern over Facebook as more and more negative impacts of the site become evident to an ever-expanding group of concerned people and, more specifically, we show how it is the fundamental business model of Facebook that is at the heart of its problems.
Read more#1363 An Education in Individualism (in)Action (Back to School)
Air Date: 9–1-2020
Today we take a look at the concerns being weighed in the debate over returning to in-person learning as the beginning of the school year gets underway.
Read more#1349 A Deep Dive on the Dysfunction of Trump and his Followers (Coronavirus)
Air Date: 5–3-2020
Today we take a look at the unique, profound dysfunction at the heart of the train wreck that is Trump's response to the Coronavirus. Plus, we explore the death cult that is the group of people still supporting the president.
Read moreBonus Edition #205 A Pandemic of American Myths
Air Date: 4–29-2020
Today, we discuss clips that highlight two of the most powerful American myths that consistently drive us into calamitous territory: the primacy of market-based solutions and hyper-individualism
Read more#1348 Not the Great Equalizer, the Amplifier of Disparity (Coronavirus)
Air Date: 4–21-2020
Today we take a look at the ways that COVID-19 are impacting the most vulnerable communities the worst and how our legacy of discrimination is being put on full display.
Read moreBonus Edition #203 The Fog of Work
Air Date: 4–16-2020
Today, Amanda and I discuss a few of the aspects of life during a pandemic that's causing mental fog and affecting our work.
Read more#1347 Locked in a Petri Dish (Mass Pandemic Incarceration)
Air Date: 4–12-2020
Today we take a look at the way mass incarceration is coming back to bite the US, as jails, prisons and immigrant detention centers are becoming Petri dishes for the coronavirus that will help perpetuate the pandemic as well as non-virus related deaths throughout the population.
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