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A podcast about music, and politics as told by musicians who sing about politics
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May 29, 2025 • 55min
EP. 748: LATIN AMERICAN UPDATE ft. CAMILA ESCALANTE
Follow Camila's work here: https://kawsachun.com/
What's going on in Venezuela? Is the end of USAID good news for Latin America? We discuss with Camila Escalante.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...

May 27, 2025 • 1h 28min
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE PEOPLE EP. 82: WE'RE ALL SELLOUTS NOW
Stefan joins special guest Jason Myles to discuss 'selling out', and whether the notion even makes sense in the contemporary moment, where we are all always already sold out, and to the degree that this is alienating it just makes it even more saleable
Read the essay here https://benburgis.substack.com/p/all-we-ever-wanted-was-everything
Subscribe to Ben's substack here benburgis.substack.com/subscribe
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2025/05/21/shedeur-sanders-and-the-marketization-of-college-sports/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read Jason in Ben Burgis' Substack here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-164138518

May 26, 2025 • 1h 18min
EP. 747: REMEMBERING THE RADICAL POPE ft. ROGER LANCASTER
Read Roger's piece in Common Dreams here: https://www.commondreams.org/opi.../was-pope-francis-radical
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read Jason in Ben Burgis Substack here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-164138518

May 25, 2025 • 1h 48min
BEYOND THE RED ZONE: SELF CATFISHING WITH STEROIDS
Read Jason's article in Damage Magazine here: https://damagemag.com/
Steroid use is up, especially among young people seeking to display a particular physique onle. The Turin of the mae upon itself represents a radical form of alienation and one with some nasty side effect to boot.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...

May 24, 2025 • 1h 4min
EP. 746: WHAT THE TRUMP HOLLYWOOD TARIFFS COULD MEAN FOR THE DOMESTIC FILM INDUSTRY ft. RALPH LEONARD
Read Ralph's article here: https://unherd.com/.../trumps-film-tariffs-will-backfire.../
With the financial failure of the streaming industry, to cut costs, many movies and television shows are shot outside of the U.S. for a fraction of the cost (and less work restrictions). While this was common for lower budget productions bigger budget films are being made in Canada, Mexico, Europe--is this attempt to "Make Film Great Again" backfire on "the Donald"?
Trump has replaced his famous "you're fired" with, simply--tariff. This may be the next big fopa in performance as CEO of the world.
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...

May 23, 2025 • 1h 2min
EP. 745: WHAT IS TECHONOPOPULISM ft. ALEX HOCHULI
Read Alex's article here: https://www.compactmag.com/.../the-techno-populist.../
For more than a decade, we have been told that insurgent populists are challenging a complacent post-political technocratic establishment. Combatants on both sides testify to this polarization. Poland’s Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council and the country’s current prime minister, stated back in 2017 that “we must challenge the populists”—and he did so, defeating the right-wing Law and Justice Party in 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron warned last year that “populists” risk undermining the European bloc from within. On the other side, Britain’s Nigel Farage declared the same year that “nation-state democracy” was “making a comeback against the globalists.” More recently, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni railed against “the global leftist liberal network” created in the 1990s by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...

May 22, 2025 • 1h 14min
EP. 747: REMEMBERING THE VIETNAM WAR ft. BOB BUZZANCO OF GREEN AND RED PODCAST
It's been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. We'll take a look at the causes for its start and its end, and what we learned or have yet to learn with historian Bob Buzzanco.
Listen to Bob on the Green and Red Podcast here: https://greenandredpodcast.org/
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...

May 21, 2025 • 1h 3min
EP. 744: HOW TO REBUILD LOS ANGELES IN SINGAPORE'S IMAGE ft. NATASHA HAKIMI ZAPATA
Get Natasha's book, "Another World Is Possible" here: https://www.natashahakimizapata.com/
Read Natasha's Jacobin piece here: https://jacobin.com/.../05/la-fires-singapore-public-housing
Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...

May 20, 2025 • 1h 21min
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE PEOPLE EP. 81: CLASS REDUCTIONISM DOES NOT EXIST
Ben and Stefan discuss the charge of "Class Reductionism" and the related charge of "Class Abstractionism" and whether these point to real phenomena or are strawman.
Read Ben's essay: https://open.substack.com/pub/benburgis/p/class-reductionism-is-a-straw-man
Subscribe to the Substack: https://benburgis.substack.com/subscribe
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...

May 19, 2025 • 1h 1min
EP. 743: REBEL QUEEN: THE MAKING OF A GRANDMASTER ft. SUSAN POLGER
Purchase Rebel Queen here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/.../9781538757291/...
Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Polgar would emerge as the one of the greatest female chess players the world has ever seen. While still a teenager, she became the first woman to qualify for the men’s World Chess Championship cycle. She went on to become the highest rated female chess player on the planet and, at age 21, the first woman to earn the men’s Grandmaster title—chess’ highest designation. But to get there, she had to endure sexism, anti-Semitism, state-sponsored intimidation, and even violent assault. Throw in sabotage, betrayal, and powerful enemies, and you have a sense of what she went through while breaking chess’ glass ceiling.
Polgar eventually left Hungary and started a new life as an American citizen. After retiring as a player, she became the only female Division 1 college coach in the country and built two separate college chess dynasties from scratch—at Texas Tech in Lubbock (where she now resides) and Webster University in St. Louis—leading them to more national titles, world championships, major titles, and Olympiad medals, especially gold, than all other college chess teams in the United States combined!
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...