The Michael Brooks Show

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Benjamin Fogel (@BenjaminFogel) of the @AufhebungaBunga podcast joins us this week for a deep dive into the recent history of Brazilian politics. The stabbing and probable survival of fascist candidate Jair Bolsonaro. The state of Lula's imprisonment and prospects of Fernando Haddad. How dealing with corruption as a union leader brought Lula to the Left. The austerity and anti-corruption currents of Dilma Rousseff's time as leader.

This is the free weekly edition of TMBS. To support the Michael Brooks Show on Patreon and receive hours of weekly members-only content, subscribe at Patreon.com/tmbs Follow The Michael Brooks Show and crew on twitter: @TMBSfm @_michaelbrooks @mattlech @davidslavick @davidgriscom   Socialists can wear nice things and drink good wine, what matters is fighting against capitalist oppression.    Shoutout to McDonald's workers for their strike protesting sexual assault in the workplace. 

Lech regulates theories on Kavanaugh's drinking and puts some ND goober in their place. 

Griscom updates us on the rising compensation on Wall Street despite the fall in tangible net worth of S&P 500. 

We bring back a classic and return Clinton to the gulag. 

We are joined in studio by Alyona Minkovski (@AlyonaMink) to talk about why prep school is bad and the Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations.         

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Michael talks about the shameful history of drone strikes in the US. 

Shoutout to indigenous groups and environmental activists in Canada for their work fighting pipeline expansion in Canada. 

Michael gives us an update on the situation in Brazil. 

Doug Lain (@Zer0books) publisher of Zero Books calls in to talk Marx and the political imagination.  

We throw ghoul John Bolton into the gulag. 

Lech Regulates lazy human Boris Epshteyn and drops an LBJ track. 

During the Griscom Economic Minute David breaks down Trump's boasting about the economy, the structural history of the financial crisis, and how we should understand Obama's economic legacy.

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Dying does not absolve you of spending your life advocating for empire and capital, and the Center needs to stop confusing style for substance. 

Shoutout to the DSA for reaching 50,000 members. 

Michael gives us an update on the situation on Brazil. 

Journalist Ken Klippenstein (@KenKlippenstein) joins us to talk about #ressistance grift and an exclusive on Saudi Arabia.  

We exile Malcolm Gladwell for his bad history and cheap thoughts. 

Matt Lech breaks down his new segment "Lech Regulates" on the fly. 

Griscom talks about lackluster wage-growth, the misery that is the engine of capitalism cannot be apart of our socialist project.

This is a free edition of usually premium TMBS content. To get this every week, become a member at patreon.com/tmbs   Djene Rhys Bajalan (@djenebajalan), Assistant Professor of Middle East History at Missouri State joins us to discuss the ongoing crisis between the US and Turkey. Mike Pence's call for release of Pastor Andrew Brunson. Turkey refusal. US then raised Tariffs; Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%.

Who is Andrew Brunson? 

• North Carolina – Evangelical Presbyterian
• Arrested after the 2016 Coup 
• Accused Supporting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the Fetullah Gulen Movement
• 35 years in prison
• The US government wants him released/ Turkey wants to exchange him Fetullah Gulen. 

Is there any validity the claims against Brunson? 

• Nope. But everyone hates missionaries.
• Zirve Matalya 2007 Murders 3 employees – Turkish converts and a German.

So why did this issue become a crisis?

• Turkey has not made a case to the US for deporting Fetullah Gulen – PENN – Extradition process. 
• Turkey has been playing the same card – judicial process. Everyone knows. Erdogan wants – the guy is released.
• Ebru Ozkan – Realsed accused of planning to fund Hamas – Israel – However, Turkey did not respond.
• Trump seems to have got played. So is reacting. Moreover, this is an issue out here in the Mid-West. Trumps Jihadi base

Michael provides some context about the 2016 Coup d’etat, the purge, and Erdogan’s authoritarian turn.

 

This is the free weekly edition of TMBS. To support The Michael Brooks Show on Patreon and receive hours of weekly-only content, subscribe at Patreon.com/tmbs   We investigate white nationalist attempts to undermine the destruction of the apartheid system in South Africa. Shoutout to Lula for continuing to fight and rise in polls for the coming Brazilian Presidential election despite the ongoing coup attempt. Steven Pinker's prayers and misleading arguments. For the Griscom economic update we talk about the ongoing prison strike and the conditions that lead to their exploitation. In a TMBS first, we take phone calls in the public show. We have to talk about the nonsense in WaPo calling for the reintroduction of an anti-Communist CIA program. Roundtable gulag section

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We talk about the cynical way that the Right has been attacking candidates with debt. 

The legacy of Kofi Annan. 

Shoutout to Vic Mensa for helping out the community while highlighting the dystopian hell-word we live in. 

David Griscom breaks down Elon Musk's meltdown and explains why the market-oriented politics of the US create plenty of contradictions. 

We throw fact-checkers and Jake Tapper into the gulag. 

Sam Seder (@SamSeder) joins us in studio to talk Manafort, morons in Arizona, and the Greens.

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Michael breaks down why the idea of the West is a myth and not a very good one. 

Then, we explain why we support Lula Livre and why you should too.

Our Shoutout goes to Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic Congressional Candidate looking to replace John Conyers in his Michigan district. From the start of her campaign she has promoted a progressive critique of the Democratic Party establishment. 

We throw a Queen's landlord in the Gulag. Sam Esposito of Ozone Park has been on a hunger strike to protest a homeless shelter being built in his neighborhood. 

And during Griscom economic minute we revisit footage of an altercation that happened in Queens bar and David talks about the growing pessimism of the investor class. 

Finally, Trevor Beaulieu (@rickyrawls) host of Champagne Sharks (@ChampagneSharks) is in studio to talk about the Ben Shapiro and AOC "debate" fiasco.

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We break down the viral wildcat strike video and what we will need to do build union power in the US.

Shoutout to ATU 689 for refusing to participate in WMATA's bizarre proposal to give special cars to white nationalists.

Michael has a message for the alt-right crybabies.

Derek Davison (@dwdavision9318) calls in to talk about Trump's dream of "WORLD PEACE,” the reality of the devastations sanctions Trump is imposing on Iran, and the drone attack on Maduro.

We throw the California Correction Department into the gulag for being insensitive pricks. 

For the Griscom Economic Minute David talks about the housing crisis and its causes.

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Michael speaks with Kaniela Ing, a very impressive DSA-endorsed candidate running in Hawaii's 1st district. Discussion ranges from Kaniela's ideological path, student loan debt, foreign policy, and butting heads with mark Zuckerberg and his Hawaii apocalypse bunker plans.

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