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A discussion of racism and its manifestations in so-called liberal communities, and the way that white progressives oftentimes overlook issues of race and white privilege, and thereby torpedo their own efforts for social justice...

Are Progressive Cities Worse For Racial Justice

There was a time when gold money had real value.  Yet now it floats free, a fantasy made real by our belief. Are there alternative fantasies that we could create to generate different and perhaps better realities?  Or is there something special about the fantasy of money that makes it irreplaceable?

Guardian columnist Stephen Hewlitt asks CEO of Timebanking UK Sarah Bird, reporter for the Financial Times Izabella Kaminska and The Social Life of Money author Nigel Dodd to explore the alternatives to money.

The Fantasy Of Money | Nigel Dodd, Sarah Bird, Izabella Kaminska

Fighting against the far right forces of the Republican Party and their auxiliary white supremacist media makes attempts to appropriate notions of nationalism into a liberal mold a compelling short cut for Democrats looking for easy clapbacks and viral RT’s. The temptation to promote a kinder, gentler, "woke" patriotism is understandable.

But what is the collateral damage of this approach? From the justifiably horrified response to mass shootings to the jingoistic worship of all things military, what is the long-term downside of lifting up #VetsForGunControl and retired military brass as a counter to the vulgarity of Trumpism? Can the Left – including liberals – embrace a more holistic and anti-imperialist moral grammar that avoids short cuts and rejects the idea of nationalism altogether?  

We are joined by Maggie Martin, co-director of About Face.

Episode 30: Liberal Media’s Myopic Military Worship

It's a real throwback ep as the original Dry Boys record the way it all started to discuss the idiotic non-controversy around the White House Correspondents Dinner that has consumed media discourse over the last week.​

Chapo Trap House

Episode 206 - Dry Boys Ride Again (5/1/18)

In this episode:

Afghanistan War Update: Major announcement that the Trump Administration will enter into direct talks with the Taliban, what it exposes about the endless war, and the latest US and Afghan deaths

Army News: Racist new policy of discharging immigrant soldiers after being asked to join for citizenship, and why it gives more reason for service members to resist

Radical Military History: Individual acts of resistance by service members during Vietnam that set the stage for a massive GI rebellion

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GOP Hypocrites Join Taliban | Racist New Army Immigrant Policy

In this episode:

In Brief: Spenser Rapone and Mike Prysner analyze the curious incident of a US Marine receiving a Purple Heart for combat wounds in an “undisclosed location.” (Begins at 02:52 - https://bit.ly/2w7IzDQ)

The Class War Budget: A breakdown Trump’s bi-partisan “defense” budget: from “Army Futures Command,” to the Space Force scam. (Begins at 10:05 - https://bit.ly/2vN8qkY)

Veterans Affairs HQ Moves to Mar-a-Lago: What it means that outlet Pro-Publica uncovered “shadow rulers” for the VA among Trump’s golfing buddies. (Begins at 35:30 - https://bit.ly/2w7jhpd)

Radical Military History: Honoring forgotten WWII heroes—the African American sailors of the Port Chicago Strike. (Begins at 46:05 - https://bit.ly/2MfxoDL)

[Accompanying content: Secretary of Veterans Affairs rings New York Stock Exchange closing bell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqNCftPe2jo]

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New ‘Defense’ Budget a Class War Budget | The VA’s ‘Shadow Rulers’

Long ep this week! In Pt 1 Raghav Mehta joins me to talk about this week's news and my Joe Rogan odyssey. 

In Pt 2, Jordan, Peter, Brad, and Syd, from NYC DSA Medics tell me about their expedition to Charlottesvile and then to DC to work as street medics for counter protesters at the 2nd annual Unite The Right rally events. 

Outro track is Death Grips - Streaky

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Laughter Is The Worst Medicine w/ NYC DSA Medics

We get back to the basics in this one by taking a deep-ish dive into recent coal news -- who's mining it, where it's going, and what it means for energy markets, consumers, and elections. We lost some really good audio at the beginning of this episode and we're really torn up about it so please send us your thoughts and prayers. 

Music by Tenure

Episode 66: It Keeps The Lights On

Mere months before the events of May 1968, French New Wave figurehead Jean-Luc Godard captured the lighter side of left-wing student revolutionaries with his classic LA CHINOISE (1967). A few years later, he tried to create a new kind of radical leftist cinema with BRITISH SOUNDS (1970). Will and Luke compare these two landmarks in a great artist's political awakening; grapple with the ultimate failure of his political project; and consider the cultural contexts from which they emerged. PLUS: the hosts share harrowing stories of living in the crumbling city of Toronto!

Michael and Us

#65 - Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise + British Sounds

Adam and Chet talk about a story that's not getting nearly as much attention as it deserves...a nationwide strike happening in America's prisons right now.

Good Luck, America: A Politics and News Podcast

Prison Strike!

All Aboard!

