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Another edition of HOT or NOT this week as we're joined by the hilarious and knowledgable Naomi Karavani to discuss Anne of Cleves. Men fall off horses, meet-cutes turn sour, virginities remain intact, and we make time - as we always do - for talk Sydney Sweeny.     Follow Naomi/watch her special here!  https://www.instagram.com/naomikaravani/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p18FIxZCW9U&ab_channel=naomikaravani   Suggestion of someone we should cover or have a follow-up question/correction from one of the episodes? Write in! overshadowedpod@gmail.com    Check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/overshadowedpodcast   Recorded June 2024   And follow us on social media!  https://linktr.ee/overshadowed_podcast   Instagram: @Overshadowed_Podcast @zachrussellcomedy @charles_engle   YouTube: Overshadowed Podcast Zach Russell  Charles Engle    TikTok:  Overshadowed Podcast Zach Russell  Charles Engle    Produced by Zach Russell   Intro/Outro music by Mokka!

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Comedians Alex Ptak and Jeremy Kaplowitz explore the mysterious land of Quora.com to answer life's questions. This week's questions include: Does the fact that there are only 19M people in New York but there are 21M people registered to vote, with 1.2M of those being cloned, seem at all suspicious to you? If Thomas Jefferson appeared at your door late one evening asking to borrow your triangle, would you oblige and perhaps even invite him in for something to eat? Has anyone ever had a sissy-gasm? --- Watch Naomi's special Firecracker on youtube and follow her on social media @ NaomiKaravani COME TO OUR LIVE SHOW AUGUST 24th in NYC: https://www.caveat.nyc/events/quorators-8-24-2024 Get even more Quorators when you support the show @ http://patreon.com/quorators Send quoras and qommunicate on our discord https://discord.gg/7pPYuKuYCr Watch the show @ youtube.com/@quorators

Naomi Karavani sits in with us while Jake draws from Mike Davis' City of Quartz to explain the strange material history of the Home Owner's Association and how it relates to the whole NIMBY/YIMBY thing as well as toxic sludge. NAOMI KARAVANI @NaomiKaravani FIRECRACKER on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p18FIxZCW9U MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD + KEEP US ALIVE PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

This episode's host, Naomi Karavani, goes on a 48-hour journey to find and interview someone who was in NASA Mission Control when Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.  This episode features interviews with:    (in order of appearance) Jeff Simmermon Lois Rosson Rick Sternbach John M. Logsdon Rushmore Denooyer CREDITS 'You Had To Be There' is a Hi Barr Production. Created by Hi Barr. “The Moon Landing” was written and hosted by Naomi Karavani.   Produced by Julia Thompson and Web Barr. Story Produced by Julia Thompson. Edit, Sound Mix and engineering by Teeny Lieberson. Original score by Teeny Lieberson. Artwork created by Dylan Lathrop.  Special thanks to our parents, friends and chosen family. And most importantly, thank you to the artists who've inspired us because they had to do it. You can find Naomi Karavani at @naomikaravani on all platforms. Listen to Naomi's podcast, Cargo Cult here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hi-barr/message

This week's slightly delayed episode features comedian Naomi Karavani (Redacted Tonight). Naomi grew up with Yemeni-Israeli Jewish parents in New Jersey, lived a life as an archeologist and is now a comedian living in NYC. We talk ancient civilizations, the mystery of the Yemeni-Jewish conehead wedding tradiiton, how she lost her job because of the war in Ukraine, her podcast Cargo Cult, why fake meat is bad for you and so much more. Follow Naomi on IG @naomikaravani & follow the podcast @immigrantjampodcast Please consider joining the Patreon www.patreon.com/luciepohl Thank you for listening! 

Special guests RM Brown, Naomi Karavani & Michele Greenstein join Ben Burgis to talk about Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. Before that, Ben, RM, and the crew discuss Cornel West's response to Ben's article. In the postgame for patrons, the gang breaks down a "Democrat for DeSantis" article.Listen to Naomi and Michele's new podcast "Cargo Cult":https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cargo-cult/id1687043930Read Ben's article about Cornel West:https://jacobin.com/2023/06/cornel-west-democratic-party-2024-presidential-election-biden-primariesFollow RM on Twitter: @xrmbrownx2Follow Naomi on Twitter: @naomikaravaniFollow Michele on Twitter: @peopleconspireFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisRead the weekly philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.com

We are joined by Naomi Karavani and Michele Greenstein of Cargo Cult, the hot new podcast about BIG TECH. We discuss CIA gadgets, the trillion dollar coin, the debt ceiling, and Hannah Gadsby and we all get canceled for being Pablo-matic. CARGO CULT https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cargo-cult/id1687043930 @naomikaravani @peopleconspire MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/PODDAMNAMERICA

