Countries undergoing extreme instability – like, say, a violent insurrectionist coup, a deadly plague, climate change catastrophes, and domestic and foreign information warfare – tend to breed cults, and America is no exception! This week Gaslit Nation welcomes cult and extremism expert Dr Janja Lalich to explain the rise of fringe movements in the US and how to deal with it.

Lalich is a researcher, author, and educator specializing in cults and extremist groups, with a particular focus on charismatic relationships, political and other social movements, ideology and social control, and issues of gender and sexuality. Her books include Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships, Captive Hearts, Captive Minds, and Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, based on her research on the Heaven’s Gate cult, the group that committed collective suicide in 1997, and her own 10+ years’ experience in a political cult, the San Francisco-based Democratic Workers Party.

We discuss Trump, QAnon, the “Mueller will save us”-style cults of bureaucracy, how social media and disinformation operations shape the US political landscape, and the rise of authoritarianism and cults of personality worldwide. We also discuss what to do if someone you love has fallen under the sway of a cult and what social and political conditions make cult mentalities thrive.

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As we’ve been saying since the start of the show, Ukraine is on the frontlines of Putin’s global war against democracy. Ukraine has long been a testing ground of Kremlin aggression, including cyberattacks and disinformation warfare that helped tipped the scales in both the Brexit referendum and bringing Trump to power. In this special episode, we feature insights over the years from the many Ukraine experts who have been on Gaslit Nation to share urgent lessons of hope and resilience in the global struggle of democracy versus fascism.

Featured episodes are:

• Ukrainian journalist and author Nataliya Gumenyuk on Lessons from Ukraine Five Years After the Revolution (Full episode here)

• Film producer Anna Palenchuk sharing the incredible story of how former political prisoner Oleh Sentsov Directed a Film from a Siberian Prison (Full episode here)

• Journalist and author Vladislav Davidzon on the political rise of Volodymyr Zelenskyy following the 2019 presidential election (Full episode here)

• Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk on how Kremlin disinformation wormed its way into an Italian trial of a Ukrainian soldier, Vitalii Markiv, who was eventually acquitted (Full episode here)

• Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov on how Dictators Die, But Art is Forever (Full episode here)

• Razom co-founder Olya Yarychkivsk on the importance of staying true to one’s values when battling corruption (Full episode here)

If you would like to support Ukraine during this horrific time, we encourage you to donate to Razom, at RazomForUkraine.org, which is working hard through its international network to help refugees and deliver much needed medical aid to Ukraine.

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We’ve got a new District Attorney in New York City – but it’s the same old story of entrenched corruption and impunity for criminal elites! Last month, new DA Alvin Bragg decided not to pursue the prosecution of Trump for obvious crimes, and last week, lawyer Mark Pomerantz, who had come out of retirement to aid then-DA Cy Vance in the Trump Crime Cult investigation, published a blistering resignation letter in which he blamed Bragg for stopping the investigation in its tracks. What Pomerantz failed to mention was that Vance had spent his entire tenure protecting criminal elites – including the Trump family! – while lawyers in the know like Pomerantz said nothing until it was too late. Bragg did not create these problems; he inherited them. But now it is Bragg’s job to fix them, and he seems more content to be the fall guy than to act.

This episode is a deep dive into the shady world of the Manhattan DA’s office, focusing mainly on Cy Vance and all the crimelords he let off, from Weinstein to Epstein to the Trumps to Bannon to Manafort. Sarah discusses how letting these operatives go free not only endangers the United States, but the entire world, particularly since so many are tied to Russia as Russia brutally invades a sovereign country that it sees as its first stop to a broader imperial conquest. If only the strong words that Biden accidentally uttered in his “gaffe” about Putin – the “gaffe” that righteously condemned a war criminal and therefore upset the DC establishment – were used to describe domestic threats as well.

For our Patreon bonus episode, available to subscribers at the Truth-Teller level or higher, we are airing the live Q & A special with our beloved listeners that we held last week. This was the first Gaslit Nation live event but it will not be the last! We plan to do this again over the summer so sign up at the Democracy Defender level or higher to join the Gaslit Nation Zoom Party! In this week’s bonus we discuss Ukraine, voting rights, the midterms, Eric Greitens the serial abuser Senate candidate and more. We thank you for your continued support of our extremely independent show!

