Hey everyone, this is Ben Norton, and my co-host, Max Blumenthal, is currently reporting in Caracas, Venezuela.

So this episode you're about to listen to is an excerpt from a live stream that we did for the gray zone.

If you want, you can check out the full live stream on

YouTube, but we thought it would be good to isolate this section in which Max talks about

his reporting in Venezuela. We have some episodes coming up soon with Max reporting from Venezuela.

Unfortunately, because of the bad internet connections there, he hasn't been able to upload the files for me to edit them. So until then, hold tight.

For now, you might enjoy this episode. Max is going to talk about his experience reporting from the

parliamentary election in December 2020 in Venezuela and how corporate media outlets lied about it, spread

distortions and misinformation. And of course, the U.S. government claimed that the election

was illegitimate before it even happened. Like they could somehow tell the U.S. government claimed that the election was illegitimate before it even happened.

Like they could somehow tell the future. So Max will talk about that. And then later in this episode,

Max will be joined by Diego Sequeira, who is a brilliant Venezuelan journalist and political

analyst. He's a friend of ours. He has contributed to the

gray zone. And in fact, we did a previous episode when I was in Venezuela with Max, with Diego

Sequeira. So if you want to check out our other episode, Diego talks about the history of the

leftist Chavista movement and the modern history of Venezuela. In this episode,

Diego is going to talk about the economic situation and Venezuela, the U.S. economic and hybrid

war, and what a Joe Biden administration could potentially look like for Venezuela. I should also mention that at the beginning of this segment,

we're joined by the hilarious lefty comedian Jimmy Dore.

Many of you probably know him.

You can find a show at YouTube.

So without further ado, here is the excerpt from our live stream

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