Episode 546 - From Minneapolis to Venezuela (w/ Anya Parampil)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Journalist from The Grayzone and author of Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire Anya Parampil returns to Bad Faith to discuss the latest developments in Venezuela following the kidnapping of Maduro -- a story that somehow emerged this month but is already out of the headlines. But first, we tackle an insane news week, including the ICE shooting death of Alex Pretti, the Democratic Party's feeble response and willingness to compromise ahead of this week's government funding deadline, settler attacks in the West Bank on Holocaust memorial day, Israelis starting fires in Patagonia, the physical attack on Ilhan Omar, TikTok becoming part of the Ellison empire, & more.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:11.0 | I'm very glad to be joined today on Bad Faith once again by Anya Parampil. |
| 0:45.2 | You know her as a journalist at The Grey Zone and also the author of Corporate Koo. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome back, Anya. |
| 0:52.4 | Nice to see you, Brianna. |
| 0:54.2 | It's always such a pleasure. |
| 0:55.7 | So I have to confess to the audience that as they're well aware, this new cycle has been |
| 1:03.0 | absolutely extraordinary. |
| 1:04.9 | I feel like I've been saying that for weeks, but somehow every week seems to top itself. |
| 1:09.4 | I reached out to you maybe a little over a week ago, maybe two weeks ago, to talk about Venezuela. |
| 1:16.0 | And it feels like the world has reinvented itself, even within the last four days or so. |
| 1:22.6 | As we're recording this, we're just a few days out from the ice killing, the most recent ice killing in |
| 1:31.3 | Minneapolis, Minnesota. This one's somehow even more obviously unjustified. I mean, it's |
| 1:37.7 | hard to say that because Renegos murder was also so obviously a point-blank assassination. |
| 1:45.3 | But in that context, you saw the conservative media spitting this idea that she had tried to hit the ICE officer with the car. |
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