{"id":217800,"date":"2022-08-15T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=217800"},"modified":"2022-08-09T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T04:43:08","slug":"we-cant-let-them-do-this-russell-brand-interviews-matt-taibbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/we-cant-let-them-do-this-russell-brand-interviews-matt-taibbi\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can\u2019t Let Them Do This: Russell Brand Interviews Matt Taibbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>War, Censorship, and the State&#8217;s &#8220;Monopoly on Lying&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>8 Aug 2022 &#8211; <\/em>Mis-information and dis-information. Who should be responsible for deciding what truth we\u2019re told? We should leave that up to the government, shouldn\u2019t we?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zytc-L-QehM<br \/>\n<em><strong>Matthew C. Taibbi is an American author, journalist, and podcaster.<\/strong> He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. He is a contributing editor for <\/em>Rolling Stone<em>, author of several books, a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary<\/em>,<em> co-host of <\/em>Useful Idiots<em>, and publisher of a newsletter on <\/em>Substack.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, writer, and activist.<\/strong> After beginning his career as a comedian and later becoming an <\/em>MTV <em>presenter, Brand first achieved renown in 2004 as the host of <\/em>Big Brother\u2019s Big Mouth<em>, a <\/em>Big Brother<em> spin-off.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 Aug 2022 &#8211; War, Censorship, and the State&#8217;s &#8220;Monopoly on Lying&#8221; &#8211; Mis-information and dis-information. Who should be responsible for deciding what truth we\u2019re told? We should leave that up to the government, shouldn\u2019t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2314,2847,378,1855,234,2462,2618,2571,481],"class_list":["post-217800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-corporate-media","tag-disinformation","tag-journalism","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-media","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-misinformation","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}