Best Ben Burgis Podcasts (2025)

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March 13, 2025 - David Enrich | James Galbraith | Ben Burgis 1:07:56

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The Strategy Behind Trump's War on the So-Called Legacy Media | An Assessment of How the Senate Democrats Might Extricate Themselves From the Government Shutdown Trap | Having Decided Chuck Schumer Is No Longer Jewish, Trump's Conflation of Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app…

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April 9, 2025 - Robert Hockett | Matt Gold | Gregory Brew 1:03:05

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Trump's Amateurism on Display or is He Shorting the Market for His Family and Cronies? | An Assessment of the Amount of Damage Ahead From Trump's Trade War | Today's Drop in Oil To $56 From $72 a Barrel Last Week and What Kind of a Deal Could Emerge Between the US and Iran on Saturday? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.ap…

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April 8, 2025 - Barry Naughton | Trita Parsi | Alexander Sammon 58:49

1h ago58:49

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Chinese Response to 104% Tariffs and Insults From Vance | Trump Announces Talks Between Iran and the US in Oman on Saturday | Trump's DOJ Will No Longer Stop Crypto Scams and Cyber Command Will No Longer Stop Ransomware Attacksbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmasters…

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April 7, 2025 - William Cohan | Mike Lofgren | Michael Kazin 1:01:27

17m ago1:01:27

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Trump Urges Americans Not to Be "Weak or Stupid" as the Meltdown on Wall Street Continues | Who Benefits From Trump and Musk's Deliberate Destruction of the American Economy, Our Government and Our Standing in the World? | Saturday's 1,200 "Hands Off" Demonstrations in American Towns and Cities and Others Around the World backgroundbriefing.org/don…

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April 6, 2025 - Denver Riggleman | Stephen Wertheim | Karthik Sankaran 1:01:36

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Trump's Looney Girlfriend Purges the NSC and NSA | The Future of NATO and a Europe Without the US | In Search of a Methodology Behind the Economic Lunacy of Trump's Tariffs?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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Season 7 Episode 8: Debating Socialism w/the Libertarian Institute's Keith Knight 1:31:22

3d ago1:31:22

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Ben Burgis faces off with the Libertarian Institute's managing editor Keith Knight in a wide-ranging debate about capitalism, socialism, coercion, authoritarianim, exploitation, and more. Follow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgis Follow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_Show Become a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames ev…

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April 3, 2025 - Jeremi Suri | Sarang Shidore | Jonathan Cohn 59:11

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The Growing Grassroots Revolt Against the Slash and Burn of the American Government, Our Institutions and Our Democracy by Trump and Musk | Trump's Broadside of Tariffs Amid a Blizzard of Lies From the Rose Garden | After Trump, Musk and RFK Jr. Have Purged Scientists, Researchers, Innovators and Experts, Who Will Make America Great Again?backgroun…

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April 2, 2025 - Richard Parker | Jonathan Guyer | Simon Billenness 1:02:13

4d ago1:02:13

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Hope on the Horizon for Democrats | Trump's Erratic Middle East Policy as He Threatens to Bomb Iran While Israel Annexes Gaza | Will the Earthquake in Myanmar Spell the End of the Military Junta?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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April 1, 2025 - Michael Martin | Matthew Klein | Michael John Williams 1:03:22

5d ago1:03:22

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Thanks to Musk, the US is Not Helping the Victims of the Earthquake in Myanmar Because There Are Only 15 Employees Left at USAID | Who Will be Freed on Trump's "Liberation Day" Tomorrow When We'll All Be Paying More? | More Nuclear Proliferation as Europeans Plan to Develop Their Own Nuclear Deterrent and Tactical Battlefield Nukesbackgroundbriefin…

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March 31, 2025 - Paul Pillar | Henry Giroux | Lloyd Green 1:04:05

