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30 Jun 18:21

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles pt4 – Germany

Tom Roche

Justin and (mostly) Dave excellent as usual

The Anglo-Americans blamed the Germans for World War I, and won. Now they would impose terms. But if they sought too high an indemnity, Germany’s economy would collapse and they would never pay. If they helped Germany rebuild, what kind of punishment would that be? In the end, the Allies chose a path that guaranteed … Continue reading "Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles pt4 – Germany"
22 May 16:36

935 - It’s Joever feat. David J. Roth (5/19/25)

Tom Roche

excellent, amusing

We planned this episode to cover the spate of stories revealing just how out of it and diminished Joe Biden was during his term, and new details about the political flunkies and media stooges who were complicit in covering it up. But yesterday Biden’s team announced an almost certainly life-ending cancer diagnosis. So we’re joined by David Roth to discuss how it’s finally well and truly Joever. Find David’s work at Defector here: https://defector.com/author/david-roth New merch for the summer up at https://chapotraphouse.store/
21 May 16:26

Laura Tingle's Canberra: where to next for the Coalition?

Tom Roche

alas, the Tingle is (soon to be) gone--Laura announces imminent retirement

The Liberal Party has a new leader, but what lies ahead for the Coalition, the Nationals and conservative politics in Australia more broadly?

  • Guest: Laura Tingle, Political Editor 7.30
19 May 18:16

The Deep State at the Twilight of Empire (Wayne State University - DCC76)

Tom Roche

excellent, esp Q&A on Israel's role in the US-based global empire

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ]. This episode features my recent speaking appearance at Wayne State University. Deep appreciation for Professor Khari Brown as well as the Wayne State Sociology, African-American Studies, and History departments---and to Wiley Michelle Boley for filming and editing! Special thanks to: • Dana Chavarria, production • Casey Moore, graphics • Michelle Boley, animated intro • Mock Orange, music
18 May 02:13

JFK Disclosure Under Trump – James DiEugenio (DCC81)

Tom Roche

yet another EXCELLENT (if unorganized) conversational deep-dive into the JFK assassination and 2 of its dryruns (Chicago and Tampa, though [there are others](https://www.kennedysandking.com/images/ctka/public/2016/bleau-chart.png))

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ]. James DiEugenio joins us to discuss the Trump administration’s release of illegally long-withheld JFK-related documents. DiEugenio recently appeared before Congress with friends of the pod Oliver Stone and Jefferson Morley. The three were there to discuss the JFK case with Representative Luna’s committee. Check out: * Jim’s website: Kennedys and King [ https://www.kennedysandking.com/ ] * Jim’s latest book (ed.): 'The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy' [ https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Assassination-Chokeholds-James-DiEugenio/dp/B0CN851JM8/ ] Special thanks to: • Dana Chavarria, production • Casey Moore, graphics • Michelle Boley, animated intro • Mock Orange, music
15 May 19:14

69 - The not-so-great GroKo w/ Astrid Zimmermann

by Spaßbremse
Tom Roche

EXCELLENT survey of German politics on the inauguration of the newest/worst CDU-SPD GroKo. Main weakness of this analysis I see is, this completely ignores (as in literally |mention|=0) the BSW-Linke split, much less assessing the problem and how to solve it.

GroKo is back! But now it's far less "great" than before. To explore what to expect from the new German government, Ted speaks with Astrid Zimmermann (⁠@zimmermann.av⁠) of Jacobin Germany (⁠@jacobinmag_de⁠).

-Watch the first Spaßbremse VIDEO PODCAST here: https://youtu.be/HdskRf_FmBI

Read her articles here (German): https://jacobin.de/autoren/astrid-zimmermann

Read her latest piece on GroKo here (in English): https://jacobin.com/author/astrid-zimmermann

*****

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14 May 16:17

Episode 472 - Monopoly Money (w/ Matt Stoller)

Tom Roche

EXCELLENT

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Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project Matt Stoller returns to Bad Faith to talk Facebook's anti-trust case, why big tech is pushing AI, the surprising goodness of Trump's FTC, and whether the worst impacts of Trump's tariffs are still ahead.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

11 May 19:02

Irreal: Window Placement When Using Dired

by Irreal
Tom Roche

pullquote (somewhat edited):
> [To open Dired in another window on the current dir/folder, just] use `C-x 4 C-j`. [Note the `C-x 4` prefix] works for a lot of commands. I use it to open files or buffers in another window several times a day. You can also open your windows in another frame by using [prefix `C-x 5`] instead of `C-x 4`.

