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Debunking anti-China myths of the new cold war - with Daniel Dumbrill Mar 18, 2021

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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton (kind of) speak with Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian YouTuber who has lived in China for more than a decade, about the new cold war. He debunks the anti-Chinese myths constantly spread in the Western corporate media.

Check out Daniel's YouTube channel at: youtube.com/channel/UC6Bl8MTbW9M9MQoPhxbarpw

How US spies & soldiers gave birth to Big Tech companies, and growing censorship - with Yasha Levine Mar 13, 2021

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Ben Norton speaks with journalist Yasha Levine about how Silicon Valley has its origins in the US national security and its Cold War on communism. We discuss the links between the United States government and Google, Facebook, and Tor; the far-right anti-China cult Falun Gong; and how Washington rapidly shifted from promoting "internet freedom" to censorship of alternative information.

We also talk about Adam Curtis' documentary series Can't Get You Out of My Head, and respond to questions from our patrons on Patreon.

Yasha's article "Google has been a military-intel contractor from the very beginning": surveillancevalley.com/blog/google-has-been-a-military-contractor-from-the-very-beginning

Inside Russian politics and the rich oligarchs behind Alexei Navalny - with Yasha Levine Mar 11, 2021

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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with journalist Yasha Levine about Russian politics and Alexei Navalny, his political views and xenophobic nationalist history, his Western backing, his own oligarch sponsors, and the elite capitalists who dominate the country's system.

Racism in Israel, anti-Soviet propaganda, and weaponization of immigrants - with Yasha Levine Mar 10, 2021

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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with journalist Yasha Levine about racism in Israel, anti-Soviet propaganda, the cold war, the Zionist movement, and weaponization of Russian Jewish immigration.

Debunking US media propaganda against leftists in Latin America, from Venezuela to Nicaragua Mar 04, 2021

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Ben Norton speaks with Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera about the corporate media disinformation targeting leftist governments in Latin America. We discuss Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and even Libya. We also talk about the importance of food sovereignty, and respond to questions from viewers and listeners.

This is part 3 of our lengthy livestream with Diego: youtube.com/watch?v=WlRl0ZVUrHE

Diego's website Misión Verdad: misionverdad.com

Follow Diego on Twitter: twitter.com/QueraElse

How Colombia's US-backed narco-regime massacred thousands of innocent people and blamed socialists Mar 01, 2021

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Ben Norton speaks with Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera about the far-right government in Colombia, its close links to drug cartels and death squads, Latin America's anti-imperialist Bolivarian movement, the brutally violent repression of the Colombian left, and the false positives scandal, in which the Colombian military massacred over 6400 innocent people and falsely claimed they were socialist guerrillas.

This is part 2 of our lengthy livestream with Diego: youtube.com/watch?v=WlRl0ZVUrHE

Diego's website Misión Verdad: misionverdad.com

Follow Diego on Twitter: twitter.com/QueraElse

Life in Venezuela under US sanctions, resisting the imperial gangsters in Washington Feb 27, 2021

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Ben Norton speaks with Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera, from inside Caracas, about the US blockade, the Biden administration's continued recognition of puppet Juan Guaidó, and Washington's gangster-like theft.

This is part 1 of our lengthy livestream with Diego: youtube.com/watch?v=WlRl0ZVUrHE

Diego's website Misión Verdad: misionverdad.com

Follow Diego on Twitter: twitter.com/QueraElse

US meddling in Ecuador's historic election and coup-supporting fake NGO "left" - Dispatch from Quito Feb 11, 2021

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Max Blumenthal speaks with Ben Norton, who is reporting from Ecuador, on the historic February 7 election, and how the US government, regime-change networks, and wealthy oligarchs are trying to prevent the return of the socialist Citizens' Revolution movement of former President Rafael Correa.

We discuss the fake NGO "left," represented by coup-supporting pseudo-environmentalist candidate Yaku Pérez, and how a victory of leftist Andrés Arauz could help bring back the progressive, anti-imperialist Pink Tide in Latin America.

US capital under military occupation as war hawks in Biden admin take power Feb 01, 2021

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Ben and Max speak with peace activist David Swanson about the US wars coming home: from the prolonged military occupation of Washington, DC to the "liberal interventionist" hawks in the Joe Biden administration, including Antony Blinken, Samantha Power, Lloyd Austin, and Avril Haines.

Conspiracy facts and the MICIMATT that truly governs the USA - with CIA whistleblower Ray McGovern Jan 14, 2021

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We speak with former CIA analyst-turned-dissident Ray McGovern about the institutions that truly govern the United States, comprising the MICIMATT, or Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank Complex.

We discuss how the CIA popularized the "conspiracy theory" smear to discredit US government critics, as well as Donald Trump and the January 6 Capitol riot, Russiagate lies and the DNC "hack," JFK, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, the new cold war on Russia and China, and the Joe Biden administration.

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