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Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski dive into politics, philosophy and random BS with people they like. Krystal is co-host of Breaking Points. Kyle is host of Secular Talk on YouTube.
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Touré on Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Viral Essay (opens the original)
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Touré is a longtime Friend of Krystal Kyle & Friends, and we’re inviting him back for Episode 297 to discuss the major conversation centered around a recent article by Nikole Hannah-Jones, founder of the 1619 project and domestic correspondent for the NYT. If you haven’t read it, you’ve likely heard about it, and if you haven’t heard about it, we’ll be doing a deep dive on Nikole’s piece and the highly divided public response. Hannah-Jones and her husband chose to send their daughter, Najy
Episode 296 Audio: Mike Prysner (opens the original)
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Mike Prysner, this week’s guest and executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, knows what it’s like to be radicalized by firsthand experience of the brutality of the U.S. military. He joined the Army himself at age seventeen, right before 9/11, and was part of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. So he witnessed the rhetoric that military leadership used to get buy-in from the rank and file tasked with waging war in Iraq, and he quickly noticed the disconnect between that leadership’s lies
US Military TURNS On Trump (opens the original)
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We have the founder and executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, Mike Prysner, as our special guest this week to talk about the growing movement of conscientious objectors who are calling our attention to the evil of the military-industrial complex from their perspectives on the inside. How has the Iran War driven service members to their breaking point? What tactics does the U.S. military use to convince civilians to join its death machine? How are soldiers who’ve seen the war cr
Meet the soldiers challenging the war machine from the inside (opens the original)
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What would happen if … the American military was shut down from inside?The foundations of American capitalism depend upon the certainty that members of the armed forces will always act as an indivisible bloc, one whose job is to uphold American imperialism, extraction, and exploitation abroad and to train forces of domestic repression (i.e. the police) to exploit and terrorize civilians at home. That certainty is core to the impunity with which our government acts when it uses state violence to
A Dialectical Case for Artificial Intelligence for Civilizational Progress [KKF longread] (opens the original)
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Guest essay from Egor KotkinCurrent Western English-language discourse on AI is framed as a debate: either AI will solve humanity’s problems, or it will destroy humanity. The problem, however, lies not in finding the answer, but in the very formulation of the question. This is a false dilemma, an intrinsically flawed framing of an issue, that appears complex precisely because it has not been correctly posed. Both sides of this discourse are incorrect because each is incomplete. We need to look a
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