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This episode was a long time coming. I knew I was going to step away from AMAV altogether, but the idea of just stopping didn't sit well with me. I've had this idea for a last episode bouncing around my head for a while, and I let it kick around a little longer than I would have liked, but there was a lot to say. A lot to talk about. So much, in fact, that I had to break the last episode into two parts. In Part Two, we revisited the March 10, 2017 episode of AMAV Revolution Radio (Episode #7) which featured my interview with Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik of the Socialist Party USA. We spoke about fighting the establishment and organizing through political means or direct action networks, and the different groups out there that need our support. We also spoke about the environmental threat of Capitalism, and the need for a resourced based for-use production model rather than the current over-production for profit system we have now. Thank you all for all of your support. Keep your eyes open for an announcement on our next project. Until then, as always - Keep Talking, Keep Thinking, and Keep Moving Forward.

This episode was a long time coming. I knew I was going to step away from AMAV altogether, but the idea of just stopping didn't sit well with me. I've had this idea for a last episode bouncing around my head for a while, and I let it kick around a little longer than I would have liked, but there was a lot to say. A lot to talk about. So much, in fact, that I had to break the last episode into two parts. In Part One, I gave my reasoning for ending AMAV Revolution Radio. We spoke about the need for the left to rise above the petty differences and identity politics and unite against the corporate oligarchy. We spoke about the oppression and exploitation of the Capitalist system we live under. We talked about the rise of Fascism in history and present day, the similarities between those eras, and the ways we can fight against it. We also talked about the intersectionality of all of these issues - from capitalisms inherent drive toward fascism to the effects of capitalism and the ruling class in dividing the working class and keeping us in wage-slavery. Thank you all for all of your support. Keep your eyes open for an announcement on our next project. Until then, as always - Keep Talking, Keep Thinking, and Keep Moving Forward.

Well, I wrote an opinion piece about NeoLiberal garbage, and the reactions were... mixed. So, I went into a little more detail today. Felt it was necessary. I also talked about Flint, MI - yeah, that whole shit show is still going on, only now around 8,000 residents are facing the prospect of losing their homes because they don't want to pay for the privilege of having poison pumped directly into their homes. Go figure. And of course, that was all caused by more NeoLiberal Centrist Corporatist garbage (keep in mind that NeoLibs and NeoCons are the same thing, just with different letters next to their names). And we talked a little bit about the most recent authoritarian power-grab by our favorite protofascist, Cheeto Mussolini, and his firing of FBI Director James Comey. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, or TuneIn Radio, and leave us a review. Get in touch with us via Facebook or Twitter, or directly through email. Links are found in the usual spots on this website.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may finally get her comeuppance, and it's long past due. She has swindled people who thought they were voting for a Democrat with her warmongering ways and her love for all things Capitalism for far too long. With her doubling down on her opposition to single-payer health care and her endorsement of bombing people on flimsy (or no) evidence has hopefully finally clued people into her closeted Republican status. Stephen Jaffe sees it, and he's gunning for her seat. House Science, Space, and Technology Chair Republican Lamar Smith is also getting challenged, something that has never really been an issue for him in the past. As a Climate Change denying, Big Oil-funded Texan, he's always been able to defeat his challengers with huge margins, never getting below 60% of the vote. But changing winds across Texas and the rest of the country could be the final straw in Smith's career as Derrick Crowe intends to shine a light on Smith's corruption and irresponsibility in his duties to his district. Ann Coulter got shut down at Berkeley, but nobody really gives a shit about that. They are only acting like they do so they can whine about "muh Free Speech!!!" The ACLU came out in defense of her right to speak, but they missed the mark. This isn't government censorship, this is wholesale public rejection of ignorant assholes spewing ignorant bullshit.

Trump got some big boy attention by dropping bombs in Syria and Afghanistan. Now he wants to heighten tensions with North Korea, and he's gathering all the grownups to the White House so he can show off his new fingerpainting. Science lovers and science practitioners gathered to show support for the real world, and to tell the government that basing opinion on opposition data that magically turns 99% of the rest of the data "inconclusive" is no way to run a country. Bill Nye was there, and he's still as cool as he was when I was a kid. France lost their shot at a real populist leader in Melanchon - Le Pen's brand of "populism" doesn't include some people, which means it's actually fascism. And she's running against a Centrist Establishment Status Quo candidate with zero political experience - I hope I'm wrong, but I think we already know how this is going to turn out.

