Paul Jay joins Patrick Lovell to trace how Wall Street profiteeringfrom slavery and the Civil War to J.P. Morgan in World War I and todays BlackRock and Vanguardcreated the militarized economy driving nuclear risk.

This episode examines how Trump's futuristic promises - impenetrable missile shields, Mars colonization, weaponized AI - mask an old playbook: funneling public wealth into private hands through military contracts. While selling fantasies of space salvatio

On August 12, 2025, Donald Trump sent the National Guard into Washington, D.C., just months after deploying troops and Marines into Los Angeles. While militarizing U.S. cities, he stands by as a genocide unfolds in Gaza shielding Israel diplomatically w

James K. Galbraith (Entropy Economics) argues that economics cannot keep ignoring that energy and resources for production are no longer abundant and easy to access. Drawing from the fundamental laws of nature, he proposes a viable framework of economic a

Israels war on Gaza has led to mass starvation, with over 85 children confirmed dead from hunger and hundreds more killed while waiting for food. In this essay, journalist Paul Jay argues that defending such atrocities in the name of Jewish survival is i

In this video, we explore how Wall Street firms, REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts), and private equity giants are reshaping housing marketstreating homes as hedge funds and tenants as revenue streams. The result? Displacement, skyrocketing rents, and

Israel struck Iran but could this war set off something far more dangerous?Middle East scholar Nader Hashemi joins Paul Jay to break down whats really behind the so-called '12-Day War.' Far from a clean victory, Hashemi warns the strikes have likely

In this introduction, journalist Paul Jay reports on several cases where police provocateurs incited violence during otherwise peaceful demonstrationsproviding authorities with the pretext they needed to justify mass arrests and repression.As federal t

Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, joins Paul Jay and condemns the Israeli attack on Iran as an unprovoked violation of international lawand a dangerous step toward full-scale regional war. Wilkerson arg

Paul Jay explores the growing danger of artificial intelligence not as an evil superintelligence but as a system reflecting the values of those who control it: corporate monopolies, military planners, and billionaires racing for dominance.Jay connects A