thought the coup risk doesn't come from the top but from the second tier of officers?? the guys who actually joined to escape where they came from

The "ending wars in one strike" thing is a leftover of General Carl von Clausewitz's late-18th century doctrines of "total war" and war as "politics by other means" which are terrifying in an era with nuclear weapons, but made certain sense during the Napoleonic period because you wanted to avoid plague and famine during and after the fighting. "Fewer wars but better wars" seem to be the idea of Clausewitz's "On War" (1832), which leads to the idea of the "most important bombing raid" from WWII on, or disasters like Market-Garden in 1944, or the Korean War example of the UN armies' willingness to march North until they nearly hit the Yalu River, which forced Mao to unleash the People's Liberation Army to defend the border and allowed the ruined North Korean military and state to survive. I could name many other examples, but the idea of making war utterly rational backfires endlessly.

1:05:26 - 1:06:51 Bravo!! *claps enthusiastically*

Twitter boosting a Bloomberg article talking about China building more nukes and like who gives a fuck. The USA will still have far more.

I'm going to need to see some evidence to back up the claim that, "broadly, the working class was opposed to Vietnam". The hard hats beating the shit out of the college kids protesting the war would seem to refute that claim. Almost everyone in my working class neighborhood supported the war and any war really.

Still baffles me that Felix thinks Bernie wouldve negotiated an end to empire

Americans hate each other now far more than China, Russia, etc.

eh, the germans were pretty bad in ww1 though.

Will’s away, but we’re joined by fan-favorite Derek Davison and host of the Tides of History podcast Patrick Wyman to discuss shrimp supply chains, the ongoing effects of the Bolivian coup, Israel and America’s militaries & the decline of empires.

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442 - Battle Without Honor or Humanity feat. Derek Davison & Patrick Wyman (8/3/20)

Friend of the show Ike Barinholtz(MADtv, Eastbound & Down, Suicide Squad) joins us to talk cartoons, the Shapiros, a reading series from our favorite Chicagoland OpEd writer, and of course to discuss long-term effects of exposure to The Joker.

444 - The Rats are Coming feat. Ike Barinholtz (8/10/20)

We take a look at the recent hubbub surrounding the USPS, what motivates the drive toward privatization, and the larger ideological underpinnings of the Libertarian revolution.

Episode 94: Koch'd Up (Part I)

Defector’s Patrick Redford stops by to talk the (hopefully likely) fall of JKIII, NBA strikes, and whether robots go to hell. 

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450 -  In The Bubble feat. Patrick Redford (8/31/20)

We’re joined by Foreign Exchanges’ Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner to discuss Trump’s troop-disrespecting, Austrian domination of the Balkans, who the REAL losers and suckers are, and the roll of the military in America’s declining empire.

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452 - Sucker-Bait feat. Derek Davison & Daniel Bessner (9/7/20)

Will talks to Jess Scarane, who is challenging incumbent Chris Coons for a U.S. Senate seat in Delaware. They discuss Delaware’s unique importance as a state, the limits of “compromise,” building power for progressive policies, and how to lift voters’ expectations for what they can demand from their politicians.  

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BONUS: Will interviews Delaware Senate candidate Jessica Scarane

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We are joined by the legal galaxy brains from the ALAB podcast to disrobe the criminals on the Supreme Court, shed light on the dark ecosystem of legislation mills and demystify the perverted institutions of Big Law

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By now, it's largely taken for granted that country music is a racialized signifier, interchangeable with right-wing politics. And it’s not such an unreasonable generalization: the political currents of twanged and drawled patriotic paeans like Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)," and Brooks & Dunn's "Only In America" leave little to the imagination.

But how, exactly, did this come to be? After all, country music, a descendant of the blues, folk, Tejano, and other genres, with connections to labor organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World and social-justice movements, has historically attracted musicians spanning the political spectrum, and didn’t necessarily emerge from such a staunchly right-wing political tradition.

Rather, popular conceptions of country music have long been deliberately shaped by a series of broader ideological projects. Throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, conservative politicians and other right-wing forces have exploited the genre to promote illiberalism, racism, revanchist politics, and runaway anti-intellectualism where not giving a shit about the world beyond one’s own cold beer, pickup truck, old lady is not only acceptable, but actively encouraged and flaunted. 

On this episode, we examine how the genre of country music has been wielded as a tool of reactionary politicking in the US, from the machinations of Henry Ford in the 1920s to the Nixon administration’s Southern Strategy in the 1960s and ‘70s to the heady Shock and Y’all days of the Bush years, and how a once working-class tradition became a cultural cul de sac of worn-out tropes and middle-class, white grievance politics.  

Our guest is writer, editor and artist Alexander Billet.

Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music

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460 - Masque of the Orange Death (10/5/20)

Liz and Brace go long to offer critical support to Julian Assange, explicate the ridiculous showtrial of the political prisoner, the war crimes of the United States and the curious media blackout surrounding Wikileaks. 

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452 - Sucker-Bait feat. Derek Davison & Daniel Bessner (9/7/20)

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