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This episode tackles the urgent need for accountability in both the United States and in Putin’s war on Ukraine. We start out with yet another deep dive into the cesspool that is Merrick Garland’s political career and in particular, his alliance with lifelong mentor and corruption queen Jamie Gorelick. We have located the ur-text that spurred the “Garland nabbed Timothy McVeigh” propaganda myth and learned that it includes an endorsement from…Trump Coup Plot pal and Russian oligarch lawyer Joseph DiGenova! Learn about this and other seedy ties (Rex Tillerson makes an appearance) in the latest Great Debunking of Merrick Garland.

We then turn again to the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine and the urgent need for Ukrainians to be protected from the brutal Russian air strikes and ongoing mounting genocide of Ukrainian civilians. Andrea details the latest in the Russian assault and examines how decades of complicity brought us to this point.

So what should the West be doing to stop this horrific crisis? We welcome a special guest this week: Ukrainian analyst Olena Tregub, Secretary General of NAKO (the Independent Defense Anti-Corruption Committee), an international oversight body created by Transparency International. From 2015 to 2017, Olena led the national authority for international development assistance coordination as the director at Ukraine's Ministry of Economic Development. She answers our questions on what the West should be doing to help Ukrainian civilians, how Ukraine can get a no-fly zone and what that would lead to, talk of World War III, and Putin’s broader agenda.

Our bonus episode this week is the recording of our special live Zoom Q & A with our Patreon subscribers at the Democracy Defender or higher! True to form, we forgot to tape the first thirty minutes, so we stayed for an extra thirty minutes to make up for it! We thank everyone who turned out for this fun event; we loved getting to see you and answer your questions. We will be doing another one of these events this summer so please join at the Democracy Defender level if you’d like to take part! Gaslit Nation is and shall forever remain an independent podcast and we are able to keep going thanks to listeners like you.

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In this episode of Gaslit Nation, we revisit some familiar terrain – you know, like Putin did when he decided to invade Ukraine yet again. In Monday’s bonus episode, available to Gaslit Nation listeners at the Truth-Teller level or higher, we answered questions about particular issues in Putin’s war on Ukraine: nukes, Israel, UK sanctions, and so on. In today’s episode, we revisit the history of the current conflict – since many people still do not grasp that the defense pact of NATO is not what prompted Putin’s invasion – and of the USSR itself.

We discuss the illusion of Russian military might and how Ukrainians have punctured that myth, while also analyzing the successful hybrid warfare – cyberattacks, propaganda, Western useful idiots and oligarch partners – that was put in its place. We speculate on where Putin may strike if he decides to withdraw from Ukraine and temporarily focus on other territories that were once forced to be part of the Soviet colonial empire. Andrea also breaks down the latest in the ongoing war, including new war crimes in Ukraine and arrests of journalists and protesters in Russia.

This has been an absolutely exhausting few months for us at Gaslit Nation, and lucky you, for a mere ten dollars you can see us looking exhausted in person! On March 22 at 4:00 EST/3:00 CST, you can join Sarah and Andrea at the first ever live Gaslit Nation chat for subscribers at the Democracy Defender level or higher. We will be answering your questions and thanking you for being part of the supportive and engaged community that has kept us going for all these years! If you’re interested in participating, sign up on Patreon.

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Putin’s brutal escalated invasion of Ukraine was predictable – not only because he announced it in advance, but because Russia has carried out extreme military violence in other regions for decades, most notably Chechnya in the 2000s and Syria over the last decade. As Ukraine continues to fight back, Syria suffers due to the partnership of Putin and Assad and the war crimes they carried out on Syrian civilians, which killed hundreds of thousands and displaced several million. To understand what may be in store for Ukraine, we need to understand Syria, so we invited an expert on Syria for an urgent discussion with Gaslit Nation.

Our guest today is Mouaz Moustafa who is featured in the must-watch documentary about Syria called Red Lines. Mouaz was born and raised in Damascus, Syria before moving to the US as a teenager. He is the current Executive Director for The Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF). As a former staffer for Congressman Vic Snyder and Senator Blanche Lincoln, Mouaz spent a few years on Capitol Hill before joining SETF in the fall of 2011 to help advocate on behalf of the pro-democracy movement in his native Syria. He regularly travels to Turkey, Syria, and Jordan. He has organized many staff and congressional delegations to the region including Senator McCain's trip to northern Syria in 2013. He worked closely with the Defector Caesar, bringing him to testify in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives. Mouaz has also worked closely with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to bring awareness to the atrocities taking place in Syria including a continuing exhibit of the Caesar photos currently at the Museum.

