Propaganda – The Moral Economy

This week the Moral Economy’s Propaganda Podcast has a roundtable discussion all about violence and the G20 2017 protests in Hamburg. We ask all of the important questions: What was the mainstream media’s presentation of the G20 protests? Is violence a justified means for political protest? And what was the reaction to the protests? audio […] The post G20 and the Face of Protest, Part II – Special Propaganda s03e07 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

This week the Moral Economy’s Propaganda Podcast has a roundtable discussion all about violence and the G20 2017 protests in Hamburg. We ask all of the important questions: What was the mainstream media’s presentation of the G20 protests? Is violence a justified means for political protest? And what was the reaction to the protests? audio […] The post G20 and the Face of Protest, Part I – Special Propaganda s03e07 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

“The Great Satan”. This was the term the Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini used in his speech on 5 November 1979 to describe the United States of America. The term was a response to continued US American policy, since the mid Twentieth Century, to interfere in Iranian politics and undermine its sovereignty. Also, it turns out […] The post The Great Satan – Propaganda s03e06 CIA appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Propaganda is a podcast brought to you by the Moral Economy. Each week (InShaAllah) we seek to present you a philosophical twist on the latest news out of politics, economics, and culture. Have a problem that we said “InShaAllah”? Then you are really going to love this weeks CIA, “The Great Satan“! But first, here […] The post Saudi Arabia – Propaganda s03e06 GPS appeared first on The Moral Economy.

In this Exclusive Propaganda, Chell talks with Cora Roelofs about food activism. They met up at the Overcoming Capitalist Modernity III conference in Hamburg, Germany, where Cora was invited to present a paper about collective ecological agriculture in Rojava, now the Democratic Federation of North Syria. In this interview, she discusses the political and social potential […] The post Cora Roelofs at the #ChalleningCapitalistModernityIII Conference – Exclusive Propaganda appeared first on The Moral Economy.

SpiritChild, revolutionary hip-hop artist from around the world, gave a workshop and a performance at this year’s Challenging Capitalist Modernity III conference in Hamburg, Germany. Eddy caught up with him afterwards to get his thoughts. Join in on this Exclusive Propaganda to hear about the role of culture and hip hop in changing the world. […] The post SpiritChild at the #ChallengingCapitalistModernityIII Conference – Exclusive Propaganda appeared first on The Moral Economy.

This Easter weekend the Moral Economy caught up with David Graeber on some stairs at the Challenging Capitalist Modernity III conference in Hamburg, Germany! Unprepared and unexpected, Nawaz mastered the situation with pressing questions drawn from his deep repertoire of news, politics, and philosophy, and Graeber answered in turn with his critical insight into bureaucracy, […] The post David Graeber at the #ChalleningCapitalistModernityIII conference – Exclusive Propaganda #DemocraticModernityHH appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Download Audio // Part 1 / Part 2 Current Issue Analysis (CIA) Refuting Dave Rubin and Debunking the so-called “Regressive Left” #rubinreport #regressiveleft #defendingtheleft Today I want to talk about the so-called “regressive left”. I want to look at where this term comes from and the why and the how of its use. Then I […] The post CIA: “Refuting Dave Rubin and Debunking the so-called ‘Regressive Left'” Propaganda s03e05 Part 2 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Download Audio // Part 1 // Part 2 Global Political Situation (GPS) Thursday, 6 April 2017 Chemical Attack in Syria #Syria #ChemicalWarfare The NY Times reports that “One of the worst chemical bombings in Syria turned a northern rebel-held area into a toxic kill zone on Tuesday, inciting international outrage over the ever-increasing government impunity […] The post GPS: “Capital Warfare from Syria to Pepsi” – Propaganda s03e05 Part 1 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

“The clash of civilizations”. This was the prognosis for the post-Cold War era, and some would argue that this prognosis came true. Since the end of the Cold War, we have certainly seen more and more people from different cultures and religions fighting each other. Others, however, might consider this a self-fulfilling prophecy. PROPAGANDA takes a […] The post CIA: “What is Civilization?” – Propaganda s03e04 Part 2 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

“The clash of civilizations”. This was the prognosis for the post-Cold War era, and some would argue that this prognosis came true. Since the end of the Cold War, we have certainly seen more and more people from different cultures and religions fighting each other. Others, however, might consider this a self-fulfilling prophecy. PROPAGANDA takes a […] The post GPS: “Standing Rock and Castro” – Propaganda s03e04 Part 1 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Do you ever get that gut feeling that something is going wrong? You don’t know what it is, but something’s telling you that, if you don’t act now, you’re going to regret it? That’s not your intuition talking: that’s your gut literally communicating to you that something’s not right, and our guess is it has […] The post CIA: “The Ideology of Agribusiness” – Propaganda s03e03 Part 2 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Do you ever get that gut feeling that something is going wrong? You don’t know what it is, but something’s telling you that, if you don’t act now, you’re going to regret it? That’s not your intuition talking: that’s your gut literally communicating to you that something’s not right, and our guess is it has […] The post GPS: “Our One-Dimensional Media” – Propaganda s03e03 Part 1 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Global Political Situation (GPS): Headlines and analysis of what’s happening in the world, this week looking at government rhetoric from the lens of advertising.   // Part 1 Audio (download): // >>”Is the Nobel Prize Really Noble?” – Propaganda s03e02 Part 2>> // You can also use the Propaganda RSS! Subscribe to our podcast with […] The post “Is Politics Just Presentation?” – Propaganda s03e02 Part 1 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Remember the old advertisement, “Got Milk?” We here at the Moral Economy were still young scallywags when those commercials appeared, and we loved to repeat them in the classroom, on the playground, and everywhere we went. Now we’re serious adults, and as serious adults we go to offices and meeting rooms (sometimes, anyway). What do […] The post “Is The Nobel Prize Really Nobel?” – Propaganda s03e02 Part 2 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

