S01:E107 - Israel issues veiled threat to Turkey following airbase strikes in ...

These motherfuckers are at it again, trying to convince you that the world is normal while the fascist machine grinds people into dust. Welcome to the show where we tear off the bandaid and show you the bleeding wound. I’m NodeZ3r0 and you are listening to the Anti Social Socialist, and today we are… Watch this episode on WOPR TV: https://wopr-tv.wopr.systems/w/kqXRLvfijHsbDTDSEoJ8g4 SOURCES & STORIES COVERED: Middle East: Israel issues veiled threat to Turkey following airbase strikes in Syria (Middle East Eye) https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-issues-veiled-threat-turkey-following-airbase-strikes-syria Europe: Middle East updates: Trump warns ‘economic consequences’ for nations helping Iran (Deutsche Welle) https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-trump-warns-economic-consequences-for-nations-helping-iran/live-78438056?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-xml-mrss Latin America: Cartoneros, cooperatives protest plans to overhaul Buenos Aires recycling (Buenos Aires Times) https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/cartoneros-cooperatives-protest-plans-to-overhaul-buenos-aires-recycling.phtml Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started–and lost–a Fight With Brazil’s Judiciary (Brasil Wire) https://www.brasilwire.com/inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary US Independent Media: Economic Fascism and the “Megadeal” (CounterPunch) https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/20/economic-fascism-and-the-megadeal/ Asia-Pacific: USS Nimitz soldiers on but ‘glory days are over’: CCTV report (South China Morning Post) https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3364694/uss-nimitz-soldiers-glory-days-are-over-cctv-report?utm_source=rss_feed Africa: China Evergrande founder sentenced to life in prison (Daily Maverick SA) https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-08-20-china-evergrande-founder-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/ Oceania: ‘I get along with him’: Trump says he’ll meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un (SBS Australia) https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/donald-trump-meeting-kim-jong-un/fhea06mjp FALKEN INTELLIGENCE: Active disinformation operations tracked: OP-SUBMITTED-LINK-COMMENTS, OP-NEWS-MAYOR-NONE, OP-RUSSIA-MANAEA-NONE, OP-LECHE-CRUDA-PARA, OP-NONE-YEAR-STATE Duration: 14 minutes Generated: 2026-08-20 AI-generated socialist analysis powered by Chatterbox voice cloning. International news the billionaire-owned media wont tell you. Video version: https://wopr-tv.wopr.systems/w/kqXRLvfijHsbDTDSEoJ8g4 Subscribe: https://asscast.org WOPR Foundation: https://wopr.systems Mastodon: https://mstdn.wopr.systems/@nodez3r0 Falken Intelligence: https://falken.wopr.systems FULL TRANSCRIPT: These motherfuckers are at it again, trying to convince you that the world is normal while the fascist machine grinds people into dust. Welcome to the show where we tear off the bandaid and show you the bleeding wound. I’m NodeZ3r0 and you are listening to the Anti Social Socialist, and today we are digging into stories that the billionaire-owned media giants refuse to print because they make them look like the pigs they actually are. Let’s get right into this shit and make some noise. Israel is issuing veiled threats to Turkey after some airbase strikes in Syria, and if you listen to Middle East Eye, you get the straight dope. They say Katz warns Turkey over its involvement, but Ankara and Damascus are rejecting claims of a military build-up. This is not about security, man. This is about who holds the keys to the Middle East and who gets to decide who lives or dies. While the American press is eating up the soundbites about “strategic deterrence,” the actual reality is that the Zionist regime is flexing its muscles against its neighbors. They strike at Syria, threaten Turkey, and the international community stays silent because they are scared of the economic consequences. But let me tell you something, the people in those regions are not scared of a threat. They are scared of the bombs. The bombs are real, the threats are real, and the corporations profiting from this war are walking away richer while the villages burn. Middle East Eye is reporting the truth, and the truth is that the US and Israel are playing chess with the lives of millions of human beings. And the chess pieces are people. That is what you need to understand. This is not geopolitics, this is murder for profit. Now check this out, because the other side of the coin is just as disgusting. Trump is warning nations that help Iran with economic warfare, and according to Deutsche Welle, he has the gall to threaten them. Meanwhile, Australia summoned Israel’s envoy over the death of an aid worker in Gaza back in 2024. Deutsche Welle has the latest, and it exposes