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Tar Sands Diplomat is a satirical thriller set at the Canadian diplomatic mission in Brussels. After a Russian prostitute dramatically murders the Canadian mission's star diplomat with an Inuit statue, Macgregor is plunged into a world of spooks, Big Oil, Russian oligarchs and eco-hacktivists that leads him back to a well-connected Canadian oil company and the Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa. Author Keith Halliday was formerly the twelfth most senior diplomat at the Canadian Mission to the ...
The Greenpeace Podcast brings you sound-rich environmental stories that travel across borders. Engaging listeners through storytelling, this podcast builds environmental literacy in a way that inspires, amuses and empowers. Listen to monthly 15 minute episodes that break down some of today's hottest and most controversial environmental issues. Greenpeace is an independent, campaigning organisation which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and to ...
From its politics to its public lands to polygamy, Utah has always been fertile ground for news. Here on KCPW, The Salt Lake Tribune presents a fresh way for Utahns to process the headlines. Behind the Headlines, a live weekly broadcast, examines the week’s top local stories through the eyes of reporters on the beat.
Redspin Sports looks at the connections between the U.S. sports industry & the political, social & economic forces that sustain U.S. imperialism, both at home and abroad. We examine the history of activist athletes and this generation's reemergence of athlete activism, the history of American football through a critical class struggle lens, and the politics & labor dynamics that characterize the modern pro sports leagues. Highlighting the connections between billionaire team owners, the perm ...
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Right-Wing Media, Pundits Use Bizarre ‘Activist’ To Blame Left For Capitol Insurrection & NFL's Justin Jackson
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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of the new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss why so many NCAA athletes and coaches think college sports should be put on hold until the pandemic abates, the strange sa…
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Trump impeachment, vaccine glitches and an intriguing drug case
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Utah’s all-GOP House delegation calls President Donald Trump’s second impeachment a mistake that will divide the nation. Huge demand for vaccines causes the Salt Lake County Health Department’s scheduling website to crash. And the CEO of a Utah pharmacy is charged with importing a controversial COVID-19 medication in falsely labeled shipments from …
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Nate Wallace Breaks Down Lessons Learned Covering MAGA Capitol Hill Insurrection
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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another look at the fascist insurrection which stormed the Capitol building Wednesday. They discuss what Nate & Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone encountered in conversations with rioters & observed as t…
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Capitol assault, electoral endgame and Utah’s new governor
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The storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob calls into question the stability of America’s democracy. Two members of Utah’s congressional delegation vote to object to the will of the American people as expressed through the presidential election, even as Sen. Mitt Romney remains steadfast in his defense of democratic norms. And Utah welcome…
Utah in 2020 will be forever defined by the coronavirus pandemic. But it was also a year of protest and social upheaval, of a contentious, divisive election, of an earthquake, a windstorm, an impeachment trial and even a mysterious monolith. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune senior managing editor Matt Canham, managing editor […]…
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Cold War Legacy Behind US Olympians STILL Facing Repression, NCAA Name Image & Likeness @ SCOTUS & More
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Nate Wallace, creator and co-host of the podcast Redspin Sports, joins "Political Misfits" to discuss everything we ought to know about paying college athletes, protesting at the Olympics and elsewhere, and the pandemic's impact on youth sports & mental health -particularly the struggles facing US society's most vulnerable students. "Political Misf…
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Obama & DNC AIPAC stooge Bakari Sellers' Sporting "Wokeness," Negro Leagues & NFL Healthcare Charade
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On this week's Redspin Report Nate joins Sean & Jacquie to breakdown Obama & Bakari Sellers' continued gaslighting of the left after Obama appeared on The Ringer's Bill Simmons Podcast (often co-hosted now by Bakari Sellers). Checkout this 2014 CNN video interview of Bakari Sellers while he was running to become South Carolina's Lt. Governor for gr…
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Frontline workers start receiving vaccines, tar sands leasing revisited, and withholding teacher bonuses
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A second wave of COVID-19 vaccine shipments have arrived in Utah, with more hospitals across the state beginning to give shots to their front-line workers. Another 30 deaths reported, putting Utah’s death toll from COVID-19 at 1,126 Thursday, which marked the end of the virus’s deadliest two weeks since the pandemic began. Utah lawmakers are adding…
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Nate Goes in on the Right-Wing Snow Flakes Crying over Loss of the Cleveland Indians tonight
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Nate recorded a few hot takes over the snow flakes on the right losing their minds over another major domino to fall in "the pantheon" of Native American Mascotry in U.S. Sports, Major League Baseball's Cleveland Indians. The connection between the outrage over "the loss" of the Indians nickname all over right-wing Twitter & YouTube is explored in …
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Why it's No Surprise Liberty football coach Huge Freeze has Covid (+ his Dubious Past), and CFB's Contradictions Imploding
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In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the New York Times reporting that almost 7,000 student athletes have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as much of the NCAA plows ah…
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Abdul Malik on Sport in Canada, his Jacobin piece on LuxSneaker Market as Harbinger of Capitalist Future, Tar Sands Enviro Hellscape...
