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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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago