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.]
MONARCHY: INSTITUTION & SOAP OPERA - INTERESTING TIMES 26
THE DRY TINDER OF RESENTMENT & OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMANCIPATION - INTERESTING TIMES 25
CORRUPTION, AUTHORITARIANISM, NUGATORY OPPOSITION - INTERESTING TIMES 24
FREUD'S INFLUENCE ON US GOVERNMENT & BUSINESS
REASON ON REASON 4 - MADNESS
EVENTS THAT DEMYSTIFY: BREXIT NOT DONE, GAMESTOP & A TRUTHFUL POLITICIAN - INTERESTING TIMES 23
PAIN, HOPE & THE STATE OF THE NATION - INTERESTING TIMES 22
REASON ON REASON 3 - QUESTIONING IN THE AGE OF REASON
TWITTER BANS AND FREE SPEECH - INTERESTING TIMES 21
INVASION OF US CAPITOL - INTERESTING TIMES 20
LOOKING BACK OVER 2020 AND FORWARD TO 2021 - INTERESTING TIMES 19
LAO TZU 33
MUTANTS, BORDERS AND PLAGUE ISLAND - INTERESTING TIMES 18
REASON ON REASON 2 - THE ANTECEDENTS TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
LAO TZU 32
LABOUR'S CIVIL WAR, BREXIT, FRAGMENTATION - INTERESTING TIMES 17
LAO TZU 31
REASON ON REASON 1 - MAPPING THE TERRAIN
LAO TZU 30
POST TRUTH THIS WEEK - INTERESTING TIMES 16
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