The Un-Diplomatic Podcast
By Van Jackson
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Global power to the people. A show about the class politics of geopolitics. Hosted by Van Jackson, Julia Gledhill, and Matt Duss. The views expressed are theirs alone (not those of any institution or employer).
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AOC Against Arming Israel | Iran War as Class War | “3,000 Targets Left” is Not A Strategy | NATO’s America Problem | Ep. 295
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Oil Crisis, Food Crisis, and Revolution | Iran War Casualties | Bombing Ecuador | Cuba Blockade | Far-Right Death Threats | Ep. 294
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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The Anti-Imperialist Opportunity w/ Morgan Spector: A Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 293
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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The Iran War is a Global financial Crisis | China Doesn't Want Hegemony | Joe Kent's Resignation | Ep. 292
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Trading War with China for War with Iran? The Truth About A Munitions Shortfall | Ep. 291
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Techno-Industrialism and the Plot to Save America, w/ Maddy Crowell | Ep. 290
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Five Uncomfortable Truths About War Against Iran | Ep. 289
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Iran War Conspiracy | A.I. Nuclear Escalation Threat | Joint Staff Purge | Palantir Democrats | Ep. 288
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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AOC's Anti-Fascist Foreign Policy | Iran War Dilemma | Anthropic A.I. Against the War Machine? | Democratic Party in Crisis | Ep. 287
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Peace Activism, the Iraq War, and the New Militarism w/ David Cortright | Ep. 286
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Live! What's Causing America's Imperial Decline? | Ep. 285
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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The End of Arms Control | Pentagon Concentration Camps | Bezos Kills the Washington Post | Neocons Still Run DC? | Ep. 284
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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US-Far Right Separatism Collab Threatens Canada | Denmark's Debt Weapon | Industrial Manufacturing Fetish | Russia's Drone War of Attrition | Ep. 283
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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The Military is Trapped Between Fascism and Civil War | Ep. 282
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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The Rupture of the “Rules-Based International Order” w/ Seva Gunitsky | Ep. 281
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Iranian Revolution? | Joseph Stiglitz Wants to Contain America | Network-State Neocolonialism in Greenland | Nationalizing the Defense Industry | Ep. 280
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Venezuela’s Blood for Oil “Performative Accumulation" | NATO’s Greenland Threat | Economics of Empire | A.I. Data Centers | Ep. 279
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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A House of Dynamite (2025) w/ Scott Sagan | Ep. 278
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Decoding Trump’s National Security Strategy w/ American Prestige Pod | Ep. 277
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Primitive Accumulation, Imperialism, and Culture-War Grand Strategy w/ Jacob Shapiro | Ep. 276
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Netflix’s Marines (2025) w/ Sam Carliner | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 275
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Leaving Washington | NATO Hawk to NATO Dove | Teaching International Relations | Realities of PhD Life | Ep. 274
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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"Seditious" NatSec Democrats | MAGA’s A.I. Rupture | Venezuela Regime Change | Ukraine Peace Plan | Ep. 273
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Bret Stephens' Case for Iraq-ing Venezuela | Palantir Democrats | G-7 Imperialist Multilateralism | Real War on Fake Antifa | Ep. 272
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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The Geopolitics of Jeffrey Epstein and Hegemonic Decline w/ Jeet Heer | Ep. 271
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Bombing Latin America | Who’s Afraid of Zohran? | Economic Depression Hiding in Plain Sight | Trump Embarrasses Asia | Ep. 270
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Did Trump End Great-Power Rivalry with China? Tactical Economic Detente Explained | Ep. 269
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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WarGames (part II) w/ Sam Ratner and Andy Facini | Ep. 268
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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WarGames w/ Sam Ratner and Andy Facini | Ep. 267
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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RAND Corporation Crisis of Capital | Bannon Says Trump 2028 | Graham Platner Tattoo-Gate | China Decoupling | CIA Rethinks China | Ep. 266
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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CIA in Venezuela | The Pentagon’s War on Journalists | China Trade Crisis | Ashley Tellis Scandal | Gaza Ceasefire | Ep. 265
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Inter-Capitalist War and the End of the Nation-State (as we know it) w/ Jamie Merchant | Ep. 264
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Hegseth's War on Fat Generals | Gaza Flotilla | China Soybeans | NSPM-7 is Trump's War on the Left | Government Shutdown | Ep. 263
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Live Lecture! Left and Right Visions of Global Order: Why Liberal Internationalism is Dead | Ep. 262
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Live Lecture! What Was the “Liberal International Order?” | Ep. 261
