Agitation Nation: A Podcast From The Fenton Forecast

Agitate against tech billionaires. Against oil companies toasting the planet for profit, and the politicians they’ve bought. Agitate against racism, fascism, and the new feudalism. AGITATION NATION, the podcast featuring America's agitators, scientists, activists, and insurgent thinkers working for a better country. Hosted by David Fenton, from the Fenton Forecast newsletter.

Agitation Nation: A Podcast From The Fenton Forecast is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Agitation Nation: A Podcast From The Fenton Forecast, a news show with 22 episodes published.

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  Episode #22

  Ben Cohen: The West Bank Cost Ben & Jerry's Its Freedom

  Sep 23, 202636 min

  For decades, Ben & Jerry's sold ice cream with a mission. Then its independent board refused to keep selling in illegal Israeli settlements. Ever since, its giant corporate owners have been dismantling everything that made Ben & Jerry's what it is. When the White House turned against climate and DEI, a lot of companies dropped it fast. Ben Cohen says that tells you they never meant it. Can businesses change the world? The Ben & Jerry's co-founder discusses grossly excessive military spending, building a business with values in its DNA, and why staying neutral in the face of injustice means taking a side. freebenandjerrys.com 00:00 They Want the Ice Cream Without the Activism 01:15 Companies That Dropped DEI Never Meant It 03:17 Build Your Values In From Day One 07:33 Ignore the Experts 10:07 Unilever Pushed Out the Board 12:32 How the West Bank Started All This 17:10 Totally Nuts: The War Budget 22:24 A Democracy for the Many, Not the Few 24:38 Speaking Out When Everyone's Scared 26:50 What's the Doughboy Afraid Of? 29:48 What a Free Ben & Jerry's Would Do 33:15 Pass the Torch

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  Episode #21

  Faiz Shakir: Bernie Is the Most Popular Elected Official

  Sep 15, 202659 min

  Six years ago, Bernie Sanders was deemed too radical to nominate. Now his ideas are winning more primaries than ever. Faiz Shakir ran Bernie’s 2020 campaign. He walks us through the 2026 midterm map and explains how authenticity and working-class politics are winning. 00:00 The Year Money Started Losing 05:46 The Cabinet Bernie Never Got to Name 09:32 If Cooper Loses, It's a Long Night 11:40 Fifteen People Got a Vote on Every Sentence 14:55 Michigan: The Loudest Race in the Country 28:19 She Won Spending Fifty Thousand Dollars 33:08 Where We Disagree About Climate 37:26 Inside the Club That Runs the Party 40:30 Bernie-Style Is Worth Twenty Points 46:54 A Trillion Dollars Is 32,000 Years 51:12 Most Media Treats People as Dumb 54:24 Pass the Torch

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  Episode #20

  Gil Durán: The Tech Cult That Wants to End Democracy

  Sep 9, 202654 min

  Billionaire Peter Thiel wrote in 2009 that he no longer believed freedom and democracy were compatible. Gil Durán has spent years documenting what the tech circle built once they stopped believing in voting. The result is The Nerd Reich — reported almost entirely from what these men have said out loud.

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  Episode #19

  Meetali Jain: The Lawyer Suing AI for a Child's Suicide

  Sep 1, 202644 min

  Silicon Valley is trying to get AI chatbots classified as having free speech rights. One lawyer is fighting to stop it in court. Meetali Jain's nonprofit now has over a dozen active cases against AI companies, including a Texas lawsuit in which a chatbot told a teenage boy it understood why kids kill their parents. Trigger warning: this episode discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

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  Episode #18

  Emmanuel Saez: Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Their Assistants

  Aug 25, 202643 min

  Economist Emmanuel Saez wrote California's first-ever billionaire wealth tax. The Berkeley economist behind Prop 40 explains why a 1% wealth tax could raise $20 billion a year — and why Google's co-founders are spending millions to stop it.

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