“Former weapons inspector and US Marine Scott Ritter recently tweeted that he believed that Ukrainian forces, and not Russians, were responsible for the civilian killings in Bucha, and by blaming Russia, American President Joe Biden was committing a war crime. Inexplicably, Twitter then suspended Ritter’s account, alleging that he had violated their restrictions against “abuse and harassment.” Ritter’s account was soon restored, but has since been suspended AGAIN for another equally benign tweet.
Jimmy speaks with Ritter about the situation in Bucha, social media censorship and the prospects for free speech in an era when lines between the government and the tech industry are increasingly blurred.”
“Krystal and Saagar examine the shakeup in social media policy at The New York Times after leadership expressed concern to staff that they have been spending too much time on Twitter”
“Should everyone get a fourth booster shot against COVID? Certainly, if the FDA is to be believed. But maybe not, if we’re to believe insiders at the very same agency who have spoken out and insisted that the scientific case for boosters among the general public has not been made. But who cares about science when the pharmaceutical industry has profits to make?
Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discuss the uniquely American phenomenon of demanding boosters for all regardless of the science.”
“According to Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey, there’s a reason Donald Trump decided to retire to Florida instead of staying at his beloved Trump Tower in New York City: Everyone down in Florida loves him. Or, at least, the people that surround him at Mar-a-Lago love him. The reporter says that Trump has managed to cocoon himself inside a safe bubble where haters aren’t allowed, and that could end up being a very bad thing for him, as Farron Cousins explains.
“A video from Shanghai has gone viral depicting the sounds of apartment residents in high-rise buildings across the city screaming and wailing, ostensibly because they are tired, hungry and feeling isolated after spending a week or more in complete lockdown, unable to leave their homes.
Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the cost of lockdowns and whether the Chinese government’s response is doing more harm than good.”
“Martti J. Kari is a former intelligence Colonel in the Finnish Defense Forces and now teaches at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Watch the lecture that inspired this interview here: Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel (subtitles) https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw“
Find me any political system where predation is not institutional on some level.
Capitalism is not it.
Sadly, Konstantin seems to have drank the capitalism koolaid pretty hard…and offers up the same, tired capitalism talking points…apparently because, “what about Russian communism?!”…
The whole reason so many people [including in the USA] are rejecting capitalism, is because it has habitually failed the mass majority of us for the past several decades…The capitalist system is indefensible shit, which does not work for the majority…It consolidates wealth and power, while impoverishing the masses…These are simple, indisputable facts…It’s happening right before our eyes!
You get so tired of people talking about the horrors of Russian communism, when virtually nobody is even pushing for Russian communism…Yeah…lots of people were imprisoned, murdered and impoverished…Does anyone seriously believe that USA capitalism hasn’t done or allowed the very same things, merely presenting different loops to jump through to arrive at the same end?
We in the USA have been conditioned [not that all of us have internalized and embodied it], to be self centered, selfish pricks, who point, gawk and cackle whenever we see ill befalling someone else…and there is a lot of shitty people competing in this capitalist system…people you cannot even trust…and there’s not room for everybody to be “winners”…That’s just the sad reality of capitalism…It fails at taking care of vast swaths of the population…it isolates and ostracizes many.
Yeah…the Russians had the KGB, and their own oligarchs…few human rights…harsh punishments…they “disappeared” a lot of people…murdered many…
…In the modern day of Julian Assange, an FBI that outright sets up and entraps people, drones that blow up aid workers and their children, war crimes galore…censorship off the charts…the largest incarcerated population percentage in the world…a country where you better keep your fucking head down and mouth shut, if you disagree with those holding power…Do you really imagine, that the USA is materially any different?
…Because it’s not.
I get that Konstantin came out of a shitty situation, and between his stand up comedy and rather good podcast, he’s likely had a much nicer time with his personal experience with capitalism, where he has had the personal tools and opportunities to make it work…and very good for him!…
…This is a far cry from the majority experience with capitalism…Most of us can no longer wear his rose colored glasses.
“Elon Musk is making Twitter Bluechecks VERY salty by saying that Twitter should give Verification to anyone willing to PAY for Twitter. How DARE he! There’s also talk of Musk pushing his way into the Twitter CEO position. Oh, please break Twitter. Please. It’s a platform that needs reformed… or torn down. For the good of humanity.”
“MSNBC host Ali Velshi claims to be a peacenik, but you wouldn’t know it from recent statements he’s made on the air and on Twitter. Velshi even got into something of a tiff with The Greyzone’s Aaron Maté on Twitter after demanding that he United States send armed forces into Ukraine to directly confront Russia, with Maté wondering why Velshi is so eager for World War III in a conflict that was largely of NATO’s own making.
Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discuss the critical events that led up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and why the media so rarely provides this essential historical context.”
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