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Bonus Sample #263 Capitalism Culture and System Failure
Original Air Date: 1-17-23 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Erin and Deon discuss: - The updated dress code in the Missouri legislature - One-Way Empathy - Andrew Tate and Capitalism Culture - The management and
#1539 Stolen Children is Stolen History, Heritage, and Culture (Indian Child Welfare Act)
Air Date 1/25/2023 Today, we take a look at the long, global history of invading peoples stealing the children of native families to be acculturated into the population of the invading force. Reasons
#1538 Authoritarian Coup Attempts Around the World
Air Date 1/21/2023 Today, we take a look beyond our shores to other examples of anti-democratic forces seeking to take control of governments in Germany, Brazil, and Peru, all of which echo, in some f
#1461 Neoliberalism is Hanging on for Dear Life in Changing Times (Repost)
Original Air Date 12/15/2021 Today we take a look at the cracks and fissures appearing ever more quickly in the neoliberal order that was already widely criticized before the pandemic stripped it bare
#1537 All Your Faves Were Radicals (Beyond Martin Luther King Jr)
Air Date 1/14/2023 This Martin Luther King Day weekend, we take a look at a wider range of Black radicals who all helped build the unfinished Civil Rights Movement and who our history either whitewash
#1536 Your Food Choices Are Not Your Food Choices
Air Date 1/11/2023 Today, we take a look at the way unscientific guidelines, government subsidies, corporate propaganda, cultural context, capitalism, community stigma, and many actively and loudly wa
#1535 We Don't Do Accountability (Trump and GOP Crimes That Go Unpunished)
Air Date 1/7/2023 Today, we take a look at the criminal charges against Donald Trump that the January 6th Committee has referred to the DOJ but examine them through the lens of past presidential crime
#1534 Every Move You Make (Facial Recognition, TikTok, and Surveillance Capitalism 2.0)
Air Date 1/3/2023 Today, we take a look at the emerging implementation of facial recognition technology in public and commercial spaces along with the tracking and "amplifagandizing" capabilities of T
Bonus Sample #261 Join the Indoctri-Nation!
Original Air Date: 12-15-22 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Erin, and Deon discuss: - Why framing corporations are moral actors is a step on the path to conspiratorial thinking - Conservative framing that doesn'
#1451 The Foxification of American Media (Fox News 25th Anniversary) (Repost)
Original Air Date 10/27/2021 Today we take a look at some of the ways that 25 years of Fox News has reshaped our media and political landscape. Crucially, understanding Fox isn't just about their infl