Near the end of his administration, Donald Trump issued an executive order that would provide government assistance to reduce the cost of insulin for low-income diabetics. Before the order could be implemented, Joe Biden took office and his administration delayed and eventually reversed the decision. And now, with the Inflation Reduction Act reducing the cost of insulin for diabetics on Medicare, the already sky-high insulin price paid by anyone NOT on Medicare will likely go up. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Big Pharma’s grip on pharmaceutical pricing and why Americans pay so much more for prescription drugs than anyone else in the world.
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NBC News has conducted a detailed analysis of the Hunter Biden laptop, which was once derided by mainstream news outlets as a “classic example of Russian misinformation,” offering further description of the President’s son’s business interests in China and Ukraine. Biden apparently earned more than $11 million between 2013-18, much of which was frittered away as a result of his spiraling drug abuse. Jimmy and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald discuss the truly scandalous way intelligence agencies and mainstream and even independent media outlets worked together to quash the Hunter laptop story prior to the 2016 presidential election.
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Cautious optimism in connection with some relaxation of the current tight censorship regime may be in order, but exuberant hopes that Musk will singlehandedly rescue the First Amendment and restore freedom of speech to the American polity may be simply delusional. We agree with Caitlin Johnstone: “I’ll start paying attention to Musk’s talk about free speech if and when Twitter stops censoring Russian media and unbans people like Scott Ritter who were removed from the platform for questioning official empire narratives about what’s happening in Ukraine. Until then I’m going to assume he’s at most only interested in protecting speech that doesn’t threaten the powerful like Republican partisan bullshit and hate speech against marginalized groups.”
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S. JONAS—”Many critics of the Soviet Union conveniently forget that the Soviet experience was shaped in a significant part by what someday will come to be known as ‘The 75 Years War Against the Soviet Union, 1917-1992.'”
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Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor joins Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate for a candid, live discussion of the Russia-Ukraine war and his time in the Trump administration when an Afghan withdrawal was sabotaged and conflict with Iran and Syria continued.
