Dimitri and Khalid launch a daredevil guerrilla operation to rescue the image of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara from the Hot Topic t-shirt rack, including: Steven Soderbergh’s surprisingly faithful “Che” films, the little-known Guevara-Lynch family history in gold rush-era San Francisco, getting radicalized by the 1954 CIA coup against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, why the fuck Swedish Nazi industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (allegedly) sold his Granma yacht to Fidel, Che’s ethical guerrilla warfare, his bold but ill-fated plan to spark revolutions across the South American continent, and arch-CIA sicko Felix Rodriguez’s own recollections of hunting down and killing Che in Bolivia in 1967.

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#81 - COMANDANTE AMIGO: Mythologies and Mystifications of Ernesto “Che” Guevara

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Robbie Martin continues his series on the George W Bush smallpox bioterror scare, this time laying out the series of events and shining a light on the hyperbolic media coverage that culminated with the official Whitehouse smallpox vaccination rollout plan. A plan which creepily paralelled the buildup to the US invasion of Iraq. When the MSM covered smallpox bioterrorism from 2002-2003, Iraq becomes an increasingly mentioned potential suspect for unleashing this deadly plague. Why do virtually no Americans remember this additional hysterical fear mongering campaign about smallpox from Bush & Cheney? Robbie tries to figure out the answers as he takes you further down the labyrinthine memory hole of the post-9/11 era.


This is Part 3 of an ongoing Anthrax-adjacent Media Roots Radio series about Smallpox bioterrorism. ICYMI, check out the Wheel of Winter's Darkness & Smallpox Bioterror Scares Pt 1 & the Smallpox Doomsday Failsafe Scenario, 100s of Tons of Virus 'Missing' Pt 2

Smallpox News Clips Video 1999 - 2006 : https://bit.ly/3rCsuUN
[ exclusive archival TV clips featured in this podcast]

the Smallpox Cache : https://bit.ly/3omWDFm
[ documents compiled by Robbie Martin relevant to the smallpox story ] 

2002 CDC Small Pox Vaccination Plan : https://bit.ly/3J6GE6c
[ the entire series of documents including revisions to the CDC's smallpox bioterror response plan ]

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UNLOCKED: the Smallpox Vax Rollout Begins, Hauer's Biodefense Ploy, Iraq 'May Have the Virus' Pt 3

Has democracy broken down? Is it even an idea worth fixing? Trip 22 is a three-horse race as Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn consider the anti-democratic shifts happening across the political spectrum and ask what it really means to be ruled by the people.

The gang discuss whether democracy is necessary to tackle climate breakdown, how democratic relationships can spawn creativity and joy, and what happens when left politics abandons mass movements – as well as selecting some suitably egalitarian music from Crass, Shonen Knife, the Scratch Orchestra and more.

Music: Crass - 'Punk is Dead' (Use Knife Remix) / Cornelius Cardew & the Scratch Orchestra - 'The Great Learning' / Shonen Knife - 'Riding on the Rocket' / Persimfans Orchestra - Beethoven's 9th Symphony / Weather Report - 'Milky Way'

Books & articles: Robert D. Putnam - Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community / Andreas Malm - How to Blow Up a Pipeline / Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright - Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future / Paul Hirst - Associative Democracy / Francesca Polletta - Freedom is an Endless Meeting / Sean Smith - Crass Goes Disco

Produced and edited by Chal Ravens and Matt Huxley. PRS Licence Number: LE-0016481

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

#ACFM Trip 22: Democracy

The US military spends more than the next 9 biggest countries combined. The expected 2023 Pentagon budget is $840 billion. Donald Trump and Joe Biden have spent $220 billion more than even cold warrior Ronald Reagan.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0BZso9Yb30

Research by Stephen Semler at https://stephensemler.substack.com

US military spending eclipses the world - and grew at record levels under Trump and Biden

The United States has acknowledged almost 500 military interventions, listed in detail in a report by congressional researchers. More than 200 were just in the last 31 years, since the fall of the Soviet Union, representing a significant increase over the hundreds of years prior. What does this explain about the nature of capitalism, war, and imperialism?

Brian is joined by Ben Norton, an investigative journalist based in Latin America, and editor of the independent news website Multipolarista, which you can find at multipolarista.com.

Ben’s article that Ben and Brian discuss is here on his website: https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/13/us-251-military-interventions-1991.

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251 Interventions in 30 Years: A System Addicted to War w/ Ben Norton

Numerous mainstream media outlets have reported that the US military is preparing for war on China, as soon as 2025. Japan is re-militarizing and collaborating closely in these war plans.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Iy5FALVrULM

Sources and more information in Danny Haiphong's article here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/16/us-preparing-war-china

German foreign minister: ‘We are fighting a war against Russia’: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/26/german-foreign-minister-baerbock-war-russia

US military preparing for war on China - and soon

Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relations between money and debt, their role in imperialism, and the rise of the US dollar system.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ew21FOlftkU

TRANSCRIPT: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/money-dollar-system-radhika-desai-michael-hudson

Check out other episodes of their show Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP

Understanding money and the dollar system's contradictions with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson

Economist Radhika Desai and Ben Norton discuss the neoliberal myth of "globalization", the contradictions of US hegemony, and the crisis of capitalism.

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

This is part 1 in a series discussing Radhika's new book "Capitalism, Coronavirus, and War: A Geopolitical Economy".

You can download Radhika's book for free here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/17/capitalism-coronavirus-war-geopolitical-economy-radhika-desai

Other episodes in the series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNZoKp0XsLFwSxxlMQu6ye8

You can get Radhika's previous book "Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization, and Empire" here: https://plutobooks.com/9781849648400/geopolitical-economy

The 'globalization' myth, US hegemony, and crisis of capitalism, with Radhika Desai

Economist Radhika Desai and Ben Norton analyze imperialism, the failure of neoliberalism, and the new cold war that the US is waging against China and Russia.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RVIpyOwJRW4

This is part 2 in a series discussing Radhika's new book "Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy".

You can download Radhika's book for free here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/17/capitalism-coronavirus-war-geopolitical-economy-radhika-desai

Other episodes in the series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNZoKp0XsLFwSxxlMQu6ye8

Check out the International Manifesto Group at https://internationalmanifesto.org

Imperialism, neoliberalism's failure and the new cold war, with Radhika Desai

Dimitri and Khalid beam themselves back to the foundational recurring SJ topic of UFO “disclosure”, focusing on serrrious journalist Leslie Kean’s most recent exposé in The Debrief (??) about Pentagon UAP whistleblower David Grusch, who claims that the US government possesses crashed alien spacecraft. 

Topics include: mispronouncing Leslie “Kaaayyn” because you didn’t go to the Spence School or Bard, Tucker soyfacing, silk topper UFO maestro Chris Mellon, a possible Yankee-Cowboy war simmering over the framing of Disclosure, comparing the UFO and psychedelic communities, critical support for Ezra Klein erming the shit out of Kean’s story, Dr. Garry Nolan’s shifting narratives around his ET fixation, his insistence that he’s not a eugenicist, Kean downplaying the Pentagon’s interest in cryptids and psi phenomena, the trickster element of the Phenomenon, Jacques Vallée’s  “Messengers of Deception”, and more. Part One of Two.

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[#157] AINT NUTTIN UAP UNDA DA SUN Pt 1: Leslie Kean, Dave Grusch & Disclosure Season, 2023 Ed.

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: Our first ever visit to r/retcon, a fungible Canadian crab crime, one lion's journey to the heart of Italy, and a viral Dutch food sensation that is not for eating.

EPISODE 321: A Crab Bribe Rashomon

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