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Economic Incentive To Rip You Off

On Episode 5, we explore the history of the media erasing socialists of color from the history books and present day discourse––a tactic that serves to both commodity and water-down black radicalism and pawn off leftwing politics as a uniquely white or middle class enterprise.

Our guests: Robert Greene II and Roqayah Chamseddine.

Show notes: https://goo.gl/QPYT7C

Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History

The idea that we’re “running out of money” and have to “tighten our belts" is a common trope in US media; the premise that the US government is like a household that must balance its books, largely taken for granted by liberal and right-wing outlets alike.

But is this premise correct? Is it true that the United States is over-budget and ready to explode with insolvency? Where does this conventional wisdom come from and whom does it benefit? 

On this and next week's show we seek to answer some of the questions. In Part I: Single Payer Propaganda War, we examine the primary talking points against Single Payer and other big government programs and how to combat them with guest Stephanie Kelton.

Ep 11, Part I: The Deficits Racket -- Single-Payer Propaganda War

Will guest-hosts on The Antifada to interview legendary sci fi author Kim Stanley Robinson about:  Fredric Jameson, Ursula Le Guin, Philip K Dick, post-capitalist futures, utopia, and psychedelic experiences

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Bonus: Will Interviews Kim Stanley Robinson with The Antifada

Nate Silver tell us Joe Biden’s inconsistent political beliefs are, in fact, a benefit. They’re “his calling card” and evidence he “reads the room pretty well”. Venality, we are told, is “a normal and often successful [mode] for a politician.” Insurgent progressive groups like Justice Democrats shouldn’t call Biden out of touch with the base because, Silver tell us, “only 26 of the 79 candidates it endorsed last year won their primaries, and only 7 of those went on to win the general election.”

On Twitter and his in columns, high-status pundit Nate Silver, has made a career reporting on the polls and insisting he’s just a dispassionate, non-ideological conduit of Cold Hard Facts, just channeling the holy word of data. Empirical journalism, he calls it. But this schtick, however, is very ideological - a reactionary worldview that prioritizes describing the world, rather than changing it. For Silver - and data-fetishists like him - politics is a sport to be gamed, rather than a mechanism for improving people’s lives.  

We are joined by Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson.

Episode 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain

“145 CEOs Call On Senate To Pass 'Common-sense, Bipartisan' Gun Laws,” NPR states. “Local Democrat pushes back on NY bail reform law: It's about 'common sense,' not politics,” a Fox News headline reads. “The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Trump’s Appeal to Common Sense Is His Dismissal of It,” The Nation warns. Everywhere we turn we are told by pundits and politicians that "common sense" demands we support their preferred policy prescription. 

It's a common appeal: a political issue—whether health-insurance, immigration, foreign policy, or gun violence—reaches a real or perceived extreme, and, in reaction, media pundits and political figures claim the most appropriate response must be ostensibly neutral, reasonable "common sense" reforms.

But these claims are insidious. While "common sense" may appear to be a constructive guiding principle, there is no meaningful definition of the concept and when it is evoked, it's almost always an appeal to status quo ideology. What’s sensible to a member of the Tea Party isn’t the same as what’s sensible to an activist seeking to end police violence. So, whose “common sense” is really being promoted when we hear these calls to action?

On this week's episode, we explore how appeals to “common sense” present politics as a matter of rationality rather than of morality; how these demands reinforce centrist and right-wing ideologies and how the Left can work to build an alternative common sense.

We are joined by cultural anthropologist Dr. Kate Crehan, Professor Emerita at College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Episode 101: The False Universality of “Common Sense”

In this News Brief we catch up on the patronizing, racist media coverage of protests in Minneapolis.

News Brief: 7 Years On, US Media Still Has No Answer for #BLM Other Than Vague Handwringing

We sat down with Glenn a few weekends ago to talk Bolsonaro's 'rona resistance, the Bernie/Biden “unity task forces,” and a little throwback to Joy Ann Reid's homophobic blog posts (bring those back, Joy I beg you)

intro/// Elza Soares - Som, Amor, Trabalho e Progresso

outro/// Willy Santana - Mais Uma Chance

UNLOCKED SD 13 - 3 AM Moscow Time feat. Glenn Greenwald

Another Summer

the pod list boys are back to get "a little queer" with us if you know what I mean...

We also just recorded a 2-hour special loveline/mailbag episode for our beautiful patrons at https://www.patreon.com/seekingderangements

intro/// Soul Throbs - Little Girl (1975)
outro/// Grupo Arco Iris - Coisas Da Vida (1972)

UNLOCKED SD 33 - Jacques Visibility Day feat. Pod About List

Daniel Marans joins us to decipher the election results and talk about what this means for the US political scene going forward. We dish up some harsh realities and pull no punches along the way -- consider this the first of many in-depth looks at the political realignment that's underway in the United States, which is one that the left will either benefit from or be crushed by. 

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A Cold Splash of Water to the Face w/ Daniel Marans

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

Ep 11, Part I: The Deficits Racket -- Single-Payer Propaganda War

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