Name: On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS by Citations Needed Podcast
Duration: 21 min 9 s
Description: In this News Brief we break down the entirely predictable media coverage of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians--liberal handwringing, vague "progressive" outrage--and make the case for why the most recent "clashes" should compel nominal progressive leaders like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to formally support BDS.

We’re joined by Dr. Jemima Pierre from the Black Alliance for Peace to talk about upheavals in Haiti and the long history of foreign interference there. 

blackagendareport.com/haiti-black-despots-and-white-rulers

blackallianceforpeace.com/haiti

Episode 143: Haiti

In this public News Brief, we break down the PR campaign against activists who want intellectual property rules suspended so that poor countries can manufacture their own generic vaccines. With guest Peter Maybarduk of Public Citizen.

News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show

Almost every wealthy country in the world has some type of universal healthcare system--except for the United States. With over 170 million of its citizens left to fend for themselves in a sprawling and complex maze of Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, tax credits, child care subsidies, co-pays, deductibles and cost-sharing, the U.S. has not only the largest uninsured population, but also the most expensive system on Earth per capita.

Why America doesn’t have a universal healthcare system has historically been explained away with a reductionist mix of pathologizing and circular reasoning. "America hates big government," "we love choice," "Americans distrust anything that reeks of socialism." And while this is true in some limited sense, it avoids the bigger question of why has American so-called "democracy" rejected the numerous proposals to enact a single payer or other forms of universal healthcare?

While there may be some innate Protestant work ethic or rugged individualistic mentality at work here, there’s also been a decades-long multimillion dollar campaign funded by big business, doctor, pharmaceutical and hospital industry interests, and the insurance industry to convince the public to reject universal public healthcare. Indeed, if Americans were somehow intractably opposed to the notion––if they were hardwired to reject socialized medicine––these forces would never have had to spend so much money in the first place.

On this episode, we explore the 80-year long campaign by capital to convince you to not support universal health programs, how these campaigns have historically fear-mongered against Communists, immigrants and African Americans, who benefits from a precarious, employer-controlled healthcare insurance system, and how this propaganda war on the American mind is anything but over.

Our guest is Ben Palmquist, Director of the Health Care and Economic Democracy Program at Partners for Dignity and Rights.

Episode 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare

In this episode we explore the imminent armed conflict between introverts and extroverts.

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Episode 196: Battle Of The Bores

Author and Northwestern University history professor Daniel Immerwahr stops by to tell us about why our tech overlords in Silicon Valley are suddenly interested in all things paleo, and about why studying deep time is important.

Here is a link to the article in the New Republic that we discuss: https://newrepublic.com/article/161593/prehistoric-myth-work-james-suzman

Also buy Daniel's very good book, How To Hide An Empire: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374172145

Outro music by Michael Howard: https://soundcloud.com/baronvonsuckit

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Episode 197: The Mods Must Be Crazy (w/ special guest Daniel Immerwahr)

In this News Brief we breakdown the anti-TRIPS waiver corporate and ideological forces behind the seemingly good-hearted #VaxLive concert on May 8th. Namely, the Gates Foundation, Johnson and Johnson and a who's who of global leaders working to prevent the production of cheap generic vaccines for the global south.

NewsBrief: VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor

Greetings my precious ....dammers. This week we take on the most chaotic, the most vile, the most ubiquitous and malevolent of all topics on the internet. The bane of the discourse, the black hole from hell's heart, the god damn albatross around my neck. I'm getting fucking furious just typing about it. I am losing my god damned motherfucking mind.

We are joined this week by Jacobin writer and Zero Books author Ben Burgis to talk about his new book, Canceling Comedians While The World Burns. While we may not agree 100 percent with each other, we actually had a rather pleasant debate about cancel culture and whatnot probably because it didn't happen on twitter. Enjoy, yell at us, idk, who cares whatever i'm gonna go play video games.

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benburgis.com
@deadpundits
@GTAA_SHOW
https://redemmas.org/titles/34877-canceling-comedians-while-the-world-burns--a-critique-of-the-contemporary-left

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Arguing With Comedians While The World Burns w/ Ben Burgis

In this News Brief we break down the entirely predictable media coverage of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians--liberal handwringing, vague "progressive" outrage--and make the case for why the most recent "clashes" should compel nominal progressive leaders like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to formally support BDS.

On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS

In this one we cover a very peculiar case of eastern Kentucky justice.

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Episode 200: Appalachian Birthright

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Alex Hochuli from the Aufhebunga Bunga podcast (aufhebungabunga.podbean.com) joins us to discuss the Brazilianization of the world (americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world), the Bolsonaro admin's COVID response, and his forthcoming book "The End of the End of History" (johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-end-history).

Episode 162: The End of the End of History??? (teaser)

"Oligarch". "Hardliner". "Regime". All common terms seen in Anglo-American media when describing politicians and power structures in official villain states; yet - mysteriously absent when talking about ourselves or our allies.

This Part II of our Citations Needed countdown of the Top 10 "Enemy Epithets," derisive descriptors that are deployed to smear enemies without any symmetrical usage for U.S. officials, policy or imperial partners. Designed to conjure up nasty images of despotism and oppression, often pandering to Orientalized prejudice, these epithets demand people shut off their brains and have the label do the thinking for them.

We are joined again by FAIR's Janine Jackson and Jim Naureckas.

Episode 138: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part II)

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