This new “rough and tough” administration is really shaking things up. Really taking a new path here by continuing the exact same policy of the previous administration in the demonization of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. When our own government consistently attacks those who shine a light on the truth, what does that tell you about our government? CIA Director Mike Pompeo attacked WikiLeaks last week, calling them a “non-state hostile intelligence agency”. But strangely, this is a complete 180 for him – on July 24, 2016, when he was just a lowly member of the House of Representatives, Pompeo tweeted that anybody who needed further proof that the “fix was in from President Obama on down” need only to look at the 19,252 emails from the DNC that WikiLeaks had just published. The real problem here is the fact that if these proposed charges from the DOJ are filed, this is going to shred the First Amendment. The Freedom of the Press is going fucking Bye-Bye, and NeoLiberals like Keith Olbermann are ecstatic about it simply because they’re mad that their Queen lost to the Orange Mussolini - but their support of any effort to get to Assange out of spite because of their disappointment is a big fucking mistake. Some green technology is having some very positive benefits for the people of Bangladesh, and in some weird way of looking out for their people, unlike the US government, which is run by people who take a shitload of money from giant oil companies and do nothing but their donor’s bidding, the government of Bangladesh is seeing these positive effects and actually encouraging expansion. Why is Le Pen an issue when the National Front has only had one politician ever make it to the second round? Because she’s a nationalist, a xenophobe, and a fascist in the making. Oh, and she's in the lead, and even though French media pundits are saying that it’s unlikely that she will win the second round, the media said the same thing here about Trump in both the primaries AND the general, so you tell me what that means. But there is one guy – and in a perfect world this is the guy who would win – his name is Jean-Luc Melenchon, and he’s with Unbowed France, and the slogan of that party is “The Force of the People”.

The DNC still has Bernie out there sheep dogging, and they are still begging him for his donor email list. When are they going to learn that the left doesn't care about "Cult of Personality", we care about policy? As much respect and admiration as I have for Bernie, just because he says something doesn't mean I automatically agree with him. When he is still the leader of progressives, and is still fighting every day for progressive causes, this "Unity Tour" act is a cruel, extremely unfunny joke. Trump "protests" don't mean a damn thing - not to Trump, and not to anybody else. They are just a way to show how "woke" one might be. After promising to release his tax returns and then saying that he'll never release them, did a few hundred people marching expect to change that? But those same people will admonish the people who are actually out in the streets fighting back against the fascist repression that we are all facing. Like in Berkeley - a Nazi scum White Nationalist Nathan Domigo sucker punches an AntiFa warrior (who happens to be female, but that has no bearing on this), and people are saying it's her fault for being there. When did allowing fascist activity become "politically correct"?

Whoopee! We're All Gonna Die! We talk about Syria, about the MOAB in Afghanistan, and about North Korea. We talk about why these things are happening, and of course the reasons aren't what the media is telling us they are - but if you are reading this, that's likely no big surprise to you. We talk about our options, or the few we have left, anyway.

Let's not toy around any longer with the idea that either major US Political Party gives a damn about any one of us. They don't. Likewise, let's not toy around any longer that the path we're on is sustainable. It isn't. While rich, old (mostly) white men wearing $4000 suits sit in leather chairs and debate things that hold the lives of poor people in the balance, like it's a question or something, people are actually dying. We are told to "work hard and you, too, can achieve The American Dream", we can't even fulfill our basic physiological needs. And it's not for lack of trying. Nationalism is taking over - even the so-called "Left" is falling victim to it. We have these delusions that the dirt these imaginary lines is somehow better than the dirt in those imaginary lines over there, and the people born on this dirt are somehow better than the people born on that other dirt. A very few rich people control what happens inside those imaginary lines, and they've convinced us that we should be grateful to live inside of those imaginary lines that they've magnanimously allowed us to exist in, so much so that they'll start wars to defend those lines and the resources within them (or to take control of resources within other imaginary lines), and they've tricked the people who live there that it is their duty to go and fight and die in defense of those imaginary lines, because apparently "Freedom" = Death.

Examining the contents of the Congressional Hearing on Russian Interference in the 2016 US Election. Testimony from FBI Director James Comey as well as statements from Comey and Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff. What was said? Not a lot. There was a whole lot of "I can't comment on that right now" from Comey. What wasn't said? That can be just as important. Did Comey drop any bombshells? Not. Even. Close. Why the media frenzy over it, then? That's a great question. I imagine it's distraction. What are they distracting us from? Probably the spineless Senate Democrats letting the GOP steamroll them in the approval of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.

Looking at the Prison-Industrial complex and the problems created by Capitalist Incarceration-For-Profit. Recidivism rates, mandatory minimums, and stricter laws - all lobbied for by the Private Prison Industry. Prison Reform? Prison Abolition? Trump's Budget Proposal - looking at the EPA budget cuts, including the Great Lakes Initiative and the Chesapeake Bay Clean-Up projects. Energy corporations using "Eminent Domain" to grab land for pipelines - land owners desires don't matter. All Capitalism is Crony Capitalism. Noam Chomsky - the benefits of Anarcho-Sydicalism. Forbes even warns about Capitalism, and suggests we look at collective ownership of the means of production - yes, even Forbes is talking about the benefits of Socialism and collectivism.

Looking at the new twist in the "Trump-Russia" narrative - communication between a Russian Bank and a server owned by the Trump organization. Looking at why that connection doesn't matter at all. A suburb of Ethiopia is in crisis as dozens of people have been killed and unknown more are still buried under a garbage landslide. How Capitalism is the cause of this, and how we are responsible for these deaths as a result. Punch Nazis or nah? One of us says "Yes, punch them more and harder", the other says "No, that's how they win". Who is right? Both? Neither? Let us know what you think.

Diving into WikiLeaks Vault 7 release from Tuesday - the CIA's entire cyber-warfare arsenal has been exposed, and it not only can, but actually has been, used on US citizens. They can hack your phone, your computer, your TV, even your car. They can control everything and anything that is connected to the internet. Google, Microsoft, Apple - they have all been compromised by covert CIA agents in their technology development and coding departments. And, they can even make it look like someone else did it. These aren't just "conspiracy theories" anymore, it's proven. Also, we had an opportunity to speak with Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik, who was the 2016 Presidential Nominee for the Socialist Party of The United States of America. We took a look at our For-Profit Prison-Industrial Complex, including the ability to "Upgrade" your jail cell for a nominal fee.

Wikileaks announced the first dump of their much-anticipated "Vault 7" file dump, and a press conference for 9:00AM EST on March 7, 2017, but the press conference had to be postponed due to Wikileaks' founder Julian Assange's internet access being digitally attacked - not surprising considering the content of the file dump. Wikileaks still shared the pass key for the file dump, and people are scouring the documents right now. Discussion on this upcoming Friday's episode of AMAV Live! Revolution Radio. Saturday, March 4, 2017, we visited a couple of the "March 4 Trump" events around Michigan - with some interesting results. Finding common ground with people who hold opposing political viewpoints isn't as hard as you might think (except racists, just punch those people). Donald Trump isn't really the real threat we face right now. Yeah, he's awful, and everything is terrible, but there is a much more dangerous monster lurking under the bed that nobody is talking about. The Source Bulk Foods is a store in Australia that is changing the way people think about consumerism.

Stormie Lantis' debut as an "AMAV Live! Revolution Radio" contributor! Examining Jeff Sessions' controversy regarding his contact with the Russian Ambassador durring the 2016 Presidential Election - what matters, what doesn't, and how the media coverage doesn't help their case that they aren't "Fake News". Between Trump's Twitter fetish and all the crazy stuff he and his administration have been pulling every day, the extremely important topic of Environmentalism hasn't been getting the attention it needs to. Stormie is here to change that. Food waste and global hunger - 1/3 of all food produced for human consumption is thrown out while 1/9 of the planet goes hungry. How can we shift away from this? For starters, we can stop production-for-profit and start engaging in production-for-use. But what about a society without money?