What caused the current mass protests spreading across Turkey? The spark for the events took place last week regarding the protection of a park that the government planned to demolish and replace with a shopping mall. But the problems in Turkish society – and the anger towards the government – run much deeper. The neoliberal era has been vicious in Turkey, and the current Prime Minister Erdogan is its main champion. A few family dynasties dominate the economy, while masses of people are pushed into poverty. Dissent is not tolerated, with Turkey jailing more journalists than any other country on earth, jailing union activists, intellectuals, and over 700 students, most often on trumped up “terrorism” charges. Turkey is a victim of internal and global plutocracy, and of declining democracy. Gezi Park provided the spark for the people to rise up across the country.

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From the global march against Monsanto to factory workers in Bangladesh, protests against global corporations and the policies put in place by states to protect them are advancing around the world. This episode briefly identifies some of the protests and acts of resistance against the global corporate order, and looks at why this resistance must accelerate: it’s only the future of the species which hangs in the balance, so better to try than to say goodbye.

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A major Republican party politician recently stated that they had to stop being “the stupid party,” and begin operating more in reality. But party politics is intended to obfuscate reality, to co-opt and largely, to distract and entertain through a theatre of the absurd. What is the effect and function of party politics? How does this divide and distract people, and what are the repercussions of participating in party politics?

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Recently, a major British psychological association has issued a statement challenging the biomedical basis of what we call “mental illness.” What does this mean? What is mental illness and how is it classified? How can or should we understand mental distress? These are important questions that come at an important time, for if we do not ask them now, we may end up in the Brave New World of what Aldous Huxley predicted would be a highly drugged up society, making people complacent to power structures instead of challenging them. This episode seeks to challenge some of the fundamental assumptions of modern psychiatry.

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Since the Boston bombings, society was promised more “security”… do you feel more secure? Since austerity and ‘structural reforms,’ people were promised economic growth and prosperity. Do you feel that you are in an economic ‘recovery’? Political language holds important meaning and purpose, in that it allows elite groups to communicate with each other openly and publicly, while appearing to be little more than abstract, seemingly meaningless terminology and undefined concepts to most people. There are ways to understand – and translate – political language, and there are solutions to its deception. Learn the language of deception, so that we can re-imagine the language of honesty.

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In the past 500 years, the western world has come to rise to prominence over the rest. This process was the result of expansionist imperialism, militarism and warfare; but also of the development and projection of new economic and social models, largely those based around state-capitalism, and the rhetoric of free trade liberal economics. The Great Divergence thus, was the separation which was enforced between the West and the ‘rest.’

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Corporate executives might be insane. At least, that’s what you’d think after listening to an interview with the chairman of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation. By looking at Peter Brabeck of Nestlé, examining his views and thinking, one could not be blamed for assuming him to be a sociopath. But it is the institutional logic and requirements of a corporation that shape the minds of those who rise through them and run them. The ideologies and functions of a corporation are embedded in its legal structure, which in turn shapes the minds of those within, who try to shape the world without. This episode examines the ‘institutional insanity’ of multinational corporations.

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Have you heard of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership? It’s been discussed for a few years by top-level politicians, corporate associations and think tanks, and was formally announced by President Obama in February of this year. Still haven’t heard of it? What many are calling an “economic NATO” is the Atlantic counterpart to the infamously secretive corporate-driven Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a so-called “free trade agreement” between the EU and the US, driven by and for multinational corporations, promoting trans-Atlantic integration to make the ‘Atlantic Community’ the unrivaled economic, military and global superpower; to keep the West above the rest, even as the East rises.

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Cyprus is in the midst of a troublesome bailout deal, buying large amounts of bad bank debts and handing the bill to the population to pay for with reduced standards of living and increased exploitation. This is the nature of the ‘debt crisis’ in Cyprus, across Europe, and indeed, much of the world. A “global supra-government” has emerged in what we call “financial markets,” which dictate the policies of governments to impoverish their populations and plunder the wealth and resources of their nations. Nations and countries are dismantled and futures destroyed all for the benefit of a global cartel of banks and corporations, what Swiss scientists identified as a “super-entity” of global control.

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In 2011, the Obama administration announced a ‘pivot’ to Asia in its geopolitical strategy for imperial domination of the world. This includes an increased US military and naval presence in the region, with troops in Australia, new bases in Southeast Asia, record arms sales to regional “allies”, and economic integration through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the APEC forum and ASEAN. In what has been called an “integrate, but hedge” strategy toward China, the US is actively seeking to provide incentives for China to join in the US-constructed world order, while backing up its incentives with threats and intimidation. The Asian ‘pivot’ is not simply about “containing” China, but about containing the rising giant in order to provide a reason for China to more fully integrate with the Western-dominated global order. This episode provides a glimpse at the Asian ‘pivot’ and a couple of the key strategic thinkers behind it.

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