Brian and Prof. Wolff discuss how the tobacco industry built an extremely profitable business model based on addiction, and what they're doing to try to keep it going.

Richard Wolff is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work and the author of many books, the latest being “The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself”. You can check out his work at rdwolff.com

Capitalism in Crisis: Addiction as a Business Model -- Capitalism Kills!

Great powers don’t always go great together, often viewing each other as rivals, if not enemies. After the Cold War, the United States was viewed as the last superpower standing. But not only has Russia and its nuclear arsenal stubbornly refused to go away, China has kept on rising. Now, people at the highest levels of government are trying to figure out whether China and the United States can play nice together, but whether the 21st will be the Chinese Century. Joining us to help understand the situation is Matthew Kroenig. Kroenig is both a political scientist and national security strategist at the Atlantic Council.&nbsp; He is also the author of the Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy Versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the U.S. and China Matthew Kroenig. <ul><li>Recorded 8/21/20</li><li>The innovators</li><li>Innovating with government money</li><li>Where China’s labor comes from</li><li>China’s soft power strategy</li><li>A coming generational struggle</li></ul> &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Why the U.S. May Come Out on Top Against China

America is perhaps more conservative today than it’s ever been. For some on the right, Obama, Biden and Clinton look like socialists. For people on the left, they look like moderate republicans. There’s a reason for both of those views that’s steeped in America’s recent past. U.S. culture was shaped by a suave and smooth talking President who promised we could be a beacon of hope for the world and a shining city on a hill. Here to talk about what happened is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a returning guest and the author of the new book Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980. The book is, among other things, the story of how a Southern Evangelical Democrat paved the way for a divorced actor from California to ascend to the presidency and shape America’s destiny. <ul><li>Recorded 9/10/20</li><li>How voters go from voting for Johnson to voting for Nixon</li><li>America’s moral reckoning, from Vietnam to Watergate</li><li>What Star Wars tells us about America today</li><li>Stable government under a crook vs unstable government under an honest man</li><li>Call of Duty: Cold War and the hero worship of Reagan</li><li>Jimmy Carter as the redeemer of America’s sins</li><li>The nightly hostage wrap up</li><li>How the Camp David Accords set the Middle East against Carter</li><li>Afghanistan as a stop on the Hippie trail</li><li>When Carter cancelled the Olympics</li><li>Nuclear debates</li><li>Rick’s Reagan impersonation</li><li>How the press and politicians misread the moment</li></ul> Angry Planet has a substack! <a href="https://angryplanet.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join the Information War</a> to get weekly insights into our angry planet and hear more conversations about a world in conflict. <a href="https://warcollege.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://angryplanet.substack.com/</a>You can listen to Angry Planet on<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/war-college/id1023774600?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> iTunes</a>,<a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jason-fields/war-college" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Stitcher</a>,<a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ioueaqtuifyfrxlbf6e6ec6difm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Google Play</a> or follow our<a href="http://rss.acast.com/warcollege" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> RSS directly</a>. Our website is <a href="http://angryplanetpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a>. You can reach us on our Facebook page:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/angryplanetpodcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://www.facebook.com/angryplanetpodcast/</a>; and on Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/War_College" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> @War_College</a>. &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

How Reagan Made Us the Armaggedon Generation

Writer Thomas Frank on his book "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism" from Metropolitan Books.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250220110

1243: On populism and anti-populism / Thomas Frank

Writer Hadas Thier on her book "A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics" from Haymarket Books.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1481-a-people-s-guide-to-capitalism

1256: A Marxist lens  on capitalism's crisis / Hadas Thier

Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic join PTO to talk about the US election results, why the 'blue wave' failed to materialise and how Joe Biden will govern with a Republican senate and a republican majority on the supreme court.

#101 What happened to the 'blue wave'? w/ Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic

Mohamed Abdou on his essay "Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution" for ROAR Magazine.

https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/

1257:  Let it all fall / Mohamed Abdou

Philosopher Teppo Eskelinen on "The Revival of Political Imagination: Utopia as Methodology" from Zed Books.

https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-revival-of-political-imagination/

1266: On utopia / Teppo Eskelinen

TeleSur English's Brian Mier reports on far-right losses, and gains for both the left and center-right in Brazil's 2020 municipal elections.

1268: Brazil municipal election report / Brian Mier

Alison Phipps joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism'. We chatted about the MeToo movement and what it reveals about the mainstream of feminist politics, how violence against women is necessary to the project of capitalist globalisation and how the image of the imperilled white woman has been central to the project of empire both formal and informal.

#106 The trouble with mainstream feminism w/ Alison Phipps

It’s been a long time since the sun set on the British Empire and many institutions in British society have changed a great deal. In some ways, the British Army is the exception - a living linkage between imperial great power status and the current post-colonial European nation. In other ways, like the US military, the British Army has been comprehensively transformed by the long campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11.&nbsp; The way the British Army has altered - and also failed to react - over the last two decades is the subject of the new book The Changing of the Guard: The British Army Since 9/11. Here to talk about it is the book’s author Simon Akam. Akam is a journalist whose work has appeared basically everywhere, including Reuters, the Economist, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Outside, Bloomberg Businessweek and GQ. &#10;&nbsp; <hr>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

1243: On populism and anti-populism / Thomas Frank

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