You two are the best! Mark Ames is third Haha

the American people are so propagandized, they will do this to themselves.  With the "Chinese spy balloon" you could see the fervor with which people were ready to buy in to that.  If the government is spreading this, it's literally just lighting the match, Americans are ready to believe it.

Lots of Palestine content, anti-capitalist content and Anti-imperialist content and they cannot control it, so they want to kill it

Released in conjunction with Peter Dale Scott's "lost" article (read "stolen by the CIA in 1970") originally intended for Ramparts, we present a 2011 debate between the two top experts on the Postwar Southeast Asian heroin traffic: Professors Peter Dale Scott and Alfred McCoy.

I add some context at the beginning which will hopefully be of interest to everybody!

Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Alfred McCoy is History Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and the author of The Politics of Heroin—now in its third edition.

Apologies for the weird noises during the debate. We have no idea exactly what was making that intermittent whirring and clicking noise.

Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

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Episode 62: The Deep Politics of Heroin w/Peter Dale Scott and Alfred McCoy

We talk to Pascal Robert from This Is Revolution about the current situation in Haiti but first we talk about something much dumber.

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Daniel Boguslaw from the Intercept joins our discussion on union leadership and whether or not it is wrong to chew on mic

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Union SOBs w/ Daniel Boguslaw

Abby and Robbie talk about the latest horrors unfolding in Gaza, the prisoner/hostage exchange, the Israel's cartoon propaganda machine working in overdrive to justify waging a war on Gaza's hospitals, while targeting doctors and their families in airstrikes. Episode continues in Part 2. 

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Israel Tries to Convince World that Hospitals are Military Targets Pt 1 of 2

Abby & Robbie Martin discuss the current controversies surrounding AI, Elon Musk's creepy declaration of a 'Digital God' in 3 years, Tucker Carlson espousing beliefs in spiritual warfare via aliens and UFOs,  and the US media's cartoonish level of bias when it comes to covering casualities in Ukraine VS Gaza.  This episode continues in Pt 2 which will be availible soon after January 1st.  

Happy New Year! - Abby & Robbie

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Digital God & A Happy New Year

Abby & Robbie continue the discussion from last week's episode 'Digital God' about Israel's brazen assassination campaign, including assassinating pregnant Palestinian women holding white flags in broad daylight.

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Israel’s Assassination Factory & Redefining Genocide

What up yall, we're back and talking about Stan wars, SWAT'ing, militant smol beans, how to get BPD, how to not be a bitch right now,  and Jacques drops a diss track on a bitch who stole his man. Plus we take some calls! 

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"Viet Cong Use Children as Human Shields," the Associated Press alleged in 1967. "'Civilian casualty?" That's a gray area," Alan Dershowitz argued in The Los Angeles Times in 2006. "We can’t ignore the truth that Hamas uses human shields,”"Jason Willick wrote in The Washington Post in 2023.

For more than five decades, military forces with overwhelming firepower, including the U.S., Israel, and others have accused enemy combatants of using “human shields.” According to these allegations, militant resistance throughout the world, from the Vietnamese National Liberation Front to Palestinian militants, herd civilians in front of them, or hide in hospitals, religious institutions, and other public places, in order to evade attacks. In turn, they force the enemy to “risk” killing civilians, and they themselves bear responsibility for those who are killed.

But rarely, if ever, have these accusations been true. Indeed, the term “human shields,” despite having a clear legal definition, has become a catch-all for militias or insurgency groups that merely operate among a civilian population, functioning as a convenient pretext for invading, occupying and colonial forces to kill civilians, and reinforcing racist conceptions about besieged populations. So why, and how, do media provide cover for governments that lie about and instrumentalize supposed “human shielding”?

On this episode, we dissect the decades-old “human shields” accusation, examining how it dehumanizes and militarizes people living under occupation and invasions, demonizes resistance movements, and sanitizes civilian-killing aggressors as reluctant actors who "simply had no choice."

Our guests are Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini.

Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution

Abby and Robbie Martin discuss the last few months of mainstream media fear mongering about China including official statements from the FBI, Secretary of Transportation and Biden himself. The episode starts with a discussion about the newest major escalation, the House resolution banning Chinese company Bytedance from owning or operating Tik-Tok in the united States.

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Banning Tik Tok & the Ramp-up of China Paranoia

Erik Davis, scholar of the weird and esoteric, joins us for part two of a long conversation about the legacy of Philip K. Dick, Silicon Valley technopolypse, the future of California, and more from his forthcoming book Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid medium.

Erik Davis’s substack: www.burningshore.com/

Episode 368: High Weirding (Part 2)

As NATO enters its 75th year, Abby Martin talks to Pawel Wargan about the imperialist military alliance's foundation, expansion and purpose to secure Western capitalism and US domination around the world.

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Pawel Wargan is a member of the Coordinating Collective of the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25) and Coordinator of the Secretariat of the Progressive International.

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