https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kgei3-e8bd28 The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastIn this semi-regular slot, we respond to your comments and criticisms received over the past month or so. Discussion features whether we're right about the "end of the End…
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/142/ Dollar Empire (2) ft. Daniel Bessner
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2p86r-e5ec4b On US foreign policy. Following on from our episode on the political-economy of dollar hegemony (no. 139), we turn to look at how the dollar underpins American empire. Is 'permawar' a product of structural factors, rather than merely the…
/141/ Oh Lebanon, What Now? ft. Rima Majed
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-evwif-e6db1b On Lebanon's crisis. We call up Rima Majed in Beirut to talk us through the aftermath of the enormous explosion and ensuing protests. How has Lebanon's history since the civil war created such a profound, multi-layered crisis? We cover…
/140/ Three Articles: Right-Populism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mp9zw-e57fc7 The full episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastIn this latest Three Articles, we discuss the durability or otherwise of right-populism in the UK, US and Brazil. Reading: Conservatives’ grip on ‘red wall’ holding firm, Sebastian Payne,…
/139/ Dollar Empire ft. Yakov Feygin & Dominik Leusder
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-v4pch-e588a3 On dollar hegemony. Dutch disease has long been seen as the curse of resource-rich economies in which a currency appreciates and jobs are lost overseas. But what if the greenback is having the same effects on the US economy,…
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Excerpt: /138/ Fuck, Abolish, Defund: The Police
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rqi5w-e4672f The episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The protests in the US against police violence - and their globalisation - prompts us to discuss radical proposals for what to do about the police. We look at…
Excerpt: /137/ Reading Club: War, Technology, The State
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nnniv-e4522d Reading Club episodes are only available to patrons $10+. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacastThis month we discuss Wolfgang Streeck's reading of Friedrich Engels which appeared recently in the New Left Review, which deals with the Marxian understanding of war and…
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UNLOCKED /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u3kid-e37333 Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this…
Excerpt: /135/ Aufhebonus Bonus (June)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cqk2g-e31cb2 This episode is for patrons only. Sign up at patreon.com/bungacast Mailbag + bonus content ft. Corey Robin In this new semi-regular slot, we feature bonus recordings (here, 20mins of additional discussion with Corey Robin from episode 129)…
Excerpt: /134/ The Call – Afterparty
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5sijq-e27fbf This is a sample. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The three of us discuss some of the themes that emerged from our interview with Krithika Varagur (ep.133) - the entanglement of the US state with Islamism,…
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