TMBS ReAir 133 - #Trump, #China, & Virus-Stage Capitalism ft. Abby Martin & Liz Franczak
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
TMBS 133 aired on March 31, 2020
Episode summary:
The pandemic is accelerating the global pandemic.
Shoutout to workers standing up against the exploitation during the pandemic.
Abby Martin (@abbymartin) joins us to talk about how the US is using the crisis to target Venezuela and how it is using sanctions to pursue empire.
During the GEM, (@DavidGriscom) breaks down the fundamental goal of COVID Capitalism, to maintain the current power dynamics.
Liz Franczak (@liz_franczak) breaks down the crucial questions does Cuomo have a piercing? And how can we bridge the gap between reality and conspiracy?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michael Brooks Show. We're here. We're live. We're still in quarantine in our virtual worlds, but we're still holding it down, as always, with super producer |
| 0:23.4 | Matt Leck, Chief Economist, David Griscombe. |
| 0:27.8 | How's he going? |
| 0:29.0 | On this week's program, Abby Martin, she's hosted the Empire Files, an incredible, intrepid |
| 0:34.9 | journalist, and we are going to be talking about how the Trump administration is taking this moment to |
| 0:43.1 | escalate its empire activities across the globe. |
| 0:47.8 | Sanctions killing innocence in Iran, a bounty put on the president of Venezuela, |
| 0:53.8 | and also an incredible act of South-South cooperation with Cuban doctors that will get to as well. |
| 1:03.0 | And then Liz Franzenk of Truenon. She joins us. We're talking about sympathy for the conspiracy mind. |
| 1:10.0 | Why was the CIA so into French post-modernism |
| 1:14.6 | and why it's not good? |
| 1:17.6 | Shout out to Whole Food Strikes. |
| 1:20.6 | Boycott Amazon. Stand in solidarity. |
| 1:24.6 | Amazon firing a worker attempting to organize an Amazon warehouse. |
| 1:30.3 | We're talking about COVID capitalism with David Griscombe. |
| 1:33.3 | In the post game, we've got a great debunk, as always with Ben Burgess, a new segment. |
| 1:39.3 | Elicit histories of vinyl with Joshua Kahn, Russell. Also, stop simping for Andrew Cuomo. |
| 1:48.0 | Start simping for Pepe Mojica. |
| 1:52.0 | All that and much, much more on the Michael Brooks show. |
| 1:56.0 | Before we keep it moving, as always, |
| 2:00.0 | how are you guys doing? It's getting really bad here in New York. |
| 2:05.7 | That isn't all media hype. How are you guys? Good bye. It's been a lot of time cooking. |
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