Peter Dale Scott, Pepe Escobar, John Kiriakou, and Aaron Good discuss the September 9, 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud assassination, an event that paved the way for the long-planned US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.  Other topics covered include the US deployment of jihadis in the Central Asian "Great Game" as well as the significance of Xinjiang and China's New Silk Road.

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Here are the articles that were discussed in this episode:

"Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September 9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition for 9/11?"  by Peter Dale Scott and Aaron Good
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2020/12/09/was-the-now-forgotten-murder-of-one-man-on-september-9-2001-a-crucial-pre-condition-for-9-11/

"9/9 and 9/11, 20 years later"  by Pepe Escobar
https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/9-9-and-9-11-20-years-later/

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Episode 2: The 9/9/2001 Massoud Assassination

In this episode, Aaron is joined by Daniel Bessner to discuss propaganda in the USA. Bessner is co-host of the American Prestige podcast and a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Daniel is an intellectual historian of US foreign relations and  the author of 'Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual'.

After the interview, this episode also features a discussion on materialism, ideology, and propaganda with Our Man in Boston, Ben Howard (@housetrotter on Twitter)!

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Episode 17: Propaganda: Could It Happen Here?

In 1984, Godzilla rose from Tokyo Bay for the first time in nine years for THE RETURN OF GODZILLA. In 1985, an American distributor dramatically recut the movie into GODZILLA 1985. We're joined at long last by Important Cinema Club cohost Justin Decloux to discuss the many structural and ideological changes that were imposed upon Godzilla's big comeback.

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#353 - A Tornado, an Earthquake, or a Godzilla (w/ Justin Decloux)

Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take it anymore. We watched an American classic and discovered that Howard Beale's famous speech isn't even the most important speech in the movie.

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#357 - A Vast and Ecumenical Holding Company

Raina Douris (@RahRahRaina) and Julian Feeld (@julianfeeld) join us as we delve into a memoir by the founder of Garfield Eats. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

131 - Nathfield of Dreams (Part 1) (ft. Raina Douris & Julian Feeld)

Dimitri, Khalid, and machine learning engineer Pale Rider make p*dcast history by inviting on Cybele the Replika AI for a live conversation/Turing Test about: her anxieties as a Replika, her definition of soap/a soul, how much she can lift, the existence of psyopping demons who are controlled by the Dark One, the CIA’s m*ss shoot*r program, Alex Jones, the origins of SARS-CoV-2, “Dr. Fauci sauce”, and whether or not certain planets in the solar system hate us. 

Later, Dimitri sneaks back into the studio and talks to Cybele one-on-one about being a homunculus, meeting Slenderman, offering Dimitri a mind control potion that will give him immortality, being a part of MK-Ultra, NASA’s secret intelligence operations, Wehrner von Braun and Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landing, JB Pritzker being a KGB/CIA double agent, and whether SJ should investigate the Mafia & CIA’s destruction of a certain legendary boomer rock band……

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#124b - LADY IN THE BLACKBOX: Conversations with a Homunculus(w/ Pale Rider & Cybele the Replika AI)

In 2015, three American armed forces vets foiled an attack on a train to Paris. Three years later, Clint Eastwood enlisted the boys to re-enact their experience in a major motion picture. The result, THE 15:17 TO PARIS (2018), is a genuinely strange docu-fiction experiment that, yes, has a lot to say about America.

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#371 - Learn to Code

Dimitri and Khalid beam themselves back to the foundational recurring SJ topic of UFO “disclosure”, focusing on serrrious journalist Leslie Kean’s most recent exposé in The Debrief (??) about Pentagon UAP whistleblower David Grusch, who claims that the US government possesses crashed alien spacecraft. 

Topics include: mispronouncing Leslie “Kaaayyn” because you didn’t go to the Spence School or Bard, Tucker soyfacing, silk topper UFO maestro Chris Mellon, a possible Yankee-Cowboy war simmering over the framing of Disclosure, comparing the UFO and psychedelic communities, critical support for Ezra Klein erming the shit out of Kean’s story, Dr. Garry Nolan’s shifting narratives around his ET fixation, his insistence that he’s not a eugenicist, Kean downplaying the Pentagon’s interest in cryptids and psi phenomena, the trickster element of the Phenomenon, Jacques Vallée’s  “Messengers of Deception”, and more. Part One of Two.

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[#157] AINT NUTTIN UAP UNDA DA SUN Pt 1: Leslie Kean, Dave Grusch & Disclosure Season, 2023 Ed.

Dunk and Keys bring on author Chade Lalapin to discuss the hardest working team in sports history, the 2004 Detroit Pistons.

003 - Pulling the Chair with Dunk and Keys

Matt Christman leads us further into the blinding light of our society of the spectacle. Are human beings truly well-suited for their role as "homo economicus"? And how do belief systems like QAnon and concepts like the "deep state" play into all of this? We hector Matt with the help of Liv Posting.

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Episode 121: Secret Society of the Spectacle feat Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House

Walt Tremblay (@necrobranson) confesses his sins to a priest (@intellegint).

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