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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!
'BradCast' 9/17/2021 (Guest: Kevin Drum on how Fox 'News' broke America)
09-17-2021 (53.36 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': A new United Nations report warns that countries must take swift, major action to cut emissions, calculating that current pledges under the Paris Climate Agreement will not be enough to prevent catastrophic global warming by 2100. In California's Sequoia National Park, the majestic, 3,000 year old giant trees may not even make it through the weekend due to raging wildfires. If we can't get our own country to unite against the existential threat of man-made climate change, how will the world's nations succeed at doing so? Worsening political divisiveness - - and insanity - - in this country plays a big role in our failure to lead the world in that fight for humanity. The current climate of political rage and divisiveness, a very clear and present danger to the survival of American democracy itself, didn't come out of nowhere. New polling finds that Republicans believe 'democracy is under attack', even though Trump-supporting Republicans literally attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempted violent coup. How did we arrive at this harrowing political moment? Data journalist and longtime Mother Jones columnist KEVIN DRUM explains his exhaustive analysis of the madness of this political moment, and how and why we arrived at it. Has the Right seemingly gone mad due to the spread of conspiracy theories, social media, or their grievances on issues like crime, taxes, the economy, inequality, immigration or race? Drum delves into what both the data and history reveal about the forces bringing the nation to the brink of collapse. He also explains that the answer has been lying in plain sight for the past twenty years. It's the Fox 'News', stupid!
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