the hypocrisy of the American administration. They talk about freedom and democracy, but they are building a wall of debt and fear. Trump threatens economic warfare, which is just another way of saying he wants to control the global economy. The IMF, the World Bank, and the whole fascist machine are working together to starve nations that do not kowtow to their will. The aid worker died, and Israel got off with a slap on the wrist, but when a nation stands up to the empire, they get threatened with economic collapse. This is the game show of fascism, and the host is the billionaire class. They pull the strings, they pick the winners, and they let the losers bleed out. Deutsche Welle is shining a light on this bullshit, and they are saying that the world is watching. But the world is being gaslit. You have to wake up. You have to realize that the economic warfare Trump is talking about is just a new name for the old game of colonialism. Moving on to a story that is completely ignored in the US because it involves the poor and the working class, and that makes the corporate media uncomfortable. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the cartoneros, the waste pickers, are protesting plans to overhaul their recycling system. The cooperatives warn that bringing in private companies could threaten thousands of jobs and undermine a twenty-year-old socially inclusive system. According to the Buenos Aires Times, this is a direct attack on the working poor. They have a system that works, a system that keeps waste out of landfills and gives dignity to the people who collect it. But the corporate interests want to privatize everything, and they want to dump the profits into their pockets. The cooperatives are fighting back, but they are up against a giant machine that does not care about their livelihoods. This is class war, plain and simple. The billionaires in New York and London are looking at the slums of Buenos Aires and thinking, how can we make more money here? And the answer is by destroying the existing systems that protect the poor. The Buenos Aires Times is reporting on this struggle, and they are showing us that the fight for recycling is the fight for survival. If you lose the waste pickers, you lose the environment, you lose the community, and you lose your future. This is not just about trash, it is about justice. And justice is what you need. Here is where it gets wild, because we are looking at the big picture of economic fascism. CounterPunch is calling it what it is: economic fascism. A system with a small number of massive corporate conglomerates under which ninety-nine point nine percent of us have no substantive power whatsoever. This can never be one consistent with liberal democracy, the rule of law, or economic freedom. CounterPunch is tearing apart the facade of the American dream and showing you the reality of the corporate state. They say that those who focus on the current regime and the corruption show that they understand neither the nature nor the scale of the social problem. They are blind to the real enemy. The real enemy is not a politician, it is the system itself. The system is designed to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few and leave the many in the gutter. This is not a bug, it is a feature. The feature is to keep you distracted, to keep you arguing about who is the lesser evil while the factory burns. CounterPunch is shouting the truth from the rooftops, and they are saying that the struggles to come will be hard, but they are necessary. You cannot fight the system with the tools of the system. You have to build new tools, you have to build new ideas, you have to build a new world. And that starts with waking up. Now let’s talk about the military industrial complex, because that is where the money goes and where the lies are born. The USS Nimitz, the world’s longest-serving aircraft carrier, is reported by CCTV to be in the glory days being over. The South China Morning Post says that the United States Navy’s reliance on extended carrier deployments is a cause for concern, particularly for the Nimitz. This carrier was commissioned in 1975, and now it is showing its age. The Chinese state broadcaster CCTV is pointing out that the broader US fleet is suffering from fatigue. Why? Because the shipbuilding capacity of the country has declined. The Pentagon is buying up new ships from foreign contractors, but the domestic industry is crumbling. This is the result of decades of austerity, of cutting defense budgets, and of letting the workers starve. The CCTV report is exposing the cracks in the armor of the American empire. The glory days are over, and the empire is rotting from the inside. The military industrial complex is a cancer, and it is spreading. It feeds on war, it feeds on fear, and it feeds on the belief that force is the answer. But force does not solve problems, it creates new ones. The CCTV report is a warning, and a warning from