A bird's eye view of how the market-driven society has evolved into a potent catalyst for "disinformation" and conspiracy theories. This week’s guest is Marcus Gilroy-Ware, senior lecturer in digital journalism at the University of West England and the author of 2017’s 'Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media' and 2020’s ‘After The Fact: The Truth About Fake News’.

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Episode 173: The Disinformation Society w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware

We continue to look at the domestic media response to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. This time, we’re talking about “the left” and how some of their “half-baked” ideas about foreign conflict lack serious intellectual rigor and nimbleness, curtesy of an article by “fully baked” author Eric Levitz. 

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612 - Half Baked (3/21/22)

It's a Ben and Hesse solo special!!!!! don't worry we found jacques and zir is safe although zi are speaking fluent cantonese and only fluent cantonese so get ready for that. Song ID's are coming please direct all hate towards Hesse as she forgot to send the ID's also for the record I liked the merzbow additions I just wasn't sure how it would play here. I'm sorry for doubting you guys. Thanks so much for subscribing and listening it means the world to us all.

SD 142 - Watermelon Salad

It's our 200th episode!!! We didn't know that when we recorded but regardless, today we bring you a deep dive into the Gay Porn monopoly known as Say Uncle, home to some of the most heinous porn series known to gay. We're talking MissionaryBoyz, Brother Crush, and Therapy Dick just to name a few. We also get into George Santos slaying like no other. 

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SD 190 - Say Uncle

"History will cast a shadow over Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan," the Washington Post’s David Ignatius warned in April of 2021. "Biden's Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy," George Packer cautioned in The Atlantic magazine in August of that year. "The Cost of Betrayal in Afghanistan," wrote The Atlantic Council’s Ariel Cohen in Newsweek shortly thereafter.

When news broke in April of 2021 that the Biden administration planned to withdraw all documented US troops from Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, media outlets almost uniformly rushed to issue condemnations. How could the US, and the West more broadly, simply "abandon the Afghan people," especially women, we’d so bravely liberated? How could the US just up and leave, when it had invested and sacrificed so very much to counter the Taliban over the course of two decades?

This outrage stood, and still stands, in stark contrast to the media’s default state of indifference to the suffering people of Afghanistan, and the US’ extensive role in engineering that suffering. For many decades now, American, British, and other Western media have only really seemed to be concerned with the plight of Afghan people, namely women, when it serves to bolster the case for war, occupation, and the continuation of US regional hegemony. Meanwhile, during Afghanistan’s now second winter of famine after having more than $7 billion dollars stolen from its economy by the United States and its allies, these very same pundits and outlets are uniformly silent on this unfolding human rights disaster, caused, again, in large part, by the United States itself.

On this episode, we examine the media's pattern of selective, chauvinistic outrage when addressing the welfare of Afghan people. We also study how media diminishes the enormous role the US has played in destabilizing the country of Afghanistan and endangering its people, how media portray US military solutions as the only means of support for Afghan people, and how media treat Afghans as little more than pawns in a game of US soft- and hard-power expansion and domestic media-focused moral preening.

Our guests are Hadiya Afzal and Julie Hollar.

Ep. 175: Selective Humanitarianism and the US Role in Afghanistan's Post-Occupation Famine

Abby Martin speaks with journalist Vincent Bevins about the hidden CIA genocide in Indonesia, which created the model for US extermination campaigns against communists in 22 countries during the Cold War. 

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CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method w/ Vincent Bevins

Topics: White House Plumbers show, Gulf war trading cards
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Grill Stream

251 - Mrs. Pibb 05.25.23

Shoutcasters Reclxner (@necrobranson), SynaptiKle (@intellegint), and f.GUMP (@charlesraustin) provide commentary at the annual DooDash Bridge of Bastards Invitational featuring the Chocobos on Crack vs. the MyFood.Gov Mudkips vs. the FaZe Clan's Brazilian team. Full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84823132

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“New Starbucks CEO plans to pull barista shifts in stores every month,” CNN announces. “Uber’s CEO moonlighted as a driver and it changed the way he operates the company,” Fortune insists. “Your DoorDash driver? He’s the company’s co-founder,” the Associated Press smirks.

Month after month or week after week, we seem to hear the same stories about bold corporate executives who’ve decided to roll up their sleeves—metaphorically or otherwise—and join their lowest-level employees as a delivery driver, barista, or retail worker. Their stated goal: to “stay connected” to and “better understand” the company, its customers, and its workers. 

While these attempts to foster and express empathy may appear noble on the surface, they’re anything but. In reality, the CEO-as-worker stunt is an entirely self-serving project, creating a pretext for worker surveillance and a distraction from labor abuses like poverty wages and union-busting, all the while seeking to convince the public that corporate executives are honest, hardworking folks, Just Like You. 

Today, we will be dissecting the past and present of Undercover Boss-style corporate maneuvers, looking at the ways in which the C-suiter-in-the-trenches routine advances the squishy concept of “empathy” in order to obscure and undermine the material needs and demands of labor. 

Our guest is Ligia Guallpa, Executive Director of the Worker's Justice Project, a community-based, workers’ rights organization in New York City.

Episode 187: Undercover Boss, Uber-Driving CEOs, and the "Empathetic Executive" Schtick

And introducing…the day we’re always never forgetting, it’s 9/11 in popular music! Yes, since we started this show, we’ve noticed almost every musician we’ve covered who’s lived through 9/11 has had BIG THOUGHTS about that important day. So for this year’s 11th of September we brought in Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman to take a complete survey of how 9/11 broke the brains of the America’s musicians, just as it broke the brains of every American.

Songs:

Psy - Kill Those Yankees
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name (live at the Super Bowl)
Limp Bizkit - Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten?
I Am The World Trade Center - Metro (Brooklyn Mix)

And Introducing Podcast

#58 9/11 IN MUSIC! (ft. Matt Christman)

A classic lo-fi no Will episode to relax/study to. We try to put some odds on various possible events of the Biden administration occurring, but mostly end up talking about casinos and marshmallow fluff and shit.

SD 142 - Watermelon Salad

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