The Michael Brooks Show

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Michael explains how thinking about Syria without nuance has serious consequences.

Shoutout to New Zealand for banning offshore drilling.

Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) host of The Benjamin Dixon Show calls in to work us through the noise in left-media that surrounds Syria.

B.J. Sutton (@PrettyBadLefty) host The Discourse (@th3discourse) is in studio to provide some feedback on WaPo columnist Megan McArdle’s recent work.

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We talk about the deep state coup in Brazil with journalist and host of Aufhebunga Bunga podcast (@AufhebungaBunga) Alex Hochuli (@alex_1789).

Shoutout to Cardi B for demonstrating more political knowledge than most political pundits. 

Michael talks with Douglas Lain (@douglain) about his new book Bash Bash Revolution.

Sam Harris is thrown in the pyramid for hawking racist pseudo-science, hopefully for the last time. 

Djene Bajalan (@DjeneBajalan) joins us in studio to talk about the cynical ways the new atheists use critiques of Islam to justify attacks on people of Middle Eastern descent, the recent state violence in Gaza, and the smears of Jeremy Corbyn. 

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Christopher Ryan (@ThatChrisRyan), author of Sex at Dawn, joins to discuss sex and how human institutional knowledge naturalizes sex in unnatural ways. The problems with accepting monogamy as a "default." Responding to myths like sex is dirty or impure, about power, or about women getting resources from men. The radical changes the shift to agriculture had on how humans live. Why everyone aboad a sinking ship wants to hear everything is fine. How dating apps are reshaping what people want from dating apps. 

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Mark Blyth (@MkBlyth), Professor of Political Economy at Brown University, joins us to discuss how understanding recent macroeconomic history, particularly the triumph on neoliberalism, led him to predicting Brexit and Trump’s victory. The Democrat bubble and how Bernie Sanders and Trump saw what the establishment didn’t. The technocratic story of how political professionals became detached from people. The scary ground being ceded to Tucker Carlson.

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The first TMBS cartoon animation premiers.

Then, Assemblyman Lee Carter from Virginia joins us to talk about his journey to Democratic Socialism and how a bad worker's compensation experience drove him to run for office.  How he determined 'socialism' wasn't such a scary word. Lee points out people don't need 'jobs,' they need A Secure Job.

Then, Sam Harris has been boosting Charles Murray. Christopher Hitchens returns from the dead to set him straight on why The Bell Curve was ever talked about.

This is the free March 27 edition of TMBS featuring Anoa Changa (@TheWayWithAnoa) and Alyona Minkovski (@AlyonaMink). To support the show and get weekly exclusive content, join at http://www.Patreon.com/tmbs   Yanis Varoufakis starts a new party, and why Syriza failed in Greece. Capital's challenge to radical governance.   Shoutout to Keith Ellison for his maximum wage proposals.   Anoa Changa (@TheWayWithAnoa) joins us to talk about necessary intersectionality in The March for Our Lives, in the context of the last half-century of radical politics since 1968. Minority communities and guns, and why Killer Mike got in trouble for an NRA interview. Check out Anoa's new Georgia-focused project: peachperspective.com   Then, we throw Rick Santorum, father of Right Wing Mandela, into the pyramid for recommending CPR lessons to school shooting victims.   Alyona Minkovski (@AlyonaMink) joins us to discuss our nightmare where John Fucking Bolton is galloping through the halls of power. Also, Alyona completely demystifies Putin's motivations for us.    

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Michael reminds us that we cannot forget the ghouls responsible for the invasion of Iraq fifteen years ago.

We shoutout Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner for his recent memo with concrete steps to rebalance sentencing with the aim of ending “mass-incarceration.”

Meagan Day (@MeaganmDay) of Jacobin calls in to talk about how neoliberalism has forced us all to become our own boss and how to our detriment.

We throw Cambridge Analytica and Facebook into the Pyramid.

Matt Binder (@MattBinder) host of Doomed with Matt Binder joins us in studio to make fun of Jordan Peterson, men’s rights activists, and troll farms.

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We investigate the new torturer in charge of the CIA.

Shoutout to Douglas Lain of Zerobooks for challenging Jordan Peterson to a debate and in the process exposing Peterson’s cowardice.

International affairs analyst Derek Davison (@dwdavison9318) calls in to talk about Trump’s latest spurned cabinet member Rex Tillerson.

We throw Hillary Clinton into the pyramid for her continued failure to understand the reasons why she lost.

Comedian and actor Dante Nero (@DanteNero) is in studio to talk Louis Farrakhan and the changes in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 

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Michael examines the recent diplomatic progress between North Korea and South Korea.

We take a look at Trump’s press conference with the Prime Minister of Sweden.

Shoutout to the West Virginia Teacher’s Union for winning their strike with an inspiring showing of determination and solidarity.

Natalie Shure (@natalieshurely) calls in to talk about United States of Care and Medicare for All.

We throw corporate Democrats into the pyramid for their cowardice and betrayal of working people.

Nomiki Konst of The Young Turks (@Nomikikonst) is in studio to talk about how Americans can learn from the success of Momentum in the UK. 

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Jeremy Corbyn continues to rise because he does not back down when attacked with cheap smears.  

Shoutout to Delegate Lee Carter for effortlessly dealing with centrist nonsense and showing us a new way forward.      

Crew Corey Pein (@CoreyPein) calls in to talk about a UFO conference he attended in Arizona and how computer science threatens to kill us all.

We throw a cowardly institution into the pyramid for attacking progressive candidates. 

Trevor Beaulieu (@RickyRawls) is in studio to talk about the media reaction to Black Panther.   

The new Black Panther has devastated NOI Obama.