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And other news of the week. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

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Joe Biden seeks re-election, and Bernie Sanders and the Squad are already endorsing him. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

In Congressional testimony, former CIA deputy director Mike Morel testifies that a call from the Biden campaign sparked the claim from former intel officials that Hunter Biden's laptop was “a Russian information operation.” Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

NATO website Bellingcat teams up with the NYT to catch a leaker. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Pentagon documents on the Ukraine war appear on the internet. Are they significant? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

On Marvin Gaye's birthday, what's going on? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

US forces face a deadly attack in Syria, underscoring the dangers of their overlooked military occupation. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

As Chinese President Xi prepares to visit Moscow, the US declares its opposition to China's call for a Ukraine ceasefire. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Congress votes to keep US troops in Syria and holds a wild hearing on the Twitter Files. Plus, the US finally drops its Nord Stream cover story. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The House votes overwhelmingly in support of US sanctions on earthquake-hit Syria. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Volodymyr Zelensky was elected on a peace mandate that was sabotaged by the US government and Ukraine's far-right. Now an aide tells the New York Times that Zelensky "has a clear understanding what Ukraine should do. There is no ambiguity: There is no peace with Russia, and Ukraine must arm itself to the teeth." Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

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Seymour Hersh reports what many suspected: the US blew up Nord Stream 2. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The US destroys a Chinese balloon, while the Ukraine war rages. Aaron's latest article: “In Douma cover-up, OPCW's new smoking gun backfires” https://mate.substack.com/p/in-douma-cover-up-opcws-new-smoking Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

“We are fighting a war against Russia," the German Foreign Minister says, as the US and Germany authorize tank shipments, and new dangers, in the Ukraine proxy war. Plus: the OPCW doubles down on the Douma fraud. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Germany, so far, resists US-led pressure to send tanks to Ukraine. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

"By continuing to drip-feed just enough for Ukraine not to lose, what the West is doing is just prolonging the war,” Edward Stringer, ex-head of operations for the UK Defense Staff, says. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Biden's classified documents problem, and MSM's six-years-too-late realization that Russian bots didn't swing the 2016 election. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Rebel House Republicans win concessions by leveraging their vote for Kevin McCarthy, vindicating progressives who urged the Squad to use the same strategy with Nancy Pelosi — which the Squad refused to do. Plus, a Ukraine proxy war update. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

In a special Saturday edition or AM Live, let's look back at 2022. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Congress throws a bipartisan proxy war party, with Zelensky as the guest of honor. Jack Murphy article: https://jackmurphywrites.com/169/the-cias-sabotage-campaign-inside-russia/` Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

In an interview with the Economist, top Ukrainian commander General Valery Zaluzhny gives a bleak assessment of the war. “The incremental arsenal he is seeking is bigger than the total armoured forces of most European armies,” The Economist says. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

“It is a terrible war in Ukraine. It is also a war that can become a full-fledged war that spreads into a major war between NATO and Russia,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said this week. “[T]here is no doubt that a full-fledged war is a possibility.” Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

After Matt Taibbi obtains internal emails detailing the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, a meltdown ensues. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Let's talk about what we're thankful for, and anything else on your mind. Also, the latest in the Ukraine proxy war. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

A World War III scare in Poland doesn't dampen Washington's proxy war fever. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

A series of leaks, including a call for diplomacy from Gen. Mark Milley, show that some US officials are ready for a settlement in Ukraine. https://mate.substack.com/p/urging-peace-with-russia-top-us-general Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The Washington Post reports that US officials are encouraging Ukraine to publicly accept diplomacy. Cynical ploy, or progress? Plus: Max Blumenthal and I get cancelled by Ukraine's First Lady at a conference in Portugal. And the Democratic Party's progressives cave to the neocons. Diplomacy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/05/ukraine-russia-peace-negotiations/ My new article on Democrats: https://mate.substack.com/p/pro-war-hawks-have-progressives-on Me and Max cancelled: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/11/03/ukrainian-zelenska-grayzones-web-summit/ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40998296.html Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Congressional Progressives politely ask Biden for diplomacy with Russia, and then retract one day later. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The Ukraine proxy war unites the Democratic caucus including all “progressives”, the GOP leadership, Trump admin neocons like Pompeo, DC think tanks, and corporate media. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

“Privately, U.S. officials say neither Russia nor Ukraine is capable of winning the war outright, but they have ruled out the idea of pushing or even nudging Ukraine to the negotiating table.” -Washington Post Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

