Weekends: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine w/ Andrew Cockburn
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Andrew Cockburn, author of the new book The Spoils of War, explains why the United States’ astronomical Pentagon budget hasn’t led to better national defense and what’s driving the growth of the military industrial complex today.
Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from October 22, 2021, with producer Cale filling in for Nando.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up? Welcome everyone. You're watching Weekends with Anacasparian and Kale Brooks, |
| 0:22.0 | our trustee producer who's stepping in for Nando Villa. He'll be out today and next |
| 0:28.1 | week. But have no fear. We have an excellent show prepared for you all today. I'm really looking |
| 0:32.6 | forward to this one. In our interview section, we will be speaking to Andrew Coburn, who is the |
| 0:39.3 | Washington editor of Harper's Magazine and has written extensively on US foreign policy, both |
| 0:46.0 | in his articles and in books that he's published. So I'm really looking forward to that discussion. |
| 0:51.7 | Kale, how are you doing? What are you looking forward to? I'm doing great. I wish Nando had told me |
| 0:57.2 | that he was not going to be on the show sooner than this morning. But here I am. Short notice, |
| 1:03.9 | no, no. I had noticed we have segments prepared. We're going to be talking about the Biden |
| 1:10.2 | Infrastructure Plan and all of the horrible shenanigans and corruption in Washington. And then |
| 1:17.2 | I'm hopefully going to try to maybe bring you a little bit of a historical perspective on how |
| 1:22.9 | in the past people have working people have gotten out of these situations. So hopefully we have |
| 1:28.3 | both the the critical take on what's going on. And then maybe hopefully some useful perspective on |
| 1:33.9 | how to get out of this. Maybe. Yeah, I love that. I think the historical context is important. And |
| 1:39.5 | I'm looking forward to your decode. You know, there are a lot of terrible things happening, |
| 1:45.1 | especially when it comes to the budget reconciliation bill, which I'll get to in my decode segment. |
| 1:50.0 | But what's given me a little bit of positivity or optimism is what we're seeing in regard to |
| 1:57.0 | the labor activity in the country. So we had covered the threats of workers striking. You know, |
| 2:05.2 | we we had Kaiser Permanente nurses threatening to strike IOTC workers threatening to strike. IOTC, |
| 2:10.9 | of course, is the union representing those in television and film. But the individuals who |
| 2:16.4 | did end up striking are the John Deere workers. 10,000 of them decided to engage in this strike after |
| 2:23.4 | they could not secure a contract that they were happy with. John Deere is making record profits |
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