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Biden’s Scary Foreign Policy Picks: A Blast From War Crimes Past

December 19, 2020 AbMartin, Empire Files. , ,
For the past four years we’ve been covering Trump’s dramatic and belligerent escalations in the Empire’s wars. But there’s a new dawn on the horizon. President elect Joe Biden is being celebrated as a return to sanity on the world stage; who will restore peaceful cooperation between allies of democracy. But those words, like most everything else from Team Biden, are just a bunch of meaningless rhetoric. Now, we can clearly deduce what a Biden foreign policy will look like, since he’s chosen all the major positions for his war cabinet these past weeks. Although not everything has been filled, he’s appointed enough people to let us know exactly how he plans to manage the empire.

Max Blumenthal Meets Rafael Correa In Venezuela

December 14, 2020 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. , , ,
Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who was in Venezuela to observe its legislative elections and show support to a government under sustained economic and political attack by the US. Correa addresses issues ranging from the repression in his country under the watch of its outgoing neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, to the persecution of Julian Assange and the role of a CIA contractor in targeting him and the Wikileaks founder. Blumenthal and Correa also discuss the prospect of a left-wing victory in Ecuador’s upcoming national elections, and what the US-backed government is doing to stop it.

On Contact: Wrecking The left

December 13, 2020 Chris Hedges, RT. , , ,
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to journalist Diana Johnstone about the betrayal of the left with its historical role as the champion of social justice and peace now replaced with the boutique activism of identity politics, political correctness and what has become known as humanitarian intervention, the justification of US and NATO adventurism and wars on the specious belief it would liberate the women of Afghanistan or the peoples of Iraq. Diana Johnstone’s memoir is ‘Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher’. Johnstone was the European editor of In The Times from 1979 to 1990, and her work has appeared in New Left Review, Counterpunch and Covert Action Quarterly.

Empire Files: Myth And Fact In Venezuela’s Latest Election

December 13, 2020 AbMartin, Empire Files.
We've all heard the same things about Venezuela coming from every corporate news outlet. Venezuela's a dictatorship and Maduro is a dangerous tyrant further consolidating power though fraudulent elections. Weirdly enough, not many dictatorships have elections, certainly not over 20 in the last 20 years like Venezuela has. And there's a funny thing about how the US media and political establishment views Venezuela's elections. They're illegitimate except when the US-backed opposition party has major victories, which they have twice very recently. One of those was the 2015 National Assembly election where they won a supermajority in the body that is similar to the US Congress.

Taxi Drivers Caravan To DC Demanding Relief

December 12, 2020 Monica Cruz, Break Through News.
Taxi drivers from New York City, Philadelphia, and Maryland joined together in a caravan to Wasington, D.C. demanding relief during the COVID19 pandemic. Ridership has declined up to 80% in cities like New York and many drivers are drowning in debt. BT’s labor beat reporter Monica Cruz brings you this story on the road with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.

How The US Dominates Tech: The Untold Story

December 10, 2020 Numuves, YouTube. , , ,
On May 27, 2020, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada finally ruled that Ms. Meng met the "double criminality" standard. That is her actions "were illegal" in the United States and in Canada, which is unsettling. How could the US' arbitrary sanctions on Iran dictate the actions of global firms? This US extra-territorial attack has gotten the world's attention. Many observers see the detainment of Meng Wanzhou as part of the American attack on Chinese 5G dominance. It also follows a pattern of US economic aggression.

On Contact: Global Economic Machine

December 6, 2020 Chris Hedges, RT. , , ,
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Fabian Scheidler about how the global economic machine came to dominate our lives, and with looming social upheavals caused by predatory capitalism, what can be done to blunt its destructive power. Fabian Scheidler is author of The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization, and co-founder of Kontext TV.