Mouaz discusses what Ukrainians can do to fight against Russian military aggression, what the West should do and should have done to protect Syria, what the West should do to protect Ukraine, the online disinformation warfare that Russia has been carrying out globally for decades, and how to sustain resilience and defiance in the midst of such horror. Mouaz reminds us that we must never give up the fight and we must never give up on each other.

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This week, we review the chaotic and horrific developments in Putin’s war against Ukraine. We cover the West finally sanctioning Russia and beginning to isolate it from positions of geopolitical power; Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons; the protests in support of Ukraine that broke out all over the world, in particular in independent states that were once colonized by the Soviet Union; the shameful and unforgivable role Kremlin media lackeys played in abetting Kremlin violence in Ukraine and Syria; and what NATO and the West should do to protect Ukrainians trying to flee to the border.

Most of all, we discuss the toll this war has taken on the people of Ukraine. While their resilience is inspiring, it is also tragic. Putin’s escalated invasion was predictable and therefore preventable. The West owes Ukraine every bit of support it can give them after decades of looking the other way while taking Russian oligarch blood money.

Our bonus episode this week, available to Patreon subscribers at the Truth-Teller level or higher, is the full interview with Gustav Gressel, a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Gressel is an expert on Russia, Eastern Europe, and defense policy. He discusses Germany’s termination of the Nordstream 2 project, the need for anti-corruption laws and sanctions, and how energy policy is used as political leverage in Europe. He also discusses parallels between Putin and Hitler.

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Putin’s pre-announced escalated invasion and occupation of Ukraine has commenced, and it happened when we said it would: on the anniversary week of Ukraine’s 2014 uprising and the eight year anniversary of Putin’s annexation of Crimea. 2-22-22 is set to go down in history – should the future be lucky enough to have history – much as 8-08-08 did when Putin invaded Georgia fourteen years ago. The escalated invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation for over thirty years, is a humanitarian disaster and a profound violation of international law.

Perhaps world leaders should have been more assertive in battling the Kremlin’s multiple invasions of sovereign countries, oligarch infiltration of Western institutions and partnerships with the most corrupt Western actors, and Putin’s general disintegration into madman status! Perhaps if they had listened to the many warning signs that this situation would get extraordinarily dangerous unless action was taken – if you would like a recent list of them, please consult our archives – Ukraine would not be in a terrifying and tragic position and the entire world would not be dealing with a nuke-bearing dictator who will stop at nothing to get his way.

In this episode, we discuss Putin’s desire to rebuild the Soviet Union even if it brings mass death, Zelensky’s fierce opposition to the assault on Ukraine, the insufficient sanctions passed by the UK and the promising curtailing of Nordstream 2. We speculate on which countries may be in danger from Kremlin invasion in the future. We debunk Putin’s bullshit blatherings and analyze them in the context of the generation gap between Putin and the citizens of the countries he seeks to conquer.

We conclude our episode with an interview with Gustav Gressel, a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Gressel is an expert on Russia, Eastern Europe, and defense policy. He discusses Germany’s termination of the Nordstream 2 project, the need for anti-corruption laws and sanctions, and how energy policy is used as political leverage in Europe. He also describes the chilling similarities between Putin, Mussolini, and Hitler.

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We have two special guests reporting from L'viv, Ukraine! Gaslit Nation welcomes back intelligence expert Malcolm Nance, the author of several bestsellers on Trump’s ties to the Kremlin as well as the aptly titled upcoming book on Trump’s insurgency, THEY WANT TO KILL AMERICANS. (Listen to our previous interview with Malcom here.) We also welcome back journalist Terrell Starr, host of the must-listen podcast Black Diplomats which decolonizes foreign policy by amplifying historically marginalized voices and providing crucial perspectives on the crises the world faces. (Listen to our previous interview with Terrell here.)

