https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bj3h8-1b8b443 On infrastructure – who owns and who controls it. Scholar Joscha Abels talks to Lee and Alex about global infrastructure, from satellites to cloud computing to undersea cables. --> For the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast What, actually, is…
Read More /564/ The Wealth of Those with No Wealth ft. Joscha Abels
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8nba8-1b53ba3 On the complex connections between globalisation and political Islam. The OG Bunga Boys reflect on the quarter-century since that spectacular terrorist attack, and talk about Phil's recent essay on the waning of Islamism. Whatever happened to 'solving' Islamic radicalism…
Read More /559/ Global Jihad: 9/11 at 25 ft. Philip Cunliffe
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ijm2u-1b0728a On 'imperialist realism'. Daniel Bessner, historian, is back on to discuss the relation between US foreign policy and ideology. He talks to Alex and Lee about his forthcoming book and other writings. Why has acceptance of imperialism accompanied declining…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fhxhn-1ac971b On world money and war. Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at SOAS, London, talks to George and Alex about financialisation, arrested development, and the Strait of Hormuz. What is the state-led stabilisation of finance capital? How does today's imperialism…
Read More /550/ The New Dollar Imperialism ft. Costas Lapavitsas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n46yy-1a99d69 On the brave new world we have entered. Historian Arash Azizi is back on the pod, talking to Alex H and Lee Jones about the ongoing war. We try to draw out some firm consequences, beyond the immediate situtation.…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-48fwd-1a3eece On Trump and Rubio, Venezuela and Cuba. Writer Juan David Rojas talks to Alex and Lee about the abduction of Maduro, what next for Venezuela, and Trump's "hemispheric" foreign policy. What is the Trump administration's policy toward Latin America?…
Read More /534/ Is There a Doctrine Called Donroe? ft. Juan David Rojas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ec2tp-1a36d83 On Trump & radical right ideology. Jean-François Drolet, a leading researcher into the 'World of the Right', talks to Alex and Lee about Donald Trump's coveting of Greenland, and puts the move into its ideological context. What is the…
Read More /532/ Is This a Paleocon Foreign Policy? ft. JF Drolet
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9cnte-1991c20 On the weakness of state and capital – and their fusion. Ilias Alami joins Alex and Lee to talk about his essential co-authored book, The Spectre of State Capitalism. Why is state capitalism not just a China story, but…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kpfp2-191ef8a On the end of the end of history and what comes next. Phil is back on the pod, talking with George and Alex about the big themes of the podcast. In particular, we look at a recent essay in…
Read More /503/ Effervescent Decadence in the Third Modernity
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-psw7t-18f0815 On the war on Iran that wasn't (yet). Alex and George review the past month in the world and on Bungacast: The crazy will-they-won't-they of a potential US war on Iran The ex post facto justifications on all sides…
Read More /496/ Insane-Washing the War (Which Did Not Take Place)
