Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbor.   

Guest: Jacques Baud. Former intelligence officer with the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service who has served in a number of senior security and advisory positions at NATO, the United Nations, and with the Swiss military.   

Jacques Baud's article on the Ukraine war: https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/


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US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': fmr. NATO adviser

On today's In the News roundtable, Brian Becker, Esther Iverem, Nicole Roussell and Walter Smolarek discuss how powerful figures in the West are pushing for even graver acts of reckless escalation in Ukraine, and how big oil is cashing in on the war with plans for massive drilling expansion with the help of the Biden administration. The panel also discusses the latest right wing attacks on so-called “Critical Race Theory”, how the super rich pay little to nothing in taxes, the latest developments in Palestine, and more.

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Politicians Push for an Even Wider War in Ukraine

https://www.douglasvalentine.com/

Our Hidden History Original Interview: We speak with Douglas Valentine about the history of the CIA and the agency's involvement in Ukraine. We discuss the Vietnam-era precedents for highly motivated and indoctrinated paramilitary units like the Azov Battalion which the CIA has created in Ukraine.

Douglas Valentine: The CIA and the war in Ukraine (2022)

On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss Elon Musk, a billionaire, buying Twitter, one of the world's largest mass communications platforms. Why are billionaires so determined to control the information available to the public?

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.

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Elon Musk Buys Twitter - How Capitalism Mutilates the Notion of a "Free Press"

As the United States escalates the war in Ukraine by sending another $33 billion, the possibility of nuclear war is coming into focus. Brian and Greg Mello discuss how the U.S. policy of waging proxy war on Russia via Ukraine raises the threat of a direct confrontation between the two nuclear-armed powers. What is the United States’ strategy in this nuclear game of chicken and what are the dangers of nuclear war?

Greg Mello is co-founder and Executive Director of the Los Alamos Study Group.

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Escalation in Ukraine: The Nuclear War Danger is Real

Benjamin Norton discusses the historic announcement by Brazil’s left-wing leader Lula da Silva that, if he wins the October 2022 presidential elections, “we are going to create a currency in Latin America,” called the Sur (“South”), to combat “the dependency on the dollar.”

Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/04/brazil-lula-latin-america-currency-us-dollar

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bRTr8o8EYiE

Brazil's Lula proposes creating Latin American currency to 'be freed of US dollar' dependency

As the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia rages, the imperialist establishment is increasingly united behind a strategy of escalation. Brian and Eugene Puryear trace the development of this increasingly hostile approach over the years and decades; and review the most important recent military, economic and political developments in the conflict.

Eugene Puryear is the host of the BreakThrough News podcast The Punch Out, and co-host of the BT live video show The Freedom Side.

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Doves Die in Ukraine: When Did Liberals Turn On Peace? With Eugene Puryear

On today's episode Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the possibility of a recession, now that the majority of CEOs foresee one. They're calling it mild, but is that what the economic signals are showing?

Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.

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A Recession Is Coming? In This Economy??

The chief of the UK Army, Patrick Sanders, told his troops to prepare for World War III with Russia. Benjamin Norton discusses how Western imperialists are threatening nuclear apocalypse to try to save their declining empires.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MKO1v65OSt0

British army chief tells troops prepare for World War III with Russia

"China is a strange, backwards nation ruled by tyrants," said the nation founded by Puritans who used to execute women for witchcraft and just killed reproductive rights protections because they think Jesus told them to.

The world is dominated culturally, economically and militarily by a regime that just killed women's reproductive rights because they make Jesus mad.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The World Is Ruled By A Backwards Puritanical Regime

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Doves Die in Ukraine: When Did Liberals Turn On Peace? With Eugene Puryear

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