Courtesy of JTR from The Art Of Not Asking Why, here’s a handy tip for dealing with window placement when bringing up a Dired buffer. There are two problems.

The first doesn’t really concern window placement. Most often JTR wants to bring up a Dired buffer for whatever directory he’s already in. The easy way to do that is to use dired-jump (bound to Ctrl+x Ctrl+j) to open a buffer in the same directory as the current file.

The problem with that is that it opens the Dired buffer in the current window. JTR doesn’t want that. He wants to open Dired in some other window so that he can see his current file and the Dired buffer. The answer to that is simple: just ask Emacs to open Dired in another window. There’s a general protocol for doing that. Simply use Ctrl+x 4 Ctrl+J to call Dired. That will open Dired in the same directory as the current file but in another window.

The Ctrl+x 4 … works for a lot of commands. I use it to open files or buffers in another window several times a day. I used to consider it an esoteric maneuver but now I use it all the time. You can also open your windows in another frame by using 5 instead of 4.

The 4/5 protocol doesn’t work for all commands but it does for a lot of them. It’s a real time saver that I use repeatedly. It’s well worth internalizing.

11 May 15:23

Trump's tariffs hurt the US much more than China - Economist Michael Hudson explains

Tom Roche

Hudson VERY EXCELLENT as usual

Donald Trump's tariffs are benefiting rich elites at the expense of the majority of the population, argues economist Michael Hudson. He explains how the US trade war on China is isolating the United States and encouraging countries to seek alternatives. Ben Norton hosts the interview. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGsLDQQuzU0 Read Michael Hudson's report "Return of the robber barons – Trump’s distorted view of US tariff history": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/14/michael-hudson-robber-barons-trump-tariffs/ Topics 0:00 Intro 1:11 Michael Hudson highlights 2:09 Interview starts 2:41 Replacing income tax with tariffs 5:40 Government industrial policy 9:22 Reaganomics 2.0 11:29 Gilded Age 14:54 China's model 17:50 (CLIP) JD Vance calls Chinese "peasants" 18:12 Public finance 22:57 Trade war on China 25:12 (CLIP) Trump demands tribute 25:42 US attempt to isolate China 26:30 USA doesn't have many cards 28:55 Import substitution 30:16 Trump is isolating the US 34:58 US dollar system in crisis 38:03 Reindustrialization 40:06 Trump's bullying strategy 43:26 Destroying the post-WWII system 49:06 Global South vs the West 50:58 Democracy or oligarchy? 56:05 Billionaire oligarchs 56:56 Corruption 58:25 Outro
11 May 02:41

Chechnya, The Forgotten McJihad – Max Parry (DCC80)

Tom Roche

yet another VERY EXCELLENT, wideranging, informative (esp re Fred Cuny (1944-1995), a Sorosi deepstater who posed as (and was widely promoted in empire corporate-funded media) as a humanitarian) DCC episode (well worth 90 min of your time) interviewing [Max Parry of CovertAction Magazine](https://covertactionmagazine.com/author/maxparry/)

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ]. Max Parry joins us to speak with us about his new Covert Action Magazine article entitled “Did the CIA Covertly Support Chechen Separatist Terrorism? Of Course They Did” [ https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/04/24/did-the-cia-covertly-support-chechen-separatist-terrorism-of-course-they-did/ ] Max Parry is an independent journalist and geopolitical analyst based in Baltimore. His writing has appeared widely in alternative media and he is a frequent political commentator featured in Sputnik News and Press TV. He also hosts the podcast Captive Minds [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6kOHlPDIfXv_RLaVgPfitA ]. Special thanks to: • Dana Chavarria, production • Casey Moore, graphics • Michelle Boley, animated intro • Mock Orange, music
07 May 18:48

