Robbie Martin analyzes David Grusch's role in the ongoing UAP/UFO disclosure saga in a 3-part episode deep dive original investigation. 

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note: Robbie incorrectly says Grusch has a PhD, he does not. Robbie also incorrectly stated NewsNation is an 'internet only' TV channel, NewsNation is carried on most basic cable TV packages in the US.

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UAP Disclosure Carrot on Stick, Who is David Grusch? Pt 1 of 3

"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

Blowback’s Noah Kulwin joins Will in talking to filmmakers Christian Hansen and Zachary Treitz about their new Netflix series “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders”. Centered around the mysterious death of journalist Danny Casolaro, the sprawling story eventually touches on everything from spy software, the CIA, Native American Reservations, the mob, Iran-Contra, rail guns, and more.

Catch American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders streaming now on Netflix.

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BONUS: The Octopus Murders feat. Christian Hansen & Zachary Treitz

One of the worst dino movies we've ever seen. A stain on the genre. It's Theodore Rex (1995)!

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Episode #149 - Theodore Rex

Mechanics Sleeve (Branson) and Harley Knewer (Charles) help customers (Andrew, Tom) repair and maintain their sex dolls. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

325 - Sex Doll Mechanics

This week we cover a few stories that share some crucial common themes: Austin's SXSW Festival, Boeing's recent "troubles," and the U.S. government's attempts to clamp down on TikTok

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Episode 334: Midstopia

Breakling Friday's: Sofía PC invites ENEMIGO - 23/03/2024

The world economy is structured in an unjust way in which the West drains the wealth of the Global South. Ben Norton discusses the economics of imperialism, and how China has tried to reverse it.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PlAN5-Lk0hw

China is ‘world’s sole manufacturing superpower’, with 35% of global output: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production

Topics
0:00 Global inequality
3:01 World-systems analysis
4:37 Prebisch-Singer thesis
6:55 Dependency theory & commodity supercycles
8:27 Unequal exchange
11:01 Haiti & Honduras: Wage suppression in the periphery
13:57 New International Economic Order
15:22 China & the Asian Tigers
19:27 The Global South rebels
22:41 South Africa's President Ramaphosa on industrialization
25:13 Indonesia's economic development
26:34 (Neo)colonialism in Indonesia
29:29 Indonesia bans raw mineral exports
32:18 Protectionism (for the West, not for the rest)
37:38 China helps Indonesia industrialize
42:04 The myth of Chinese "imperialism"
43:04 India's economy vs. Indonesia's
46:41 China's South-South integration
49:33 Outro

The economics of imperialism: Can the Global South resist Western exploitation? Can China help?

Nate has begun abusing a drug that makes his mouth water and gives him #sloppymouth. Tom Cruise calls in to talk about Stuttering Craig. Nate has a bad trip so Drew and Tom bring him down.

Season 5 Episode 9: Blatant Drug Trip

After inhabiting the White House but before examining the Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin created a show that sought nothing less than to fix the most important American institution of them all: Saturday Night Live. We launch what will eventually become a multi-episode discussion of STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP (2006-7).

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#524 - Studio Sucky, Part 1

Naomi Karavani sits in with us while Jake draws from Mike Davis' City of Quartz to explain the strange material history of the Home Owner's Association and how it relates to the whole NIMBY/YIMBY thing as well as toxic sludge.

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