Podcasts about provocations

2026 is here! As is America250. On Tuesday, we're launching our 50 Weeks That Shaped America series, but today we get together to ring in the new year with a few "predictions and provocation."Note: The full version of this episode, with video, is available for paying subscribers to our newsletter. Our America250 series will always be free in the regular podcast feed, but throughout the year we will be bringing our newsletter community bonus conversations -- and access to early, ad-free versions of the show. To support our work and get access to everything, subscribe now. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

War-War: NATO Provocations and American Detachment from Europe — Gaius & Germanicus — Gaius reports on escalating aggressive rhetoric from NATO and fortification initiatives throughout the Baltic region, questioning whether these military deployments constitute "false flag" provocations deliberately designed to entrap the United Statesin direct warfare with Russia. Germanicus contends that European elites are systematically manufacturing an external Russian crisis to maintain institutional power and governmental legitimacy against ascending populist movements and deep-seated fear of abandonment by the new American "Emperor." Germanicus draws a historical parallel to the permanent schism of the Roman Empire in 395 AD, characterizing the United States as the prosperous, militarily secure Eastern Empire (Byzantine Constantinople) and contemporary Europe as the economically weak, militarily collapsing Western Empire facing irreversible institutional decay. Germanicus argues that just as Constantinople eventually ceased attempting to save the disintegrating Western Empire from Vandal invasions and territorial collapse, the United States is strategically detaching from European geopolitical failures, recognizing that continued military commitment represents strategic wastage of American resources without corresponding security benefit. Germanicus emphasizes that European strategic incompetence and political cowardice render European salvation impossible through Americanmilitary intervention, making strategic withdrawal the rational American policy response. 1944 GOLD BEACH H-HOUR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUUo0vmNzmI Wilfredo Hernandez of the Venezuelan Embassy in the UK denounces the escalation of the US towards War. Trump has placed a bounty of 50 million dollars on the head of President Nicholas Maduro - democratically elected President of Venezuela, as if her was some cheap gangster in a Hollywood movie. Trump has classed President Comrade Nicholas Maduro and the Venezuelan Bolivarian government of the PSUV to be "Narco-trafficers" and a "Narco-state" - in defiance of all evidence and logic. The US imperialists have attacked and murdered 80 Venezuelans, sailing small vessels within Venezuelan sovereign waters, on the flimsy pretext that they were 'drug traffickers' - without providing a shred of evidence. Venezuela according to global governance bodies does not produce or transport cocaine or other drugs. It is a global anti-narcotic haven of peace and tranquility, thanks to its socialist and popular government since the Bolivarian revolution began. Yet USA has assembled an armada off the coast of Venezuela. It is clear that Trump and the US, here as elsewhere, seek domination and not democracy. They want to get their hands on Venezuela's huge oil, gold and other mineral resources, and once again have free reign to exploit the labour power of her people. But the Venezuelan people - unbowed in the face of this military provocation, which comes on top of decade of escalating sanctions and an all-out economic war that has totally failed to destabilise and subvert their sovereign will - remain unbowed and have mobilised both the regular army and the people to defend their nation. There has been an unprecedented response among the masses of the Venezuelan people, who have enrolled in the people's militia in their tens and hundreds of thousands. Viva Venezuela! Viva Chavez! Viva Maduro! Long live the Great Socialist October Revolution! Communa o Nada! Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! www.thecommunists.org www.lalkar.org www.redyouth.org Telegram: t.me/thecommunists Twitter: twitter.com/cpgbml Soundcloud: @proletarianradio Rumble: rumble.com/c/theCommunists Odysee: odysee.com/@proletariantv:2 Facebook: www.facebook.com/cpgbml Online Shop: https://shop.thecommunists.org/ Education Program: Each one teach one! www.londonworker.org/education-programme/ Join the struggle www.thecommunists.org/join/ Donate: www.thecommunists.org/donate/

① Chinese premier arrives in Zambia for a landmark visit. What might their ties say about future collaboration across the Global South? (00:55) ② Japan's neighbors are raising serious concerns over Takaichi's provocations on Taiwan and territorial claims. How far could these missteps push East Asian tensions? (13:40) ③ China welcomes the Netherlands' decision to suspend its intervention at Nexperia. What's next? (23:52) ④ How will the G20 summit unfold as South Africa moves forward without U.S. participation? (34:14) ⑤ What's driving Germany to roll out its first national space security strategy? (44:08)