E209 - White American Liberals, Pt 1 w/ Kevin Schultz

Tom Roche

VERY EXCELLENT: informative survey of liberalism in philosophy, discourse, and (real) politics (esp US) c1815-2025

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Kevin Schultz, Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, joins the program to talk about his new book Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History. In this first part of the discussion, they get into liberalism’s consistent spirit yet inconsistent character, the transition from progressivism to liberalism in America in the early 20th century, FDR’s use of the word “liberal” as a sort of marketing tool, the height of the “white liberal,” William F. Buckley and the modern American conservative movement, the New Left’s opposition to “the liberal order,” the perception of white liberals in the civil rights movement, and more. 

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07 May 18:20

Warfare in Medieval Iberia - Interview with Carlos Filipe Afonso

Tom Roche

excellent

This special episode, I interview Historian Carlos Filipe Afonso, a professor of medieval military history in the Iberian Peninsula  

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05 May 20:56

AfD; a Kemalist Party

by The Späti Boys
Tom Roche

another VERY EXCELLENT Ciarán+Nick joint, funny /and/ informative

05 May 17:22

Laura Tingle and Niki Savva dissect the election results

Tom Roche

almost entirely about the massive Liberal-National fail (and therefore not much about how the ALP won), but an EXCELLENT dissection of LN decline

ABC 7.30's Political Editor Laura Tingle and political commentator Niki Savva discuss the enormous ramifications of Labor's landslide federal election victory and the future for the Coalition. 

Guests: Laura Tingle, political editor 7.30; Niki Savva, columnist with The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, former advisor to Howard-Costello government

05 May 14:29

Angleton, Mossad, the Mob, and CIA "Cuban Business" - Part 1 (DCC77)

Tom Roche

VERY EXCELLENT: as usual, Good "brings the receipts" (in this case, Zionists vs JFK), but this ep is shorter and better-focused than most "Devil's Chess Club" outings. 1st part of 3!

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ]. This episode features a presentation based on my recent article, “James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'.” [ https://americanexception.substack.com/p/james-angleton-mossad-the-syndicate ] About a year ago I discovered a page in James Angleton’s 1975 Church Committee testimony that the CIA tried to hide by deleting in subsequent releases. The 86ed page—which happened to be page 86—shows that CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton did not tell CIA director John McCone that, in order to bypass the entire CIA, Angleton was using a Mossad officer as an operational agent for anti-Castro operations in Cuba. The outcome was that there was very little paper trail at the Agency when it came to the details of Angleton’s mobbed-up “Cuban business”—especially the assassination apparatus which many JFK assassination researchers believe was later redirected at President Kennedy. Special thanks to: • Dana Chavarria, production • Casey Moore, graphics • Michelle Boley, animated intro • Mock Orange, music
05 May 14:28

Who Killed JFK? (Angleton’s Cuban Biz – Part 2: DCC78)

Tom Roche

VERY EXCELLENT 2nd part of 3 on the CIA-Mafia-Mossad triangle around Lansky and Cuba

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ]. This episode features Part 2 of a presentation based on my recent article, “James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'.” [ https://americanexception.substack.com/p/james-angleton-mossad-the-syndicate ] Specifically, this installment examines the nature of the regime which killed JFK as well as Zionism’s role in the assassination. Special thanks to: • Dana Chavarria, production • Casey Moore, graphics • Michelle Boley, animated intro • Mock Orange, music
05 May 14:28

Zionism and the JFK Assassination - Angleton’s Cuban Biz – Part 3 (DCC79)

Tom Roche

VERY EXCELLENT 3rd part of 3 on the CIA-Mafia-Mossad triangle around Lansky and Cuba

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ]. This episode features Part 3 of a presentation based on my recent article, “James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'.” [ https://americanexception.substack.com/p/james-angleton-mossad-the-syndicate ] Specifically, this installment seeks to explore the historical consequences of Zionism’s role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Special thanks to: • Dana Chavarria, production • Casey Moore, graphics • Michelle Boley, animated intro • Mock Orange, music
03 May 19:04

#620 - Creation In Pectore

Tom Roche

VERY EXCELLENT return to form after a somewhat-disappointing-but-still-listenable MU 619