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Abdul Malik aka @SocialistRaptor (a dope Twitter handle & a great follow btw) joins Redspin Sports' founder Nathaniel (or Nate -it's whatever) Wallace @NateWallace9, to riff on everything from similarities and differences in sporting culture in the U.S. and Canada, his work as a labor/environmental/indigenous rights activist in "oil country" of Edm…
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Tar sands leasing in the Uinta Basin and blowback for Utah’s AG over election lawsuit
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This week in Utah news: Utah’s Governor and Governor-elect condemn a decision by Attorney General Sean Reyes to join a lawsuit aiming to overturn the presidential election. Reyes joined 16 other attorneys general Wednesday in endorsing the Texas petition that seeks to invalidate the election results in four battleground states captured by President…
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Mike & Nate Reunited & Riffing on Pandemic Absurdities across Sports, Politics, & Mass Culture
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Mike and Nate reunite to riff on the most pertinent events affecting the world of sports, politics, economics, social issues and more in the context of the insane landscape that is this Covid-19, Neoliberal Hellscape USA. Here are just a few of the issues we analyze, discuss, and even try to have a little fun with -at least as much as it's possible…
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Mainstream Media Smears Anti-Imperialist Soccer Icon Diego Maradona & College Football Covid Absurdity
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In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report." They discuss the portrayals of college football teams which cancel games over coronavirus concerns as weak, the life and politics of th…
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Counties vie for Inland Port satellites, San Juan County asks for Bears Ears restoration, and Legal advice for Utah’s ‘troubled teen’ industry
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A group of government economic development leaders and rural business interests took the chance to extol the many benefits a satellite port would bring to their ailing economies during the Utah Inland Port Authority Board’s quarterly meeting on Wednesday. Proponents of the satellite port model say it would address some of the concerns environmental…
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It's Complicated: the Contradictions of Sport, Strikes, Memory, Pain, Gain and Glory
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Bryan Weaver, founder and executive director of Hoops Sagrado, and Nate Wallace, creator and co-host of the podcast Redspin Sports, joined Political Misfits to discuss Covid forfeits and labor rights in the NFL, the way sports are coopted to carry jingoistic and nationalistic messages, and the importance of these ephemeral means of human expression…
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Miami Covid Crisis Ravages Canes' Football & Failures of the Sports Media Industrial Complex
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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of the Redspin Sports podcast, for another edition of the new weekly segment "The Red Spin Report," to discuss the impacts of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on sports in the US, why so many college football players are committed t…
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Lawmakers decry Gov. Herbert’s health orders and the serious illness some Utah children face after COVID-19
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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert gets an earful from Republican state lawmakers for his coronavirus measures during a Tuesday meeting. The group, led by the governor and Gov.-elect Spencer Cox, spent more than four hours with Republican House members, explaining the reality of the risk, and the reason for the response. After getting COVID-19, some Utah child…
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Basketball Diplomacy's Ability to Frustrate US's New Cold War on China
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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our new weekly segment “The Red Spin Report." They discuss the implications of the University of New Mexico having relocated its entire NCAA football team to Las Vegas to circumvent…
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A record jump in coronavirus infections and unsubstantiated voter fraud claims
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Utah reported a record-shattering 3,919 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, with record-high hospitalizations and the virus’ deadliest single week since the pandemic began. Between 4.5% and 5% of those cases will end up in the hospital, Gov. Gary Herbert said at a Thursday news conference. “Those numbers should be alarming to all of us,” he said, wa…
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Danny Haiphong Live: Jingoistic Right-Wing Sports Narratives Dismantled & U.S./China Politics
