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Best of 2023: Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies / Stefania Maurizi

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Our Best of 2023 series continues with Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist currently contributing to the major Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano after working for the last 14 years for la Repubblica, consistently rated among the top two Italian newspapers, and for the italian newsmagezine l’Espresso. She has worked with Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks since 2009, teaming up with large teams of international media to cover and investigate all of WikiLeaks' secret documents. Stefania speaks with host Chuck Mertz about her book "Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies" recently published by Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347615/secret-power/ After the interview, more of your answers to the Question from Hell and a Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen. Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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You're going to go. The Lord is with the Lord is with the

0:15.0

work for our power of the order.

0:18.0

Make it a turn. Now, This is hell.

0:50.0

It's been coming up a lot lately on the show, but it's true the United States has one of the most effective,

0:56.0

if not the most effective, propaganda system in the world, which is evidenced by Assange's imprisonment. The U.S. propaganda machine is

1:05.3

so effective most Americans do not believe it exists. And you know how propaganda

1:09.7

from other countries seems so heavy-handed and unbelievable? That's how people in other countries

1:14.3

think of us. That's the way they view our propaganda, which is very evident to

1:20.1

them. That's because propaganda is always more obvious to outsiders

1:23.8

compared to those who have been immersed in it their entire life, so much so that

1:28.6

they don't even recognize it. I am your bitter-blind broke-gap-toottooth radio show live streaming and podcast host Chuck Mertz producing is

1:36.8

Chris Kool Fan Chris do you have any plans for your upcoming weekend?

1:48.3

I know it's hard right? It's like three days away. Yeah Wednesday is really really early. It's kind of hard to figure out what the hell you're going to do.

1:51.6

No the coolest thing I'm doing is tonight,

1:54.4

the Goodman Theater, we got free tickets for a play called Revolution.

1:57.9

It was written by Bill Aiers and Catherine Doorn,

2:01.3

or not kidding.

2:02.3

And Son, music by Tom Morello at the Goodman.

2:04.6

So that's going to be fun, but that's going to be tonight that this weekend.

2:07.0

This weekend, I just, my mind can't think ahead.

2:09.4

But that sounds good, revolution, Tom Morello and past and past guests, Bill Airs on the show.

2:14.4

So yeah, Bill was fantastic on the show.

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