Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, where we

remember the past and choose to repeat it. Today we're honoring the July 4th holiday by telling

some truths about the history of our country. The right would have you believe that the only

way to show your love of country is to pretend that it has essentially no faults.

But would you apply that logic to your friends and family? Or do you love them in spite of their

faults? Maybe even try to help them with their problems because of your love for them.

Well, I think the same applies here. And now, to look back with an eye on the future, sources

today include intercepted, the dig, scene on radio, open source, citations needed, and making contact.

When you strip down or strip away the buffoonery and the arrogance and the lies and you look at the U.S. position in the world

on foreign policy. Trump is basically in line with the political strategy of the empire

politicians, of the elite. The world has long watched in horror as the United States has

pursued its imperial march. Trump has made it okay

to openly mock it. And while Trump does indeed lie about anything and everything, he

simultaneously engages in the big lies, the big lies that unite Democrats and Republicans.

That is why America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance,

control, and domination. I honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own

customs, beliefs, and traditions.

The United States will not tell you how to live or work or worship. We only ask that you honor

our sovereignty in return. You see right there, this is a big lie. It's a lie that has been told throughout the

history of the United States. The U.S. has never honored the right of nations to pursue their

own customs and beliefs. The U.S. invades countries, sanctions them, bombs them, overthrows

governments, interferes in elections, assassinates people across the globe.

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