Malcolm and Terrell are traveling Ukraine, where the country is bracing for an escalated invasion of Putin's war. They answered our questions on a variety of topics including: * Why did the Kremlin choose this month to escalate its invasion? * What are some indicators that Putin will go all in? * What are the real reasons Putin wants to occupy Ukraine? * What is the state of the Western alliance? What should NATO members be doing now? * What should the Biden administration be doing? * What role does the threat of nuclear weapons play? * What does Ukraine need from the West to succeed against Russia? * How does Russia’s history of imperialism and colonialism shape its actions in Ukraine today? * What are some ways the West can fend off Kremlin aggression without using military force?

This is an in-depth conversation about a complex and horrifying conflict by people who have been studying Ukraine and Kremlin aggression for decades. If you’re trying to figure out what’s going on and what may happen next, this is the conversation for you.

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Welcome back to another week of us anxiously anticipating a European land war while contending with rising autocracy at home! We start out by analyzing the Trump crime cult’s destruction of federal records, contemplate who in the admin may have been responsible, and put it in the context of the nationwide book bannings and assault on collective memory. Sarah also gives the backstory into the strange circumstances that launched career criminal coverup guy Bill Barr into the Attorney General position in 1991.

Andrea then answers the questions that are on everyone’s mind: Are we headed for World War III thanks to Putin escalating his invasion of Ukraine? What does Putin really want? Why do certain political pundits not understand that the Soviet Union no longer exists and why do those pundits still have jobs? This episode is a Gaslit Nation History Lesson on Russian colonialism, the origins of NATO, the relationship between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact states, the infiltration of Western Europe by oligarchs during the Iraq War era, the struggles of dissidents from post-Soviet dictatorships, and the propaganda tactics that people use to distort information about all this and more!

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Congratulations, you survived January 2022! Now it’s time for another disaster -- Putin’s scheduled escalation of his ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which he announced months ago, thus giving his oligarchs plenty of time to get their dirty financial affairs in order. We dig deep into this complex conflict, examining the humanitarian toll it takes on Ukraine, Putin’s ambitions for other regions of the world (more on that in our Patreon bonus!), the American exploitation of the conflict for partisan purposes and the way the West can force Putin’s hand and clean its own house at the same time: sanction the oligarchs!

Sanctions on the international band of oligarchs propelling the Kremlin are long overdue, and it is time for the West to quit taking dirty money and instead strip the Kremlin and its mafia partners of their power. We speculate as to the oligarchs’ backup plans and what will happen in the months to come should the sanctions actually be enacted. We also discuss Trump’s ongoing coup attempt and his dream of Putin-style rule – a dream that may come true since the DOJ refuses to act.

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In June 2021, we did a Gaslit Nation episode called “Voter Suppression Emergency” where we interviewed election integrity expert Ari Berman. Guess what? We’re still in a Voter Suppression Emergency so Ari is back to share his thoughts with us again! Ari Berman is a writer for Mother Jones who closely documents dark money, voter suppression, and the ever-changing laws that GOP legislatures are using and abusing to hijack our democracy. He has long followed the power struggle for progressive values and democracy in Washington, and his books include Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics.

This week we catch up with Ari and discuss how the voter suppression emergency has turned into a voter suppression apocalypse. We get his thoughts about what’s really behind Manchin and Sinema’s obstructionism, whether the Democratic leadership’s inaction has alienated their grassroots base, why Merrick Garland has not cracked down on insurrectionists, the GOP strategy for the midterms and their dangerous placement of insurrectionists into elected offices, the new voter suppression laws enacted since 2020, the culture of threat toward poll workers and public officials, the role of dark money in shaping elections, what ordinary citizens can do to combat this threat, what tools the Democratic Party has left at their disposal, and much more!

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This week we examine what drove Koched-up Karen of the Senate Kyrsten Sinema to destroy voting rights on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. We dig into Sinema’s questionable past and shady backers and debate rumors about her political future. We also discuss the fact that unless Congress nukes the filibuster and passes voting rights protections, it doesn’t matter who runs in 2024, because the election will be determined not by candidate popularity but by the most extreme voter suppression laws since the era before the VRA. We praise the Black activists who continue to fight for voting rights despite contending with a white supremacist death cult in one party and cowardly corporate enablers in the other.

We then discuss Merrick Garland’s valiant arrest of career criminal Donald Trump and his mafia syndicate coup plotters…wait just kidding he arrested a guy who posted as “oathkeeper4lyfe” while announcing his January 6 insurrection plans on Reddit. (Seriously.) We review the career of Yale law graduate Stewart Rhodes, the indicted Oath Keepers leader, and explain that arresting him and ten others is not sufficient to protect our country from coup-plotting militants backed by powerful billionaire networks and a sociopathic cult leader currently on tour doing his best Charlie Manson imitation in an attempt to incite a race war.