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Militarized Commons: How Territorial Competition is Destroying the South China Sea | Ep. 260
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Antifa, Jimmy Kimmel, and Emergency Politics | TikTok Deal with China | Oligarchy’s Economic Recession | The National Defense Strategy Still Hates China
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Ezra Klein Loves (some) Political Violence | The War Department and the Asia-Pacific Debate | Israel Attacks Qatar | South Korea and ICE | Ep. 258
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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An Oral History of the Progressive Foreign Policy Moment (and what comes next) | Ep. 257
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Trump's War on Soros | US Covert Action in Denmark | Nationalizing Lockheed Martin | MAGA’s China Contradiction | Ep. 256
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Tulsi Gabbard’s War on Intelligence | Blowback on the NatSec Elite | White Nationalist State Dept | Warmongering Asia Hands | Ep. 255
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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D.C. Military Occupation | Trump-Putin Summit | Guesting on Hasan Piker | Bloody Blinken’s WSJ Op-Ed | Ep. 254
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Anti-Intellectualism in Pentagon Life | BRICS and Civilizational War | Palestine Action | ICE Recruiting Fascists | Ep. 253
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Live! Roots Action National Teach-In on Militarism Under Trump | Ep. 252
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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White Nationalist Social Democracy | Oil v. Israeli Primacy | Post-American Korean Peninsula | Japan’s Failure of Imagination | Ep. 251
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Spencer Ackerman's New York State of Mind: Peace, Populism, and Zohran Mamdani | Ep. 250
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Run For Your Life: A Nostalgia Trap Podcast Crossover | Ep. 249
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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The Art of Memoir and Stories of Conversion: A Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 248
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Project 2029 Farce | The Zohran Mamdani Model | Peter Thiel, Anti-Christ? | Fascist Public Policy | Nobody Likes Hegemony | Ukraine-China Missiles | Ep. 247
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Andor Season 2 Finale + Rogue One w/ Matt Duss and Paul Adlerstein | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 246
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Tucker Carlson Ruins Ted Cruz | No War with Iran | “No Kings” Protests | Democrats Need a Peace Agenda | Ep. 245
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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War on California, United Farm Workers, and Leaving the “Lockheed Left” w/ Antonio De Loera | Ep. 244
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Abolish Palantir | Ukraine Drones | White Supremacy State Department | South Korea's Bernie Sanders | Ep. 243
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Live! The Pacific Sovereignty Deficit and Sino-US Rivalry | Ep. 242
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May 31, 2025 |
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Andor Season 1 Finale with David Austin Walsh | Bang-Bang Cross-Over | Ep. 241
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May 24, 2025 |
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Labor Strategy at the End of the World w/ Eric Blanc | Ep. 240
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May 16, 2025 |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel on Europe's Far Right, European Rearmament, and the Trump Effect | Ep. 239
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May 11, 2025 |
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Kashmir Nuke Crisis | Houthi Ceasefire | China's 6th-Gen Fighter | Post-American Asia | Fascist Budgeting | Ep. 238
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May 08, 2025 |
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Andor, Episodes 1–3 w/ Jenny G. Zhang | Bang-Bang Podcast Cross-Over | Ep. 237
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May 02, 2025 |
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Nuke-You-Lear Strategy w/ Emma Claire Foley | Ep. 236
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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The Siege (1998) w/ Kevin Fox | Bang-Bang Podcast Cross-Over | Ep. 235
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Zombie Economic Nationalism | Antifascist Protest | Arundhati Roy | Who Tariffs Are Good For Ep. 234
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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The Four Books Billionaires Think Explain International Relations (and why they're wrong!) | Ep. 233
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Tariffs as Unwinnable Economic War in an Emerging Post-American Order | Ep. 232
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Understanding Economic Crisis: Three Charts That Explain What’s Wrong With Capitalism Today | Ep. 231
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Live! Dr. Van Jackson Speaks to the Catholic University of America about Progressive Foreign Policy | Ep. 230
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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US War Crime Confessions | Europe's Militarism Risk | Taiwan's Angst | BYD Versus Tesla | Ep. 229
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Pete Hegseth’s War Plan Leak | JD Vance’s War on Europe | Fentanyl Isn’t WMD | Mineral Geopolitics in the Congo | Bernie-AOC Popularity | Ep. 228
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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The Sum of All Fears (2002) w/ Max Read | Ep. 227
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Grand Strategy for (War Crime) Dummies | Rahm Emmanuel for Exile | AUKUS Politics | Mahmoud Khalil | Ep. 226
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Palestine at the Oscars | China Tariffs NBD | Working-Class Homeless | Ukraine's Peace Problems | Ep. 225
