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Lefty Lounge
by Brook Hines
stuff from and about left stuff Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support
Episodes
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Oklahoma City Bombing and controversy with Richard Booth
I 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…
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How Reagan's ghost still haunts the living; plus stop confusing 'Stalinism' & 'communism'
Kartik 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.
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Commie Santa & the Magical Orphan [class and the holidays]
One Christmas I found out Santa wasn't real...but it didn't sink in until the next year.
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COGNITIVE WARFARE: NATO is colonizing minds to undermine OUR society (it's their stated goal!)
Are 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...
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Russiagate FAIL; bat coronavirus warning from 2015; covid news & psyops fun
THIS 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...
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Is this how Democracy ends? The peril of using RW assumptions to make left arguments
Covid 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."
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Russiagate FAIL; bat coronavirus warning in 2015; covid treatment news & psyops (really!)
THIS 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...
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Covid conformity, culture war, trauma, and living chronic
Time 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.
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Your mind is a battlefield (thought I'd give you a heads-up)
The 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…
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How the media is gaslighting you -- PLUS continuing adventures in TIA
Quick 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...
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My own 'vaccine hesitancy journey'
My 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…
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How the left FAILED us on the pandemic: Sam Husseini joins to discuss
Brook 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...
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Quislings are subverting your movement; US goes mask-off RE Afghanistan; also FL Covid struggle
In 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...
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Alan Grayson, the March for Medicare For All, and how we beat the Snallygasters
Former 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
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White House to police SMS messages + social media; also new GOP fashy strategy
Brook 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...
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Tara Reade on her lawsuit against Sally Albright, big tech censorship, and more
Brook 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...
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Independence Day: exploding with FREEDOM (and fossil fuels)
Brook 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...
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How the left failed us [ourselves] on the pandemic: Sam Husseini joins to discuss
Brook 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...
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Blacklisting the left again; Censorship & Jan 6 siege
Brook 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…
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DSA icepick memes and WSWS: normalizing violence against the left
Neo-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...
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How'd COVID start in the first place? Why are states cutting pandemic aid? What's wrong with Missouri?
[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...
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100 days FDRvBiden, UFOs, UN agrees ACAB
Brook 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...
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Glamping neolibs & sockpuppetry; Superleague fiasco; Cops serving corp interests
Brook 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."...
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Russian bounty story collapses + how police have legalized murder
Brook discusses the shocking collapse of the Russian bounties story. Jeanine Molloff on how US police have legalized murder.
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Troubling origins of DSA and AOC
The 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…
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AOC silencing the left? • Comforting adequacy of Joe Biden • New Jim Crow in GA
Brook 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…
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Supercharged McCarthyism is dividing left; vaccine apartheid
Brook 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.
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Think tank creatures attack the left; FL's best nature; vaccine apartheid
Brook 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…
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Medical apartheid! Austerity's dark surprise! socialism for beginners!
Brook 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?"...
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Is Sinema doing Biden's bidding? Also, libertarian socialism is totally a thing!
Part 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)...
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Twitter suppression fail, Move Left Idiots, #NotDyingForWallSt
Brook 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...
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Plutes & cable news oppose Covid relief, and impeachment PT 2
Brook 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…
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Propaganda, means-testing, Jewish Space Lasers, voter suppression
0-30 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…
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Stimmy betrayal, FL idpol, and Jewish Lasers From Space
Brook 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...
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No Labels crafting Biden's Covid relief + how 9 Reps changed Congress
Brook 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
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The Biden agenda & history; attacks on the left; behind the insurrection
Brook 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.
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Examining the Parler Putsch
Brook 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.
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