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On disinformation, NATO vs Russia, terrorism + more.We look back at a turbulent last month or so with the help of guest and "disinformation bot" Tara McCormack. We put it all in the context of Trump's return, post-neoliberalism and deglobalisation.

00:13:52 – Jacob Siegel  talks to Alex about Meta's policy U-turn on censorship and what it means for the public-private partnership on digital surveillance.

00:50:11 – How will European powers react to the US's relative withdrawal of its protection? Will France, Britain and Germany double-down on the Ukraine war?

01:06:21 – Why is Luigi Mangione not understood as 'terrorism' while the Magdeburg Christmas market attack is? What drives terrorism and is that even the right term to understand explosive anomie?

 01:15:24 – Letters to the Editors: on the global radical right, and Trump's foreign policy

Links:

/369/ Information-War and War-Politics ft. Jacob Siegel

/34/ War Propaganda ft. Tara McCormack

To the Finland Station, Branko Milanovic, Substack

Trumpism & Geopolitics, Tim Pendry, Substack

Class Patricide, Dustin Guastella, Damage

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Mouldy L

Demography, while a lot less romantic, is shown over and over to be much better at predicting historical currents than class analysis. Infant mortality rates tell you far more about what's happening to US society than class. We know from fertility rates that China could not overtake the US even if it wanted to and that Russia does not have very long to win the Ukraine war. What does class tell us when we increasingly struggle to even define it or point out its main protagonists?