Posts Tagged ‘Jason Brownlee’

Episode 263: Light Footprint, Heavy Pay Load – US Wars Before and After Trump

Posted: April 8, 2021 in Uncategorized
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This episode features politics professor Jason Brownlee on his article ‘Shadow Wars and Corporate Welfare’, which is on what to expect from Biden’s foreign policy. We also discuss the Capitol Hill riots, whether or not the ‘fascist’ label is appropriate for Trump, Trump’s foreign policy record and what individuals can do to oppose US militarism and imperialism.

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Clips:

Asylum Street Spankers ‘Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV’, Bill Hicks ‘Polls’ – from the album ‘Salvation’, Jacobin ‘The Legacy of Orientalism and Edward Said w/ Vivek Chibber & Bashir Abu-Manneh’, Men at Work ‘It’s a Mistake’.

If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist ‘Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy’! Nick also gives daily music recommendations on Twitter @NicksSong and on the Spotify playlist ‘Song of the Day by NicksSong’.

Episode 256: “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos” – The US Election with Jason Brownlee

Posted: October 16, 2020 in Uncategorized
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This show features politics professor Jason Brownlee on the upcoming US election. The discussion covers voter suppression, voting Democrat versus third party, identity politics and much more!

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Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, The Simpsons ‘“You have to vote for one of us!” (“It’s a two party system”)’, The Jimmy Dore Show ‘DEMOCRATS’ #ListenToBERNIE Hashtag FAILS!’, Democracy Now! ‘Cornel West & Ben Jealous on Whether Progressives Can Push Joe Biden Leftward If He Defeats Trump’, schmoyoho ‘WE’RE ALL DOOMED – Trump vs. Biden ft. “Weird Al” Yankovic’.

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Episode 239: Will We See A Socialist In The White House?

Posted: February 8, 2020 in Uncategorized
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We’re joined by politics professor Jason Brownlee who discusses the Bernie Sanders campaign for President, the Democratic primaries and the 2020 US election.

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Clips:

‘Sailor Socialism’ – Deleted video from InfoWar’s interview with Dasha Nekrasova, Aren LeBrun ‘Bernie 2020 – Which Side Are You On?’, Joe Glazer ‘Solidarity Forever’.

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Episode 223: Trump Hands Off Venezuela! A Foreign Policy Analysis

Posted: March 22, 2019 in Uncategorized
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You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (71mins, 53MB).

This episode features politics professor Jason Brownlee on current US meddling in Venezuela and whether or not direct military intervention by the US is likely, in the context of US foreign policy historically.

Jason also briefly touches on the US media coverage of the white supremacist terrorist attack in Christchurch, which we covered last episode #222.

For more on the history of US foreign policy, check out Jason’s book Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance and Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance.

If you’d like to hear first-hand accounts of what is going on in Venezuela, check out Mike Prysner, Max Blumenthal and if you’re in Melbourne you may be interested in going along to the upcoming event Eyewitness Report back from Venezuela.

Other sources we and/or Jason recommend on Venezuela are: Intercepted, Secular Talk and Democracy Now!. You can see our tweets about Venezuela for more sources.

Clips:

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran; The Beach Boys ‘Barbara Ann’; Rolling Stones ‘My Sweet Neocon’, David Bowie ‘I’m Afraid of Americans’, Propagandhi ‘A People’s History of the World’.

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