Apologies for the rough sound on Ben's part. 

Suggested Reading: 

    The Metaverse Is Going to Suck for Queer People - https://www.them.us/story/metaverse-queer-lgbtq-users-harassment-discrimination-facebook

    The Worst Part of Che Diaz Was Seeing Myself in Them - https://www.them.us/story/che-diaz-retrospective-nonbinary-representation


intro/// Eternity's Children - Mrs. Bluebird (1967)
outro/// Rashid Beybutov - В Сад Пошел За Виноградом (1973)

SD 118 - the nuclear option

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Journalist and historian Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) talks about the current conflict in Ukraine and the history that got us there, especially the role of NATO. He also discusses what the Left should be doing right now. 

Then join our callin where Katie will be taking some of your questions [https://www.callin.com/room/ukraine-what-should-the-left-do-about-it-hxuXjCtKXb]

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org/globetrotter/). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.

Vijay Prashad on Ukraine, Russia, NATO & The Media

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UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: Deus Ex Mystery Snail / A Fuck For Every Shit

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UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: The Theo Philes X - Deus Ex Mystery Snail / A Fuck For Every Shit

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

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Vijay Prashad discusses the latest fallout from the war in Ukraine and how it's impacting the rest of the world and his essay on Pan-Asianism. Plus the removal of Pakistan's Imran Khan: is it the will of the Pakistani people or Western-backed regime change, as Khan is claiming? 

Read Vijay's latest piece here (https://www.newsclick.in/is-asia-possible)

Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org...). 
He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). 
He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.

Vijay Prashad on Ukraine and Pakistan

Dimitri and Khalid answer questions from the Grotto of Truth Discord on: the legacy of Something Awful, the susness of Woodstock, the collapse of consensus reality, the strange and tragic career of Judee Sill, and Otto Skorzeny training the Green Berets. 

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#110a - GROTTO Q&A XIV, Part I

give me sugar. in water. 

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238 // Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

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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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

Dimitri and Khalid continue answering questions from the Discord Grotto on: the longevity of the neoliberal status quo, the susness of AOC and the Justice Democrats, why the bourgeoisie drop/allow hints of future catastrophes in mass media, Fabian socialism (briefly), and whether or not the New Deal really ended the Great Depression.

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#118b - GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XV, Part 2

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

Subliminal Jihad