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Most of us have heard about the great heroic Salt March of Mahatma Gandhiji, and the boycott of British fabrics, but very few of us have heard of the Great Indian Naval Mutiny, an event which gave a great scare to the British colonial powers and helped chart the course for Independence. Today, we have Pramod Kapoor, author of 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny; Last War of Independence to talk to us about this revolutionary event.Show Notes1:19 - “In popular history, it became almost a footnote.”1:47 - The 1965 play in Bengal and example of how it has been edited out of history4:32 - The Sailors who Mutineed 5:49 - The Racism, and the terrible conditions. 8:57: Who is Subash Chandra Bose? How did his strategy differ from Gandhi? 10:57 - Subash Chandra Bose’s influence upon the Soldiers 15:00 - Bombay Jewels and ‘Seditious Slogans’ and Agitation by Communist Party of India19:00 - The news spreading and other ships joining the Mutiny21:00 - Why didn’t the spark flame?24:00 - The Tria...

During the cold war, the CIA was obsessed with mind-control. There vision was creating a something like a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. And so, they began a division called the MK-ULTRA, within MK-ULTRA, they conducted many gruesome experiments on human beings around the world. Some of it came to light during the church hearings. Some of it came to light because of diligent researchers who use the freedom of information act, and others through leaks. We still don’t know the breadth and depth of the project. But, Kit Klarenberg discovered two of the most gruesome projects: one in Denmark and the other in West Germany. In Denmark, they took young orphans and subjected them to torture-like tactics to see how they would react. In West Germany, the project was much darker and much more cruel. Doctor Helmut Kentler thought it would be a good idea to put orphans under the care of pedophiles and this project went on for nearly 30 years. Shownotes1:20 - Introductions: Why primary governm...

The conservatives complain about godlessness, reactionaries think god punishes America for its godlessness, progressives think that America is too religious. But, wherever one might be on the spectrum, they each are unhappy about how religion manifests itself in America. Today, we have Justin Clark from Red Reviews Podcast here to talk about the history of Atheism, secularism and other types of godlessness in America. He also talks about the cult of Reason and all the other problems associated with the Godless. 5:46 - Who is Robert Ingersoll?10:04 - Eugene Debs relationship with Robert Ingersoll 12:40 - How Robert Ingersoll Helped Eugene Debs in the Pullman Strike13:00 - Robert Ingersoll’s Politics20:00 - Justin’s Critique of the Secular Movement23:31 - Atheism’s Golden Age from 2004-2016 26:00 - Why Esha thinks New Atheism always represented racism28:00 - Sam Harris’s Golden Girls’ Trust FundStatistician William Briggs Explains the Fraud of Sam Harris’ PHD30:00 - The Good and...

Editor’s note: Apologies for the delay. I had a seizure and I was in the hospital. During the seizure I also broke my nose. We will resume with our regular weekly content. We also plan on including some bonus content for the weeks we missed. We apologize. And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Asad Zaman. Enjoy.Audio chapters4:11 - Mercantilism8:10 - Fascism is not something in and of itself, rather it's something to fill in the vacuum left by the wreckage of the self-regulating market10:58 - The ideology and religion of greed12:22 - Jane Austen- The poorest AMONG THE ARISTOCRACY (the movie Ever After)15:43 - The importance of history to the study of economics.22:28 - Those who benefit most from of capitalism want us to focus on the imaginary, not history.24:08 - Entanglement- The methodology of Polanyi (history shapes our ideas which shapes history)29:17 - "Government is bad", but the self-regulating market requires even more government to suppress the protestations...

Today Jeffrey Epstein talks with Asad Zaman about the 2001 edition of Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation. Professor Zaman is a PhD economist based in Pakistan, with many lectures, papers, and posts on the topic. The Great Transformation reveals, essentially, that what we think to be a foundation of our economy and society is, in fact, an illusion. Specifically, Polanyi calls capitalism and its free or "self-regulating" market "a stark Utopia". By definition, a Utopia (an imagined place where everything is perfect) is impossible to achieve. However, the attempt to achieve it – to eliminate literally all market regulation – can result only in the complete destruction of all human life and the land they live on. This is evidenced by our increasingly likely extinction at the hands of a human-created ecological crisis, caused largely by unprecedented and still-growing levels of inequality and the mass exploitation of all natural resources, including most human beings.He...