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Non-Aligned Europe | Primacy-Multipolarity | Nuking the Nuclear Triad | Ukraine's Critical Minerals | Ep. 224
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Three Kings (1999) w/ Kevin Fox | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 223
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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White Nationalism and China | Ukraine's Imperial Peace | Tupac and the Pentagon | Mercenary Monroe Doctrine | Democratic War Hawks | Ep. 222
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Live Lecture! What Good is the National Interest? Rethinking the Foundations of Peace, Democracy, and War
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Palantir is Evil | USAID w/out World War III | ICE Performing Terror | Imagining Restraint in Asia | Foreign Influence is the New Cocaine | Ep. 220
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Perils of Christian Patriotism | We're All Antifascist (Right?) | How to Cut the Pentagon Ep. 219
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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How Saudi Arabia Bought Trump, DEI and Militarism, Nuclear No First-Use, Elon Musk and the Far Right | Ep. 218
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Live! Guest Daniel Bessner on The Crisis of Liberalism, The Failure of Democrats, and the Truth About Chomsky | Ep. 217
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Ender's Game w/ Alexander McCoy (2013) | Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 216
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex w/ Max Read | Ep. 215
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Live! Stephen Wertheim on War and Peace in Europe and Asia Ep. 214
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Live Dumpster Fire: Military Primacy is Anti-LGBTQ | Amazon’s Union-Busting | Economic Anxiety and the Right | Ep. 213
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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Livestream! Confronting China Wargames and Nuclear Escalation | Ep. 212
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Dumpster Fire: MAGA Views Syria, North Korea Crisis, China and the Bully Pulpit, Annexing Mexico and Canada | Ep. 211
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Dumpster Fire: South Korean Self-Coup Attempt, NZ Labour Against AUKUS, Canada Annexation Threat | Ep. 210
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Beating Ethnonationalism, Trump’s Appointees, the AntiWar Myth, Asia’s Hottest Flashpoint, Imperial Foreign Policy | Ep. 209
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Dumpster Fire: People Hate Cheney, Primacy is Bipartisan, Plundering Ukraine, Philippines Assassination Threat, Fareed Zakaria as Sychophant, Hungary’s Lessons | Ep. 208
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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European Self-Reliance, Hopefully (w/ Nevada Lee) | Ep. 207
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Dumpster Fire: Temu Supply Chains Gig-ified, The Russian Missile Crisis, New Zealand’s Hikoi | Ep. 206
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Battle of Algiers (1966) | A Bang-Bang Podcast Crossover | Ep. 205
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Militarized Police: Women for Weapons Trade Transparency and the Imperial Boomerang | Ep. 204
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Counterterrorism Copycats w/ Sarah Yager and Yumna Rizvi | Ep. 203
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Who Matters? Foreign Policy’s Place in the Presidential Election, w/ Chris Shell | Ep. 202
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Political Campaigns, and China Rivalry--Block & Build Crossover | Ep. 201
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Free Preview of Bang-Bang Podcast | Ep. 200
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Veep Debate, Ta -Nehisi Coates Slays Anti-Semitism, Middle East War, China War Fanatics | Ep. 199
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Combat Obscura--A Bang-Bang Podcast Cross-Over | Ep. 198
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Live! World War III and the Presidential Election | Ep. 197
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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China Tripping, Israel's Horizontal Escalation, Pakistan's Climate-Debt Nexus | Ep. 196
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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MAGA foreign policy influencers, democratic party contradictions, manufacturing fetishes | Ep. 195
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Anti-War Organizing, Student Activism, and the Uncommitted Movement | Ep. 194
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Nuclear Disarmament v. Nuclear Abolition | Ep. 193
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Understanding Primacy: Hegemonicon Podcast Cross-over | Ep. 192
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Gaza and the Moral Question of Public Service | Ep. 191
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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The Truth About Venezuela, w/ Michael Paarlberg and Maria Espinosa | Ep. 190
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Kamala’s Opportunity, War on the Homeless, Trade Wife Resurgence, Economic Nationalism, Netanyahu’s Nonsense
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Myanmar’s Gen Z Revolutionaries on an Everyday Grind | Ep. 188
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Live: Biden's Electoral Crisis, Foreign Policy Gaslighting | Ep. 187
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Kamala Harris and the Race to Replace Biden | Ep. 186
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Think Tank Life, Chiquita Banana Death Squads, The New Yorker Treatment, Defund ICBMs | Ep. 185
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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The Logic of Peacemaking: A Live Event on Nukes and Statecraft | Ep. 184
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Fake 'peace through strength,' Mexico's election, A.I. hasn't changed War, D-Day's Legacy | Ep. 183