Tickets still available for our Northeast Tour:

http://chapotraphouse.com/tour/

Episode 240 - The Shittalk Express (8/27/18)

What does is mean to socially construct a gendered identity, and why do some feminists insist on separating this from the sex we are assigned at birth? 

On the panel: activist Finn Mackay, Labour politician Angela Eagle and post-human philosopher, Patricia MacCormack

Beyond Men and Women | Finn Mackay, Angela Eagle, Patricia MacCormack

Comedian and labor organizer Nato Green joins us to discuss is work as a "salter," an organizer, and a comic. Also we talk about John McCain's dead ass. Read Nato's column at 

http://www.sfexaminer.com/category/the-city/sf-news-columns/nato-green/

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Organize This! w/ Nato Green

Today, writer Quinn Slobodian joins us to discuss his new book, 'Globalists: The End Of Empire &amp; the Birth of Neoliberalism.' With Sam, he discusses Neoliberalism as a discrete political movement for technocratic protection of capitalism. The similarities and differences between Neoliberals and Keynesians. How decolonization was seen as a threat to capitalism. How Neoliberalism uses democracy while fundamentally distrusting it. FOR MEMBERS: Another throwback to Air America days, Sam and Janeane talk to the late writer and historian Tony Judt on Abu Ghraib, governmental lying, the media during wartime, Israel/Palestine and much more. Recorded 6/2/2004. &nbsp; Become a member of the Majority Report today! Get updates on the ongoing nationwide prison strike at&nbsp;supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org/nationalprisonstrike2018/ Check out The Michael Brooks Show at patreon.com/tmbs,&nbsp;and the new TMBS YouTube channel for all short TMBS clips Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover or on iTunes. Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or on the new Antifada&nbsp;Youtube channel: http://youtube.com/theantifada Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @_michaelbrooks @MattLech @jamie_elizabeth @Bf1nn

1914 - Globalists: The End Of Empire & the Birth of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

IT WAS THE SUMMER OF '68!! 

No we are not rewriting a bryan adams song for revolutionary purposes, but WE ARE talkin' about the "summer" of 1968.

SO WE TALKIN' STUDENT STRIKES, WORKERS STRIKES, FRENCH PPL BUILDING BARACADES LIKE A BUNCH OF ANARCHIST HEROES, WE TALKIN' CIVIL RIGHTS, WE TALKIN' SECOND WAVE FEMINISM, AND WE R TALKIN' ABOUT SUMMER BEING A CONSTRUCT OF THE MIND

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FORRRRRR!!!!!!!

Theme music as always by Brandon Payton-Carillo!

Episode 47: Summer Of 1968

TODAY, Emily Ogden talks to us about her book 'Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism.' Franz Mesmer's animal magnetism as a "scientific" for of folk magic. The relationship between mesmerists and debunkers. The parallels in "rationality as totemic device" between the mesmerists and the New Atheists. What to make of the dupes? For members: From the Air America archive, Janeane, Paul Rudd (in for Sam), Amy Poehler, and Fred Armisen talk about Sam's wedding and how Hollywood and Wall St are controlled by the same sort of psychos. From June 21, 2004. &nbsp; Become a member of the Majority Report today! Get updates on the ongoing nationwide prison strike at&nbsp;supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org/nationalprisonstrike2018/ Check out The Michael Brooks Show at patreon.com/tmbs,&nbsp;and the new TMBS YouTube channel for all short TMBS clips Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover or on iTunes. Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or on the new Antifada&nbsp;Youtube channel: http://youtube.com/theantifada Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @_michaelbrooks @MattLech @jamie_elizabeth @Bf1nn

1915 - Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism w/ Emily Ogden

The socialist left's premium tennis podcast is here to bring you all the latest from the tennis world. But really, in this episode we take down the Narrative Industry, philanthropy, and Jon Bon Jovi. 

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Episode 67: The Story of You, The Story of Me, The Story of We

Visit https://democracynow.org to watch and share each interview separately, to read the complete transcript, search the vast news archive, or to make a donation to support our non-profit news program. Livestream weekdays 8-9am ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Stitcher, SoundCloud, iTunes, TuneIn, Google+ and Pinterest. Listen to the full hour of Democracy Now! — your daily independent, global news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.

Democracy Now! - August 31, 2018

War crimes. Freakouts. Drugs. Rebellion. A narrative of the Iraq war buried by the media and politicians, told through the incredible oral history of Clifton Hicks--tank crewman in Iraq who refused to go back, won a Conscientious Objector fight, then spent years helping other soldiers do the same.

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"You'd Better Stay At Home" - The Clifton Hicks Story

From the NPR website:  In preparation for a 2011 conference on Brown University on juvenile justice reform, "Tell Me More" host Michel Martin speaks with Time Banks USA founder Edgar S. Cahn about how the TimeBanking concept reminds us that some things in life are more valuable than money.  The technique has successfully been used to reduce recidivism rates among juvenile offenders by 60% in diversionary Youth Courts in the District of Columbia.  Photo by Amy Ta.

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