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Oklahoma City Bombing and controversy with Richard Booth
November 15, 2022 20:07 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBI remember everything about the day the OKC bombing happened. I also remember thinking I "had it right" when I figured it was "domestic terror," but I know now that the story is far more complex. The reason we know this is because of the work of folks we talk about today with my guest Richard Booth (@booth_okc). He joins me today to discuss his research and address some recent drama in the OKC research community. CITATIONS Richard's extensive OKC archive Aberration in the Heartland of t...
How Reagan's ghost still haunts the living; plus stop confusing 'Stalinism' & 'communism'
January 17, 2022 21:42 - 1 hour - 120 MBKartik Krishnaiyer joins for an expansive chat about the ghost of Ronald Reagan in current political trends (erm, quagmires). Break out your trusty smudge stick and let's exorcise some demons. CITATIONS Rick Perlstein's books can be found here. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Commie Santa & the Magical Orphan [class and the holidays]
December 25, 2021 21:05 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBOne Christmas I found out Santa wasn't real...but it didn't sink in until the next year. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
COGNITIVE WARFARE: NATO is colonizing minds to undermine OUR society (it's their stated goal!)
October 12, 2021 21:21 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBAre your BELIEFS your own? 'Cognitive Warfare' is happening right now on all forms of media and social media. What are you gonna do to avoid the draft? Or have you already been conscripted? Listen to find out. CITATIONS Behind NATO's 'cognitive warfare': 'Battle for your brain' waged by Western militaries — by Ben Norton, The Grayzone NATO REPORT #1 — "Cognitive Warfare" [this is what i refer to as the 'nonpartisan' report] NATO REPORT #2 — "An attack on truth and thought" (Johns Hopkins...
Russiagate FAIL; bat coronavirus warning from 2015; covid news & psyops fun
October 08, 2021 13:56 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBTHIS WEEK Finally getting to the bottom of Russiagate (story by Aaron Maté) with new indictment (download) Russiagate? More like Watergate (story by Matt Taibbi) Warnings about engineered bat coronaviruses in 2015 Covid treatment roundtable and leaked CDC slide deck Dem operatives use DARPA technology in Covid propaganda operation run by Gen. Stanley McChrystal (no paywall) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Is this how Democracy ends? The peril of using RW assumptions to make left arguments
October 03, 2021 21:57 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBCovid discourse from the "left" is constructed with rightwing logic, and it's not playing out well. Examining Dr. Vinay Prasad's "How Democracy Ends" essay which you can find on Substack and YouTube. Nathan J. Robinson's essay: "Don't Use The Right's Assumptions To Make The Left's Arguments." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Russiagate FAIL; bat coronavirus warning in 2015; covid treatment news & psyops (really!)
September 28, 2021 00:13 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBTHIS WEEK'S STORIES mins 0:00—15:00 Finally getting to the bottom of Russiagate (story by Aaron Maté) with new indictment (download) Russiagate? More like Watergate (story by Matt Taibbi) mins 15:00—39:00 Warnings about engineered bat coronaviruses in 2015 mins 40:00—1:14:00 Covid treatment roundtable and leaked CDC slide deck mins 1:14:00—1:21:00 Dem operatives use DARPA technology in Covid propaganda operation run by Gen. Stanley McChrystal (no paywall) --- Support thi...
Covid conformity, culture war, trauma, and living chronic
September 20, 2021 04:59 - 1 hour - 90 MBTime for The Left to play catch-up on Covid. Some are leading the way while others continue to disappoint. Appealing to authority is not a good look for the The Left. Also, a philosophy major tells me I had a wrongthink. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Your mind is a battlefield (thought I'd give you a heads-up)
September 05, 2021 22:56 - 1 hour - 124 MBThe alignment of tech, media, and pharma has doomed our pandemic response, as shown by an extraordinary Rolling Stone FAKE NEWS controversy. RELATED: new trust-in-media crisis. Don't let "Sensemaking" technocrats colonize your brain, please. Plus! Facebook continues to be an evil and stupid thing. STILL MORE! Zeroing in on early covid treatment. CITATIONS Trust in Media Hits NEW CRISIS LOW, Axios ROLLING STONE BOGUS ARTICLE "Gunshot Victims Left Waiting as Horse Dewormer Overdoses Ov...
How the media is gaslighting you -- PLUS continuing adventures in TIA
August 30, 2021 00:59 - 1 hour - 192 MBQuick follow-up from last week on "My Vaccine Hesitancy Journey": puzzling doctor visit might be explained later in episode. Then, how FEDERAL AGENCIES under Health And Human Services are dictating how the media covers healthcare. A medical doctor in British Columbia shares what he learned about "micro" blood clots, and then loses everything. CITATIONS How the FDA manipulates the media, by Charles Seife, Scientific American Censorship is called “transparency,” by Charles Seife, Sci...
