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Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate The US is pouring more weapons into Ukraine amid bellicose threats against Russia and the US-backed Saudi war on Yemen continues to massacre civilians. But not everyone sees a downside: “I fully expect we're going to see some benefit from it,” Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes said this week of these and other flashpoints. Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor of Harper's Magazine and author of “The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine,” discusses the US arms industry's role in promoting and profiting from today's global conflicts, from Ukraine to Yemen to Syria. Cockburn also looks back on his groundbreaking 1988 PBS documentary, made with his wife Leslie Cockburn, “Guns, Drugs, and the CIA,” about the agency's role in the global drug trade. Guest: Andrew Cockburn. Washington editor for Harper's Magazine. His latest book is “The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine.”
Today is the day! A record number of women have stepped up to run this election. We're telling their stories. We covered why women run less and how their motivation to run differs from their male counterparts. We talked about money, race, and religion in politics. We dove into the differences between the two biggest political parties and we examined how incredible women are upending historical stereotypes. This week, we bring it all together. Host Jenny Kaplan tells the stories of Lucy McBath a Democrat running in GA-06 and Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat running in VA-05. Special thanks to Moran Audio for the tunes and to Ben Broer for audio editing expertise! Additional thanks to ELLE.com for the Lucy McBath audio, and collaborative support! www.wondermedianetwork.com
Ken Horne & Hawes Spencer document.write(''); We spoke with investigative journalist and author Hawes Spencer about his new book Summer of Hate, and Indivisible Charlottesville's Ken Horne to discuss the upcoming election and the 5th district congressional race: Leslie Cockburn vs Denver Riggleman.… Read More
The Forecast Fest with Harry Enten, Kate Bolduan and John Avlon
This week we take a look at House races in Virginia and Florida, along with a Senate race in the Sun Belt, and a governor's race in a state where both President Trump and former President Obama have been campaigning recently.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Our ambitious summer schedule went haywire, so we’re attempting to harness technology and record remotely, capping off a horrible week that brought us Bigfoot erotica, vomit fraud, fast-food lifestyle brands, men bound together in a web of fleece vests, and a 3,000-year-old coffin that may or may not have put a curse on the people of Egypt. We apologize in advance for the sub-optimal audio quality - next week we’ll be back in full swing, sounding like buttah. We promise! HEAR US ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-nope/id1312654524?mt=2 STITCHER https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-week-in-nope SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/user-518735966/tracks OVERCAST https://overcast.fm/itunes1312654524/this-week-in-nope In this week’s episode: If you’re as horrified as we are by Denver Riggleman, a craft distiller turned B igfoot erotica author who is running for Congress in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, you can check out his Democratic opponent Leslie Cockburn here, and donate to her campaign if you feel so inclined: https://www.lesliecockburnforcongress.com/ (And if you want to see Riggleman’s Instagram post about bigfoot, you can’t because, following a public outcry, he made his account private. But here’s Leslie Cockburn’s screenshot: https://twitter.com/LeslieCockburn/status/1023701334434959362) To learn more about the perils of vomit fraud, check out this New York Magazine explainer: http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/07/vomit-fraud-beware-uber-drivers-fake-puke-claims.html Background on why Chipotle is focusing less on preventing E. coli and more on becoming a lifestyle brand: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/29/business/media/lifestyle-brands-marketing.html Men across the nation are woven together in a garment of destiny: a fleece vest. The Wall Street Journal explains how it all happened: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fleece-vest-became-the-new-corporate-uniform-1532442297 Learn more about “feline telepathy” and how an Oregon woman got rid of a rogue mountain lion in her living room: https://foxsportsradio.iheart.com/content/2018-07-25-woman-says-she-used-feline-telepathy-to-shoo-mountain-lion-away/ Sign one man’s petition to drink the red liquid from a 3,000-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus: https://www.change.org/p/let-people-drink-the-red-liquid-from-the-dark-sarcophagus Big #YUP to… Parker Posey, the Gen-X star of the stage and screen who has a fantastic new memoir out called “You’re On An Airplane.” Get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N11RHPM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Intrepid seven-year-old entrepreneur Brendan Mulvaney, whose lemonade stand was shuttered by state regulators: https://nypost.com/2018/07/31/cuomo-crackdown-on-kids-lemonade-stand-ridiculous/
Leslie Cockburn is an award-winning investigative journalist who has covered drug cartels, the financial meltdown, and multiple wars. Now she's running for Congress. Who knows what she'll uncover once she gets to Washington.
Colin Marshal talks to journalist and filmmaker Leslie Cockburn.