A few housekeeping items: This episode is the first main episode that is available to our subscribers before anyone else.  We have merch! Just a couple items right now, more to come, hopefully. You can see the Dashery store here. Alyssa's wearing the shirt on the show today! It looks like a movie ticket! Because movies! BUY ONE TODAY. OK, the episode itself. We discussed AMC finally granting Netflix some space in their multiplexes. Is this glasnost between the world's biggest streamer and the world's biggest theater chain? What comes after? Then we discussed After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino's post-MeToo cinematic provocation … albeit one with a purpose. This movie's getting hammered by critics but … not by us. Probably because it's a good conversation starter and we love having conversations!  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend! Evangelizing the show is the best way to help it grow and make sure it continues!

Already this month, Russia has violated the airspace of three NATO countries: Estonia, Romania and Poland - twice. What is Russian President Vladimir Putin trying to achieve with these bold moves, and what impact might they have on Ukraine negotiations? GPF Chairman George Friedman joined host Christian Smith to discuss the latest geopolitical developments in the region as well as outline his forecast for Poland's evolution from his 2009 book, The Next 100 Years. Visit www.geopoliticalfutures.com for world-class geopolitical analysis and discussion. There you'll also find George's new series on the 2020s and Its Historic Shift, including his updated forecast for Poland, Turkey and Japan.

Today, Les, Jamil, Andy, and Jess unpack a dangerous new escalation on NATO's flank: three Russian MiG-31s flew through Estonian airspace for several minutes on Friday, a violation Tallinn says it can prove even as Moscow denies the incident and accuses Estonia of provocation. NATO jets — including Italian F-35s and fighters from Sweden and Finland — scrambled in response. The incursion follows recent Russian drone overflights of Poland and Romania and comes amid an uptick in attacks inside Ukraine, raising alarms across Europe about Moscow's willingness to push boundaries.How should the U.S. and NATO respond to airspace violations that creep toward Article 5 thresholds? Is the right answer a sharper military posture — more weapons and patrols for Ukraine and Baltic defenses — or tighter economic and diplomatic pressure? And with allies in Europe calling for stronger action, will Washington elevate its response or risk encouraging further Russian probing?Check out these sources which informed our experts' opinions: https://apnews.com/article/british-intelligence-mi6-russia-war-443df0c37ff2254fcc33d5425e3beaa6 @lestermunson@NotTVJessJones@jamil_n_jaffer@andykeiserLike what we're doing here? Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe. And don't forget to follow @faultlines_pod and @masonnatsec on Twitter!We are also on YouTube, and watch today's episode here: https://youtu.be/fFOZtOwjq90 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

durée : 00:05:12 - La Revue de presse internationale - par : Catherine Duthu - Vendredi, trois avions de combat russes sont entrés dans l'espace aérien de l'Estonie, selon Tallinn, membre de l'UE et de l'OTAN. La Pologne et la Roumanie dénoncent aussi l'intrusion de drones russes. Comment l'Union européenne et l'OTAN peuvent-elles répondre aux provocations répétées de Moscou ? - invités : Élie Tenenbaum Directeur du Centre des Études de Sécurité de l'IFRI

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(00:00:37) Le dilemme de l'OTAN: comment répondre aux provocations de la Russie? Interview d'Ulrike Franke (00:09:33) Maurine Mercier raconte la vie sous les drones russes à Kherson, en Ukraine

Provocations militaires russes : la Tchéquie s'empresse d'exprimer sa solidarité avec la Pologne - Vols d'objets religieux : retrouvée en Allemagne, une précieuse statue a été restituée à la Tchéquie - En Ecosse, un monument à la mémoire du pilote de chasse tchécoslovaque František Hekl

Provocations militaires russes : la Tchéquie s'empresse d'exprimer sa solidarité avec la Pologne - Vols d'objets religieux : retrouvée en Allemagne, une précieuse statue a été restituée à la Tchéquie - En Ecosse, un monument à la mémoire du pilote de chasse tchécoslovaque František Hekl