Naomi Karavani, RM Brown, and Branko Marcetic join Ben Burgis to say goodbye to Tucker Carlson's show on Fox. You can read Ben's article "Tucker Carlson Is a Repugnant, Pseudo-Populist Fraud" here:https://jacobin.com/2023/04/tucker-carlson-populism-ruling-class-minimum-wage-medicare-for-all-war/...and Branko's article "Tucker Carlson Isn't an Anti-Imperialist — He's a Rabid China Hawk" here:https://jacobin.com/2023/04/tucker-carlson-imperialist-china-hawkBefore that, Ben and the GTAA crew talk a bit about May Day and the (ongoing) struggle for a shorter workweek, play a clip of Kyle Kulinski talking about Ben's article on that, and promote the class on Proudhon's "Philosophy of Poverty" and Marx's "Philosophy of Poverty" starting on the GTAA Patreon in May. In the postgame for patrons, Producer Jordan joins us to talk about Slavoj Žižek's mutlipolarity article in Compact.Follow Naomi on Twitter: @naomikaravaniFollow Branko on Twitter: @BMarchetichFollow RM on Twitter:  @xrmbrownx2Follow Producer Jordan on Twitter: @jayohardeeayenFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisRead the weekly philosophy Substack:benburgis.substack.comVisit benburgis.com

Rocky gives the green light on adults in Halloween costumes. Plus, a visit to the tummy doc, vote nay on Ye, and vampire culture. Comedian Naomi Karavani drops by with a wild story from overseas. Where's the craziest place you've ever hidden? Find out if it tops this weeks tale. I highly doubt it...

Matt Bruenig joins Ben Burgis to talk about what a viable fully socialist society might look like and how we could get there. Before that, Naomi Karavani comes on to talk about Bolsonaro's openness to consuming human flesh, Biden's hollow pardon announcement, and  a clip of a comedian having a full beer can thrown at her by an angry Trump supporter. In the postgame for patrons, Djene Bajalan discusses how the revolution going on right now in Iran is all the result of every single Iranian being mind-controlled by the CIA. (Or is that his position? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!)**************************Buy tickets now to the VERY FIRST GTAA LIVE SHOW (co-sponsored by This is Revolution and Left Reckoning) at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angels on October 23rd, featuring Ana Kasparian, Nando Vila, Ben Burgis, Jason Myles, Kuba Wrzesniewski, David Griscom, Matt Lech, Daniel Bessner, C. Derrick Varn, and more:https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09005D19D53D5C6C**************************Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattBruenigFollow Djene on Twitter: @djenebajalanFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com

After a brief election recap, we watch the thrilling Law and Order Havana Syndrome episode. An episode that dares to ask the question: should people with a fake disease have a license to murder at will? For the FULL EPISODE sign up for our PATREON at patreon.com/poddamnamerica MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com

Naomi Karavani fills in for Jake to go over Starbucks letter to the whitehouse. Then professor Samuel Moyn calls in to talk about the role of the Supreme Court in US history and the path forward for the left in dealing with it. Follow @PaidProtest on twitter for all of our comedy shows in NYC ABORTION FUNDS THREAD: https://twitter.com/leahbarteldes/status/1521291323252350985?s=20&t=wZo4Afj-bDU28S_f9qKc8Q MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON patreon.com/poddamnamerica

Legendary goth podcast the Horror Vanguard returns to discuss the latest batman film. Political correspondent Naomi Karavani joins to tell us about the secret White House Tiktok briefing.

The US economy is struggling and everyone seems to have a different understanding of why. Lee Camp looks into the causes of the current labor struggles, some of the wackier symptoms of an economy in collapse, and a potential policy-based solution. Camp also reports on a new religious crusade against the LGBTQ community, Google's admission that they're still spying on us, and much more. Naomi Karavani reports on an abortion pill available since the 80s that could help address some of the US women's rights movement's issues if it were made more widely available. Finally, Jaffer Khan looks into the latest move from the mercenary capitalist Erik Prince.

Lee Camp is joined by journalist and host of Multipolarista, Ben Norton, to break down what is going on between Ukraine and Russia. They look to the real causes of Russia's actions in Ukraine beyond the Western war propaganda. The story goes back to the '90s and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when the NATO powers guaranteed Moscow that they wouldn't expand toward Russian borders. They broke that promise. Then the story moves to a US-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 and the fallout after separatist movements tried to secede. Norton outlines the history and most important context for this moment of insecurity. Naomi Karavani reports on a story about the US' failing medical system. A Wisconsin hospital sued to stop some of their nurses from leaving for better-paying jobs. The decision to stop them from switching jobs only held for a short time until another judge overturned the decision. The story highlights the farce of income disparities between healthcare workers and executives. Finally, Anders Lee goes back into the history of the board game Monopoly. It was invented under the name The Landlord's Game to explain the brutal reality of capitalism. Then, in true capitalist fashion, the idea was commodified by big business and turned into a celebration of our exploitative system.