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Working-Class Foreign Policy and the Pivot to Asia | EP. 182
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Best of: Daniel Immerwahr on Star Wars as Low-Key Anti-Imperialism | Ep. 181
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May 30, 2024 |
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Best of: Daniel Immerwahr on Why Geopolitics is a Racket | Ep. 180
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May 23, 2024 |
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Live Event! US Foreign Policy and the 2024 Elections | Ep. 179
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Chinese Capitalism v. Debt Geopolitics w/ Shahar Hameiri | Ep. 178
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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The Possibilities of Progressive Worldmaking | Ep. 177
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Guam, War, and the Non-Sovereign Pacific, w/ Kenneth Gofigan Kuper | Ep. 176
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Inequality, IR Theory, and the Imperial Blind Spot | Ep. 175
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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The Left Debates Foreign Policy! | Ep. 174
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Silicon Valley’s Galactic Colony Fetish, w/ Alina Utrata | Ep. 173
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Reactionary Worldmaking of Counter-Insurgency, w/ Joseph Mackay | Ep. 172
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Death of the Think-Tanker w/ Matthew Petti | Ep. 171
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Robbie Shilliam on Frontier Imperialism and Post-BLM International Relations | Ep. 170
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Adom Getachew: W.E.B. Du Bois’s International Thought | Ep. 169
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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The Writers' Strike, Global Film, and Entertainment Multipolarity, w/ Kevin Fox | Ep. 168
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Live Show! China, US Grand Strategy, and the Inequality Problem | Ep. 167
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Fighting Pentagon Graft, w/ William Hartung and Julia Gledhill
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Dissident Thinking, Foreign Policy for the Middle Class, and Progressive Fissures Around Militarism | Ep. 165
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Part II: Classical Realism Versus International Relations, Interview w/ Jonathan Kirshner | Ep. 164
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Part I: Classical Realism Versus International Relations, Interview w/ Jonathan Kirshner | Ep. 163
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Rethinking International Order: 15th Century Maritime Asia and Today w/ Manjeet Pardesi | Ep. 162
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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American Hegemony v. New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy | Ep. 161
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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How China Thinks About Asian Security Order, w/ Carla Freeman | Ep. 160
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Where is Thailand Now? w/ Aim Sinpeng and Greg Raymond
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Unmaking Asian Exceptionalism, w/ Gaiutra Bahadur | Ep. 158
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Kissinger's Cambodia Killings, w/ Nick Turse | Ep. 157
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Is Fukuyama Liberalism the 'End of History?' w/ Daniel Bessner | Ep. 156
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May 27, 2023 |
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Narrating the Pacific in Indo-Pacific, w/ Sandra Tarte | Ep. 155
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May 19, 2023 |
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Democracy Over Authoritarianism w/ Charles Dunst | Ep. 154
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May 15, 2023 |
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Solving the Security Puzzle with Security in Context | Ep. 153
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May 04, 2023 |
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Part II: On a Third Nuclear Age and Multipolar Order w/ Benjamin Zala | Ep. 152
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Part I: On a Third Nuclear Age and Multipolar Order w/ Benjamin Zala | Ep. 151
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Michael Kazin! The Democratic Party, Leftism, and Global Policy | Ep. 150
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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AUKUS, Arms-Racing, and the Dollar Supremacy Debate | Ep. 149
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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How Black Americans View Ukraine, Taiwan, and America's Global Role, w/ Chris Shell | Ep. 148
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Movie Night: Bulworth, w/ Colette Shade and Matt Duss | Ep. 147
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Fearing Atlantic Revolution and the Geopolitical Literacy of Slaves, w/ Samantha Payne | Ep. 146
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Raging Against the Foreign Policy Conversation | Ep. 145
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Pacific Power Paradox Book Launch Talk at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy | Ep. 144
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Realism's Imperial Origins Part II, w/ Dr. Matthew Specter | Ep. 143
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Realism's Imperial Origins Part I, w/ Dr. Matthew Specter | Ep. 142
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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An Oral History of the Pivot to Asia, and Confronting the National Security State | Ep. 141
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Empathy, Strategy, and Statecraft, w/ Claire Yorke | Ep. 140
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Getting Southeast Asia Right, with Elina Noor, Sebastian Strangio, and Evan Laksmana | Ep. 139
