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Jul 28, 2022

*I was invited to friend of the show Ben Norton's Multipolarista to discuss Wag the Dog, an excellent, somewhat forgotten political satire of US media and war.*

The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine,...


Jul 26, 2022

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Gabriel Rockhill  (@GabrielRockhill) is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University.

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Jul 18, 2022

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Friend of the show Amanda Yee returns to talk about Chinese rural social media celebrities. 

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Jul 14, 2022

*I was invited to join What the Huck?! to talk translation, Eurocentrism, and the 3% problem.  This is roughly half of the conversation. Check out What the Huck?! on your podcatcher to download the entire episode or watch it on YouTube*

Today we're joined by special a very special guest, our friend Sina Rahmani from...


Jul 10, 2022

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@HunnicuttWolfe) is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus.  Friend of the podcast Max Ajl (@maxajl) interviews him about his new book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021)

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