Ben Burgis and the GTAA crew talk about all the big dumb controversies of the week (Rogan, Whoopi) and try to extract from them at least a couple of things that actually matter. Noami Karavani, a comedian and correspondent for "Redacted Tonight," joins Ben to debunk some Prager U videos. Dr. Jenn comes on for a philosophy segment and the one and only Conan Neutron is on deck t hang out in the postgame for patrons. Good stuff all around.Follow Naomi on Twitter: @naomikaravaniFollow Redacted tonight: @RedactedTonightOrder Ben's new book ("Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters") from worker-owned Red Emmas:https://redemmas.org/titles/36536-christopher-hitchens--what-he-got-right--how-he-went-wrong--and-why-he-still-mattersListen to the Callin show:https://www.callin.com/show/give-me-an-argument-the-ben-burgis-call-in-show-SxHBwTxAPCIndependent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get a bonus episode every Thursday, access to the Discord server, a “Sopranos” Recap Bonus Episode every month with Mike Recine, Nando Vila, and Wosny Lambre, a monthly Discord Movie Night, and "Discord Office Hours" (regularly scheduled group voice chats).Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgisLike, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben's channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAAVisit benburgis.com

The US' two-party system is quickly losing support from voters as it becomes more obvious that neither party represent the interests of regular people. The impact of donor money on politics continues to grow, and it is becoming difficult for even the most loyal citizens to ignore. Lee Camp looks into the cause for falling support for the two parties and how this situation compares to the political landscapes of the UK and Germany. Camp also covers Amnesty International's recent report acknowledging that Israel is an apartheid state, and the courts pushing back against Joe Biden's climate-killing choice to grant a ton of oil and gas drilling permits to big oil. Anders Lee reports on the chemical industry's contribution to climate change. The chemical industry is one of the lesser-known factors driving climate change, but it has significant effects on human health, waste management, and greenhouse gas output. Naomi Karavani finishes off the show by taking on the prosecution of Prakash Churaman, who was convicted of a 2014 murder based on a forced confession and has been held in Rikers since. He now wants to overturn his conviction in a new trial that also brings into question the NYPD's ability to lie to minors in an interrogation.

Lee Camp takes on the US' dedication to fostering the largest prison state in the world, while also running a global terror campaign with a shocking body count that it ironically calls the ‘War on Terror'. Camp also reports on the real reason for the push for war with Russia, and a new report on the impacts of climate change. Naomi Karavani looks into a creepy move from Amazon.com Inc. The company is funding a course in a California high school that would prepare kids for a backbreaking career in Amazon warehouses. Corporate influence over schooling is just another sign of the US' continuing slide toward fascism. Jaffer Khan finishes the show off by exposing how Texas state troopers and National Guard are illegally playing a role in policing the border.

This week on VIP, Lee Camp looks back to a 2016 interview with the director of the Netflix smash-hit ‘Don't Look Up'. Adam McKay is responsible for brilliant social criticism in movies like ‘The Big Short', which took on the 2008 financial crisis, and a satire of corporate media in ‘Anchorman'. His latest movie skewers inaction in the face of climate change. Naomi Karavani reports on the corporate media's lies about crime rates and their causes. Police propagandists are on a constant hunt for reasons to expand their budgets and their current argument is that the ‘Defund the Police' demand from the BLM movement has led to an increase in crime. What isn't being said is that police budgets are still growing. Finally, Anders Lee looks back at the Boxer Rebellion when Western Powers faced opposition in their drive to colonize China.

Lee Camp has a very important guest this week. John Pilger is a brilliant journalist with a long history of award-winning reporting. They discuss the show trial faced by Julian Assange and the current situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine. Assange recently received some good news after a decade of torturous detainment when a British court decided that he could appeal his extradition into the hands of a government who had tried to assassinate him. Lee and John then dive into the current reality of a collapsing US empire and how it's leading into a dangerous period of nuclear brinkmanship between the falling kingdom and the world's other nuclear powers. Naomi Karavani takes on the current chaos in the electric vehicle industry with a couple of companies that are facing fraud charges. Nikola has been marketing electric freight trucks, with a devious secret – it hasn't actually made one. The company has pulled some hilarious stunts to trick investors, though. Lordstown, on the other hand, has built its trucks and pre-sold a lot of them, but its vehicle has failed its safety tests in fantastic fashion. Jaffer Khan reports on the hidden exploitation of remote customer service representatives who are confronted with ridiculous obstacles, abusive customers, and a payment scheme that often leaves them below minimum wage.

