#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism (Remix)
#1567 How to Sell an Immoral Economic System to the Masses (Throwback)
Air Date: 6–20-2023
Today, we take a look at the story of how neoliberalism was born, how corporations were organized to help push it into the mainstream, and how the courts were reshaped to permanently tilt the rules in favor of corporate power.
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#1724 How to Socialism: Einstein liked socialism, you think you know better?
Air Date: 7-23-2025
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani's recent win in the Democratic primary in the race for Mayor of New York City has thrust socialism back into the spotlight. Perhaps we can have a calm, rational, thoughtful debate about it this time... though it would be the first.
Read more#1723 Scam Nation: Trumpism is the Art of Screwing You Over in Every Way Possible
Air Date: 7-16-2025
It increasingly feels like we are completely past the era of legitimate differences in political philosophy and policy preferences. Now that the Republican governing style has been completely consumed by Trumpism, we've entered the era of scam politics which fits nicely with Trump's traditional retail scams, capitalism's continual reinvention of financial scams, and the new age of crypto scams.
Read more#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 12-8-2023
Neoliberalism has created a lot of economic suffering and insecurity in addition to weakened social ties over the past few decades. And now, in what may be the most devastating result of the ideology yet, neoliberalism may be leading much of the world toward fascism bolstered by legitimate grievances about economic precarity which are coopted by the false promises of right-wing populism.
Read more#1275 So, Marxism. What is that all about? (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 5–24-2019
Today we take a look at the much-maligned, rarely-understood field of economic and social study known as Marxism.
Read more#1697 The Trump World Order: Are we the Baddies?
Air Date: 3-15-2025
It always bears repeating that the progressive perspective on the state of the world is not that everything was going just fine before Trump showed up but there's a world of difference between the leftist desire to improve things and Trump's bull-in-a-china-shop foreign and economic policies. Allow us to list the ways.
Read more#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis Throwback)
Original Air Date: 6–15-2022
Today we take a look at the many reasons why we are experiencing a housing crisis in the US and beyond but it mostly comes down to treating housing as a commodity to be profited from rather than a basic human need or, if you're feeling radical, a basic human right.
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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