https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-78knt-13c17f3 On geopolitical competition over Africa. [Patreon Exclusive] In light of the 'new Cold War', we look at what the US, Europe, Russia and China's respective "pitches" are to African countries – what are they selling? And we examine the factors…
Tag: international relations
/321/ Covid Dissensus ft. Toby Green & Thomas Fazi
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p3eam-138ce79 On The Covid Consensus. We're joined by two authors whose new book asks why lockdowns were adopted almost universally. National and transnational health authorities dropped pre-pandemic plans in favour of open-ended nationwide lockdowns which were to remain in…
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Excerpt: /307/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Dec 2022)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8g2c4-1330b17 On your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We debate what kind of work 'shared-labour socialism' would involve in a complex society, and what role 'dispossession' or 'expropriation' has in the contemporary economy. Plus: strategies on Ukraine – backing independence,…
/303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qgxih-131dce7 On Mali and the Sahel. French president Emmanuel Macron declared the end of Opération Barkhane on 9 November 2022, bringing to an end to nearly 10 years of French military intervention in Mali. But what is the legacy…
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Excerpt: /302/ Aufhebonus Bonus (Nov 2022)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mdm6f-1306b87 On your questions & criticisms.[Patreon Exclusive] The weakness of anti-EU forces; the implications of defending Ukrainian sovereignty; what should we call the new far-right and what does it *do* in power? And the gravity of nuclear war …
/300/ Bunga at the End of the World
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wjuht-1303208 On nuclear exterminism. To commemorate our 300th episode, we discuss how the world is closer to a nuclear conflict than at any point since the Cold War. After decades of inconsequential 'permawar' (at least inside the Western bubble), the…
Excerpt: /295/ Aufhebonus Bonus: October
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jrgmt-12e4f0c On who's responsible for prolonging the Ukraine War + your questions & criticisms. [Patreon Exclusive] We start off by discussing whether the Zelensky tail is wagging the NATO dog, and what possible exits to conflict there might…
Excerpt: /293/ Goodbye 20th Century (RIP Gorby)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-x9tf4-12dbc87 On the meaning of Gorbachev. [Patreon Exclusive] Mikhail Gorbachev continues to be lauded in Western circles for overseeing the collapse of the Soviet Union without much bloodshed. But given the historic societal disaster that followed, is this…
/286/ What Was Communism? ft. Branko Milanovic
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pgv57-12b743a On Communism's historic role. We talk to renowned Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic about growing up in Yugoslavia and how, in much of the world, History never ended. We then dedicate much of the episode to discussing Branko's claim…
/281/ Foreign Fighters, Left & Right (I) ft. Stefan Bertram-Lee
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-j4pj7-129d61d On Rojava and Ukraine.We talk to Stefan Bertram-Lee, former volunteer fighter for the the YPG in Rojava, about whom a Hollywood movie is being made. We ask him about the type of person who volunteers, and how this compares…
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