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Tariffs as Unwinnable Economic War in an Emerging Post-American Order | Ep. 232
Episode 233
Live on location from Wellington Harbor (outdoors)! How did tariffs in the 1930s lead to World War II in Asia? How big of a deal is the China-Japan-S…
11 months, 1 week ago
Understanding Economic Crisis: Three Charts That Explain What’s Wrong With Capitalism Today | Ep. 231
Episode 232
Why did the US lose manufacturing jobs? What's the problem with Donald Trump's global tariff plan? Why is housing unaffordable in the US? Why are mos…
11 months, 1 week ago
Live! Dr. Van Jackson Speaks to the Catholic University of America about Progressive Foreign Policy | Ep. 230
Episode 231
Dr. Van Jackson appeared in a guest lecture at the Catholic University of America with Prof. Andrew Yeo. They talk about progressivism and the restra…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
US War Crime Confessions | Europe's Militarism Risk | Taiwan's Angst | BYD Versus Tesla | Ep. 229
Episode 230
How the national security clown show leaking war plan secrets to a journalist also led US officials to confess to war crimes. Why Europe's independen…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Pete Hegseth’s War Plan Leak | JD Vance’s War on Europe | Fentanyl Isn’t WMD | Mineral Geopolitics in the Congo | Bernie-AOC Popularity | Ep. 228
Episode 229
Why Bernie Sanders's "fight against oligarchy" townhalls have made him the most popular politician in America. Inside Pete Hegseth's war plan leak. J…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Sum of All Fears (2002) w/ Max Read | Ep. 227
Episode 228
Free preview cross-over with the Bang-Bang Podcast. In this episode, Van and Lyle are joined by writer Max Read to dissect The Sum of All Fears, the …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Grand Strategy for (War Crime) Dummies | Rahm Emmanuel for Exile | AUKUS Politics | Mahmoud Khalil | Ep. 226
Episode 227
Grand strategy must be for war-crime dummies, because Jake Sullivan just got appointed the Kissinger chair at Harvard. Rahm Emmanuel should be exiled…
1 year ago
Palestine at the Oscars | China Tariffs NBD | Working-Class Homeless | Ukraine's Peace Problems | Ep. 225
Episode 226
What it means that No Other Land won the Oscar for best documentary. The wicked politics of Ukraine's peace problems. Why China in't mussed about Tru…
1 year ago
Non-Aligned Europe | Primacy-Multipolarity | Nuking the Nuclear Triad | Ukraine's Critical Minerals | Ep. 224
Episode 225
Explaining Europe's shift to strategic non-alignment. The false god of nuclear deterrence--why the nuclear triad is overrated. Making sense of the Pe…
1 year ago
Three Kings (1999) w/ Kevin Fox | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 223
Episode 224
Free preview episode cross-over with the Bang-Bang Podcast. A madcap collage of American Berserk—that’s one way to describe David O. Russell’s Three …
1 year ago