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Matt Taibbi
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Apr 14, 2022 • 13min
Listen to This Article: Give War A Chance
More and more, we're told outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problemsNarrated by Jared Moore Text published: 03/14/2022Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Apr 14, 2022 • 10min
Listen to This Article: The Great Billionaire Space Caper
Let's fly the first black woman to the moon, but send the checks to Jeff Bezos! On the congressional hustle that perfectly captures 2022 America.Narrated by Jared MooreText Published 04/12/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Apr 3, 2022 • 8min
Listen to This Article -- Meanwhile: The Fed's Golf Gaffe
The nation's central bankers, who've have had a rough year in headlines, are letting us all know how they learned about the horrors of inflation.Narrated by Jared Moore Text originally published 4/01/2022: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Apr 1, 2022 • 0sec
Listen to This Article: "Regime Change" Doesn't Work, You Morons
How many examples of "regime change" blowing up in our faces do we really need before realizing that it's a disastrous policy? Will we really try it with a nuclear-armed adversary?Narrated by Jared MooreText originally published 3/30/2022: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Mar 30, 2022 • 23min
Listen to this Article: Meet the Censored: Chris Hedges
Interview with the award-winning investigative reporter, now at Substack, who had six years of shows removed by YouTube over the weekend.Narrated by Jared MooreText originally published 3/28/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Mar 23, 2022 • 10min
Listen to This Article: World's Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
In an inane sequel to the Harper's Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis.Text originally published 3/21/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Mar 14, 2022 • 0sec
Listen to This Article: Orwell Was Right
From free speech to "spheres of influence" to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted.Original text version published 3/13/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Mar 11, 2022 • 21min
Listen to This Article -- Meet the Censored: Cherie DeVille
Long before controversies in Canada and Russia saw financial services politicized, porn star Cheri Deville warned about payment processors having too much power over speech.Original text version published 3/09/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Feb 18, 2022 • 22min
Listen to This Article: Another All-Time Media Faceplant
After the Biden administration and the press wrongly predicted a Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 16th, they kept compounding the error in spectacular fashion.Original text version published 2/17/22:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Feb 2, 2022 • 22min
Listen to This Article: The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking"
The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker's British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.Read by Jared Moore.Original text version published 2/1/2022:Find TK To Go on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
