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

פתחי וזמרי בע"ם - 09-02-23 - שעה שנייה

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

The heroic whistleblower and peace activist Daniel Ellsberg is dying.

In an open letter to his friends and supporters, Ellsberg announced that two weeks ago he learned that he has inoperable pancreatic cancer with a prognosis of three to six months. The letter is beautiful and inspiring, but it's also as heart-rending as anything you'll ever read, largely because within it Ellsberg makes it abundantly clear that he has extremely urgent concerns about the world he will soon be leaving behind.

Reading by Tim Foley.

We're Losing Our Anti-War Heroes Right When We Need Them Most

Every now and then I like to highlight the fact that all this China stuff was forcast way back in 2004 by Michael Parenti, who said that the unipolarist neoconservative ideology that had hijacked US foreign policy envisioned a massive strategic confrontation with Beijing.

"The PNAC plan envisions a strategic confrontation with China, and a still greater permanent military presence in every corner of the world," Parenti wrote in his book Superpatriot. "The objective is not just power for its own sake but power to control the world's natural resources and markets, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, and power to hoist upon the backs of peoples everywhere — including North America — the blessings of an untrammeled global 'free market.' The end goal is to ensure not merely the supremacy of global capitalism as such, but the supremacy of American global capitalism by preventing the emergence of any other potentially competing superpower."

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Hawks Have Had China In Their Crosshairs For Years

Watching Keating tear strips off all those war pornographers was so satisfying because it showed Australians the appropriate emotional posture to have toward these disgusting freaks. That's the bare minimum level of contempt they should always be treated with. Australians who don't want a war with China are still unclear about how to respond to this deluge of mass media war propaganda our country is being smashed with, and Keating showed exactly how to respond; he provided a solid model for us all.

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

It's Good To Be Mean To War Propagandists

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

The Hawks Have Had China In Their Crosshairs For Years

Caitlin Johnstone

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