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Who Matters? Foreign Policy’s Place in the Presidential Election, w/ Chris Shell | Ep. 202
Episode 203
Does foreign policy matter in the presidential election? The answer might surprise you. Chris Shell joins the pod to discuss recent survey findings a…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Political Campaigns, and China Rivalry--Block & Build Crossover | Ep. 201
Episode 201
Crossover episode! Van appeared on Convergence Magazine’s Block and Build podcast, hosted by Convergence founder Cayden Mak, to talk about Kamala Har…
1 year, 4 months ago
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Free Preview of Bang-Bang Podcast | Ep. 200
Episode 202
Free preview of the Bang-Bang Podcast. “We tortured some folks.” Katherine Bigelow and Mark Boal’s cinematic blockbuster about the Bin Laden assassin…
1 year, 4 months ago
Veep Debate, Ta -Nehisi Coates Slays Anti-Semitism, Middle East War, China War Fanatics | Ep. 199
Episode 200
Matt and Van chop it up about the Veep debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance; how Ta-Nehisi Coates has taken up the mantel of James Baldwin; the Biden…
1 year, 5 months ago
Combat Obscura--A Bang-Bang Podcast Cross-Over | Ep. 198
Episode 199
Crossover episode! In addition to Un-Diplomatic, Van is now co-hosting Bang-Bang--a new show about war movies, with an anti-imperialist twist. Van an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Live! World War III and the Presidential Election | Ep. 197
Episode 198
Van spoke at the New Zealand Fabian Society about how the Democratic and Republican Party’s views on foreign policy are changing, and what those chan…
1 year, 5 months ago
China Tripping, Israel's Horizontal Escalation, Pakistan's Climate-Debt Nexus | Ep. 196
Episode 197
Matt reports out on his recent trip to China. Israel's terrorism in Lebanon and the horizontal escalation happening before our eyes. And Pakistan as …
1 year, 5 months ago
MAGA foreign policy influencers, democratic party contradictions, manufacturing fetishes | Ep. 195
Episode 196
The MAGA foreign-policy braintrust in Trump world is militarism all the way down. The unpopularity of the Democratic Party's popular front. The probl…
1 year, 6 months ago
Anti-War Organizing, Student Activism, and the Uncommitted Movement | Ep. 194
Episode 195
The election is nearing, and students are going back to school. What does this mean for student organizers demanding a ceasefire in Gaza? For the unc…
1 year, 6 months ago
Nuclear Disarmament v. Nuclear Abolition | Ep. 193
Episode 194
What are the differences between nuclear disarmament and nuclear abolition? How do disarmers and abolitionists balance the need for policy change wit…
1 year, 7 months ago