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Libertarians Are Exhausting: But they might be onto something(s). [Part 1] Jan 15, 2022

Show notes

Libertarians can be exhausting. Because libertarianism has so many attractive features and strong statements about “freedom” and “liberty” they have a lot of perceived political high ground when arguing with them. The problem with libertarianism - as it is with Marxism, capitalism and so many other philosophies - is that it’s entirely theoretical. Trying to construct an actual framework around the concepts they hold dear is like arguing over how Santa Claus fits down the chimney. That said, there’s a lot to like about some of the principles of libertarianism and its acolytes are growing in numbers every day. So let’s have at it. In part one of this two-part series we’ll unpack the origins of the philosophy, its dark beginnings and define several strains of the discipline.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:38

Prologue: 00:02:45

Segment 1: 00:04:41

Segment 2: 00:13:37

Segment 3: 00:23:53

Segment 4: 00:30:27

Show Notes: 00:40:36

Book Love: 00:41:17

Pod Love: 00:41:34

Emails + Shoutouts: 00:45:13

Outro: 01:06:46

Resources

Libertarian Party: Platform

National Archives: Brown v. Board of Education

ThoughtCo: The Declaration of Independence

ThoughtCo: America's Most Influential Founding Fathers

ThoughtCo: Laissez-faire Versus Government Intervention

ThoughtCo: What Is Free Trade?

ThoughtCo: Economics

ThoughtCo: Atlas Shrugged Quotes

ThoughtCo: History and Principles of the United Nations

Too Good To Go

Book Love

David Boaz: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America

Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

H. L. Mencken: Notes on Democracy

Thomas Paine: Rights of Man

Pod Love

Straight White American Jesus

Pitchfork Economics: How the Radical Right Weaponized Ideology (with Nancy MacLean)

UNFTR Episode Resources

The Prosperity Doctrine.

Ayn Rand Was a Dick.

Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part I): Financial Fuckery and Tax Evasion.

Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part II): Deregulation and Catastrophe.

F*ck Milton Friedman.

Procedural F*ckery.

Building the Climate Industrial Complex.

U.S. Progressivism from 1912 to 2021.

Capitasociafascilibdemarxism.

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A (Mostly) Vegan World: Plantf*ckers Can Save Us All. Jan 08, 2022

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As many of you know, we’ve had this on the pod-docket for months. It’s finally time to unf*ck our food system and talk about veganism. We decided not to pursue this topic from a moral or ethical perspective, but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a story about justice. 40% of the world’s working population is in some way employed in the food and agriculture sector. A third of all food is wasted. 50% of the earth’s land has been cleared for livestock and farming. Overfishing and chemical runoff is destroying marine life. In our pursuit to feed the world, we’re killing the planet and ourselves in the process. Today’s episode examines the cycle of madness that is the industrial agriculture and food supply chain. So while there are no tips on how to “go vegan,” the conclusion (spoiler) is that we all better figure out how.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:39

Prologue: 00:03:08

Segment 1: 00:05:22

Segment 2: 00:13:26

Segment 3: 00:18:29

Segment 4: 00:31:48

Segment 5: 00:37:06

Segment 6: 00:45:30

Show Notes: 00:52:24

Resources: 00:52:45

Book Love: 00:53:17

Pod Love: 00:53:49

Emails + Shoutouts: 01:03:20

Outro: 01:13:30

Resources

On the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus

UN: Food Systems Summit

UN: Food Systems Statement of Action

EPA: Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data

Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences: Plant-Based Diet Research

Rodale Institute: Farming Systems Trial

FAIRR: Protein Producer Index

The EAT: Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health

Book Love

Nicoletta Batini: The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet

Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

Pod Love

Eat the Rich: Episodes 104 and 105 on the United Fruit Company

Outrage & Optimism: Setting the Table for a Food Revolution

Our Hen House

Total Liberation Podcast

Doc Love

Vegan Influencers

@Vegan_Abolitionniste

@JewishVeg

@BlackForager

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Holiday Quickie: How the Manch stole Christmas. Dec 25, 2021

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Our little Unf*cking team wishes the Unf*cking community a safe and healthy holiday season. We'll be back on January 8th with a new drop but here's a Holiday Quickie to tide you over. In this Quickie we examine three positive things that have occurred since Biden took office. (We had to look pretty hard for these, but wanted to end on a positive note.) Then we offer thanks and praise to Joe Manchin for taking a giant shit on the poor. What a guy. Happy, Merry and all that crap. See you in the New Year!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:07

Skit: 00:01:27

Segment 1: 00:04:36

Segment 2: 00:10:59

Segment 3: 00:13:16

Segment 4: 00:16:27

Show Notes: 00:26:28

Emails + Shoutouts: 00:32:21

Outro: 1:02:20

Resources

The Intercept: The Mysterious Case Of Joe Biden And The Future Of Drone Wars

FiveThirtyEight: How Biden Is Reshaping The Courts

The New York Times: Extreme Poverty Has Been Sharply Cut. What Has Changed?

