CNLIVE! S4E8 - CRUSHING DISSENT - George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter & Jill Stein
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It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Today's information war against individuals and media who do not adhere to the Western-government-enforced narrative on Ukraine is part of a long history in the U.S. of officially crushing dissent. With the advances of technology for both surveillance and censorship, we might be in the most chilling atmosphere yet for thought control. Will it too be brought down by its own excesses? The First Amendment has not prevented the U.S. from suppressing speech throughout its history. Just eight years after the adoption of the...
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CNLIVE! S4E7 UKRAINE ON FIRE - with Director Igor Lopatonok
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Screening of UKRAINE ON FIRE in presence of the director Igor Lopatonok. Produced by and starring Oliver Stone, with the participation of the late Robert Parry, founding editor of Consortium News. Film starts at 1 hr 42 mins 46 secs.
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CN Live! S4E6 EPSTEIN UPDATE - Maxwell Denied Retrial
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Conviction upheld for Ghislaine Maxwell. Interview with Nick Bryant, publisher of the Epstein 'Little Black Book' and author of 'The Franklin Scandal'.
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CN LIVE! S4E5- UKRAINE - The Economic Fallout - Wolff & Hudson
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The West, led by the United States, declared economic war against Russia last month in response to the invasion of Ukraine, imposing perhaps the harshest sanctions against any nation in history. President Joe Biden has said that the aim of this economic warfare is to turn the Russian people against its government. Sanctions against Russia’s Central Bank were intended to destroy the value of the ruble. One U.S. dollar was worth 85 rubles on Feb. 24, the day of the invasion and soared to 154 per dollar on March 7. However the Russian currency strengthened to 101 this morning. Putin and other...
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CN LIVE! S4E4 HAS HOPE RUN OUT FOR ASSANGE?
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GUESTS: Julian Hill MP, Lissa Johnson, Prof Bill Hogan, Dr Arthur Chesterfield-Evans, Prof Bill Hogan, Mary Kostakidis, Alison Broinowski, Professor Stuart Rees, John Pilger, Alexander Mercouris & Greg Barns.
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CN LIVE! S4E3 UKRAINE UPDATE
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Apologies for the audio dropout in Joe Lauria's introduction. This is what he said: "The Russian intervention in Ukraine is now one week old and the situation on the ground is subject to an information war that makes it hard to assess what is happening. Western media is saying that things are going badly for Russia, while Russian President Vladimir Putin says things are going according to plan. But what that plan is, is not entirely certain. Putin said the object of the intervention is to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. How that is to be achieved is only slowly emerging. Western media...
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CN LIVE! S4E2 RUSSIA HITS BACK
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GUESTS Scott Ritter : military analyst, former UN weapons inspector Tony Kevin : former Australian Ambassador to Poland & AU diplomat in Moscow Alexander Mercouris: legal and political analyst Mark Sleboda : political analyst in Moscow, radio host
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CN Live! S4E1 BEAR TRAP IN UKRAINE?
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Even the President of Ukraine itself told the U.S. to tone down its war hysteria, which seems intended to lure Russia into a trap. Alexander Mercouris and Scott Ritter join CN Live at 9 am EST Wednesday to discuss what's next for Ukraine, Russia and the United States.
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CN LIVE! S3E13 The Survival of Julian Assange
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With Doctors for Assange: Dr Jill Stein, Lissa Johnson and Prof Bill Hogan And legal analyst: Alexander Mercouris Read the Doctors for Assange Statement
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CN Live! S3 E12: The Espionage Act & Julian Assange
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As a ruling by the High Court in London is imminent in the U.S. appeal seeking to overturn an order not to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, we look at the High Court's options and examine the parallel history of the U.K. Official Secrets Act and the U.S. Espionage Act, under which Assange has been charged. Our guests are James Goodale, who was The New York Times counsel during the Pentagon Papers case, and CN legal analyst Alexander Mercouris. For additional information:
info_outlineIn the last week before Julian Assange's extradition hearing, people flocked from around the world to London, to defend the imprisoned journalist and call for his release. CN Live! covered a myriad of events and spoke with a number of participants about the significance of this case, which the UK Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell has referred to as the Drefus case of our time.
CONTENTS 00:00:00 Kristinn Hrafnsson ”We’re dealing with a Dark Force” (22 Feb 2020) 00:01:48 Patrick Henningsen Reads letter (22 Feb 2020) from “ïnternational jurists” to UK PM Boris Johnson (et al) 00:22:18 Craig Murray “Julian refused to give up a source in the hope of securing his own freedom.” (22 Feb 2020) 00:25:30 Extradition Special LONDON - to DAY 1 of hearing (24 Feb 2020) 00:26:31 Emmy Butlin & Angie Curran, 00:26:43 John McDonnell outside Belmarsh (20 Feb 2020) 00:28:27 Jennifer Robinson, WL Press Conference (18 Feb 2020) 00:28:46 Andrew Wilkie, George Christiensen (18 Feb 2020) 00:29:44 George Christiensen, WL Press Conference (18 Feb 2020) 00:30:53 Frontline Club Patrick Cockburn & Richard Gizbert (20 Feb 2020) 00:33:29 Mark Davis in Sydney on Afgan War Logs (9 Aug 2019) 00:41:00 Randi Credico, Australia House London (22 Feb 2020) 00:44:20 March to Parliament Sq, London (22 Feb 2020) 00:45:21 John Shipton (22 Feb 2020) 00:46:56 Roger Waters (22 Feb 2020) 00:49:44 Tareq Ali (22 Feb 2020) 00:55:19 Joe Lauria discusses several key issues 00 59:19 Outside the court (24 Feb 2020) 01:01:35 Studio Interview: Catherine Brown Presented jurist open letter (read out above) to 10 Downing Street (23 Feb 2020) 01:12:48 Yanis Varoufakis (22 Feb 2020) 01:19:23 Studio Interview Alexander Mercouris (23 Feb 2020) 01:44:32 Patrick Henningsen with Joe Lauria (22 Feb 2020) 01:50:08 Randi Credico with Joe Lauria re Rohrabacher (22 Feb) 01:56:14 Videolink Interview Ray McGovern - the WL-DOJ “2017 deal” (23 Feb 2020) 02:18:18 Gary Webb Award Joe Lauria presents award to Kristinn Hrafnsson (22 Feb)