7d ago1:04:05

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Is Trump Bluffing With Nuclear Threats Against Iran or Does he Want to Nuke Their Underground Nuclear Facilities | Trump and Stephen Miller are Borrowing From the Argentine Junta, Pinochet and the Nazis | A Former Republican Opposition Researcher on Republican Vulnerabilities and How the Democrats Can Up Their Gamebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitt…

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March 30, 2025 - Harold Meyerson | Aziz Rana 1:01:58

8d ago1:01:58

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Trump's Top Aides Dig the Hole Deeper on Signalgate Speaking Lies on Behalf of Power | An Examination of the Emerging Resistance and How the Only Pathway Out of Institutional Collapse as Our Democracy is Destroyed is on the Left backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmaste…

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Season 7 Episode 7: Debating Palestine w/Philosopher Spencer Case 2:05:15

9d ago2:05:15

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Ben Burgis and philosophy professor and "Micro-Digressions" host Spencer Case hash out their disagreement on Zionism. Before that, Ben and the crew watch a fascinatingly strange AI video and Ben gives an Opening Argument on the Trump administration's authoritarianism, whether it's fascism, and why that even matters. Mean Djene Bajalan joins us for …

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March 27, 2025 - Annelle Sheline | Thomas Bollyky | Ruth Conniff 1:01:00

11d ago1:01:00

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Team Trump's Amateurs and Incompetents Exposed on the Signal Group Chat Prepare to Bomb the Houthis Again, Maybe This Time With "Clean Opsec"? | RFK Jr's Brutal Cuts to HHS as His Quackery Harms Kids From Cod Liver He Recommends Instead of a Measles Vaccination | Are We About to See a Defeat of Musk in Wisconsin After Successfully Buying the White …

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March 26, 2025 - Lincoln Mitchell | Michael Hiltzik | David Daley 1:01:02

11d ago1:01:02

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Heading Into the Generational Fight Against MAGA Fascism | Can Social Security be Saved From Musk's Wreck Then Rob | Trump's Executive Order to Rig Elections in His Favor He Claims Have Been Rigged Against Himbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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March 25, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Gregory Treverton | Samuel Moyn 1:00:15

12d ago1:00:15

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The Trump Team Group Chat Revels VP Vance is Running the Presidency Along With Stephen Miller | Incompetent and Unqualified Heads of US Intelligence on Display Before the Senate Intelligence Committee Today | The Courts Will Not Save Us Since They Got Us Into This Messbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmaste…

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March 24, 2025 - David Phillips | Asher Kaufman | Olga Lautman 1:10:22

14d ago1:10:22

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Trump Greenlight's Erdogan's Crackdown While Musk Removes Turkish Opposition Content on X | The Strategy Behind Netanyahu's Resumption of His War on Gaza | The Pathetic Asymmetry Between Seasoned Russian Diplomats and Intelligence Professionals Negotiating Against Trump's Real Estate Buddy WitkoffBy Ian Masters

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March 23, 2025 - Fred Turner | Robert Suettinger 1:00:16

15d ago1:00:16

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Musk's Ungoverning Tactic of "Wreck Then Rob" | Inside the PRC's Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionariesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters

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March 20, 2025 - David Bateman | Ken Vogel | Alex Isenstadt 1:06:29

18d ago1:06:29

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The MAGA Trump/Vance Takeover of American Education Using Money to Control Minds and Eradicate Intellectual Inquiry | Trump and the GOP Aim to Cripple the Left by Defunding Democrats and It's Underway | Vengeance Drives Trump As He Tears Down People and Institutionsbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersm…

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March 19, 2025 - Marci Shore | Michael Gorham | Henri Barkey 1:00:40

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Could Massive Demonstrations Against Despots and Kleptocrats in Serbia and Hungary be a Model For the US to Get Rid of Trump and Musk? | Russia Claims Victory After Trump's Call With Putin Who Paid No Price For Rejecting Trump's Ceasefire Deal | Will Erdogan Get Away With the Brazen Jailing of the Leader of Turkey's Opposition?backgroundbriefing.or…

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March 18, 2025 - Omar El Akkad | David Faris | Simon Rosenberg 1:06:19

