You should do some media crit on this! Far-left parties in the UK exclusively (or at least I haven't found one that did otherwise) backed a Leave vote. The debate was set up to be presented as racists vs. nice people because suggesting there was a left-wing case for leaving would've condemned the establishment backed remain vote. The Laval and Viking Line rulings (curtailing the right to industrial action), the Maastricht Treaty (enforcing a deficit cap on nation budgets), their treatment of Greece (ravaging the countries infrastructure to provide a baillout to central banks holding greece debt) and their miserable treatment of refugees (deportations and letting 5000 people drown in the Mediterranean until it became politically inconvenient to act like it wasn't happening) were all factors that ed me, and all other socialists I know, to back a leave vote. Our media denied the chance for a real debate on the subject.

Yes, please continue to attack the military budget.  It is obscene.  But your guest, Ms. Kelton, simply uses the old “straw man” trick.  She shoots down myths, one after another, but fails to address seriously the downside of the US government spending vastly more than it takes in. “The limit is inflation,” Ms. Kelton opines.  Well, when hyper-inflation hits, please have Ms. Kelton return and explain to a suffering public why she waved this consequence away with these four innocuous sounding words.  Put another way, you are being imprudent ideologues by thinking that government can spend infinitely with no consequences.

great episode thanks for the MMT info, gonna research more

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Anders explains in real time how his identity got stolen this week. Then we talk to journalist Cerise Castle about her upcoming piece on police gangs within the Los Angeles County Sherrif's Department, and her work archiving information on their members into a searchable database.

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West Coast Story w/ Cerise Castle

In the second episode of Citations Needed, Nima and Adam breakdown the history and present "crisis" on the Korean peninsula.

Episode 02: The North Korea Memory Hole

Iran, Iraq, and the New York Times’ Master Class in Reality Inversion.

In this episode we dissect the true history of what caused chaos in Iraq, who’s to blame and what the real motives were behind the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations designs for the country. All this in the context of a battle for control over remaining ISIS territory in Syria and Washington, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv’s desire to stop the dreaded “Shia crescent”.

Show notes: https://goo.gl/zcGHvd

Episode 04: Iran - The Root of All Evil

On Episode 5, we explore the history of the media erasing socialists of color from the history books and present day discourse––a tactic that serves to both commodity and water-down black radicalism and pawn off leftwing politics as a uniquely white or middle class enterprise.

Our guests: Robert Greene II and Roqayah Chamseddine.

Show notes: https://goo.gl/QPYT7C

Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History

In Episode 7 we explore how the media discusses the issue of BDS and the broader topic of Palestinian liberation.

Show notes: https://goo.gl/U4rCac

Episode 07: BDS & the Moral Narratives of Colonization

We discuss the cynical use of Human Rights to advance US interests with guest Glenn Greenwald. 

The conceit that the U.S. has been a dedicated and earnest promoter of “freedom”, “democracy,” and “human rights” throughout the world — even if, at times, a “flawed” one — is a defining narrative, largely taken for granted by major media. But how accurate is this assumption? What do we mean when we talk about human rights? What abuses are highlighted and which aren’t? Where do labor rights fit into the broader discussion of human rights?

On this episode of Citations Needed, we attempt to parse some of these complex questions and how they fit into a broader discussions of soft power and war.

Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex

The idea that we’re “running out of money” and have to “tighten our belts" is a common trope in US media; the premise that the US government is like a household that must balance its books, largely taken for granted by liberal and right-wing outlets alike.

But is this premise correct? Is it true that the United States is over-budget and ready to explode with insolvency? Where does this conventional wisdom come from and whom does it benefit? 

On this and next week's show we seek to answer some of the questions. In Part I: Single Payer Propaganda War, we examine the primary talking points against Single Payer and other big government programs and how to combat them with guest Stephanie Kelton.