After a Bronx apartment building set on fire earlier this month, killing 17 and injuring many more, a national conversation picked up about low-income housing and tenant rights. New York City's new mayor initially tried to blame tenants who hadn't closed the fire door and the people whose space heater may have caused the fire. Lee Camp takes on this story to expose the true culprit responsible for this fire. Naomi Karavani brings you a very special interview this week. She interviewed former-Guantanamo detainee and author Mansoor Adayfi about his experience being held in the US's most notorious illegal detention center, Guantanamo, for 14 years without charge.

After a Bronx apartment building set on fire earlier this month, killing 17 and injuring many more, a national conversation picked up about low-income housing and tenant rights. New York City's new mayor initially tried to blame tenants who hadn't closed the fire door and the people whose space heater may have caused the fire. Lee Camp takes on this story to expose the true culprit responsible for this fire. Naomi Karavani brings you a very special interview this week. She interviewed former-Guantanamo detainee and author Mansoor Adayfi about his experience being held in the US's most notorious illegal detention center, Guantanamo, for 14 years without charge.

Naomi Karavani brings you a very special interview this week. She spoke to former-Guantanamo detainee and author Mansoor Adayfi about his experience of being held in the US's most notorious illegal detention center, Guantanamo, for 14 years without charge. Adayfi is currently being held in Serbia under less restrictive conditions, but he still isn't free. He had originally traveled to Afghanistan to do research, but he was kidnapped by a warlord and eventually sold to the CIA for a bounty, accused of being an important Taliban commander. He gave a false confession under torture before being shipped to Guantanamo. Come to this interview prepared for a brutal story of courage in the face of extreme cruelty. Jaffer Khan finishes off the show by providing context to the US's current debt crisis. Deficit has existed in human societies throughout recorded history, but it has also always come with the concept of cancellation or a jubilee. However, the ruling class in the US has done its best to eradicate that idea because the rich love it when their workers are crushed under insurmountable debt. It keeps us quiet. It's a shame that the rich don't take a page from the US's favorite religious figure when considering debt forgiveness, though, since the Jesus Christ of the bible supported it.

The Pentagon has a long history of budgetary waste and fraud. They've failed every financial audit they've ever had by mind-blowingly large margins. Fortunately for the war hawks the corporate media has helped the Pentagon cover up their actions. Naomi Karavani got in touch with Kawena'ulaokala Kapahua of the O'ahu Water Protectors to learn more about the environmental disaster impacting his community. He goes over the timeline of the Navy's poisoning of his community, the impacts of jet fuel contamination in the water, the callous response from the US government, and much more.

The Pentagon has a long history of budgetary waste and fraud. They've failed every financial audit they've ever had by mind-blowingly large margins. Fortunately for the war hawks the corporate media has helped the Pentagon cover up their actions. Naomi Karavani got in touch with Kawena'ulaokala Kapahua of the O'ahu Water Protectors to learn more about the environmental disaster impacting his community. He goes over the timeline of the Navy's poisoning of his community, the impacts of jet fuel contamination in the water, the callous response from the US government, and much more.

The Pentagon has a long history of budgetary waste and fraud. They've failed every financial audit they've ever had by mind-blowingly large margins. Fortunately for the war hawks, the corporate media has helped the Pentagon cover up their actions. Lee Camp hates to repeat himself but this story requires it because the Pentagon keeps on pouring trillions into military violence, so he shines his spotlight back on the military industrial complex to open this episode. Camp also reports on a new hi-tech treatment for depression that the for-profit medical industry will keep from the poor, and the fortunate resurgence in monarch butterfly population numbers. Naomi Karavani looks into how branches of the Department of Homeland Security are getting sick of having their names connected to the shock troops in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has had its policing hampered by members of the public who are furious at the US' dehumanizing treatment of immigrants. Not that the HSI doesn't engage in the aforementioned dehumanization. Jaffer Khan finishes off the show by confronting Israeli propaganda. After the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, accusations of bigotry and racism started to pop up from Zionists. Many celebrities have been smeared with these criticisms for the crime of recognizing the existence of Palestine.

The Red Hill US naval base in Hawaii is facing the anger of its neighbors and many of the soldiers who live there, after a jet-fuel leak poisoned the water supply of O'ahu Island. The locals only found out they'd been poisoned after thousands of people ended up in hospital because of a cover-up. Naomi Karavani got in touch with Kawena'ulaokala Kapahua of the O'ahu Water Protectors to learn more about the environmental disaster impacting his community. He goes over the timeline of the Navy's poisoning of his community, the impacts of jet fuel contamination in the water, the callous response from the US government, and much more. This isn't the first time this base leaked jet fuel into the island's water supply so the locals aren't surprised, but they're sick of their colonizer. Their campaign is demanding that the Navy leave the island. Then Karavani looks into a new development in the world of cryptocurrencies. Cryptoland would be a tourist island for cryptocurrency fanatics, and claims that people can purchase a million-dollar cryptocurrency coin that would guarantee them a plot of land on the island. But the group is trying to hide the fact that it still doesn't own the Fijian island they're basing their business around. Finally, Anders Lee reports on a labor struggle in Chicago. After the Chicago teachers' union voted not to return to in-person teaching last week. the city fought back, with Mayor Lori Lightfoot blocking them from the software for the classes and threatened to stop paying them. This showdown ended with the teachers returning to the classroom, but not before they shook the power of Chicago government.

