We discuss the career of actor Eddie Murphy and focus on 48 HOURS, BEVERLY HILLS COPS, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR and... of course... NORBIT.

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#250 - Eddie Murphy Can Turn It On and Off

We discuss the Hollywood Blacklist, the Hollywood Ten, and tackle three films on the political spectrum of the era: The Pro-Society Warner Brother's picture MISSION TO MOSCOW, the anti-communist MY SON JOHN and the brave independent pro-communist production SALT OF THE EARTH.

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#253 - The Blacklist Was Bad

The Big Wedding,:  9/11, The Whistleblowers and the Cover-Up, Part One from investigative journalist Sander Hicks' book by the same name.

Aired:  October 5, 2005

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The Big Wedding:  9/11, the Whistleblowers and the Cover-Up, Part One -  Sander Hicks, #77

Christopher Bollyn’s new book, “Solving 9/11: The Articles Volume II”, includes all of his research since 2012; extended discussion of CIA Executive Director on 9/11, A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard, his ties to 9/11 and the 9/11 wars, his thirty years with Alex Brown, the likely origin of the United Airlines put options and its ties to Israel; Deutsche Bank; Press Secretary to George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer, crafts Bush’s message to the nation; Fleischer’s brother Michael heads privatization of Iraq; International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS); ICTS and the Betar Brigades in China; the Odigo Instant Messaging System; Comverse and Amdocs; control software on US airport computers; FBI put in charge of Pentagon site on 9/11; LVI Services; peculiar similarities between 9/11 and the assassination of RFK and JFK; Henry Crown family; why first responders are dying.

Aired:  December 25, 2019

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Guns and Butter 415

Exposing the Ongoing Cover-Up of 9/11 -  Christopher Bollyn, #415

The 21st century wars against Middle Eastern countries are bringing them together in what the author terms an ‘axis of resistance’ that includes Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen; what is most feared by American and Israeli strategists is an Iranian Land Bridge consisting of infrastructural links and integration between Tehran and the Mediterranean, including road, rail, communications, oil and gas pipelines and defense collaboration; characterization of empires and imperialism; the nature of Iran’s leadership role; Russia’s role within the ‘axis of resistance’ and its relationship with Israel; all terrorist groups have been backed by the US-led coalition; final stages of the failed war on Syria; devastating economic sanctions on the entire region; White Helmets; human organ trafficking; all claims of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government a fabrication; war on Syria was never a civil war; the assassination of Iranian General Soleimani and Iraqi Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and others have resulted in a call to expel US forces from the entire region.

Aired: January 15, 2020

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Guns and Butter 416

The End Game In the Middle East - Dr. Tim Anderson, #416

Dr. Jack Rasmus discusses his newest book, "The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump", with an emphasis on the practice of neoliberalism as opposed to the economic ideology which obscures its class basis; neoliberalism as the third major capitalist restructuring of the 20th century as a response to the crisis of capitalism in the 1970s; the four economic policy areas, i.e., fiscal, monetary, industrial and external, that require restructuring as capitalism evolves into a new crisis; the fallacies of neoliberalism; government policy encourages offshoring of US manufacturing; global dollar recycling into US treasuries to support the twin US deficits solution; financialization of the economy; shadow banking; deregulation and privatization; neoliberalism socially destructive.

Aired: January 22, 2020

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Guns and Butter 417

Neoliberalism:  From Expansion to Stagnation - Dr. Jack Rasmus, #417

This episode of the Global Research News Hour examines the question of whether the story of 9/11 continues to have consequences for people 19 years later. My guests include Anthony Hall, who sees the influence of big money which continues right through the COVID crisis. Also, Graeme MacQueen sees the impact on fighting even outside of the Al Qaeda forces. Richard Gage, AIA finishes off with an updated look at the fight for 9/11 truth and 9/11 justice.

Why 9/11 matters 19 years later. Conversations with Anthony Hall, Graeme MacQueen, and Richard Gage

This week, the Global Research News Hour explores the strain of corruption running within the heart of the US Biotech industrial Complex. We discover Dark Winter, a simulation of an anthrax attack preceding the real anthrax attack in 2001, We discover two simulations of a germ release from China again preceding the actual release. Fort Detrick, Bioport, and the recent Operation Warp Speed are all part of the journey moderated by Serena Shim Award-winning investigative journalist Whitney Webb,

Coronavirus a Second Look part 6: Inside the Belly of the Biowarfare Beast

Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a mixed-up vet. We're joined by Jacobin deputy editor Micah Uetricht to parse the ambiguous politics of FIRST BLOOD (1982), where Sylvester Stallone is just as frazzled by right-wing cops as he is by left-wing protestors. We also situate the film among other Vietnam War movies, and compare the Vietnam canon to Iraq War cinema. PLUS: Luke has been reading Obama's autobiography and has some thoughts.

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Check out Bigger Than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism, by Micah and Meagan Day - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3167-bigger-than-bernie

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#189 - JOHN RAMBO INNOCENT!!! (w/ Micah Uetricht)

How did a small movement of Jewish fanatics, devastated by the ignominious demise of their leader, rise to become the official state religion of the Roman empire, Armenia, Georgia, and Ethiopia?  We trace the dramatic rise of the new faith through three centuries of preaching, prophesy, and persecution.

image:  fresco of a woman at the 3rd-century house-church of Dura-Europos

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suggested reading:  E. Glenn Hinson, "The Early Church"

for context:
--on composition of the New Testament texts:  https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/who-wrote-the-bible-new-testament
--on the historical Jesus:  https://soundcloud.com/historiansplaining/the-historical-jesus

The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road

Artist, activist and filmmaker, John Parulis, recounts his early mystical attachment to the land; his immersion in the eastern mysticism movement in a San Francisco ashram; his recruitment into Greenspeace’s Rainbow Warrior trawler missions as a videographer; the mission to interfere with Japanese factory boat operations in the Bering Sea; a dangerous mission to Lorino in Soviet Siberia to expose an illegal Soviet whaling operation in order to save endangered whales; the mission to the South Pacific Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands to rescue indigenous people off of their island that had been irradiated by a huge nuclear test on Bikini Atoll; the mission to Moruroa Atoll to help indigenous people fight French underwater nuclear testing; Greenpeace infiltrated by French intelligence; the blowing up of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor.


Aired: October 7, 2020

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Guns and Butter 427

The Rainbow Warrior:  Early Campaigns - John Parulis, #427

Guns and Butter investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Show list: http://gunsandbutter.snappages.com/archived-show-list.htm.  

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