Posts Tagged ‘US foreign policy’

The Democrats have to offer something beyond “Trump’s Bad” – the US election with Jason Brownlee

Posted: October 27, 2024 in Uncategorized
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On episode 303 Nick is joined by politics professor Jason Brownlee who informs Nick of everything he has missed by just learning about US politics through Late Night with Seth Myers, which Katie watches constantly!

More specifically, the discussion covers:

  • Reflection on Biden’s presidency including the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. You can read Jason’s article on this topic in the Statesman: ‘On the anniversary of US withdrawal in Afghanistan, President Biden made the right call’.
  • Will Harris/Walz change the direction of the Democratic party?
  • Should Harris have taken up Joe Rogan’s invitation and joined him on that podcast, as Donald Trump did? [*Update: since we recorded this episode, Joe Rogan has clarified that Harris didn’t reject the offer to go on his podcast. She offered to do a one-hour interview if Rogan came to her, whereas Rogan wanted her to come to his studio in Austin for a longer discussion. Regardless, most of our points on the topic still stand]. 
  • The Democrats pursuing some Right-wing policies.
  • The eternal question of voting Democrat versus third party/independent.
  • Are the Republicans the party for workers that they claim to be? The Ted Cruz quote along these lines was from this episode of Late Night with Seth Myers. We covered this issue of are the Republicans the party for workers on episode 258.

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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’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7APmRkatEU

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