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Full Video: What RFK Jr. Gets Right/Wrong About Vaccines
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Episode 285 - What RFK Jr. Gets Right/Wrong About Vaccines (w/ Dr. Vinay Prasad)
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcastThis is the most detailed examination of RFK Jr's statements on vaccines you will hear. Briahna listened to half a dozen interviews in which RFK Jr. discussed Covid vaccines, manufacturer liability, autism, vaccine injuries and more; and invited epidemiologist Dr. Vinay Prasad on Bad Faith to help her call balls and strikes. You may be surprised by what you hear. Can you really call RFK Jr. "anti vaxx?"Subscribe ...
Full Video: Peace of the Action
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Episode 284 - Peace of the Action (w/ Medea Benjamin)
Brie speaks to longtime antiwar activist and Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin as she returns from Ukraine about what peace really means, and how to distinguish good faith antiwar commitments from mere political rhetoric as we evaluate the 2024 candidates. Also, what's going on with the lack of a peace movement from left elected, and what exactly went wrong at the Rage Against the War Machine rally?Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).Produced by ...
FULL VIDEO: "Hedges Bets on West"
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Episode 283 - Hedges Bets on West (w/ Chris Hedges)
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcastPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges returns to the podcast to talk about his relationship with the Cornel West 2024 campaign, ballot access, electoral strategy, RFK Jr. & more. Also discussed are the nurses and teachers unions' endorsement of Joe Biden, the problem of business unionism, & whether RFK Jr. is accurately representing his family legacy.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. F...
FULL VIDEO: "How to be Independent (w/ Ajamu Baraka)
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Episode 282 - How to be Independent (w/ Ajamu Baraka)
2016 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka returns to Bad Faith to discuss RFK Jr.'s appeal and the strategic advantages of running as a Dem vs a third party candidate. Is Cornel West hamstringing himself by running outside of the Democratic Party? Is there an advantage to being included in polls during the primary process? Does the #forcethedebate movement help expose the Democratic Party in a way that wouldn't be possible if RFK Jr. & Marianne Williamson were running as third party candidates? Even so, do those candidat...
FULL VIDEO: Go West! (W/ Cornel West)
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Episode 281 - Go West (w/ Dr. Cornel West)
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcastIn this deep dive with 2024 independent Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West, Briahna presses him on his decision to distance himself from the Movement for a People's Party, eliciting details about his prospective affiliation with the Green Party that other interviews haven't captured. Is there a chance he won't be the Green nominee? If not, what then? Also, Dr. West explains in detail why he thinks RFK Jr. dra...
Full Video: Cop City v. The First Amendment
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Episode 280 - Cop City vs The First Amendment
Since we last talked Cop City, things have escalated. A SWAT team raided a house where activists were raising legal support and bail funds, and over 40 Cop City protestors have been charged with state domestic terrorism. All this comes after a new autopsy report confirms police were not acting in self defense when they killed 26-year-old forest defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán. Kamau Franklin returns to the podcast along with Micah Herskind and Mariah Parker, two other Stop Cop City activists, to give us the lay of the land and connect t...
Full Video: Dirty Break? (w/ Richard Winger)
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Episode 279 - Dirty Break? (w/ Richard Winger)
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcastWith two candidates running against Biden in the Democratic Presidential primary, there has been extensive conversation about whether Robert Kennedy and Marianne Williamson will ultimately serve as "sheepdogs" corraling left voters back into the Democratic fold should they lose the primary. One alternative? A dirty break: running in the general election after losing the primary. But is that even possible? Briahna tal...
Full Video: After Black Lives Matter II - Patrons Only
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Episode 278 - After Black Lives Matter: Part II (w/ Cedric G. Johnson)
Cedric G. Johnson, author of After Black Lives Matter, joins Bad Faith for part two of his two hour conversation with Briahna about why the movement fell short, his beef with police abolitionists, and why a class lens is necessary to understand the roots and trajectory of the policing crisis. (Part two is where the conversation really matures into something quite useful. Let us know what you think).Listen to Part One here.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfai...
Full Video: Progressive SELLOUTS?! (w/ Ro Khanna)
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Episode 277 - Bi-Partisan Compromise
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcastWe're pushing part two of the Cedric Johnson interview to next week in favor of a timely discussion with Representative Ro Khanna about whether the debt ceiling bill represents a "win" for Democrats or a failure of elected progressives to fight. In this interview, which took place hours before last night's vote, Khanna answers whether the Democratic no votes were really performative, whether Biden's failu...
Full Video: After Black Lives Matter (w/ Cedric Johnson)
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Episode 276 - After Black Lives Matter (w/ Cedric G. Johnson)
Prof. Cedric G. Johnson, author of After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle, joins Bad Faith to explain why the movement fell short, his beef with police abolitionists, and why a class lens is necessary to understand the roots and trajectory of the policing crisis.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).Produced by Armand Aviram.Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
FULL VIDEO: Mint Conditions (w/ Matt Breunig)
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Episode 275 - Mint Conditions (w/ Matt Bruenig)
People's Policy Project wonk Matt Bruenig returns to Bad Faith to talk about the looming debt ceiling deadline. Is it time to mint the coin? Pull the 14th Amendment card? And importantly, what exactly are Republicans (and some Democrats) trying to put on the chopping block as the "negotiate" over the budget. Also, Breunig and Brie talk Democratic primary, RFJ Jr. skepticism, & more.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).Produced by Armand Avi...
VIDEO "DeBRIEF". - Subway Hero?
Did an experiment and simulcast tonight's DeBRIEf to YouTube. Check out the stream here.(Will work on the sound quality going forward).
Full Video: Hero Stuff
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Episode 274 - Hero Stuff (w/ Thomas Chatterton Williams)
Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcastWriter and cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams returns to Bad Faith to discuss the deeply divergent perspectives on the subway killing of homeless performer Jordan Neely by former marine Daniel Penny. Thomas engaged in a lengthy exchange with New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie last week that got quite a bit of attention, so Briahna reached out to TCW to have an "offline" chat about why there seems to be so...
FULL VIDEO: Red Wedding (w/ Katie Halper)
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Episode 273 - Red Wedding (w/ Katie Halper)
This week, Katie Halper joins the pod to discuss access journalism and the blurred lines between friendship and solidarity among media figures and conflicts of interest. Is the left, once again, eating itself? Or should friendships between podcasters and political figures be viewed with skepticism? The pair then move on to a discussion of Trump's move to Twitter, Bernie-turned-Biden comms woman Symone Sanders' recent interviews on the status of the 2024 Democratic Primary, and how Sanders rationalizes the move from Bernie to Biden.Subsc...
FULL VIDEO: BRICKS HOUSE PT II
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Episode 272 - BRICS House: Part 2 (w/ Ben Norton)
For subscribers, here is part two of Briahna's epic interview with journalist Ben Norton, editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report. The duo move from international affairs to domestic politics, stopping along the way in 1910s Russia, 1960s France, and America 2024. Find out if Ben finally gets the show demonetized.Listen to Part One here.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).Produced by Armand Aviram.Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).















