Last Born In The Wilderness

[Intro: 13:19 | Book Pre-sale: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr] In this episode, I speak with prolific writer and dissident Kollibri terre Sonnenblume. We discuss two articles he recently published, the first ‘Russiagate: The Toxic Gift That Keeps on Giving’ published at CounterPunch, and ‘Coming Atrocities’ published on his website. We begin this discussion by addressing the McCarthy-era tactics, other forms of character assassination, the corporate media and the DNC have directed against the Bernie Sanders campaign as we approach the 2020 presidential election in November. As Kollibri lays out in his article for Counterpunch: “The new McCarthyism that accompanied Russiagate has exacted a terribly corrosive effect on political and social discourse, besides the damage it has incurred on alternative media. Anyone disagreeing with the mainline neoliberal Democratic agenda runs the risk of being slandered as a “Russian bot,” “Russian asset,” “Putin puppet” or something else equally as asinine. Maligning dissent—or even