My own 'vaccine hesitancy journey'
August 23, 2021 19:46 - 1 hour - 132 MBMy own vaccine hesitancy journey; what has happened along the way; and what might actually work to get people protected. CITATIONS Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed, by Charles Eisenstein The deserving and undeserving unvaccinated, by Libby Watson Here's a Terrible New Idea: Making the unvaccinated pay higher insurance premiums, by Natalie Shure --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
How the left FAILED us on the pandemic: Sam Husseini joins to discuss
August 16, 2021 17:19 - 1 hour - 109 MBBrook Hines with Sam Husseini, reporter/activist talks to PNN on biological warfare programs and how the left screwed up the pandemic narrative with a sectarian approach to facts and science. Jeanine Molloff on a new "predictive policing" in Florida schools—Pasco County Sheriff's program that harasses students. CITATIONS Perspectives on the Pandemic video series, excellent Sam Husseini interview with Journeyman Pictures (whole series playlist) Did Covid come from a lab? Maybe not, but i...
Quislings are subverting your movement; US goes mask-off RE Afghanistan; also FL Covid struggle
August 16, 2021 00:13 - 2 hours - 178 MBIn the first half, Brook Hines on the subversion of social movements (especially now on social media). How to spot 'em, squash 'em and move along. Then Kartik Krishnaiyer joins to share observations on Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and how DeSantis is very much worse than Trump. CITATIONS "Subversion of social movements by adversarial agents" Sen. Robert Byrd 2003 floor speech on invasion of Iraq: "I weep for my country." Ron DeSantis partners with Fox News on Covid/masks in Fl...
Alan Grayson, the March for Medicare For All, and how we beat the Snallygasters
July 26, 2021 03:11 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBFormer Congressman Alan Grayson joins to discuss the March For Medicare For All and how you beat the Snallygasters that stand in our way. Brook provides some M4M4ALL context, then the interview begins at the 6-minute mark. CITATION https://graysonforsenate.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
White House to police SMS messages + social media; also new GOP fashy strategy
July 19, 2021 03:18 - 1 hour - 138 MBBrook Hines and 'Space Coast Caller' on why Biden can't actually peek into our text message for wrongthink. Jeanine Molloff's Justice Report this week --> how the GOP is planning for a new Fuhrer (prolly Trump). CITATIONS The CLASSIC First Amendment issue inherent in government using private platforms to police wrongthink; by Matt Taibbi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Tara Reade on her lawsuit against Sally Albright, big tech censorship, and more
July 12, 2021 16:41 - 53 minutes - 74 MBBrook Hines chats with Tara Reade about suing Sally Albright; big tech censorship; and how political parties colonize your mind. CITATIONS Left Out: When The Truth Doesn't Fit In, by Tara Reade available on Amazon Follow Tara Reade on Twitter @ReadeAlexandra Left Bitches on Spotify Katie Halper Show on YouTube Richard Medhurst on YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Independence Day: exploding with FREEDOM (and fossil fuels)
July 05, 2021 15:05 - 1 hour - 143 MBBrook Hines reviews the week: Tara Reade sues Sally Albright and @realKHiveQueenb (aka Bravenak; aka Bianca Delarosa). The Gulf of Mexico and Caspian Sea are both on fire. LAPD bombs neighborhood. Assange case falls completely apart...and more. Also "intellectual capture" is the new regulatory capture: Matt Taibbi's latest on freedom of speech is a perfect Independence Day read. Jeanine Molloff on Exxon lobbyist CAUGHT on camera while Joe Biden is pressured to end fossil fuel subsidies. ...
How the left failed us [ourselves] on the pandemic: Sam Husseini joins to discuss
June 14, 2021 04:26 - 1 hour - 109 MBBrook Hines with Sam Husseini, reporter/activist talks to PNN on biological warfare programs and how the left screwed up the pandemic narrative with a sectarian approach to facts and science. Jeanine Molloff on a new "predictive policing" in Florida schools—Pasco County Sheriff's program that harasses students. CITATIONS Perspectives on the Pandemic video series, excellent Sam Husseini interview with Journeyman Pictures (whole series playlist) Did Covid come from a lab? Maybe not, but it...
