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Strange Sound
by Joseph Perry
Political issues considered from a non-violent leftist perspective by some guy named Joe.
Episodes
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Episode 80: The Three Crises Three
In this special episode I talk about the three major crises currently confronting us: the crisis of democracy, the COVID crisis, and the climate crisis, and how each fuels the other two. More: 2021 Virginia governor's race results vs. 2020 Virginia presidential vote Learn more/talk back at...
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Episode 79: Bannon's Dream Come True
This week I talk about (a) how far we've come over twenty years and (b) how screwed we are for not moving faster, as the Supreme Court seems poised to overrule Chevron deference and fulfill Bannon's dream of destroying what's left of the administrative state. More: Chevron Deference Principle...
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Episode 78: Twenty past 9/11
In this special episode I look back at the 9/11 attacks of twenty years ago, the decades of war and abuse that followed, and share my thoughts on what the fuck it all means. More: Jim Ridgeway's book on 9/11
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Episode 77: Ending the Afghan Enterprise
This week I talk about Biden's follow through on his promise to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with a brief overview of the conflict and the imperial context within which it persisted for two decades. More: Spencer Ackerman on Democracy Now!
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Episode 76: Defusing the Doomsday Machine
With a first-strike, first-use nuclear weapons policy in place for decades, it's a miracle we're still here. This week I talk about Dan Ellsberg's important book "The Doomsday Machine", what it tells us about this policy, and what we need to do to stop this madness. More: The Doomsday Machine, by...
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Episode 75: Resuscitate the Administrative State
Our corporate-friendly government has always fallen short when it comes to helping poor and working people. This week I talk about how policies like postal banking can begin to turn that ship around. More: David Dayen on Majority Report (8/2/2021)
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Episode 74: COVID is the new Climate Change
This week I talk about the political football the right has made out of COVID vaccines, PPE, and other aspects of the pandemic, and how reminiscent this obsession is with their climate skepticism. More: My Political Rants blog
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Episode 73: The Biden Doctrine
This week I talk about the Biden Administration's decision to tighten sanctions on Cuba and how that reflects their continuing support for the imperial project. More: Intercept Story on Biden and Plan Colombia
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Episode 72: What to do about Wealth
Richard Branson's ridiculous sub-orbital flight last week was an illustration of how irritating billionaires can be. This week I talk about how the problem is not so much the billionaires themselves as the system that creates and nurtures them. More: Furious Rant Blog
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Episode 71: Workers Push Back
This week I talk about workers resisting a return to crappy jobs and the degree to which that resistance is scaring capital silly. Also, a quick take on New York's 22nd congressional district. More: Deutsch's Whining about Labor Non-Compliance
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Episode 70: Rumsfeld dies, but the war lives on
On the same week notorious war criminal Donald Rumsfeld died, President Biden bombed Iraq and Syria for the second time while pulling troops out of Afghanistan. This week I talk about our endless imperial adventures and the role the mainstream media plays in perpetuating them. More: Furious Rant...
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Episode 69: Against Autocracy
This week I argue that, whatever else we do to build a more progressive and responsive society, we cannot afford to ignore the right's current efforts to make full-blown autocratic rule a reality in the United States. More: My Furious Rants Blog
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Episode 68: Joe's Big Adventure
This week I talk about the back-and-forth between Biden and Putin at last week's summit, how it's discussed in the mainstream media, and how Putin could do better with his what-about-ism. More: Ava DuVernay's 13th (on YouTube) - https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8
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Episode 67: The Enemy Without
This week I talk about America's obsession with foreign adversaries, the sickening sameness of our foreign policy from administration to administration, and the infuriating attack on Ilhan Omar this past week. More: Furious Rants Blog
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Episode 66: The Costs Of "Safety"
Hyper-aggressive policing and mass imprisonment, like militarist foreign policy, imposes unacceptable costs on society while failing to make anyone safe. I talk about the political economy of these failed models. More: Patrick Sharkey on WITHPOD
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Episode 65: A Legacy Of Ashes
This week I talk about the disclosure of a planning document from the 1950s contemplating nuclear war, then discuss the terrifying history of our nuclear arsenal and what we can do to stop the madness. More: Reuters Article on U.S. Nuclear Modernization Bellingcat Article on Nuclear Security...
