Sunday, May 26 2019 | Live @ 9PM CST

This was a live recording. William discussed the week’s news and US foreign policy, in honor of Memorial Day.

Current Events: May 20-26, 2019

Show Notes
0:04:27 – “War Pigs”: We Sold Our Soul For Rock ‘N’ Roll (1976) by Black Sabbath *
0:13:50 – “Albright Monument, Baghdad”: Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes (2001) by Propagandhi *
0:16:40 – “what it means to be antiwar” – Around the Empire: Joanne Leon
0:27:15 – 2016 U.S.–Iran naval incident
0:31:00 – Servant of the People | Netflix series
0:32:00 – Ibiza affair | Austria
0:52:00 – War in Donbass region of Ukraine
0:57:50 – Michael Avenatti: ‘Savior of the Republic‘
1:09:00 – “One Armed Scissor”: Relationship of Command (2000) by At the Drive-In *
1:23:00 – Espionage Act of 1917
1:25:00 – Intelligence Community
1:27:50 – Crossfire Hurricane: counter-investigations
1:35:00 – How European Parliament Elections Work
1:47:00 – “B.O.B.”: Stankonia (2000) by Outkast *
1:53:00 – false flags
1:54:00 – Eisenhower’s farewell address
1:54:40 – Yemen War Powers vote and veto
2:02:00 – The Government is Classifying Too Many Documents
2:04:30 – The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
2:10:00 – Rationale for the Iraq War
2:10:30 – Nayirah testimony (incubator story, part of the justification for the first Iraq War:Desert Storm)
2:11:20 – Venezuelan aid controversy
2:12:00 – Max Boot on war with Iran
2:16:00 – National Memorial Day Concert
2:20:30 – “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: Pieces of a Man (1971) by Gil Scott-Heron

*apologies for the audio problems (working on it)

note: all timestamps are estimated