Some Batman movies have been called fascist, but THE BATMAN (2022) breaks new ground for the franchise by being lib. We wouldn't be a left-wing culture podcast if we didn't occasionally pick a new Batman movie from the lowest branch on the tree, so come join us as we chart the latest developments in the Caped Crusader's political evolution.

Michael and Us

#312 - Sympathy for the Riddler

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The Yes Men (https://theyesmen.org/) stop by to talk about their latest hijinks. 
Then Lee Camp comes (https://twitter.com/LeeCamp) on to talk about what happened to his show Redacted Tonight.

Lee Camp on RT America + The Yes Men

Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Patreon Discord on: the Nuremberg UFO sightings of 1561, Flat Earth psyops, the origins of ley lines, British defense contractors selling dowsing rod “bomb detectors” to the Iraqi police, mind-controlled assassin Kyle Odom’s anti-Martian manifesto, North Korean defector/alt-right darling Yeonmi Park, and whether Aleksandr Dugin is “Putin’s Rasputin”. 

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#106 - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XIII

Dimitri and Khalid pick up their CONTRA series and explore the mysterious money flows, US patsyfication, and selective exposure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, including: its charismatic founder Agha Hasan Abedi, the waqf system in the pre-colonial Islamic world, Jimmy Carter’s suslord bff Bert Lance and Lancegate, Jackson T. Stephens, First American Bankshares and CIA paymaster General George Olmsted, unmasking the true identity of the mysterious high German arms dealer “Heinrich”, Merex AG, Abedi's alleged dark Sufi superpowers, Bill Casey and Abedi's deep friendship, “dancing boys of Lahore” and blackmail in high finance, the unbelievability of Operation C-Chase, Porter Goss and Bob Graham’s meeting with ISI Chief Mahmoud Ahmad on the morning of 9/11, the murder of WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl and the framing of Saeed Sheikh, and how the fall of BCCI was part of an all-too common American tactic of geopolitical entrapment.

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#108 - CONTRA VI: The Entrapment of BCCI and The Origins of Operation 9/11

A state-of-the-art Russian submarine has gone rogue. Is it about to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack on the United States? We finally delve into the world of right-wing legend Tom Clancy and his signature character Jack Ryan with the blockbuster film adaptation of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990). PLUS: Winston Churchill predicts the future!

#322 - The Tao of Jack Ryan

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In light of the leaked SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v Wade, Journalist Amy Littlefield, activist & Congressional candidate Rebecca Parson along with Constitutional lawyer Shahid Buttar discuss how the Democrats enabled the attack on reproductive rights and continue to do so literally as we speak. 

Amy Littlefield is The Nation's abortion access correspondent and a journalist who focuses on reproductive rights, health care, and religion.
https://www.amylittlefield.com/ 
https://twitter.com/amylittlefield

Rebecca Parson, a commissioner on the Tacoma Area Commission on Disabilities, an organizer with the Tacoma Tenants Organizing Committee and a congressional candidate for Washington's Sixth District. She’s the only candidate in the race supporting a $30 minimum wage, Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and national rent control. 
https://www.rebeccaparson.com/
https://twitter.com/RebeccaforWA

Shahid Buttar is a constitutional lawyer, national non-profit leader, and musical artist who won over 81,000 votes from San Franciscans in 2020 to replace the most powerful member of the House.
https://shahidforchange.us/
https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange
https://twitter.com/sheeyahshee

How Dems Sold Out Roe V Wade With Amy Littlefield, Rebecca Parson & Shahid Buttar

These episodes were remixed for The Trip on CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg: ckuw.ca/programs/detail/the-trip

Dimitri and Khalid launch into a kaleidoscopic, meandering, improvisational deep dive on The Grateful Dead (née The Warlocks of Palo Alto), the band's extensive links to CIA/MK-Ultra LSD research at Stanford, Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, the deep folkloric origins of the "Grateful Dead" legend, Hank Harrison's anthropological framing of The Dead amidst San Francisco's wily bohemian roots, and begin to unpack the susness of the various counterculture figures/ruling class misfits hovering around the Deadhead scene. (Part 1 of 2.)

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[REDUX] #33 - WARLOCKS OF PALO ALTO: The Grateful Dead As Mass Ritual, Part I

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In Part II of WARLOCKS OF PALO ALTO, Dimitri and Khalid discuss the extent of Tim Leary's relationship with the CIA, stories about him getting MKed/lobotomized at Vacaville Prison in the 70s, Terence McKenna & Robert Hunter's letter correspondence about the "Klaxton Men" and Jabba The Hutt Jedi-Jinn they encountered on DMT, Bob Wier & Mickey Hart's membership in Bohemian Grove, and how the Dead served as cultural shock troops for the pernicious biopolitical neoliberalism that now dominates every aspect of US culture.

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[REDUX] #34 - WARLOCKS OF PALO ALTO: The Grateful Dead Steal Your Face, Part II

Patreon-only full interview here https://www.patreon.com/posts/67069775

Journalist Branko Marcetic (https://twitter.com/BMarchetich) talks to Katie about mass shootings, what people don't get about guns in his native New Zealand, online censorship and why Mayo Pete is so OK with babies being hungry. 

Branko is a writer at Jacobin, the co-host of the  1 of 200 podcast and the author of "Yesterday's Man: the Case Against Joe Biden"

relevant articles
Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic “War on Terror” (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/domestic-terrorism-prevention-act-biden-house-squad)
Pete Buttigieg: Hungry Babies, Regrettably, Are Just the Price of the Free Market
(https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/pete-buttigieg-free-market-hungry-baby-formula-capitalism)
The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us
(https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/buffalo-attack-mass-surveillance-terrorist-security-state-protection)

Pete Buttigieg & Hungry Babies + Mass Shootings With Branko Marcetic

Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord about: sus things to do and see in LA and the San Francisco Bay Area, the 2016 Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony/mass ritual in Switzerland, John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”, Secret Sun’s grand unified synchromystic conspiracy, and the chronology of the Joker as a (political) symbol.

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#118a - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XV, Part 1

Historian Aaron Good explains how the Western Big Oil corporations that dominated the global crude industry, known as the "Seven Sisters," had significant influence in the government of US President Dwight Eisenhower and inspired the CIA's first ever coup, the 1953 putsch against Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kv9n4q7IM64

This is PART 14 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

How oil corporations influenced US President Eisenhower and CIA coup in Iran

A p*dcast where Dimitri (@drposhlost) and Khalid (@khalidbinyaqub) explore deep politics, occult history, conspiracy, and ontological ops from a critical-paranoid perspective.

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#106 - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XIII

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