Reading by Tim Foley. Full article with hyperlinks and sources here:
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-mass-media-will-never-regain

The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public's Trust

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With over 100 dead or missing in the US-backed government crackdown, we interview Pablo Simanca, a leading student organizer from Cali, the epicenter of the protest movement facing the worst repression. Learn what these historic protests are about, the details of the fascistic military crackdown, and the role the US Empire plays in facilitating it. 

PLUS: Abby and Mike share their frightening first-hand experiences reporting from Colombia in 2018.

Colombia On Fire w/ Student Leader From Protest Epicenter

I just realized I've never really written about how I make a living doing what I do, which is odd because it's easily the most interesting aspect of my weird little operation here. I'll put the information out there just in case it's useful to anybody.

Reading by Tim Foley. Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism

My Experiments With Hacking Capitalism

The idea that a civilization could attain a level of advancement comparable to ours, successfully learn to share resources and collaborate enough to avoid wiping itself out, continue maturing for a very long time, master interstellar, intergalactic, and/or interdimensional travel, create aircraft that can operate in the way people who encounter them describe, and then fly across the universe to go kill a bunch of barely-evolved primates for some reason is just absurd on its face, and even if such a thing could happen it would have happened already.

Reading by Tim Foley. Article with sources and links: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/drivers-of-the-new-ufo-narrative

Drivers Of The New UFO Narrative Keep Absurdly Saying They Could Be Dangerous ETs

Bombin'

1-hour version on Youtube at https://youtu.be/vKhwV1COFpo

It's 5am deep in the Borneo rainforest. Cicadas, crickets and katydids are winding down their night calls but birds haven't started to sing just yet. Gibbons climb to the top of trees and start calling to let other troops know they're around. Birds and daytime insects slowly wake up and start calling too.

Recorded in Borneo's rainforest with Sony PCM D10, Lom MikroUsi micropohones and BubbleBee Windbubbles. I left the drop rig out in the jungle for 24 hours so I could capture a full day-night cycle. More sounds and stories at https://mindful-audio.com

Longer version

Borneo rainforest - Lush dawn chorus - Gibbons and birds

2020 will be the hottest year ever recorded AND the rate of global warming accelerated. On December 14, 2020 Dr. James Hansen, former NASA Goddard Space Institute Director, released a new post "Global Warming Acceleration”.   This explanation for the rapid burst of warming may surprise you.  Our guest, Dr. Bjorn Stevens from the Max Planck Institute disagrees, in a replay interview.

Global Warming Acceleration! - Hansen & Sato

Alison Phipps joins PTO to talk about her new book, 'Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism'. We chatted about the MeToo movement and what it reveals about the mainstream of feminist politics, how violence against women is necessary to the project of capitalist globalisation and how the image of the imperilled white woman has been central to the project of empire both formal and informal.

#106 The trouble with mainstream feminism w/ Alison Phipps

THE NEW CLIMATE WAR: Michael Mann, Andrew Glikson.   Michael Mann on his new book “The New Climate War - The Fight to Take Back the Planet”. From Australia, paleoclimatologist & deep time investigator Dr. Andrew Glikson speaks frankly about our situation.  Visit https://www.ecoshock.org/  for more information.

THE NEW CLIMATE WAR: Michael Mann, Andrew Glikson

Abby Martin explains what President Biden really means by the duplicitous language in his major Feb. 4 foreign policy speech on ending the Yemen war. 

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What Everyone Missed About Biden's Double-Speak on Ending Yemen War

From Lubbock Texas, after the black-out cold storm, scientist Katherine Hayhoe talks record billion dollar climate disasters.  Her PBS YouTube series is “Global Weirding”.  From Bergen Norway, lead scientist Christoph Heinze warns about three OTHER crisis developing unseen below the seas.  His new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy is ominously titled: “The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points”.

Billion Dollar Black Out Climate Disasters

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