This week The Moral Economy’s Eddy, Chell, Franz, Nawaz and Andrew got around to recording the first podcast of the their third season! You might have noticed that we’ve changed our name from The Moral Economy Podcast to Propaganda, a podcast by the Moral Economy. This is in part do to the fact that we […] The post Propaganda s03e01 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

#DemocraticConfederalism is an alternative economic/political/cultural system that has given many Kurds and others around the world hope, not because of what it promises, but for what it delivers. While very few people in Europe and the United States have heard of democratic confederalism, it is a system that is in place right now, and to many […] The post #DemocraticConfederalism // MePod.s02e10 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

The concepts of #Crime and #Punishment under #Anarchy leave us with a very serious question: How do we prevent a given community, city, society from adopting practices of domination, even if it’s through direct democratic consensus? Indoctrination? Shaming/boycotting? In other words, how do anarchists ‘enforce’ moral rules in a non-authoritarian way? This is not an […] The post #Anarchy, #Crime and #Punishment – MePod.s02e09 appeared first on The Moral Economy.

All of us , at some point in our lives, have at least thought about making the world a better place. The Effective Altruism movement takes this thought a step further. As a philosophical orientation it uses data and scientific reasoning to engage the normally sentimental world of doing good with a view to assessing […] The post MePod.s02e07 // #EffectiveAltruism appeared first on The Moral Economy.

Hosts Nawaz, Eddy and Firat join a monkey’s uncle Chell, a monkey uncle’s uncle Andrew, and one nameless guest for this week’s Moral Economy Podcast! Nawaz kicks off with a briefing on the #PanamaPapers, which have revealed the pervasive corruption of our current economic and political elite. Nawaz looks at the rhetoric of internal justification […] The post MEPOD.s02e06 // #PanamaPapers #CapitalismAndFreedom appeared first on The Moral Economy.

This week Chell takes us into his theory about why Usonians love their guns so much, and then Nawaz introduces Hannah Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil, and why it is so relevant to us today. The post MePod.s02.e05 // #Guns! #HannahArendt appeared first on The Moral Economy.

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This week Chell presents his first bit entitled “Don’t Vote!”, and goes down the long list of reasons why you shouldn’t vote (if you are a Usonian, that is). Then Andrew pays tribute to Black History Month with his bit on “Black History Matters”. Somewhere he may or may not say that George Washington was […] The post MePod.02.03 // #DontVote #BlackHistoryMatters appeared first on The Moral Economy.

This week Andrew and Eddy take a break from the Moral Economy’s philosophical twists on current events in order give you the rundown on thoughtcrime and propaganda. Andrew introduces George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 and compares the unsettling concepts from the novel with the world we have today. Which do you think is grimmer? Eddy then takes over […] The post MePod.s02.e02 // #ThoughtCrime #Propaganda –Republished appeared first on The Moral Economy.

This weekend the Moral Economy’s Firat, Nawaz and Andrew attended the New World Summit in Utrecht, Netherlands. The title of the Summit was “Stateless Democracy”, and naturally Democratic Confederalism was an overarching theme. Guest speakers from all over the world, from parliamentarians to artists to activists gathered to share their experiences and visions for a new […] The post MePod.s02.e01 // #NewWorldSummt #NancyHollander #DilarDirik appeared first on The Moral Economy.

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The Moral Economy Podcast // 16 November 2015 // Video: // Audio (download): We will state here that as of the recording of the podcast, there were no civilian casualties from French bombings of Raqqa. Things have changed, but we admit that we exaggerated the potentiality for civilian casualties during the podcast. Please forgive us. […] The post MePod.008 // ISIS Attacks appeared first on The Moral Economy.

// Video: // Audio (download): http://www.mainstreamidea.com/me/wp-content/uploads/media/audio/mepod007.1.mp3 The reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/3r3np2/what_are_your_conceptions_of_and_questions_about/ The post MePod.007 // The Moral Economy appeared first on The Moral Economy.

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// Video Imam Calls for Knife Violence against Israelis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOqPMdyrMio Netanyahu Blames Palestine for Holocaust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeABlkJd-HM Campaign of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions: http://www.bdsmovement.net // Audio (download) Download MePod.005 Slides as PDF The post MePod.005 // Israeli Occupation of Palestine appeared first on The Moral Economy.

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Our third ever podcast with Eddy, Fırat and Chell! Listen as we get off to a shaky start and then descend into chaos! Topics are ‪#‎OregonShooting‬‪#‎Routine‬ ‪#‎SandyHookConspiracy‬ ‪#‎HeWhoMustNotBeNamed‬‪#‎HurricaneJoaquin‬ ‪#‎HowItAllEnds‬ ‪#‎CredibilitySpectrum‬ and ‪#‎DeezNuts‬ Thanks again to Stefania for letting us use the song “Occupy” featuring The Money! // Video (Download): // Audio (Download): The post MePod No. 3 // 2015.10.05 // Oregon Shooting and Hurricane Joaquin appeared first on The Moral Economy.

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// Complete Video Podcast // Complete Audio Podcast // Audio Podcast Segments: Introduction Worker Self-Directed Enterprises and Democratic Marketplaces Refugee Crisis and European Culpability Refugees and People’s Self-Directed Enterprises Discussion and Democratic Economics Podcast – 2015.09.18 // INTRODUCTION Eddy: Good evening, my friends, and welcome to the first ever podcast “THE MORAL ECONOMY”. I am […] The post MePod No. 1 // 2015-09-18 // First Ever and Refugees appeared first on The Moral Economy.