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Culture and BarbarismCulture & Barbarism 9 AI: Plagiarism, Bubbles, Environmental DevastationHas AI come to save the world, to destroy it or to destroy it in the guise of saving it? Is AII, which supposedly enriches all our lives, a gigantic boon to humanity and/or a monstrous con where creators’ own work is fed back to them, a market bubble ready to burst as the last desperate gasp of Western capitalism and a devourer of water, electricity, oil and rare earth metals that threatens local communities and is part of a global grab of the world’s resources? On Culture & Barbarism 9 Dennis and Toby consider the range of th...
2026-01-2158 min
culturalstudiesDennis Broe and Joan Pedro-Carañana on artificial intelligenceDennis Broe and Joan Pedro-Carañana on the financial and environmental impact of artificial intelligence
You can read about their work on this topic here:
https://dennisbroe.substack.com/p/ai-and-ip-artificial-intelligence?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/inteligencia-artificial/centros-datos-fantasma-recorre-espana
https://www.counterfire.org/article/capitalism-and-the-cloud/
2026-01-1558 min
Culture and BarbarismCulture & Barbarism Special Report: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?: Trump declares 'Mission Accomplished' in VenezuelaTrump who had once proclaimed the U.S. was in Syria for the oil, now claims to have returned Venezuela's oil to its rightful owners, the American oil companiesLike George Bush before him in Iraq, Donald Trump proclaimed that with Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro in chains, the U.S. has secured Venezuela’s oil. In this special episode of Culture & Barbarism Dennis Broe and Jack Shalom talk about why the European (and Chinese) response to Trump’s actions is rejoicing on the one hand and staying in the shadows on the other; what AI has to do w...
2026-01-0529 min
Culture and BarbarismCulture & Barbarism 8: Mainstream Media CoupIn this episode with Dennis Broe and Special Guest Lee Camp, we discuss the new concentration and consolidation of right-wing media as it moves to capture mainstream (or center-right) media with the new dominance of Larry Ellison's proxy ownership of Paramount +, Tik Tok and attempted takeover of Warners. Lee Camp, who hosted his own weekly comedy news show for 8 years Redacted Tonight (and now on Unredacted Tonight) shares his insights and experience on censorship, censorship by omission, being de-platformed as well as on the continuing Neo-Con strategy of both Republicans and Democrats (we now have Hilary Clinton as Gaza-Genocide...
2025-12-0958 minCulture and BarbarismCulture & Barbarism 7: Shredding The Corporate NarrativeOf Alternative Radio, Trumpian "Affordability" and a new Robin Hood who taxes the poor and gives tax breaks to the rich. This episode, also a plea for listener-sponsored radio, features Dennis Broe and WBAI’s Jack Shalom discussing the takeover of mainstream media by right-wing and Zionist owners, AI’s restarting of Three Mile Island, and why the alien extermination of the earth is looking better each week of both the Trump presidency and the European sycophants who genuflect to it.You can now donate to C&B at our Patreon account athttps://www.patre...
2025-12-0741 minCulture and BarbarismCulture & Barbarism 6 House of Guinness and Higher Education: Two Houses Under Fire and Under SiegeDennis on Steven Knights' House of Guinness and its challenge to the genre of "wealth porn." Toby on some surprising trends in Higher Education that indicate that though under fire in the Trump era the field is still prosperous. Plus, fashion and Peaky Blinders, Liverpool as Dublin and Gambling and College Sports.
2025-10-111h 02Culture and BarbarismCulture & Barbarism 5: All the News That Fits, We Cut: The Republican Attack on Public MediaIn this episode Toby and Dennis discuss the cuts in public television and radio; how they are dis-servicing local Indigenous Media and how Alternative Media is countering Public Media’s Washington Consensus.Also on the agenda is a conversation about past cultural funding and in particular the Ford Foundation and the continual way the Pentagon finances and dictates film scripts and practices.We then branch out and discuss media tax breaks and whether they deliver what they promise, Netflix in Spain, what streaming services mean by the global and the local, and Mi...
2025-10-0958 minculturalstudiesDennis Broe on higher education and House of GuinnessDennis Broe on House of Guinness and higher education
You can read about his work here:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/
2025-10-031h 02culturalstudiesDennis Broe on cultural, media, and education policyDennis Broe on cultural, media, and education policy
You can read more about Dennis here:
https://substack.com/@dennisbroe
https://dennisbroe.substack.com/podcast
2025-09-0558 min
Culture and BarbarismCulture and Barbarism 4: Terrorising LA One Automatic Delivery Vehicle At A TimeIn this episode, Dennis Broe and Toby Miller look at the significance of the LA Protests against Trump’s “invasion” of California, the class and racial meaning of the burning of the Waymo cars, the U.S. Treasury assault on Mexican banks and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ “Mexican problem.” With independent journalist Jalyssa Dugrot and an up-close view of the demonstrations as both coasts, with the New York victory of Zohran Mamdani, erupt against the Republican coup.
