Larry King on privatization and mortality after communism. [1:14]
Andrew Cockburn on the political uses of a new Red Scare. [28:49]
Peter Pomerantsev on watching Vladimir Putin's television. [1:05:28]
Sean Guillory on hard times facing the Russian left. [1:47:20]
Tony Wood on Putin's hand in post-Soviet Russian politics. [2:39:43]
China Mieville on what Russia 1917 can teach the pre-revolutionary world. [3:25:06]
Episode 1039: Russia Today (Playlist - January 19 2019) by This is Hell! is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Although the coronavirus provided the trigger for the current global shrinkage, the economic crisis was already looming when the pathogen made its physical appearance.
The gross inequalities and declining standards of life in the US are magnified by the corona crisis, pushing already marginalized populations to the brink.
China sends medical equipment abroad, Cuba sends doctors and cutting-edge drugs, but the US fails to provide its people, doctors and nurses with basic tools and protection.
This is going to become a problem for the Pentagon, whether it's on Navy destroyers, submarines, and aircraft carriers or the 800+ bases.
CEO from Boeing to CEO from Wells Fargo, heard by the flies on walls at Mar-a-Lago: “It’s their health or our economy— we get to choose…”