How Bolivia Beat A Military Coup

December 5, 2020 Ollie Vargas, Double Down News. , , ,
The return of Evo Morales was possibly the most important moment in Bolivian history. This time last year, far-right protesters kidnapped Patricia Arce, the mayor of a small town called Vinto. They made her walk over broken glass. They cut her hair and doused her in petrol and red paint and told her they were walking her to her death. And they were trying to get her to resign and to condemn Evo Morales. She refused to do both and so they tortured her. After the coup took power, she was persecuted. She had 17 criminal charges hanging over her.

Did Trump Order Iran Assassination?

December 2, 2020 AbMartin, Empire Files. , , ,
This is Abby Martin with your Empire Update wrapping up the last week of US imperialism. Our first story is about a brazen terrorist attack that murdered a civilian. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of the most important nuclear scientists in Iran, was assassinated on November 27 by unknown gunmen. Here's what we know so far. First, only two countries are likely culprits who have also done so in the past, the United States and Israel. From 2010 to 2012, back during the Obama administration, four nuclear scientists were killed in Iran.

Fuel Shortages In Venezuela

December 1, 2020 Tatuy TV and Venezuelanalysis. , , ,
Fuel shortages have become of the main issues in Venezuela. The mainstream media, always on board the regime change bandwagon, is keen to report that "the country with the world's largest oil reserves" has no fuel, but not so much on the causes behind it. Under the weight of punishing US sanctions, state oil company PDVSA has seen production fall dramatically and fuel refining has been especially hit. In our most recent joint production with Tatuy Tv, we look at the causes and consequences of fuel shortages in Venezuela.

On Contact: Fascism – America’s DNA

November 29, 2020 Chris Hedges, RT. , , ,
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Gabriel Rockhill about the undercurrents of fascism in America’s DNA, and the US role in internationalizing fascism after World War II through clandestine activities such Operation Paperclip and Operation Gladio. Rockhill is a Franco-American philosopher and the founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. His books include Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy, Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics, Radical History & the Politics of Art and Logique de l’histoire.

Nigerians Reject US Imperialism With #EndSARS Protests

November 26, 2020 Jacqueline Luqman, The Real News. , , ,
Massive and intense protests against the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS unit, have been going on for at least four weeks now in Nigeria, but tensions between the SARS unit and the Nigerian people have only boiled over from older longstanding issues. Now, it seems that these current protests are not just against the controversial unit itself, but are also a wholesale rejection of US imperialism and the influence of US policy that many outside of Nigeria may not even be aware of. I’m joined by Abiodun Aremu, secretary for the Joint Action Front in Lagos, Nigeria, to talk about these issues.

Empire Update: Afghanistan/Somalia Withdrawal Scam; Trump Weighs WWIII

November 25, 2020 AbMartin, The Empire Files. , , ,
The Empire Update for Nov. 23 covering the Grand Finale of Trump's promise to end the Afghanistan War; what's really behind the Somalia troop withdrawal; US-backed monarchy sparks new potential war in Africa; State Department takes new action for Israel against BDS movement; and potential for Trump to start war with Iran on his way out.

Tear Gas For BLM, Red Carpet For MAGA Marchers

November 23, 2020 Kim Brown, The Real News. , , ,
Welcome to Burn It Down with Kim Brown. Striking video footage there in Washington, DC as the klan came to town. Oh, they weren't the klan? Well, they kind of looked like the klan to me or at least the grandchildren of the klan. Trump supporters, white supremacists, Proud Boys, whatever you want to call them, took to the streets of DC to show their support for the President who is trying to steal the election. But the striking difference is that Black Lives Matter activists have been in the streets of the District of Columbia all summer long and they have been met with tear gas, with rubber bullets, with...

On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis

November 22, 2020 Chris Hedges, RT. , , ,
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Dr. Margaret Flowers about the Covid-19 pandemic and the catastrophic response to the public health crisis under America's for-profit healthcare system. Without national coordination, or universal and free national health care, Americans are faced with uneven or absent care due to hospital closures, reductions in hospital beds and services. Lawmakers and hospital administrators compete to purchase basic supplies leading manufacturers to hike prices. 
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