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Listener Note: Skip ahead to the 14 minute mark if you don't want (or have time) to listen to Danny and I do a little pre-show riffing as we get ready to rock and roll. Thumbnail Image: Brooklyn, NY native and former NBA star, Stephon Marbury, playing with China's Beijing Ducks where he has become a cultural icon and nothing short of a rock star. D…
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Surging coronavirus numbers and a Utah election recap
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Election Day may have come and gone, but the results of some races, like the 4th Congressional District contest, remain too close to call. Two Utah Republicans push back against President Trump’s false, post-election claims – while urging everyone to take a deep breath and calm down. And with Utah coronavirus numbers again shattering records, […]…
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Football's Class & Race-based Contradictions amid CFB's Dystopian Covidscape
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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of “The Red Spin Report." They discuss the Time Magazine article written by "The End of Sport" podcast hosts: Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Johanna Mellis, & Derek Silva, featuring anonymous com…
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Hear about this week’s top Utah stories on Behind the Headlines
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With Utah reporting 1,837 new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high Thursday, Gov. Gary Herbert declared that “the time for talk is over — it’s time foraction.” But that action isn’t coming from the Utah Capitol. Herbert said local governments will have to decide whether to enforce the mask orders and gathering […]…
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FSU Football Legend "Big Game" James Coleman on History of Gladiator Sports, Race Politics, CFB & More!
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Former Florida State Football fullback (2002-2005) and host of the Sports Den (airs weeknights between 8-10) with Denny Thompson on 1010XL/92.5 FM sports radio in Jacksonville, Fla. "Big Game" James Coleman joins Nate & Mike to dish on everything from the ethics of pandemic football, history of gladiator sports, Bobby Bowden/PK Sam Trump endorsemen…
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Redspin Report: Why NFL & College Football Machines Keep Churning Despite Covid
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In this weekly (Friday) segment of "By Any Means Necessary" on Radio Sputnik, Sean and Jacquie are joined for another installment of "The Red Spin Report" by Nate Wallace, co-host of the Redspin Sports podcast. They break down why the NFL continues to be plagued by coronavirus outbreaks, attempts by NCAA football coaches to ensure the "gravy train …
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Outkick Grifters Clay Travis & Jason Whitlock: Cheerleaders for U.S. Imperialism Posing as Sports Journos
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Nate Wallace hosts Part I of a Redspin Sports series looking into unchecked right-wing sports narratives; particularly the lunacy coming out out of Outkick the Coverage's Clay Travis and Jason Whitlock at a staggering pace. This includes the relationship between President Trump's White House and his sports world influence operation; masquerading as…
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Danny Haiphong Dishes on NBA Strike, China & Hoops Diplomacy and the Movement's Next Play?
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Redspin Sports' Nate Wallace (@NateWallace9 on Twitter) is joined by Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong (@SpiritOfHo on Twitter) to dish on the implications of the NBA Strike, left criticism of it, the new cold war with China and how it relates to basketball 🏀 and much more. @RedspinSports (Twitter and Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/RedspinS…
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Convo with Michael Serazio, author of "The Power of Sports: Media & Spectacle in American Culture"
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Part discussion, part interview, Nate Wallace & Mike Serazio hit on a compelling mix of contemporary issues that relate to topics he writes about in his book, and an illuminating deep dive into the book itself. If you want to better understand why (love them or hate them) sports are so powerful in U.S. society, you''re going to want to check out th…
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Episode 1 Part II: The US sports landscape amid Pandemic, Police Brutality & Rebellion
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In Episode 1 of Redspin Sports, co-hosts Nate Wallace and Michael Sampson analyze and discuss the upsurge of radical politics in U.S. professional sports amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests. Redspin Sports co-hosts Nathaniel Wallace & Michael Sampson breakdown dramatic shifts in power dynamics within the world of sports…
Keith Halliday reads final Episode 27 of The Tar Sands Diplomat.By Keith Halliday
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