Naomi Karavani interviews journalist Danny Haiphong and takes a look at modern China, the propaganda being deployed against it by the US empire, and the reality that contrasts with that propaganda. Haiphong's journalism is published on his ‘Chronicles of Haiphong' Substack. There are many lies being spread about China across the West, and they're shading the people's understanding of what's happening in the world's most populous country. Haiphong explains how the Belt and Road Initiative really works, the new Cold War being developed by the NATO powers, and much more. Then, Karavani looks into the collapse of the US welfare system. This has become a punitive tool used to keep the working poor in line since Bill Clinton gutted it in the ‘90s and merciless bureaucrats got to take over. Karavani brings you some of the more shocking stories of the welfare system screwing over its poor victims. Jaffer Khan finishes off the show by looking into evidence that the Notorious BIG may have been assassinated by cops.

Naomi Karavani interviews UK-based freelance journalist Mohamed Elmaazi this week on VIP. He's published with numerous outlets, including The Dissenter, Jacobin, The Canary and The Electronic Intifada. They go into the case that the US is presenting against Julian Assange, its implications for the future of journalism, and more. Elmaazi has covered every single hearing in Julian Assange's extradition case since it started. Then Anders Lee has a timely economics lesson from history. This lesson takes us to Sweden in the 1970s, where labor organizers pursued a left-wing economic agenda. The Meidner Plan would've seen, over time, more of the economy in the hands of working people. Similar policies were used to create the nation's generous welfare system. The plan, however, didn't survive right-wing attacks.

Naomi Karavani opens the show on waste at the Pentagon. Congress have been bulking up the Pentagon's budgets for decades and it encourages the war industry to follow their weirdest dreams. Pascal Robert from Black Agenda Report and the host of the “This Is Revolution” podcast, reports new details on the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were searching for a list of drug kingpins when they raided his home.

Naomi Karavani opens the show on waste at the Pentagon. Congress have been bulking up the Pentagon's budgets for decades and it encourages the war industry to follow their weirdest dreams. Pascal Robert from Black Agenda Report and the host of the “This Is Revolution” podcast, reports new details on the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were searching for a list of drug kingpins when they raided his home.

Naomi Karavani opens the show on waste at the Pentagon. The snow tank is a great example of strange military gear made at the expense of the ability of regular Americans to eat and pay rent, and it's just one among hundreds of odd ways weapon companies turn tax dollars into technology for killing poor people around the world. Then Karavani updates us on the LA Sherriff's Department gangs story, Rand Paul's change of heart on disaster relief after Kentucky took a tragic hit last week, and more. Jaffer Khan brings us a story of espionage. The intelligence community loves their surveillance technology, but it's so widespread now that they can't move silently against the enemies of empire anymore. They're victims of their own success. Anders Lee reports on recent updates from Julian Assange's persecution.

Naomi Karavani is joined by Pascal Robert. He's a contributor to the Black Agenda Report and the host of the ‘This Is Revolution' podcast. They start the conversation on new reporting revealing that the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moise were searching for a list of drug kingpins when they raided his home. They also discuss the country's history, the Haitian diaspora in the US, the impoverishment of Black America as a strategy for creating a pool of desperate workers, and Pascal's reasons for optimism. Jaffer Khan talks about how Europe is copying the US' racist “Remain In Mexico” policy with a “Remain In Africa” stance. The EU is funding a massive campaign to deny asylum seekers their right to a safe haven. The campaign includes funding Libya's Coast Guard to keep refugees out of Europe.

When Xiomara Castro won the election in Honduras the other week, it was a repudiation of the 2009 US-backed coup that overthrew her husband, Manuel Zelaya. Naomi Karavani reports on the elections and what they mean for the global left. Castro's husband had ruled as a centrist democrat. He was removed from power in 2009 over small reforms that offended those in power. After a decade of corrupt leadership from the business community Castro won power as a democratic socialist and the imperialists are mad about it. Karavani also reports on recent news around the conservative war against abortion rights in the US, debt collectors being allowed to harass people on social media, Joe Biden's record on climate change, and more. Anders Lee looks into Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg's inaction when it comes to addressing the supply chain shortages the US is facing. He shows us some of the actions that the secretary of transportation could take to free up the flow of goods in the market. Of course, the neoliberal mindset would never allow soldiers like Pete to improve the working conditions of the workers who keep this nation's transportation infrastructure working. We're going to have to settle with system failure. Finally, Jaffer Khan exposes how the Mormon Church has taken over Utah's social welfare system. People have been forced to convert to Mormonism to receive their benefits and have faced other forms of discrimination from the church.

