Bonus Sample #299 Selling Bliss
5:30am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 4-18-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how a tech start-up is trying to sell a shortcut to bliss - the world of drug-free psychedelic experiences - the capitalists trying to solve the loneliness epidemic REFERENCES: The Meditation…#1249 Understanding the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli mistreatment of…
Tue 12:45pm By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date 2/12/2019 Today we take a look at both the BDS movement and the backlash response to it resulting in firings and legislation in many states (and pending federally) to restrict employment and business opportunities from those who fail to…#1622 Capitalism Culture Catastrophes On Land, Sea, And In The Sky - Baltimore Bridge Collapse,…
Fri 6:34pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 4/12/2024 The forces of capitalism and deregulation loom large as industrial transport disasters continue to pile up with new focus brought to the issue by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and the series of dangerous and deadly failures from…#1621 How Democrats Lost Their Way On Economics And Are Starting To Find It Again
Apr 9, 2024, 5:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 4/9/2024 The neoliberal legacy of the New Democrats continues to loom large but it really does seem like the progressive wing of the party and the broader demand for populist economic policies has had an impact. Now people just need to know that it's…Bonus Sample #292 Someone is Wrong on the Internet
Apr 7, 2024, 3:10 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 4-7-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Many facets of our society are clearly broken by capitalism, and bizarrely for some, chaos is the only thing that beings agency to their life - The delusion of RFK Jr. voters, the understandable…#1379 Tell Stories, Not Myths: Democracy in America (Throwback)
Apr 5, 2024, 5:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date: 11/10/2020 Today we take a look at the long and shifting history of the myth of democracy in America. We've never had it since the beginning but the reasons have shifted, ebbed and flowed over time. Now, in the midst of an attempted…#1620 Threatening the 2024 Election to Subvert Democracy, from Legal Maneuvers in Congress and…
Apr 3, 2024, 5:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 4/3/2024 As the country gears up for the election in November, we look at a variety of ways the GOP and their election-denialist supporters are preparing to subvert the democratic process to get the result they want. Be part of the show! Leave us a…Bonus Sample #297 No Laughing Matter
Apr 1, 2024, 12:01 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 4-1-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how Trump uses humor to normalize his behavior and engage his supporters - how humor is not always a great weapon against fascism and autocracy REFERENCES: Can Parents Prevent Their Sons From…#1619 A Guide to Protests Against Injustice from the Peaceful to the Deadly
Mar 30, 2024, 8:20 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/30/2024 We are living through an age of protest from the opposition to the Iraq war, the Arab Spring uprisings, Occupy Wall Street, through to marches against Trump, and now the war in Gaza. So, we thought we should take a look at the art and…Bonus Sample #296 Coping: Magic Mushrooms, Bath Time, Perpetual Therapy, and Pain Killers
Mar 28, 2024, 6:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3-28-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how the wealthy use psilocybin to deal with stress and break the rules of time - the working class get bath time and training on how to self-care their stress away - the REFERENCES: It’s…#1463 People Are Waking Back Up To The Need For Labor Unions (Throwback)
Mar 26, 2024, 5:22 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date: 12/23/2021 Today we take a look at some of the history of labor struggles in America and the current wave of strikes that is giving renewed energy to the labor union movement and the struggle for better working conditions for all. Be part of…#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures…
Mar 23, 2024, 5:00 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/23/2024 Equality has been at the heart of civil rights movements for decades but what we have failed to see is that in striving for equality we cannot help but reinforce the unquestioned preexisting structures of society which, themselves, may be at…Bonus Sample #295 Cause it's all about control
Mar 21, 2024, 1:18 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3-21-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how AI became a tool in the gender culture war - the real reasons "soft girls" and "tradwives" are a thing REFERENCES: You Will Not Believe the Dumb Reason My Son Gave Me for Refusing to Wipe His…#1617 The Profitable and Political Moral Panic Around Trans People: Debunking Rapid Onset Gender…
Mar 19, 2024, 2:26 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/19/2024 We break down some of the pseudoscience the trans panic is built on, look at the political drive to erase trans people, understand how language of panic shifts over time, and present and alternate view of societal healing for a healthier…#1616 The Party of Putin and the Propaganda Leading the GOP to Trump and the US to Russian-Style…
Mar 15, 2024, 5:30 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/15/2024 Republicans have been trending toward Putin fandom for more than a decade but with each passing year the stakes get higher, the propaganda gets more brazen, and what they're willing to support gets more grotesque. Be part of the show! Leave…Bonus Sample #294 Answering men's cry for help
