Peace activist Kathy Kelly on the realities of war and sanctions for Iraq's people, the state of the anti-war movement and  her article "Remembering the First Gulf War" for The Progressive, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen visits the Playground of Blood.

https://progressive.org/dispatches/remembering-first-gulf-war-kelly-210302

1307: Thirty years of war against Iraq / Kathy Kelly

This week, the Global Research News Hour brings a special presentation proximate to the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Michael Parenti delves into the reality of the elite class within society engaging in these plots in order to protect their own power. Michael Parenti is an internationally known author and lecturer. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale in 1962 and is one of the nation's leading progressive political thinkers.  His highly informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad. His books include Democracy for the Few, Superpatriotism, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, History as Mystery, and Contrary Notions.

Conspiracy and Class Power: A Talk by Michael Parenti

Historian Marcia Chatelain on the economic and social dynamics of fast food corporations and Black American life, and her book "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" from Liveright. 

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631493942

1283: McDonald's in Black America / Marcia Chatelain

Anthropologist Ida Susser on her FocaalBlog article "Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen revisits the US military’s violations of the hospitality code.

http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/12/03/ida-susser-covid-police-brutality-and-race-are-ongoing-french-mobilizations-breaking-through-the-class-boundaries/

1284: Police violence, protest and working class convergence / Ida Susser

We’re joined by co-host of TrashFuture – and friend of TMK from the start – Riley Quinn as we examine the brain of the Thought Leader. Forged in the fires of the financial crash, driven mad by Internet induced techno-optimism, brains smoothly polished by the infinite growth of a zero interest rate world – the modern day Thought Leader is the charlatan in the court of tech capital. They spend their days promoting Big Ideas Books that contain remarkably little thinking, while asserting all the solutions to complex societal problems. But that’s okay because they aren’t really meant to be read by anybody anyways. Unless, of course, you’re Riley.

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Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).

36. Theory of the Thought Leader (ft. Riley Quinn)

Writer Robert Cavooris on his article "We Need a Popular Antifascist Movement" for Partisan, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen admits to digestive relief.

https://partisanmag.com/we-need-a-popular-antifascist-movement/

1287: Fascism and liberal democracy / Robert Cavooris

Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes on their article "Beware Corporate ‘Democracy Washing’: Twitter, Trump, and the Danger of Privatizing the Fight Against Fascism" for Common Dreams.


https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/23/beware-corporate-democracy-washing-twitter-trump-and-danger-privatizing-fight

1292: Corporate platforms, corporate censorship / Peter Bloom + Carl Rhodes

Abby Martin & Mike Prysner explain everything about Biden's first 2 weeks: his major Feb. 4 foreign policy speech, his record-breaking executive actions, broken promises and forecast to how he will be steering the US Empire with a comprehensive country-to-country breakdown from Yemen, to Iran, to China. 

PLUS: Important updates on the impeachment trial and who is going down for the attack on the Capitol.

http://www.patreon.com/empirefiles

Episode music by Anahedron:
Intro song: Amber Bellows
End song: Catalyst
[available on Spotify & Soundcloud]

Essential Guide to How Biden is Steering the Empire: AMERICA FIRST to AMERICA'S BACK

Abby Martin responds to the outcry against Michael Che's joke on last night's episode of Saturday Night Live about medical apartheid in Israel. 

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Truth Behind SNL’s Controversial Israel Joke

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After The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal reported on newly leaked documents exposing a massive UK government propaganda campaign against Russia, Twitter added an unprecedented warning label that the material "may have been obtained through hacking." Although Twitter may have intended to restrict the article, the warning had the opposite effect: it quickly went viral. 

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté discuss the suppression effort and the damning UK government leaks at the heart of it. After years of fear-mongering about Russian interference in Western democracies, these UK government files expose a sprawling propaganda effort that explicitly aims to "weaken" Russia. The documents reveal that this propaganda campaign has also enlisted major media outlets Reuters and the BBC, as well as the NATO member state-funded website Bellingcat. 

Guest: Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone and author of "The Management of Savagery."

As leaks expose UK op to 'weaken' Russia, suppression of Grayzone reporting backfires

Biden's Feb. 26 strike in Syria was a crime, and risks major war with three countries. Abby Martin explains. 

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1287: Fascism and liberal democracy / Robert Cavooris

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