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Kevin Klyman, researcher at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, picked up the red phone for the dedicated AP hotline, so Danny and Derek knew it was time for a special. This time, it’s about Biden’s recent executive order regarding outbound investment controls on China which ban a slew of tech relating to AI, semiconductors, and quantum information. The…

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Danny and Derek continue their discussion with Lisandro Claudio, associate professor at UC Berkeley, on the history of the Philippines. We’re now at the end of the 19th century, the time of the Philippines’ independence struggle. The crew touches on La Liga Filipina and its revolutionary successor groups, the Philippine Revolution itself, figures like J…

Leading the world in “Derek” podcasts, it’s the great Derek Davison (and Danny) with the news. This week: Saudia Arabia hits a speed bump in attempts to normalize with Israel (0:31) while the Kingdom continues successful talks with Iran (2:47); details emerge from the US-Iran prisoner swap (4:22); the DPRK ramps up activity in its defense industry (7:10) while claiming the American soldier who recently defected was disillusioned (9:14); an update on the Sudan conflict (11:26); promising developments collapse over the weekend as Niger braces for ECOWAS intervention (13:08); the Russian ruble crashes (16:20); an update on the Ukraine counteroffensive (19:04); a strong showing by far-right candidate Javier Milei in the Argentinian presidential primary (23:03); and a New Cold War update featuring Biden hosting a summit with South Korea and Japan (27:55) and new polling on US animosity toward China (29:26).

Recorded Thursday, August 17, 2023

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Erin Pineda, political theorist and professor at Smith College, brings Danny and Derek up to speed on the controversy surrounding the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) decision to hold its flagship conference in Los Angeles on Labor Day Weekend despite an ongoing hotel workers’ strike and requests by UNITE HERE Local 11 (representing over …

Danny and Derek sit down with Noelani Ahia, a Kānaka Maoli community organizer in Maui, to discuss last week’s devastating fire that destroyed much of the city of Lahaina. They discuss the present situation there, the role of the American government’s resource and water management in exacerbating the conditions leading to the fires, the struggle of native Hawaiians, how climate change is affecting Hawaii, and more.

Donate to the Maui Mutual Aid Fund now to help Lahaina and its people recover.

Recorded Wednesday, August 16, 2023

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It’s Commodity Day here at American Prestige, so Danny and Derek decided to celebrate by speaking with Jonathan Robins, associate professor of history at Michigan Tech, about a ubiquitous product that somehow flies under the radar: palm oil. They touch on the history of oil palm cultivation, the different uses of the oil itself, its role in the story of global capitalism, commodity fetishization, the ecological impacts of oil palm cultivation, and more.

Be sure to grab a copy of Jonathan’s award-winning book Oil Palm: A Global History!

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Danny and Derek welcome Luis Herrán Ávila, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico, to talk about, you guessed it, fascism in Latin America. They define its European forms vs those in Latin American countries, discuss the ideology’s influence on groups like the Tacuara Nationalist Movement (TNM) in Argentina, Nazi refugees’ collab…

Your news roundup for the start of August…with Style. This week: climate collapse continues with heat records shattered and more of the Antarctic lost (0:35); the most recent leader of ISIS is killed in Syria (2:22) and Damascus agrees to open up humanitarian corridors (4:42); US-Saudi-Israel talks move along (6:59); in Iran news, the US deploys “deterrent” troops to the Red Sea (9:07) while Iran agrees to the release several US prisoners (12:09) and sees the Saudi embassy reopening in Tehran (15:05); the Azerbaijani blockade in Karbakh comes with warnings of humanitarian disaster (15:59); Imran Khan is again arrested in Pakistan as the country enters a presidential election amid reports of US involvement (19:14); an update of the situation in post-coup Niger (22:51); the Fano militia of the Amhara region of Ethiopia escalates the conflict with the government (26:03); presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio is assassinated in Ecuador (28:13); and a New Cold War update with US controls over the export of high tech products to China and limits on investment in Chinese tech (30:05), and some dismal numbers for China’s economy (31:21).

Recorded Thursday, August 10, 2023

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Danny and Derek speak with Dawn Marie Paley, investigative journalist and editor of Ojalá, a new online weekly dedicated to in-depth, independent coverage of Latin America in English and Spanish. They discuss a range of social challenges in modern Mexico, touching on the wave of disappearances dating back to Calderon’s so-called War on Drugs, how the drug war is a tool to assert social and territorial control, the role of global capital, US-Mexico security and migration policy, organized movements among marginialized groups in Mexico today, and more.

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Danny and Derek sit down with Quinn Slobodian, professor of history at Wellesley College, for a discussion of neoliberal globalism and capitalist extremism. They touch on Quinn’s own intellectual history, the dream of capitalism, the birth of neoliberalism, the Austrian and Chicago Schools, libertarianism, and more.

Check out Quinn’s books Crack-Up Capit…