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EPISODE 307: Don't Think About The Porcelain Man

During a speech at the EU Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.

Reading by Tim Foley.

NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion

Recent comments from a wealthy Australian property developer named Tim Gurner are going viral on social media right now for the unusual frankness with which he discusses the inherent conflicts of interest between the working class and employers, saying workers who've grown lazy and arrogant during Covid need to experience economic pain in the form of unemployment to rein them in and put them in their place.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution

The US Air Force is clearing out jungles in the Pacific and replacing them with airfields for its coming war with China,
because there exist people on this earth who look at a jungle and think, "This should be replaced with an airfield to prepare for a war with China."

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

The US Air Force Is Clearing Out Jungles In The Pacific To Prepare For War With China

The Wall Street Journal put an article out a few days back titled "In Defense of the Defense Industry" and subtitled "Populists of the right and left attack U.S. companies that make weapons. Who do they think protects us?" And it's exactly what it sounds like: the author defending war profiteers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin from critics of the military industrial complex.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Most Wall Street Journal Op-Ed In The History Of Wall Street Journal Op-Eds

The Israel-Palestine issue is not complicated; an apartheid regime abuses and oppresses an indigenous ethnic group who don't have the same rights as others. The only reason anyone thinks it's complicated is because they assume if it were simple, the news would've told them so.

Really Israel-Palestine is one of the easier conflicts to understand on the world stage; conflicts like Ukraine or Syria are much more complicated. It's obvious at a glance that there's one group in power and another group being treated very badly by that group, but because the press frames it as a complicated issue with its sympathies wildly slanted toward the apartheid regime, people assume it can't be as simple as what it looks like at first glance.

It is, though. Israel is exactly the abusive apartheid regime it looks like on the surface. Remember this as the bodies pile up and Gaza is turned into a smoldering crater. This is exactly what it looks like.

Reading by Tim Foley.

This Is Exactly What It Looks Like

חיים על פי שפטל 12-10-23 שעה ראשונה

The world voted 187 to 2 at the United Nations General Assembly for an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. Only Israel supported Washington, while Ukraine abstained. Journalist Ben Norton explains the scandalous geopolitical and historical context.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=a2A_avuu65I

Check out our related video "US votes against peace in Gaza, defying vast majority of planet at UN": https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vph4YDi17Ps

USA vs the world: Blockade on Cuba opposed by 97% of countries at UN

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

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