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- Episode 70: Rumsfeld dies, but the war lives on
On the same week notorious war criminal Donald Rumsfeld died, President Biden bombed Iraq and Syria for the second time while pulling troops out of Afghanistan. This week I talk about our endless imperial adventures and the role the mainstream media plays in perpetuating them.
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Furious Rant Blog
34 min - Episode 69: Against Autocracy
This week I argue that, whatever else we do to build a more progressive and responsive society, we cannot afford to ignore the right's current efforts to make full-blown autocratic rule a reality in the United States.
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My Furious Rants Blog
31 min - Episode 68: Joe's Big Adventure
This week I talk about the back-and-forth between Biden and Putin at last week's summit, how it's discussed in the mainstream media, and how Putin could do better with his what-about-ism.
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Ava DuVernay's 13th (on YouTube) - https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8
29 min - Episode 67: The Enemy Without
This week I talk about America's obsession with foreign adversaries, the sickening sameness of our foreign policy from administration to administration, and the infuriating attack on Ilhan Omar this past week.
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Furious Rants Blog
34 min - Episode 66: The Costs Of "Safety"
Hyper-aggressive policing and mass imprisonment, like militarist foreign policy, imposes unacceptable costs on society while failing to make anyone safe. I talk about the political economy of these failed models.
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Patrick Sharkey on WITHPOD
34 min - Episode 65: A Legacy Of Ashes
This week I talk about the disclosure of a planning document from the 1950s contemplating nuclear war, then discuss the terrifying history of our nuclear arsenal and what we can do to stop the madness.
More:
Reuters Article on U.S. Nuclear Modernization
Bellingcat Article on Nuclear Security
Jacobin Article on Plans to Nuke China
41 min - Episode 64: Israel/Palestine: The Long Game
Revisiting the Israel/Palestine conflict, I take a kind of deep dive into its history and attempt to make the case (as a layman) that Israel's resort to force is their way of avoiding good faith negotiations. We should not underwrite this.
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Furious Rants Blog
38 min - Episode 63: Palestinians in the Crosshairs
This week I talk about the latest chapter in Israel's war on the Palestinian people, offer my own perspective on the conflict's history, and suggest what we as Americans might do to address it.
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Robert Fisk's Pity the Nation
32 min - Episode 62: The Redemption Myth
This week I rant against the corporate media's obsession with redeeming right-wing Republicans like Liz Cheney and their general love for a grisly thing called bipartisanship. Also, my apology for misstating Adam Toledo's age in Episode 60.
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Liz Cheney's voting record on fivethirtyeight.com
35 min - Episode 61: This Week in U.S. Hegemony
This week I talk about the Biden Administration's policy on Cuba and how it reflects their broader tendency to toe the imperial line that's been in place my whole life and longer, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
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Majority Report segment on Cuba Policy
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Political issues considered from a non-violent leftist perspective by some guy named Joe.