Naomi Karavani sits down with Ben Burgis to discuss the philosophy professor's latest book, ‘Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters'. Hitchens began his intellectual career as a socialist and ended it as a supporter of the War on Terror. Karavani and Burgis look at some of Hitchens' career highlights such as exposing Bill Clinton, Mother Teresa, and more. They also get into what started his rightward slide and how 9/11 broke his brain. Anders Lee and Jaffer Khan join Karavani to look over some of the missed headlines from the week. General Stanley McChrystal wrote a book about doing business without having a business career. A billionaire has asked the Olympics to be more accommodating to yacht owners. And Japanese cops have been stealing from the American playbook when it comes to discrimination.

Microwork is a rising form of labor exploitation being deployed by some of the world's wealthiest capitalists. It's online work where users are asked to perform menial, small tasks for pennies. Naomi Karavani takes on the phenomenon and shows us the victims of the industry. The low-paid work includes tasks like identifying the contents of images, translating, transcribing audio, or any task that someone on the site is willing to pay for. These tasks can become abusive where workers have been sexually harassed by the people setting the tasks. Jeff Bezos has a company called Mechanical Turk that competes for microwork jobs. Vulnerable people such as refugees and those living in occupied territories are the target worker for the microwork industry.

Microwork is a rising form of labor exploitation being deployed by some of the world's wealthiest capitalists. It's online work where users are asked to perform menial, small tasks for pennies. Naomi Karavani takes on the phenomenon and shows us the victims of the industry. The low-paid work includes tasks like identifying the contents of images, translating, transcribing audio, or any task that someone on the site is willing to pay for. These tasks can become abusive where workers have been sexually harassed by the people setting the tasks. Jeff Bezos has a company called Mechanical Turk that competes for microwork jobs. Vulnerable people such as refugees and those living in occupied territories are the target worker for the microwork industry.

Microwork is a rising form of labor exploitation being deployed by some of the world's best-known corporations. It's online work requiring the performance of repetitive, often menial tasks for minimal pay, and there are big players among the ranks of those who offer it, including Jeff Bezos' Mechanical Turk. Naomi Karavani takes a look at the phenomenon and introduces us to some of those who know the industry all too well. Their tasks includes the likes of identifying and labeling the contents of images, or translating or transcribing audio. Vulnerable people such as refugees and those living in the Occupied Territories are the target workers for the microwork industry, and abuse is common, she discovers, extending in some cases to harassment. Later in the program, Karavani covers the victimization argument around which Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers are constructing their case, Joe Biden's flippant lies about believing in a waiver for the intellectual property of Covid-19 vaccines, and more. Jaffer Khan reports on the recent victory for Indian farmers, who had been engaged in a massive protest campaign to overturn reforms that had opened up their industry to exploitation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally gave into their pressure and reversed the changes, but they've chosen to continue their campaign in order to exact yet more concessions. Anders Lee dives into the debate about inflation in the US. America has seen 6% inflation in the past year and the talking heads at the top are taking this as an opportunity to blame the rise on welfare spending. But is that really the whole story? Lee takes apart the arguments of economist Larry Summers.

Benjamin Norton is a journalist for the Grayzone living in Nicaragua. He joins Lee Camp to discuss the truth about Nicaragua's latest election, and why the Biden administration's coup attempt was an epic failure. Guest host Naomi Karavani gets aggressive in her ‘Weekly Offensive'.

The US military was caught up in controversy this week when the New York Times reported that, in 2019, it covered up a bombing that killed 70 Syrian civilians. Reporting from Aaron Mate shows that the military went to extreme levels to cover up the mass murder. Lee Camp takes on this story and connects it to the Military Industrial Complex's proven record of turning trillions of dollars from the US Treasury into a boundless global killing spree. Camp also reports on Bill Gates' donations to media outlets that report favorably on him, the trial of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, pinkwashing in the navy, the Republican legalization plan, and more. Naomi Karavani shows how the Build Back Better Act being touted by the Biden administration will now include a tax cut for the rich. The Democrats have decided to stand for the rich despite the fact that inequality is currently out of control. The poor are suffering in this country and with this decision the Democrats are clearly staying their course of ignoring the needs of the majority so they can keep on raking in the donations of the mega-wealthy. Anders Lee explains an odd legal mechanism made famous by Britney Spears. Conservatorships remove the rights of people for various reasons and are easily taken advantage of by lawyers without moral scruples.

