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Air Date: 1/29/2019

Today we take a look at the planned chaos and fever dream governing style cooked up by the radical, anti-government conservatives running the country, otherwise known as the shutdown

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Ch. 1: Trump will take the blame - @offkiltershow - Air Date 1-9-19

We break down everything you need to know about the shutdown with Sam Berger

Ch. 2: Why the Media Should Stop Calling it a “Government Shutdown” - Citations Needed (@CitationsPod) - Air Date 1-24-18

It's not a "government shutdown", it's a liberal government shutdown––or, more precisely, a backdoor rightwing coup. Our words should reflect that.

Ch. 3: The First Shutdown - Planet Money - Air Date 1-15-19

In 1879, Congress and the President were locked in a battle over the rights of African-Americans. It led to the first government shutdown.

Ch. 4: Why the shutdown hits the poor the hardest - @tmbsfm with @_michaelbrooks - Air Date 1-14-19

We break down the government shutdown affects the working-class and how government welfare programs regulate the poor.

Ch. 5: Labor rights under attack and the poor suffering without pay - Delete Your Account - Air Date 1-22-19

We discuss how the discourse around the shutdown takes for granted that government functions like the military are sacrosanct, while government functions that provide services to the poor must constantly be justified and deliberately funded.

Ch. 6: Some of the environmental impacts of the government shutdown - @GreenNewsReport - Air Dates 1-8, 1-15 and 1-22 2019

Trump’s government shutdown is seriously impacting national parks, federal scientific research, public health and safety.

Ch. 7: Fact-checking Trump’s Shutdown - Mother Jones - Air Date 1-22-19

Host Jamilah King is joined by Angie Drobnic Holan, the editor of Politifact, to help you separate fact from fiction as the shutdown continues.

Ch. 8: The politics of government shutdowns - Past/Present - Air Date 1-29-18

The history of government shutdowns.

Ch. 9: Norm Ornstein on the nihilism of the anti-government right - Diane Rehm Show - Air Date 1-17-19

The government shutdown, week four. Diane talks to longtime political analyst Norm Ornstein, one of the most prolific chroniclers of Washington's descent into partisan dysfunction.

Ch.10: This is planned chaos - Gaslit Nation - Air Date 1-8-19

We discuss the cornered panicked criminal in the White House, the dangerous vulnerabilities of Trump’s shutdown and his American carnage TV ratings grab.


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 11: Final comments on idealism, pragmatism and chasms


MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions):

  • Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr 
  • Dirtbike Lovers - Desert Orchard
  • Entrap - Darby
  • Great is the Contessa - The Contessa
  • Heather - Migration
  • Lord Weasel - Molerider
  • These Times - The Pine Barrens
  • Wingspan - Bayou Birds
  • Chilvat - Lillehammer
  • Turning to You - Landsman Duets
  • Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
  • Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00am EDT

Air Date: 1/25/2019

Today we take a look at the past and present of our immigration system to understand the paradigms within which the entire debate takes place

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives - Citations Needed (@CitationsPod) - Air Date 1-15-19

“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump

Ch. 2: Rethinking Migration with Aziz Rana Part 1 - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 1-8-19

To understand the origins of the immigration politics in general and the criminalization of Mexican immigrants in particular, we must explode these categories, identify their origins, and analyze the history that preceded them.

Ch. 3: Greg Grandin on the history and politics of immigration enforcement - @Intercepted w @JeremyScahill - Air Date 1-15-19

Historian Greg Grandin lays out the nativist roots of the U.S. Border Patrol, its connection to CIA dirty wars in Latin America, and nearly 100-years of brutality and impunity.

Ch. 4: Migration Expert Jacqueline Bhabha Slams ‘Barbarity’ of Trump Policies - Who What Why - Air Date 9-23-18

Jacqueline Bhabha joins Peter B. Collins for this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast. Bhabha is a professor of health and human rights at the School of Public Health, research director at the FXB Center, and lectures at Harvard Law and the Kennedy School. She is an

Ch. 5: Jeh Johnson speaks out on separating immigrant families - Cape Up - Air Date 6-25-18

As the Trump Administration grapples with a crisis of its own making Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security tells us about what happened when he faced separating children from their parents.