Blacklisting the left again; Censorship & Jan 6 siege
June 11, 2021 21:41 - 1 hour - 106 MBBrook Hines and @JustinInBmore discuss insidious Twitter initiative to blacklist and censor the left. Also, unity for me but not for thee. And what's the deal with AOC's Courage To Change PAC? Jeanine Molloff on freedom of speech and January 6 insurrection. CITATION: @JustinInBmore Medium article: AOC's PAC donates to RW incumbents --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
DSA icepick memes and WSWS: normalizing violence against the left
June 09, 2021 19:04 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBNeo-Stalinist memes attacking Trotsky-style socialists are put in historical and social context in conversation with Eric London and Joseph Kishore of WSWS.org. This expansive discussion covers much ground in addition the "icepick discourse," including the devastating impact of the ruling class's weak response to Covid-19. CITATIONS: An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of DSA: by David North Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky Tro...
How'd COVID start in the first place? Why are states cutting pandemic aid? What's wrong with Missouri?
May 24, 2021 02:52 - 1 hour - 154 MB[so many questions!] Brook Hines — pandemic gets personal. Forcing low-wage and unsafe work by cutting off unemployment benefit is cruel and stupid (i.e. totally unsurprising for Republican Governors). SARS-CoV-2 origin: US funded gain of function research in Wuhan. Everything we thought we knew about the virus might actually be wrong. Jeanine Molloff: The Justice Report on Vote Suppression, Constituional Crises, and COVID Karens. CITATIONS: Starving people to force them back to work, C...
100 days FDRvBiden, UFOs, UN agrees ACAB
May 03, 2021 13:42 - 1 hour - 111 MBBrook Hines with @mugrimm on his FDRvsBiden 100 days project <-- FDRvBiden timeline on Twitter. Also, "How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously," in The New Yorker (really!) Jeanine Molloff with UN Rapporteur Marjorie Cohn on the new UN report on policing in the US. "Commission finds anti-Black police violence constitutes crimes against humanity," Truthout, by Marjorie Cohn. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Glamping neolibs & sockpuppetry; Superleague fiasco; Cops serving corp interests
April 26, 2021 03:44 - 1 hour - 160 MBBrook Hines on Neoliberals Glamping in Death Valley: celebrities, sockpuppets, and manufactured paranoia. Read the new Substack here email updates --> https://brookhines.substack.com/p/neoliberals-glamping-in-death-valley Kartik Krishnaiyer on the big capitalist failure of the "superleague." Jeanine Molloff on the everlasting awfulness of cops. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Russian bounty story collapses + how police have legalized murder
April 19, 2021 06:04 - 1 hour - 109 MBBrook discusses the shocking collapse of the Russian bounties story. Jeanine Molloff on how US police have legalized murder. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Troubling origins of DSA and AOC
April 12, 2021 03:27 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBThe DSA's anticommunist history and AOC's capitalist history. Two surprising tales that make sense together. Citations: The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Eric London, wsws.org Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party, by Eric London, wsws.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
AOC silencing the left? • Comforting adequacy of Joe Biden • New Jim Crow in GA
March 29, 2021 02:16 - 2 hours - 55.9 MBBrook Hines analyzes the two Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez articles currently circulating widely. The history of left factionalism tells us where we are, and provides insight into what's coming next. Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell on the supremely comforting adequacy of Joe Biden. Jeanine Molloff offers a searing rebuke to Jim Crow 2.0 now evident in Georgia. CITATIONS "Talking socialism: catching up with AOC" in Democratic Left, a publication of Democratic Socialists of America, by Do...
Supercharged McCarthyism is dividing left; vaccine apartheid
March 22, 2021 05:39 - 2 hours - 18.2 MBBrook Hines on her new Substack article: Supercharged McCarthyism seeks to divide the left. Click thru for article and sign up for my new Substack :) Jeanine Molloff with part 3 of vaccine apartheid and #NotDyingForWallSt. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Think tank creatures attack the left; FL's best nature; vaccine apartheid
March 15, 2021 03:26 - 1 hour - 108 MBBrook Hines provides a preview of new series on the new fake fascist scare on the left. Kartik Krishnaiyer launches new Florida Squeeze YouTube channel featuring natural Florida's best kept secret spaces. Jeanine Molloff continues #NotDyingForWallSt with in-depth look at how monopolies created our vaccine apartheid. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Medical apartheid! Austerity's dark surprise! socialism for beginners!
March 08, 2021 03:23 - 1 hour - 102 MBBrook Hines with a few thoughts. Esha Krishnaswami gives us a "beginner's guide to socialism." Part 1 of my chat w/Esha. Jeanine Molloff on medical apartheid and the need for a "People's Vaccine." CITATIONS In Memory of County Heyden: "What are our non-party Democrats teaching the people?" Historic.ly on Substack Sundays with Lenin on YouTube More information on The People's Vaccine --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Is Sinema doing Biden's bidding? Also, libertarian socialism is totally a thing!
