🚨🚨New Radio — It Was The War-st Of Years. 2022 that is. Our war-year in review.
We also consider how the failed Belarus regime-change movement in 2020 shaped Putin's 2022 war in Ukraine.
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The post-9/11 wars have displaced at least 38 million people — roughly the population of Canada. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fil
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"Forty years after revelations that the CIA funded brainwashing experiments on unsuspecting Canadians, the Trudeau government is continuing a pattern of silencing the victims...To this day, neither the CIA nor the Canadian government has apologized"
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Grim grim developments in Ukraine re: mobilisation
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Did not expect the West to abandon one of their most effective, long-standing FSU satraps like this. If they cared about Misha, the whole NGO/media/sanctions syndicate would've been activated. Instead, crickets. What happens when you're no longer useful.
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"In Russia, the giant Udokan Сopper project is set to start production in 2023...Udokan is one of the largest copper deposits globally...it’s ideally positioned to ship to China, which accounts for more than half of the world’s copper consumption."
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There are 100 members of the "Progressive Caucus," who capitulated within seconds to nearly every demand Pelosi made, and 40 members of the Freedom Caucus who don't mind waterboarding their own leader in public to get their way & ditching him if they don't.
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Clocked in 2 hours with comrades & and coulda gone longer because I’m definitely not bitter about anything nosiree I do love american journalism
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An evening walk to the end of the Molo Audace, the stone pier where Triestini have strolled at sunset for a century, and Trieste has had one of the most glorious centuries in the world. Every time, the crowds are different, the light on the molo changes...
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Once again, tells an urgent, vital story about Ukraine you won't find anywhere else in int'l media: a bill too extreme to pass before the war is now being rushed through and will remove most urban planning and historic protection. ⬇️
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Over/Under on Carr telling reporters that he prayed for Stidham to win today
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No matter the final score, Carr is the big loser today, and that is a mitzvah
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This is the magnificent indoor pool built in Soviet Georgia in 1965 for the working class, and now it's a super expensive fitness club made inaccessible for the working class. It's now also teeming with wealthy Russian liberals fleeing Russia, as well as wealthy Georgians.
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Same energy.
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Someone dug up this Jordan Peterson letter to The eXile, published in the November 3, 2005 edition.
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The sequel to Springtime For Hitler
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This clip showing members of the Azov battalion dancing together with Jews in Israel is currently completely making Z-Russians going ballistic, making them to release the crudest Anti-Semitic tirades.
Well, another Russian lie (fighting Nazis) exposed. #Ukraine #Israel
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“the Raiders live in a perpetual cycle of misguided hope, abject clownery, and paralytic self-loathing.”<—he says this as of it’s a bad thing or somethin
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Only took him 6 years to figure it out: “this is a day to salute Mark Davis, the open-faced tuna melt who decided that Carr would never see the field again.”
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FB is reminding me of this photo from Kuwait. It's the shack across from our dormitory. Legend had it that it was bombed in Gulf War I. More likely just crumbled, but one thing wars are good for is investing crumbly shacks with legend.
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"a country wanting to have its currency serve as a [reserve currency] needs to get in circulation outside its borders. That means running trade deficits. No way, no how is China willing to do that, since a trade deficit is tantamount to exporting jobs."
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Thanks to Jimmy Carter for airline deregulation.
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"Today, the Ukrainian resistance is exploited to give greater credibility to Western superiority. Ukrainians are presented as fighting and dying for what too many Westerners do not believe anymore...wrapped in identitarian ‘civilizational’ rhetoric."
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We also discuss Tigray, again. At least 600,000 killed there, and yet hardly a peep from the famous humanitarians in Washington and London.
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Can't help feeling like these stories have been delayed, and released now as proof that "We DID cover Tigray!" For me, the image of the year was something we saw last winter in Toronto: Streets full of people waving Ukrainian flags...
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How bad is grade inflation at Harvard College? If trends keep up, an average student in ten years will have a perfect 4.0. thecrimson.com/article/2022/1 (h/t )
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US ruling class gloating like porn addicts over China’s impending Covid catastrophe. We’re all supposed to forget that the DC bipartisan consensus killed off over a million Americans, deadliest failure among rich countries.
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“We have no choice, and we cannot escape.”
Medical staff are outnumbered and working sick as China's health care system buckles under the strain of a spiraling crisis. nyti.ms/3PT3GlC
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"I am a Stronghold master, BIG, in the armor plate of total invulnerability. My ammo is stacked in heaps roundabout, and I can win ANY war. My blasters stand itchy on the GO pad, ready, at the speed of a metal thought, to launch for TOTAL SMACK."
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Reading Adam Hochschild's American Midnight, about the US from 1917-1921, gives you that queasy, gloomy feeling that it's no use. Virtue will always be upheld, in remarkably cruel ways which will be quickly forgotten...
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My short essay in on the deficiency of the ongoing "decolonization," the "Ukrainian voices" identity politics, and what we could better do instead.
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Ruling class corruption is so out in the open they don’t even bother trying to hide it, there’s no pretense of shame. Why should they bother? What are the rest of us slobs gonna do about it?
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“Jill Sommers, another former CFTC commissioner, also served on the FTX U.S. Derivatives Board of Directors. Miller helped arrange for Bankman-Fried to meet and dine with former CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz, the current general counsel for the SEC”
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Hyper-kleptocracy: “Many of Bankman-Fried’s top deputies were former regulators. Ryne Miller, FTX’s general counsel, previously served as legal counsel to Gary Gensler, the then-CFTC chairman who is now the chairman of the SEC.”
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Highly recommend Katz's book "Gangsters of Capitalism" which takes you through those early imperial "small wars"up through the Business Plot, using this strange high-born Quaker/muscleman Smedley Butler as the narrative thread.
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New Radio — great talk with about the brutal early years of America's overseas empire, told through one of the Empire's top hitmen, US Marines Gen Smedley Butler, who later blew the whistle on the Business Plot against FDR.
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A wild story: Smedley Butler, USMC icon turned whistleblower on Imperial war. Our interview with Jonathan Katz @KatzOnEarth, author of Gangsters of Capitalism.
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After months in Ukraine training soldiers, Ret Col Andrew Milburn of mercenary firm gets sauced on camera & spills the beans:
Ukraine is a "corrupt, fucked-up society" run by "fucked-up people"
Ukrainian soldiers "kill dudes who surrendered," commit "atrocities"
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I spent months working on this deep dive about the CIA working with a NATO intelligence ally to conduct sabotage strikes inside Russia. Merry Christmas.
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It's astounding what the Turkish state gets away with—routinely murdering & kidnapping opponents around the world, including in fellow NATO countries, with no consequences. Total immunity is one of the big perks with membership in Washington-led cartel.
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So the shooting at a Kurdish center in Paris was done by an old white xenophobe. This is his third anti-foreigner attack in the last couple of years, but somehow he was free to try again.
france24.com/en/france/2022
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One of the developers of the famous Ukrainian game Stalker was confirmed killed in Bakhmut.
Reality is a whole different game.
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