Ch. 6: How African Americans Fought For & Won Birthright Citizenship 150 Years Before Trump Tried to End It - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 10-31-18

As President Trump claims that he can end birthright citizenship in the United States, we speak with professor Martha Jones about the history of the 14th Amendment

Ch. 7: Rethinking Migration with Aziz Rana Part 2 - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 1-8-19

To understand the origins of the immigration politics in general and the criminalization of Mexican immigrants in particular, we must explode these categories, identify their origins, and analyze the history that preceded them.

VOICEMAILS

Ch. 8: PostScript on America's policy on socialism and communism - Erin from Philadelphia


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 9: Final comments proposing a compromise between progressives and conservatives


MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions):

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 9:00am EDT

Air Date: 1/22/2019

Today we take a look at socialism in America from our often violent response to the concept in the wake of the Russian Revolution through the recent revival in interest driven primarily by the younger generation today

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Red Dawn Americans and the Bolshevik Revolution - @BackStory - Air Date 11-9-17

One hundred years ago, Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party seized power in a revolution that would change the world. Today we explore how that distant revolution had an immediate impact in the United States.

Ch. 2: What the Russian Revolution Proved Possible - Empire Files - Air Date 12-18-17

To understand the context of this first socialist experiment, how it happened and what caused the many problems it faced, Abby Martin sits down with Brian Becker, a long-time socialist organizer.

Ch. 3: America’s Unofficial Religion - The War On An Idea Part 1 - Empire Files - Air Date 11-27-17

Everyone in the United States knows that “socialist” or “communist” is considered a bad word. How did things get that way? Abby Martin explores the history of anti-communism in America and the heavy repression of an idea that became an unofficial religion

Ch. 4: "Socialism" in the Air - On the Media - Air Date 7-27-18

The word "socialism" has been trending, appearing on op-ed pages, FOX News, ABC's The View and beyond. In this word watch, Bob speaks with another self-described socialist, Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan Robinson

Ch. 5: Americans are ready for socialism - @ThisIsHellRadio - Air Date 3-13-18

Columnist Elizabeth Bruenig looks beyond the failures of liberalism, to the possibilities of socialism. Elizabeth wrote the op-ed “It’s time to give socialism a try” at the Washington Post.

Ch. 6: Richard D. Wolff - What are Capitalism & Socialism? What differentiates them from each other? - acTVism Munich - Air Date 2-21-17

In this interview with Professor of Economics Emeritus (University of Massachusetts), Marxist economist and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard D. Wolff, we talk to him about Capitalism and Socialism.

Ch. 7: Why Are People Talking About Socialism? with Paul Jay - @TheRealNews - Air Date 1-2-19

Explaining why socialisms time may have come - the failures of capitalism

Ch. 8: Dr. Richard Wolff on Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself - Empire Files - Air Date 11-28-17

Prof. Richard Wolff explains some tenets of how a modern socialists system could work

Ch. 9: America’s Unofficial Religion The War On An Idea Part 2 - Empire Files - Air Date 11-27-17

Capitalism can no longer compare itself with the dysfunctional Soviet Union but can only be compared to itself and it's failures


Bonus Clips:

Fox & Friends Have TOTAL Meltdown Over Socialism - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date 8-6-18

Odd Republican Lady Bashes Ocasio-Cortez On Fox After Meeting Her - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date 7-24-18


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 10: Final comments wrapping up conservative arguments against socialist programs


MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions):

  • Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr 
  • Trois Gnossiennes - Blue Dot Sesisons
  • Gondola Blue - Towboat
  • Our Fingers Cold - K2
  • Tiny Putty - The Cabinetmaker
  • Waltz and Fury - Macrame
  • The Summit - K2
  • The Provisions - K4
  • Peacoat - Studio J
  • Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Air Date: 1/18/2019

Today we take a look at the groundwork for a Green New Deal as it's being laid and the fight that is heating up around the policies, not just between political parties but between the separate wings (and generations) of the Democratic Party

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Why We Need a Green New Deal, According to Robert Reich | Op-Ed - NowThis - Air Date 12-18-18

Here's one of the best arguments for why we need to invest in clean energy jobs now.