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According to Antony Blinken, the Nord Stream pipeline bombing "offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come." Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

As the US and Russia trade nuclear threats, who is pushing for peace? https://mate.substack.com/p/russia-says-us-wrecked-ukraine-talks Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

“As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia's disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them,” the New York Times reports today, in a never-ending series on how Russia is responsible for everything that can possibly upset coastal liberals. Plus: the latest on the Ukraine proxy war, where the “U.S. plans for an open-ended campaign with no prospect for a negotiated end in sight,” according to the Washington Post. Episode links: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html https://mate.substack.com/p/as-durham-closes-in-fbis-trump-russia Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Russia suffers a major defeat in Ukraine's northeast. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

“I will not stand by and watch the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless, evidence-free claims of fraud,” President Joe Biden declared in his Philadelphia speech on the “Battle for the Soul of the Nation.” Unfortunately, he wasn't talking about Russiagate. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Violent attacks on US troops this week force the Biden administration to answer a question it otherwise avoids. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Investigating Trump for an Espionage Act violation, the FBI must have him over a barrel, we are told. Does anyone remember Russiagate? Also: nuclear fears in the Ukraine proxy war. https://mate.substack.com/p/in-fbi-vs-trump-the-people-lose Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Are the walls finally closing in? (No.) Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Proxy war enthusiasts are outraged by an Amnesty International report that documents how Ukraine is placing its military forces in civilian areas. Meanwhile, CBS News publishes a documentary on how US weapons aren't being tracked once they cross the border into Ukraine. And US officials and politicians continue to make their agenda clear. On a trip to Africa, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield has warned states not to trade with Russia or face the US wrath. "We caution [African] countries not to break those sanctions... they stand the chance of having actions taken against them.” Meanwhile, Lindsay Graham has acknowledged what proxy war critics have noted from the start: the US is fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian. "Four months into this thing, I like the structural path we're on here," Graham told a July 28 news conference. "As long as we help Ukraine with the weapons they need and the economic support, they will fight to the last person." Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

In St. Louis and Florida, members of the African People's Socialist Party had their homes raided by combat-clad FBI agents using flash grenades and drones. FBI told them they're under suspicion of conspiring with Russia. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

Let's discuss. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

In using Ukraine to "fight Russia over there", as Adam Schiff put it in January 2020, the US has not only sacrificed countless Ukrainian lives. Four months into Russia's invasion, the Biden administration is openly sacrificing the planet. Plus: Bolton admits to plotting coups. https://mate.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-a-proxy-war-on-the-planet Useful Idiots episode with Chris Ryan: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/how-sex-drugs-and-ancient-humans?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct Max Blumenthal and Aaron at the Collision conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcGlc3mw8lk Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

“In the nearly five months since Russia invaded Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports. “Secretary of State Antony Blinken has maintained the same posture toward Moscow: Do not engage.” Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

On CNN this week, Biden aide Brian Deese was asked to respond to “those families that say, 'listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?'" Deese responded: "This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm." But not everyone is on board. Speaking to the Washington Post, Rep. Ro Khanna — who was voted for every pro-proxy war measure so far — says that the Ukraine conflict is "wreaking havoc on the American economy and the global economy." He also calls for a "plan on the diplomatic front." Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The CIA has been operating in Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion, the NYT reports. Sounds like a proxy war! “Guns, Drugs, and the CIA” (1988) https://youtu.be/XkKwLRB1-1g Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

The persecution of Julian Assange worsens. Plus: according to the Washington Post, the Biden administration "is willing to countenance even a global recession and mounting hunger" to deny Russia a victory in Ukraine. Will anyone ask those who will endure this countenanced recession and hunger what they think? Meanwhile The Guardian has just called me "the most prolific spreader of disinformation" on Syria. The Guardian failed to: -contact me -offer an example of my alleged "disinformation" -disclose that its “source”, a think tank called the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is funded by US, UK & allied states. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

UK journalist Paul Mason is caught trying to collaborate with UK intel to undermine the UK anti-war left and independent journalism outlet The Grayzone. Meanwhile, a University of Calgary “study” claims that myself and other journalists are “Russian-influenced.” Is smearing and sabotaging dissenting voices the new normal? Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com

What Michael Sussmann's acquittal means for the investigation of the Russia investigation. Plus, Bernie Sanders foreign policy adviser Matt Duss urges progressives to support the Ukraine proxy war, and smears those who don't. Download the Callin app for iOS and Android to listen to this podcast live, call in, and more! Also available at callin.com