One of the best years for ReelWorld One is in the books!

Here are all the One Country themes from last year (with the exception of the news bed, the traffic bed, and the Christmas themes) as heard in the One Starter Packs. We decided to feature our favorite themes as Ramps. Fresher sounding themes should be on the way for 2023, so stay tuned!

Check out reelworld.com/one to hear the latest themes. Enjoy!

January: Best Buds (Core)
February: Drunk At Dawn (AM Show)
March: Hang Yer Hat (Core)
April: Cause Effect (Weather)
May: Queen B (Core)
June: Checked Out (Core)
July: Back Forty (Legal)
August: People Person (Core)
September: Young Again (Promo)
October: Man Cave (Core); State Lines (Traffic - not featured here)
November: Couple Sweaters (Christmas - not featured here)
December: Reindeer Wrangler (Christmas - not featured here)

Disclaimer: All jingle material is protected under copyright by ReelWorld Productions; Seattle, WA; and is presented here for educational purposes only.

ReelWorld One Country 2022 Update Recap

The US government is permitted to have nuclear weapons in Australia. What's more, Australians are not permitted to know whether or not this is happening. What's more, not even Australia's elected senators are permitted to know whether this is happening. It's assumed to be none of Australia's business whether there are foreign nuclear weapons in Australia.

This was clarified during a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday, when Greens senators were condescendingly admonished by the Australian foreign minister for the very normal and appropriate attempt to clarify the government's policy regarding the presence of US armageddon weapons on Australian soil.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Australians Aren't Allowed To Know If There Are American Nukes In Australia

If anti-war protests made no difference, the US empire wouldn't have completely abandoned full-scale ground invasions after 2003 and switched to sneakier, less effective means of warfare while launching unprecedented narrative management systems to suppress anti-war sentiments. They abandoned Bush-era Hulk Smash ground invasions in favor of drones, proxy warfare, covert ops and sanctions because enough people rose up and said "NO" to make them afraid of the masses beginning to wake up and begin turning against them and their institutions.

And now people are even beginning to protest the proxy warfare. I  guarantee you that's making our rulers nervous about the possibility of losing the ability to effectively dominate the world with violence and coercion, and even losing the ability to continue to rule us.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Power-Serving Myth That Anti-War Protests Make No Difference

Whether you agree with Moscow and Beijing about their "red lines" or not, you must concede that there's a very big difference between the way they draw them and the way the US makes use of that concept. Russia and China are issuing these warnings about the areas immediately adjacent to their own territory, while the US issues them to anyone it likes about what they are permitted to do with their neighbors, even when the US itself engages in those very activities all the time.

Washington literally thinks of this entire planet as its territory. It believes it is its divinely bestowed right to issue decrees about what may and may not be done anywhere in the world, and that any transgression against these decrees is an act of aggression against it. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

Russia And China Draw 'Red Lines' On Their Borders; US Draws Them On The Other Side Of The Planet

Free speech is meaningless and worthless if you don't use it to oppose real power. In western "democracies" the majority of people are so effectively propagandized into speaking in alignment with the interests of the western empire that they may as well be taking orders on what to say at gunpoint.

In totalitarian regimes you say what your rulers want you to say because they physically coerced you using the threat of violence. In "free democracies" you say what your rulers want you to say because they psychologically coerced you using propaganda. The end result is the same.

Reagan once joked about Soviets thinking they are free because they're allowed to criticize the US government as much as they like, but really that was just projection. Westerners think they have free speech, but they never use that "free speech" to criticize the tyrannical empire they live under. 

Free speech is held as an important human right because it helps the people put a check on power. If you're not using for that, you may as well not have it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Free Speech Is For Fighting The Empire

Things are escalating more and more rapidly between the US-centralized power structure and the few remaining nations with the will and the means to stand against its demands for total obedience, namely China, Russia, and Iran. The world is becoming increasingly split between two groups of governments who are becoming increasingly hostile toward each other, and you don't have to be a historian to know it's probably a bad sign when that happens. Especially in the age of nuclear weapons.

Reading by Tim Foley.

There Has Never In History Been A Greater Need For A Large Anti-War Movement

97.9 WSKS/101.5 WSKU fm legal id 5/16/2023 2pm

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

Free Speech Is For Fighting The Empire

Caitlin Johnstone

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