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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A Better Biden Doctrine, w/ Matt Duss and Stephen Wertheim | Ep. 138
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Part II: Star Wars as Anti-Imperialism? The Politics of George Lucas, w/ Daniel Immerwahr | Ep. 137
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Part I: Geopolitics is a Racket, w/ Daniel Immerwahr | Ep. 136
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Red-Baiting, the CIA's War in China, and Repression Politics: Interview w/ John Delury | Ep. 135
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Part II: Unsettling Liberal Hegemony with Jeannie Morefield | Ep. 134
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Part I: Unsettling Liberal Hegemony with Jeannie Morefield | Ep. 133
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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China's Mass Uprisings, Anti-Semitism as Weapon, the Origins of Rivalry, Left v. Right Radicalism | Ep. 132
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Unipolarity's Nostalgia Trap: Interview w/ David Parsons | Ep. 131
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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A Global Economy for the Ruling Class? Interview w/ Adam Dean and Tim Barker | Ep. 130
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Best of: Peace Intellectuals, Unf**king Rivalries, Russian Kleptocracy, the Trouble with Sanctions | Ep. 129
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Whataboutism and the China Debate: A Panel at Australian National University | Ep. 128
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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From Imperial Agent to Anti-War Advocate: Interview w/ Lyle Jeremy Rubin | Ep. 127
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Pacific Paranoia, Central Banks are the Opp, Trumping Bush's Fascism, Red-Scare Politics Against Democracy | Ep. 126
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Best of: How the Left Fights the New Global Right: Interview with John Feffer | Ep. 125
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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US Pacific Hypocrisy in Guam, Capital Loves Ethnonationalism, Taiwan-sanity, Jiu Jitsu v. IR | Ep. 124
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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California Radical: Interview w/ Malcolm Harris, Author of Kids These Days and Palo Alto | Ep. 123
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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How'd We Get North Korea So Wrong? Guest Lecture with Dr. Andrew Yeo | Ep. 122
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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The Myth of Security versus Human Rights, Taiwan Ambiguity, Realism about Cambodia, the Conservative Foreign Policy Debate | Ep. 121
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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What's Good Strategy? Interview w/ Dr. Jeff Meiser | Ep. 120
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May 26, 2022 |
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Unrestrained Right and Democrats as the War Party, Military Keynesianism, Putin's Prospect Theory, Dictatorship in the Philippines | Ep. 119
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May 20, 2022 |
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When Realists Meet the Left, Peace Is Non-Partisan, Oligarchs Take All, Kamala Harris's Space Boogie | Ep. 118
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May 05, 2022 |
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Red-Brown Alliances Suck, Singapore's Post-American Asia, War as the Enemy of Progress, Military-Climate Change Tradeoff | Ep. 117
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Environmental Anarchy w/ the Kurt Vonnegut of International Relations: Interview w/ Dr. Mark Beeson | Ep. 116
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Security Studies in the Utopian '90s, Game Theory v. Nostradamus, Kanye West and the Hustle Culture, Coherent Anti-Imperialism | Ep. 115
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Neoliberal Strategy Kills Asian Security: Big Reveal on the Pacific Power Paradox Book with Asia Society Korea Branch | Ep. 114
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Special Roundtable Event: The Closest Presidential Election in South Korean History | Ep. 113
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Oligarchy is Global, Piketty's Socialism vs. China, Mearsheimer's Realism Controversy, OG Wars and Deterrence Success | Ep. 112
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Ice Cream Peace Theory, Red-Baiting Down Under, No Lames for President, South Korean Nukes, Russia-Ukraine | Ep. 111
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Guest Host James Palmer Talks the Russia Debate, Escalation Ladders, China Watching | Ep. 110
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Writing a Best-Seller While Broke: Interview w/ James Palmer of Foreign Policy Magazine | Ep. 109
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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How the Left Fights the New Global Right: Interview with John Feffer | Ep. 108 Hustle
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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Guest Host Dr. Emma Ashford Talks Asia's Power Problems, Washington's Free Trade Impasse, How to Deal with Russia | Ep. 107
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Peace Intellectuals, Unf**king Rivalries, Russian Kleptocracy, the Trouble with Sanctions | Ep. 106
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Intellectual Hustling: Interview with the Arms Control Wonk, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis | Ep. 105
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Guest Host John Delury Talks Pacific Hypocrisy, Why Historians Avoid Prediction, China Rivalry, and South Korean Politics | Ep. 104
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Nuclear Precarity: Keynote Lecture on Nuclear War Risks in East Asia | Ep. 103
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class? Chicago Council on Global Affairs Joins the Pod | Ep. 102
