In this episode we play an excerpt of Yves Engler's recent talk at the University of Winnipeg about his new book A Propaganda System — How Governments, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation.

With examples of coverage of Haiti, Palestine and the natural resource industry, Engler details how the Canadian government is involved in actively shaping the public's understanding of foreign policy through one-sided mainstream media coverage. 

Audio of Yves's talk provided by Paul Graham. Checkout Paul's YouTube channel for more talks and independent media coverage.

Mother Tareka/Tarek Funk is an MC, instrumentalist, producer based in Hamilton, Ontario. His most recent record, Elephants, released under the moniker Mother Tareka and The Rebel Funktion, is a collaboration between a number of talented musicians with a background in jazz, funk, afrobeat and hip hop. Rapping in both Arabic and English, Mother Tareka, injects his lyrics with radical politics. Elephants is thematically packed with calls for social and political justice and enough catchy beats to keep your head bobbing. 

In this episode we interview Tarek about the new album, his musical influences and his experience as a Syrian-Palestinian immigrant to Canada. 

Addtional Links:

Mother Tareka and The Rebel Funktion - Elephants - on Bandcamp

MotherTareka.com

In this episode we discuss how settler colonialism plays out through neoliberal development projects and gentrification in Winnipeg in a conversation with geographer Owen Toews.

Toews holds a Ph.D in Human Geography from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. In 2015 he published his dissertation "Resettling the City? Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Land in Winnipeg, Canada."

Our latest episode was recorded live on location at The Windsor Hotel here in Winnipeg, just prior to a benefit show for the Standing Rock protectors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. Scott and Greg had the opportunity to speak with two of the artists who performed at the benefit show, Lee Reed, formerly the frontman for Warsawpack, and Mother Tareka, a Palestinian-Syrian residing in Canada. Tareka and Reed have been collaborating and making music for several years and are heavily involved in the Hamilton hip hop scene.

Links:

The Butcher, The Banker, The Bitumen Tanker on Bandcamp.

Mother Tareka and The Rebel Funktion on Bandcamp

Track List:

Imagine something different - Mother Tareka

New Day - Mother Tareka ft. Lee Reed. 

This Microphone - Lee Reed

No Kanada - Lee Reed

Electric Blanket - Mother Tareka ft. Lee Reed

Bad Gas - Lee Reed

In this episode we look into the role that Canadian corporations and the State play in relation to Honduras. Scott and Greg speak with Grahame Russel, co-director of Rights Action, about the repression and terror activists and journalists have been subjected to since the 2009 coup and how Canada is implicated.

Additional links:

Face to Face with Grahame Russel

“End U.S. [& Canadian] Support for the Thugs of Honduras”

Honduran activist wants Trudeau to pressure Canadian mining companies on human rights abuses

Ottawa should make mining companies more accountable: Editorial

We've got a bunch of stuff in the works over the next month that we are really excited for but first...

Scott and Greg talk about the recent attempt by Canadaland to talk about the Israel and Palestine issue and Canadian media coverage of it. Scott and Greg break down self-fulfilling prophecies that Jesse Brown, Vicky Mochama, Supriya Dwivedi used to justify their piss poor discussion of the issue.

Here is the episode of Canadaland short cuts episode
http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/short-cuts-83-oh-god-fine-lets-talk-israel/

Here is Yves Engler's response in Rabble.ca
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-engler/2016/09/anti-palestinian-media-bias-still-remains-untouchable-even-to-can

In this episode we look at Canada's involvement in NATO. We speak with Harrison Samphir (@HarrySamphir), web editor of Canadian Dimension, to shed some light on Canada's recent deployment of troops to Poland and Latvia, as well as the greater conflict in Ukraine. Samphir helps sift through media coverage to illustrate how Russia has been consistently demonized by Western publications to the benefit of NATO interests in the region. We also discuss the growing wave of fascist movements in Europe and across the globe.

Additional Links

Why is Canada adding to NATO's military build-up in Eastern Europe?

Canadian Dimension Magazine

In this episode we talk with Brian Lorraine, a local teacher and freelance journalist about Shoal Lake 40 and how it serves as an example of the Canadian colonial past and present.

https://ricochet.media/en/1239/shoal-lake-40-water-crisis-an-ugly-reminder-of-canadian-colonialism

On the radio we replayed our interview with Adele Perry about The Greater Winnipeg Water District aqueduct and the dispossession of Shoal Lake #40. 

For you're podcast feed we bring you this short filler, but don't worry, we'll be back in two weeks with a new episode.

In this episode we report back from our field trip to the movies to see Star Trek Beyond. We discuss the film, our low expectation going into it, and how it compares to the rest of the franchise.