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The situation deteriorates in Haiti, Cuban-American protestors march in Florida, and Richard Branson plans his escape.  We discuss the relationship between these events and climate change in this week's news run down. 

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UAPs and Donald Rumsfeld on this week's episode.  We talk about the implications of last week's anticipated report.  What are the motives of Lue Elizondo and the faction within the U.S. government who are working to disclose this information?  How is the state managing to obfuscate its ineptitude and perfidy regarding UAPs while also admitting to being surveilled by incomprehensibly advanced technologies.  All that, this week on Cointelpro.

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We take a first step this week toward defining our conception of change by describing which part of society constitutes a revolutionary property relation in the 21st century.  With the industrialized working class long gone as a vehicle for radical change, the underclass of renters takes its place.  We dialogue with the theory of the anti-colonial movement, particularly Franz Fanon who also sought to redefine the revolutionary class.

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Read Alex Yablon's article we referenced in the show here.

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Ahead of next month's release of Benedetta, we take a deep dive into Paul Verhoeven's 1997 movie Starship Troopers.  Misinterpreted on release and now widely appreciated at satire, we discuss whether it is merely a mirthful description of fascism or if it rises to the level of a critique.  We compiled some reading on the movie and its source material, which we've made available here.

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We weigh in on the nature and likelihood of another pandemic in this week's episode.   The inseparable history of capitalism and pandemic gets us talking about the sources of modern contagion.  With deforestation, urbanization, and international trade as key contributors to the emergence of zoonotic viruses, can we save ourselves from the threats posed by capital's ever expanding resource frontiers?  We decide whether or not pandemic will be a feature of any post-capitalist economic system and discuss the long COVID of the global south.

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We made some claims this week! Start investigating for yourself here:

For more on the historical relationship between capitalism and pandemic, be sure to check out Freg J. Stokes article here: Jacobin, March '21

For the 2016 UN report on emerging issues of environmental concern:
UNEP Frontiers, '16

To get started on deforestation's relationship to pandemic:
Guardian, August '20

COVID vaccine in Africa:
AP, June '21 & CNBC, May '21

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We discuss the domestic side of the United States’ forever war.  What do the Cold War tactics like those deployed by the FBI’s Cointelpro look like today? Then, social historian and Yale PhD student Nick Rogers stops by to tell us whether or not our grandchildren will end up space peasants in a neofeudal hellscape. Remember you can support us on Patreon.

We made some claims this week!  You can start to investigate for yourself here:

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Khalil Abu Rayyan

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Wickham, Chris. "Productive Forces and the Economic Logic of the Feudal Mode of Production." Historical Materialism 16 (2008): 3-22.

For a much more thorough discussion see Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800. Oxford University Press, 2005.

For commercial capitalism: Banaji, Jairus. A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism. Haymarket, 2020.

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On this week's episode we do our first news round up.  Bitcoin in Iran, opioids in West Virginia, and democracy in Chile are up for discussion.  Austin Mejdrich, a district director for the Democrats in the Chicago suburbs, drops by to talk about electoralism and the prospect for reform in American politics.

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In this week’s episode, we talk UAPs with Tim McMillan of The Debrief.  What is the nature of the U.S. government's disclosure program? What does it say about power, authority, and our ability to interpret our physical surroundings? But first, Austin gives us a crash course in UFO history in this week’s feature.

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In this first episode of the podcast we introduce the FBI's counter intelligence program.  Then, author and lecturer Bennett Tomlin sits down with us to discuss the world of cryptocurrency investors and their view of the future.  We zero in on the quintessentially American dimensions of the phenomenon. 

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Make sure to check out Bennett's blog as well!

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