TMBS ReAir: 132 End Capitalism or It'll End Us ft. Ronan Burtenshaw & Milton Allimadi
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
TMBS 132 aired on March 24, 2020
Episode summary:
We have a choice capitalism or democracy
Ronan Burtenshaw (@ronanburtenshaw) joins us to talk about the UK response, and the challenge socialists have proving to people that things can change things.
David breaks down the role of the FED and reminds us that we should be democratizing it as quickly as possible.
Milton Allimadi (@allimadi) joins us to share wisdom about lessons from Cuba & the Belt & Road initiative
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| 0:00.0 | Here we are, guys. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, everybody. We are live. It's the Michael Brooks show. And obviously we're a little bit off format, |
| 0:22.7 | but we are never off our game with super producer Matt Leck. |
| 0:29.3 | Chief Economist and Candyman auditioner with that shot, |
| 0:36.3 | David Griscom. |
| 0:38.1 | How's it going, everybody? |
| 0:40.0 | On this week's... |
| 0:41.4 | Michael, let me just say hi again because I have a weird mic situation. |
| 0:45.8 | Hi, everybody. I'm here. |
| 0:47.6 | Is it good? Everybody heard from everybody? Okay, beautiful. |
| 0:51.4 | On this week's program, Ronan Burton Shaw, editor of the Tribune. |
| 0:55.3 | We're talking about the UK in lockdown and the neoliberal grand theft spree. |
| 1:00.6 | How to end it. |
| 1:02.1 | The long march through the institutions between the United States and the United Kingdom that we need to have happened. |
| 1:08.8 | Then our great friend, Milton Alamatiamadi is hanging out with us later. |
| 1:13.6 | We're talking about a little bit Belt and Road initiative and the opportunity for Africa. |
| 1:20.6 | We're also talking about what the World Bank, what the IMF have done to Africa's health systems in the era of pandemic. |
| 1:31.3 | Of course, we've got a gem. |
| 1:33.3 | Of course, we're going to review Donald Trump's absolute disaster press conference. |
| 1:40.3 | And we also have shoutouts emerging from the union movement, from mutual aid, as people start |
| 1:47.2 | demanding an end to rent, walking off of work sites, and the percolation of rent strikes |
| 1:54.9 | and general strikes are in the air. Bernie Sanders is staying in as he has the most important, by far, national leadership |
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