Bonus Edition #142 The Nordic Theory of Love
Air Date: 3/1/2019
Today I share an unusual clip and talk for a while about how much better Scandinavia is than the US.
Read more#1256 A Green New Deal to build a new Common Sense
Air Date: 3–12-2019
Today we take a look at the development of the Green New Deal and its impacts on economics, labor, frontline communities climate mitigation and the politics of the possible
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#1253 The Joy of Tax (Comparing the US and Scandinavian Systems)
Air Date: 3–1-2019
Today we take a look at the social benefits of high taxation as the US gears up for our first genuine debate on raising taxes in a long time with an eye toward the life-improving programs that money could fund.
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#1250 Teachers at the forefront of a resurgent progressive labor movement
Air Date: 2–15-2019
Today we take a look at recent teachers union strike in the Los Angeles school district and see it as another event in an emerging pattern of progressive uprisings that have been stirring for the last decade, fighting back against the status quo, the neoliberal instinct to privatize everything for the ultimate benefit of billionaires.
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#1248 There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism
Air Date: 2–8-2019
Today we take a look, briefly, at the last 100 years of Venezuelan history to understand how they went from oil riches and inequality to revolution and social progress only to run afoul of American imperialism
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#1247 The Fight for the Four Freedoms (FDR vs. Libertarianism)
Air Date: 2–5-2019
Today we take a look at the history of FDR's "Four Freedoms" and "Economic Bill of Rights" that laid the groundwork for the fight for economic freedom for all that continues to this day.
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#1245 Don't call it a shutdown
Air Date: 1–29-2019
Today we take a look at the planned chaos and fever dream governing style cooked up by the radical, anti-government conservatives running the country, otherwise known as the shutdown
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#1243 The story of Socialism in America
Air Date: 1–22-2019
Today we take a look at socialism in America from our often violent response to the concept in the wake of the Russian Revolution through the recent revival in interest, driven primarily by the younger generation today
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#1242 Fighting for a Green New Deal
Air Date: 1–18-2019
Today we take a look at the groundwork for a Green New Deal as it's being laid and the fight that is heating up around the policies, not just between political parties but between the separate wings (and generations) of the Democratic Party
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#1241 The Price of Empire (US Foreign Policy)
Air Date: 1–15-2019
Today we take a look at the history and mechanics of US empire and the military-industrial-congressional complex that gleefully perpetuates it.
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