[Episode 33] China Is Making The US Look Ridiculous! (And Trump Is Freaking Out)

We hope you're all enjoying Unredacted Tonight with comedian, author, and activist Lee Camp on the d@w channel, as part of our efforts to expand the content of the Friends of d@w program.

On this week's episode of Unredacted Tonight, Lee Camp breaks down the real-world fallout of the US–China trade war and why the “big win” headlines don’t match what actually happened. With sharp comedy and clear receipts, Lee explains how tariffs, supply-chain pressure, and political grandstanding pushed everyday Americans—especially farmers and manufacturers—into the blast zone, only for policy to drift back toward the same place it started. If you’ve been wondering what the trade deal really changed, this episode connects the dots in plain English.

A big focus here is rare earth minerals, the not-so-glamorous backbone of modern technology. Lee walks through how these materials power everything from phones and batteries to advanced industrial systems, and why refining matters as much as mining. You’ll hear why China remains a key player in rare-earth processing, how that leverage has shaped negotiations, and what it means for the future of US-China economic competition, high-tech manufacturing, and global supply chains.

Lee also dives into the changing balance of innovation and production, including how China’s tech growth is reshaping global markets. From electronics to AI, this segment explores why older assumptions about “cheap imports” no longer hold, and what happens when a trade strategy collides with a world where technological leadership is up for grabs. Expect some hilarious metaphors—plus a sober look at how policy choices ripple through research, industry, and the broader economy.

Then the show pivots to newly revealed ExxonMobil documents and the global story of climate messaging, fossil fuel subsidies, and stalled progress on emissions. Lee outlines how disinformation campaigns spread internationally, why climate commitments keep missing their targets, and how massive public subsidies for fossil fuels complicate the path forward. If you care about energy policy, climate solutions, and who’s shaping the narrative behind the scenes, this part is essential viewing.

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[Season 2 Episode 18] Professor Wolff meets Louis Althusser

In the 1960s, Louis Althusser imported the concept of 'overdetermination' from Sigmund Freud into the domain of Marxian analysis. In the 1980s, Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick developed this idea into a Marxian Critique of Political Economy in their seminal book Knowledge and Class. Yet, many of the premises of the concept and its applications remain fuzzy to people, even students of Marxian theory. 

This week, the dialectic goes to work with Professor Richard Wolff to explore this important idea. What is overdetermination? How does it liberate analyses from determinism and essentialism? How can we use this idea in the 21st century to make sense of the world?

The Dialectic at Work is a podcast hosted by Professor Shahram Azhar & Professor Richard Wolff. The show is dedicated to exploring Marxist theory. It employs the dialectical mode of reasoning, a method developed over millennia by Plato and Aristotle, and continues to explore new dimensions of theory and praxis through dialogue. The Marxist dialectic is a revolutionary dialectic that not only seeks to understand the world but also to change it. In our discussions, the dialectic comes into play, aiming to address the pressing life crises that we face as a global community.

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[GCAP 11.25]: Affordability: Why So Much Costs Too Much and What to do About it

In our capitalist economy, employers pay wages and set prices that together determine whether a decent life is affordable. Employers’ goal is to maximize their profit. But employees – the vast majority of us – have different goals. One of them is basic affordability. In this presentation of Global Capitalism, Professor Wolff discusses the factors at play in determining our cost of living, and ways we can and should get involved in affecting them.

Presented by Democracy at Work and the Left Forum

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Howdy folks! Welcome to Redneck Gone Green with David and Shane. Their guest tonight is Anthony Rogers-Wright, a long-time social change agent, who is active with Black Alliance for Peace, Movement 4 Black Lives, and the Black Hive.

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[CHH S08E21] The Violent Crimes of Lost, Angry Men

In this episode of Capitalism Hits Home, Dr. Harriet Fraad explores how rape and mass murder become some men's reactions to their reduced status as providers for dependent women and children. Men who never recognized the life-sustaining care they received from women are lost and angry.  Vulnerability and emotional need are inaccessible for many men. Anger and violence seem like socially accepted masculine ways to reestablish lost economic power and an emotional outlet for loneliness. As this epidemic continues to crescendo with the current administration in power, we must understand the correlations at play and explore ways to curb this unnecessary violence.

Capitalism Hits Home with Dr. Harriet Fraad (CHH) is a @democracyatwrk production. The show explores the intersection of capitalism, class, and personal lives, examining the economic realm and its impact on individual and social psychology. Learn more about CHH:

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[EU S15 E46] Capitalism Equals Class Warfare

The totality of today's Economic Update is devoted to exploring (1) the multiple ways that capitalism imposes class warfare on its people, and (2) how class warfare shapes the capitalist system's impact on employers and employees. Specific examples show (1) what kind of class struggle is involved in tariffs such as those imposed by Trump, (2) how inflation exemplifies class war, and (3) how unemployment reflects and includes class war. A question addressed throughout today's program is "Why establish and maintain an economic system that produces and reproduces class war across its history?”

We hope you enjoy this discussion and look forward to joining you next week for another all-new episode of Economic Update.

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a production of Democracy at Work, Inc. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely solely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:
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Professor Wolff's latest book, "Understanding Capitalism," is available now for purchase: https://linktr.ee/understandingcapitalism

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[Episode 5] An early casualty of Trump-Epstein's America: "Hollidaysburg"

In this episode of Back Seat Socialism, Matthew talks to A.M. Lukas, director/co-writer of her Thanksgiving cult classic "Hollidaysburg." They dive into how each major character in “Hollidaysburg” begins to question their new purpose in life as they transition from the relative innocence of high school to the cutthroat world of capitalism. You can rent this film right here on YouTube by going here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_AUuadErs and we hope you're enjoying the view from the back seat!

Matthew Rozsa also writes a column by the same name on the d@w Substack. You can subscribe to our Substack for his content and more.

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As always, we thank you for your attention, support, and solidarity.

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Howdy folks! Welcome to another episode of Redneck Gone Green with David and Shane. Their guest tonight is Tess Fraad-Wolff, a psychotherapist with well over a decade of experience in private practice.

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[EU S15 E45] Resurgent Labor Organizing

On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff’s updates include the 60+ people killed by the U.S. military in what it claimed were "narco boats," Socialist Catherine Connolly wins the Presidency in Ireland, Canada hit with nationwide postal workers strike alongside a strike of the entire public workforce (51,000) in Alberta, Canada, and finally a new poll showing that 67% of U.S. college students look favorably or neutrally on socialism. In the second half of today’s show, Professor Wolff interviews Robert Ovetz and Kevin van Meter on effective new ways of organizing workers.

We hope you enjoy this discussion and look forward to joining you next week for another all-new episode of Economic Update.

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely solely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community:
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