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Subscribe at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod for the full episode. Conspiracy theorist and shock jock Alex Jones is one of the most censored people on the planet, and the subject of Alex Lee Moyer's new film 'Alex's War'. Moyer joins us to talk about Alex's presentational style, what his arguments tell us about the left and right, 9/11, Sandy Hook, and lots more! Check out 'Alex's War' : https://www.alexswar.com More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

To listen, become a subscriber at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod The Manchester Bombing of 2017 was represented as the work of a lone wolf pursuing a personal jihad. What we didn't know at the time was the extent of the bomber Salman Abedi's ties to the British deep state. Phil Miller is a journalist at Declassified and co-director of the film 'Blowback: The Road to Manchester': https://watch.declassifieduk.org/a/video/blowback-the-road-to-manchester-2/

For TPS109 INFLATION ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, also with Ann Pettifor, subscribe to Patreon.com/ThePopularPod and https://www.youtube.com/popularitymedia. After the 2008 crash, a cadre of economists and thinkers gathered to formulate a policy response on the scale of FDR's New Deal, that would undo the strangelhold of financial markets, democratise economies, and rise to the challenge of climate change. The name of that response was the Green New Deal. Today the entire spectrum of electoral politcs claims to speak for the idea, but what are the dangers of this widespread appropriation? TPS110 is also available as video @ Sublation Media: https://youtu.be/po96aU-MHco Check out Ann's substack: https://annpettifor.substack.com and her recent books: https://www.versobooks.com/authors/2161-ann-pettifor 

Originally released to subscribers at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod / Video for Sublation Media @ https://youtu.be/xuyWOumI14U Lockdowns and other COVID-19 measures were billed as protecting the  most vulnerable in society. Why, then, were nursing homes treated by  policy makers as acceptable sites of the most concentrated deaths? Were  old people victims not only of COVID-19, but of lockdown measures  themselves? James talks to Ross Barkan, biographer of Andrew Cuomo and  writer on New York politics for Jacobin, and Mareile Pfannebecker (critic and translator and James's own co-author). Click through to sub to The Popular Show's own YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/popularitymedia Buy Ross's The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, Coronavirus and the Fall of New York: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-prince/ But Mareile and James's Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/work-want-work-9781786997289/

Patrons only! Our discussion of the patronising and propogandised way public health is represented in media has been taken down by YouTube (way to prove us wrong...), so we've released the audio to our patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/banned-from-how-69965522  Please like and subscribe to: https://www.youtube.com/c/PopularityMedia. When Nazarin Veronica was invited to participate in the BBC's show 'Unvaccinated', she was promised the chance to debate the role of vaccination in the world's pandemic response. Instead she found demonisation and propaganda. For more COVID critical coverage and more radical politics, join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod  Other ways to help us continue:  🤑https://paypal.com/paypalme/thepopulashow  ☕https://buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow 🤑https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow 

Just for Patrons, David's chat with Sophie moves onto what 'gaslighting' is, parenting, Reddit AND MORE! Join our community at www.Patreon.com/ThePopularPod Click through to https://www.youtube.com/c/popularitymedia/  and like and subscribe. Please also consider donating at: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow  cash.app/£ThePopularShow

David talks to comedian Sophie Hayes about Curtis Yarvin's bonkers Elves and Hobbits piece from his SubStack, Justin Trudeau's hair and TERF celebrity delusions. Join our community at www.Patreon.com/ThePopularPod  Click through to https://www.youtube.com/c/popularitymedia/  and like and subscribe. Please also consider donating at: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow  cash.app/£ThePopularShow

James breaks down the Forde Report into the sabotage of Jeremy Corbyn from within the Labour Party bureaucracy, and warns of the lessons we shouldn't take from it regarding anti-racism. Video version at our YouTube channel. Consider joining us at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod for more exclusive content! Other ways to help us continue:  🤑https://paypal.com/paypalme/thepopula...☕https://buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow 🤑https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

Exclusive to subscribers at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.  Our ongoing coverage of the changing shape of the right takes in Kemi Badenoch - the "anti-woke" Nigerian-heritage Tory and surprise frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as UK Prime Minister - and Josh Hawley's Senate Hearing exchange with Prof Khiara Bridges on trans-inclusive language in the abortion debate. PLUS James sees The Strokes and the guys talk protest music.

Video from this episode is available at our new YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/X02tsyP0CeY. The boys talk multiple crises as farmers in the Netherlands rise against the EU Green Deal, New York city screens citizen advice ads for a nuclear attack, Germany repurposes vaccine centres for energy shortages, and the UK gets HOT. THEN the boys talk the collapse of utopia outside Saudi Arabia's 'Neom' city project, Brandon's accidental Palestinian advocacy, John Bolton's 'coup' boast AND MORE. Video from this episode is available at our new YouTube channel and at Sublation Media. Please click through and sub!  Join our community at www.Patreon.com/ThePopularPod. Please also consider donating at: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow  cash.app/£ThePopularShow