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Episode 64: Israel/Palestine: The Long Game
Revisiting the Israel/Palestine conflict, I take a kind of deep dive into its history and attempt to make the case (as a layman) that Israel's resort to force is their way of avoiding good faith negotiations. We should not underwrite this. More: Furious Rants Blog
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Episode 63: Palestinians in the Crosshairs
This week I talk about the latest chapter in Israel's war on the Palestinian people, offer my own perspective on the conflict's history, and suggest what we as Americans might do to address it. More: Robert Fisk's Pity the Nation
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Episode 62: The Redemption Myth
This week I rant against the corporate media's obsession with redeeming right-wing Republicans like Liz Cheney and their general love for a grisly thing called bipartisanship. Also, my apology for misstating Adam Toledo's age in Episode 60. More: Liz Cheney's voting record on fivethirtyeight.com
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Episode 61: This Week in U.S. Hegemony
This week I talk about the Biden Administration's policy on Cuba and how it reflects their broader tendency to toe the imperial line that's been in place my whole life and longer, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike. More: Majority Report segment on Cuba Policy
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Episode 60: Bad To The Bone
This week I talk about the Minneapolis Police Department, its history of abuse against people of color, and how it is no exception in this regard, plus some thoughts about what we might do about this DNA-level sickness. More: MPD Press Release on Floyd Killing Reveal Podcast Episode about Myon...
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Episode 59: End to Endless War
This week I talk about Biden's plan to remove combat troops from Afghanistan by this September, what that might look like, and how we got there in the first place, plus some venting about the police murder of Adam Toledo. More: Christian Parenti article on the U.S. in Afghanistan
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Episode 58: The Reps We Deserve
This week I talk about the gradual progress we have made in sending left-leaning representatives to Congress and how the path forward will require (wait for it!) organizing, organizing, and more organizing. More: Furious Rants blog post
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Episode 57: Drawing The Line On Guns
This week I talk about the recent mass shootings and my thoughts on the semantic problems with the more expansive interpretations of the Second Amendment, plus a few words about the Chauvin trial. More: Furious Rants Blog
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Episode 56: Illegal and Essential
This week I jump into the corporate press's favorite topic, immigration at the southern border, and talk a little about the factors behind the current "crisis", its recent history, and what the fuck we can do about it. More: Intercepted story on Immigration | DemocracyNow! reporting on Honduras
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Episode 55: Crime and Punishment
This week I share my Furious Rant about the police response to the shootings in Georgia, then talk a bit about unequal justice in the United States and its consequences. More: Resistance Podcast - My Somebody
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Episode 54: No More Billionaires
This week I briefly update my rant about the availability of vaccinations, read my Furious Rant on the American Rescue Plan, then talk about taxing the fertilizer out of the ultra rich as a way of saving democracy. More: Furious Rants blog
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Episode 53: Blob Rules
This week I read my Furious Rant on Biden's blob-compliant foreign policy, then get into the weeds a little bit about how it reflects the typical imperial stance of Democratic party administrations over many decades. More: Palestine Article on Mondoweiss
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Episode 52: Give us the shots!
This week I share my Furious Rant about how I and millions of my fellow Americans haven't received the COVID vaccine yet, and how we're not likely to for some time. Then I talk about why. More: Furious Rants blog
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Episode 51: Organize, organize, repeat.
This week I read my Furious Rant about the political price we pay for not doing enough organizing, then I dive into the NY-22 Congressional Race and how we might have easily rescued that seat from the abyss of Trumpist Republicanism. More: NY 22 Congressional Race Results NY Voter Registration by...
