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

The way the war in Ukraine allows mainstream liberals to play-act as rebellious anti-imperialists is a good illustration of how the empire gives people the illusion of fighting the power without their ever opposing the empire.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Gives People The Illusion Of Fighting The Power Without Ever Endangering Real Power

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

The latest New York Times report on the Nord Stream pipeline bombing is something else. According to NYT's anonymous US government sources, the pipelines were blown up by a "pro-Ukrainian group" who had no known connections to any military or intelligence agency, but somehow had all the information, skills, diving equipment and military explosives necessary to carry out such an attack. 

It's actually insulting how stupid it is. It reads like a small child lying about who broke the lamp in the living room; "Uhh, some bad guy came in and broke it, then he left. He was wearing a black cape and had a twirly mustache." At least respect us enough to make up a better lie than "Yeah it turns out it was just some random people with a boat, man! It's crazy I know!"

They literally wrote an entire article without ever addressing how bizarre it is to just keep referring to the alleged perpetrators as just a "group". Like that's a thing. "Yeah you know, one of those Groups we've all been hearing about in the news. You know Groups, they sail around the world destroying international undersea energy infrastructure."

Reading by Tim Foley.

Attack Of The "Pro-Ukrainian Group"

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

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

Caitlin Johnstone

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