21d ago1:06:19

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As Netanyahu Renews His War On Gaza, We Challenge the Comfort Zone of What is Happening in Distant Lands | As Musk and Trump Tear Through the Fabric of American Society, the Days of Choosing Between Gutless Liberals and Callous Conservatives are Over | What Kind of Opposition Will Emerge at This Critical Moment For the Survival of American Democrac…

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March 17, 2025 - John Nichols | Jonathan Zimmerman | Nader Hashemi 1:00:32

22d ago1:00:32

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A Growing Grassroots Opposition Movement to Catch up to the Damage Musk and Trump Are Doing | Musk's Gutting of the Department of Education Before Trump Abolishes it | The Bombing of the Houthis as a Prelude to a "Peace" Deal With Iran Meant to Deliver Trump a Nobel Prize backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianm…

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March 16, 2025 - Malcolm Nance | Aram Shabanian | Sidney Blumenthal 1:02:05

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March 16, 2025 - Malcolm Nance | Aram Shabanian | Sidney Blumenthal by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters

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Season 7 Episode 6: Watching Dugin & Glenn Greenwald w/Deep State Kuba 2:09:41

24d ago2:09:41

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Far-right Russian thinker Aleksandr Dugin just sat down with Glenn Greenwald for an extensive interview, and we can't look away. Deep State Kuba joins Ben Burgis to watch some of it and discuss. Before that, Ben does an Opening Argument on the issues raised by the outrageous assault on free speech at Columbia. At the end of the main show, we play s…

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March 12, 2025 - Tom Mockaitis | Robert Creamer | Michael Swaine 1:04:00

27d ago1:04:00

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With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump's Critics and Those on Patel's Enemies List? | The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown | Trump's Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk's Outsi…

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March 11, 2025 - Matt Gold | Margo Schlanger | Mihir Desai 1:00:16

28d ago1:00:16

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Trump's Escalating Trade War Against Canada Has the Business Roundtable He's Meeting With Nervous | Trump Tries to Deport a Student Protester With a Green Card He Labels as "Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Semitic and Anti-American | As Tesla Stock Plunges by 40%, the World's Richest Man is Beginning to Feel a Reversal of Fortunebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetw…

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EP25: Is Liberal Socialism an Oxymoron? (On Matt McManus’ Liberal Socialism) 1:15:41

27d ago1:15:41

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In this episode, we dive into Matt McManus’ The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism and ask whether the fusion of liberalism and socialism makes sense – or if it’s just a contradiction in terms. McManus argues that liberal values like individual rights and democracy can be reconciled with socialist commitments to economic justice. But not everyon…

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March 10, 2025 - Lisa Graves | Jacob Silverman | David Halperin 1:02:59

29d ago1:02:59

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The Courts are the Only Remaining Barrier to MAGA Fascism | The Threat to the Dollar and the Brazen Corruption of Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | Trump's War on Education will Create an American Idiocracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…

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March 9, 2025 - Scott Horton | Anders Aslund | Mike Albertus 1:03:16

1M ago1:03:16

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Trump's March 6 Executive Order Signals His Revenge Tour in Underway With Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe and Gabbard as the Executioners | An Update on How Ukraine is Surviving After Trump Cuts Off Intelligence And Arms | As Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland and Gaza, Climate Change Will Lead to Land and Resource Grabs…

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Season 7 Episode 5: Conversations with Platypi (Ben & Jason at UC-Irvine) 4:36:52

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A couple weeks ago, Ben Burgis and Jason Myles went to UC-Irvine to speak at a panel on neoliberalism at the West coast conference of the Platypus Affiliated Society. It was a pretty interesting conversation, and we're excited to finally be able to share it. Before that, Ben gives us an Opening Argument about Jeff Bezos's diktat the Washington Post…

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March 6, 2025 - Orville Schell | Andy Kroll 1:03:35

