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.]
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UKRAINE & THE FOG OF WAR 3 - INTERESTING TIMES 52
UKRAINE & THE FOG OF WAR 2 - INTERESTING TIMES 51
UKRAINE & THE FOG OF WAR 1 - INTERESTING TIMES 50
INSECURITY IN OUR TURBULENT TIMES
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CIVIL UNREST IN 2022? - INTERESTING TIMES 44
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TRIALS OF A NIETZSCHEAN SOCIALIST IN NEW NEW LABOUR
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DON’T LOOK UP - OUR THOUGHTS [2ND EDITION]
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LOOKING BACK OVER 2021 AND FORWARD TO 2022 - INTERESTING TIMES 47
TORY BY- ELECTION TROUNCING - INTERESTING TIMES 46
VACCINE PASSPORTS? - INTERESTING TIMES 45
SCHRODINGER‘S PARTY - INTERESTING TIMES 44
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TORIES ON THE ROPES? - INTERESTING TIMES 43
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