Charles Bursell Presents

AI warnings have finally hit the fan. Is it as dire as they say? I don't know, but I've heard enough. Shut it down until enforceable regulations are in place. And, Democrats, you're playing with a lead, don't play not to lose. Run up the score, win big. www.charlesbursell.com

Like rats in a cage, our children's fractured lives are the inevitable result of the grotesque world we've built for them. Also, the right-left spectrum is becoming obsolete. Let's get together and embrace the 80/20 issues: tax the rich, legalize weed, f**k AI...  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.23) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.  Note: We The People is a member of the Charles Bursell Presents family of podcasts. To follow or subscribe please search "Charles Bursell" on your favorite podcast platform.

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, don't let them mythologize the doomed and deadly "war on terror" or package our shared grief into cheap sentimentality and sell it back to us for cash. Also: We always hear "that's not who we are." Nope, this is exactly who we are.  www.charlesbursell.com

Craven Dems join red-baiting Repugs in a resolution to suppress votes, speech, and thought. Don't put your ballot in the hands of the Regime, they'll trash it. Speaking of trash, tear down all the DC Dictator Chic. Plus, our annual Labor Day reminder: work is good, jobs are bad.  www.charlesbursell.com

Bootlicking pols and corporate media are misappropriating "antisemitism" and lying about "socialism" to attack the New American Left. Also, it's important to identify when the problem to solve is upstream or downstream.  www.charlesbursell.com

There is no such thing as a "natural" disaster, only the catastrophic results of reckless and oppressive power. Driven by our instinct for survival and a conscious dialectic, we can create an open-border, anti-fascist, populist movement for a real democracy.  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.22) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.

He went to Jared! What the hell? Our three-course assignment: 1) undo the damage, 2) hold Repugs accountable, and 3) advance the bold agenda demanded by voters. Oh, and there's only one choice for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. www.charlesbursell.com

The American financial system is one big con. On the immigration debate, one side is worse but both are wrong. And the Orange Menace's economic war against the people of Cuba and Iran are crimes against humanity.  www.charlesbursell.com

The Fascists plot to murder language itself. We can't let them. And, are all politics local as the saying goes? Maybe not. Also, a new litmus test: this summer's insurgent primary voters have redefined the national agenda.  www.charlesbursell.com

The Orange Menace leaves people to die in the sky. RFK Jr's crackpot conspiracies. The epic failures of Pete Hegseth's Department of War Crimes. Consiglieri Todd Blanche pitches limitless executive privilege. Put the "sign of peace" in every park in every game, now and forever, Amen!  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.21) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.

Iran is Jimmy-Cartering the Orange Menace and threatened to kill him. So, he hid behind food and sent the flight crew, press, and Marco Rubio to die for him. Francesca Hong got Bernied by Wisconsin Dems, now their only hope is the utter repulsiveness of the Republican opponent.  www.charlesbursell.com

Every argument against Francesca Hong in Wisconsin is irrelevant, a half-truth, or an outright lie. ("Electability" the biggest lie of all.) Not one argument has been made against her populist proposals. Not one. Because they are wildly popular with voters and they threaten the agenda of corporate politicians and their donors.  www.charlesbursell.com

Practicing political "aspirationalism." Also, Americans who mistakenly self-identify as conservative or moderate favor most so-called "left" policies. Finally, the Democrats have failed to thwart 10 years of Maga run amok. Unless you want another 10 (or 20), support the insurgents!  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.20) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.

Progressives win the Michigan primary. It's time for "moderate" Dems to practice what they preach: Vote blue no matter who! State crimes by the Dept of Injustice, ICE, The White House, all with Repugnant complicity. The list of impeachable offenses grows daily. www.charlesbursell.com

World problems grow more dire every day and there's no way out within the parameters of our current system. Major news media must cover MAGA fascism like the disaster it is, a virus that has infected 80 million Americans and endangers the entire nation.  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.19) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.

All this hysterical anti-socialist propaganda and lies about "electability" are desperate attempts by the privileged elite to withhold power from the new political center and thwart America's natural penchant for progress.  www.charlesbursell.com

Corporate media, Repugs, and Centrists are lying about Democratic Socialists with rhetoric worthy of Goebbels and McCarthy. The upstarts are winning because their proposals are NOT extreme, they are mainstream.  www.charlesbursell.com

To be proud of the United States On this 250th requires a huge denial of reality. SCOTUS knows the assignment: to advance the 50-year project of Authoritarian White Christian Nationalism. www.charlesbursell.com

After primary wins by Democratic Socialists, establishment pols and pundits are trying to scare you with baseless red-baiting and mudslinging lies. Don't let them. Also, I agree with the Orange Menace, the housing bill is "of minor importance."  www.charlesbursell.com