Today's part two of my two-part conversation with Jackson Winter, on the 2001 edition of Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation. This is also part two of a larger four-part series on the book. Jackson is co-writer and editor for PEGS Institute, which is a project to demystify and explain some commonly misunderstood realities of the modern world. Here's their YouTube channel.(A list of the "audio chapters" in this episode can be found at the bottom of this post. A link to all four parts in the series can be found in Part 1I'll summarize the book in next week's introduction. Even experienced MMTers can't know this stuff. You think you understand the foundation of our economy and society, but you don't. As described in The Great Transformation, there's another foundation underneath it.(Before we start the interview, I'm making an announcement at the request of a patron, and that is: the podcast Pod Save America, which is hosted by former Obama staffers, has millions of foll...

This month, we will have four special episodes hosted by our correspondent,Jeffrey Esptein. Today, he will talk author Jackson Winter about the 2001 edition of the Karl Polyani book, “The Great Transformation” Jackson is co-writer and editor for PEGS Institute, which is a project to demystify and explain some commonly misunderstood realities of the modern world. The Great Transformation is the centuries-long history of how our current rentier capitalism came to be, and what preceded it. It reveals that much of what we believe to be inevitable and unchangeable, or natural about our society is, in fact, a deliberate choice. Those who most benefit from this system (the rentiers, those who collect rent) would like nothing more than for the rest of us (those who pay rent) to believe this system and their unending greed to be natural, inevitable, unchangeable and, indeed, best for everyone. This is part 1 of 4 of Audio chapters8:20 - Jackson introduces himself10:13 - Journey to the book...

While mainstream media is running a propaganda Blitz on Ukraine, where they seem to frame it as “Russian aggression” against Ukrainians, Ukraine was already invaded 8 years ago. The movie Ukraine on Fire goes through the armed coup, planned at the US Embassy with then Under Secretary Victoria Nuland, where they picked the leaders, and the army and launched the country into an eight-year-long civil-war with the eastern regions of Ukraine.Today, we interview Igor Lopatonok, the director of this amazing documentary. 0:54 - Igor introduces himself. 1:00 - Censorship of “Ukraine on Fire” 2:35: Old Soviet films into color 5:00 - Igor was banned in Ukraine.6:22 - The TV network was hit by grenade 9:43 - Victor Yushchenko and the Orange Revolution12:07 - Brief history of Ukraine 13:15 - How Ukraine United With Russia in 165415:25 - Stepan Bandera and his Mythology 17:24 - “Subhuman” and other horrific comments by the leadership.17:41 - Poroshenko Speech 18:06 - Ukraine suffering for 8...

Propaganda is a word thrown around, but very few people understand the nature of the indoctrination within the. United States. David Swanson of “World Beyond War” says:When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived. The actual impact is on thousands of movies made, and thousands of others never made. And television shows of every variety. The military guests and celebrations of the U.S. military on game shows and cooking shows are no more spontaneous or civilian in origin than the ceremonies glorifying members of the U.S. military at professional sports games–ceremonies that have been paid for and choreographed by U.S. tax dollars and the U.S. military. The “entertainment” content carefully shaped by the “entertainment” offices of the Pentagon and the CIA doesn’t just insidiously prepare people to react differently to news about war and peace in the world. To a huge extent it substitutes a differe...

Editor’s note: We apologize for the lateness of this interview. This months, one of us had extensive health issues and another had a very urgent personal issue that had to be dealt with. We sincerely apologize, and we add extra episodes in the upcoming months. Today, we have Miguel Arjona Sanchez, Professor of Constitutional Law, join us for the second time to discuss the true history of the Euro and all the problems that stem with it. Don’t forget to also listen to our first interview with Miguel.Show Notes1:00 - 2:35 What is money. Miguel describes society’s relationships to money.2:35 - 5:55 What happened when Spain went to the Euro. How the Euro (Gold Standard)hurts some of the countries more than others.5:55 - 7:20 Iberian Union - would have been a union between Spain and Portugal7:20 - 9:20 How Portugal got integrated into the EU.9:20 - 15:25 Notional inequality of the EU and how the created a “Frankenstein Currency”15:25 - 18:00 The EU is not a democracy. The union is su...