“The clash of civilizations”. This was the prognosis for the post-Cold War era, and some would argue that this prognosis came true. Since the end of the Cold War, we have certainly seen more and more people from different cultures and religions fighting each other. Others, however, might consider this a self-fulfilling prophecy. PROPAGANDA takes a […] The post GPS: “Standing Rock and Castro” – Propaganda s03e04 Part 1 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Do you ever get that gut feeling that something is going wrong? You don’t know what it is, but something’s telling you that, if you don’t act now, you’re going to regret it? That’s not your intuition talking: that’s your gut literally communicating to you that something’s not right, and our guess is it has […] The post CIA: “The Ideology of Agribusiness” – Propaganda s03e03 Part 2 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Do you ever get that gut feeling that something is going wrong? You don’t know what it is, but something’s telling you that, if you don’t act now, you’re going to regret it? That’s not your intuition talking: that’s your gut literally communicating to you that something’s not right, and our guess is it has […] The post GPS: “Our One-Dimensional Media” – Propaganda s03e03 Part 1 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Global Political Situation (GPS): Headlines and analysis of what’s happening in the world, this week looking at government rhetoric from the lens of advertising.   // Part 1 Audio (download): // >>”Is the Nobel Prize Really Noble?” – Propaganda s03e02 Part 2>> // You can also use the Propaganda RSS! Subscribe to our podcast with […] The post “Is Politics Just Presentation?” – Propaganda s03e02 Part 1 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Remember the old advertisement, “Got Milk?” We here at the Moral Economy were still young scallywags when those commercials appeared, and we loved to repeat them in the classroom, on the playground, and everywhere we went. Now we’re serious adults, and as serious adults we go to offices and meeting rooms (sometimes, anyway). What do […] The post “Is The Nobel Prize Really Nobel?” – Propaganda s03e02 Part 2 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

This week The Moral Economy’s Eddy, Chell, Franz, Nawaz and Andrew got around to recording the first podcast of the their third season! You might have noticed that we’ve changed our name from The Moral Economy Podcast to Propaganda, a podcast by the Moral Economy. This is in part do to the fact that we […] The post Propaganda s03e01 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

#DemocraticConfederalism is an alternative economic/political/cultural system that has given many Kurds and others around the world hope, not because of what it promises, but for what it delivers. While very few people in Europe and the United States have heard of democratic confederalism, it is a system that is in place right now, and to many […] The post #DemocraticConfederalism // MePod.s02e10 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

The concepts of #Crime and #Punishment under #Anarchy leave us with a very serious question: How do we prevent a given community, city, society from adopting practices of domination, even if it’s through direct democratic consensus? Indoctrination? Shaming/boycotting? In other words, how do anarchists ‘enforce’ moral rules in a non-authoritarian way? This is not an […] The post #Anarchy, #Crime and #Punishment – MePod.s02e09 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

All of us , at some point in our lives, have at least thought about making the world a better place. The Effective Altruism movement takes this thought a step further. As a philosophical orientation it uses data and scientific reasoning to engage the normally sentimental world of doing good with a view to assessing […] The post MePod.s02e07 // #EffectiveAltruism appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Hosts Nawaz, Eddy and Firat join a monkey’s uncle Chell, a monkey uncle’s uncle Andrew, and one nameless guest for this week’s Moral Economy Podcast! Nawaz kicks off with a briefing on the #PanamaPapers, which have revealed the pervasive corruption of our current economic and political elite. Nawaz looks at the rhetoric of internal justification […] The post MEPOD.s02e06 // #PanamaPapers #CapitalismAndFreedom appeared first on The Moral Economy.