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Aaron Maté (The convenient framing of US politics)

Stay Free with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Politics, Society & Culture, News:politics, News, Comedy

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Russell chats to Aaron Maté, an investigative journalist from The Grayzone about the expansion of NATO in Finland, the convenient framing of US politics with Donald Trump and the shutdown of dissenting voices, whether it's the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia or the US wanting to extradite Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in the UK. You call follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronjmate Read Aaron's articles: mate.substack.com  For a bit more from us join our Stay Free Community here:https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Come to my festival COMMUNITY - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/

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0:00.0

Hello there, you Awakening Wonders. Thanks for joining me on Rumble for Stay Free with Russell

0:04.9

Brand. If you're watching this on YouTube right now, join us on Rumble, particularly after about 10, 15 minutes or so,

0:10.3

where we will be using freedom of speech to say the most uncanny, absurd and ultimately truthful things,

0:17.5

things that might not please the establishment, but will certainly present

0:21.1

opportunities for you to awaken, form new alliances and ultimately new systems that will

0:26.4

replace this corrupt carnival that's taking place even now, particularly around Donald Trump's

0:33.5

arraignment and ongoing criminalization. We'll be talking about the criminalization of Trump and how it distracts us from significant

0:40.8

global events like Finland joining NATO and speaking to Aaron Matte about that at length.

0:47.3

Aaron Matte, our fellow conspiracy theorist and far right wing, not just right wing, far right. We see, we look over our shoulder,

0:57.0

there's Mussolini, Oswald Mosley, and the big little guy, they're just back there going,

1:02.5

come back, come back to neoliberalism, come back to the lack of inquiry that passes for

1:08.7

mainstream media reporting. How are you today on screen

1:12.4

assistant, Mr. Gareth? Yes, very well. Very well. Oh, you feel quite well. How are your old

1:16.9

biochemical and immune systems holding up? Doing all right. Thanks, Ross. Fortunately, this is a period

1:23.1

of grind of sustained broadcast. How you know that the Trump trial is being exaggerated

1:32.3

is the fetishization and amplification of the smallest detail.

1:38.4

Have a listen to this reporter trying to discern and diagnose anger

1:43.8

from the side of someone's ed, like using

1:46.6

it still, listen to it.

1:47.6

Like, I mean, I've been obsessively in love with people over the course of my life.

1:53.6

Over the course of my life, I've been obsessively in love with people.

1:55.4

But I've never like scrutinized a person's face, like trying to discern some sort of real emotion in quite the manner

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