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…
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,…
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,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q3anv-d761f8 This episode is for our $10 and up patrons. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On the end of the Age of Imitation. We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning and their arguments for why…
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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ykyc-d31239 On pandemics, panics, and China. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus is yet another new epidemic to appear on the scene this century. What accounts for their increasing frequency, and who decides if an epidemic is classed as a pandemic? More…
Read More /108/ Coronageddon? ft. Mark Honigsbaum / Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vneh7-cf6394 This episode is for Patrons only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On forecasts for the next decade. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack -…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wpwsf-cac164 On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question: “What one event, personal or political, most captures for you the past thirty years, since 1989?” Are we still…
Read More /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4hgb-c66aaa Rojava offered the hope that a progressive, multiethnic politics might be salvaged from the ashes of Syria’s civil war. Now the Turkish assault on northern Syria looks set to crush the Kurds and a radical experiment in the region. We talk…
Read More /95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