Ch. 2: The Green New Deal and the shift to a new economy Part 1 - @TheNextSystem ‏Project - Air Date 12-11-18

We spoke with The Democracy Collaborative’s own Johanna Bozuwa, the Sierra Club’s Anthony Torres, and Sunrise Movement Co-Founder Evan Weber to explore the economic and social ramifications of a Green New Deal

Ch. 3: The Green New Deal enjoys bipartisan support. For now. - @GreenNewsReport - Air Date 12-20-18

Polls show Americans waking up to climate change and the Green New Deal

Ch. 4: The Green New Deal with Kate Aronoff - The Dig from @jacobinmag - Air Date 12-26-18

An ecologically sustainable response to the climate crisis must definitionally also be a socially and economically just one: something like a Green New Deal, a broad vision that climate activists and left insurgent politicians are uniting behind.

Ch. 5: The Green New Deal and the shift to a new economy - @TheNextSystem ‏Project - Air Date 12-11-18

We spoke with The Democracy Collaborative’s own Johanna Bozuwa, the Sierra Club’s Anthony Torres, and Sunrise Movement Co-Founder Evan Weber to explore the economic and social ramifications of a Green New Deal

Ch. 6: Sunrise Movement Pelosi's Actions on Climate Fall Woefully & Inexcusably Short of What We Need - @DemocracyNow - Air Date 1-7-19

Nancy Pelosi is facing criticism from some climate activists for failing to back a Green New Deal. Pelosi formed of a Select Committee on the Climate Crisis but the committee is far weaker than what backers of a Green New Deal had envisioned.

Ch. 7: The Shift To Biosphere Consciousness - Sustainable Human - Air Date 5-26-18

We must begin to think, organize, and act from a biosphere consciousness if life as we know it will continue to exist. We are in the midst of the greatest transition upon which humanity has ever embarked. How will you respond?

Ch. 8: Climate and Change in Congress - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 1-10-19

Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, discusses her group's opposition to fossil fuel financing and the effort to create a Green New Deal.


VOICEMAILS

Ch. 9: Understanding political correctness - Zach from Atlanta

Ch. 10: A progressive foreign policy would be more trade-based - Abdul from DC


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 11: Final comments on how political correctness, by today’s definition, is really just another form of politeness and works in pretty much the same way


FOR READING/SHARING: 

With A Green New Deal, Here's What the World Could Look Like For the Next Generation(The Intercept)

The Democratic Party Wants to Make Climate Policy Exciting(The Atlantic)

Green New Deal has overwhelming bipartisan support, poll finds. At least, for now.(Grist)

The Green New Deal, explained(Vox)

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us(The Guardian)


MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions):

  • Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr 
  • Planting Flags - K4
  • Moon Bicycle Theme - American Moon Bicycle
  • Tar and Spackle - Plaster
  • Shift of Currents - Aeronaut
  • Chrome and Wax - Ray Catcher
  • A Palace of Cedar - The Pine Barrens
  • Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
  • Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent

 

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Category:general -- posted at: 8:00am EDT

Air Date: 1/15/2019

Today we take a look at the history and mechanics of US empire and the military-industrial-congressional complex that gleefully perpetuates it.

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Weapons industry lobbies for more weapons - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 3-9-18

Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press, including coverage of Russia as an excuse for even more military spending.

Ch. 2: Nikhil Pal Singh: From Nation State to Empire State - @Intercepted w @JeremyScahill - Air Date 10-4-18

Nikhil Pal Singh sketches three arcs of U.S. history that have yielded the durable commitments to racism, militarism, and unequal class power that have sharpened over the past two decades.

Ch. 3: Average US Taxpayer Spends $3,456 A Year On War - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 04-22-18

We’re being fleeced so our oligarchs can profit from murder. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.

