To unmask the cop is to expose the engine room of capitalist order. This conversation roots modern policing in the violence of capital accumulation—tracing its evolution through imperial conquest, anti-Black enslavement, and the suppression of working-class dissent. Using testimony from global activists, the guest demonstrates that policing is not a neutral apparatus but an institutionalized defense of racialized, class-bound hierarchies.

The Federal Reserve is no independent steward of the economy: as this conversation argues, it's a creature of Congress, long manipulated by elite interests and fundamentally failing the working class. Decades of misplaced trust in the Fed’s ability to control inflation, employment, and economic stability have proven disastrous. Its reliance on interest rate hikes only enriches the wealthy and worsens inequalities, tanking financial markets and driving housing shortages.

Tracing a thousand years of capitalism’s evolution, this conversation lays bare its global character and its monumental contradictions. Capitalism, the guest argues, revolutionized productivity and wealth creation while entrenching systems of exploitation, from plantation slavery to precarious labor. He emphasizes capitalism’s reliance on state power and its deep roots in countryside economies. He unpacks the shift from agrarian economies to industrialization, the rise of wage labor, and the transformational effects of fossil fuels—all while stressing capitalism’s malleability in crisis.

Global shipping is the backbone of capitalist-imperial power, where profits flow on the tides of exploitation and destruction. From wage theft on container ships to oceanic pollution and geopolitical strife—like blockades in Palestine—this essential system props up inequality worldwide. Yet, in the face of it all, this dialogue argues that dockworkers hold immense, untapped power to disrupt this machinery and rewrite the rules.

A broken BBC reflects a broken Britain. Once confident and impartial, the BBC now flails under attacks from ideologues, torn between managing "perceptions" of neutrality and delivering honest journalism. Critics weaponize systemic "left bias" claims, while the corporation kowtows to right-wing pressure and gamed complaints. Impartiality is reduced to mediocrity, where avoiding backlash outweighs clarity or truth. To rebuild trust, this dialogue argues that the BBC must shed its defensiveness, resist fear-driven conformity, and recommit to bold, unflinching public journalism.

Capitalism thrives on exploiting nature as a bottomless “free gift,” fueling climate breakdown and ecological collapse. This conversation dissects the political economy driving environmental destruction, showing how industrial and agricultural systems commodify and exhaust both human labor and the planet’s resources. To confront the climate crisis, we must challenge the extractive logic at the system's core and fight for a new relationship with the natural world—one rooted in sustainability and justice.

Big Tech’s hunger for data is fueling the climate crisis. As this dialogue shows, hyperscale data centers—the backbone of AI and cloud computing—rely on fossil fuels to meet their immense energy demands, tightening the bond between Silicon Valley and Big Oil. Companies like Google and Microsoft tout green promises while quietly driving up oil and gas consumption. As activists push for transparency and accountability, this tech–fossil fuel alliance threatens to derail global climate goals.

Beyond COP30’s climate pantomime, this dialogue surveys Brazil's militant ecological fronts. Guests dissect the UN summit as a tool of co-optation, contrasting it with a "web of peoples"—from Indigenous land-back projects to urban occupations—building tangible autonomy, and link their land reclamation and sacred water sources to community survival after floods wrecked state infrastructure. The episode connects these efforts to direct action against logistics giant Maersk, reframing the fight for life as an anti-capitalist struggle.

Tracking China’s turbulent path from the May Fourth Movement to Mao’s 1949 revolution, this conversation argues that the Communist and Nationalist Parties—often cast as bitter opposites—shared institutional DNA. Anchored in the urban-rural divide, the CCP’s rise rested on rural strategies, land reform, and Soviet tutelage, but its success reveals deep continuities with Nationalist frameworks, challenging clean narratives of rupture in China’s political evolution.

Neoliberalism has been a 50-year "quiet coup" that has infiltrated laws, institutions, and even our perception of reality, masquerading as natural order while enabling corporate power and exacerbating inequality. This interview critiques the system's commodification of everything—land, labor, even human relationships—driven by capital's relentless demands for growth at humanity's expense. It's not just about economics; it's an ideology embedded so deeply into society that we mistake it for common sense.