2025-07-031h 08culturalstudiesJalyssa Dugrot and Dennis Broe on the LA protests, repression, journalismJalyssa Dugrot and Dennis Broe on the LA protests, repression, and journalism
You can learn more about Jalyssa’s work here:
https://www.instagram.com/jalyssadugrot/reels/?hl=en
https://www.mintpressnews.com/?s=dugrot
And about Dennis here:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/author/dennis-broe
2025-06-271h 08Culture and BarbarismTariffs, Tariffs, and more, no, wait a minute, less tariffsIn this episode Toby Miller and Dennis Broe discuss Trump's tariffs and their effect on the European and American audiovisual industry as well as the ways the American streamers continue to colonize European public television while seemingly, as Trump might say, "making nice," or appearing to cooperate. Our guest is France 24 presenter Marjorie Paillon, a French analyst whose area is the interaction between American and European visual media and who raises the question of whether one of the goals of the Trump tariffs is to undercut European digital regulation.
2025-04-2956 minculturalstudiesMarjorie Pallion and Dennis Broe on European media regulationMarjorie Pallion and Dennis Broe on European media regulation and streamers
You can read about their work here:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/
https://www.twinglobal.org/twin-global/speakers/marjorie-paillon#
2025-04-2558 minCulture and BarbarismCulture & Barbarism, Episode 2: Sports Reporting, Palestinian Women and Carnage vs. "Clashes"Of Miriam Adelson, The Book of Trump, Mahmoud Kalil and Roger Angell and...Why is Luca Doncic A Laker?In the second episode of Culture & Barbarism Toby Miller and Dennis Broe explore the expansion of sports and sports reporting, the wrecking of the Dallas Mavericks, Trump’s tariffs on Mexico thwarted by BRICS and we welcome our first guest Layan Fuleihan, educator, scholar and activist who talks about Palestinian women’s imbrication in the fabric of that society and updates us on the case of Mahmoud Kalil.
2025-03-251h 05culturalstudiesDennis Broe Layan Fuleihan journalism, women, Palestine, Mahmud KhalilDennis Broe and Layan Fuleihan on sports journalism, women and Marxism in Palestinian analysis and resistance, and Mahmud Khalil
You can read about their work here:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/
https://peoplesforum.org/instructor/layan-fuleihan/
2025-03-201h 05Culture and BarbarismCulture and Barbarism in British Capitalism, U.S.-Mexico Relations and Neoliberal Los AngelesToby Miller is a Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur. Dennis Broe is a journalist, novelist and broadcaster. In our pilot episode we recount Steven Knight's mapping of the cruelty of 19th and 20th century British capitalism, Trump's unfair characterization of Mexico's people's government as a narco state as well as where the guns are coming from that fuel the violence in that country and finally LA as a neoliberal government whose cruelty was exposed in the fires as well as its past and future dislocation dynamics around the Dodgers and Chavez Ravine and the 2028 Olympics.
2025-03-0652 minculturalstudiesDennis Broe on Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”), LA fires, neoliberalism. Toby on MexicoDennis Broe on Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders” et al.), the Los Angeles fires, and neoliberalism. Toby on Mexico
You can watch Dennis’ “LA is Burning” talk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oHeJboBXw
and Karen Bass discourteously, if tellingly, doorstepped by Sky News here:
https://news.sky.com/video/la-mayor-asked-if-she-owes-citizens-apology-over-handling-of-wildfires-13285730
2025-02-2853 minculturalstudiesDennis Broe on his new novel, The Dark Ages, Hollywood, and LA yesterday and todayDennis Broe on his new novel, The Dark Ages, Hollywood, and LA yesterday and today
You can read (all) about it here:
https://books.apple.com/es/book/the-dark-ages/id6739433342
2025-01-091h 00culturalstudiesDennis Broe on film noir, Maverick, television, his detective novels, and Los AngelesDennis Broe on film noir, Maverick, television, his detective novels, and Los Angeles
You can read about Dennis here:
https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/dennis-broe/
https://dennisbroe.substack.com/
https://www.laprogressive.com/author/dennis-broe
https://dennisbroe.substack.com/p/i-fought-the-law-new-podcast-on-the
https://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/DennisBroe/text.html
2024-04-1757 min