0:00–18:30Intro; Approach for a second read; Nate gratuitously makes it about Hegel; §26 “What is Life?” ; the positivity of becoming; §23 “The Signs of Corruption” and §24 “Different Forms of Dissatisfaction” ; §39 “Changed Taste.” The active power of taste & decay; the non-linearity of futurity; taste vs opinion; §11 “Consciousness” the body doesn't trust consciousness – it's still in beta testing ; Napoleon & Decay; the individual18:40–31:15The value of consciousness; not your baseliner's materialism; structure of the aphorisms; intellectual irritability; do I contradict myself? : invention and resolution; contradictions are bodies31:20–41:20What is a body? Is the intellect in the business of forming bodies? ; the taste of concepts; what does the “equal sign” of the concept do? ; § 37 “Owing to Three Errors” ; What can take up and animate the production of scientific knowledge?41:25–51:10Back to the structure of the aphorisms; modalities of life's violence; a very different sense of the individual; punk-rock-Nietzsche: it's only one tune; perpetual variation51:15–58:10Is reduction avoidable? ; reduction as a style of inflection; how do you teach this stuff? ; teaching vs. writing: the production of theory-bodies; shout out to Marco's Provocations series58:15–End Teaching theory; John's old age let's us all learn; John's dating profile; parting provocations

Denver Lee Riggleman III is an American businessman and former politician from Virginia who served as the United States representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. Riggleman is the only member of the Republican party to speak on the House of Representatives floor against QAnon "Condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes". Since leaving Congress in January 2021, Riggleman has been working with experts and academics at the Network Contagion Research Institute to study disinformation and how to combat it.----------LINKS:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Riggleman https://www.congress.gov/member/denver-riggleman/R000611 ----------SUMMER FUNDRAISERSNAFO & Silicon Curtain community - Let's help help 5th SAB together https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-silicon-curtain-communityWe are teaming up with NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade to provide 2nd Assault Battalion of 5th SAB with a pickup truck that they need for their missions. With your donation, you're not just sending a truck — you're standing with Ukraine.https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-silicon-curtain-communityWhy NAFO Trucks Matter:Ukrainian soldiers know the immense value of our NAFO trucks and buses. These vehicles are carefully selected, produced between 2010 and 2017, ensuring reliability for harsh frontline terrain. Each truck is capable of driving at least 20,000 km (12,500 miles) without major technical issues, making them a lifeline for soldiers in combat zones.In total we are looking to raise an initial 19 500 EUR in order to buy 1 x NAFO truck 2.0 Who is getting the aid? 5 SAB, 2 Assault Battalion, UAV operators‍.https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-silicon-curtain-community----------Car for Ukraine has once again joined forces with a group of influencers, creators, and news observers during this summer. Sunshine here serves as a metaphor, the trucks are a sunshine for our warriors to bring them to where they need to be and out from the place they don't.https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/summer-sunshine-silicon-curtainThis time, we focus on the 6th Detachment of HUR, 93rd Alcatraz, 3rd Assault Brigade, MLRS systems and more. https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/summer-sunshine-silicon-curtain- bring soldiers to the positions- protect them with armor- deploy troops with drones to the positions----------SILICON CURTAIN FILM FUNDRAISERA project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's front-line towns.https://buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain/extras----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

Broadcasting live from the Capitol in Bismarck, this fiery episode of What's On Your Mind dives headfirst into the high-stakes showdown over property tax reform in North Dakota. With passionate commentary, colorful analogies, and a healthy dose of real-talk, your host breaks down the legislative sausage-making and reflects on economic opportunities, government spending, and the surprising ways growth is reshaping the state. Plus, things get spicy with a preview of a "Change My Mind" session featuring comedian and provocateur Alex Stein at NDSU. Add in a few memorable tangents—from concrete coatings to Ray Holmberg—and you've got a jam-packed hour of opinionated, unfiltered, and entertaining talk radio.

America's theologian isn't worried about the death of cultural Christianity.