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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AUKUS and Asia: A Night with the Australian Institute of International Affairs | Ep. 101
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Guest Host Sebastian Strangio Talks Journalism, Southeast Asia, and Great-Power Ideological Competition | Ep. 100
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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South Korea's Bernie Sanders, Australian Submarines, Marxism Versus Liberalism, Chinese Labor Versus Oligarchy | Ep. 99
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Philippines' Pacquiao Populism Problem, Why Military Grifters Love Deterrence by Denial, the Nuclear Unrestraint Problem, WTH is a Classical Liberal? | Ep. 98
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Analytic Tradecraft with Future Tense Host, Abhijnan Rej | Ep. 97
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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The Unrestrained Quincy v. Liberalism Debate, Fighting Campism within the Left, China's Empire in Tibet | Ep. 96
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Progressive Politics and North Korean Nuclear Crises: Dr. Van Jackson's Interview with NK News | Ep. 95
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Using China to Kill US Democracy, New Zealand's Antiracist China Challenge, The Roosevelt Doctrine Farce, Don't Punch Left on Cuba | Ep. 94
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Pacific Spheres of Influence, Fighting Filipinos, Strategy and the Progressive International | Ep. 93
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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China Rivalry without Racism? Wu-Tang Solidarity, Narrating Israeli Occupation v. Terrorism, Alliance Reassurance Folly | Ep. 92
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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The War on Critical Race, Socialists Aren't "Very Liberal," New Zealand Bashing, Coming Clean on Quincy, Taiwan Debate | Ep. 91
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May 12, 2021 |
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The Global Pundit Problem, De-Sexyfying UFOs, War-Avoidance Theories, Progressive Talent Pipeline | Ep. 90
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Who's the DMX of International Relations, Neoliberal Hip-Hop, Xi Jinping's Hype Man | Ep. 89
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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Don't Call Yourself a Realist! Progressive Economic Statecraft, The Farce of Offset Strategies, Why NATO Can't Deter Russia | Ep. 88
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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The Zombie Promise of Cold War Liberalism, Myanmar's Syria Risk, Japan's Taiwan Alliance | Ep. 87
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Think Tank Infighting, Guam for Dummies, Asia's Not the Indo-Pacific, Ep. 86
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Deterrence by Capable Dildos, the Hawaiian Land Grab, China Hawkery, North Korean Defectors | Ep. 85
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Taiwan Domino Theory Silliness, Think Tank Disinformation, Japan's Liberal International Order | Ep. 84
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Does Foreign Policy Have a Career Ceiling? Defense Strategy Dilemma, DC's Patt Mottinger Problem, New Zealand's Australia Problem | Ep. 83
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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A Liberal's Anti-China Game, Emily in D.C., Asia's Democracy Divide | Ep. 82
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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From Bro Culture to Fascism, Genocidal Democracy in Myanmar, QAnon is NOT Left, South Korean Illiberalism | Ep. 81
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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The Global Far Right is a Protestant Reformation for Idiots, Think Tank Dark Money, Getting Real on The Indo-Pacific Game | Ep. 80
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Galactic Gaslighting, Futurism v. Moneyballing, Japan's Five-Eyes Controversy, Obama's Drone Reckoning | Ep. 79
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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The Asia Tsar Question, McDonald's Peace Theory is Over, The Truth about Liberal IR, Israel's Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone of Death | Ep. 78
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Grand Strategic Farce, How the US Lost Asia, The "Free Chosun" Question, Student Debt Cancellation | Ep. 77
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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China Squeezes Aussies, Kim Jong Un's Biden Surprise, Hawks Who Can't Fight, Hypersonic Missile Hype, | Ep. 76
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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The Fascism Debate, Interviewing at Stanford, Think Tank Corruption, Jonah Ryan's Veep Wisdom | Ep. 75
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Taiwan is the O.G. China, Stanford's Hoover Controversy, Totalitarian Elon Musk, Milton Friedman and LL Cool J | Ep. 74
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Franz Fanon v. Ice Cube v. 50 Cent, Taiwan's No Pawn, China Fighting in the Pacific Islands, Exit from Hegemony | Ep. 73
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Washington's War against Peace, Rivalries are Dumb, Real Diversity, Literary Agent Lessons | Ep. 72
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Judd Apatow Gets China Right, What's the Indo-Pacific Quad? Turkish Empire, Indian Sphere of Influence | Ep. 71
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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When the Black Panthers Met Kim Il Sung: Writer's Room with Benjamin Young | Ep. 71
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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What is Good Strategy? Wargaming Hegemony, Black Armed Resistance, Neoliberalism Fakes Its Death, the China Security Dilemma Question | Ep. 70
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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The 'Asian Mind,' Biden's Credibility Non-Problem, India Trolls China, Marxist v. Progressive Foreign Policy | Ep. 69