Common Dreams: Displaying 'Inhuman Disdain' for Working Families, Manchin Said Child Tax Credit Would Be Used for Drugs

Time: The House Just Passed Biden’s Build Back Better Bill. Here’s What’s In It

Brookings: What does the Build Back Better Framework mean for BIPOC communities?

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Labor Unions: From Pullman to Kellogg’s. Labor’s long, hard road. Dec 18, 2021

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From Pullman and Carnegie to Kellogg's and the PRO Act, this week we unf*ck the labor movement in the United States. No single episode can possibly do labor justice but we give it our best shot. The episode includes a blow-by-blow analysis of a recent interview with the CEO of Kellogg's to translate Wall Street speak for “how to fuck workers and influence inflation.” And we rip off a few Milton references to exercise our #FMF muscle.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:42

Segment 1: 00:02:11

Segment 2: 00:04:25

Segment 3: 00:12:18

Segment 4: 00:17:46

Segment 5: 00:21:29

Segment 6: 00:28:00

Segment 7: 00:30:20

Segment 8: 00:41:22

Show Notes: 00:52:15

Book Love: 00:57:17

Pod Love: 00:58:02

Emails + Shoutouts: 00:58:45

Outro: 01:10:42

Resources

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

The New York Times: Starbucks workers at a Buffalo store unionize in a big symbolic win for labor

Kellogg Company: Investor Relations

The Nation: Striking Kellogg’s Workers Need the PRO Act

U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics: Work Stoppages

OECD: Trade Union Dataset

U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics: Union Members — 2020

Economic History Association: Labor Unions in the United States

History of Recessions in U.S.

Unionization rates by industry in the United States, 1880-2000

More Perfect Union: Kellogg's Factory Working Conditions

Media Matters: Joe Rogan Wrapped: A year of COVID-19 misinformation, right-wing myths, and anti-trans rhetoric

Book Love

Philip Dray: There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America

Nelson Lichtenstein: State of the Union: A Century of American Labor

Kurt Andersen: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

Joseph Stiglitz: People, Power and Profits

Robert Shiller: Narrative Economics

Pod Love

Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff: S11 E47

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Playing Chicken with China: How Propaganda Rationalizes Conflict. Dec 11, 2021

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There were 15 references to China in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The recent bill passed by the House, which is more than what President Biden requested (because that makes fucking sense) contains 89 references to China. It’s official. We have our new existential bogeyman threat. Battle stations, everyone. We’re going to war with China. Someday. Or are we? Why would we? What the actual fuck is our problem? Today’s episode pulls back the cover on our latest propaganda campaign designed to scare the shit out of us and normalize aggression toward our largest trading partner on the planet.

Chapters

00:00:40 Intro

00:01:55 Chapter 1

00:05:15 Chapter 2

00:13:47 Chapter 3

00:19:25 Chapter 4

00:28:37 Chapter 5

00:37:31 Show Notes

00:39:41 Emails + Shoutouts

00:49:45 Outro

Resources

Richard Nixon Presidential Library: Nixon in China: Film

Militarist Monitor: Gatestone Institute

AlJazeera: Biden administration approves $650m weapon sale to Saudi Arabia

Brookings: Rising to the Challenge: Navigating Competition, Avoiding Crisis, and Advancing US Interests in Relations With China

Democracy Now!: Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China’s Power Grows

60 Minutes Australia: Prepare for Armageddon: China's warning to the world

Democracy At Work: The Competition Between China and the U.S. - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff

Democracy Now!: Noam Chomsky: Trump's attacks on China are a continuation of "Yellow Peril" fear-mongering

Unf*cker Recommendations

Vivek Ramaswamy: Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

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Happy Noam Chomsky Day: Pundits, Public Intellectuals & Charlatans. Dec 04, 2021

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Today we celebrate the life of Noam Chomsky who turns 93 this week and discuss the nature of punditry, the role of true intellectuals in today’s society and the cult of pseudo intellectual charlatans.

[2026 Edit] To learn how we feel today, please read our post-Epstein take on Chomsky.

Chapters

00:01:32 Intro

00:04:52 Segment 1

00:17:22 Segment 2

00:27:02 Segment 3

00:33:28 Show Notes

00:34:48 Book Love

00:35:34 Emails + Shoutouts

00:53:44 Outro

GoFundMe

Keep Kanatsiohareke Warm this Winter

Resources

New York Times: QAnon Now as Popular in U.S. as Some Major Religions, Poll Suggests

The Atlantic: Noam Chomsky on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

The New Yorker: The Devil’s Accountant (Noam Chomsky’s criticism of America’s role in the world has increased his isolation—and his audience.)

Current Affairs: The Intellectual We Deserve

Book Love

Chomsky Books

Syntactic Structures

Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace

The Chomsky Reader

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture

Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians

Requiem for the American Dream: The Ten Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power

Reporter, by Seymour Hersh

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Debt, Diplomacy and Destruction. Nov 26, 2021

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It’s chilly here in New York so we’ve got the Caribbean on the brain. Actually, we’re just building on our money and power episodes and tying in lessons from our shows on Milton Friedman, Cuba and climate change. Because we can’t just sit on a beach sipping a frozen drink with an umbrella. But that’s why you love us. The United States didn’t invent colonialism in the Caribbean, we just perfected it. From wild tales of vigilante slave owning gold diggers and gunboat diplomacy to economic gangsterism and coerced trade agreements, the Caribbean has been the proving ground for neoliberalism.

