TMBS ReAir: 39 - Bombs, Coups, and Local Elections ft. Glenn Greenwald & Julia Salazar

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

TMBS 38 aired on May 8, 2018. Episode breakdown:
6:59 Michael breaks down the destructive, reckless, and buffoonish, decision to end the Iran deal.
19:45 Shoutout to Bernie Sanders for introducing the Workplace Democracy Act.
27:32 Co-founding editor & columnist at The Intercept (@ggreenwald) joins us to talk about the contradictions in Lula’s corruption case, the revolutionary spirit of Marielle Franco and the importance of catching her murderers.
1:01:44 Bari Weiss is sent to the Gulag for obvious reasons.
1:12:06 Julia Salazar (@JuliaCarmel__) DSA-endorsed Democratic candidate for State Senate NY-18 joins us in studio to talk about the experiences that lead to her campaign.

TMBS ReAirs come out every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts and on The Michael Brooks Show YouTube Channel. This program has been put together by The Michael Brooks Legacy Project. To learn more and rewatch the postgame content visit https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

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0:12.7	I'm calling big daddy
0:18.3	More ice-burcs
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0:30.0	In 1953, in fact, the CIA secretly sponsored its first full-scale coup in Iran, and as a result,
0:39.4	the USA kept control of one of the largest oil producers in the world.
0:48.4	Iran was important for two reasons.
0:51.1	It had oil and it had a thousand-mile border with the Soviet Union, now Russia.
0:56.7	The CIA wanted access to the border so they could spy on the Soviets and they could put their missiles there.
1:04.1	The British who were deeply involved in this intelligence coup in Iran, we wanted access to Iranian oil.
1:11.3	So between us, we quite deliberately and viciously overthrew the Prime Minister, Mr. Musadek.
1:19.5	In 1951, Prime Minister Musadek became Iran's first democratically elected leader.
1:26.5	His first act in power was to nationalize Iran's oil industry and his second was to begin talks with Iran's Soviet neighbours.
1:34.5	Talking to the Soviets and taking back the oil industry might have been popular with the Iranians,
1:42.5	but it certainly wasn't popular with the CIA.
1:46.5	What the British and the Americans managed to get terribly wrong was that they thought that Musadek was a communist
1:55.5	and that's why they were so fearful about it and they thought that somebody else could come in through the back door into Iran and take over.
2:02.5	Today, the greatest threat to peace is the expansionist themes of the Kremlin. Freedom everywhere, our freedom is in jeopardy.
2:13.5	In April 1953, Alan Dulles, the CIA director, secretly set aside a million dollars to get rid of Musadek by any means possible.
2:23.5	Welcome to the Michael Brooks Show. I'm Michael Brooks from broadcasting live from Brooklyn, USA, where left is best greetings to comrades, friends and enemies with me as always a super producer, Matt Leck.
2:52.5	Hello, head to your Titian, David Grishkum. How's it going? Pretty well. We got to get you connected to the printer system, dude.
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