This guy is the most obvious CIA propagandist I have ever heard.

Yeah, there was violence and a lack of food; US sanctions and a thuggish opposition destroying aid and attacking protesters and then blaming the government will do that. If you want to talk about "propagandistic", how about addressing the mainstream news stories about burned aid trucks that ended up being completely false?

I don't know a single leftist who considers the Russian Federation to living anything other than a capitalist nightmare that US vultures forced on it during Shock Therapy. People don't believe the Russia hysteria is because it's done to deflect from neoliberal failures, both in policy and electoral outcomes.

When mainstream new sources refuse to give time to anyone who decries or even points out US imperialism, they go to whatever outlets will allow them to speak.

this is fairly transparent character assassination.  

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Listen to this episode commercial free at<a href="https://angryplanetpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://angryplanetpod.com</a> All things move towards their end, even seemingly omnipotent political leaders, and authoritarian systems are shaped by the question of succession long before the leader dies. Xi Jinping is 72 years old and the Chinese Communist Party has started to consider what comes next. Those conversations are shaping the political reality of the country. On this episode of Angry Planet, Brown University professor Tyler Jost comes on the show to explain China is navigating what life may look like after Xi. <ul><li>How succession shapes politics in an authoritarian system</li><li>How does China’s government actually work?</li><li>The path to the Chinese presidency</li><li>As always, it’s all about who you know</li><li>Princelings</li><li>Xi’s path to power</li><li>Corruption as influence</li><li>When the eye of the leader lands upon you</li><li>“Cyberpunk hellscape”</li><li>Some parting notes on American Maoism</li></ul> <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/after-xi-jinping-jost-mattingly" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">After Xi—The Succession Question Obscuring China’s Future—and Unsettling Its Present</a> <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/bureaucracies-at-war-the-institutional-origins-of-miscalculation-tyler-jost/20960683?ean=9781009307222&amp;next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bureaucracies at War</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

After Xi

Listen to this episode commercial free at<a href="https://angryplanetpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://angryplanetpod.com</a> The Pacific Northwest is known for its startling natural beauty, precocious rainfall, and propensity to birth serial killers. Why? Caroline Fraser has a theory and it’s a good one. This week on Angry Planet, Fraser takes us on a journey through the American past and into the dark heart of the PNW. Her new book Murderland weaves together memoir, true crime, history, and science into a compelling narrative that’s as beautiful and deadly as the forests around Tacoma. <ul><li>Lead in the time of serial killers</li><li>Crazywall as map</li><li>America’s ultra-leaded 1970s</li><li>The killer hubristic roadways of the Pacific Northwest</li><li>The unique draw of Ted Bundy</li><li>The beauty and horror of the PNW’s woods</li><li>Lead poisoned psychos become pop culture geniuses</li><li>Anne Rule and the different eras of true crime writing</li><li>The Olympic–Wallowa lineament</li><li>The current state of the true crime genre</li></ul> <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/murderland-crime-and-bloodlust-in-the-time-of-serial-killers-caroline-fraser/156e2df8d7c9c05c?ean=9780593657225&amp;next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Murdlerand: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers</a> <a href="https://ecology.wa.gov/spills-cleanup/contamination-cleanup/cleanup-sites/tacoma-smelter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tacoma Smelter Plume project</a> <a href="https://www.pittmed.health.pitt.edu/story/houses-butterflies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Houses of Butterflies</a> <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/from-the-archives-a-look-back-on-i-90-floating-bridges-before-light-rail-work-begins/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A look back at the I-90 floating bridges before light-rail work begins</a> <a href="https://hunningham.biblionumis.it/domesday-book/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Domesday Book</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Traveling America’s ‘Murderland’

