Eugene Puryear

Africa

Eritrea: The Story You Don’t Hear

Eugene Puryear
Eritrea is demonized for not conforming to the Washington Consensus at home and abroad. Criticisms in the Western media are typically decontextualized, sometimes fabricated, and almost always deployed to build a regime change narrative. Any statement contrary to that narrative, no matter how factual, is met with a barrage of...
U.S. War Machine

Blood Money: War Industry Sends Huge Sums to Congress Members Who Vote to Buy Their Weapons

Eugene Puryear
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. We reported to you earlier this month about how the U.S. House of Representatives passed their $839 billion war budget, which now...
Podcasts

From Haiti to India: The Struggle Continues

Eugene Puryear
On Today’s Episode of the Punch Out Haiti Marches on ConstitutionOn Today’s Episode of the Punch Out Haiti Marches on ConstitutionOn Today’s Episode of the Punch Out Haiti Marches on ConstitutionOn Today’s Episode of the Punch Out Haiti Marches on Constitution
Podcasts

Horn of Africa: Storms on the Horizon?

Eugene Puryear
On Today’s Episode of the Punch Out: High Tension in the Horn
Podcasts

Congress Confronts Formula Crisis

Eugene Puryear
On Today’s Episode of the Punch Out: Baby Formula Crisis Continues Sri Lankan Crisis Deepens
Podcasts

From Inflation to Recession?

Eugene Puryear
On Today’s Episode of the Punch Out: Inflation: Cure Worse than the Disease? Mass Incarceration and Families
Podcasts

Ukraine Aid: Money for War but Can’t Feed the Poor

Eugene Puryear
On Today’s Episode of the Punch Out: What $54 Billion Isn’t Buying You Australia’s Climate Election Biden Bellicose on Taiwan
Podcasts

Our New Year’s Resolution is Revolution

Eugene Puryear
Conservative influencer (and Ben Shapiro’s sister) Classically Abby inadvertently exposed Nancy Reagan’s dirty laundry. We skip the slut-shaming and delve into purity culture. We discuss the ugly history of the invented War on Christmas, and examine the contradictions of holiday consumerism — are any of us immune from it? The...
Economy

Fed to Induce Recession: Serious Pain Ahead for Workers

Eugene Puryear
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. Almost every major economic commentator is now predicting a recession in the United States in the second half of the year —...
Climate

COP26: Biden Fiddles While World Burns

Eugene Puryear
As the COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow gears up, the Biden administration torpedoed its own U.S. climate policies in the Build Back Better spending bill. When will the United States get serious about the climate crisis that is already having serious and deadly effects on vulnerable communities worldwide? Brandon...
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