Kevin Klyman on his article "Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire" for Jacobin, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen continues to try to spread positivity.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/vaccine-apartheid-us-empire-diplomacy-china-cold-war

Vaccine apartheid politics / Kevin Klyman

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Michael Chau discuss the blurring of fantasy & reality and image & identity in our media obsessed culture with a double feature of Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY (1982) and Satoshi Kon's PERFECT BLUE (1997). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) and SUDDEN FURY (1975), 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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209 - THE KING OF COMEDY (1982) + PERFECT BLUE (1997) ft. Michael Chau

Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr

We’re joined by Phil Neel, a communist economic geographer, to dig deep into different theories of crisis in capitalism. While theorizing crisis is a core part of the Marxist analysis of capitalism, we focus on understanding how major approaches in mainstream economics try (and fail) to explain the features, causes, and solutions for crisis. Bonus: we learn how economics is a disproven cosmology maintained by bourgeois ideology—like astrology for the ruling class. Double bonus: we end the episode with an explanation and critique of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

Check out some of Phil’s work:
••• Global China, Global Crisis: Falling Profitability, Rising Capital Exports and the Formation of New Territorial Industrial Complexes | Phillip Neel https://drive.google.com/file/d/1krt15Qx0lPizv7SPR8b0GhsmGK61k1TP/view 
••• Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict | Phil Neel https://www.akpress.org/hinterland.html 
••• Phil Neel at Brooklyn Rail | https://brooklynrail.org/contributor/phil-a-neel

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139. – Infinite Crisis (ft. Phil Neel)

Writer Os Keyes on their Real Life article "Condition Critical," and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen flags your non-Jewish privilege.

https://reallifemag.com/condition-critical/

Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes

UNNUN

NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous US officials, humorously titled "In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid". 

The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out "intelligence" about Russia's plans in Ukraine that is "low-confidence" or "based more on analysis than hard evidence", or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin.

The report says that toward this end the US government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, about Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, about Putin's advisors misinforming him, and about Russia seeking arms supplies from China.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Officials Admit They're Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbor.   

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.   

Jacques Baud's article on the Ukraine war: https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/


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US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': fmr. NATO adviser

As the Russia-Ukraine war opens a new phase in the Donbas, scholar Richard Sakwa on the absence of diplomacy; the Western media's veneration of Zelensky; the European Union's self-implosion over the war; and the crackdown on dissent in both Ukraine and Russia. 

Guest: Richard Sakwa. Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. His books include "Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands” and his latest, “Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War."

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Links: 

"'One less traitor': Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition"
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/17/traitor-zelensky-assassination-kidnapping-arrest-political-opposition/

"Siding with Ukraine's far-right, US sabotaged Zelensky's mandate for peace"
https://mate.substack.com/p/siding-with-ukraines-far-right-us?s=w

"'Al Qaeda Is on Our Side': How Obama/Biden Team Empowered Terrorist Networks in Syria"
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/04/20/al_qaeda_is_on_our_side_how_obamabiden_officials_helped_create_a_safe_haven_for_terrorists_in_syria_827477.html

US weapons, European supplicants block peace in Ukraine

The chief of the UK Army, Patrick Sanders, told his troops to prepare for World War III with Russia. Benjamin Norton discusses how Western imperialists are threatening nuclear apocalypse to try to save their declining empires.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MKO1v65OSt0

British army chief tells troops prepare for World War III with Russia

Historian Aaron Good explains how the Western Big Oil corporations that dominated the global crude industry, known as the "Seven Sisters," had significant influence in the government of US President Dwight Eisenhower and inspired the CIA's first ever coup, the 1953 putsch against Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kv9n4q7IM64

This is PART 14 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

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Medical AI and automating mental healthcare / Os Keyes

This Is Hell!