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It has now been over a year since the worst attack on the Capitol since 1812, and Attorney General Merrick Garland has responded to the ongoing threat of bloody sequel coups and the rapid erosion of our democracy with…a tepid speech. We break down his weasel words and analyze his “probe” that consists of rounding up minor participants and giving them sentences so light or slow that they can commit vehicular manslaughter while they wait, and discuss why he continues to ignore the criminal elites at the helm: Trump, Stone, Flynn, Bannon, Wood, and more.

We break down Merrick Garland’s hollow words and false promises, and also note his failure – and the Biden administration’s failure – to protect voting rights, which are still being eviscerated. We examine the DOJ troll bot farm that spits platitudes and propaganda at anyone who even mildly criticizes Garland, and note the identical phrasing to the troll bot farm that emerged during the Mueller probe. We go on to destroy the bot farm-peddled talking point that Garland was a key player in solving the Oklahoma City bombing plot and in fact shows how he screwed up the investigation in a dangerously similar manner to the way he is handling the January 6 attack. We return to our study of Garland’s corrupt mentor, Jamie Gorelick, and her shadowy history at the DOJ. A broken institution can only be protected by a broken institutionalist, and that is who Merrick Garland is.

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Welcome to the first Gaslit Nation episode of 2022! Just think, one year ago we were all sitting around in a plague waiting for an attempted coup to happen, and now we are…sitting around in a plague waiting for an attempted coup to happen. And by the same coup plotters, too because mafia state enabler Merrick Garland refuses to hold criminal elites accountable!

While Merrick Garland stays the same failure as always, there have been meaningful developments elsewhere in court cases involving criminal elites. We discuss the guilty verdict for child rape trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, partner of Jeffrey Epstein and daughter of Mossad operative and Russian mafia liaison Robert Maxwell. We do a deep dive on the international relations aspects of the case and discuss why the media is whitewashing her crimes and treating complicit actors like Epstein’s lawyer/client Alan Dershowitz as “objective sources”.

We also discuss Giuliani lackey/convicted felon/coup plotter/9-11 villain Bernard Kerik, his long history of criminality, and the documents he provided to the Jan 6 committee. We then turn to the failure of Cy Vance to hold the Trump crime cult accountable (we warned you!) and what the investigations by Tish James and Vance replacement Alvin Bragg may bring. And we pay tribute to Harry Reid, the only official in office in 2016 who was brave enough to tell the American public the truth about Trump and Russia in real time and try to stop our current horrors from happening. RIP.

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Meet the patriots of the Gaslit Nation 2020 Save Democracy Challenge! We speak to superheroes who organized, stayed engaged, and did what they could wherever they were, often facing threats and other pressures, to help save our democracy in 2020. Their efforts matter, made a difference, and planted powerful seeds for protecting their communities, and therefore our country.

We're going to get through the difficult years ahead by fighting for our communities, and that security on the local level helps secure our democracy on a national level. So never forget that we need you, our communities need you, our country needs you, and if you don't know where to start, listen to the inspiring people in this discussion to learn how to help wherever you are.

We're going to hold another Gaslit Nation Save Democracy Challenge where we call on our listeners to stay engaged and do what they can where they can to help get out the vote in the 2022 midterms. Look out for that as we get closer to yet another make-it-or-break-it election in our lifetimes. No matter how dark things get, refuse to abandon each other, and stay and fight to ensure that a new America rises from the ashes of this time of rapid change and uncertainty.

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Since the start of Gaslit Nation in 2018, we've warned of Trump's determination to use violence to consolidate power and stay in power. The earth-shaking 2016 election was the culmination of a coup, and the rampant corruption, purging, threats, harassment of investigators, whistleblowers, and law enforcement that followed was done to ensure that coup successfully entrenched a dictatorship. January 6, 2021 was inevitable, and yes, we even announced a special episode about it in advance. Our democracy cannot survive another coup.