In last year's Oscar contender CONCLAVE (2024), the election of a new pope at Vatican City becomes a centrist parable for navigating an era of political extremes. PLUS: We recap the strangest Canadian election of the century so far. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus Check out Will's book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA - https://orbooks.com/catalog/ed-wood/ Subscribe to Luke's Substack - https://www.lukewsavage.com/ "Conclave, and the liberal abyss," by Reuben of Haringey - https://fromthisbrokenhill.substack.com/p/conclave-and-the-liberal-abyss
03 May 03:49

News - WFP Out of Food in Gaza, US-Rwanda Migrant Deal, National Security Advisor Waltz Reassigned

Tom Roche

Bessner and (mostly) Davison deliver another EXCELLENT week-in-review (minus the pre- and inter-audio ads)

May Day is no more, but the world, sadly, does not revolve around the left. This week: a new report on 2024 global military spending shockingly shows it has increased (2:05); the UN’s World Food Programme is out of food in Gaza (4:05), the IDF herds people into Rafah (5:55), and the PLO creates a vice presidency in anticipation of a successor to Mahmoud Abbas (8:32); in Syria, violence between security forces and Druze militias kills over 70 people (12:18); the US bombs a migrant center in Yemen (16:14) as Houthi/Ansar Allah forces continue to shoot down drones (17:58); the Iran-US nuclear talks have been postponed (19:35); there are rumblings of imminent armed conflict between India and Pakistan (21:48); Trump claims to have spoken with President Xi Jinping of China as both economies take a hit from the former’s tariffs (24:31); a court ruling may upend South Korea’s election (28:00); Nigeria sees an increase in jihadist violence (30:00); Congolese and Rwandan foreign ministers set a deadline for a peace deal (32:10); in Russia-Ukraine, Russia’s Kursk operation appears to be at its end (34:03), Trump and Zelensky meet at Pope Francis’ funeral (35:33), and the US and Ukraine finally sign a mineral deal (37:26); the Trump administration designates gangs in Haiti as terrorist groups (39:54); the Liberal Party wins Canada’s election (41:19); Donald Trump relieves Mike Waltz of duty as national security advisor, but appoints him as UN ambassador (44:03); and the US is negotiating with Rwanda so that the latter may take migrants on the former’s behalf (48:50). 

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03 May 03:48

The News Quiz: Ep 2. Elections (Local and Papal)

Tom Roche

EXCELLENT, consistently quite funny

Andy Zaltzman is joined by Andrew Maxwell, Zing Tsjeng, Jessica Fostekew and Pierre Novellie to unpack the upcoming local elections, the Conclave in the Vatican, Trump's planned UK visit, and Yorkshire Gladiators.

Written by Andy Zaltzman.

With additional material by: Chris Ballard, Cody Dahler, Eve Delaney and Alice Fraser. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

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02 May 22:19

4/30/25: Trump Bullies Bezos, GDP Shrinks, Trump MS13 Photoshop, US Jet Falls Into Sea & MORE!

Tom Roche

Grim and Jashinsky consistently VERY EXCELLENT esp final 2 segments:

+ anonymous Crown Heights woman on the 24 Apr 2025 Haredi-Zionist pogrom (including NYPD protection of Zionist attackers until videos went viral) during Itamar Ben-Gvir's visit to Chabad HQ on Eastern Parkway (Brooklyn)
+ Sierra Leonean author Chernoh Alpha M. Bah on
+++++ 2014 Ebola outbreak as lab leak from US biodefense facility at Kenema (sometimes confused with nearby Kailahun, both in eastern Sierra Leone) Government Hospital
+++++ corruption in US foreign aid (esp in west Africa), including from Agency for International Development (USAID), International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

Ryan and Emily discuss Trump bullies Amazon into major cave, US GDP shrinks amid tariffs, MAGA influencers go full cult in WH event, Trump falls for his own MS13 photoshop, US jet falls off ship dodging Houthi strikes, NYC woman attacked by Zionist mob speaks out, African journo says USAID does more harm than good.

