The camera captures a mother bear as she struggles to get her four cubs across a busy road. This simple but highly inspiring event occurred on March 27, 2021, in Winsted, Connecticut, USA. It is notable that the usually impatient drivers sat quietly in a long line, without creating a possibly disruptive tumult that could have distracted the mother bear.
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During the Trump impeachment proceedings, Democratic Congressman and Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff talked a good game about “American values” and the like, but when he decided he didn’t like certain journalists and tried to get them banned from social media outlets, well, maybe that whole “freedom of the press” thing wasn’t quite so important after all. In the latest Twitter Files dump, journalist Matt Taibbi reveals the efforts Schiff made to silence journalists who were a bit too “oppositional.” Guest host Aaron Maté and Taibbi discuss the journalists targeted by Schiff and how Twitter responded to the demands.
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FIORELLA ISABEL—The Convo Couch host confirms that much of what Americans have been taught to think about Russia is categorically wrong, a disgusting lie to maintain a chronic state of tension and hostility toward Russia, her culture and her role in global affairs. This Big Lie, chiefly propagated by the Anglo-American ruling elites, has now put the world on the brink of a nuclear war.
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Independent journalist Vanessa Beeley joins the Convo Couch hosts for a wide-ranging chat on the leading topics of global concern: The still unresolved US/NATO fueled war in Syria (which thanks to Russian diplomacy may have now subtracted Turkey from the equation); the disinformation war across the globe, the Ukraine War’s truths and lies, and the implicit risks in Washington’s inability to accept defeat, as the empire starts showing signs of implosion.
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AMONG THE TOPICS DISCUSSED:
• The West’s elites complete disconnection from reality and criminal indifference to the lot of ordinary people
• The effects of having the West/US controlled by a corrupt “Bubble” of self-perpetuating privileged and ultra-wealthy insiders.
• How rotten leadership is inevitable under an advanced capitalist regime (imperialism)
• Realities of the Ukraine war, the Russian options