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Nate Silver tell us Joe Biden’s inconsistent political beliefs are, in fact, a benefit. They’re “his calling card” and evidence he “reads the room pretty well”. Venality, we are told, is “a normal and often successful [mode] for a politician.” Insurgent progressive groups like Justice Democrats shouldn’t call Biden out of touch with the base because, Silver tell us, “only 26 of the 79 candidates it endorsed last year won their primaries, and only 7 of those went on to win the general election.”

On Twitter and his in columns, high-status pundit Nate Silver, has made a career reporting on the polls and insisting he’s just a dispassionate, non-ideological conduit of Cold Hard Facts, just channeling the holy word of data. Empirical journalism, he calls it. But this schtick, however, is very ideological - a reactionary worldview that prioritizes describing the world, rather than changing it. For Silver - and data-fetishists like him - politics is a sport to be gamed, rather than a mechanism for improving people’s lives.  

We are joined by Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson.

Episode 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain

“Building a wall won't save America's crumbling middle class,” Elizabeth Warren tells us. “Sanders healthcare will raise taxes on the middle class,” a CNN headline reads. “There’ war on the middle class,” a Boston Globe editorial laments.   

The term “middle class” is used so much by pundits and politicians, it could easily be the Free Space in any political rhetoric Bingo card. After all, who’s opposed to strengthening, widening, and protecting the “middle class”? Like “democracy,” “freedom,” and “human rights”, “middle class” is an unimpeachable, unassailable label that evokes warm feelings and a sense of collective morality.

But the term itself, always slippery and changing based on context, has evolved from a vague aspiration marked by safety, a nice home, and a white picket fence into something more sinister, racially-coded, and deliberately obscuring. The middle class isn’t about concrete, material positive rights of good housing and economic security––it’s a capitalist carrot hovering over our heads telling us such things are possible if we Only Work Harder. More than anything, it's a way for politicians to gesture towards populism without the messiness of mentioning––much less centering––the poor and poverty.

This week we are joined by Jane McAlevey, a union organizer, scholar and Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Labor Center.

Episode 91: It's Time to Retire the Term "Middle Class"

Daniel Marans joins us to decipher the election results and talk about what this means for the US political scene going forward. We dish up some harsh realities and pull no punches along the way -- consider this the first of many in-depth looks at the political realignment that's underway in the United States, which is one that the left will either benefit from or be crushed by. 

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A Cold Splash of Water to the Face w/ Daniel Marans

The harrowing story of a VA long-term care facility where veterans watched friends die of Covid, then sentenced to a solitary-confinement lockdown. Special guest Spencer Ackerman joins to discuss this story, his new book Reign Of Terror, and more.

The VA Covid Prison & The Reign of Terror

A preview clip to Part 5 of the Freemasonic History of the United States, Brother Against Brother... Freemasonry, Knights of the Golden Circle & the Scottish Rite During the Civil War [Full episode is 4.5 hours long]. To get access to the full series, become a Patreon subscriber of Media Roots Radio for as little as $5 a month or per creation https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio. 

Full episode synopsis: 
Robbie Martin continues the Freemasonic History of the United States with Part 5 starting with speculation on Abraham Lincoln's potential Freemasonry. Robbie then moves onto the Civil War and how Albert Pike became a Confederate General tasked with recruiting the '5 Civilized Tribes' of Native Americans to the Confederate side in the war. Pike ended up commanding over 1,000 Native American soldiers in the battle of Pea Ridge resulting in great controversy that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Before the war was over a secret society Freemasonic inspired group called the Knights of the Golden Circle conspired to kidnap and assassinate Abraham Lincoln but the actual assassination itself was carried out by KGC member John Wilkes Booth. In an act of Masonic solidarity Albert Pike ends up being redeemed after the war by fellow Scottish Rite Freemason, President Andrew Johnson. The Knights of the Golden circle eventually evolved into what we know now today as the Ku Klux Klan.

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'Abraham Lincoln Was Not a Freemason' the Freemasonic History of the United States Part 5 [Preview]

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