Hello, this is Mauder Rebels. I'm Ben Norton. My co-host, Max Blumenthal, is currently reporting in Caracas, Venezuela,

and because his internet connection there is very weak, he hasn't been able to upload episodes.

He's recorded there, but in the meantime, this is an interview that I did with Max

during a live stream, and you can find the full live stream at the Grey Zone and our YouTube

channel for the Grey Zone. And I posted another episode at Moderate Rebels here in which

Max discussed the situation on the ground in

Venezuela, politically, economically, with the parliamentary election, with the U.S. blockade

and sanctions and hybrid war.

Well, this is another part of that live stream, and I'm joined by Max and also our colleague

Aaron Mate.

And in this segment, we talk about how Western corporate media outlets are dominated by these shills for spy agencies, intelligence agencies, and how the CIA has so many assets filling mainstream corporate media outlets like Reuters,

which just hired a lifelong CIA agent. We also talk about the regime change website Bellingcat,

which is funded by the UK government and by the U.S. government's soft power arm, the National

Endowment for Democracy,

which is a CIA cutout. And we talk about how these Western intelligence agencies fuel

corporate media reporting on Russia and Russia Gate and the Russian opposition politician

Navalny, Alexei Navalny, and also Venezuela and China.

So without further ado, here is our discussion of how Western corporate media outlets have a

symbiotic, a deeply symbiotic relationship with Western spooks and spies.

I'll never apologize for the United States of America.

Ever. I don't care what the facts are.

Why are we going to sit down and talk to these quote-unquote moderate rebels?

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