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Assange extradition blocked as UK judge defends CIA spying, Biden admin's intersectional imperialism Jan 07, 2021

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Ben Norton speaks with Professor Jared Ball about political prisoner Julian Assange, and how the UK judge blocked extradition due to the horrific conditions of US mass incarceration, while also justifying CIA spying by citing a bogus CNN report based on CIA spying. Then we discuss the liberal war hawks in the Joe Biden administration and their "intersectional imperialism."

Follow Jared Ball's show IMIXWHATILIKE at imixwhatilike.org.

Information warfare, US war propaganda, CIA manipulation of media - Ben Norton talks with Jared Ball Jan 07, 2021

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Ben Norton speaks with Professor Jared Ball about information warfare, war propaganda, US imperialism, and CIA penetration and manipulation of mainstream corporate media.

Follow Jared Ball's show IMIXWHATILIKE at imixwhatilike.org

Revolutionary anti-imperialist struggle from the Bronx to Venezuela, Dominican Republic to Haiti Jan 01, 2021

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In Caracas, Venezuela, Max Blumenthal has a wide-ranging chat with Danny Shaw, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies who has lived in the Dominican Republican, Haiti, and Brazil. They discuss revolutionary anti-imperialist movements, life in poor neighborhoods in the Bronx, Malcolm X's internationalist legacy, identity politics, differences of whiteness in Latin America, problems with the US left, and humanity's age-old question: did Jesus Christ do drugs?

You can follow Danny Shaw on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dannyshawcuny

Spooky Western journalists echo CIA and collaborate with spy agencies Dec 23, 2020

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Max Blumenthal, reporting from Venezuela, discusses with Aaron Maté and Ben Norton how Western corporate media outlets are full of stenographers for spy agencies, how the CIA and MI6 drive reporting on Russia, how the US and UK governments fund regime-change website Bellingcat and its deceptive articles on Syria and the OPCW, and how the British military censors journalism.

(Excerpt from The Grayzone livestream on December 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfEWdh_0Ec)

Inside the US hybrid war on Venezuela: Max Blumenthal reports from Caracas Dec 21, 2020

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Max Blumenthal discusses life on the ground in Venezuela under suffocating US sanctions, and debunks media myths about the December National Assembly election, which he observed. Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera also addresses the economic situation and what a Biden administration policy could look like.

(This is an excerpt from The Grayzone livestream on December 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfEWdh_0Ec)

Our previous interview with Diego Sequera: part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph7jVQf5DSQ / part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OsvbjnTbGc

History of US imperialism in Latin America: From settler colonialism to Pink Tide Dec 12, 2020

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Ben Norton was invited to give this talk on US imperialism in Latin America, for the Workers' Party of Ireland. He discusses the history from European settler colonialism, through the Monroe Doctrine, the first cold war, and the three great socialist revolutions, to the 21st-century resurgence of the left in the Pink Tide.

VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=ycFW7pvu51k

Topics 0:03 European settler colonialism in the Americas 9:30 US colonialism and Monroe Doctrine 18:51 Rebellions against US military occupations 24:43 First cold war and OAS 27:10 Latin American left's 3 great revolutions 38:23 Pink Tide and socialism in the 21st century

Q&A 1:01:57 Mexico and AMLO 1:13:00 White supremacy and political construction of the West 1:18:07 US military presence in Latin America 1:22:40 Ecuador and Lenin Moreno 1:29:13 Russia and China relations in Latin America 1:39:02 Climate change, oil, extractivism, and renewable energy 1:48:14 Outro

Western creeping authoritarianism: Censorship intensifies, as France's Macron expands security state Nov 30, 2020

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US government-backed corporate censorship is escalating online, while France's neoliberal President Emmanuel Macron lurches hard right, cracking down on civil liberties, protests, and the Muslim community.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada about attacks on alternative media and independent journalism by Western "democracies", and how Silicon Valley companies are censoring Palestinians.

We then discuss the French government's discrimination against Muslims, repression of anti-neoliberal protests, and attempt to criminalize filming police brutality.

VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=w7-nuuSeTKg

Show notes and links: moderaterebels.com/western-authoritarian-censorship-france

Part 2 of 2

(Episode recorded November 25, 2020)

How Obama shattered any hope for change - and Biden will continue his warmongering neoliberal legacy Nov 26, 2020

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US president-elect Joe Biden has filled his transition team with hawkish neoliberal war-profiteering holdovers from the Barack Obama administration. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada about how the specter of Obama haunts America - and controls the Democratic Party.

We review passages from Obama's new memoir "A Promised Land," and how they expose his sociopathic imperial worldview. We also discuss how Rahm Emanuel's neoliberal model in Chicago is being copied nationwide.

And we address Biden's cabinet picks, including liberal interventionist Antony Blinken and neocon Michele Flournoy, as well as Democratic support for Israeli apartheid.

Links and show notes: moderaterebels.com/obama-biden-warmongering-neoliberal

Part 1 of 2

(Episode recorded November 25, 2020)

Anti-war US Army veteran warns of hawks in Biden transition team Nov 14, 2020

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President-elect Joe Biden's transition team is full of war hawks and weapons industry shills. We speak with US Army veteran Danny Sjursen, who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan before becoming an anti-imperialist activist and journalist, about what a Biden-Harris administration foreign policy would look like.

Sjursen, who previously taught at the United States Military Academy, also discusses how warmongering members of the West Point Mafia dominate the US government and military-industrial complex.

Follow Sjursen on Twitter at https://twitter.com/skepticalvet

Sjursen's website: https://skepticalvet.com

Sjursen's The Nation article "How the 'West Point Mafia' Runs Washington": https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/esper-pompeo-west-point

Puerto Ricans struggle for independence from US colonialism Oct 30, 2020

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Ben Norton speaks with Andrés González Berdecía, a senatorial candidate from the Puerto Rican Independence Party, about the November 3 election and referendum, US colonialism, the unelected neoliberal junta that controls Puerto Rico's economy, the similarities between Republican and Democratic administrations, and why he wants his nation to be independent.

You can listen to Andrés' podcast Radio Independencia at https://www.radioindependencia.net, and support it at https://www.patreon.com/radioindependencia.

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