Lefty Lounge

CITATIONS
Richard's extensive OKC archive
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, by Wendy Painter
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters, by Andrew Gumbel & Roger Charles
Nuts & Boltzmann, Substack by Boltzmann Booty

CITATIONS
Rick Perlstein's books can be found here.

Are your BELIEFS your own? 'Cognitive Warfare' is happening right now on all forms of media and social media. What are you gonna do to avoid the draft? Or have you already been conscripted? Listen to find out.

CITATIONS
Behind NATO's 'cognitive warfare': 'Battle for your brain' waged by Western militaries — by Ben Norton, The Grayzone
NATO REPORT #1 — "Cognitive Warfare" [this is what i refer to as the 'nonpartisan' report]
NATO REPORT #2 — "An attack on truth and thought" (Johns Hopkins/NATO) [this is the "red meat" report]

More NATO documents on cognitive warfare found here.

THIS WEEK
Finally getting to the bottom of Russiagate (story by Aaron Maté) with new indictment (download)
Russiagate? More like Watergate (story by Matt Taibbi)
Warnings about engineered bat coronaviruses in 2015
Covid treatment roundtable and leaked CDC slide deck
Dem operatives use DARPA technology in Covid propaganda operation run by Gen. Stanley McChrystal (no paywall)

Covid discourse from the "left" is constructed with rightwing logic, and it's not playing out well. Examining Dr. Vinay Prasad's "How Democracy Ends" essay which you can find on Substack and YouTube.

Nathan J. Robinson's essay: "Don't Use The Right's Assumptions To Make The Left's Arguments."

THIS WEEK'S STORIES
mins  0:00—15:00
Finally getting to the bottom of Russiagate (story by Aaron Maté) with new indictment (download)
Russiagate? More like Watergate (story by Matt Taibbi)
mins  15:00—39:00
Warnings about engineered bat coronaviruses in 2015
mins  40:00—1:14:00
Covid treatment roundtable and leaked CDC slide deck
mins  1:14:00—1:21:00
Dem operatives use DARPA technology in Covid propaganda operation run by Gen. Stanley McChrystal (no paywall)

Trust in Media Hits NEW CRISIS LOW, Axios
ROLLING STONE BOGUS ARTICLE "Gunshot Victims Left Waiting as Horse Dewormer Overdoses Overwhelm Oklahoma Hospitals"
Ivermectin Overdose NOT An Issue At Oklahoma ER, KXMX radio fact checking (with hospital rebuttal of bogus article)
I-MASK+ prevention and early outpatient treatment protocol for Covid-19, FLCCC Alliance
Making Sense of Sensemaking: what it is and what it means for pandemic research, The Atlantic Council
Facebook Hires ex-NATO press officer as intel officer to censor speech, The Grayzone

How the FDA manipulates the media, by Charles Seife, Scientific American
Censorship is called “transparency,” by Charles Seife, Scientific American
Bad News: Selling the story of disinformation, by Joseph Bernstein, Harper’s

CITATIONS
Mob Morality and the Unvaxxed, by Charles Eisenstein
The deserving and undeserving unvaccinated, by Libby Watson
Here's a Terrible New Idea: Making the unvaccinated pay higher insurance premiums, by Natalie Shure

Jeanine Molloff on a new "predictive policing" in Florida schools—Pasco County Sheriff's program that harasses students.

CITATIONS
Perspectives on the Pandemic video series, excellent Sam Husseini interview with Journeyman Pictures (whole series playlist)
Did Covid come from a lab? Maybe not, but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race, by Sam Husseini, Salon, April 24, 2020
Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science, by Sam Husseini, Independent Science News 

Sam Husseini website

Some history of biological weapons manufacturing and trade (how we armed Iraq with chemical and biological WMDs), by Norm Dixon, 2004, Counterpunch

For more information check in with #DRASTIC on Twitter

CITATIONS
"Subversion of social movements by adversarial agents"
Sen. Robert Byrd 2003 floor speech on invasion of Iraq: "I weep for my country."
Ron DeSantis partners with Fox News on Covid/masks in Florida schools

Former Congressman Alan Grayson joins to discuss the March For Medicare For All and how you beat the Snallygasters that stand in our way.
Brook provides some M4M4ALL context, then the interview begins at the 6-minute mark.

