The Michael Brooks Show

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Commentary 

This is about more than saving the post office, it’s a fight for public goods 

Then, Dustin Guastella joins us to discuss this piece in Jacobin.

How Trump Got His Right-Wing New Deal Victory

BY FRED STAFFORD

 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/08/tennessee-valley-authority-new-deal 

Gem: how capitalists profit from crisis 

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Tonight, Drew Mikhael (@DrDrewMikhael) joins us to discuss the explosion and fallout in Beirut. Also, David teaches us about repressive and ideological state apparatuses and the need for class politics. 

Hey folks, David, Lisha, and Matt return with a Q&A focused episode centering around reading recomendations and the future of the show. We also update the Bolivia and Venezuela situations.

Journalist Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) joins us to discuss his book, "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World"  What was the "Third World" and what was it's significance geopolitically. The CIA's moves in Southeast Asia. How our "Globalized" economy emerged with the mass murder of leftists.

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We can end hunger for everyone.

Robert Mcchesney joins us to talk about lessons from the Bernie campaign and how to move forward. 

During the GEM David breaks down why we need to watch the banks not the stock market.

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Darren Byler (@DTByler), a postdoc anthropologist at the U. of Colorado  with a PhD, Uyghur technopolitics & decolonization in Chinese cities of Central Asia joins us to discuss China. Who are the Uyghurs, where do they reside, and what is their position in China? How is the Uyghur population different from that of Tibet? China and the War on Terror. How to balance hawkish calls fo a new Cold War with the worsening conditions for the Uyghurs.

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Joanna Wuest (@Joveest) rejoins us to discuss the recent Supreme Court ruling on trans rights and what it looks like for the future of labor rights. Read Joanna's piece here.

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need to oppose annexation.

Vijay Prashad how does the US move forward, what can the Left learn from Kerala’s response to the crisis, Kerala & the response to the crisis, & hybrid warfare. 

Stavros Halkias (@stavvybaby) from Cum Town and Stavvy Solves Your Problems  tells us how he weaponized laziness, moving to NYC, & the NBA reopening.

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Briana Last (@mirrorstage_) joins us to discuss DSA's current limitations, as touched on in her piece "Whither the DSA?," previously published in The Bellows. Why she isn't "attacking" DSA. The defensive posture of unions. The current class makeup of unions vs DSA and the major difference in incentive structure. What it means to be a mass organization in politics.

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We gotta save the USPS 

Bill Fletcher Jr. joins us to talk about the future of the movement & why learning the history of the radical agenda of the US Right is crucial to opposing it. 

The FED is standing up for big business, who is standing up for you?