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Metamorphosis - Sample Challenge 233

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STEEZ NUTZ - Bust A Clip (TPC #235)

It’s a Wes month. This time we discuss his 2004 film The Life Aquatic which tells the story of sailor/asshole Steve Zissou as he tries to reignite his career and connect with his son. The boys talk about redemption arcs, beautiful shots, and how Wes Anderson has matured through his movies.

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506. Ander’s Sons: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Numerous Syrian and foreign militants have reportedly been killed and several US troops injured in an escalating exchange of attacks between the American invaders and the people in the country whose territory they are illegally occupying.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Invades Syria, Kills People, Claims Self-Defense

As I learn more and more about global power dynamics and interact with more and more people around the world responding to the things I have to say, I find myself growing more and more disdainful of those who live directly under the thumb of the US empire and yet spend their time criticizing unabsorbed governments like Russia and China. It's literally the most pathetic, snivelling, power-serving position anyone can possibly take at this point in history.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Gross To Live Under The US Empire And Spend Your Time Criticizing Other Governments

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
None are more hopelessly ignorant than those who falsely believe they're informed.
None are more hopelessly propagandized than those who don't know they are propagandized.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Free Speech Doesn't Matter If Propagandists  Determine What People Say

One of the weirdest, most insane things happening today is the way the entire western world is being trained to freak out about "Russian propaganda" — which barely exists in the west — while ignoring the fact that we are spending every day marinating in billions of dollars worth of US empire propaganda.

Reading by Tim Foley.

We're Being Trained To Worry About 'Russian Propaganda' While Drowning In US Propaganda

This war has in that sense become the Gulf War of the 2020s: a "good war" that rehabilitates the image of US interventionism for a war-weary public. Just as the 1990 Gulf War was used to get Americans over what warmongers called "Vietnam syndrome" — a healthy aversion to interventionism following the horrific disaster of the Vietnam War — the war in Ukraine is being used to wear down the public's collective immune response to interventionism built up after the 2003 Iraq invasion.

"It's a proud day for America, and by God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all," the elder President Bush said after winning his war/propaganda operation in the Middle East. 

Of course, we all remember what happened after that, don't we?

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Ukraine Proxy War Has Been A Propaganda Win For Interventionists

Armed with a special guest co-host, our heroes dive into one of the more bizarre holiday specials to lurch out of the 80s.

We Just Watched... ALF's Special Christmas (With Jeff May)

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

Free Speech Doesn't Matter If Propagandists Determine What People Say

Caitlin Johnstone

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