CITATION
https://graysonforsenate.org

Jeanine Molloff's Justice Report this week --> how the GOP is planning for a new Fuhrer (prolly Trump). 

CITATIONS
The CLASSIC First Amendment issue inherent in government using private platforms to police wrongthink; by Matt Taibbi

Brook Hines chats with Tara Reade about suing Sally Albright; big tech censorship; and how political parties colonize your mind.

CITATIONS
Left Out: When The Truth Doesn't Fit In, by Tara Reade available on Amazon
Follow Tara Reade on Twitter @ReadeAlexandra
Left Bitches on Spotify
Katie Halper Show on YouTube
Richard Medhurst on YouTube

Brook Hines reviews the week: Tara Reade sues Sally Albright and @realKHiveQueenb (aka Bravenak; aka Bianca Delarosa). The Gulf of Mexico and Caspian Sea are both on fire. LAPD bombs neighborhood. Assange case falls completely apart...and more. 

Also "intellectual capture" is the new regulatory capture: Matt Taibbi's latest on freedom of speech is a perfect Independence Day read.

Jeanine Molloff on Exxon lobbyist CAUGHT on camera while Joe Biden is pressured to end fossil fuel subsidies.

CITATIONS
Kamala Harris's office environment is toxic; rife with backstabbing — Politico
Key Assange witness RECANTS; media fails to mention it — FAIR
Tara Reade sues Sally Albright; complaint filed in District Court for District of Columbia

Jeanine Molloff on a new "predictive policing" in Florida schools—Pasco County Sheriff's program that harasses students.

CITATIONS
Perspectives on the Pandemic video series, excellent Sam Husseini interview with Journeyman Pictures (whole series playlist)
Did Covid come from a lab? Maybe not, but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race, by Sam Husseini, Salon, April 24, 2020
Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science, by Sam Husseini, Independent Science News 

Sam Husseini website

Some history of biological weapons manufacturing and trade (how we armed Iraq with chemical and biological WMDs), by Norm Dixon, 2004, Counterpunch

For more information check in with #DRASTIC on Twitter

CITATION:
@JustinInBmore Medium article: AOC's PAC donates to RW incumbents

CITATIONS:
An Open Letter to Maria Svart, National Director of DSA: by David North
Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky
Trotsky's Last Year, a 6-part series by David North
Resources at WSWS and Marxist Library
Eric/Joe in conversation with with Chris Richards (video and transcript)

CITATIONS:
Starving people to force them back to work, Common Dreams, Jake Johnson

Biden cuts pretty much all campaign promises from next budget deal, Washington Post, Jeff Stein & Tyler Pager

Did US-funded research in Wuhan cause the pandemic?, Current Affairs, Nathan J. Robinson

Origin of COVID: did people or narture open Pandora's Box at Wuhan, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade
[this is the first and most important piece on pandemic origins]

Brook Hines with @mugrimm on his FDRvsBiden 100 days project 
Also, "How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously," in The New Yorker (really!)

Jeanine Molloff with UN Rapporteur Marjorie Cohn on the new UN report on policing in the US.
"Commission finds anti-Black police violence constitutes crimes against humanity," Truthout, by Marjorie Cohn.

Brook Hines on Neoliberals Glamping in Death Valley: celebrities, sockpuppets, and manufactured paranoia.
Read the new Substack here email updates --> https://brookhines.substack.com/p/neoliberals-glamping-in-death-valley

Kartik Krishnaiyer on the big capitalist failure of the "superleague." 

Jeanine Molloff on the everlasting awfulness of cops.

Brook discusses the shocking collapse of the Russian bounties story.

Jeanine Molloff on how US police have legalized murder.

The DSA's anticommunist history and AOC's capitalist history.
Two surprising tales that make sense together.