In this special episode, we provide a montage of Gaslit Nation episodes going back to the beginning, counting down to the violent coup attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The countdown continues, and that our democracy currently cannot handle a third coup attempt by Trump and his white supremacist army currently harassing and threatening school boards over the teaching of Black history and vaccine and mask mandates, harassing and threatening election officials over Trump's Big Lie and to ensure their efforts to overturn our democracy are successful next time, and running for office at all levels using disinformation and white rage. This episode is an SOS for our democracy, calling on our public servants and law enforcement to clean up corruption (especially among law enforcement), secure our democracy, and ensure there will be no third coup, one our democracy will not survive.

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It’s that special time of the season again – the time where we commemorate the anniversary of an unpunished coup attempt! This is really an unceasing, round-the-clock kind of occasion here at Gaslit Nation, and we cannot believe we are still discussing the need to prosecute the masterminds of this seditious attack because you losers are too complicit or complacent to protect our country, but here we are. AGAIN. Like a sleigh ride on a mobius strip through hell, this week’s Gaslit Nation takes you on a journey back in time to the many acts of treason committed over the years and the utter lack of accountability for any of them!

Today’s Evidence of Obvious Crimes includes the Mark Meadows’ coup PowerPoint, Trump’s latest televised confession of obstruction of justice, and a bunch of texts from three Fox News propagandists and the most pathetic Trump family member. We debate whether the texts are even real, and both come up with compelling arguments for why you should stop treating this like a game and actually do something about the violent seditionists actively plotting “Coup 2: Now With More Bloodbath” oh my God. We also share important items on our Christmas wish lists -- like voting rights and abolishing the filibuster! -- and explain why you cannot cosplay Succession as a substitute for real justice.

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This week we look at Biden’s big anti-corruption plan – and wonder if anyone will actually implement it! The Biden admin has put out a kleptocracy battle missive that reads like Gaslit Nation’s greatest hits, but will it be another “Iron Triangles” fiasco? (For those who don’t have brains bursting with bureaucratic betrayal, the “Iron Triangles” speech is the one Robert Mueller made in 2011 vowing to crack down on transnational organized crime, which he followed up by spending the rest of the decade enabling transnational organized crime.)

We don’t know what will happen, but we do know that Congress needs to clean House – at home and abroad! Sarah launches into a long story about Paul Gosar, the January 6 Capitol attacks, the unindicted conspirators, the bipartisan obsession with harming AOC, the strangeness of Congress not wanting to defend itself from people who want to murder them, and the donation record of a shady Russian oligarch associate who is funding not only the DCCC, but Nancy Pelosi individually, and keeps upping the donations! Wow, way to battle the kleptocracy, Dems!

Andrea takes on the Biden-Putin video call and looks at the looming Russia war on Ukraine and the humanitarian disaster it will bring for the region, particularly for human rights activists and journalists who are already fighting a brave fight. As always, we implore the Biden administration to abandon Nordstream 2 if they actually want to clean up global corruption.

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We’ve got a brand-new coup plot and a brand-new plague variant – and a brand-new Gaslit Nation to examine the nexus of the crisis and the origin of the storm! We start by discussing the coup that the Kremlin is allegedly preparing against Ukraine and review Paul Manafort’s career of evil. Manafort, best known for plotting coups with Kremlin-affiliated actors, has been MIA since being pardoned by Trump in December 2020, and our guess is that he is…plotting a coup with Kremlin-affiliated actors. Just going out on a limb here!

We also explain the differences between various agents of fortune like Rinat Akhmetov and Rinat Akhmetshin, both of whom are oligarch Manafort cronies, but only one of whom was at the June 2016 Trump Tower criminal meeting! (Remember when this kind of information wasn’t eating up your brain?) We also discuss the dire humanitarian situation at the border of Belarus and Poland, where the Kremlin is weaponizing a refugee crisis, and the failure of the West to adequately respond. Andrea provides firsthand updates from Russian and Belarusian activists who have an insider view of Kremlin aggression and advice on how to stop it.

Then we move onto the omicron variant! History has shown again and again how nature points out the folly of man, so it is no surprise that the refusal of Big Pharma to make the covid vaccine free and accessible everywhere has led to tyranny and mutation. We discuss the explosive new Financial Times expose about Pfizer exec Albert Bourla and his shady deals with Western leaders at the expense of much of the world, as well as the Biden admin’s empty promises from the last days of May to get the vaccine patent waived, whereas in reality they’re just going through the motions.

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