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Podcast: JOHNSTONE
Episode: Meditations On Bono Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom From Joe Biden
Description: Our society elevates the worst among us. The artists who are willing to sell their souls to the empire. The scientists who are willing to design killing machines for the military or invent some piece of future landfill manufactured by the toil and resources of the global south. The politicians who are willing to subvert the interests of ordinary people to the interests of plutocrats and power structures. The pundits, reporters and filmmakers who are willing to sell propaganda to deceive us into thinking this is all healthy and normal.
Reading by Tim Foley.