Lefty Lounge

Kartik Krishnaiyer joins for an expansive chat about the ghost of Ronald Reagan in current political trends (erm, quagmires). Break out your trusty smudge stick and let's exorcise some demons. CITATIONS Rick Perlstein's books can be found here. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

One Christmas I found out Santa wasn't real...but it didn't sink in until the next year. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Time for The Left to play catch-up on Covid. Some are leading the way while others continue to disappoint. Appealing to authority is not a good look for the The Left. Also, a philosophy major tells me I had a wrongthink. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

The alignment of tech, media, and pharma has doomed our pandemic response, as shown by an extraordinary Rolling Stone FAKE NEWS controversy. RELATED: new trust-in-media crisis. Don't let "Sensemaking" technocrats colonize your brain, please. Plus! Facebook continues to be an evil and stupid thing. STILL MORE! Zeroing in on early covid treatment. CITATIONS 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Quick follow-up from last week on "My Vaccine Hesitancy Journey": puzzling doctor visit might be explained later in episode. Then, how FEDERAL AGENCIES under Health And Human Services are dictating how the media covers healthcare. A medical doctor in British Columbia shares what he learned about "micro" blood clots, and then loses everything. CITATIONS 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

My own vaccine hesitancy journey; what has happened along the way; and what might actually work to get people protected. 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines with Sam Husseini, reporter/activist talks to PNN on biological warfare programs and how the left screwed up the pandemic narrative with a sectarian approach to facts and science. 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

In the first half, Brook Hines on the subversion of social movements (especially now on social media). How to spot 'em, squash 'em and move along. Then Kartik Krishnaiyer joins to share observations on Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and how DeSantis is very much worse than Trump. 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines and 'Space Coast Caller' on why Biden can't actually peek into our text message for wrongthink. 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines with Sam Husseini, reporter/activist talks to PNN on biological warfare programs and how the left screwed up the pandemic narrative with a sectarian approach to facts and science. 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines and @JustinInBmore discuss insidious Twitter initiative to blacklist and censor the left. Also, unity for me but not for thee. And what's the deal with AOC's Courage To Change PAC? Jeanine Molloff on freedom of speech and January 6 insurrection. CITATION: @JustinInBmore Medium article: AOC's PAC donates to RW incumbents --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Neo-Stalinist memes attacking Trotsky-style socialists are put in historical and social context in conversation with Eric London and Joseph Kishore of WSWS.org. This expansive discussion covers much ground in addition the "icepick discourse," including the devastating impact of the ruling class's weak response to Covid-19. 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) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

[so many questions!] Brook Hines — pandemic gets personal. Forcing low-wage and unsafe work by cutting off unemployment benefit is cruel and stupid (i.e. totally unsurprising for Republican Governors). SARS-CoV-2 origin: US funded gain of function research in Wuhan. Everything we thought we knew about the virus might actually be wrong. Jeanine Molloff: The Justice Report on Vote Suppression, Constituional Crises, and COVID Karens. 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] --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines with @mugrimm on his FDRvsBiden 100 days project

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook discusses the shocking collapse of the Russian bounties story. Jeanine Molloff on how US police have legalized murder. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines analyzes the two Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez articles currently circulating widely. The history of left factionalism tells us where we are, and provides insight into what's coming next. Rick Spisak chats with Denis Campbell on the supremely comforting adequacy of Joe Biden. Jeanine Molloff offers a searing rebuke to Jim Crow 2.0 now evident in Georgia. 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) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines with a few thoughts. Esha Krishnaswami gives us a "beginner's guide to socialism." Part 1 of my chat w/Esha. Jeanine Molloff on medical apartheid and the need for a "People's Vaccine." CITATIONS 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines reports on Twitter enforcing your faith in NATO, and how Twitter speech regulations backfired and made The Grayzone go viral. Also Grayzone: how the UK pays Reuters, BBC and Bellingcat to create the news. Anthony and Komrade join to discuss the 1-6 Capitol insurrection; how socialism works in RED areas, why Cuomo is awful, how we're creating vaccine banana republics and chad Parenti vs virgin Chomsky. 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

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) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines: No Labels group crafting Biden's Covid relief package. Kartik Krishnaiyer: Think a handful of Reps can't change Congress...think again! Rick Spisak: Frontline Tampa nurse braces for super-spreader Super Bowl Jeanie Molloff: Prosecute Trump; ignore Marco Rubio --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines on the Biden agenda. Kartik Krishnaiyer joins to provide history and context on pushing agendas through Congress. Brook returns to address coordinated attacks on the left --> #Ghive Jeanine Molloff on The Justice Report: insurrection, white supremacy, and Donald Trump. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support

Brook Hines with Kartik Krishnaiyer on likely next steps to be taken by House and Senate leadership. Rick Spisak in conversation with Denis Campbell on how the US is looking from the UK. Jeanine Molloff says the Gabby Giffords shooting was a portent to the siege on the Capitol. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brook-hines/support