A skeptical news round-up follows airport chaos into the profitable machinery of war and AI.
The episode uses a stalled Department of Homeland Security funding fight as the doorway into a larger case about incentives, crisis, and profit.

Skepticism with a paper trail.
The Corbett Report treats current events as evidence in a longer argument about institutions, propaganda, and control. Its videos move from headline to history to practical resistance, with dry sarcasm used as a scalpel rather than decoration.
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The Corbett Report is a skeptical political philosophy and current-affairs video show with a long memory. It does not treat headlines as isolated events. A story about a digital health wallet becomes a question about medical records, vaccine certificates, speech control, and international institutions. A report about a burned ambulance becomes a case study in how terror narratives are formed before the facts have settled. A debate over BRICS is used to challenge the hope that a multipolar order automatically means freedom from centralized power. The show’s method is argument by accumulation. James Corbett introduces a claim, plays or paraphrases the public record, points to precedent, and then asks what pattern the listener is willing to recognize. The delivery is measured but sharp. It can be funny, especially when official language begins to sound absurd under its own weight. The #SolutionsWatch episodes provide a different gear, moving from critique toward practical alternatives such as food-sharing resistance, liberty projects, and tools for escaping a more automated, centralized web. The New World Next Week format adds conversational looseness with James Evan Pilato, but the subject matter stays in familiar territory: shutdown politics, war production, tech money, surveillance, media framing, and institutional incentives. The show’s worldview is openly anti-establishment. It is wary of governments, global bodies, platform monopolies, pandemic-era control systems, and the military-industrial economy. That stance gives the series its force and also its edge. It is not designed for listeners seeking detached newsroom balance. It is for people who want the prosecution brief, with sources stacked high and sarcasm kept close at hand. At its best, the show connects small absurdities to larger systems without losing the practical question underneath: what can be refused, routed around, rebuilt, or remembered?
Made for: For listeners drawn to anti-establishment politics, political philosophy, media criticism, and long-form arguments about power. It suits people who prefer sourced monologues and combative analysis over conventional news panels.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its history-first style: current events are treated as repeat patterns, not fresh surprises. Its recurring #SolutionsWatch and New World Next Week formats balance indictment with practical alternatives and conversational critique.
The Corbett Report provides videos on news, current events and society from an alternative perspective.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
James Corbett connects current conflicts, media systems, and internet habits to practical questions about power and personal agency.
The Corbett Report - Videos follows James Corbett through the machinery behind public events, moving from the Iran war and military spending to internet decay, protest organizing, and debates over population and resources.
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A skeptical news round-up follows airport chaos into the profitable machinery of war and AI.
The episode uses a stalled Department of Homeland Security funding fight as the doorway into a larger case about incentives, crisis, and profit.
A practical map for making the web feel usable again.
James Corbett's SolutionsWatch segment makes a clear case that the internet has steadily gotten worse, while still pointing to ways people can recover some of its usefulness.
A skeptical review of Iran's shifting endgame, the Strait of Hormuz, and the money behind a war described as won but unfinished.
The Corbett Report reads the Iran war's supposed exit ramp against the language of official victory. Claims that the war is "very complete," that Iran has no navy, no communications, and no air force, and that objectives are nearly within reach sit awkwardly beside the warning…
A skeptical run from cyberwar and Stuxnet to AI schoolwork, life skills, and the reverse Flynn effect.
World War III treats escalation as a matter of language as much as action, with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato moving from an Iran-linked hacker group's claimed cyberattack on Stryker to earlier attacks on Saudi Aramco and the Sands Casino.

Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.

Philosopher Barry Lam turns reported stories — gig algorithms, AI music, vampires — into philosophical inquiry.

Economist Glenn Loury interviews one guest at a time on race, religion, and geopolitics.

Peter Boghossian applies street epistemology to guests debating free speech, immigration, and belief.

Vox's narrative reporting on factory farming, pandemic risk, and its Good Robot AI safety series.
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This episode investigates how Jeffrey Epstein allegedly influenced Bitcoin's development, as revealed in Epstein files and discussed with guest Aaron Day about his article on Bitcoin's hijacking from peer-to-peer cash to a Wall Street asset.
This interview explores the origins and background of 'The Philosophy of Liberty' video, based on Ken Schoolland's work, and its influence on the host and listeners.
This episode discusses the arrests of volunteers, including a grandmother and Tampa Food Not Bombs members, for feeding homeless people in public parks due to local ordinances banning such activities without permits.
This episode critiques the belief that BRICS nations and their leaders are opposing the New World Order, arguing instead that the multipolar world order is itself the New World Order.
This episode discusses the World Health Organization's new digital health wallet program in Southeast Asia, questioning its trustworthiness given the organization's history with COVID-era censorship and vaccine passport systems.
James Corbett introduces Libertas.org, a new website dedicated to promoting the Philosophy of Liberty video as a tool for spreading ideas about liberty.
This episode critiques how media and authorities may be creating fictional terror hysteria around incidents like ambulance attacks in London, linking them to Iranian-backed groups despite unclear evidence.
DHS shutdown fallout drives New World Next Week #624, with Senate Democrats rejecting Donald Trump's funding offer and airport checkpoints backing up for almost five hours.
James Corbett opens with a memory of when the internet still felt like discovery.
James Corbett asks how the Iran war is supposed to end.
New World Next Week #623 opens on NBC News reporting an Iran-linked cyberattack on Stryker in Michigan, where employees' phones stopped working and thousands of devices were wiped.
This episode discusses Australia's groundbreaking ban on social media for users under 16, exploring implementation challenges and platform compliance.
This interview explores the origins and background of the Philosophy of Liberty video, based on Ken Schoolland's work, and its influence on the host and listeners.