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Episode 353 - Dollars for Oligarchs, Austerity for Argentina with Daniel Kostzer Economist Daniel Kostzer exposes how Milei’s shock policies and IMF pressures allow hedge funds to cash out while Argentina’s workers face inflation, wage cuts, and collapse.

🔥🇦🇷NEW Episode!
Trump’s “$20B for Argentina” wasn’t aid – it was a heist. A hard look at class war, financial imperialism, and the same old empire in new neoliberal disguise with Daniel Kostzer & @austerityismurder.bsky.social

How have both parties built a digital #policestate that criminalizes #poverty protest & anyone messing w/ profits? Join us tonight @ 8 ET for Macro n Chill to listen to & discuss our latest @CheeseMacro ep. Nothing To Hide ft. Heidi Boghosian.

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The Price of Hunger Inadequate access to nutrition is a problem Americans can solve. It’s time to shut down the false narratives about pay-fors that keep solutions out of reach.

Regarding SNAP...

The currency-issuing federal government cannot run out of the currency it alone creates by fiat any more than a football stadium can run out of points. All of this debt ceiling & shutdown nonsense is pure political theater.

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Episode 352 - Nothing to Hide with Heidi Boghosian Attorney and author Heidi Boghosian joins Steve to discuss the surveillance-security state as a tool of class discipline and repression. Tech giants, corporate media, and both political parties collud...

Do you or anyone you know ever say things like "it's ok if they get my data, I don't have anything to hide"? You might want to think again ..
w/ @austerityismurder.bsky.social

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Episode 351 - Born on 3rd Base with Steve Hall Professor Steve Hall talks about ‘possessive individualism’, its roots, and how the left can combat it.

Are we really the sole architects of our success and failure, or is that just what we’ve been taught to believe? What if the “self-made” myth is holding us back from real progress?
Great new ep from @austerityismurder.bsky.social

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RP Book Club We love to learn and share that learning journey. Come read and discuss with us & check out our previous book club sessions.

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Starts tonight!! Come read State & Revolution with us and build community! ✊✊✊

Episode 349 - Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism with David Fields David Fields talks about 3 cultural syndromes of capitalism: gain primacy syndrome, zero-sum rivalry syndrome, and ownership syndrome.

#Capitalism suffers from psychosocial pathologies, and by blaming the marginalized, it inevitably paves the way for #fascism in our society. @austerityismurder.bsky.social & @profdavidfields.bsky.social

People are ready to understand what the nature of the Palestinian struggle really is, and shifting our perspective from a lot of the liberal bromides, towards really understanding that this is about settler colonization, and this is about a process that has been in place, even prior to the Nakba of 1948. So, it's been an unrelenting process of settler colonization that is abetted by imperialism, and shifting from the imperial mandate of Great Britain, to now the United States. Omar Zahzah, MNC Ep 348

Episode 348 - Gaza: Digital Colonialism & Resistance with Omar Zahzah Professor Omar Zahzah talks about his recently published book, Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle

Join us tomorrow to listen to and discuss the new episode! Link is at the top of the episode page. ✊
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Episode 347 - Libertarianism vs. Reality with Brett Scott Brett Scott talks about libertarianism as an ideological tool that protects elite power by promoting a false narrative of individualism and "free" markets.

Brett Scott talks with @austerityismurder.bsky.social about libertarianism as an ideological tool that protects elite power by promoting a false narrative of individualism and “free” markets.
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Let's be real. The world would be a better place if all these rapture nazis got raptured.

Episode 346 - MMT: Why Our Allies Ignore Us Economist Yeva Nersisyan joins Steve to discuss the struggle to communicate MMT’s core principles in a media landscape full of lies.

🌶️ Economist Yeva Nersisyan joins @austerityismurder.bsky.social to discuss the struggle to communicate MMT’s core principles in a media landscape full of lies. #podcast #MMT #propaganda #kayfabe

Episode 343 - Imports Are A Benefit, Exports Are A Cost? with William Mitchell Economist Bill Mitchell talks about international trade from the MMT perspective.

What is meant by “imports are a benefit, and exports are a cost?" and what are the implications...?

In a floating regime, a currency-issuing govt is not financially constrained in its domestic policy by “trade imbalances,” as it would've been under Bretton Woods.

@austerityismurder.bsky.social

BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 aid seekers, in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lo8z7v

It’s Time for Complementary Currencies By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Introduction Zohran Mamdani’s landslide win was not just a local upset—it was a turning point. It proved that member-led, volunteer-powered campaigns c…

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It’s Time for Complementary Currencies By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective Introduction Zohran Mamdani’s landslide win was not just a local upset—it was a turning point. It proved that member-led, volunteer-powered campaigns c…

✨ New essay by the MotL Collective! ✨

The work of left organizing has value. It's time we built systems that recognize & expand this value. Our latest essay explores complementary currencies as tools to build movements that can't be starved out by austerity.

Please read & share! 👩‍💻 🙌

Blue Bonds: A Fiscal Strategy for Overcoming Trump 2.0 By the Money on the Left Editorial Collective The Trump Administration has plunged the United States into a constitutional crisis. The President’s destructive executive orders and Elon Musk’s…

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Episode 339 - Sociocide with Charles Derber Sociology Professor Charles Derber talks about his book, Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations and the Quest for Democracy.

Charles Derber talks with @austerityismurder.bsky.social about his book, ‘Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations and the Quest for Democracy.’

Steve's take: US sociocide demands revolutionary change. Electoral politics are a distraction and a dead end. ✊

Episode 337 - The Overdose Economy with Charles LeBaron From Big Pharma greed to political exploitation, the war on drugs is a war on people. Our guest is Dr Charles LeBaron, author of Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids.

💊 🤕 NEW EPISODE!! 🎧
From Big Pharma greed to political exploitation, the war on drugs is a war on people. @austerityismurder.bsky.social's guest is Dr Charles LeBaron, author of Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids. #WarOnDrugs #Capitalism

Ep 336 - MMT101 with Jim Byrne - Macro N Cheese Two MMT activists – one from Scotland, one from the US – with two different approaches.

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Episode 336 - MMT101 with Jim Byrne Two MMT activists – one from Scotland, one from the US – with two different approaches.

Find out why & how learning MMT can help us fight for the things that matter to us. Two MMT activists – one from Scotland @learnmmt101.bsky.social , one from the US @austerityismurder.bsky.social – with two different approaches. Great discussion! #MMT

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Capitalism burnout

The purpose of the gig economy is to hinder unionization and striking

This is my friend's effort to give something back in exchange for financial assistance to extricate herself and her children from an abusive situation. If you can afford to purchase any of the items on the site just know that you'll be helping them immensely. ❤️
#MutualAidBoost

Following Sparks A cozy space to reclaim your spark with guided journals, self‑discovery tools & free resources to help women heal from trauma, burnout & identity-loss

A friend of mine, a beautiful soul, made this to help people who are feeling burnt out or have lost their spark in all the madness of life. Thought I'd share here in case anyone else might need some virtual breadcrumbs to help find their way back.
www.followingsparks.com

Episode 335 - Bonding Against Austerity: Can States Offset Federal Cuts? with Ben Wilson & Scott Ferguson With federal budgets promising austerity, could states help themselves? Ben Wilson and Scott Ferguson are proposing 'Blue Bonds.’

🎧 ☕ Worried about #OBBB cuts? Wondering what could be done? Scott Ferguson and Ben Wilson of the Money on the Left collective discuss their ‘Blue Bonds’ proposal with @austerityismurder.bsky.social

Pretty effing hilarious for Congress members who make these funding decisions to not understand the concept of a currency-issuing government, huh?