The Michael Brooks Show

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Postgame featuring Matt Christman (@Cushbomb) & Artesia Balthrop (@ArtesianB). Thanks patrons.  

Matt Christman (@MattChristman) stays for the postgame. Why it’s important to not spend all your time over-analyzing politics. How the internet has affected how we think about politics. Artesia(@artesianb) to react to how the movement is developing around the country and in BK. 

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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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What we can learn from liberation theology

Lessons from the ANC and policing. 

Essential workers are being forced to expose themselves to the pandemic.

Ronan Burtenshaw on the lessons for the left from the past 10 years. 

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@TheseLongWars returns to guide us through the myraid personalities that have dominated the recent history of Pakistani politics. Benazir Bhutto's rise and assassination. Nawaz Sharif and military party politics. Elections and their lack in Pakistan. The social forces that led to Imran Kahn. General Zia's 1988 plane crash. 1999 Pakistani coup d'état and the General Musharraf era. Imran Kahn as the Trump-like froth of Pakistani neoliberal politics.

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Tyson is using the pandemic to hyper exploit their workers. 

Madina Toure on what De Blasio’s budget promises actually mean. 

Charlie Kirk’s sloppy history of philosophy. 

During the GEM, David breaks down why the Trump recovery is BS. 

And we debut the 1st half of our interview with Chomsky. 

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@TheseLongWars The true story behind "Charlie Wilson's War." Who was General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq? Pakistan's place in the US/USSR Cold War. General Zia and the collapse of communism.

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Notes on the uprising and how we move forward. 

Vivek Chibber joins us to break down the ABC’s of capitalism and what socialism’s future might look like. 

During the GEM, David breaks down how COVID has affected the shipping industry and kept sailors trapped on their boats.

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Martin Jacques (@MartJacques), author of "When China Rules the World," joins us to talk about exactly that.

How to categorize China? The importance of the state-owned sector and how to think of the Chinese state. State continuity. Official trade unions in China. The leadership of Xi Jinping. How China is emerging as a world leader. Repression, racial tensions, and dissidence. China's ecological vision. Our problem with China not becoming like us.

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The crew reacts to the national unrest. 

Chucka Ejeckam (@chuckaejeckam) on political strategy in these times.

Matt Christman (@mattchristman) joins to TMBS to talk about the reaction in Brooklyn & where do we go from here?

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Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) of the Radio War Nerd rejoins TMBS for part two of a discussion on Russian disinformation narratives. What Peter Pomerantsev omits from his Russian propaganda model, and how is Adam Curtis' summary? Yeltsin passes to KGB Putin. Putin and the oligarchs. Spectacle and neoliberalism. Pomerantsev's sanctions lobbying. The Trump and Cuomo Bullshit Complexes.