TMBS ReAir: 109 - Friendly Debate On China w/ Saagar Enjeti & Interview w/ Heidi Sloan

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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TMBS aired October 8th, 2019

Episode summary:

What is hegemony and how to build it?

Shoutout to Jagameet Singh for his great answer on providing indigenous communities with water.

Heidi Sloan (@HeidiSloanForTX) joins us to talk about her campaign for TX-25.

During the GEM David talks about the need for reductions to the working day.

Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) joins us for a friendly debate on China.

Will Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump use the Epstein connection first?

Global update on Ecuador and Rojava.

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0:00.0	Well, what's hegemony?
0:15.9	Hegemony has to do with a domination of the international system by small sectors of
0:23.6	power at the moment that happens to be one superpower which does not dominate the rest
0:29.8	of the world in all dimensions, but overwhelmingly dominates it in one dimension, namely the
0:35.1	military dimension.
0:36.1	The United States now probably outspends the next maybe 25 countries in the world in
0:43.0	military expenditures and is increasing that lead and furthermore has made it extremely
0:48.8	clear and unambiguous that it intends to make sure that it will dominate the world by
0:54.6	force, the dimension in which it reigns supreme, and that it will tolerate no competitors.
1:01.5	This has caused plenty of shutters in the world, even in the U.S. foreign policy elite,
1:06.5	and though it's not unique to this administration or even to the United States, it is taking
1:11.1	a historical form which is unusual, maybe unprecedented.
1:16.3	Well, then what are the consequences of hegemony for survival?
1:20.8	Unfortunately, if you look at the factors that surround hegemony, the short-term goals
1:26.5	to maximize profit, to increase control of the world and so on, you ask how those goals
1:33.9	play out, turns out they do happen to threaten survival.
1:37.8	And it's a deep problem because the decisions are not irrational within the framework of
1:43.4	the institutions in which they're being taken, but they may be utterly irrational as compared
1:49.6	with the likelihood that my grandchildren will have a world to live in.
1:54.1	So, for example, the military dimension.
2:10.2	Welcome to the Michael Brooks Show.
2:11.8	I'm Michael Brooks, we're broadcasting from downtown Brooklyn, USA, where we always
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