Abby and Robbie Martin cover Biden’s failed Summit of the Americas, where Abby confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the Israeli assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and numerous Latin American countries boycotted due to the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. They talk about the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo and how this unique phenomenon is an extension of extreme American narcissism AKA Empire Baby syndrome, the strategy of tension surrounding the anti-trans hysteria being cultivated by the GOP and the leaked SCOTUS draft about overturning Roe v Wade, and how the mind bending AI art tools like DALL E 2 is about to change our reality.

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Uniquely American Mass Murders, 'Officer Safety', Anti-LGBTQ Strategy of Tension & AI as Art

On today's episode Walter Smolarek and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss how the corporate-owned media has been consumed with wall-to-wall coverage of the death of the Queen, fawning over the British monarchy. But the lifestyle that’s being celebrated is one based on plunder and empire. While their “subjects” live in poverty, the royals live a life of total luxury – all because they were lucky enough to be born into the right family.

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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Queens, Kings and Capitalism

The U.S. government has destroyed cities, countries, and towns around the world, through bombs and air raids, military ground invasions, naval attacks, economic sanctions and strangulation, coups, and more. Some say U.S. force is never ending, others say it’s on a fast decline, almost gone forever. Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky argue in their new book, “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power,” that U.S. military might is somewhere in the middle: it’s fragile.

Brian is joined by Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and author of a new book with Noam Chomsky called “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.”

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Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan War & the Fragility of US Empire

Former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO adviser Jacques Baud on the next phase of the Russia-Ukraine war and new allegations that the US and UK undermined a peace deal that could have ended it. 

The West's aim "is not the victory of Ukraine, It's the defeat of Russia," Baud says. "The problem is that nobody cares about Ukraine. We have just instrumentalized Ukraine for the purpose of US strategic interests -- not even European interests."  

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.

Corrections: 

In his Sept. 21 speech, Putin did not make an explicit threat to use nuclear weapons. He vowed to "make use of all weapon systems available to us," in the event of "a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people." 

On nuclear weapons, the US did not have a "No First Use" policy. On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden said that he supported the idea of "No First Use." He abandoned that in his presidential nuclear posture; but that was reversing his campaign stance, not official US policy.

US, UK sabotaged peace deal because they 'don't care about Ukraine': fmr. NATO adviser

Clayne is out, SWS is in. Bees our out, Bats are in. We are back for the third and final season of Lethal Weapon! Will we enjoy the addition of SWS? Will Nate buy us Crytobatz? Find out in this episode of Clayne Cast.

Season 3 Episode 1: Lethal Is Back

All Field-Recordings, Writing and Arrangement by One Billion Conveyor Belts AKA Madrigal @madrigalmusick
Featuring lecture by philosopher and fringe scholar Maggie Malady aka Keith Brown circa 2008. Visit his page below for other deep inspiring talks...
@pahndeepah
callmemaggie.com/

Mastered by One-Kind
@one-kind

Vocal Diary Entry by OBCB's younger sister, Rebecca

Photo by Alexey Demidov at www.pexels.com

One Billion Conveyor Belts- Light and Shadow Feat. Pahndeepah & One-Kind

A short piece of incidental music featuring a playful mix of violin, viola, bass, bassoon and electric piano.

Stoat

A massive, years-long smear campaign was launched against anti-war, anti-elite Jeremy Corbyn shortly after his election to lead the British Labour Party. The campaign targeted Corbyn and his supporters as being anti-Semitic. What's the truth and what really happened?

Walter Smolarek is joined by investigative journalist Asa Winstanley, who writes for the Electronic Intifada and on Substack at asawinstanley.substack.com. He’s also the author of the new book “Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How The Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn,” which you can buy from OR Books: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/weaponising-anti-semitism/

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How the Israel Lobby Tried to Tank Jeremy Corbyn: In-Depth Analysis w/ Asa Winstanley

Frogs in the first weeks of activity of the year. It was the warmest night so far, unusually high and although I went to the lake's edge, they were so loud that they could be heard from a long distance. This is also a place to see and hear herons and sometime storks, but this night it was all for the frogs.
I was testing out a Zoom F3 for the second time.

Frogs in the Countryside

photo by Elseh
www.flickr.com/photos/187686180@N02

"Wait For Dark" (Alternative Version) by D'ark Tha Murky

Thanks again and always to Hitoshi Yasui of chairhouse for his daily musical offerings and for helping us to adapt this lovely song based on his piano improv of February 28, 2020. It is another song from his epic "Piano Ten Thousand Leaves" project. The guitar arrangement is by naldo and the beautiful orchestration is again written by Berkeley composer Guillaume Pearson. We hope you enjoy it and as Hitoshi often writes "Happy if this makes you feel peaceful".

Listen to the original chairhouse piano here:
https://soundcloud.com/chairhouse/she-always-looked-at-the-postmark-first-2267-by-chair-house-0228-by-chair-house-02282020

cover art by Gustave Jean Jacquet

She Always Looked at the Postmark First by chairhouse

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