Week in Review

Week in Review is out a day early because I’m going to flat out busy for a week. Thus, no articles next week :(

I’ll throw a few “interesting articles” at Substack’s Notes interface.

But, good news, WiR is only 17 mins this week. Sorry about the 40 min episode last week.

Download (Ooops. It turns out that “Download” has been available for some time from the embedded player. Click on “Listen on” to the right. It’s below “Substack App”. While this remains the case, I’ll cease posting the two step Download via mega.nz. link. The other nice thing that Substack is providing is an RSS link for the podcast series (I haven’t tested this and presume it works). Take advantage of that if you use RSS and are interested in the podcast.)

Sources (for the “other stuff that happened this week” part of the episode)

Follow-ups to the Same-Same but Different article:

• US Officials Happy the UK Is Preparing to Send Ukraine Long-Range Missiles, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-05-10

• UK Confirms It’s Supplying Ukraine With Long-Range Missiles, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-05-11

• Biden to Sign Military and Surveillance Agreements With Papua New Guinea, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-05-10

• Deal Could Give US Military Access to Papua New Guinea Ports and Airports, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-05-14

• US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Combat Syria Normalization, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-05-11

DOJ & Ukraine - Where's the Truth? Larry Johnson fmr CIA, Napolitano interviews Johnson, Judging Freedom, 2023-05-12

• The Tiexiera "arsenal" are paint-ball guns

• FBI are idiots or lying to the judge or both (tell me something new)

The RSF “press freedom” rubbish. (There’s actually a tie-in here to the “dis-information” industry which Taibbi & co. are researching. Hmmm. Down boy [SMACK!], you can’t write another article now ….)

• Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media, Bryce Greene, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) republished at SheerPost, 2023-05-10

• India slips in World Press Freedom Index, ranks 161 out of 180 countries, The Hindu, 2023-05-03

• 2023 World Press Freedom Index – journalism threatened by fake content industry, RSF, RSF are so good they don't even put a date on their publication (must have been on or before 2023-05-10)

Some Indian journalists call BS on the RSF report:

RT News - May 10 2023 (20:00 MSK), clipped by GarethPrice, Rumble, 2023-05-10

• Skip to 00:14:11 < < ————

Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan arrested at Islamabad court, Abid Hussain, Al Jazeera, 2023-05-09

Imran Khan’s arrest and Pakistan’s struggle for stability, F.M. Shakil, The Cradle, 2023-05-15

Imran Khan released, but troubles in Pakistan remain, The Alex's, The Duran, 2023-05-14

Pakistan’s Top Court Orders Release of Imran Khan, Christina Goldbaum and Salman Masood, New York Times, 2023-05-11

And for the laughs ….

NBC Melts Down Over Tucker Carlson’s New Twitter Show, Jimmy Dore & co., The Jimmy Dore Show, 2023-05-11

Have fun!