Episode 1085
White evangelicals in opposition.
Oct 23 2019
One of the most interesting things about Trump is he actually doesn't care about the veneer of US support for democracy. We heard past presidents spend a lot of time portraying US military interventions, invasions, and wars within this rhetoric of democracy and promoting human rights and very lofty ideals that essentially masked military intervention, power grabs, attempts at extracting resources from other countries, and attempts to subjugate other countries. In some ways, I'd argue Trump has been refreshing because he doesn't bother with that rhetoric.
Twenty-two years after last joining us, we welcome back Mohamad Bazzi. He discusses his latest at the Guardian, "Trump promised no wars. Now he’s a Bush-style regime change president," and "Trump’s war in Iran marks the culmination of his imperial presidency."
"The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview in which he, "fights to wake up from a DARVOnian nightmare."
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Here's what we read this week.
For Saturday's show:
Waste Only: How the Plastics Industry is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World - Sharon Lerner / The Intercept
Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes - Anne Nassauer / University of California Press
Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right - Jack Jackson / University of Pennsylvania Press.
Extra Reading:
Can you hear me? - Greta Thunberg / Communists in Situ
Immigrants as a Weapon: Global Nationalism and American Power - Yasha Levine / Substack
The Reactionary Heartland Is a Myth - Matthew E. Stanley and Paul M. Renfro / Dissent
Basic income bows to the master - Ana Cecilia Dinerstein / openDemocracy
The voice from the black hole - Sam Kriss /
More Than A Wall Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US borders - Todd Miller / Transnational Institute
Everything Must Go - Whitney Curry Wimbish / The Baffler