Tag: Podcasts
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: On the Ground Report with Rania Khalek on the International Anti-Fascist Summit in Venezuela—and the Global South Perspective on Ukraine
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 2
On today’s show we start out with Elon Musk's $44 billion dollar effort to buy Twitter. He claims he will make the algorithms open source, but there’s obviously many doubts about that. What does this development mean for the platform?...and much more
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: EXCLUSIVE Eye-Witness Report from Shanghai on COVID Lockdown
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 3
The corporate media has been non-stop talking about the “dystopian” lockdown in Shanghai claiming people are starving in mass. The question “at what cost” pops up in articles across the news cycle questioning China’s lockdown policies. The logistical challenges for Shanghai’s local government to manage a lockdown in response to a mass omicron spread have been significant, but is that the full story?
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Dark Money Attacking Reproductive Rights
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
Today the Bulletin digs into a variety of topics including the recent case of Liselle Herrera, a 26 year old woman charged with murder for performing a “self-induced abortion” made national news, bringing attention again to the human rights crisis happening in Texas around reproductive rights. What people don’t know is that this crisis is fueled by dark money, corruption, and deeper right-wing capitalist agendas for deregulation. How much money is changing hands and what does this mean for women’s rights and LGBTQ rights?
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday that weapons and other equipment, including anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, Humvees and Puma drones, are being sent to Ukraine and NATO allies at “an unprecedented pace.”
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Hawaiian People Win Against U.S. War Machine Poisoning Their Water
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 0
In Hawaii thousands of people have been displaced and 93,000 have had their water poisoned by the Red Hill Navy facility. This is after two fuel leaks just last year, and a major fuel leak of 27,000 gallons of fuel in 2014. The Navy sacrifices water for war by refusing to do anything about the facility, which activists demand should be closed and fuel tanks drained immediately.
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: U.S. Hypocrisy—CIA Trains Insurgents in Ukraine
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
As the US government continues to say it does not want U.S. or NATO forces coming into direct conflict with Russian troops, a recent report in Yahoo News revealed that since 2015, the CIA has been overseeing a secret intensive training program in the U.S. for elite Ukrainian special...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: The Role of War Propaganda in Anti-Asian Violence
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 1
The epidemic of anti-Asian violence has grown exponentially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, Asian Americans have always been viewed as “enemy aliens” as the FBI and U.S. government had historically called it.
We are joined on today’s show by Amanda Yee, host of...
Lee Camp Talks Cross-Platform Shut Down of RT America and The Censorship of Left Anti-War Media Voices
The information war has heated up, this time with targets on the backs of anti-war journalists and media voices critical to NATO and the U.S.
Last week, the offices of RT America were...
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: Ukraine Crisis Fueled by U.S. and NATO Expansion
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa - 2
Last Week's Episode—Ukraine Crisis Fueled by U.S. and NATO Expansion
The outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine did not come out of nowhere. Fundamental to understanding the current crisis is the history of U.S. and NATO expansion in Europe—which the U.S. repeatedly promised Russia would not happen.
Richard Becker...
Interviews with Alicia Castro, Martin Stolar and Tariq Ali on Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom
Randy Credico - 1
Listen to the latest episode of Randy Credico’s acclaimed radio show “Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom,” an ongoing exploration of the prosecution and persecution of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder.
Part One: Alicia Castro and Martin Stolar
Alicia Castro, currently Argentina’s ambassador to the Russian Federation, first met Julian Assange in London,...