Episode 290 - The Enemy of My Enemy

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Politics, News

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2014

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We've seen the rollout of the MSM propaganda using over-the-top hyperbole and flat-out lies to try to demonize Russia in the lead up to the "new cold war." But is this just part of the dialectic, trying to get us to buy into one side or the other in a rigged game? Should we devolve into mere spectators choosing sides in a squabble between #TeamObama and #TeamPutin? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we explore whether the enemy of our enemy is indeed our friend.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Corbett Report.
0:07.0	Corbett report.
0:09.0	Corbett
0:17.8	Report podcast I'm your host James Corbett of Corbett report.com coming to
0:21.4	you as always from the sunny climes of Western Japan
0:23.8	here on this seventh day of March 2014. Welcome back to the Corporate Report
0:28.8	podcast. This is episode 290, The Enemy of My Enemy. So there I was earlier this week, working away diligently on my soon to be released Federal Reserve documentary
0:39.7	when what should arrive in my inbox but a link to a YouTube video which I and my naivete clicked
0:45.9	without the foreknowledge that what I was clicking on was the journalistic sign-off heard
0:51.9	around the world.
0:55.0	Before we wrap up the show, I wanted to say something from my heart about the ongoing
0:59.2	political crisis in Ukraine and Russia's military occupation of Crimea.
1:03.8	Just because I work here for RT doesn't mean I don't have editorial independence.
1:08.5	And I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.
1:14.2	What Russia did is wrong.
1:15.9	I admittedly don't know as much as I should about Ukraine's history or the cultural dynamics
1:19.5	of the region, but what I do know is that military intervention is never the answer.
1:24.6	And I will not sit here and apologize or defend military aggression.
1:28.8	Furthermore, the coverage I've seen of Ukraine has been truly disappointing from all sides of the
1:32.3	media spectrum and rife with
1:33.8	disinformation.
1:35.4	Above all, my heart goes out to the Ukrainian people who are now wedged as ponds in the middle of a
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