7 August 2025
Austerity
New Economics Foundation – United Kingdom: Why are university lecturers on strike?
Excellent background information concerning the university strike in the UK Listen here
Geopolitics
Truth Defence – Day 1 of the Julian Assange extradition hearing
Taylor Hudak, Host, Journalist, AcTVism Munich Craig Murray, Former British Ambassador, Human Rights Activist & Journalist Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-winning Journalist Emmy Butlin, Human Rights Activist, Committee to Defend Julian Assange Joe Lauria, Journalist, Consortium News […]
Economics
Steve Keen: Corona bailouts – for main street or Wall Street?
Billions of dollars are being pumped into economies the world over to protect economies from COVID-19. Much of it comes in the form of government fiscal stimulus, funded through bond issuance. Some of it involves […]
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.