Audio Mises Wire - Why The Monroe Doctrine Cannot be Reestablished

With American intervention in Venezuela, some are claiming that the Trump administration is simply invoking the Monroe Doctrine, or its corollary, the “Donroe” Doctrine. In reality, neither doctrine is an appropriate reason for US military intervention in Latin America.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-monroe-doctrine-cannot-be-reestablished

Bad Faith - Episode 540 – How Tony Dokoupil Made The Cut & Dropped the Ball (w/ Daniel Maté & Matt Lieb)

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The team from the hilarious and incisive Bad Hasbara podcast, Daniel Maté & Matt Lieb, take a break from calling out Zionist lies to weigh in on how adult circumcision recipient and Bari Weiss' new pick to anchor CBS Evening News Tony Dokoupil embarrassed himself right out of the gate both substantively and aesthetically. We also talk the Venezuela-Israel connection, and whether the left must hand it to the "antiwar" right now that so many of them have decided that capturing Greenland/Venezuela is putting America first. And we accidentally spend a solid chunk of the back half of this episode dating the politics of Apple TV's Plur1bus. Consider it a break from this punishing news cycle.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

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Audio Mises Wire - “The Warmth of Collectivism”: Beginning the Mamdani Era

In his inaugural speech, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared an end to “rugged individualism” and the embrace of “the warmth of collectivism.” New Yorkers are about to find out that collectivism will not produce what they need to have better lives.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/warmth-collectivism-beginning-mamdani-era

More or Less - The Stats of the Nation: Older people, education, prisons and the weather

What kind of state does the UK find itself in as we start 2026? That’s the question Tim Harford and the More or Less team is trying to answer in a series of five special programmes.

In the fourth episode, we’re searching for answers to these questions:

Are one in four pensioners millionaires?

Is England’s education system performing better than Finland’s? And how does it compare to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Are our prisons going to run out of space?

Is the weather getting weirder?

Get in touch if you’ve seen a number in the news you think we should take a look at: moreorless@bbc.co.uk

Contributors: Heidi Karjalainen, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies Harry Fletcher-Wood, Director of Training at StepLab John Jerrim, Professor of Education and Social Statistics at University College London Cassia Rowland, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government Friederike Otto, Professor of Climate Science at Imperial College London

Credits:

Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Lizzy McNeill, Nathan Gower, Katie Solleveld and Charlotte McDonald Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound mix: Sarah Hockley and Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon

The Indicator from Planet Money - Venezuela didn’t steal U.S. oil. Here’s what happened

President Trump claims Venezuela stole American oil. Is that true? We trace Venezuela's oil industry from its 1920s birth through nationalization and then collapse. Today on the show, how did the Venezuelan oil industry get to a point where it’s barely pulling from its reserves? And will anything change now? 

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Venezuela’s economic descent (Updated) 
Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) 
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NPR's Book of the Day - Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Wild Fictions’ gathers essays on empire and the environment

Indian Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh has been writing about empire, the environment, and other subjects for the past 25 years. Now, he has gathered some of his essays into a new collection called Wild Fictions, which asks big questions about the way humans are connected to other forms of life. In today’s episode, Ghosh joins NPR’s Scott Simon for a conversation that touches on climate change as a problem of politics, culture, and imagination. They also discuss an idea central to Ghosh’s thought: that anthropocentrism is responsible for our current planetary crisis.


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