Ch. 4: John Michael Greer: Empires as a wealth pump - Extraenvironmentalist - Air Date 9-1-14

With its empire in decline, the United States is no longer the world’s dominant superpower. Stuck in the idea of international control, it continues to maintain military reach at the expense of long-term economic health. Guest: John Michael Greer

Ch. 5: Pentagon FLUNKS Audit They Never Expected to Pass - @RingOfFireRadio - Air Date 12-1-18

Dave Lindorff, a contributor for The Nation, joins Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder, to talk about how the Pentagon failed an audit due to problems they weren't interested in fixing.

Ch. 6: Pentagon: US Empire 'Collapsing,' So Give Us More Money - @TheRealNews - Air Date 7-29-17

A new Pentagon study says the U.S. may be losing its dominant position in world affairs and that the DoD needs a "wakeup call"--but Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says the report is really about using fear to drum up more money for the military

Ch. 7: We must recognize that Trump is right in line with the politics of empire - @Intercepted w @JeremyScahill - Air Date 9-25-18

Jeremy Scahill analyzes Trump’s U.N. speech and gives context to the seldom-discussed bipartisan support for much of Trump’s global agenda.


VOICEMAILS

Ch. 8: Thoughts on internationalism - Erin from Philadelphia

Ch. 9: We don't honor anyone who we should - Marguerite from Fortuna, CA


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 10: Final comments on the honor we should but don’t show


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Category:general -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Air Date: 1/11/2019

Today we take a look at the small-D anti-democratic power grabs implemented by many GOP-led legislatures during the lame-duck session with the explicit intention of subverting the will of the voters and the most significant democracy reform bill since the Watergate era meant to help restore eroded democratic norms that was introduced by the new Congress' House Democrats as their first order of business.

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Paul Rosenberg on GOP Power Grabs across state legislatures - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 12-13-18

Paul Rosenberg helps explain the naked, anti-Democratic power grabs by many GOP legislators in the wake of the 2018 election. They rely on a lack of public awareness, abetted by a lack of media sunlight.

Ch. 2: Michigan GOP looking to overturn election reforms voted for by the public - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 12-4-18

In Michigan, GOPers are jamming through last-minute legislation to block the reforms voters had adopted to expand voting rights.

Ch. 3: Midwest Republicans lost in 2018 — but they’re not giving up power - Vox's The Weeds - Air Date 12-3-18

Jane, Ezra, and Matt talk about state-level GOP power grabs

Ch. 4: Subversions of democracy are aimed at harming the poor - @offkiltershow - Air Date 12-5-18

The recent anti-democratic power grabs from the GOP aren't just reprehensible in principle but are especially horrific as they target the poor.

Ch. 5: North Carolina set the example of lame-duck power grabs - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 12-4-18

In North Carolina, the GOP-controlled legislature is hypocritically ramming through new Photo ID voting restrictions, even with the state in the midst of a massive GOP absentee ballot election fraud scandal in the state’s 9th Congressional district.

Ch. 6: The roots of America's democracy problem - Ezra Klein from Vox - Air Date 11-20-18

What happens when American politics just doesn’t seem fair?

Ch. 7: Ari Berman: Dems Introduce Sweeping Voting Rights Bill to Combat Rampant Voter Suppression - @DemocracyNow - Air Date: 1-7-19

Voting rights activists are hailing a new House bill that aims to restore voting rights to millions, crack down on the influence of dark money in politics and restore the landmark Voting Rights Act. The bill has been dubbed the For the People Act.

Ch. 8: HR 1: The Historic Bill No One Is Talking About - Equal Citizens - Air Date 12-31-18

Watch as Lessig invokes the memory of Doris "Granny D" Haddock to illustrate just how significant HR 1 (and the fight to get it passed) will be.


VOICEMAILS

Ch. 9: Gregorian calendar in use due to colonization - Anonymous

Ch. 10: How do we facilitate the movement of people to the left? + The shutdown is a ripoff - Laura from Alameda, CA


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 11: Final comments


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Category:general -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Air Date: 1/8/2019

Today we take a look at the burgeoning call for progressivism to look beyond national borders to create policies, solidarity and power that spans, unified, across the world.

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Progressive International

Progressives of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Ch. 2: Adam Tooze on seeing the 2008 financial crisis as the first of the global age - Who What Why - Air Date 9-14-18

Adam Tooze, a professor at Columbia University, on a reinterpretation of the 2008 financial crisis, explaining this was not just a problem that started in the US but was a global problem: the first real crisis of the global age.