1M ago1:03:35

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The Similarities Between Trump and Musk Tearing America Apart and What Mao Did to China in the Cultural Revolution | An Assessment on How Much the Musk Assault on Government is Performative as Our Reality TV President Governs By Stuntbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ian…

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March 5, 2025 - Dr. Allen Frances | Alex Lawson | Karen Greenberg 1:00:31

1M ago1:00:31

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Trump and Musk's Blitzkrieg Coup Underway to Replace American Democracy With a Plutocracy | Trump Laid the Groundwork to Destroy Social Security With Last Night's Deliberate Demonization | Will the People Wake Up and Boot Out the Wrecking Crew Before Our Electoral System is Rigged?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/pro…

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March 4, 2025 - Lucan Way | Dean Baker | Corey Brettschneider 1:01:46

1M ago1:01:46

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Trump's Assault On Our Friends and Neighbors As He Rewards Our Enemies | How the Tariffs Will Hit Working and Middle Class Americans With a $3,000 Tax Hike | What Will the Democrats Do Tonight at the SOTU in the Face of a Blizzard of Trump Lies? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialface…

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March 3, 2025 - Anna Merlan | Casey Michel | James Thurber 1:02:00

1M ago1:02:00

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The Trump White House Follows the Kremlin Model Elevating Conspiracy Theorists, Propagandists and Far Right Influencers to Deliver the News | The Grift and Corruption at the Heart of Trump's Sellout to Putin | The Republicans Have Decided to Sacrifice the House in 2026 to Give Away the Store to the Plutocracy Music: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Ri…

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March 2, 2025 - Angela Stent | Stephen Crowley | Natalie Melnyczuk 1:01:34

1M ago1:01:34

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Zelensky, Who Wants to Make Peace, Gets Steamrolled By Trump Who Wants to Make a Deal | Will Trump's Capitulation to Putin Improve Ties or Give Putin a Second Wind to Cause More Mayhem? | Can Ukraine's NATO Allies Fill the Gap as Trump Abandons Ukraine to Putin?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia…

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February 27, 2025 - Alexander Motyl | Victor Pickard | Brooke Harrington 1:08:42

1M ago1:08:42

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Is Putin Trump's Case Officer? | Will Trump be Able to Turn the Press Into His Propaganda and PR Arm as Putin and Orban Have Done? | Since Musk's Assault on the Federal Workforce is Only Saving a Pittance, the Real Intention Then Must Be To Cripple the US GovernmentBy Ian Masters

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February 26, 2025 - Paul Farhi | Mike Lofgren | Dr. Guy Ziv 1:02:22

1M ago1:02:22

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Press Freedom in America Under Attack by Trump and Plutocratic Press Owners Cowering Before the Dear Leader | Republicans Vote Against Their Constituent's Interests to Cut Taxes For Plutocrats | Why Did Israel Vote With Russia and Iran Against Ukraine and Its Jewish Leader?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ian…

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February 25, 2025 - Rachel VanLandingham | Bill Scher | Mike German 1:06:03

1M ago1:06:03

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Trump's Politicization of the Military and the Firing Its Top Lawyers So That His Unlawful Orders Won't be Blocked | The Historical Plunge of Trump's Poll Numbers in Just One Month | Having Patel and Bongino Head the FBI Means Trump Will Go after His Enemies While He Can Break the Law With Impunitybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmasters…

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February 24, 2025 - Laura Thornton | Alfred McCoy 1:05:25

1M ago1:05:25

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Trump's Shameful Vote at the UN on the Third Anniversary of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and the Results of the German Elections | The Rise and Fall of the French, Soviet and American Empires With the New Chinese Empire Already on Shaky Groundbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfaceboo…

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February 23, 2025 - Nathan Tankus | Bandy Lee | Peter Montgomery 1:04:18

1M ago1:04:18

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As Assessment of the Damage Already Done by Musk and His Teenage Techies | The Need For Our Politicians, Business Leaders and Citizens to Recognize Trump's Sickness and Intervene Before He Does Any More Damage to the Country and the World | Trump's Lies-Laden Keynote Speech to CPACHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Ashe…

