Best of the Left Podcast : #1169 Playing with Winter (Threat and Effects of Nuclear War)

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Air Date: 3/6/2018

Today we use Trump's threats to commit genocide in North Korea as the jumping off point to take a look at the process of launching and the probable result of using nuclear weapons

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr 

Ch. 2: Act 1: Trump calls for genocide - @CounterSpin - Air Date 9-22-17

Ch. 3: Song 1:  Quaver - Codebreaker


Ch. 4: Act 2: Explaining the process for launching a nuclear attack - Intercepted (@theintercept) - Air Date 9-27-17

Ch. 5: Song 2:  Lochley Fells - Barstool


Ch. 6: Act 3: Mutually assured destruction in the age of Trump - Thinking Cap - Air Date 2-1-18

Ch. 7: Song 3:  That Horse Ithica - Sketchbook


Ch. 8: Act 4: Daniel Ellsberg on nuclear war - Who What Why - Air Date 12-20-17

Ch. 9: Song 4:  Shift of Currents - Aeronaut


Ch. 10: Act 5: Don't Bank on The Bomb

Ch. 11: Song 5:  N/A


Ch. 12: Act 6: Divest from Nuclear Weapons Producers via @DontBankonBomb - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 13: Song 6: The Rampart - Castle Danger


Ch. 14: Act 7: Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 11-6-17


Ch. 15: Final comments on some of the lessons we could or should learn from recent developments with North Korea

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Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent

(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)


Activism:

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Divest from financial institutions funding nuclear weapons production with DontBankontheBomb.com

Get guidance on divesting, download the campaigner guide, and more, on the Action page

Easily tweet at and tag financial institutions on Facebook to tell them to stop investing in nuclear weapons

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Who Invests? (Don't Bank on the Bomb)

Who Divests? (Don't Bank on the Bomb)

Nuclear Weapons Producers (Don't Bank on the Bomb)

Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman 


Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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