 

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30 Apr 16:06

On Germany being Awful (feat. Hanno Hauenstein)

by The Späti Boys
Tom Roche

EXCELLENT esp re Germany memory culture Namibia vs Israel

29 Apr 16:55

Exporting Genocide: Gaza Burns as Repression Comes Home, w/ Ali Abunimah

Tom Roche

another VERY EXCELLENT drop from Ali Abunimah (and Rania)

Rania Khalek hosts a special live episode of Dispatches with Ali Abunimah, executive director of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine.


They dive into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the global silence enabling it, and why this brutal new phase was always Zionism’s endgame. From U.S.-funded fascism abroad to rising repression at home, nothing is off the table.


28 Apr 18:46

Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life

Tom Roche

PERFECT

Multi-award winning comedian and author Mark Watson continues his probably doomed, but luckily funny quest to make sense of the human experience.

This series is about time - the days of the week, the stages of our existence - and the way we use it to make sense of things. We make our way through the working week, tonight considering 'hump day' - Wednesday. Wednesday's child, famously, is full of woe. Both Mark and Esther are in this category. Is the woe a real issue or merely a fairy tale? What is the bleakest joke ever told by a four-year-old? And what would Thomas Hardy make of this series?

Expect jokes, observations and interactions galore as Mark is aided, and sometimes obstructed, by the sardonic musical excellence of Flo & Joan. There's also a hand-picked comedy colleague each week - here, we welcome Esther Manito.

Producer: Lianne Coop

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26 Apr 02:23

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Tom Roche

very skippable, the worst sort of IOT: gather fans of {fill in the blank} for an uncritical celebration, don't address even the most obvious problems

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), who was part of the movement known as phenomenology. While less well-known than his contemporaries Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his popularity has increased among philosophers in recent years. Merleau-Ponty rejected Rene Descartes’ division between body and mind, arguing that the way we perceive the world around us cannot be separated from our experience of inhabiting a physical body. Merleau-Ponty was interested in the down-to-earth question of what it is actually like to live in the world. While performing actions as simple as brushing our teeth or patting a dog, we shape the world and, in turn, the world shapes us. With

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield

Thomas Baldwin Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of York

And

Timothy Mooney Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College, Dublin

Produced by Eliane Glaser

Reading list:

Peter Antich, Motivation and the Primacy of Perception: Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Knowledge (Ohio University Press, 2021)

Dimitris Apostolopoulos, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)

Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails (Chatto and Windus, 2016)

Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings (Routledge, 2004)

Thomas Baldwin (ed.), Reading Merleau-Ponty (Routledge, 2007)

Renaud Barbaras (trans. Ted Toadvine and Leonard Lawlor), The Being of the Phenomenon: Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (Indiana University Press, 2004).

Anya Daly, Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Intersubjectivity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

M. C. Dillon, Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (Northwestern University Press, 1998, 2nd ed.)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Alden L. Fisher), The Structure of Behavior (first published 1942; Beacon Press, 1976)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Donald Landes), Phenomenology of Perception (first published 1945; Routledge, 2011)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sense and Non-Sense (first published 1948; Northwestern University Press, 1964)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Signs (first published 1960; Northwestern University Press, 1964)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (first published 1964; Northwestern University Press, 1968)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (trans. Oliver Davis with an introduction by Thomas Baldwin), The World of Perception (Routledge, 2008)

Ariane Mildenberg (ed.), Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Timothy Mooney, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception: On the Body Informed (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Katherine J. Morris, Starting with Merleau-Ponty (Continuum, 2012)

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2011)

Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, The Routledge Guidebook to Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2011)

Jean-Paul Sartre (trans. Benita Eisler), Situations (Hamish Hamilton, 1965)

Hilary Spurling, The Girl from the Fiction Department (Penguin, 2003)

Jon Stewart (ed.), The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty (Northwestern University Press, 1998)

Ted Toadvine, Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature (Northwestern University Press, 2009)

Kerry Whiteside, Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of an Existential Politics (Princeton University Press, 1988)

Iris Marion Young, On Female Body Experience: “Throwing Like a Girl” and Other Essays (Oxford University Press, 2005)

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26 Apr 00:15

The News Quiz: Ep 1. Space, Steel and Strikes

Tom Roche

NQ returns with another EXCELLENT outing esp from Steel and Kugblenu

Andy Zaltzman is joined by Zoe Lyons, Mark Steel, Athena Kugblenu and Hugo Rifkind to unpack bin workers strikes in Birmingham, pop stars popping to the stars, talks of tariffs, steeling oneself in Scunthorpe, and how Toby took his carvery one step too far.

