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Militarized Commons: How Territorial Competition is Destroying the South China Sea | Ep. 260
Episode 261
How do territorial disputes in the South China Sea impact biodiversity? Madelyn MacMurray joins the podcast to discuss how militarized fishing fleets…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Antifa, Jimmy Kimmel, and Emergency Politics | TikTok Deal with China | Oligarchy’s Economic Recession | The National Defense Strategy Still Hates China
Episode 260
Explaining how designating Antifa a terrorist organization and cancelling Jimmy Kimmel are part of the same emergency politics: A primer on securitiz…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Ezra Klein Loves (some) Political Violence | The War Department and the Asia-Pacific Debate | Israel Attacks Qatar | South Korea and ICE | Ep. 258
Episode 259
On Charlie Kirk's horrific assassination and why Ezra Klein's hand-wringing shows that, contrary to his protestations, he in fact embraces some polit…
4 months ago
An Oral History of the Progressive Foreign Policy Moment (and what comes next) | Ep. 257
Episode 258
What is progressive foreign policy and what are its roots? The New Left’s struggles against racism, militarism, and imperialism were the real origins…
4 months, 1 week ago
Trump's War on Soros | US Covert Action in Denmark | Nationalizing Lockheed Martin | MAGA’s China Contradiction | Ep. 256
Episode 257
The real price of Trump's military occupation of Washington, DC. Trump's war on George Soros and Alex Soros is a war on the Democratic Party. US "gra…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Tulsi Gabbard’s War on Intelligence | Blowback on the NatSec Elite | White Nationalist State Dept | Warmongering Asia Hands | Ep. 255
Episode 256
Tulsi Gabbard is waging a war on intelligence, in more ways than one. 37 national security technocrats have had their clearances revoked, which is it…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
D.C. Military Occupation | Trump-Putin Summit | Guesting on Hasan Piker | Bloody Blinken’s WSJ Op-Ed | Ep. 254
Episode 255
Co-host Matt Duss makes a guest appearance on Hasan Piker's Twitch stream! Van, Matt, and Julia talk about the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, which ha…
5 months ago
Anti-Intellectualism in Pentagon Life | BRICS and Civilizational War | Palestine Action | ICE Recruiting Fascists | Ep. 253
Episode 254
The rupture between the Pentagon and the think tank technocrats. The next clash of civilizations will be between the Global North and the Global Sout…
5 months, 1 week ago
Live! Roots Action National Teach-In on Militarism Under Trump | Ep. 252
Episode 253
Dr. Van Jackson spoke as part of a live teach-in webinar for Roots Action and Defuse Nuclear War. He's joined on his panel by Emma Claire Foley, Will…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
White Nationalist Social Democracy | Oil v. Israeli Primacy | Post-American Korean Peninsula | Japan’s Failure of Imagination | Ep. 251
Episode 252
The tables have turned! In this crossover episode, Dr. Van Jackson gets interviewed by Jacob Shapiro of The Jacob Shapiro Podcast. Together they cove…
5 months, 3 weeks ago