Guided meditation for when you'd prefer to be literally any other living thing than human

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Episode 250: Basically Harmless

First we take a look at what Amy McGrath's been getting into since we last saw her. Then we take a ride through Pencesylvania with another generous offering from The Atlantic Magazine's Ideas section. And finally we hear from a listener who went through a harrowing experience. 

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Episode 252: Warkin' Hard or Hardly Warkin'

Brian conducts an end of the year review of the biggest stories including the U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, the growing confrontation with China and North Korea and the intensifying assault against democratic rights inside the United States. He also talks about the development of a new antiwar movement inside the United States.

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The Biggest Stories in 2022 - Where Things are Headed!

A ragtag gang of Beltway misfits discover how to start a proxy war in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007), a lighthearted look at American intervention from the combined forces of Tom Hanks, Mike Nichols, and Aaron Sorkin. We discuss how this celebration of the Reagan Doctrine from the very heart of "liberal Hollywood" offers a, shall we say, sanitized version of the end of the Cold War. PLUS: We discuss matters Pablo-matic and not.

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#432 - America Would Never

The story of how a Special Forces soldier quit his legendary unit, and joined the anti-racist mass movement in the streets. 

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WAKE UPS #2 - Throwing Away the Green Beret w/ SSG Evan Brown

Charles and Alex evaluate a bunch of rock'n'roll conspiracy theories. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

164 - J. Edgar Hoover Wrote All the AC/DC Lyrics

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"Viet Cong Use Children as Human Shields," the Associated Press alleged in 1967. "'Civilian casualty?" That's a gray area," Alan Dershowitz argued in The Los Angeles Times in 2006. "We can’t ignore the truth that Hamas uses human shields,”"Jason Willick wrote in The Washington Post in 2023.

For more than five decades, military forces with overwhelming firepower, including the U.S., Israel, and others have accused enemy combatants of using “human shields.” According to these allegations, militant resistance throughout the world, from the Vietnamese National Liberation Front to Palestinian militants, herd civilians in front of them, or hide in hospitals, religious institutions, and other public places, in order to evade attacks. In turn, they force the enemy to “risk” killing civilians, and they themselves bear responsibility for those who are killed.

But rarely, if ever, have these accusations been true. Indeed, the term “human shields,” despite having a clear legal definition, has become a catch-all for militias or insurgency groups that merely operate among a civilian population, functioning as a convenient pretext for invading, occupying and colonial forces to kill civilians, and reinforcing racist conceptions about besieged populations. So why, and how, do media provide cover for governments that lie about and instrumentalize supposed “human shielding”?

On this episode, we dissect the decades-old “human shields” accusation, examining how it dehumanizes and militarizes people living under occupation and invasions, demonizes resistance movements, and sanitizes civilian-killing aggressors as reluctant actors who "simply had no choice."

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Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution

We discuss the story of a cop's battle with an acorn and some surprising moves from former skater Beto O'Rourke. Then, an interview with Palestinian-American organizer Adam Y. Abusalah (@adam_abusalah) who fills us in on the anti-Biden "Uncommitted" campaign ahead of Tuesday's primary in Michigan.

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Uncommitted in Michigan w/Adam Y. Abusalah

In this episode of teleSUR's The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary "extravaganza," the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism and the reality of "democracy" under capitalism.

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Episode 7 - Noam Chomsky & Abby Martin: The Empire's Election Extravaganza

[ NOW UNLOCKED! ] In Part 2 of the Media Roots Radio Freemasonic history of the United States podcast series, Robbie Martin starts with the demise of George Washington & Benjamin Franklin, followed by the founding of the first black masonic lodge, Africa Lodge #1 by Prince Hall. Getting into the 1800s Robbie then goes into the origin story of Joseph Smith,  William Morgan and Albert Pike. The story of the Anti-Masonic movement and how it gave rise to the first 3rd political party in the United States is also explored in detail. Mormonism's links to Freemasonry are touched on but will be fleshed out in Part 3.

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