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Episode 50: Accountability
This week I read my Furious Rant blog post on the Trump impeachment 2.0, entitled "Bad Side of Buchanan", then ramble on a bit after that. Give it a listen and tell me what you think. More: Read this post at https://www.big-green.net/bg/2021/02/bad-side-of-buchanan/
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Episode 49: Furious Rants (An Introduction)
This week I introduce my new project, tentatively entitled "Furious Rants": a reading of my political blog post for the current week, soon to be available on a separate feed. Please enjoy, like, share, etc. More: Read this post at https://www.big-green.net/bg/2021/02/lying-in-state-2/
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Episode 48: Voter Supression 2021
Since the start of 2021, more than 100 voter suppression measures have been introduced in 28 states, fueled by Trump and the GOP's voter fraud lies. I talk about this, the COVID vaccine mess, and some other stuff. More: Brennan Center Report on New Voter Suppression Laws
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Episode 47: Biden's First Days
Glad as I am to see Trump off the premises, it's not too early to examine the Biden administration's initial positions on foreign policy and what they portend. I look at this and talk a bit about the broken vaccine distribution program. More: Record a Voice Message
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Episode 46: Defending the Republic (for real)
After a lifetime of hearing claptrap about how all of our unnecessary wars have been about defending the republic, we finally have an example of people actually doing this in Washington D.C. More: WaPo Story about DC Police CBS Story about Officer Goodman
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Episode 45: Trump's Fat Suit
This week's Trump-led insurrectionist attack against the U.S. Congress is good evidence that the POTUS fat suit needs some taking in. I talk about this and what should be done about it. More: Record a Voice Message
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Episode 44: From Wounded Knee to Wardak
To mark the anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, I draw a straight line from this criminal act through My Lai, Nisour Square, and Trump's 2017 Yemen Raid to recent raids in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. More: Intercept Story on Wardak Raids
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Episode 43: Biden's Foreign Policy Agenda
Joe Biden had little to say about foreign policy, at least in substantive terms, during the 2020 campaign, but his approach is now taking shape with the recent naming of his "national security" team. I talk about this briefly and give an even shorter update on the New York 22nd District race.…
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Episode 42: Trump's Electoral Avalanche
Trump's claim of winning the 2020 election by a landslide works if you only count the votes of white people ... which was the way it worked back in the "good old days" when America was "great". This week I talk about Trump's white landslide (or avalanche, if you will) plus some stuff about left...
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Episode 41: Our AWOL Federal Government
With more than 3,000 Americans dying of COVID every day and millions facing loss of unemployment benefits and possible eviction, the Federal Government can't seem to pull itself together enough to offer relief. I talk about this and other related frustrations, many of which I'm sure you share....
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Episode 40: The End Game
The Trump Administration is working overtime to lock-in key policies before they leave Washington. This week I look at some of the foreign policy implications of this effort and how even the stuff that doesn't seem too bad is, well, kind of bad. More: Article on Somalia Atrocities in The Nation
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Episode 39: First Rule of Fight Club
Democratic in-fighting in the wake of disappointing down-ballot results have focused largely on ideological differences. I try to make the argument that it may be more about a candidate's willingness to fight for his/her constituents. More: Message me
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Episode 38: What's Next
The only chance we have of getting any relief from the federal government is by flipping those two Georgia Senate seats blue. I talk about this issue, as well as the ongoing standoff over New York's 22nd Congressional district and why that race demonstrates that every vote counts. More: Help…
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Episode 37: Back to Plan A
It's no secret that Donald Trump's original plan in running for president was to lose, cry fraud, then build a media empire on the resulting aggrievement. He appears now to be returning to that plan as the end of his accidental presidency looms. More: Message me
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Episode 36: Where credit is due
Biden's apparent electoral victory is due in large measure to the efforts of activists in the progressive movements on the ground to secure his majority. I talk about this and how pundits have the wrong end of the stick regarding Black and Latinx voters. More: Juan Gonzales on exit poll data
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Episode 35: The White Power Preservation Project
The Republican Party has been playing a long game to hedge against the erosion of white power as America's demographics shift. I talk in broad strokes about the various pieces of this toxic enterprise and how it has become more overt in recent years. More: Message me
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Episode 34: Visions of Empire
This week I look at the second and final presidential debate with a focus on foreign policy issues in general and Korea in particular. Not clear what to expect, but it's not looking good, folks. More: Presidential Debate Transcript on Rev
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Episode 33: Anatomy of a Lie
This past week's dueling town halls offered little to cheer about. In this episode I look at Trump's Rolling COVID Review tour and dissect one of his most repeated lies about health coverage. More: NY Times article about GOP 2017 Health Care bill
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Episode 32: Toxic Consensus
Our presidential and vice-presidential debates are contested on very narrow ideological ground, reflecting a consensus that significantly favors the right. I talk about this phenomenon in light of the recent Pence-Harris debate, and touch on Trump's recent Hulk-like posing. More: Transcript of VP...
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Episode 31: The Two Dragons
With the president in Walter Reed battling COVID-19, I talk about how this health crisis affects all of us, how insane that first debate was, and how we need to battle the two dragons Nina Turner warned us about - neo-fascism and neo-liberalism - in the right order. More: Majority Report plays…
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