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    Politics, History & Society

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    Live Show Beg-A-Thon: Wednesday Oct 21 - Promo!

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    Oct 20, 2026 • 3 min

    Ep 245: The Authenticity Affect (Part III) - Left Politics as Effete, College Kid Artifice

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    Oct 7, 2026 • 1 h 20 min

    News Brief: 2028, Israel's Progressive Rebrand and the Risk of "Genocide" as Rhetorical Box Check

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    Oct 6, 2026 • 30 min

    Ep 244: The Authenticity Affect (Part II) - The Dopey, Power-Flattering, Media-Created "Maverick" Politician

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    Sep 30, 2026 • 1 h 08 min

    Ep 242 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 2: US Empire as Mysterious, Teleological Force

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    Aug 19, 2026 • 1 h 17 min

    News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials' Responsibility for Gaza Genocide

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    Jul 29, 2026 • 41 min

    News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel's "Right to Exist" 1,001 Times vs Only 6 For Palestine

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    Jul 15, 2026 • 29 min

    News Brief: The ADL's Bogus Origin Story and Its Rise as Ideological Enforcer for Empire and Israel

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    Jun 24, 2026 • 42 min

    News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times

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    May 28, 2026 • 40 min

    Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction

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    May 20, 2026 • 1 h 31 min

    News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope

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    Apr 22, 2026 • 51 min

    Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle

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    Apr 15, 2026 • 1 h 22 min

    News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields'

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    Apr 1, 2026 • 18 min

    News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War

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    Mar 25, 2026 • 35 min

    "Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates

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    Mar 11, 2026 • 1 h 22 min

    News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago

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    Feb 18, 2026 • 46 min

    News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism

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    Jan 30, 2026 • 40 min

    Ep 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy

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    Jan 28, 2026 • 1 h 24 min

    News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis

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    Jan 22, 2026 • 43 min

    News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian

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    Jan 17, 2026 • 25 min

    News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota

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    Jan 7, 2026 • 28 min

    Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center

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    Dec 10, 2025 • 1 h 29 min

    News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy

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    Dec 3, 2025 • 45 min

    Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms

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    Nov 26, 2025 • 1 h 18 min

    Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour

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    Nov 19, 2025 • 1 h 41 min

    News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" Pretext at Face Value

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    Oct 29, 2025 • 23 min

    News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 and 2028

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    Oct 13, 2025 • 30 min

    Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport

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    Oct 1, 2025 • 1 h 14 min

    Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)

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    Aug 13, 2025 • 1 h 34 min

    Ep 226: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)

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    Aug 6, 2025 • 1 h 08 min

    Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'

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    Jul 23, 2025 • 1 h 04 min

    News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani

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    Jul 1, 2025 • 38 min

    News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza

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    Jun 19, 2025 • 29 min

    News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Days

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    Jun 17, 2025 • 32 min

    News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack on Iran

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    Jun 13, 2025 • 30 min

    Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves

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    Jun 4, 2025 • 1 h 21 min

    News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign His Own Ethnic Cleansing

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    May 22, 2025 • 23 min

    News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform

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    May 7, 2025 • 37 min

    Episode 220: The Power of Thought-Terminating Bad Guy Labels

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    Apr 30, 2025 • 1 h 21 min

    News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Political Dissidents

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    Apr 2, 2025 • 28 min
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