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Podcast: The Muckrake Political Podcast
Episode: The World's On Fire and There's Money in the Flames
Description: Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman dive into a troubling UN climate report and discuss how capitalism prevents humanity from saving itself while undermining democracy. Foreign policy expert and co-host of the American Prestige podcast Daniel Bessner stops by to chat with Jared about American empire, imperial realism, and the longterm effects of the military-industrial complex. To gain access to the weekly Weekender episode and so much more, become a patron at http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Also, Jared's book AMERICAN RULE: HOW A NATION CONQUERED THE WORLD BUT FAILED ITS PEOPLE is being released in paperback this September with an...