Citations:
The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Eric London, wsws.org
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party, by Eric London, wsws.org

CITATIONS
"Talking socialism: catching up with AOC" in Democratic Left, a publication of Democratic Socialists of America, by Don McIntosh
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party" in wsws.org, World Socialist Web Site, by Eric London
"Supercharged McCarthyism seeks to divide left," Brook HInes on Substack (referenced in AOC segment)

Brook Hines on her new Substack article: Supercharged McCarthyism seeks to divide the left.
Click thru for article and sign up for my new Substack :)

Jeanine Molloff with part 3 of vaccine apartheid and #NotDyingForWallSt.

Brook Hines provides a preview of new series on the new fake fascist scare on the left.
Kartik Krishnaiyer launches new Florida Squeeze YouTube channel featuring natural Florida's best kept secret spaces.
Jeanine Molloff continues #NotDyingForWallSt with in-depth look at how monopolies created our vaccine apartheid.

In Memory of County Heyden: "What are our non-party Democrats teaching the people?"
Historic.ly on Substack
Sundays with Lenin on YouTube
More information on The People's Vaccine

Part Two of this week's MEGAPOD.

Two special guests join for political conversation, analysis and speculation: 
Kartik Krishnaiyer on his new piece "In Defense of Charlie Crist," and why some Florida "progressives" aren't all that. Some are. We break it down. 
Chris Richards (The Eclectic Radical) joins to help me understand "libertarian socialism" and chew the fat on big ideas.


CITATIONS
"In Defense of Charlie Crist" by Kartik Krishnaiyer at The Florida Squeeze
Chris Richards on Twitter
Kartik Krishnaiyer on Twitter

Jeanine Molloff on the Justice Report continues her series #NotDyingForWallSt with a widely circulated story on how billionaires got richer during the pandemic (spoiler alert: they cheat). 

Move Left Idiots for January 6 with special guest Brook Hines. 
Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/moveleft/episode-187-capitol-coup-craziness-ga-election-results-the-house-speaker-vote
iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/move-left-idiots/id1224866279?i=1000504560524

CITATIONS
The Grayzone reports on leaked documents showing UK govt in payola scheme with Reuters, BBC, Bellingcat by Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone article on leaked documents goes viral following Twitter warning label intended to suppress article, backfires by Max Blumenthal & Aaron Maté

Brook Hines on how Zuckerberg, Gates and Bloomberg created a fake think tank to oppose any kind of economic relief for suffering Americans. Also, Valentines to the CIA and why pluralism isn't what it used to be

Jeanine Molloff on impeachement and the 14th Amendment.

CITATIONS:
Sirota's Daily Poster on "Opportunity Insights," a fake think tank and how cable news bought it hook, line and sinker. 
Joe Biden takes Medicare hostage in asinine game of chicken.

0-30 mins: Brook Hines on how we could do without "Secret Conspiracies to Save Democracy" (see all links below)
30-60 mins: Mystery Caller calls in to discuss Joe Biden's history of means-testing. 
60-75 mins: Rick Spisak and a raft of special guests present "Jewish Lasers From Space."
90-120 mins: Jeanine Molloff's Justice Report on new voter suppression efforts. 

LINKS!
Time Magazine on the "conspiracy to save democracy."
New York Times on a "Ministry of Truth" for Biden's Administration (reality czar) 
New Republic on how the Dem Party doesn't understand Q-anon. 
An analysis of coordinated bot armies of the Dem Party

Brook Hines on how we're fixin' to be screwed on stimmies. Also, forget any kind of public option. 
Kartik Krishnaiyer on how Florida's vote by MSA reveals the limits of idpol. 
Your guide to GameStop: An explainer on short selling, short squeeze.
Jeanine Molloff on Marjorie Taylor Green's (Jewish Lasers From Space).

CITATIONS!
Kartik's stunning MSA analysis of Florida presidential votes
BrotherQ explains how hedge funds, short selling, and short squeeze works RE GameStop et al (follow @andraydomise)
Jonathan Mann (music) Jewish Lasers From Space (follow @songadaymann)