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a guide to the omnicrisis with Jim Driscoll and Chris Floyd
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The market swings triggered by the on-again-off-again tariff regimen reek of political manipulation, which is what happens when politicians don't divest of their investments. My Nation column calling for an investigation... www.thenation.com/article/econ...

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The tariff wars are arguably the dumbest economic policy in US history -- there's no real upside and a vast amount of downside. Huge damage will be done to US and global economies. Here's my take on this, in the Santa Fe Reporter. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...

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I'm just editing our latest podcast episode. In the meantime, here's a new Boondoggle post on Substack.

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What circumstances can you imagine Attorney General Pam Bondi resigning under? Weaponising the federal government to go after political opponents? Of course not! Failing to express sufficient loyalty to Trump? Failing to go after Trump's political opponents? Of course! Now you know what her job is.

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In case anyone is wondering what exactly gets you snatched off the street these days in THE US

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Quite a story this ...

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Hard to read this article and not conclude that every single chapter in this sorry story is another example of the Administrative coup (fascism) Musk has orchestrated -- the takeover and destruction of congressionally mandated agencies by unelected techno-SWAT teams. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

the pattern for the last several decades is that the liberal establishment has built a failing system. the right acknowledges these failures in order to gain popular support and then capitalizes off the failures to enrich themselves while deceiving the public

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

My latest Truthout column, on Trump's efforts to take over the FEC and FCC. truthout.org/articles/ind...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Friend of the Boondoggle podcast Sasha Abramsky on fire in the Nation

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latest Boondoggle episode available now! www.buzzsprout.com/1230443/epis...

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philosophers on culture podcast conversation that I took part in recently on the Trump moment. www.kzfr.org/broadcasts/4...

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Is there any time these days when CPAC isn't happening?

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Why not head over to our Substack where you can listen to the latest episode of the Boondoggle podcast

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Friend of Boondoggle Sasha Abramsky cheating on us with another podcast. It was, unfortunately, a truly excellent discussion

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

My latest Santa Fe Reporter column; it's about the truly un-American nature of this Administration and it's addressed to Trump voters. If you know any -- and I'm sure you do -- please show them this article. sfreporter.com/columns/auth...

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Want to know more about the role of India in the world? We talk to Guido Haefli, who spent a year in the Swiss embassy in New Delhi, about nuclear stand-offs and lines of control. www.buzzsprout.com/1230443/epis...

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Friend of Boondoggle Sasha Abramksy on a top notch panel for a fascinating discussion of 'disaster nationalism' www.wgbh.org/forum-networ...

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Friend of the Boondoggle podcast Sasha Abramsky's latest in the Nation

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"what we are seeing today is something new: a relentless, frenzied, focused attempt to destroy every institutional and administrative avenue that could possibly be used for human betterment" Powerful writing for Boondoggle by Chris Floyd - open.substack.com/pub/boondogg...

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The way you can tell this is all about authoritarian take-over rather than policy disagreement is that they are not simply insisting on the removal of DEI initiatives but proposing to criminally investigate those who had them

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You don't want to tell your children that all you did during this time was post. You should be podcasting too

submitted 67 days ago • 226 comments

Elon Musk is a criminal and the whole administration is acting in blatantly unconstitutional ways. There's a word for that, except it's Spanish. Latest episode of Boondoggle discusses the current depredations of US democracy. www.buzzsprout.com/1230443/epis...

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US President hosts indicted war criminal at White House and proposes ethnic cleansing. That is the objective way to describe the event, no?

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truthout.org/articles/tru...

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