Israeli policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories intertwine oppression with profit, creating an economy where occupation and alleged genocide are sustained by global corporations and complicit markets. This dialogue exposes how international businesses reinforce apartheid conditions while legal systems fail to deliver justice. The guest calls for confronting capitalism’s role in colonial violence and rethinking accountability beyond the constraints of existing international law.

This roundtable dissects how violence is deeply intertwined with capitalism, revealing its embeddedness in industries, labor, supply chains, and technologies. The speakers challenge the distinction between civil and military uses, showing how mundane, everyday acts sustain structures of systemic violence. From extractive industries to drone economies, the participants explore how violence is normalized, abstracted, and obscured, while offering critical insights into resistance, complicity, and the transformative potential of creative methods to expose and envision alternatives.

Big Tech wields immense societal and regulatory power, reshaping not just markets but the very fabric of democratic accountability. This discussion exposes how these firms blur the lines between private interests and public responsibilities. Grappling with global governance challenges, it calls for bold, principled regulation to rein in tech giants and restore democratic control over systems increasingly run by unelected corporate elites.

Patriarchy thrives on violence to maintain control, oppressing women globally, from extremist regimes to nations celebrated for gender equality. This conversation chronicles this persistent power structure, examining its reach—through domestic abuse, coercion, and even seemingly egalitarian societies like Iceland—while exploring notable resistance movements. The women-led revolution in Rojava, the guest argues, demonstrates how feminist governance, grassroots democracy, and even armed self-defense can disrupt patriarchy’s grip, offering a blueprint for justice and liberation.

Colombia’s cocaine trade is a global political machine fueled by policy and profit. This conversation dismantles the "narco" myth, exposing how drug policy serves as a geopolitical weapon and hides the systemic roots of the narcotics economy. By linking violence, arms trafficking, and socio-political fractures, it calls for Colombians to move beyond demonizing cartels and confront the deeper forces driving the drug trade’s relentless grip.

Reworking Dante for modern Britain, this conversation critiques power, neoliberal academia, and political failure. The guest's version of Dante's Christian eschatology refonfigures the soul's journey through a psychoanalytic lens of desire, and the Christian soul itself becomes an Ovidian entity of perpetual transformation. The conversation shows how the use of a rigid, ancient Catholic literary structure can be used to critique the fluid, often formless crises of a secular, late-capitalist present.

Digging into the hidden narratives woven into the fabric of football jerseys worldwide, this conversation uncovers how football shirts illuminate global power, politics, and corruption. From Gazprom’s grip on Schalke to gambling’s entrenchment in England, drug cartels laundering cash through Colombian clubs, and Qatar's World Cup soft power play, the guest details how the "beautiful game" mirrors the world’s tangled inequities and shifting dynamics.

From home flooding to Houston humidity, this conversation bridges personal upheaval with critical conversations about renewable energy futures. The guest interrogates who owns the sun, framing renewable energy as not inherently communal but contested. In dissecting the politics of solar power, populism, failed states, and the role of tech oligarchs like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, the conversation underscores that shaping a sustainable future demands vigilance, action, and reimagining common sense governance.

More than just economics, neoliberalism is a moral system that prioritizes market logic over human needs, racializes freedom, and deems economic inequality a virtue. By privileging the "freedom of capital" over collective rights like housing or unions, this conversation traces how neoliberal thinkers like Hayek and Friedman reshaped human rights discourse to support globalized capitalism, delegitimize socialist and decolonial movements, and entrench Western market hegemony as "civilization."

South Korea's ascent from a war-torn nation to one of the 20th century’s most astonishing economic miracles showcases the power of state-led industrialization, strategic protectionism, and human capital investment. This conversation shows how South Korea transformed from a poverty-stricken country reliant on U.S. aid into a global economic powerhouse dominated by tech giants like Samsung and Hyundai. Yet while chaebols drove industrial growth, they also fueled inequality, corruption, and economic concentration, highlighting the costs of prioritizing scale and exports over systemic equity.