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Weekly News Wrap Up; US/EU Censorship Crackdown; Biden's SOTU Speech; Sanctions Blowback

Weekly News Wrap Up; US/EU Censorship Crackdown; Biden's SOTU Speech; Sanctions Blowback

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The European Union and US tech corporations have joined together for a massive online crackdown on dissenting opinions and alternative news sites. 05.03.2022, Sputnik International

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Caleb Maupin, journalist, and political analyst, joins us to review the important stories for the week. Russia seizes a nuclear power plant in Ukraine and radiation levels are stable. Also, the Supreme Court has sided with hiding CIA torture information and the European Union and US tech corporations have joined together for a massive online crackdown on dissenting opinions and alternative news sites.Prof. Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, joins us to discuss economic news stories. Jobless numbers are in and there are some signs of positive movement. Also, the markets are showing signs of a potential economic downturn as economic sanctions against Russia move into uncharted territory.K. J. Noh, Peace Activist, Writer, Teacher joins us to discuss this week's important stories about Asia. The U.S. empire is trying to confront both Russia and China simultaneously. Also, many economists argue that China will be the real winner of the US sanctions against Russia and the blowback will be immense.Netfa Freeman, host of Voices With Vision on WPFW 89.3 FM, Pan-Africanist and internationalist organizer and Margaret Kimberley, editor and senior columnist at Black Agenda Report and author of "Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents, join us to discuss this week's stories. The European Union and US tech corporations have joined for a massive crackdown on dissenting opinions and alternative news sites online. Also, we discuss why the Middle East, Africa, and South America are not supporting the US empire in its quest to destroy the Russian economy.Dan Lazare, investigative journalist and author of "The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court and the Decline of American Democracy," and Jim Kavanagh, writer at thepolemicist.net and CounterPunch and the author of "The American Farce Unravels: Shreds of January 6th," join us to discuss this week's important stories. We discuss the new multipolar world that is being created by the Russian military operation in Ukraine. Also, we discuss censorship, economic blowback from the sanctions, and a new US sanctions bill that is named after a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator.We'd love to get your feedback at radio@sputniknews.com

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