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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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,…
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…
Read More /303/ The Failure of the French Forever War ft. Yvan Guichaoua
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Read More /281/ Foreign Fighters, Left & Right (I) ft. Stefan Bertram-Lee
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t468r-12938f2 [Patreon Exclusive] With European liberals waving Ukraine flags, how might the war and escalating geopolitical tensions between major power be prompting a return to nationalism and patriotism? Is it just a means for elites to extract sacrifices from the…
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