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Star Wars as America's Future, The Truth about Cheney, Korea's Anti-China Left, the US Sphere of Influence | Ep. 68
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Cobra Kai Cosmopolitans, Taiwan Ambiguity, Japan Watching, and Progressive Foreign Policy | Ep. 67
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Counter-Imperial Statecraft, China Competition as White Privilege, QAnon, Neocons Return to the Democratic Party | Ep. 66
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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How to be a Pundit: Interview with Ankit Panda | Ep. 65 Hustle
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Pentagon Corruption, Money Behind the China Threat Industry, Fighting for a Foreign Policy Career | Ep. 64
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Debating Sagan v. Waltz 2.0, US Military Coup Question, the Liberal's China Contradictions, Kamala's Foreign Policy | Ep. 63
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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How to Do Think-Tanking, Wargaming Trickery, the Thucydides Crap, Alliance Problems | Ep. 62
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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VP Susan Rice--Yah or Nah? Progressive Sanctions Imperative, Allies Hedging, Pentagon's Structural Violence | Ep. 61
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Pulling Troops from Korea, Portland Strategy, Pompeo Worse Than Nixon, Progressive-ish Democrats | Ep. 60
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Can Biden FP be Progressive? Kanye the Spoiler, Anti-Fascism for All, Taiwan Insurgents, Unserious GOP| Ep. 59
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Writer's Room 1: The Book Project Begins | Ep. 58
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Unipolar-Moment Hawks, Democrats' Bad Strategy, Aussie Hedging, Kiwi's Strategic Style over Substance | Ep. 57
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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GTFO with Anti-Progressive Leftism, Taiwan Nukes, the Military Power Fallacy, the meaning of Kim Jong Un's Restraint | Ep. 56
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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How NOT to Network in DC, Asia's 'Deterrence is Failing' Trap, China-India v. North Korea | Ep. 55
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Bernie's Foreign Policy Brain Trust: Interview w/ Matt Duss | Hustle Ep. 54
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Can Liberals and Marxists Get Along? Where's the Left on China Decoupling? Australia's Dilemma, Singapore's Warning | Ep. 53
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Left Technocracy vs Kleptocracy, Black Lives Matter is Foreign Policy, China Hawks against Order, Stop Terrorizing Antifa | Ep. 52
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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The Anti-China Think Tank, Corrupt Cocktail Parties, India v. China, Marines v. Pentagon, North Korea v. Everyone | Ep. 51
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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China's Useful Idiot, Hawks Failing Up, Arms-Racing to Security, NZ Conspiracy Theory, GOP against International Order, Getting Taiwan Wrong | Ep. 50
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May 27, 2020 |
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Kissinger's Legacy, Anti-War Biden, Cancel Space Force, Wrong on Iran, Incompetence All the Way Down | Ep. 49
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May 21, 2020 |
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Creative Defense Hawks, Strategic Nihilism, Doing Korean Peace Right, and Speaking China's Language | Ep. 48
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May 13, 2020 |
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The Blob's Debate Dilemma, Orwell on Nuclear Tyranny, On Becoming a North Korea Watcher, GOP War on China, Big Data BS | Ep. 47
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May 07, 2020 |
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Korea Doves and Japan Hawks, Grand Strategy Isn't Over, the Disappearing Dictator, We're All BBC Dad Now | Ep. 46
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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The Chris Murphy Doctrine, Gen X Hawks and Gen Z Doves, the Neoliberal Split on China, Cyberpunk, Socialists for Biden | Ep. 45
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Debating Black Swans, the War Metaphor, the Irony of Competing with China, North Korea Doesn't Want Help | Ep. 44
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Korea Watcher Feud, Steinbeck v. Matt Damon, Fascist-Free NATO, Proxy Paradigm Wars in IR, Singapore has No Plan B | Ep. 43
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Is US China Policy Racist? EU Expansion Debate, Dueling Chinese Diplomats, Arms-Racing with North Korea, and the Nightmare of Election Suspension | Ep. 42
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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The Pentagon versus Deterrence, Pompeo's War, US-China Conspiracy Theories, Beijing's Hegemony on the Cheap | Ep. 41
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Liberal Foreign Policy's Limits, Dictator Dilemmas, Oil Wars, and the China Debate's McCarthyist Turn | Ep. 40
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Does Taiwan Need US Nukes? War State v. Welfare State? Why Hawks Don't Get the Vietnam War, Still. Is Biden Killing the Democratic Party or Saving It? | Ep. 39
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Bernie the Strategist, Pompeo Still Doesn't Get China, Japan's Price for Losing Taiwan, Hustle v. Marxism | Ep. 38
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Restrainers in Foreign Policy, Fighting Oligarchs, China's Worst Nightmare in NZ, a European Defense Union, Fascism Infiltrates Intelligence
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Bernie Bureaucracy? Fake Arms Control, Australian Nukes, Ilhan Omar's Peace Plan, Paying Interns, Kim Jong Un Embarrassed by Trump | Ep. 36
