7 August 2025
Geopolitics
Jeffrey Sachs: Netanyahu’s Troubles
25 January 2024 A number of topics are covered: Assange, press freedom. US foreign policy, Ukraine Russia war, Israel
Austerity
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – 2018 End of Year Roundup
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. In our 2018 year end […]
Geopolitics
Lawrence Wilkerson, Glenn Diesen – The Path From Forever Wars to Nuclear War
11 Ocotber 2025
I listened to your podcast which was supposed to be a history, but Dr. Mearsheimer’s summary was in fact completely ahistorical. The professor told a tendentious story which starts from Netanyahu’s and Smotrich’s racist, genocidal regime and then explains that this was always what Zionism was and is. In fact, the government of Israel today is a corruption of Zionism. The more interesting question is how did Zionism, which is simply the movement for the national liberation of the Jewish people, the same desire shared today by the Palestinians the Kurds, and numerous other people who live under governments where their autonomy is denied, become so corrupted.
This question which needs more analysis is intertwined with Dr. Mearsheimer’s simplistic answer that US support of Israel is all because of the Israel Lobby. This is inverted logic. Israel is supported simply because it does the dirty work of the US empire. Understanding the history behind events is the only way to make sense of them. Unfortunately, this podcast served up an overly simplistic narrative which did nothing to help us gain that better understanding.