Listen to this episode commercial free at<a href="https://angryplanetpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> https://angryplanetpod.com</a> On September 2, 2025 the United States escalated its decades long War on Drugs with a tactic borrowed from the War on Terror. It used a drone to blow up a boat it said was full of drugs then said the 11 people killed in the strike were terrorists. Is this legal? Does that matter? On this week’s Angry Planet, journalist Mike LaSusa of InSight Crime comes on the show to walk us through the ins and outs of America’s long-running War on Drugs and how War on Terror tactics are shaping the fight. <ul><li>What’s Tren de Aragua?</li><li>The real connections between Tren de Aragua and the government of Venezuela</li><li>Is this legal?</li><li>How America’s drug interdiction works</li><li>Does violence deter?</li><li>On narcoterrorism</li><li>Cartel as misnomer</li><li>Violence isn’t sustainable</li><li>“We don’t even know these people’s names.”</li><li>America’s partners in the War on Terror on Drugs</li><li>“Motivations matter.”</li><li>How do you solve a problem like illicit drugs?</li><li>How the Trump admin hurt its own cause in the drug war</li><li>Poppies in Afghanistan</li><li>Drug use as a moral failing</li><li>11 is a lot people for a drug boat</li><li>The Cartel of the Suns</li></ul> <a href="https://insightcrime.org/event/how-war-on-terror-tactics-could-change-the-fight-against-organized-crime/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How War-on-Terror Tactics Could Change the Fight Against Organized Crime</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/trump-drug-boat-venezuela-strike.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It</a> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/09/10/trump-venezuela-boat-attack-drone/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rand Paul Reveals Venezuela Boat Attack Was a Drone Strike</a> <a href="https://insightcrime.org/investigations/tren-de-aragua-fact-fiction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tren de Aragua: Fact vs. Fiction</a> <a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/how-trumps-anti-money-laundering-rollback-could-help-latam-criminals/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Trump’s Anti-Money Laundering Rollback Could Help LatAm Criminals</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The War On Terror on Drugs

Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.com Political assassins often have incoherent politics and Tyler Robinson is no different. The young man who killed Charlie Kirk inscribed the shell casings of his bullets with obscure memes that say less about what he believed and more about where he spent time online. Robinson isn’t alone. Earlier this year the Annunciation Church shooter showed off a rifle inscribed with similar memes pulled from the internet. The Christchurch shooter in 2019 livestreamed their killing and left behind a meme laden manifesto. So what the hell is going on? On this episode of Angry Planet, Michael Senters—a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech—has some unsatisfying answers. Senters painstakingly walks us through each message on Robinson’s bullets and explains the online spaces from whence they came.If you don’t know a gropyer from a Helldiver or have never heard “OwO” said aloud, this episode is for you. It will not make you feel better. <ul><li>4,000 hours in seven games</li><li>A painfully specific explanation of every shell casing meme</li><li>“It can’t be Helldivers”</li><li>“This kid has probably fried his brain online.”</li><li>Hearts of Iron IV’s place in online fascist discourse</li><li>Son, what’s a groyper?</li><li>There’s no compelling evidence Robinson was a Groyper</li><li>The terrible embarrassment of explaining memes out loud</li><li>The 10 year old meme on the shell that killed Kirk</li><li>Constructing an ideology here is a Sisyphian task</li><li>Being online is about irony and performance</li><li>How a moment in time becomes a memetic hieroglyph</li><li>Assassination as performance</li><li>Gamergate as a “critical junction” in the Republican party</li><li>How GG spread the irony-poisoned posting style like a virus</li><li>Filming a TikTok video at an assassination</li><li>Re-evaluating our relationship to the internet</li><li>A little bit about working in a bookstore</li><li>The charging documents drop at the end of our conversation</li></ul> <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/charlie-kirk-killing-tyler-robinson-shell-casings-rcna230933" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What the shell casings in the assassination of Charlie Kirk do – and don't – tell us</a> <a href="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-guns-its-also-the-phones/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/16/us/tyler-robinson-charges.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read the Charges Against Tyler Robinson</a> <a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-leaked-messages-from-charlie" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSWKtuaV2fY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The “Notices Bulge OwO” video</a> <a href="https://cad-comic.com/comic/loss/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The “Loss” comic</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Assassinations Are Shitposts Now

Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.com The episode is about Vanessa Guillén, a US soldier who was murdered at Fort Hood in 2020. She also experienced sexual harassment while in the military. I spoke with ABC Special Correspondent John Quiñones about his new podcast, Vanished. It’s a good podcast that covers Guillén’s case in-depth and highlights the reforms the Pentagon instituted after. We recorded the show on September 30, Guillén’s birthday. That morning, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a long speech about his own military reforms. Many of the changes Hegseth has pushed through conflict with the changes that Guillén’s death ushered in. As such, I thought it was important to get John’s reaction to Hegseth’s speech. Before we began recording,I told him I planned to ask him about this and he agreed to talk about it. When I asked the question during recording, a public relations person from ABC jumped on the line and asked me to stop talking about Hegseth. I pushed back, but not hard enough. The next day, ABC PR reached out via email to ask if I would cut this moment from the show. I will not. It’s included here in full. Further, I want to take a moment at the top to highlight the reasons why I brought up Hegseth’s speech. There’s a lot to it and, honestly, it demands its own episode. Here are Hegseth’s thoughts on toxic leaders. <blockquote>“Today, at my direction, we’re undertaking a full review of the Department’s Definitions of so-called toxic leadership, bullying and hazing, to empower leaders to enforce standards without fear of retribution or second guessing. Of course, you can’t do, like nasty bullying and hazing. We’re talking about words like bullying and hazing and toxic. They’ve been weaponized and bastardized inside our formations, undercutting commanders and NCOs. No more. Setting, achieving, and maintaining high standards is what you all do. And if that makes me toxic, then so be it.”</blockquote> Guillén’s case also changed the way the Army investigates sexual harassment. Here are the secretary’s thoughts on the current state of official internal military investigations: <blockquote>“We are overhauling an inspector-general process, the IG that has been weaponized, putting complainers, ideologues and poor performers in the driver’s seat. We’re doing the same with the Equal Opportunity and Military Equal Opportunity policies, the EO and MEO, at our department. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints, no more smearing reputations, no more endless waiting, no more legal limbo, no more side-tracking careers, no more walking on eggshells. “Of course, being a racist has been illegal in our formation since 1948. The same goes for sexual harassment. Both are wrong and illegal. Those kinds of infractions will be ruthlessly enforced.”</blockquote> After the speech, Hegseth signed 11 memos that detailed these changes. I’ll link them in the show notes. The memos say that the military’s definition of “harassment” is overly broad, calls for the end of “anonymous complaints”—something Hegesth also said in his speech, and asks that investigations be completed quickly with the assistance of artificial intelligence. I believe that is all important context for this episode. I also believe that Hegseth’s speech and the policy directives represent a regression in the American armed services. I will not pretend otherwise. <a href="https://abc.com/news/0d06790b-c79c-4be1-bd99-6292955b4002/category/1138628" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the All-New ‘Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa’ Podcast</a> Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up

Kara Frederick, from the Technology and National Security program at CNAS, hosts a discussion on the basics of artificial intelligence and its impact on national security with Paul Scharre, Gregory C. Allen and Edoardo Saravalle. The experts also discuss the release of the CNAS AI report series, Artificial Intelligence and International Security.

Artificial Intelligence and International Security

LikeWar The Weaponization Of Social Media

In this episode, Olya and Jeff sit down with Sam Charap, a senior political scientist at RAND Corp and coauthor of the recent RAND report “Rethinking the Regional Order for Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia,” which explores solutions to the dilemma of mutually exclusive Russian and Western integration paths for six “in between” countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. We discuss the report’s findings and the viability of this third path to European security, as well as U.S.-Russia relations, Ukraine’s future, and European security writ large.   (Read more at https://csis.org/podcasts/russian-roulette/insecurity-between-russian-roulette-episode-67)

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Venezuela As A Narco State

In this episode, Jude invites Professor Victoria Hui, associate professor in the department of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Drawing on her academic work on global protest movements, Professor Hui analyzes the forces that are shaping Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, as well as the causes and consequences of the cycles of violence between protesters and the Hong Kong police.
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Why Protest Movements Radicalize

There’s anti-government protests in Hong Kong, Venezuela, and Russia. The civil war in Syria rages on and, thanks to Twitter, VK, Facebook, anyone can share their opinion about world events. Elements of both the left and right say that any anti-government protest in one of America’s rivals is a CIA plot and dictators such as Bashar Al Assad are good, actually.&nbsp; Is this information warfare or just shitposting? Here to help us figure that out is Idrees Ahmad. Ahmad is Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling and a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Vice, and The Atlantic. You can listen to War College on<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/war-college/id1023774600?mt=2" target="_blank"> iTunes</a>,<a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jason-fields/war-college" target="_blank"> Stitcher</a>,<a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ioueaqtuifyfrxlbf6e6ec6difm" target="_blank"> Google Play</a> or follow our<a href="http://rss.acast.com/warcollege" target="_blank"> RSS directly</a>. Our website is warcollegepodcast.com. You can reach us on our Facebook page:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/" target="_blank"> https://www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/</a>; and on Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/War_College" target="_blank"> @War_College</a>. For information regarding your data privacy, visit <a href="https://www.acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a>

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