Chapters

00:00:11 Intro

00:03:49 Segment 1

00:13:06 Segment 2

00:19:18 Segment 3

00:23:18 Segment 4

00:37:03 Show Notes

00:39:57 Book Love

00:40:59 Emails + Shoutouts

00:57:45 Outro

GoFundMe

Keep Kanatsiohareke Warm this Winter

Resources

New Yorker: The Long Legacy of Occupation in Haiti

Origins: A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico

US News Beat: The Truth About Puerto Rico

Library of Congress: Teller and Platt Amendments - The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War (Hispanic Division)

Inter-American Development Bank: Climate Change in the Caribbean Small Island States

Book Love

Alan McPherson: A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Raphael Dalleo: American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism

Samantha S. S. Chaitram: American Foreign Policy in the English-speaking Caribbean

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The Itsfuckedforsure Bill: And the Ghosts of Spending Bills Past. Nov 20, 2021

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President Biden signed H.R. 3684 into law with leaders in Washington breaking their arms to pat themselves on the back. Never mind that the infrastructure bill is either 20% or 40% of what the American Society of Civil Engineers believes is necessary (depending upon your interpretation of the allocated funds), or that it doesn’t begin to address climate change, or that it’s stuffed with old school pork and contains none of the human elements promised to us. It’s a bill that got signed in Washington and that’s apparently all that matters. Find out why it’s great for corporations, guarantees the Republicans take back the White House in ‘24 and why we’re mad at Elon Musk and his hair plugs.

Chapters

00:02:22 Intro

00:05:18 Segment 1

00:21:52 Segment 2

00:37:33 Show Notes

00:38:29 Book Love

00:39:06 Emails + Shoutouts

00:50:58 Outro

Resources

U.S. Department Of Transportation: Public Roads- Summer 1996

Investopedia: Understanding the Infrastructure Bills

ASCE Infrastructure Report Card: Making the Grade

ASCE Infrastructure Report Card: A Comprehensive Assessment Of America’s Infrastructure

New York Times: Biden signs infrastructure bill, promoting benefits for Americans.

New York Times: What’s in the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: H. R. 3684

Brookings: Eight Years Later- What the Recovery Act Taught Us about Investing in Transportation

Britannica: Tennessee Valley Authority

U.S. Department Of Transportation Federal Highway Administration: Interstate Highway System - The Myths

Book Love

Michael Grunwald: The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era

Stephanie Kelton: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

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The Global Order of Power: Money, Position & Might. Nov 13, 2021

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Last week we reviewed the global order of money. Today we examine money’s sister, power. It’s an American-centric journey spanning 75 years, from the Cold War through the War on Terror. We start with a deep dive into the five years following the Second World War and highlight the men who crafted the policies that would determine the fate of the world. We dissect how these policies changed over the years to suit a narrative that ensured the continued growth of the military industrial complex and show how this outdated and ossified thinking might ultimately bring U.S. domination to an end.

Chapters

00:00:40 Intro

00:04:21 Segment 1

00:15:53 Skit

00:18:02 Segment 2

00:48:23 Show Notes

00:48:58 Book Love

00:50:28 Emails + Shoutouts

01:08:00 Outro

Resources

The New Yorker: The Florentine

SourceWatch: Pax Americana

Brookings: Decision to Intervene: How the War in Bosnia Ended

Book Love

Stephen Kinzer: The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince

Carl Von Clausewitz: On War

Nicholas Thompson: The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War

Howard Zinn: Howard Zinn on War

Curt Cardwell: Nsc 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War

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The Global Order of Money: How exactly does it make the world go ‘round? Nov 06, 2021

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We’ve hit on some big economic themes from capitalism and socialism to deregulation, privatization and Modern Monetary Theory. And we’re typically focused on results and outcomes of policies related to these theories. Today we’re taking a step back to examine the nature of capital and examining the nature of currency, trade and debt. Money is great, but who prints it? Who decides how much to print and what it’s worth? Who creates the rules of engagement for international trade? Big picture stuff only today, Unf*ckers but we do raise some even bigger questions at the end of the show. With that, let’s unf*ck The Global Order of Money.

Chapters

00:00:18 Intro

00:05:51 Segment 1

00:13:51 Skit

00:17:53 Segment 2

00:53:33 Show Notes

00:55:18 Book Love

00:56:45 Emails + Shoutouts

01:11:21 Outro

Resources

International Monetary Fund: Where the IMF Gets Its Money

The Guardian: Working at the World Bank, I can see how it is failing humanity on the climate crisis

Reuters: U.S. committed to WTO and wants it to succeed, trade rep Tai says

Book Love

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, by Margaret MacMillan

The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources, by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy

Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx, by Chris Harman

Writings of Eugene V Debs: A Collection of Essays by America's Most Famous Socialist by

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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