Nihat'la Sivrisinek (17 Temmuz 2023)

Lucy, Andrew and Ben bring you: Vulgar transgressions at the Rotterdam summer carnival, bug soups, self-crashing F-150s, a $20,000 mouthful of milk, and Headline News.
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EPISODE 307: Don't Think About The Porcelain Man

After decades of fighting, victims of the Marine Corps mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune will finally get settlements–so an array of billionaires, hedge funds, and their far-right attorneys have wormed into the leadership of the case, attempting to loot the majority of the settlement funds. 

Joining the show is Lejeune survivor, advocate and journalist Lori Freshwater

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The Vultures Circling Camp Lejeune Victims

In March of 2016 the renowned Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger published an article titled "A world war has begun. Break the silence." which urgently warned of the US empire's aggressive escalations against Russia and China. Re-reading parts of it in 2023 is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Revisiting John Pilger's 2016 Warnings About US Warmongering Against Russia And China

The world would be a much more healthy and harmonious place if the US really was the peace-loving, tyranny-opposing democracy that it and all its propaganda systems frame it as. But because the US government is actually the most tyrannical regime on earth and values nothing apart from its own ability to dominate as many members of the human species as possible, we live in a world of far greater peril and abuse than we otherwise would.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If The US Really Was What It Pretends To Be

It's so hard to live as an authentic human being in a civilization whose every molecule is wrapped around something as vapid and soulless as corporate profits.

It's what most of us pour most of our life force into. Most people work all day generating corporate profits to pay bills that go toward corporate profits and pay off loans from giant banks for their corporate profits or rent from real estate giants for their corporate profits. Then they come home, eat some products from giant megacorporations that they purchased at a supermarket chain, and unwind by watching entertainment created by corporations to draw as many eyeballs as possible or scrolling through social media platforms designed by corporations to be as addictive as possible. We do this while being surrounded all day by advertising designed to pull us into generating more corporate profits.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Hard To Find Fulfillment In A Civilization That Revolves Around Corporate Profits

A very confused and distressed young man wandered into our home on Sunday and began acting erratically. He was clearly suffering from a severe mental illness, probably schizophrenia, and from his nice clothes yet disheveled appearance I'm guessing he had a home somewhere but had been on the street for a few days.

Reading by Tim Foley.

On Escalation, De-Escalation, And "Deterrence"

The Bill Kristol-led group "Republicans for Ukraine" has released a TV ad to help drum up GOP support for Washington's proxy war against Russia, and it's surprisingly honest about what this war is really about: advancing US strategic interests using Ukrainians as sacrificial pawns.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Bill Kristol's Refreshingly Honest Ukraine War Ad

Another sampler that features some hidden gems from the archives of my collection.

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Nihat'la Sivrisinek (20 Aralık 2023)

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