#1368 Our Essential, Yet Disposable, Labor
Air Date: 9–18-2020
Today we take a look at some of the dynamics at play for some of the most vulnerable people in America who are doing much of the most essential work under the most precarious circumstances
Read more#1366 The Great Unhousing of America
Air Date: 9–11-2020
Today we take a look at the easily predictable, yet growing, eviction crisis in America that is entirely thanks to a political and economic system that is structurally incapable of functioning for the benefit of people over profit.
Read more#1350 Reach For The Good Ideas That Are Just Lying Around (Disaster Capitalism)
Air Date: 5–21-2020
Today we take a look at the classic battle between good and... not evil exactly but worse than just 'bad'... 'malicious indifference to suffering in the pursuit of ideology over real-world outcomes' maybe?... as seen through the lens of trying to destroy or save the US Post Office, the battle for basic labor rights and protections and the struggle to define the revolutionary change we are going to experience on the back end of the pandemic for either good or ill.
Read more#1346 Pandemic Economics and the Reverse Robin Hood Bailout
Air Date: 4–4-2020
Today we take a look at many of the economic angles of the COVID-19 pandemic including the role of the shock doctrine in the wake of the coronavirus, calls for a socially just economic recovery, calls for the elderly to be turned into Soylent Green and the biggest Reverse Robin Hood bailout of all time.
Read more#1345 All the Best COVID-19 Coping Mechanisms in One Place
Air Date: 3–26-2020
Today we take a look at the toll the pandemic is taking on mental health and offer a wide range of coping mechanisms to help get everyone through.
Read more#1344 Everything is Political (Social Safety Net in a Time of Pandemic)
Air Date: 3–20-2020
Today we take a look at the social safety net we need in the face of Coronavirus and the forces preventing us from having it.
Read more#1343 Bread and Roses (Socialism is Freedom and Firefighters)
Air Date: 3–10-2020
Today we take a look at Democratic Socialism and how to explain it because socialism and the freedoms it provides is a lot more American than we tend to think.
Read more#1342 What Coronavirus Reveals About the Structures of Our World
Air Date: 3–7-2020
Today we take a look at the Coronavirus through the lens of the systems it is affecting including the incompetence of a government that doesn't believe in governing, the dangers of the lack of universal access to medical care and the interdependency of our economies regardless of the inevitable racism that flares up in times of panic.
Read more#1340 The Border Between Socialism and Barbarism (Immigration and Empire)
Air Date: 2–28-2020
Today we take a look at the historical through-line that has brought us to the present state of border barbarism we're now witnessing. An empire of perpetual expansion has finally reached its limit and decided to close the door. Meanwhile, well-meaning liberals have been playing on the nationalists' turf for far too long.
Read more#1338 Budgets are Moral Documents, Trump Budgets are Immoral
Air Date: 2–22-2020
Today we take a look at Trump's recently-proposed budget and rule changes targeting the most vulnerable recipients of Social Security benefits. The budget has no chance of passing as it is because, thankfully, a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives will not allow it. However, it is still very valuable to understand what kind of budget and rules Trump and the GOP would pass if they were in complete power.
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