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On April 22, 2025, 26 people were killed in a dastardly attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir. In this episode of Worldview with Swasti, Dr. Swasti Rao, consulting editor and foreign policy expert, discusses with Lt Gen Raj Shukla (retd), former Army Commander and member of the UPSC, to examine the aftermath, the patterns of provocation by Pakistan, and the strategic implications of China's growing assertiveness. They discuss why India was unprepared, how the Balakot effect has faded, and why our doctrine must evolve to regain escalatory dominance. #kashmir #kashmirterrorattack #pahalgam #modi #indianarmy #pakistan #jammuandkashmir --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced By: Mahira Khan

Weiss/Manfredi founders Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi join Architectural Record's DESIGN:ED Podcast to discuss the development of Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park in Long Island City, Queens; ecology as a starting point for the design process, and their new book Drifting Symmetries: Projects, Provocations, and Other Enduring Models

The Cheat Sheet: Provocations and PredictionsThis episode was originally published on The Murder Sheet's main feed on April 11, 2025.The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about cases from Texas, the United Kingdom and California.You can read more about the Austin Metcalf case in the New York PostNY Post: https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/us-news/dad-of-teen-accused-of-fatally-stabbing-texas-football-star-austin-metcalf-says-son-was-not-the-aggressor/Here is WFAA's coverage of the Austin Metcalf caseWFAA: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/frisco-stabbing-karmelo-anthony-austin-metcalf-lawyers-arrest/287-715a6fbf-68d4-495e-8825-2ab407508d4fYou can learn more about the murder of Amie Gray from the BBChttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q4e0e783poThe Judge's sentencing remarks can be found at https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/R-v-Nasen-Saadi.pdfThe Guardian's story on finding murderers before they kill is at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-killThe case of Jillian Shriner is covered by Yahoo at https://www.yahoo.com/news/weezer-bassists-wife-jillian-shriner-shot-by-lapd-and-charged-with-attempted-murder-how-the-bizarre-incident-unfolded-143809645.htmlCome see us in Columbus on May 13! https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ML5QXXPN0W8M5/checkout/2FV4MJ2LP7HB2RJXOUIAHNBPPre-order our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=9781639369232Or here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-of-the-Bridge/Aine-Cain/9781639369232Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Bridge-Murders-American-Heartland/dp/1639369236Join our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheetSupport The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Depuis l'élection de Donald Trump à la présidence des Etats-Unis en novembre dernier, son vice-président J.D. Vance, ultra-conservateur de 40 ans, fait régulièrement parler de lui. Le vendredi 28 mars, en visite au Groenland, il a fustigé le Danemark qui, selon lui, assure mal la sécurité de cette île géante de l'Arctique. Un mois plus tôt, à la Maison Blanche, c'est lui qui a été le plus dur face à au président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky.J.D. Vance grandit au sein d'une famille pauvre dans une petite ville de l'Ohio. Il commence sa carrière dans l'armée, avant d'obtenir un diplôme de droit à la prestigieuse université de Yale. Il se lance en politique en 2022, affirme que sa valeur cardinale est la famille et s'oppose farouchement au droit à l'avortement. Très populaire chez les électeurs de Donald Trump, il est considéré comme son possible successeur. Code source fait le portrait du vice-président américain avec Mehdi Bouzouina, correspondant du Parisien aux Etats-Unis, basé à Austin au Texas. Écoutez Code source sur toutes les plates-formes audio : Apple Podcast (iPhone, iPad), Amazon Music, Podcast Addict ou Castbox, Deezer, Spotify.Crédits. Direction de la rédaction : Pierre Chausse - Rédacteur en chef : Jules Lavie - Reporter : Barbara Gouy - Production : Clara Grouzis, Thibault Lambert, Clara Garnier-Amouroux - Réalisation et mixage : Julien Montcouquiol - Musiques : François Clos, Audio Network. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

