Something strange happened in late April: the price of oil went negative. This below-zero price tag didn’t last long, but it remains unusually cheap. And thanks to the coronavirus, it will likely stay that way for a while. In this episode Mark talks with Watson Associate Professor Jeff Colgan, an expert on the oil industry and the geopolitics that define it. They get into oil’s current price fluctuations, how it’s related to the coronavirus pandemic, and how changes to this singular commodity will affect industries and countries in a post-pandemic world.
Geopolitics
Vijay Prashad – Genocide in Gaza: Western Moral Collapse in the Age of Hyper-Imperialism
11 November 2024 “This is not just an Israeli genocide – this is an Israeli, European and US genocide!” Vijay Prashad exposes the moral decline of the global north in the age of hyper-Imperialism and […]
Economics
Aufhebunga Bunga – Übermenschen of Capital Part 2 featuring Ishay Landa
On the links between economic liberalism and fascism. Ishay Landa talks to us about the “Apprentice’s Sorcerer”: how political liberalism enfranchises the masses, to the disgruntlement of economic liberals, who then have to turn to […]
Geopolitics
Lawrence Wilkerson, Glenn Diesen: How We Encircled Russia and Made Europe a Vassal – Divide and Rule
31 July 2025
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