Written by Andy Zaltzman.

With additional material by: Mike Shephard, Christina Riggs, Eve Delaney and Ben Pope. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Production Coordinator: Beanna Olding Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

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26 Apr 00:13

News - Kashmir Attack, US Airstrikes in Yemen, Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks Falter

Tom Roche

Bessner and (mostly) Davison deliver another EXCELLENT week-in-review (minus the pre- and inter-audio ads)

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Derek makes his grand return to the AP newsroom! This week: Pope Francis dies (0:30); India sees the worst attack on civilians in Kashmir in years, prompting fallout on India-Pakistan relations (6:35); the US carries out its deadliest airstrike on Yemen to date (14:39); Qatar and Egypt propose a new ceasefire plan for Gaza (18:07); the US and Iran see progress in their nuclear talks, but the Trump administration continues to demand zero enrichment (21:27); Trump has once again changed course on tariffs (26:28); in Sudan, the RSF closes in on Al-Fashir (29:46); it is unclear whether peace talks for the DRC-M23 conflict are making progress (32:30); Russia’s operation in Kursk nears its end (35:10); Vladimir Putin offers to halt the war at the current front line, but this and Trump’s peace proposal meet resistance from Zelensky (36:33); the US State Department releases a reorganization plan (45:13); and more leaks and discord are apparent at the US Department of Defense under Pete Hegseth (48:01).

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26 Apr 00:12

News - Sudan Rival Government, US Pushing Ukraine-Russia Deal, US-Saudi Nuclear Tech Talks

Tom Roche

another excellent (but Derek-less) global-week-in-review (minus the pre- and inter-audio ads)

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One last news roundup without Derek, but Danny and Alex Jordan of the Quincy Institute are on the case!


This week: the RSF announces plans to form a parallel government in Sudan (1:33); US-Iran nuclear negotiations continue in Oman (7:21); the US and Saudi Arabia discuss giving the Kingdom access to nuclear technology (14:19); the Trump trade war continues despite him dialing back certain tariffs (18:40); Xi Jinping tours Southeast Asia (22:44); President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador visits the White House amid the controversy of Kilmar Ábrego García’s deportation (27:15); ICE is ramping up the arrest of pro-Palestine voices in the US (31:14); center-right candidate Daniel Noboa wins the presidential election in Ecuador (32:56); American envoy Steve Witkoff says a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia is imminent (34:36) and President Vladimir Zelenskyy appears on 60 Minutes (40:42); and the Israeli government announces that it will escalate its attack on Gaza (43:13). 


Danny then speaks with Afeef Nessouli, a volunteer currently in Gaza working with Glia, a medical organization that “empowers low-resource ​communities to build sustainable, locally-driven healthcare projects.”


Please consider donating to Glia to help Afeef and Palestinians doing medical work in Gaza. Afeef also works with Shabab Gaza, a local project that provides food for victims of the genocide. You can donate if you DM them @shababgaza1 on Instagram.


If you’d like to follow Afeef please check out his Instagram handle @afeefness, where he’s been sharing his experiences in Gaza.


And catch Alex Jordan on X/Twitter @alexjordanatl and on the Quincy Institute’s upcoming YouTube program “Always at War," which he will co-host with Courtney Rawlings.

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24 Apr 16:30

Democracy Now! 2025-04-23 Wednesday

Tom Roche

(mostly) excellent

Democracy Now! 2025-04-23 Wednesday

  • Headlines for April 23, 2025
  • "America, América": Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis

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23 Apr 01:34

Only Mr. God Knows 2025 ep.1 Pre-Game Analysis

by The Späti Boys
Tom Roche

as advertised, Ciarán previews /all/ the songs and, despite his brevity, the episode runtime ~= 115 min. So--only for the heads.