Culture and Barbarism

Toby Miller/Dennis Broe
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Novelist and critic Dennis Broe and Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur Toby Miller explore The Politics of Culture and The Culture of Politics. Rosa Luxemburg said the choice was between Socialism and Barbarism but perhaps today what we have is Culture And Barbarism. 

Episodes

  1. Culture & Barbarism Special Report: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?: Trump declares 'Mission Accomplished' in Venezuela

    JAN 5

    Culture & Barbarism Special Report: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?: Trump declares 'Mission Accomplished' in Venezuela

    Trump 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 companies Like 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 with this new grab for oil; Trump’s attempt to ‘kill hope’ after the inaugural of Mamdani; and how a show trial can become a political trial exposing the blatant viciousness and hypocrisy of the empire.

    30 min

  2. 12/09/2025

    Culture & Barbarism 8: Mainstream Media Coup

    In 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 Denier) to wage perpetual war in Venezuela, the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere. More barbarism than culture, but that is what we are left with at the moment in a deteriorating West.  You can support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/CAB2025?vanity=user or on Substack https://dennisbroe.substack.com/p/culture-and-barbarism-8-capturing

    59 min

  3. 12/07/2025

    Culture & Barbarism 7: Shredding The Corporate Narrative

    Of 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 at https://www.patreon.com/c/CAB2025?van...

    42 min

  4. 10/11/2025

    Culture & Barbarism 6 House of Guinness and Higher Education: Two Houses Under Fire and Under Siege

    Dennis 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.

    1h 2m

  5. 10/09/2025

    Culture & Barbarism 5: All the News That Fits, We Cut: The Republican Attack on Public Media

    In 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 Mission Impossible in Australia.

    59 min
  6. Culture and Barbarism 4: Terrorising LA One Automatic Delivery Vehicle At A Time

    07/03/2025

    Culture and Barbarism 4: Terrorising LA One Automatic Delivery Vehicle At A Time

    In 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.

    1h 9m

  7. 04/29/2025

    Tariffs, Tariffs, and more, no, wait a minute, less tariffs

    In 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.

    57 min

  8. 03/25/2025

    Culture & 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.

    1h 5m

  9. 03/06/2025

    Culture and Barbarism in British Capitalism, U.S.-Mexico Relations and Neoliberal Los Angeles

    Toby 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.

    52 min
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Novelist and critic Dennis Broe and Cultural Studies and Global Media Raconteur Toby Miller explore The Politics of Culture and The Culture of Politics. Rosa Luxemburg said the choice was between Socialism and Barbarism but perhaps today what we have is Culture And Barbarism. 

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  • Creator
    Toby Miller/Dennis Broe
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Culture and Barbarism
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