Best of G&R: Capitol Riots and The Ruling Class
Late for the Sky: Southwest Airlines as a Metaphor for 2022, EOY and Remembering Friends
Punching Left: Why the Democrats Suck, part 2, and R.I.P. Mike Davis
The Democratic Party is about to get pummeled in the mid-term elections next week. Scott and Bob followed up on their recent discussion with Noam Chomsky on the devolution of the Democrats and their abandonment of working class issues since the 1970s (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Ngm…) by discussing the their failure to offer up a real resistance to the Republicans.
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We take a historical approach–talking about the GOP-stolen election of 2000 and the Democrat’s failure to fight in Florida when Bush had people in the streets and Gore rejected any suggestion to have similar protests. We talk about the failure of Barack Obama to help anyone win office other than himself and point out that the Democratic Party suffered huge losses in state races through the Obama years.
Lula Wins! Report from Brazil w/ Mike Elk of “Payday Report”
Extremism, the BBC, and Why the Center Cannot Hold
Is Giorgia Meloni the Next Mussolini? Italian Politics w/ Prof. Francesco Mazzucotelli
Don’t Mess with the Archivists! Donald Trump’s Documents Troubles. And R.I.P. Barbara Ehrenreich
Donald Trump might finally be in real trouble, because of . . . archivists?
Green and Red shows the love to archivists and librarians!
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We had a good discussion in this episode about the way national security documents are classified, who can see them, how they’re de-classified, and Trump’s theft of vital top secret documents that prompted the FBI to search Mar-a-Largo.