Ch. 3: Michael Walzer on a foreign policy for the left - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 3-7-18

Michael Walzer argues that a foreign policy for the left has to begin with internationalism, and with the choice of comrades abroad. His new book is A Foreign Policy for the Left.

Ch. 4: Yanis Varoufakis on the Need for a Progressive Internationalism - Jacobin Radio (@jacobinmag) - Air Date 12-21-18

Doug Henwood explains the bitcoin craze, and then ex-finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis ties up some loose ends on Adults in the Room and discusses the need for a progressive internationalism.

Ch. 5: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on Yanis Varoufakis, Bernie Sanders, and the Progressive International - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 12-19-2018

Right-wing authoritarians have been coordinating political campaigns and disrupting elections across national boundaries—a project masterminded by Steve Bannon. It’s time now for the left to reclaim its tradition of internationalism.

Ch. 6: Naomi Klein: How shocking events can spark positive change - @TEDTalks - Air Date 3-7-18 

Naomi Klein shares a few propositions from "The Leap" -- a manifesto which envisions a world after we've already made the transition to a clean economy and a much fairer society.


VOICEMAILS

Ch. 7: Learning from 2009 and shifting our focus to the local level - V from Central New York


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 8: Final comments on thinking globally and acting locally


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Category:general -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

Air Date: 1/4/2018

Today we take a look back at the year 2009 in our annual 10-years-past retrospective to see what we may learn. 

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: One last jab at Bush - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Ch. 2: January 22nd, 2009: Mike Pence praises G.W. Bush for his fealty to his wife - The Young Turks
Ch. 3: Rick Warren and the inauguration - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 4: Day One: Fox News on new Obama administration - The Daily Show
Ch. 5: Obama on DADT - Countdown
Ch. 6: Mission Accomplished, the war on science is over - Slate
Ch. 7: Van Jones speaking to Congress
Ch. 8: Republicans are just not into you - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 9: Maron v Seder on the theft of the bankers - Break Room Live
Ch. 10: Why the win-win is being ignored - This American Life
Ch. 11: Limbaugh's racist take on Obama's economic plan - CounterSpin
Ch. 12: Fox News supporting the Tea Parties - On the Media
Ch. 13: Disambiguating the reports (Torture started at the top) - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 14: Possible prosecutions for the CIA opposed by Obama administration - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 15: Dahlia Lithwick We're All Torturers Now - Slate
Ch. 16: Planet Cheney - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 17: Gingrich explains the fear of the GOP - The Young Turks
Ch. 18: Obama's constitution speech speaking against the constitution - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 19: Birthers, deathers and Healthcare - On the Media
Ch. 20: Birthers, Deathers and healthcare reform - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 21: Republican Bob Inglis - What Are You So Afraid Of? - The Young Turks
Ch. 22: A detailed look at the death of the public option - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 23: Candidate Obama on healthcare negotiations - The Young Turks
Ch. 24: The nonsense healthcare debate - Mother Jones Radio
Ch. 25: The politics industry of Supreme Court Picks - On the Media
Ch. 26: Supreme Court on the verge of humanizing corporations all the way - The Colbert Report
Ch. 27: War presidents - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 28: Religious Jihad on George Tiller - Countdown
Ch. 29: Frank Schaeffer on hateful religious talk against Obama - The Rachel Maddow Show
Ch. 30: Gore Vidal on the current Republicans - Real Time with Bill Maher
Ch. 31: Max Blumenthal on Republican Gomorrah - Ring of Fire
Ch. 32: Chris Hedges predicts that our failure to confront the Empire of Illusion will lead to demagogues - Ring of Fire

 


FINAL COMMENTS

Ch. 33: Final comments on what happened to me and the show in 2009, plus what we used to call "Tweeting"


 

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Category:general -- posted at: 6:00pm EDT

Air Date: 1/4/2012

Today, From WCPT Radio, Playwright W. C. Turk, producer Greg Alexander and the Occupy Players we hear a presentation of Occupy My Heart: A Revolutionary Christmas Carol

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