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.]
WHAT IS FASCISM? 3 - THE CORPORATE-GOVERNMENTAL ECONOMY
TRUMP'S REFUSAL TO CONCEDE - INTERESTING TIMES 15
US ELECTION AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE - INTERESTING TIMES 14
EHRC REPORT & CORBYN SUSPENSION - INTERESTING TIMES 13
REVOLVING DOORS & COSY CABALS - INTERESTING TIMES 12
LAO TZU 29
LAO TZU 28
JOHNSON'S POST-TRUTH SPEECH TO TORY CONFERENCE - INTERESTING TIMES 11
WHAT IS FASCISM? 2 - THE PRESENT DAY UK & USA
WHAT IS FASCISM? 1 - HISTORICAL EXAMPLES
LAO TZU 27
COVIDIOCY: WHO BENEFITS? - INTERESTING TIMES 10
AGAINST FLAG-SHAGGING - INTERESTING TIMES 9
WHY HAS SOCIALISM BECOME A DIRTY WORD?
GRASSROOTS AND ASTROTURFING
STUDENTS WIN! INTERESTING TIMES 8
WHAT CAN WE DO?
LAO TZU 26
RICHARD WOLFF ON THE ECONOMY - INTERESTING TIMES 7
BRITAIN-TRUMP, PORTLAND, YELLOW-HAMMER - INTERESTING TIMES 6
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