The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

This is Bobby Martin. How's it going?

How's it going, guys?

So what's up?

So a lot's going on.

I haven't been too much plugged into the news, Robbie, but I have just been seeing some crazy stuff come across my feed in the last

couple weeks that I compiled for this. And I just, I'm excited to get your take on it because you

always have a really good take. So let's just jump into this. Because later in the podcast,

we're going to interview a friend of the show, Ryan Wentz, about his little visit from the cops over a tweet, which has been a pretty interesting story and seeing how it unfolded over the last couple days.

So we have an exclusive interview with him.

But for now, let's go over a couple headlines, Robbie, starting with Vice President Kamala Harris, recently coming to Oakland, where Media Roots was founded, talking about Biden's infrastructure project, where she said something really interesting, kind of a slip of the tongue, if you will, about war. She said, quote, for years and generations,

wars have been fought over oil. In a short matter of time, they will be fought over water.

Unbelievable admission kind of about, first of all, that wars are literally fought over oil, right? That's

kind of a trope that was prominent during the Bush administration. And it's just kind of

that unspoken reality that capitalism necessitates the constant expansion and accumulation

of resources around the world. And oil is number one, right? That's why the U.S.

targets Venezuela. That's why it's targeting Iran. Oil, oil, oil. And soon, because of climate

change, I mean, the military has already drafted up plenty of plans talking about how water is going to be essentially like a finite

resource that's going to need more military intervention. You know, we can look at something like

the Sahara Desert and Africa, a lot of the mass migration going on and exodus of refugees

is all kind of stemmed around the erosion of water supplies. So this is a very real

thing. And Mike said something funny. It was like, we should take this as a threat. Like, this is

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