On this month’s subscriber-only podcast I dissect the 1994 movie Swimming with Sharks, about a young man who goes to work at a Hollywood studio, where his boss (Kevin Spacey) abuses and bullies him relentlessly. I reflect on the film’s relevance in the wake of the #MeToo phenomenon, and how the film is a dark […](Read more...)
'Quiet Skies', 3-D guns and blockchain warnings + this day in history w/Black Tot Day and our song of the day by The Orb on your Morning Monarchy for July 31, 2018.
'Quiet Skies', 3-D guns and blockchain warnings + this day in history w/Black Tot Day and our song of the day by The Orb on your Morning Monarchy for July 31, 2018.
Monsanto memory hole, wedding cake justice and swilling sewage beer + this day in history w/the exhumation of Josef Mengele and our song of the day by Dierks Bentley on your Morning Monarchy for June 6, 2018.
This week on the New World Next Week: Israel celebrates its birthday by spilling the blood of unarmed protesters; a think piece on cliodynamics asks if we are destined for an age of rage; and the EFF slays the patent trolls.
This week on the New World Next Week: Israel celebrates its birthday by spilling the blood of unarmed protesters; a think piece on cliodynamics asks if we are destined for an age of rage; and the EFF slays the patent trolls.
This week I am joined by Yuval Laor of the Open Minds Foundation, and one of my co-hosts for Open Minds On Air. We discuss the neoconservative movement, the exploitation of trauma, and Israel. Yuval and I start off the conversation with the breaking news that Donald Trump has decided to pull the US out the Iran Nuclear Deal. We talk about what this means for America and the prospect of war with Iran. Yuval gives us his perspective of this as an Israeli-American, and how the public within Israel is reacting to the news.