The regime is committing digital espionage at home and digital colonialism abroad. We are rapidly–and permanently–losing our groundwater to Big Ag. The only solution: local sustainable farming outside the apparatus of profit.  www.charlesbursell.com

The United States is not a democracy, but it's not for the reason your crazy uncle thinks. The Obama Center opening and the NY Knicks celebration were excellent displays of America at its best.  www.charlesbursell.com

When Democrats win Congress they must govern big for the people AND hold the regime accountable for its crimes. Let's be honest about what's happening. He lost his stupid war, he's history's biggest loser, but he's still dangerous. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson, AP)  www.charlesbursell.com

The Graham Platner drama confirms the need for government reform, the folly of 'breaking news' out of Iran, and we check in on the stories that define our time.  www.charlesbursell.com

Let artificial intelligence do the grunt work and allow us to be human again. How? Abolish profit and establish indigenous governance.  www.charlesbursell.com

He's nuts, he's a failure, and when he finally falls off the cliff the billionaires and their apparatchiks will rush over and pretend to push. Then they'll continue their half-century takeover. We must starve them out.  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.18) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.

Scott Pelley sets the bar, multiple courts smack down the Orange Menace, new top spy is looking for dirt on you and me, a broken U.S. elections system in desperate need of reform, and we rifle through the Friday trash.  www.charlesbursell.com

Politicians, no one wants to hear your dime store pseudo-psychology on the meaning of life. Do your job protecting our social and economic rights and we'll do the rest. Also: Save your brain, f&#k AI and put pen to paper!   www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.17) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.

Pope Leo XIV writes forcefully on the ethics of AI but even the pontiff himself doesn't dare to put God before private enterprise. Dozens of innocents are dying in American gulags, many by their own hand. Will lame duck Repugnants help to sabotage the Regime?  www.charlesbursell.com

Political theory from an indigenous perspective. Colbert, SNL and the Democrats can't save us. Shame on the warmongers who callously exploit those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.16) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website. 

The Orange Regime's stolen tax-payer "fund" will pay handsome salaries to their new class of professional henchmen. Also, some needed perspective on the outrageous assault on Cuba and how the midterms are shaping up to be a battle of real versus fake populists.  www.charlesbursell.com

The China summit confirms the whole global order is repulsively unnatural. RFK Jr's dysfunctional HHS has public health prominently featured in recent headlines. Spoiler alert: we're doing it wrong.  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! (ep.15) Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.

Blame Democrats for MAGA's abysmal—and tacky—reign. UK elections tell us voters don't want the mushy middle. Also: teargassing kids, harassing immigrants, political shenanigans in Pennsylvania, and other stories we're not going to talk about.  www.charlesbursell.com

The Regime calls us terrorists and declares the right to jail or even kill us on sight. Don't believe me? Read their 'counterterrorism' strategy. Dems must go max on redistricting and then resurrect the New Deal/Great Society agenda. www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website. Note: We The People is a member of the Charles Bursell Presents family of podcasts. To follow or subscribe please search "Charles Bursell" on your favorite podcast platform.

It looks like a cool one billion tax dollars will go to the abominable ballroom. Global food insecurity could increase by 45 million people if this stupid war doesn't end right damn now. A legal strategy to put the whole Repugnant criminal enterprise in jail.  www.charlesbursell.com

The King of England schools the U.S. on democracy while SCOTUS destroys it. Historically pointless shutdown ends. Secretary of War Crimes takes the witness stand. The Iran War is over but it's not over. It's both! Who knows?  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.  Note: We The People is a member of the Charles Bursell Presents family of podcasts. To follow or subscribe please search "Charles Bursell" on your favorite podcast platform.

The would-be assassin was not tackled by the Secret Service, he tripped over his own feet. The Regime is lying about the incident and exploiting it. Also: impeachment, bombs, lost lessons, election rigging, and the voter-as-pundit problem.   www.charlesbursell.com

The U.S. regime labels anti-capitalists and civil rights protectors as enemies of the state to revoke citizenship and deport undesirables (like you and me). Then they incite violence and use it as an excuse to abolish dissent. And they wonder why we call them fascists.  www.charlesbursell.com

We The People: Songs of Freedom, Justice, and Solidarity! Host: Peter Donalds. For this week's playlist and links to all episodes visit our website.  Note: We The People is a member of the Charles Bursell Presents family of podcasts. To follow or subscribe please search "Charles Bursell" on your favorite podcast platform.

Two simple ideas to end Citizens United and force good government. Palantir oligarchs publish their techno-fascist manifesto. It's as bad as you think. And, a handful of loudmouth podcasters shaping the major political parties is no way to run a country.   www.charlesbursell.com

How can we be in a coalition with former MAGA if they don't wholly renounce fascism? The impact of the Iran war on global well-being is another argument for local economies. The Orange Menace is the strait dope. (See what I did there?)   www.charlesbursell.com