an enemy is sometimes the only truth you can trust. Meanwhile, in China, the founder of Evergrande Group has been sentenced to life in prison. The Daily Maverick is reporting on this story, and they are saying that the world’s most-indebted property developer faced justice five years after the firm’s collapse shook the nation’s economy. Evergrande was a giant of the Chinese economy, and when it fell, it brought the whole system down with it. The founder got life in prison, and that is a huge deal. It shows that even in a system of corruption, there are consequences. The Daily Maverick is covering this story from Africa, and they are connecting the dots between the financial crisis in China and the instability that is spreading globally. The collapse of Evergrande was not an accident, it was a deliberate move to consolidate power in the hands of the state and the big banks. The worker who lost their home, the small business that went bankrupt, they did not get justice. But the boss did. And that is the nature of capitalism. It is a rigged game, and the only way to win is to play by different rules. The Daily Maverick is giving us the facts, and the facts are that the system is broken. Here is another gem from the ocean, where the politics are just as fucked up as everywhere else. Trump says he will meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, and according to SBS Australia, he cited a specific number of warheads that North Korea holds. This is insane. Trump is talking about nuclear warheads like they are going to a golf tournament. SBS Australia is reporting on this unusual move, and they are pointing out the absurdity of the situation. Trump wants to meet the dictator, but the world is on fire. The number of warheads is a lie, or at least a dangerous distraction. The real issue is that the US and its allies are building up their arsenals while telling the world to stand down. This is hypocrisy on a cosmic scale. SBS Australia is asking the questions that no one else dares to ask. They are saying that the meeting is a distraction from the real work of disarmament and peace. The nuclear threat is real, and we need to talk about it, not laugh about it. Trump is a piece of shit who thinks he can sell weapons to the highest bidder, and that is exactly what he is doing. SBS Australia is calling it out, and they are saying that the world needs leaders who care about life, not leaders who care about profit. And finally, we have a story that shows how the tech giants are losing their grip on reality. Brazil has blocked Elon Musk’s X platform, and according to Brasil Wire, this is not about free speech. It is about sovereignty and foreign entities respecting Brazil’s rule of law. The Brazilian judiciary is standing up to the billionaire, and they are winning. Musk started a fight with the judiciary, and he lost. The only political element is on Musk’s side, in his open support for Brazilian fascists. Brasil Wire is reporting that Musk’s meddling and incitement is being viewed as a coup attempt. This is a massive wake-up call. The tech giants are not neutral, they are tools of the empire. They monitor you, they censor you, and they sell your data. Brasil Wire is showing us that the fight for digital sovereignty is the fight for our freedom. If you let these corporations control the information, they will control your mind. They will control your reality. Brasil Wire is telling the truth, and the truth is that the tech giants are part of the fascist machine. You have to fight them, you have to hack the system, and you have to build your own networks. The Falken intelligence system has been tracking these stories, and they have detected active disinformation operations. The data shows clusters of fear mongering, cherry picking, and astroturfing across social media platforms. They are trying to scare you, to make you feel helpless, to keep you from organizing. But they cannot stop us. We see the patterns, we know the tactics, and we are ready to fight back. The disinformation is loud, but the truth is louder. The truth is that we are connected, we are powerful, and we are not going to be silenced. So what do we do? We organize. We build mutual aid networks. We support the cooperatives in Buenos Aires. We stand with the waste pickers. We call out the fascist machine. We join wopr.systems and we start spreading the word. We need to build a new world, a world where the people come first, where the economy serves the community, and where justice is not a commodity. This is the only way forward. This is the only way to win. Get out there and speak up. Share this podcast with your friends, your family, your neighbors. Let the word spread. Let the truth rise. The fascist machine is weak, but we are strong. We are the people, and we are the future. Don’t let them take it from you. Don’t let them steal your future. Stand up, fight back, and make some noise. 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