China Summit Realism | Graham Platner Defines the Working Class | Gorka’s Counter-Terrorism Anxiety
My co-hosts Matt Duss and Julia Gledhill rejoined me for this episode of the pod, covering:
Trump’s summit with China’s Xi Jinping—what it means for rivalry, the permanent war economy, strategic stability, and US imperial decline.
Why are most Democrats getting outmaneuvered by Trump on China?
The deep sexual anxieties underneath the White House’s anti-democratic counter-terrorism strategy.
Graham Platner takes the lead in defining the working class and left populism.
Why military spending is out of control, and who benefits.
Oligarchs have realized they don’t need us and are proceeding to render us into labor surplus…you don’t want to know where this goes next.
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