Li Jingjing is a reporter with the Chinese news group CGTN. The United States has entered a new era of provocation targeting China as its most significant global competitor for power. Lee Camp and Jingjing sat down together to go deeper into the conflict that's brewing between the US empire and the Chinese republic. They discuss the propaganda campaigns being pushed by the US State Department and the corporate media, such as the Uighur genocide tale, the brutal Hong Kong protests and their capitalist message, and more. Jingjing also lands some punches regarding the hypocrisy of the US claiming to stand for human rights while destroying lives around the world. Naomi Karavani goes on her weekly offensive to expose corruption across the US. This week, she lays waste to corporate moves to bring back child labor across the US. Corporate America is using the current “labor shortage” to push for reduced labor protections for children instead of offering workers higher wages. Jaffer Khan reports on the ATF's newest strategy for protecting law enforcement officers from the consequences of their actions. ATF agents have been touring the country, talking to journalists to push the idea that most cases of police brutality are justified.

Tara Reade is an author, a podcaster, and one of Joe Biden's most vocal accusers of sexual assault. She joins Lee Camp on VIP for a wide-ranging interview. They discuss how, rather than supporting her, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements acted in the interests of the Democratic National Committee when she came forward with her experience as an accuser of one of their own. Reade experienced bullying and trolling from powerful figures and the public alike, which eventually resulted in her taking out a lawsuit against Democratic Party communications consultant Sally Albright. Reade's podcast is called The Politics of Survival. In it, she explores what it means to be a survivor. Naomi Karavani explores allegations about a property management company called Corvias, which has purportedly contributed to the crumbling state of residential facilities in public universities across the US. Students at Howard University, in Washington, DC have begun to camp outside their dorms in protest at the conditions, which they say were making them sick. Anders Lee finishes off the show with a segment about Afeni Shakur, who was a Black Panther and the mother of the rapper Tupac. In 1959, she was caught up in an outrageous conspiracy case targeting 21 of the Black Panthers. She chose to represent herself and her fellow party members in the case and won the group their freedom.

The DNC's case for Russiagate was centered on unverified, and now debunked claims from an IT contractor called CrowdStrike that was paid to make us to think that the DNC's emails were hacked by Russia. This narrative went the same way as the Steele Dossier and other laughable excuses for Hillary Clinton getting beaten by Donald Trump. Lee Camp takes a victory lap this week as the final pillar of the Russiagate conspiracy theory crumbles. Camp also reports on a mysterious illness connected to lavender products, and the real people fighting for a better future at the UN's COP26 conference – the activists. Jaffer Khan and Camp investigate Facebook's name change. The Meta rebranding is a move to expand the dominance the corporate giant has in our lives with a heavy focus on virtual reality technologies. Naomi Karavani finishes the show off on Elon Musk's pivot toward fracked natural gas. He became one of the richest men in the world on the back of corporate greenwashing but now he's stepping into his real role as a planet-killer.

The capitalist system forces those living within it to absorb thousands of advertisements every day and it has a serious impact on how we view the world and ourselves. Lee Camp takes on the tireless parade of garbage that you might know better as consumerism. Marketing executives do their best to make the world safe for corporate, militarist, and fossil fuel interests. And they do it by lying to us about how things work, what the psychopaths in power have really done in history, and convincing us that toxic products are fine for us. Fortunately there are ways of fighting back. Camp also looks into the real reasons that the US is focusing a regime change operation on Belarus. Naomi Karavani reports on the telecoms industry's latest efforts to collect and sell your data. This controversy was revealed in a government report. AT&T is helping advertisers by using our data to put users into categories that marketers can use to grab our attention. Anders Lee finishes off the show with a report on the threatened labor strike in the entertainment industry. Members of the IATSE Union were discussing a strike due to worsening working conditions. Their story received international coverage after Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a production crew member on a show he was producing.

The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy is one of the US's most significant mysteries of the 20th Century. Lee Camp interviews Lisa Pease, the author of “A Lie Too Big To Fail,” to get a deeper view of the political killing. Sirhan Sirhan was blamed for the assassination but research from Pease opens a hole in the case. The counter-narrative that she presents involves hypnotism, MKUltra, a starter pistol loaded with blanks, and a second shooter connected to intelligence organizations. This story is important right now because Sirhan could be paroled soon. He doesn't represent a threat to anyone and he deserves his freedom. Naomi Karavani reports on the entrepreneurship of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle. They've started to promote mental health awareness and their campaign is just as tone deaf as you'd expect from former members of the British royal family. Therapy is effective, helpful, and unaffordable for the majority of people living in the US. The only advice they can really give us is, “Have you tried being unimaginably wealthy?” Jaffer Khan reports on the crisis faced by immigrant taxi drivers in New York City. The drivers are forced into debt as they compete for the million-dollar medallions that they need to do their jobs. In response the drivers have been rallying for debt forgiveness.

