Nick is joined by Racing Post senior writer Lee Mottershead to discuss news and events from around the racing world today. They lead with a curious arsenic positive in horse trained by Richard Hannon, one which appears to have both trainer and investigators foxed, but whose central themes may lead to further debate when the case is concluded. Nick talks to trainer Conor O'Dwyer about his 300/1 winner at Punchestown yesterday, the joint longest in Irish racing history, while TRC No 1 jockey James McDonald drops in to talk about his Royal Ascot sprinting stars and another likely victory for Zaaki in this weekend's Doomben Cup. Nick and Lee talk two Stoute stars - Desert Crown and Bay Bridge - while consignor Timmy Hillman talks a rare store sale in Newmarket for Tattersalls, JA McGrath brings his update from Hong Kong and we meet MyRacehorse shareholder Nick Lowe, enjoying his first experience of racehorse ownership.

Ep 491 - Arsenic an Odd Case

Dreamscape

Dreamscape, Pt. 2

Music Therapy for Stress

Not yet over You

Work Productivity and Concentration Music

Music for Work Productivity and Focus, Pt. 19

I will never get used to living in a world where our rulers will openly imprison a journalist for telling the truth and then self-righteously pontificate about the need to stop authoritarian regimes from persecuting journalists.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Officials Concern Troll About World Press Freedoms While Assaulting Them

Facts:

- There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government.
- The US empire's propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas.
- Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they go on.

Reading by Tim Foley.

China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With US Bases

The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago in the publication of the Chelsea Manning leaks to call for the Biden administration to drop all charges against Julian Assange. 

The Guardian's participation in this letter is particularly noteworthy, given the leading role that publication has played in manufacturing public support for his persecution in the first place. If The Guardian really wants to help end the persecution of the heroic WikiLeaks founder, the best way to do that would be to retract those many smears, spin jobs and outright lies, and to formally apologize for publishing them.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Guardian Could Help Assange By Retracting All The Lies It Published About Him

You don't live in a free country. And no, it's not because they make you pay taxes or that time they made you wear a mask or whatever. The real reason you don't live in a free country is much, much bigger than that: you don't live in a free country because the minds of your countrymen are imprisoned.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Is Built On Our Closed Eyes

The war in Ukraine is so aggressively marketed and PR-intensive and so interwoven with US corporations we should just call it the McProxy War.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The McProxy War Continues

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