#1487 Oceans Rise, Empires Fall (The Coming New World Order)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 5/4/2022
Today we take a look at the tectonic shifts in the geopolitics happening under our feet; the long, slow decline of the US empire and the neoliberal order, the role of the war in Ukraine in hastening the end of globalization, and the rise of both China in the east and of the oceans around us all.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Ukraine and an Empire's Decline - Economic Update - Air Date 4-16-22
Wolff talks with host and journalist Chris Hedges about Ukraine and the end of the US empire.
Ch. 2: A World to Win Imperialism and the Energy Crisis w/ David Wearing - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 4-1-22
Grace chats to David Wearing, post-doctoral researcher at SOAS and author of AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain.
The new war in Europe has been described as a turning point in human history.
It's been more than a month since Russia invaded Ukraine - causing death and destruction across much of the country.
President Biden reportedly warned Chinese President Xi Jinping via video call Friday that China would face “consequences” if it provided material support to Russia amid the war in Ukraine.
Alfred McCoy argues that American global hegemony will end around 2030 replaced by China as world leader but Chinese hegemony will last only for about 20 years and that by 2050, climate change will have brought environmental catastrophe to both countries.
Ch. 6: Climate Catastrophe, the Fall of America, and a New World Order - WhoWhatWhy - Air Date 1-14-22
A bleak but fascinating look across five continents and seven centuries points to climate and political destruction ahead.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 7: Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson - Bungcast - Air Date 3-29-22
Helen Thompson, podcaster and professor of political economy at Cambridge and author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, joins us to talk about the geopolitics of oil, stretching from the 1956 Suez Crisis to the Fracking Revolution of today.
Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon are the authors of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order. We had a 90-minute conversation on some important topics for the study of international relations.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 9: Pyramid scheme sticker club - Alan from Connecticut
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on how people find math so hard that many pyramid schemes likely get started by accident
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | take a look at the tectonic shifts in geopolitics happening right under our feet. |
| 0:12.9 | The long, slow decline of the U.S. Empire and the neoliberal order, the role of the war |
| 0:18.8 | in Ukraine, in hastening the end of globalization, and the rise of both China and the East, |
| 0:26.2 | and of the oceans all around us. |
| 0:28.7 | Today are from Economic Update, Jacobin Radio, Inside Story from Al Jazeera English, |
| 0:35.7 | Democracy Now, Start Making Sense, and Who What Why, with additional members only clips |
| 0:41.8 | from the Bunkast and the Democracy Paradox. |
| 0:46.1 | You've been writing about an American Empire that is falling apart or is coming apart |
| 1:00.8 | at the scenes. |
| 1:02.8 | How do you connect that argument you've been developing for some time with this war? |
| 1:08.8 | Where does the Ukraine war and what's happening fit into that larger story? |
| 1:16.6 | Well, the loss of economic hegemony, the ruling elites are attempting to compensate for |
| 1:24.0 | that loss with military hegemony. |
| 1:26.7 | But I think if you look at the early years of any empire, they tend to use military force |
| 1:32.4 | very judiciously and very carefully, but of course this is a classic example of how military |
| 1:41.3 | force is counterproductive. |
| 1:44.8 | We look at all of the debacles that have been carried out by Empire, go back to Vietnam, |
| 1:51.3 | the wars in the Middle East, the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, the retreat under |
| 1:57.3 | the Reagan administration for Lebanon. |
| 1:59.2 | They've been one debacle after another, and yet they keep perpetuating these kinds of |
| 2:05.8 | military fiascos and are not held accountable. |
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