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On today's episode Jack and Leslie talk Bug Con, Covid-19, #SOSCuba, rich kids, Philip Lord's grandparents owning a plantation, and Bezos' launch into nothingness.

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Billionaire Death Drive

Dimitri and Khalid dissect the influential 1974 Stanford Research Institute white paper “Changing Images of Man” and discuss its shoddy historical ontologies, the Kettering Foundation’s “high leverage” intellectual moonshot, Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and prediction of Star Wars/MCU culture, lazily conflating Sufism, Rosicrucianism, and Freemasonry, favorably comparing the Human Potential Movement to Nazism, favorably citing L. Ron Hubbard and other new age MK cultists, weaponizing environmental crises and the “overpopulation” scare, Robert Maxwell’s World Order Models Project, harnessing parapsychological forces, talking about dialectics but never mentioning the M-word, Robert EL Masters’ obsessions with LSD & Crowleyan sex magick, corporate meditation retreats to condition the C-suite Einsatzgruppen, and the many parallels with Klaus Schwab’s “Great Reset” of global capitalism.

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Director Skye Wallin joins the show to talk about his documentary American Gadfly and the Gravel 2020 campaign. Anders reveals the origins of his Mike Gravel love.

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GRAVEL'S REVENGE 4: RESURRECTIONS w/ Skye Wallin

Sebastian Budgen joins PTO to talk about the rise of Eric Zemmour - the new star of the French far right and a candidate in April's presidential election. We discussed Zemmour's career in journalism, and why he is able to attract support from both Le Pen voters and more mainstream conservatives. We also talked about the strategic logic behind Zemmour's efforts to rehabilitate the reputation of the collaborationist Vichy government of WWII.

Eric Zemmour and the mainstreaming of the French far-right w/ Sebastian Budgen

Journalist Paolo Sorbello on his article "‘Our activism won't stop': The Oyan movement recounts the January protests in Kazakhstan" for Global Voices, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen tangles with all-pervasive networks.

https://globalvoices.org/2022/01/14/our-activism-wont-stop-the-oyan-movement-recounts-the-january-protests-in-kazakhstan/

Kazakhstan's Oyan protest movement / Paolo Sorbello

Journalist Rania Khalek discusses her reporting trip to Cuba, where she got a firsthand look at its socialist health system, under the brutal US blockade.

PART 1 OF 2

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LZ4Q9zIB2xA

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Inside Cuba's socialist health system, with journalist Rania Khalek

Mainstream human rights organization Amnesty International has come out publicly and said that "Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians," and that Israel's "cruel system of domination" amounts to a "crime against humanity."

We discuss this report with Ali Abunimah, journalist and editor of the Electronic Intifada.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-wfk4QVPwP8

Follow Ali on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah

Electronic Intifada website: https://electronicintifada.net

How Israel is an apartheid regime, with Ali Abunimah

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Journalist and historian Vijay Prashad (https://twitter.com/vijayprashad) talks about the current conflict in Ukraine and the history that got us there, especially the role of NATO. He also discusses what the Left should be doing right now. 

Then join our callin where Katie will be taking some of your questions [https://www.callin.com/room/ukraine-what-should-the-left-do-about-it-hxuXjCtKXb]

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter (https://independentmediainstitute.org/globetrotter/). He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books (https://mayday.leftword.com/) and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research (https://t.co/evQYuwZXRJ). He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (http://en.rdcy.org/). He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.

Vijay Prashad on Ukraine, Russia, NATO & The Media

The Boys are Back! We have a BIG NEW PROJECT in the works in Hollywood! We are all COOL with Johnny Depp! This is Season 2! A new dramatic reading of text messages!!!

Season 2 Episode 1: Floor Level Stain Glassed Window

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234 // The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

The documentary WHITE NOISE (2020) follows three very prominent members of the alt-right (you'll be familiar with all of them, folks) as their fortunes rise and fall during the Trump era. We discuss the ethics of interviewing/"platforming" ideological enemies, the differing aesthetic styles of various alt-right personalities, and what happens to political "scenes" during periods of eclipse. PLUS: Luke takes stock of the Canadian Conservative leadership race, and Liam Neeson makes a movie about the U.S./Mexico border.

Kazakhstan's Oyan protest movement / Paolo Sorbello

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