Journalist Michael Levitin joins Lee Camp on Redacted Tonight VIP to discuss his book ‘Generation Occupy'. Levitin explains how the Occupy Wall Street movement transformed the conversation about power in America to include corrupt/corporate power at the center. The reverberations of Occupy are felt amongst activists in the environmental movement, in Congress with the progressive movement, and in new media outlets and platforms. Then, Naomi Karavani delves into the FBI's domestic terrorism case against a leftist for a Facebook post he made after the January 6 riots. While rioters are receiving extremely light sentences for participating in the Capitol breach, a Florida yoga teacher will spend almost four years in prison for a Facebook post he never acted upon. Finally, Anders Lee takes a look at the violent 2009 South Korean auto strike that helped inspire the hit Netflix series ‘Squid Game'.

Welcome to the IndependentLeft.News Daily Headlines podcast for Thursday, February 11th, 2021. Early Edition - https://independentleft.news/?edition_id=35be4ca0-6c66-11eb-9959-002590a5ba2d&utm_source=anchor&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=top-headlines-podcast&utm_content=ILN-Anchor-top-headlines-podcast-early-ed-02-11 Top Headlines: ❤️ Medicare for All the 'Only Way Forward,' Concludes Lancet Panel in Study Detailing Death and Misery Inflicted by Trump - Jake Johnson, CommonDreams ❤️ Exclusive: State Patrol Spy Plane Over Protest (Video) - UNICORN RIOT ❤️ Silicon Valley Star Chamath Palihapitiya Is No Robin Hood - Walker Bragman, The Daily Poster ❤️ Biden Will Escalate Aggressions Against China While Republicans Call Him A Beijing Puppet - Caitlin Johnstone ❤️ Incentive - Michael T. Hertz, NationOfChange Top Videos: ❤️ Progressive Soapbox Got Demonetized, Again - Here's What Happened w/ Jamarl Thomas (14:02) - Ron Placone ❤️ Massive Indian farmer uprising against neoliberalism explained w/ Prasanth Radhakrishnan (28:00) - Red Lines with Anya Parampil, The Grayzone ❤️ Judah Friedlander & Pandemic Comedy (Web Exclusive) (35:19) - Moment of Clarity with Lee Camp ❤️ South Dakota Strikes Down Democracy. (6:41) - The Jimmy Dore Show ❤️ People's Party Smeared By Our Revolution Los Angeles (24:45) - The Dive with Jackson Hinkle Evening Edition - https://independentleft.news/?edition_id=ca3e3480-6cca-11eb-9959-002590a5ba2d&utm_source=anchor&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=top-headlines-podcast&utm_content=ILN-Anchor-top-headlines-podcast-evening-ed-02-11 Top Headlines: ❤️ Most expensive ever: 2020 election cost $14.4 billion - Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Open Secrets ❤️ New Lancet Report: 40 Percent of US COVID Deaths Could Have Been Avoided - Mike Ludwig, Truthout ❤️ The Fawning Coverage of Psaki's Performance Suggests Some in the Press Have Forgotten That Spin Doctors Are Not on Your Side - Ari Paul, FAIR via CommonDreams ❤️ Dr. Richard Wolff and Richard Medhurst on GameStop, Socialism, Imperialism and the Democratic Party ❤️ Press Freedom Coalition Calls on Biden's Department of Justice to Drop Case Against Julian Assange - Reporters Without Borders via Global Research Top Videos: ❤️ Let's talk about me agreeing with Tucker Carlson.... (3:41) - Beau of the Fifth Column ❤️ TIME admits election was "orchestrated", AOC Schumer DreamTeam, & more! (1:57:00) - The Convo Couch ❤️ Afghanistan Mercenary Shocker + US Says Nuclear War “Very Real Possibility” (5:43) - Abby Martin, The Empire Files ❤️ Debating Trump's Impeachment w/ Leslie Lee, Nathan J. Robinson, & Katie Halper (28:08) - Bad Faith ❤️ US Has Major Holes In Effort To Cure People (6:26) - Naomi Karavani, Redacted Tonight Please give us a 5-star review on your favorite podcasting platform!

Naomi Karavani @naomikaravani hosts @michaelsums, Steven Chen @stevenchenshow, and Shelly Kim @Shell_gasoline. Shelly covers bat folklore (not all cultures think bats are scary -- it depends on the bat). Steven Chen reminds us that bats are mammals (what would we do without him?), and Michael Summers talks about what would happen if you had bat breasts (Naomi wants them).

After Passover, there's Batsover. There's a lot to say about bats that's why we divided this episode into two parts. Naomi Karavani @naomikaravani delves into the history of bat guys, the guys who discovered how bats fly and their crazy experiments. Michael Summers @michaelsums, chief bat guy, gives us a peak behind the top sheet as to why bats can carry so many diseases and not get sick themselves. Shelly Kim @Shell_gasoline and Steven Chen @stevenchenshow join us too and present their findings in Part II. Critics are saying that this episode might be the funniest.