In an explosive Oprah interview, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle levelled allegations at the royal family which could fatally undermine their legitimacy. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

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TyskySour: Harry & Meghan's Oprah Interview

This is a preview clip to the Media Roots Radio series by Robbie Martin, The Freemasonic History of the United States Part 7: Masonic Rosicrucianism, Hermetic Theosophy, Blavatsky & Paschal Beverly Randolph. To hear the entire 8 hour episode or the full series become a subscriber @ www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio

It is the 1870s, Freemasonry is at the peak of its popularity and has become an old hat, secret society enthusiasts are bored and looking for something more esoteric and magical. Robbie Martin tells an intertwining story about the spiritualism revival in the United States that involves Sex Magician P.B. Randolph and Theosophical Society founders H. Blavatsky & Henry Steel Olcott [ the latter 3 ingested drugs, even hallucinogens to commune with spirits ]. Italian magician Cagliostro makes a comeback, and the rise of new types of mystical esoteric fraternal societies become inevitable, ones that heavily borrow from Rosicrucianism and Eastern Religion. Instead of just becoming appendant bodies of Masonry, the popularity and the mystique of these new Rosicrucian societies [ S.R.I.A. , S.R.I.C.F. , F.R.C. ] and Theosophical groups start to eclipse those of Freemasonry itself.

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Masonic Rosicrucianism, Hermetic Theosophy, Blavatsky & Paschal Beverly Randolph Pt 7 [Preview 2]

The term "Western civilization" has long been a staple of the American Right, but with the recent resurgence of white nationalism, it is having something of a comeback. Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are hosting a two-week Mediterranean "cruise thru history" to "explore the roots of Western civilization." The Intellectual Dark Web's Jordan Peterson tells us “The West is Right,” while The Daily Caller and Fox News are busy “celebrating the West." Neo-Nazi Matthew Heimbach hails “Youth for Western Civilization." Both the traditional and so-called alt-right ground their worldviews in a fictional moral arc of "The West” that bares little resemblance to reality.

Learning from the past and applying those lessons to the present is a good thing. But in pop political discourse, the Classics have been misused and abused to promote an origin story that never was - a white Greco-Roman world birthing our noble, so-called “Judeo-Christian” American empire to gloss over a history of exploitation, imperialism, slavery and conquest.

On this episode, we’ll explore the right-wing obsession with the ancient world, it’s influence on neoconservative empire-building and alt-right white nationalism alike, and how our common cultural understanding of the ancient world has been perpetually white-washed to promote a clash of civilizations narrative and racist pseudo-science.

We are joined by Dr. Sarah E. Bond, Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, and Dr. Cord Whitaker, Associate Professor at Wellesley College.

Episode 82 - 'Western Civilization' and White Supremacy: The Right-Wing Co-option of Antiquity

The Guardian's North of England Editor Helen Pidd recently visited Leigh, an erstwhile "Red Wall" town that went Conservative in December's election, to interview first-time Tory voters from working class backgrounds, some of whom she had interviewed two months previously. One was a child who could not have voted for anybody, another an enormous racist, and the third, one Andrew Twentyman, an artisanal pizzeria owner (not worker), whose brother is a prominent local property developer. We talk about the row that ensued over a Guardian definition of "working class" that diverges wildly from any material analysis.

Read the Guardian's mendacious little Tory puff piece here - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/08/imagine-the-state-wed-be-in-if-corbyn-had-been-in-charge-the-view-from-the-red-wall
And if you enjoyed the clips from GapeCast in this episode, listen to the instalment they're drawn from here: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/gapes-grand-5g-conspiracy-gapecast-15

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Episode 158 - Pizzeriagate

With Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars, the world’s press are once again focusing on the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. But the hosts of TrueAnon believe the mainstream media have no interest in exposing the underlying power plays that exist beneath the Epstein scandal. Plus, Corbyn’s legal fund raises £170k in under 2 days, and we speak to Owen Jones on the day his far-right attackers are sentenced.

TyskySour: Ghislaine's Secrets (with TrueAnon)

Writer William Shoki on evictions, police violence and neoliberal hegemony in South Africa, and his recent articles "The existing order of things" and "The class character of police violence" for Africa Is A Country. Plus in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen hauls sixteen tons.

https://africasacountry.com/2020/07/the-existing-order-of-things

https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/the-class-character-of-police-violence

1215: Beneath South Africa's ruling class / William Shoki

Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his article "Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis" for Dissent, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks "what color is your smoke?"

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/climate-apartheid-is-the-coming-police-violence-crisis

1226: Policing the coming crisis / Olufemi O. Taiwo

Global Justice Now director Nick Dearden on his book "Trade Secrets: The truth about the US trade deal and how we can stop it" and his article "We must defeat the US trade deal" for openDemocracy.

https://tradesecrets.globaljustice.org.uk/

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/we-must-defeat-us-trade-deal/

1237: Against the US-UK trade deal / Nick Dearden

Writer Fabian Scheidler examines the collapse of a 500-year system at (or already beyond) its social and ecological limits, and calls for an urgent un-coupling of both political power from corporate hands, and our way of life from capitalism's constant demands for expansion and growth.

Fabian is author of "The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization" from Zero Books.

https://www.megamaschine.org/en/

Death and choice at the megamachine's end.

Journalist Daniel Trilling on his article "How rescuing drowning migrants became a crime" for The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/22/how-rescuing-drowning-migrants-became-a-crime-iuventa-salvini-italy

1240: Migrant rescue and backlash / Daniel Trilling

Jack talks to Jacobin's Daniel Finn (@DanFinn95) about Starmer's war on the left and the fallout of the EHRC report; the political rationale for his suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, why JC deserves our solidarity, and the left's insufficient response.

1240: Migrant rescue and backlash / Daniel Trilling

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