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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China Threat Deflation v. Military Primacy, Left Technocrats, the Economic Primacy Debate, Declining American Exceptionalism, Blowing Up the Landmine Ban | Ep. 35
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Nukes You Can Use? Warren Ending Endless War, Korea's Elusive Peace, Israel's Fake Peace, and Chinese Imperialism | Ep. 34
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Godfather of Progressive Foreign Policy Part II: Interview w/ Dr. Dan Nexon | Hustle Ep. 33
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Godfather of Progressive Foreign Policy Part I: Interview w/ Dr. Dan Nexon | Hustle Ep. 32
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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The Great Warren-Sanders Convergence, Elite v. Democratic Foreign Policy, Why World War III is Trending, Fake China Trade Deal, Iran Escalation Idiocy | Ep. 31
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Democrats Debate National Security, Sort Of | Raw Uncut Ep. 30
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Liberalism's Soft Underbelly, Kasparov on Bothsidesism, China Red Scare Incoherence, and Taiwan at Risk | Ep. 29
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Assassinations and Conflict Spirals: Does the Pentagon Suck at Deterrence or is Trump Wagging the Dog? | Raw Uncut Ep. 28
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Interview w the BBC Dad, Robert Kelly: 2020 Predictions on All Things Korea and Trump | Ep. 27
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Buttigieg Foreign Policy, Bernie Sanders as Film Critic, Hashtag Never Tulsi, and How Russia Invaded...International Relations | Ep. 26
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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The Revolution Will Be Technocratic, China Decoupling and the Capitalist Peace, Defense Budget Disaster, Advice for Presidential Campaigns
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Bloomberg Foreign Policy, Nuclear No First Use, Neoliberals as the New Neocons, French Realpolitik, and Trump Won't Save Taiwan | Ep. 24
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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Of Idiocracy and Allies: A New Nuclear Age, Missile Decoupling, and Extortionist Foreign Policy | Ep. 23
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Recorded Live: North Korea Policy and the Arms Control Taboo | Ep. 22
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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US Troops in South Korea, Spheres of Influence are Gross, Economic v. Political Freedom, North Korea’s Deadline, Left on Hong Kong | Ep. 21
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Kushner's North Korea Doctrine Sucks, Biff Tannen Imperialism in Syria, China's Rise on College Campuses, Far-Right Fail on Kashmir | Ep. 20
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Engage the Enemy: Interview with Suzanne DiMaggio, Presidential Campaign Adviser, Think Tank Co-Founder | Hustle Ep. 19
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Stand with Taiwan or Else! Washington's Latest Anti-China Initiative is a Mixed Bag | Raw Uncut Ep.18
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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No Green Lanterns! Cartoon Imperialism, Jack Dorsey v. Zuckerberg, Climate Change Assassinations, Obama's Anti-Wokeness | Ep. 17
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Bad China Punditry in 3 Easy Steps: A How-To Guide | Raw Uncut Ep. 16
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Forever Wars vs. the Climate Crisis. The Parallel Diplomacy Problem. Vanishing Credibility in Asia. Giuliani's Self-Incrimination | Ep. 15
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Does Nancy Pelosi Have a Shadow Foreign Policy? She Should | Raw Uncut Ep. 14
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Silicon Valley Turns Anti-China. Why Steven Pinker Doesn't Get the Causes of War. Pompeo Won't Survive Impeachment. Making Enemies of Friends. | Ep. 13
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Is US Global Credibility in Free Fall? Yes, But My Explanation May Surprise You | Raw Uncut Ep. 12
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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Writing National Security Fiction: Interview with Dr. Kathleen McInnis | Hustle Ep. 11
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Bernie Sanders Iraq War Call-out of Biden's Judgment. Why It Matters in the Democratic Debate | Raw Uncut Ep. 10
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Don’t Count on a Militarist to End Endless War. Count on Him to Aid Turkish Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds and Protect Saudi Oil | Raw Uncut Ep. 9
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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China Can't Take a Joke, Kurds Betrayed, Strategic South Park, and John Cusack | Ep. 8
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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Corruption, Eminem Playing Eminem, or Conspiracy Theory? How to Understand US Foreign Policy Now | Ep. 7
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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It's Kim Jong Un's World, and Trump's Just Living in It | Raw Uncut Ep. 6
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Progressive versus Libertarian Foreign Policy: Irreconcilable, or Allies of Convenience? | Ep. 5
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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American Civil War 2, Electric Boogaloo? The Unreality of a President Threatening His Country | Raw Uncut Ep. 4
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Korean Peace: How to Deal with Trump's Diversionary North Korea Policy | Raw Uncut Ep. 3
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Foreign Policy Civil War in the GOP? Wu-Tang Clan, Marianne Williamson, China, and Getting Out of Afghanistan | Ep. 2
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Iran-sanity: The Battle of Ted Cruz versus Nuke Expert Who Knows Things | Raw Uncut Ep. 1
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Sep 22, 2019 |