Michael Hudson is in my top 3 along with Kathren Austin Fitts and Richard Werner, the ultimate Trifecta knowledge base

NYC mayoral elections are tomorrow so we give our final review of the candidates - not great! Then we check in with a Chapo favorite we’ve not discussed in quite a bit but are happy to return to, offering a tentative defense of perhaps The Baseball Crank’s best ever take. Finally, a long and surprisingly thoughtful discussion of modern male intimacy.

Chapo Trap House

534 - Cranks For Thee (6/22/21)

Playwright Jake Spear (@charlesraustin) and director Walker Onassis (@intellegint) welcome actors Deacon Barrel (@necrobranson) and Jasper Lazuli (@tupacdurex) for a freewheeling discussion of theater and the stage.

E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

209 - Curtain Call

"John Roberts Passes Test: Politicization of Judicial Appointment is Disheartening," read a 2005 headline from Salisbury, Maryland’s Daily Times. "Ignore the attacks on Neil Gorsuch. He’s an intellectual giant — and a good man," Robert P. George pleaded in The Washington Post in 2017. Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination "is beyond politics," South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn told CBS's Face the Nation in 2022.

We hear the same refrains over and over about the US federal court system in general and the U.S. Supreme Court in particular. They’re independent judiciaries. They abide by the Constitution, the rule of law, the law of the land. They follow legal precedent. They’re bastions of integrity and impartiality. It’s reassuring to think of our courts as measured, fair, upholding democracy, and acting in the public’s interest.

But history shows that these articles of faith are undeserved. The courts are profoundly political, and they wield power that affects every corner of people’s lives, from healthcare to policing, education to climate. So why is it that The Courts are awarded such mystique? What purpose does it serve to paint them as untouchable and unquestionable, existing outside of politics? And how does this framing stack the deck against those seeking long overdue and radical change to our systems?

On this episode, we examine how media have helped manufacture the sense of ennobled secrecy of the Supreme Court and broader so-called "justice system," looking at the ways in which the courts’ power runs counter to the will and needs of the public, the creation of campaigns to feign judicial impartiality and apoliticism, and the American exceptionalism that undergirds popular framings of one of the world’s most reactionary institutions.

Our guest is writer Josie Duffy Rice.

Episode 163: The Media-Manufactured Mystique of the US Court System

Political theorist and professor of political science Dr. Jodi Dean joins DOSED to diagnose our dystopian hellscape as “neofeudalism.”

Listen to this full episode of DOSED free wherever you stream podcasts: https://linktr.ee/dosedshow

Prof. Jodi Dean on Neofeudalism [PREVIEW]

We welcome Gerald Horne back to the show to talk about most recent book "The Counter-Revolution of 1836 - Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism." Stay tuned and learn of this week's whale-snack sized hangover cure, hear this week's Question from Hell!, and learn from Seb's Soapbox about some of the origins of Whiteness.

Texas, and the Origins of American Fascism / Gerald Horne

Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China's challenge to the petrodollar.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AEZBOaPKWjw

TRANSCRIPT: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/08/michael-hudson-debt-inflation-ukraine-petrodollar

Prof. Hudson's official website: https://michael-hudson.com

Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis

Originally published to Patreon on 9/11/2021. 

In this third edition of Shano's Brainos (really, that's still what we're calling it) on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Shane talks through the disastrous and ongoing war on terror, how imperial ideologies get formed, and considers what it means to live through history.

Unlocked: Shano's Brainos - 9/11

Rania Khalek joins The Katie Halper Show to talk about the UN General Assembly, which she's covering in NYC, life in Beirut, The War in Ukraine and more.
Rania Khalek (https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek) is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. Her work has also appeared at The Grayzone, The intercept, Truthout, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Salon, AlterNet, Vice and more.

For the entire discussion, bonus content, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow

Rania Khalek LIVE!

A tale of three Dennis the Menace statues, the loneliest hockey player in the Southern Professional Hockey League, the redditors who dream of a world without dogs, and just how much beer can an escaped bear bear.
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It's Freemium Freebruary! Bonus episodes are free for this, the shortest month of the year, so that you will hopefully grow dependent on them. They go back behind the paywall in march so enjoy it while it lasts!

UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: Are Dipshits Allowed At The Fuckhead Store

Bonus Episodes

We sit down for an epic two-hour episode with the legend Yasha Levine to ramble through American soft power, intelligence technology, Russiagate and more.

**PRODUCER'S NOTE**: The canonical numbering scheme has been corrected to account for inflation and bonus episodes.

Episode 50: Radio Free TrueAnon

We talk to author Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) about the rise of SmartCities, covid-19 surveillance states and finally answer the burning question: what is 5G?

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/too-smart
https://reallifemag.com/contributors/jathan-sadowski

Episode 65: Tower Of Terror

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Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis

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