March 08, 2021 02:58 - 1 hour - 198 MBPart Two of this week's MEGAPOD. Two special guests join for political conversation, analysis and speculation: Kartik Krishnaiyer on his new piece "In Defense of Charlie Crist," and why some Florida "progressives" aren't all that. Some are. We break it down. Chris Richards (The Eclectic Radical) joins to help me understand "libertarian socialism" and chew the fat on big ideas. CITATIONS "In Defense of Charlie Crist" by Kartik Krishnaiyer at The Florida Squeeze Chris Richards on Twitt...
Twitter suppression fail, Move Left Idiots, #NotDyingForWallSt
March 01, 2021 03:55 - 1 hour - 144 MBBrook Hines reports on Twitter enforcing your faith in NATO, and how Twitter speech regulations backfired and made The Grayzone go viral. Also Grayzone: how the UK pays Reuters, BBC and Bellingcat to create the news. Anthony and Komrade join to discuss the 1-6 Capitol insurrection; how socialism works in RED areas, why Cuomo is awful, how we're creating vaccine banana republics and chad Parenti vs virgin Chomsky. Jeanine Molloff on the Justice Report continues her series #NotDyingForWallSt...
Plutes & cable news oppose Covid relief, and impeachment PT 2
February 15, 2021 15:25 - 1 hour - 160 MBBrook Hines on how Zuckerberg, Gates and Bloomberg created a fake think tank to oppose any kind of economic relief for suffering Americans. Also, Valentines to the CIA and why pluralism isn't what it used to be Jeanine Molloff on impeachement and the 14th Amendment. CITATIONS: Sirota's Daily Poster on "Opportunity Insights," a fake think tank and how cable news bought it hook, line and sinker. Joe Biden takes Medicare hostage in asinine game of chicken. --- Support this podcast: http...
Propaganda, means-testing, Jewish Space Lasers, voter suppression
February 08, 2021 04:21 - 1 hour - 162 MB0-30 mins: Brook Hines on how we could do without "Secret Conspiracies to Save Democracy" (see all links below) 30-60 mins: Mystery Caller calls in to discuss Joe Biden's history of means-testing. 60-75 mins: Rick Spisak and a raft of special guests present "Jewish Lasers From Space." 90-120 mins: Jeanine Molloff's Justice Report on new voter suppression efforts. LINKS! Time Magazine on the "conspiracy to save democracy." New York Times on a "Ministry of Truth" for Biden's Administra...
Stimmy betrayal, FL idpol, and Jewish Lasers From Space
February 01, 2021 04:41 - 2 hours - 168 MBBrook Hines on how we're fixin' to be screwed on stimmies. Also, forget any kind of public option. Kartik Krishnaiyer on how Florida's vote by MSA reveals the limits of idpol. Your guide to GameStop: An explainer on short selling, short squeeze. Jeanine Molloff on Marjorie Taylor Green's (Jewish Lasers From Space). CITATIONS! Kartik's stunning MSA analysis of Florida presidential votes BrotherQ explains how hedge funds, short selling, and short squeeze works RE GameStop et al (follow...
No Labels crafting Biden's Covid relief + how 9 Reps changed Congress
January 25, 2021 03:28 - 2 hours - 174 MBBrook Hines: No Labels group crafting Biden's Covid relief package. Kartik Krishnaiyer: Think a handful of Reps can't change Congress...think again! Rick Spisak: Frontline Tampa nurse braces for super-spreader Super Bowl Jeanie Molloff: Prosecute Trump; ignore Marco Rubio --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
The Biden agenda & history; attacks on the left; behind the insurrection
January 20, 2021 23:43 - 1 hour - 107 MBBrook Hines on the Biden agenda. Kartik Krishnaiyer joins to provide history and context on pushing agendas through Congress. Brook returns to address coordinated attacks on the left --> #Ghive Jeanine Molloff on The Justice Report: insurrection, white supremacy, and Donald Trump. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support
Examining the Parler Putsch
January 11, 2021 04:07 - 2 hours - 165 MBBrook Hines with Kartik Krishnaiyer on likely next steps to be taken by House and Senate leadership. Rick Spisak in conversation with Denis Campbell on how the US is looking from the UK. Jeanine Molloff says the Gabby Giffords shooting was a portent to the siege on the Capitol. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brook-hines/support