Mar 11, 2024, 11:58 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3-11-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - mascuzynity and the conservative male ethos - talking to young men to prevent their slide to the right - and that brutal man camps that are more a symptom and cry for help than a solution…#1165 To Exist is to Resist: Life and Activism in Occupied Palestine Working Toward Rights and…
Mar 8, 2024, 5:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date 2-17-2018 We hear from activists and advocates to get a sense of the life, land, and walls that divide occupied Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com…#1163 Strange Bedfellows: Looking at why Ethno-Nationalists Admire Israel and the Violence Inflicted…
Mar 5, 2024, 5:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comOriginal Air Date 2/7/2018 Looking at Israel from a variety of angles including what they do to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and why White supremacists, of all people, support them Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or…Bonus Sample: #293 I love you, man
Mar 3, 2024, 7:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 3-3-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - why men struggle with friendship - why men and boys are lonelier than ever - the impact of different masculine identities on relationships - something The Beatles apparently did that no one seems…#1615 Envisioning a Leftisț Economic Future of Postcapitalism, High-Tech Automation, Universal…
Mar 1, 2024, 3:34 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 3/1/2024 We don't have to think too hard to understand the fears of a world in which work, and the ability of millions to support themselves, are lost to automation and artificial intelligence. But that is only a capitalist future in which the…#1614 Deep-Fakery and Deep Consequences for Democracy: AI-generated fake news threatens elections…
Feb 28, 2024, 5:00 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/28/2024 AI-generated deepfakes, entirely fabricated audio and video of recognizable people, are here. They have been on the horizon for years but they have finally arrived during the biggest global election year in history which may prove to be a…Bonus Sample #292 Techno Authoritarians vs Interoperabilities
Feb 25, 2024, 11:21 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 2-25-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, and Deon discuss: - authoritarian Technocracy - and why interoperability may be one of the best weapons against it REFERENCES: THE RISE OF TECHNO-AUTHORITARIANISM Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here’s a Way Out The…#1613 Breathless Speculation: Biden's Baggage, Trump's Tyranny, Misleading Media, Courts and…
Feb 23, 2024, 10:16 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/23/2024 2024 is already shaping up to be even more of a disaster than expected. The causes for anxiety are many and varied, leaving many of us with questions. We generally try to avoid topics and commentaries that lean into the realm of pure…#1612 New Tech and the New Luddite Movement; Inequitable Distribution of Benefits from New…
Feb 20, 2024, 12:55 pm By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/20/2024 "Luddite" should never have become the epithet that it is as the Luddites were never afraid of or opposed to technological advancement, they only opposed the exploitation of workers and the degradation to society that came with the unfair…Bonus Sample #291 Recommendations and Manipulations
Feb 19, 2024, 7:22 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 2-19-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda and Deon discuss: - how augmented reality and the Apple Vision Pro affects the human brain - how algorithms are changing and flattening our culture - how to take back your life from algorithmic choices REFERENCES: The…#1611 Higher Education: the Myths, McCarthyism, and Change Makers at a time when education is under…
Sat 5:36am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/17/2024 The debate over education has been derailed from the legitimate concerns of the past focused on the downfalls of No Child Left Behind and Common Core policies into a cul-de-sac of ignorance over opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion…#1610 The Border, and Our Border Politics, Are a Mess - As Trump and MAGA-driven misunderstanding…
Feb 14, 2024, 10:18 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/13/2024 The entire political system has lurched to the right on immigration as Democrats adopt the talking points of the Republicans and the MAGA Republicans put Trump's election chances over the policies they claim to support. Be part of the show!…#1609 The Post-Roe World is Bad But it Could Still Get Worse - Abortion Bans in the US Are Causing…
Feb 10, 2024, 8:47 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/10/2024 Continuing to tell the stories of those directly impacted by abortion bans is important to demonstrate the extreme stances taken by anti-choice politicians but we also look ahead to potential ways the situation could be made even worse as…#1608 Widespread Loneliness is a Solvable Social Problem - Urban Design, Architecture, Co-housing,…
Feb 7, 2024, 11:35 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date 2/7/2024 Loneliness is an epidemic that long-predates the COVID lockdowns that only made things worse but it's not primarily cultural or even technological in origin. The issue largely has to do with how our built environment is designed and then…Bonus Sample #289 A Cul-de-Sac of Ignorance
Feb 6, 2024, 5:29 am By BestOfTheLeft.comAir Date: 2-6-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The impacts of the myth of the model minority - Haley and Ramaswamy Denying America's racism as they both experience and use racism during the Republican primary race BestOfTheLeft.com/Support…
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