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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate speak live with ex-UN weapons inspector and military expert Scott Ritter about the Russia-Ukraine war. Ritter provides a detailed analysis of the battlefield that stands in stark contrast to the rose-colored perspective of most Western analysts, and offers his perspective on the political follies that drove the conflict.

Guest: Scott Ritter. Former UN Weapons Inspector and Marine Corps Intelligence Officer.

The battle for Ukraine, with ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter

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Rapper and campaigner Lowkey (https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline) talks about the Israel Lobby's campaign to get Spotify to remove him from their platform. Sign the petition telling Spotify not to cave here (https://www.change.org/p/spotify-do-not-buckle-to-pressure-from-the-israel-lobby-to-deplatform-lowkey?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=0ccb39d0-b020-11ec-b015-6f843b977d7f). 

Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip hop artist, academic and political campaigner. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network and The Peace and Justice Project founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS university and is an advisor to the website Declassified  which investigates the activities of the Ministry of Defence and British Intelligence Services.  He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album Soundtrack To The Struggle 2 featured Noam Chomsky, Frankie Boyle and Ken Loach and has been streamed millions of times. He produces and hosts his own weekly podcast for Mintpress and has interviewed US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Roger Waters, Naom Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Ahed Tamimi, Ken Loach and Stella Moris (wife of Julian Assange).

Lowkey has become the target of a coordinated smear campaign to demonize, defame and deplatform him. Earlier this month, organised groups forced the University of Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Society to postpone his lecture and were able to stop his appearance at the National Union of Students in Liverpool. 

Now, a campaign by lobby group "We Believe in Israel" is demanding that his content be removed from music streaming service Spotify. This is unacceptable censorship.

The campaign against Lowkey is designed to silence Palestinians and their supporters. Anti-Palestinian censorship is now reaching into the artistic realm.

Israel Lobby Pressures Spotify To Remove Pro-Palestinian Rapper Lowkey

Benjamin Norton continues his discussion with Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad about Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, his history, and how he challenged the two-party system that dominated the country for decades until being overthrown in a US-backed soft coup this April.

Part 2 of 2

(This was originally published on April 14, 2022.)

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=prtjx1_hMAM

Who is Pakistan's Imran Khan? From athlete to protester of US wars to overthrown prime minister

Benjamin Norton discusses the historic announcement by Brazil’s left-wing leader Lula da Silva that, if he wins the October 2022 presidential elections, “we are going to create a currency in Latin America,” called the Sur (“South”), to combat “the dependency on the dollar.”

Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/04/brazil-lula-latin-america-currency-us-dollar

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bRTr8o8EYiE

Brazil's Lula proposes creating Latin American currency to 'be freed of US dollar' dependency

Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the US dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of "free-trade imperialism," and financial parasitism.

We talk about these concepts explored in his new book "The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism."

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qlUSqQ8U8T8

Economist Michael Hudson on decline of dollar, sanctions war, imperialism, financial parasitism

While claiming to fight a "war on drugs," US intelligence agencies have used drug trafficking to fund their dirty covert operations. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were caught taking massive bribes to give sensitive information to Colombian cartels.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6XCDGCgvPYo

US drug war is a farce: DEA agents exposed helping Colombian cartels

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Dimitri and Khalid launch into a kaleidoscopic, meandering, improvisational deep dive on The Grateful Dead (née The Warlocks of Palo Alto), the band's extensive links to CIA/MK-Ultra LSD research at Stanford, Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, the deep folkloric origins of the "Grateful Dead" legend, Hank Harrison's anthropological framing of The Dead amidst San Francisco's wily bohemian roots, and begin to unpack the susness of the various counterculture figures/ruling class misfits hovering around the Deadhead scene. (Part 1 of 2.)

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[REDUX] #33 - WARLOCKS OF PALO ALTO: The Grateful Dead As Mass Ritual, Part I

In this livestream, former CIA officer and longtime antiwar activist Ray McGovern joins Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal on new revelations of Hillary Clinton's direct involvement in Russiagate lies, the demise of DHS Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz, how Bernie Sanders backed a giant giveaway to the arms industry in the form of Ukraine aid, and the latest on the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Russiagate trial reveals, DHS 'disinformation' board stalls, and Bernie's Ukraine proxy war cave

East New York Community Land Trust reports on NYPD use of vacant land, John Parker's fact finding trip to Russia and Ukraine, and a Greenville, North Carolina organizer explains the significance of African Liberation Day.

Black Agenda Radio May 27, 2022

Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton speaks with Venezuelan journalist Jesús Rodríguez Espinoza, editor of independent news outlet the Orinoco Tribune, about the victory of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro in Colombia's presidential election, the easing of a few US sanctions, and Venezuela's 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wpouWfsvLYI

Read the Orinoco Tribune at https://orinocotribune.com

Venezuelan's view on Gustavo Petro victory in Colombia, US sanctions, Iran pact

Abby Martin and Mike Prysner talk about the persecution of Julian Assange, Biden's failed Summit of the Americas and the recent burst of uniquely American mass shootings. 

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DOSED with Abby Martin

Assange, Biden’s Failed Summit & American Narcissism

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US drug war is a farce: DEA agents exposed helping Colombian cartels

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