The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond.

In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BIZFAOtD5rM

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This 1997 movie perfectly predicted today’s Ukraine war propaganda

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island of Taiwan this week, in an unprecedented escalation toward China. What will the fallout be? Could Pelosi have made this trip without the administration’s blessing? Will this surprise visit anger US allies in the region?

Brian is joined by Dr. Ken Hammond, professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University, founding director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University, and activist with Pivot to Peace.

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Pelosi Leaves Taiwan: The Real Agenda & What Happens Next

Analyzing the geopolitical crisis, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said the US war on China and Russia is an attack on the new world of “multipolarism,” because “North American imperialism is trying to maintain its hegemony at all costs, even at the risk of sinking its own economy.”

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lkPyT8fDymk

Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/08/05/us-war-china-russia-multipolar-world-nicaragua-ortega

US war on China/Russia targets new multipolar world, sabotages global economy: Nicaragua Pres Ortega

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Emmett (@PoorQuentyn) get Mann fever and discuss getting high on the action in the soulful, stylish world of undercover narcotrafficking in the pilot episode of MIAMI VICE: BROTHER'S KEEPER (1984) + Michael Mann's impressionistic, hyper-digital masterpiece of a remake/update on the material MIAMI VICE (2006). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on artistic frustration and serial murder in HANGOVER SQUARE (1945) and A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

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237 - MIAMI VICE: BROTHER'S KEEPER (1984) + MIAMI VICE (2006) ft. Emmett (@PoorQuentyn)

A second congressional delegation went to Taiwan this week, less than two weeks after Pelosi visited. These trips have sparked a sense of outrage among many Chinese people, who demand respect for their sovereignty and for their impressive social and economic achievements. This includes massive poverty reduction and surpassing the United States in key indicators like life expectancy. How is U.S. aggression against China related to their continuous rise?

Brian is joined by Tings Chak, Shanghai-based researcher at the Tricontinental Institute & a member of Dongsheng News collective and the author of the pamphlet “Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China.”

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China’s Rise: Why U.S. Threats & Provocations Will Not Succeed

In this special crossover episode, Rania Khalek of Dispatches sits  down with Brian to talk about the impact of severe repression on the  socialist, communist and Black Liberation movement in the United States  during the past decades.

Rania Khalek’s Dispatches program is on  BreakThrough News, and is available on video at  YouTube.com/BreakThroughNews and as a podcast on Google, Apple, and  anywhere you get your podcasts.

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Infiltration, Violence, Deportation: How the State Weakened and Split Socialism in the US

The United States and South Korea put on the biggest military war  games in four years, while Russia and China also ran military drills.  Will the world become multipolar and is that enough to fully counter  U.S. imperialism? Is major power conflict on the horizon?

Producer Nicole Roussell and Brian discuss what  multipolarity means for the international working class, what is needed  to end U.S. imperialism, and what geopolitics are evident in Ukraine.

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Global Confrontation: The US, Russia, China, and a New Era

The United States is in the midst of a political upheaval right now, after the 2020 uprising, the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, and the Dobbs decision that overturned one of the Supreme Court's biggest decisions -- access to abortion under Roe v. Wade. The right wing is on the move and the left needs a clear understanding of just where they're headed and how to be able to effectively fight back. What does Dobbs indicate for other democratic rights that we thought were guaranteed?

Producer Nicole Roussell and Brian discuss the very significant political changes in the domestic policy situation in the United States, and the Attica prison uprising and massacre 51 years ago today.

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The Deepening Assault on Core Democratic Rights in the USA

US imperial court philosopher Francis Fukuyama once declared liberal capitalist democracy was the "end of history." Now he is openly praising the deep state.

Ben Norton is joined by political scientist Aaron Good of the American Exception podcast to analyze his fallacious arguments.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rr1a4BshPo8

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US imperial theorist Fukuyama praises the deep state (with historian Aaron Good)

Dimitri and Khalid continue their discussion with ex-Moonie @Alisa_Mahjoub about Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, including: Mike Flynn’s “I AM” Activity, “Cults, Anti-Cults, and the Cult of Intelligence”, the abusive “deprogramming” industry, Rick Ross, Jolly West and the Cult Awareness Network cult, Ed Lansdale’s Blue Beam plot against Cuba, Elimination by Illumination, Sean Moon’s AR15-toting Rod of Iron Ministries, “Inside The League”, the American Security Council, abandoning the pretense of bourgeois democracy, overlaps between QAnon, Alex Jones, and the Moonies, and more. 

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#131 - BAD MOON RHIZOME, Part Two: Rise of the Contracults (with Alisa Mahjoub)

Theo, Andrew, and Ben are joined by Tom from Explosions&Fire to talk: A butter disaster in Wisconsin, a blood mystery in South Carolina, ambient radiation in Iowa, and an unfortunate comms mix-up in England.
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