Weekends: The Biden Doctrine on Foreign Policy w/ Nicole Aschoff, the PRO Act, and Cult of the Elites
Jacobin Radio
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from February 27, 2021.
Nicole Aschoff, an editor at Jacobin and the author of “The Smartphone Society” and “The New Prophets of Capital,” joins the show to discuss Biden's foreign policy and the recent airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Syria. We also get into what the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is and why it's important for the labor movement and how the Andrew Cuomo COVID coverup is emblematic of the broader turn in global politics toward cults of elite figures. Read Nicole's latest: https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/the-bi...
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| 0:00.0 | That music can only mean one thing. |
| 0:18.5 | It's weekends. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Anna Casparian. |
| 0:21.4 | Joining me is the lovely, wonderful, fantastic guitarist, Nando Villa. |
| 0:27.0 | And on the ones and twos, we got our kale brooks, so we got a great show. |
| 0:31.3 | On the ones and twos, baby. |
| 0:32.7 | Hell yeah. |
| 0:33.7 | Yep. |
| 0:34.7 | Yep. |
| 0:35.7 | Making us read books. |
| 0:38.2 | Helping us produce shows. |
| 0:39.2 | The biggest thing is I ignore kale, because you're like a good person and very |
| 0:42.2 | dutiful and stuff, and someone recommends something to you, you actually read it. |
| 0:45.9 | I just ignore 90% of the shit kale, so it sends to me. |
| 0:50.4 | I just think if people are offering me knowledge that's maybe outside of what I'm |
| 0:56.8 | exposed to on a daily basis, I should take it, you know, and I don't do that with everyone. |
| 1:01.7 | There's a very small group of people I trust. |
| 1:05.0 | You're obviously among those people and so is kale. |
| 1:07.7 | And to be fair, I think I've learned more from kale than I did from my graduate political |
| 1:12.3 | science professors. |
| 1:13.8 | Like that's how unbelievably smart he is, but I believe that, you know, and I know that |
| 1:18.6 | you read everything. |
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