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BS 70 - New World Order 05/22/2020

BS 70 - New World Order Mike Snyder, long-time podcast listener, security professional and self-confessed libertarian, Fox News watcher and conspiracy theorist, joined us for a two hour chat today about his fears around the coming of the One World Government, the New World Order, Covid conspiracies, and many other fun topics. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/14524001

Bullshit 67 04/14/2020

Bullshit 67 /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/13976714

BS 65 - The Inflection Point 03/24/2020

BS 65 - The Inflection Point Our take on the coronavirus, the lockdown and what happens next. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/13673516

China 6.5 - John Pabon 02/03/2020

China 6.5 - John Pabon John Pabon from strategic advisory firm Fulcrum22 joins me to give his perspective on China - business, political and social. John's an American who currently lives in Melbourne, and spent the last ten years living in Shanghai. We talk about the ol' Communism v Capitalism debate, the treatment of the Uyghurs, working conditions in factories, IP theft, and how most Chinese view their government. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/12990368

The BS Filter 62 - Venezuela and Iran Update 01/14/2020

The BS Filter 62 - Venezuela and Iran Update Alan MacLeod joins me again to discuss the latest news about Venezuela and Iran. Alan is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. He is author of "Bad News From Venezuela: 20 Years of Fake News and Misreporting." His latest book, Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, was published by Routledge in May 2019. Follow him on Twitter: @AlanRMacLeod /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/12742004

BSF 60 12/27/2019

BSF 60 The oligarchs have worked out the model for getting people to vote for "killer clowns". The Democrats gave Trump $738 billion to buy weapons. And America is using drones to terrorize the world. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/12545585

BFTN 57 - Alan MacLeod on Media Bias 11/27/2019

BFTN 57 - Alan MacLeod on Media Bias Alan MacLeod joins me to discuss the propaganda model and how it applies to media bias on the coverage of Bolivia, Venezuela, Corbyn, Ukrainegate and Russiagate. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/12197531

BFTN 56 - Bolivia 1 11/22/2019

BFTN 56 - Bolivia 1 President Evo Morales was recently the subject of a coup, and has fled to Mexico. In order to provide some perspective on the current events, we take a detailed look at the political history of Bolivia - a poor country that has survived an endless number of military coups, often supported and financed by the CIA. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/12143939

55 - Intervening In Foreign Elections 11/12/2019

55 - Intervening In Foreign Elections Americans were SHOCKED to discover that Russia had interfered in their 2016 Presidential elections. Of course, those same Americans probably have no idea that their own country has, according to the research done by my guest today, done the same thing over 80 times since the end of WWII. Today I interview Dov H. Levin Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/11997851

BFTN 53 10/25/2019

BFTN 53 /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/11775515

China Part 3 09/13/2019

China Part 3 We talk about America's history of using tariffs as a weapon—why it outsourced its manufacturing to China and how that forced China to become America's largest banker while U.S. manufacturing employment has steadily declined—how the US went from controlling 80% of the world's gold reserves at the end of WWII to having the largest external debt in the world—and how being the world's reserve currency since 1945 has given it an exorbitant privilege. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/11233865

BS Filter 6.1 China's Economy - Part 1 08/31/2019

BS Filter 6.1 China's Economy - Part 1 There's been lots of talk in the media about Trump’s trade war with China. One aspect about it that I find interesting is that I never see any talk, in this context, about the fact that China is a Communist country - a Communist country that seems to be a major economic threat to the USA, the world’s leading Capitalist country. Didn't the West win the Cold War? So over the next few episodes we're going to be trying to understand what's going on with China's economy. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/11067347

BFTN 49 - Boris Part 2 08/05/2019

BFTN 49 - Boris Part 2 We finish our mini-biography on the new Prime Minister of the UK, Boris Johnson, aka "BoJo", or, as I like to call him, "The Big BJ". /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/10776215

BFTN 48 - Boris Part 1 07/30/2019

BFTN 48 - Boris Part 1 On this episode I'm joined by Brisbane's #1 podcaster, the fabulous Trevor Bell, co-host of The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove ("a weekly podcast which takes a look at news, political events, culture, ethics and the transformations taking place in our society"), who is standing in for Papa Bear who is on vacation.... AGAIN. And we are doing a mini-biography on the United Kingdom's new Prime Minister - Boris Johnson. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/10704377

Bullshit 5.1 - The Panama Papers (part 1) 06/30/2019

Bullshit 5.1 - The Panama Papers (part 1) In 2015, journalist Bastian Obermayer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a Southern German Newspaper, was approached online by an anonymous source. He or she provided him with a database from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/10343687

BFTN 42 - Julian Assange 04/16/2019

BFTN 42 - Julian Assange /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/9411383

Antivax 4.1 04/05/2019

Antivax 4.1 We begin a series on the antivax movement. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/9288818

The Mueller Report 03/26/2019

The Mueller Report Today we break down what we know - and don't know - about the Mueller Report and ask why for the last two years we've heard so much about Trump - Russian collusion when there is apparently no evidence to support it. /episode/index/show/bullshitfilter/id/9140657