DPRK: ROK: PROVOCATIONS. DAVID MAXWELL 1900

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Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition of thought and film. In developing this concept, they shed light on the gaps within the rhetoric of entanglement, and push against ethics and politics that insist on the values of human and nonhuman relations. Negative life already inheres in existing social relationships because the world is already broken. Steven and Jean-Thomas critique much of ecocriticism's romantic attachment to contingencies and solutions that would have us ignore this truth. Steven Swarbrick is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of two books: The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and The Earth Is Evil (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, “Provocations” series, 2025). He is a coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). He has been a guest at High Theory in the past, and his previous episode on ‘The Environmental Unconscious' can be found here. Jean-Thomas Tremblay is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, in Toronto. He is the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022) and, with Steven Swarbrick, a coauthor of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). Excerpts from a book-in-progress on climate action, liberal sensemaking, and the "world" concept have appeared in Critical Inquiry and are forthcoming in Representations. Image: © 2025 Saronik Bosu. The silhouette of a forest and that of a cow floating above it, against an orange sky, and a general atmosphere of smoke and haze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition of thought and film. In developing this concept, they shed light on the gaps within the rhetoric of entanglement, and push against ethics and politics that insist on the values of human and nonhuman relations. Negative life already inheres in existing social relationships because the world is already broken. Steven and Jean-Thomas critique much of ecocriticism's romantic attachment to contingencies and solutions that would have us ignore this truth. Steven Swarbrick is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of two books: The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and The Earth Is Evil (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, “Provocations” series, 2025). He is a coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). He has been a guest at High Theory in the past, and his previous episode on ‘The Environmental Unconscious' can be found here. Jean-Thomas Tremblay is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, in Toronto. He is the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022) and, with Steven Swarbrick, a coauthor of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). Excerpts from a book-in-progress on climate action, liberal sensemaking, and the "world" concept have appeared in Critical Inquiry and are forthcoming in Representations. Image: © 2025 Saronik Bosu. The silhouette of a forest and that of a cow floating above it, against an orange sky, and a general atmosphere of smoke and haze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition of thought and film. In developing this concept, they shed light on the gaps within the rhetoric of entanglement, and push against ethics and politics that insist on the values of human and nonhuman relations. Negative life already inheres in existing social relationships because the world is already broken. Steven and Jean-Thomas critique much of ecocriticism's romantic attachment to contingencies and solutions that would have us ignore this truth. Steven Swarbrick is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of two books: The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and The Earth Is Evil (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, “Provocations” series, 2025). He is a coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). He has been a guest at High Theory in the past, and his previous episode on ‘The Environmental Unconscious' can be found here. Jean-Thomas Tremblay is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, in Toronto. He is the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022) and, with Steven Swarbrick, a coauthor of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). Excerpts from a book-in-progress on climate action, liberal sensemaking, and the "world" concept have appeared in Critical Inquiry and are forthcoming in Representations. Image: © 2025 Saronik Bosu. The silhouette of a forest and that of a cow floating above it, against an orange sky, and a general atmosphere of smoke and haze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay talk about negative life, which names the misalignment of individual and species survival, as a condition of thought and film. In developing this concept, they shed light on the gaps within the rhetoric of entanglement, and push against ethics and politics that insist on the values of human and nonhuman relations. Negative life already inheres in existing social relationships because the world is already broken. Steven and Jean-Thomas critique much of ecocriticism's romantic attachment to contingencies and solutions that would have us ignore this truth. Steven Swarbrick is Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of two books: The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and The Earth Is Evil (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, “Provocations” series, 2025). He is a coauthor, with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). He has been a guest at High Theory in the past, and his previous episode on ‘The Environmental Unconscious' can be found here. Jean-Thomas Tremblay is Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University, in Toronto. He is the author of Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022) and, with Steven Swarbrick, a coauthor of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024). Excerpts from a book-in-progress on climate action, liberal sensemaking, and the "world" concept have appeared in Critical Inquiry and are forthcoming in Representations. Image: © 2025 Saronik Bosu. The silhouette of a forest and that of a cow floating above it, against an orange sky, and a general atmosphere of smoke and haze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

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#Russia:Hybrid provocations. Henry Sokolski, NPEC 1865 Crimean War

PREVIEW: PLA NAVY: SABINA SHOALS: SOUTH CHINA SEA: Comments by colleague James Fanell on the PRC provocations and bullying in the South China Sea against Philippine Coast Guard. More tonight. 1915 Manila

#Ukraine:  PRC: Provocations East and West. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol 1898 Manila Bay

