Tag: Media Disinformation
Europe doesn’t want war with Russia over Ukraine (Full show)
Presidents Putin and Macron of Russia and France respectively met in Moscow for talks on how to diffuse the tense diplomatic situation that remains volatile in turbulent Ukraine. RT’s Don Courter reports. Then “Boom Bust” co-host Rachel Blevins shares her insights on the meeting, after first discussing top-level negotiations between President Biden and Germany’s new Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Then Prof. …
Social criticism in film with Adam McKay, Defund the Police? and the Boxer Rebellion
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. …
The Revolution is Not Being Televised
Despite bitterly cold weather, Canadians have turned out en masse in Ottawa to support the approximately 100,000 truckers’ Freedom Convoy from all across Canada. They’ve been joined by 11,000 truckers from the U.S. An endless line of cars waited to cross the border into Canada on Sunday to join the freedom party. The truckers are saying “Hell No!” to vaccine mandates and passports. …
