The Crisis of Civilization Podcast

What are the systemic causes and trends that led to Brexit? Should we worry about the rise of fascism and neo-nazism or are such claims alarmist? How do we make sense of the Trump phenomena? Is there an information war? How can we train ourselves to see the world systemically? Do we have power? These are some of the questions Dean put to Nafeez during a discussion session titled ‘Making Sense of the Crisis of Civilization’ held in front of an audience at the ELEVATE FESTIVAL in Graz, Austria, on March 5th, 2017. Thanks for listening! Leave us a comment or a question! Subscribe via iTunes goo.gl/xT37xA & Google Play goo.gl/I84uQZ SHOW NOTES Elevate Festival - Music, Art & Political Discourse https://elevate.at/en/about/intention-mission/ ‘How global economic growth will drown in Trump’s oil glut after 2018’ by Nafeez Ahmed https://goo.gl/trPoKi ‘Return of the Reich: Mapping the Global Resurgence of Far Right Power’ by Nafeez Ahmed https://goo.gl/fxceGC ‘Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System from inside the Death Machine’ by Nafeez Ahmed https://goo.gl/HnLTFl ‘Republican insider: Trump is creating Deep State 2.0, but it might crash the economy’ by Nafeez Ahmed https://goo.gl/THp0cz Failing States, Collapsing Systems - BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence (2017) by Nafeez Ahmed https://goo.gl/BFXVwA Propaganda (1928) by Edward L. Bernays https://goo.gl/4L8zRV Edited by Dean Puckett Artwork by Lucca Benney & Abby Martin Production support by Gareth Newnham

In this episode Nafeez speaks with Mike Lofgren, a former U.S. congressional staff member who served on the House and Senate budget committees & is the best-selling author of ‘The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government’ and asks how should we think about the Deep State. Thanks for listening! Feel free to leave us a comment or question in the comments! Subscribe via iTunes goo.gl/xT37xA & Google Play goo.gl/I84uQZ SHOW NOTES ‘Republican insider: Trump is creating Deep State 2.0, but it might crash the economy’ by Nafeez Ahmed https://goo.gl/5BXgOy ‘How the Trump regime was manufactured by a war inside the Deep State’ by Nafeez Ahmed https://goo.gl/9YCiXZ http://mikelofgren.net 'Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens' by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page https://goo.gl/Bh5662 Edited by Dean Puckett Artwork by Lucca Benney & Abby Martin Production support by Gareth Newnham Release date: March 3rd 2007 Duration: 49:58

In this episode Dean invites Nafeez to deconstruct his recent essay outlining a roadmap for the resistance in the Age of Trump. Thanks for listening! Feel free to leave us a comment or question in the comments! Subscribe via iTunes goo.gl/xT37xA & Google Play goo.gl/I84uQZ SHOW NOTES ‘Beyond Trump: Rebooting the System from inside the Death Machine’ by Nafeez Ahmed, with Andrew Markell and Gunther Sonnenfeld https://goo.gl/1C84t4 EXILE http://exileleadership.com Global Footprint Network’s ‘Earth Overshoot Day’ http://footprintnetwork.org/our-work/earth-overshoot-day Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROI) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_invested ‘Winning the Global Warming War’ by Joseph Bast https://heartland.org/news-opinion/news/winning-the-global-warming-war SourceWatch on The Heartland Institute http://sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heartland_Institute ’The Role Of Technology In The Presidential Election’, The Economist https://goo.gl/WJWkqF ‘The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations’ by Richard Gunderman https://goo.gl/7sO7t2 The Crisis of Civilization (2011) Dir. Dean Puckett http://crisisofcivilization.com Edited by Dean Puckett Artwork by Lucca Benney & Abby Martin Production support by Gareth Newnham Release date: March 6th 2017 Duration: 50.56