Lebanon. Hezbollah's provocations and the War in the North. Seth Frantzman, FDD, Jerusalem Post. Bill Roggio, FDD. UNDATED DAMASCUS GATE

#OCEANIA: PRC attempts to dislodge Taiwan from the Pacific Island Forums on Tonga. Expect more provocations in the SCS. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs 1939 Solomons

PREVIEW: PHILIPPINES: Conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the serial provocations by the PRC PLA Navy against Manila in the South China Sea. More tonight. 1922 Manila

PREVIEW: PRC: SCARBOROUGH SHOAL: Conversation with colleague Gordon Chang regarding the serial provocations by the PLA against Philippine sovereignty -- and why? More tonight. 1900 Berlin

#PRC: #TAIWAN: PROVOCATIONS. Stephen Yates, chair of the America First Policy Institute's China Policy Initiative, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill  https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/02/taiwan-demands-beijing-returns-fishing-boat-seized-by-coastguard 1947 Taiwan

#NorhtKorea: Provocations and Putin. David Maxwell, vice president of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511ve3051po May 1951 off Korea

PREVIEW: #HEZBOLLAH: Connversation with colleagues David Daoud and Bill Roggio, both of FDD, re the Hezbollah provocations on the Northern Border of Israel -- and what the Hezbollah watches to measure their risk at poking at the ready to launch IDF.  More tonight. 1960 Beirut

1/2:  #LEBANON: Hezbollah provocations continue & What is to be done? Bill Roggio, FDD, Long War Journal.  David Daoud, FDD. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/06/israels-new-normal-with-hezbollah.php https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=HEZBOLLAH&FORM=HDRSC7 UNDATED BEIRUT

2/2:  #LEBANON: Hezbollah provocations continue & What is to be done? Bill Roggio, FDD, Long War Journal.  David Daoud, FDD. https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/06/israels-new-normal-with-hezbollah.php 1950 BEIRUT

PRC:  Provocations in the South China Sea. James Fanell, co-author of Embracing Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure and government fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:  https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/philippines-rejects-chinese-allegation-that-troops-point-guns-at-its-coast-guard https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/philippines-china-coast-guard-seized-food-dropped-plane-11081614 1922 MANILA

PREVEW: SOUTH CHINA SEA: PRC: Conversation with colleague James Fanell, USN (retired), re the PLANavy provocations and bullying of the Philippines -- and how the PRC tells falsehoods of its piratical conduct. More tonight. 1915 Manila

#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the fresh NATO provocations -- and if the Kremlin responds.  Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/30/ukraine-russia-war-live-nato-has-just-5-of-air-defences-to/ 1916 Brussels

PREVIEW: NORTH KOREA: Conversation with colleague David Maxwell of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy re the instability in North Korea that is more threatening than any of Kim's provocations, that could quickly move to regime collapse amid an apocalyptic war start on the peninsula. 1951 USS St. Paul

PREVIEW: ANTISEMITISM Conversation with colleague Peter Berkowitz of Hoover regarding antisemitism on college campuses and the failure of senior faculty members to address the provocations taking place in front of them. More details to come later tonight. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/05/26/confronting_the_woke-left_and_jihad-enthusiast_alliance_151003.html 1918 Harvard commencement

#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus search for a Red Line for the Kremlin -- and find none, as Zelensky moves to a posture of extreme provocations using NATO weapons.  Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos 1931 Stalin and Beria

#Lebanon: The Hezbollah provocations & What is to be done? Seth Frantzman, Jerusalem Post, FDD. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-800996 1938 Galilee

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:     IDF forces are moving further into the southern Gaza city of Rafah amid rising tensions with the US. We'll look at the fallout facing the Biden administration after their decision to cut off weapons to Israel, as well as a White House report alleging Israel violated humanitarian law in Gaza. Russia has launched a major ground offensive in northeast Ukraine, capturing territory and officially opening a new front in their brutal war as they attempt to break Kyiv's front lines. We'll take a look at the fallout from the U.N.'s recent vote to grant Palestinians full membership in the United Nations. In our 'Back of the Brief' segment, North Korea is once again inflaming tensions on the Korean peninsula, recently testing a new multiple rocket launcher system targeting South Korean population centers. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief.     Email: PDB@TheFirstTV.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices