This episode has been unlocked. To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel -We all owe Louise Mensch an apology if Donald Trump is executed for stealing highly sensitive state secrets. It brings us no pleasure etc. -Owning China by rejecting the Mandate of Heaven: CDC confirms that the U.S. government is just fully giving up -Some rare good news: one of Elon Musk’s companies was actually denied almost $1 billion in subsidies -Biden admin regulators have failed to rev...
Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min
-The Biden administration and DC mayor Muriel Bowser are ignoring pleas to help migrants being bused to the nation’s capital by callous Republican governors. Regular Washingtonians are stepping up and mutual aid is filling the void. Organizer Claire H joins us to discuss. This is an excerpt from the latest District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Jul 30, 2022•27 min
-Congress gave the Department of Defense $58 billion more than it asked for last year. That’s more money than the annual budget of many agencies that don’t kill people. -Who’d have thought that an organization with the initials SS would find itself implicated in a far-right power grab? (Secret Service Jan. 6 text messages erased amid investigations.) -FOIA Follies: Ivana Trump no longer has rights under the Privacy Act -The Fed stonewalled our inquiry of Jerome Powell’s alleged “wokeness” -Anti-...
Jul 16, 2022•54 min
-Andrew Perez joins us to talk about Leonard Leo and his dark money network that has been pushing the court to the far-right for the past 17 years -Leo, Clarence Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Manchin, and Stacey Abrams get Garbage Can nominations Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com This is an excerpt from the District Sentinel Radio podcast. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Jun 25, 2022•34 min
An interview with Angel Montalvo, who’s running for Congress in Miami on a Berniecrat platform, and down to lock horns with reactionaries in both parties This is an excerpt from District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Jun 04, 2022•27 min
-After changing their story numerous times, cops admitted to cowering in the hallway while the Uvalde shooter killed kids -Speaking of cops and mass killings, the recent Buffalo shooter became friends with a retired federal agent in a racist chatroom where participants got a preview of the massacre. -FOIA Follies: DOJ has more than 400 email records from 2020 involving Attorney General Barr’s chief of staff and the phrase “call me” -Abbott Labs CEO on the infant formula shortage crisis that he c...
May 28, 2022•1 hr 2 min
-Through the magic of FOIA, we have obtained the first five weeks of Pete Buttigieg’s schedule as Transportation Secretary, and decided to make a quiz about it. Sam Sacks is in the hot seat. This is an excerpt from a recent episode of District Sentinel Radio. To listen to more, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
May 07, 2022•30 min
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Apr 23, 2022•11 min
-US Officials, Turn on Your Monitor: Hearing features complaints about an alleged Chinese development debt trap, defense of stiff IMF surcharges This is an excerpt from the latest District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Apr 09, 2022•12 min
*UNLOCKED* To listen to future episodes in full, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel -The Amazon Labor Union, led by fired warehouse worker Christian Smalls, has won a certification vote, in an incredible historic victory for an independent labor union -There are still battles to be fought before even thinking about contract negotiations: Amazon is threatening to challenge the NLRB’s authority before a judiciary that’s incredibly hostile to labor. -Other headlines: One step forward, two st...
Apr 02, 2022•1 hr 19 min
FOIA Follies, the Snitch Exemption: FBI Informant who ran sketchy, killer limousine company sheds light on Bureau secrecy. This is an excerpt from this week's District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Mar 12, 2022•18 min
-FOIA follies: The Federal Reserve’s files on the NY AG Tether settlement are only about public statements This is an excerpt from the latest District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Mar 05, 2022•8 min
Last year, El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, in a move that drew attention from all over the world, particularly from insufferable cryptocurrency dipshits. Helping us make sense of El Salvador’s Bitcoin law is Hilary Goodfriend, a doctoral student in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. This is an excerpt from the most recent District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/District...
Feb 12, 2022•29 min
-State Department roasted for unproven “false flag” claims about Russia -U.S. continues to starve Afghanistan as it readies to ramp up conflict in Eastern Europe -FOIA Follies: CDC gets a little touchy about article on covid breakthrough infections data -Garbage Can: Price and Psaki, Marco Rubio, and Joe Manchin vie for a spot in the can Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com This episode has been unlocked. To catch other weekly episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Feb 11, 2022•52 min
-SK readies an appeal on a FOIA rejection, and seeks new answers from DHS about how cops responded to Jan. 6 This is an excerpt from Saturday's District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full show, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Jan 29, 2022•8 min
-FOIA: A Retinatoday.com article from 2015 was likely the source for Trump admin claims that Portland protesters “permanently” blinded federal agents This is an excerpt from District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Jan 22, 2022•16 min
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Dec 15, 2021•34 min
-SK reveals our latest FOIA pursuit: using a records request to probe the Military Entertainment Complex and the comic book movie guy who got mad online because people criticized Marvel’s Pentagon ties This is an excerpt from District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full show, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Nov 10, 2021•7 min
-All money is fake, but some is faker than others: TNR staff writer Jacob Silverman joins us to explain what’s wrong with the cryptocurrency industry, which he closely observes. -FOIA Friday: Dam Lobbyists. GOP-tied lobbyists hired by the government of Honduras warned the Trump admin that Dems were opposed to a controversial U.S.-backed dam project. Plans to build the dam advanced after Trump lost the election only to see U.S. support withdrawn after Biden’s inauguration. This is an excerpt from...
Oct 05, 2021•46 min
-Arms contractors to shake everyone down for hundreds of billions of dollars next year, yet again, as Congress passes its annual defense policy bill. Chip Gibbons and the Two Sams discuss the good amendments and the bad “Iron Dome” amendment. -The Sleaze Filter: A Facebook exec tried to worm his way out of Congressional inquiries on Instagram being harmful to teenage girls. This is an excerpt from Friday's District Sentinel Radio, available for subscribers at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Sep 29, 2021•50 min
*SUBSCRIBER EPISODE UNLOCKED* -A look back at Occupy Wall Street on the 10th anniversary of the first demonstration in New York City -Chip Gibbons on how OWS influenced a decade of mass movements -FOIA Friday: Recognizing the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund for exposing FBI surveillance of Occupy -This week’s Garbage Can line-up includes the House Dems who carry water for pharma, a billionaire space tourist, and the guy who said Amazon should build company towns To listen to more shows like t...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 7 min
-Ruling class freakout in Buffalo: the establishment plots against India Walton, after the socialist won the Democratic mayoral primary. C.M. Lewis explains. This is an excerpt from Friday's District Sentinel Radio. The full show is available for subscribers at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Aug 23, 2021•19 min
-Austin Gonzalez tells us what it was like being on the recent DSA delegation to Venezuela, and answers criticism from the left (and right) -Austin also discusses the DSA delegation to observe Peruvian elections, and brings us up to speed on the slow-motion Fujimori coup attempt This is an excerpt from Friday's District Sentinel Radio--available in full for subscribers at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Jul 12, 2021•44 min
Journalist Chip Gibbons and the Sams discuss Joe Biden's new and troubling domestic terror initiatives. Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com
Jun 28, 2021•29 min
-SCOTUS ruled 8-1 in favor of multinationals using child slaves who were represented by President Obama’s deputy solicitor general -Surveillance of lawmakers: Still troubling even when they’re bad. Chip Gibbons on yet more evidence of Trump admin abuse of power. This is an excerpt from Friday's District Sentinel Radio, available for subscribers at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Jun 22, 2021•44 min
-Capitalists are operating on some dangerous assumptions about climate change, clashing with scientists’ warnings. An audio version of the latest newsletter: sign up at districtsentinel.substack.com -More Trump-era attacks on journalists were exposed last week. Chip Gibbons on the subpoenas of four NYT journalists in the latest edition of Chip-Chat. Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com This is an excerpt from Friday's District Sentinel Radio, available in full for subscribers at Patreon.c...
Jun 07, 2021•53 min
-Leading Republican blasts banks for alleged anti-capitalist "wokeism" as bank CEOs defend union-busting and ripping off poor customers who are disportionately people of color -Chip-Chat: Chip Gibbons on Daniel Ellsberg still kicking ass at 90. The Pentagon Papers leaker shed light on how close the U.S. was to nuking China in 1958, and dared the Justice Department to arrest him on Espionage Act charges. This is an excerpt from District Sentinel Radio, available in full for subscribers at Patreon...
May 31, 2021•28 min
Larry Krasner might not be perfect, but boy are we glad he won his primary in a landslide. Ted Kelly on the limits of Krasner criticism in 2021. This is an excerpt from Friday's District Sentinel Radio, available for subscribers at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel.
May 24, 2021•32 min
-Israel is massacring Palestinians, again. Mondoweiss correspondent Yumna Patel joins us from the West Bank. We talk resistance, solidarity, and Palestinian Authority collaboration with the IDF. This is an excerpt from the District Sentinel Radio podcast, available in full for subscribers at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
May 14, 2021•25 min
Fretting about financial market failures in an interview with Barron’s reporter Alexandra Scaggs. This is an excerpt from Friday's District Sentinel Radio, available to subscriber at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel
Apr 20, 2021•31 min
