This first episode of the American Exception podcast is also the first of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination. It features a discussion with Zachary Sklar, co-screenwriter of Oliver Stone's 1991 masterpiece, JFK. The writer and co-creator of JFK Revisited, James DiEugenio, also joins the discussion. The episode also includes contributions from Abby Martin of Empire Files and Media Roots Radio. 

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Episode 1: Oliver Stone's JFK w/Zach Sklar & Jim DiEugenio

The coming recession will dwarf everything else in British politics this year. We speak to economist James Meadway about the hardship to come, and the government's response.

Plus: Starmer's campaign pledges catch him out again; Alex Jones screw himself over in court; and Sunak says the quiet part loud.

With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

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TyskySour: The Incoming Recession

David de Jong joins PTO to talk about his extraordinary new book, Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties, which tells the story of how German tycoons made billions during the Nazi era and WWII and how many of those industrialists and financiers and their heirs continued to be central figures in first the West German Economy and then the reunited Germany. We talked about the Quandt family - for decades the controlling interest behind BMW - and their intimate links to Hitler's inner circle. And we also talked about why German businessmen who were directly implicated in the persecution and murder of European Jewry were largely able to maintain their business empires after the war.

Nazi Billionaires w/ David de Jong

Welcome everyone to a Ben and Jacques solo episode! (Hesse is missing because she got offered that luxury poop job) 

Jacques and I craft our scheme into the fine art market, talk about being cracked out in Nola, and what its like getting a gun stolen from you while being robbed four nights back to back. Lastly, we are also paid a visit by the reputable Judge Gonsoulin of Vermont who delivers their sentence for the crimes of one Mx. Ezra Miller. 

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Intro/// Asha Bhosle - Dum Maro Dum

Outro/// Locked Up - It's My Rave

SD 151 - The Trial of Zim

We're joined by Rob Lucas to discuss two of his essays: "Error" and "Feeding the Infant"

https://endnotes.org.uk/articles/error.pdf

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#150 - "Error" and "Feeding the Infant" w/ Rob Lucas

We are joined by Dan McQuillan to discuss his great new book Resisting AI. As Jathan wrote in a blurb for the book: “With analytical and moral clarity, McQuillan makes the case for recognising the radical politics of AI and meeting its goose step march head-on.” We get deep into an excellent discussion spanning the political economy and political epistemology of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Ed is trapped in Pittsburgh where he is now forced to live as a worker in a defunct steel factory.

••• Follow Dan on Twitter https://twitter.com/danmcquillan
••• Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
••• Data Science as Machinic Neoplatonism https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-017-0273-3 

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186. Refusing the Everyday Fascism of Artificial Intelligence (ft. Dan McQuillan)

We are joined by Justin Roczniak—of the excellent engineering disasters podcast, Well There’s Your Problem—to talk about the potential freight rail strike that has been brewing for a long time and near-future scenarios for the supply chain. We discuss the horrid labor conditions in the industry and the scourge of Precision Scheduled Railroading, a system of management that has transformed the entire railroad sector so it serves one god: The Operating Ratio.  

follow Justin: https://twitter.com/who_shot_jgr
Well There’s Your Problem: https://linktr.ee/wtyppod   

Some stuff we reference:
••• SMART-TD, BLET joint statement on rail embargo https://smart-union.org/smart-td-blet-joint-statement-on-rail-embargo/
••• A Nationwide Freight Railroad Shutdown Could Cost $2 Billion a Day https://www.aar.org/economic-impact-of-railroad-shutdown#
••• ‘It’s Going to End Up Like Boeing’: How Freight Rail Is Courting Catastrophe https://www.vice.com/en/article/3angy3/freight-rail-train-disaster-avoidable-boeing 
••• Rail Strike Threatens to Slow US Supply-Chain Recovery https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-09-12/supply-chain-latest-us-railroad-strike-threatens-supply-chain-recovery
••• Rail Unions Are Bargaining Over a Good Job Made Miserable https://www.labornotes.org/2022/02/rail-negotiations-are-about-good-job-made-miserable 

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192. Why the Trains Don’t Run on Time (ft. Justin Roczniak)

We are joined by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin – authors of the excellent new book Chokepoint Capitalism – to discuss how creative labor markets are tightly squeezed on all sides by massive monopolies / monopsonies that create chokepoints to trap suppliers, trap consumers, and trap all the profits in markets for books, music, movies, and every other artistic endeavour. Cory and Rebecca then detail a long list of tactics and solutions for breaking the capitalist stranglehold over cultural production. 

••• Follow Cory: https://twitter.com/doctorow
••• Follow Rebecca: https://twitter.com/rgibli
••• Buy the book: http://www.beacon.org/Chokepoint-Capitalism-P1856.aspx
••• Support the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/chokepoint-capitalism-an-audiobook-amazon-wont-sell

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194  – Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (ft. Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow)

The new documentary series UNPRECEDENTED (2022) seeks to offer an unfiltered look at the Trump family in the weeks before the 2020 election and the January 6 riot. We discuss how its thickets of editorial commentary obscure a potentially compelling look into America's former first family, and then have a laugh reading from Trump Jr's debut book "Triggered."

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#369 - I'm Not Mad

We are joined by Jacob Silverman – contributing editor at The New Republic – to discuss his profile of David Sacks, a venture capitalist and right-wing media personality who has been on the vanguard of reactionary culture wars and political influence in Silicon Valley.

Follow Jacob: https://twitter.com/SilvermanJacob 

Stuff we reference
••• The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom https://newrepublic.com/article/168125/david-sacks-elon-musk-peter-thiel
••• The Neocons and the Woke Left Are Joining Hands and Leading Us to Woke War III | Opinion https://www.newsweek.com/neocons-woke-left-are-joining-hands-leading-us-woke-war-iii-opinion-1748947
••• The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-shadow-crew-who-encouraged-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-tesla-jack-dorsey-11651260119

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205. Profits of Doom (ft. Jacob Silverman)

We're back! 
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We talk about Travis Bickle being a fine piece of ass, Marilyn Monroe being a 300lb neurodivergent queen, Jacques harassing a ghost tour, and we are paid a very special visit from Jigsaw from the Saw movie franchise for an FFS consultation. 
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SD 181 - Jigslay Mama

A podcast about technology and political economy /// Agitprop against innovation and capital /// Hosted by Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr., Produced by Jereme Brown /// Hello friends and enemies

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186. Refusing the Everyday Fascism of Artificial Intelligence (ft. Dan McQuillan)

This Machine Kills