This podcast is structured around a review of Peter Phillips' book, Giants: The Global Power Elite. I elucidate and assess the main points of the book, [1] that seventeen globally active asset management corporations each administer over $1 trillion, together totalling $41.1 trillion, [2] that these corporations are managed by 199 directors who Phillips gives brief biographies of; [3] that there are deep connections between these personnel and the three main propaganda and public relations global conglomerates, various 'think tanks' and policy bodies, and governments. I further relate this connectivity to the role of big data as it is extracted and exploited by the tech giants Google and Facebook. I rely on Shoshana Ruboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism to make the latter connection. In the light of Phillips' and Ruboff's rigorous scholarship, I consider the vilification of the UK left by the billionaire-owned media and the prospect of a radical, progressive turn in world politics and what is needed to ensure it. [Free. 29 minutes.]
GOD SAVE THE KING! SERIOUSLY? INTERESTING TIMES 64
OUR BIGGEST DANGER?
EARTH DAY 2023 - INTERESTING TIMES 63
BLUES IN G 5 - MUSIC
CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES - INTERESTING TIMES 62
A UNIVERSE OF DISCOURSE?
STARING INTO THE ABYSS
PROMISES & SLOGANS
INDIVIDUAL & COLLECTIVE, (& FARMING)
FESTIVAL DANCE
PATHOLOGICAL IRRATIONALISM IN THE UK AND BEYOND
LOOKING BACK OVER 2022 & FORWARD TO 2023 - INTERESTING TIMES 62
ON STRIKES - INTERESTING TIMES 61
EDEN REVISITED
LAO TZU 57
LAO TZU 56
LAO TZU 55
GROWTH, GROWTH, GROWTH? - INTERESTING TIMES 60
LAO TZU 54
EIE, A GLIMMER OF HOPE - INTERESTING TIMES 59
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