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Season 7 Episode 4: Walter Block Calls for Legalizing Sexual Harassment & Privatizing Roads 2:30:58

1M ago2:30:58

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Last week, Ben Burgis debated libertarian economist Walter Block. Tonight, we're playing you the recording. (The debate was hosted by the magazine Merion West, which will be simultaneously releasing it on their podcast.) This was a continuation of a written debate that started with Ben's article "The Case for Democratic Socialism": https://merionwe…

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February 20, 2025 - Ryan Cooper | Eric Blanc | Erik Baker 1:01:04

2M ago1:01:04

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The Confirmation of Kash Patel as Trump's Dumbest Self-inflicted Wound to Weaken America and Accelerate Its Collapse as a World Power | In Crushing of the Federal WorkForce, Musk and Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make Trump's Tax Cuts to the Super-Wealthy Permanent | The Fraud of the Can-Do Power of Positive Thinking as We Head Into An Era o…

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In Crushing the Federal WorkForce, Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make His Tax Cuts Permanent 21:29

2M ago21:29

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In Crushing the Federal WorkForce, Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make His Tax Cuts Permanent by Ian MastersBy Ian Masters

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Episode #22: Ben Burgis & Walter Block 1:29:24

2M ago1:29:24

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In this episode, Ben Burgis once more debates Walter Block.

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February 19, 2025 - Simon Shuster | Emma Ashford | Katherine Stewart 1:03:51

2M ago1:03:51

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After Throwing Ukraine Under the Bus, Trump is Now Trashing Zelensky | What Can Ukraine Do to Defend Itself and Rebuild After Trump Sells the Country out to Putin? | How Trump Rode Into the White House Again on a Wave of Reactionary Nihilismbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.…

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February 18, 2025 - Sasha Abramsky | John Ganz | Jacob Heilbrunn 1:02:45

2M ago1:02:45

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From a Mad English King 249 Years Later to a Mad American King | The Wannabe Mob Boss Trump's Early Years With Made Men His Father Dealt With | Trump's Mafia-Style Foreign Policy as the Mob Boss Putin Meets With The Wannabe Mob Boss in Saudi Arabiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfa…

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Season 7 Episode 3: Vivek Chibber is Done with Your Nonsense 1:55:10

2M ago1:55:10

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Vivek Chibber is an sociology professor at NYU, the editor the socialist journal Catalyst, and the host of Jacobin's new podcast "Confronting Capitalism." He's written a few books, including "The Class Matrix." Recently, a lot of the most unhinged people on Left Twitter got very mad at him for a "Confronting Capitalism" episode he did trying to ana…

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February 17, 2025 - Daniel Treisman | David Andelman | James Risen 1:01:00

2M ago1:01:00

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While Trump Brings Putin Out From the Cold of International Isolation, He Hangs Ukraine Out to Dry | An Assessment of What the Europeans Can Do to Help Ukraine As Trump Sells Out European Security | Will the Press Make a Stand as Trump Tries to Bring the AP to Heel?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersm…

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February 15, 2025 - Charles Kupchan | Kim Lane Scheppele | James Zirin 1:03:09

2M ago1:03:09

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Vance Tells Allies Russia is Not the Enemy, Europe's Enemy is Within, and It's... Wokeness! | A Global Alliance of Autocrats and Kleptocrats Emerges as Trump Follows Orban's Playbook | Our Top Law Enforcer Pam Bondi Embraces Lawlessness and Corruptionbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socia…

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February 13, 2025 - Allison McManus | Michael Hiltzik | Timothy Shenk 1:01:22

2M ago1:01:22

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Trump is Selling Out Ukraine to Putin Who He Is Going to Bat For to Have the Pariah Readmitted to the G7 | Republican Senators Confirm an Anti-Vaxxer and Conspiracy Monger to Head HHS | How the Left Lost Its Political Footing and How to Get it Backbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfa…

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