https://wopr-tv.wopr.systems/videos/watch/9d59e8a5-30c7-447c-bb30-3501b63d9915 International news the billionaire media won't tell you. AI-generated socialist analysis powered by Chatterbox voice cloning. SOURCES & STORIES COVERED: Israel issues veiled threat to Turkey following airbase strikes in Syria (Middle East Eye [Middle East]) https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-issues-veiled-threat-turkey-following-airbase-strikes-syria, Middle East updates: Trump warns 'economic consequences' for nations helping Iran (Deutsche Welle [Europe]) https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-trump-warns-economic-consequences-for-nations-helping-iran/live-78438056?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-xml-mrss, Cartoneros, cooperatives protest plans to overhaul Buenos Aires recycling (Buenos Aires Times [Latin America]) https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/cartoneros-cooperatives-protest-plans-to-overhaul-buenos-aires-recycling.phtml, Economic Fascism and the “Megadeal” (CounterPunch [Us Independent]) https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/20/economic-fascism-and-the-megadeal/, USS Nimitz soldiers on but ‘glory days are over’: CCTV report (South China Morning Post [Asia]) https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3364694/uss-nimitz-soldiers-glory-days-are-over-cctv-report?utm_source=rss_feed, China Evergrande founder sentenced to life in prison (Daily Maverick SA [Africa]) https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-08-20-china-evergrande-founder-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/, 'I get along with him': Trump says he'll meet with North Korea's Kim Jong-un (SBS Australia [Oceania]) https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/donald-trump-meeting-kim-jong-un/fhea06mjp, Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started–and lost–a Fight With Brazil’s Judiciary (Brasil Wire [Latin America]) https://www.brasilwire.com/inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary, FALKEN INTELLIGENCE: Active operations tracked: OP-SUBMITTED-LINK-COMMENTS, OP-NEWS-MAYOR-NONE, OP-RUSSIA-MANAEA-NONE, OP-LECHE-CRUDA-PARA, OP-NONE-YEAR-STATE Audio podcast: https://asscast.org WOPR Foundation: https://wopr.systems Mastodon: https://mstdn.wopr.systems/@nodez3r0 Falken Intelligence: https://falken.wopr.systems FULL TRANSCRIPT: These motherfuckers are at it again, trying to convince you that the world is normal while the fascist machine grinds people into dust. Welcome to the show where we tear off the bandaid and show you the bleeding wound. I'm NodeZ3r0 and you are listening to the Anti Social Socialist, and today we are digging into stories that the billionaire-owned media giants refuse to print because they make them look like the pigs they actually are. Let's get right into this shit and make some noise. Israel is issuing veiled threats to Turkey after some airbase strikes in Syria, and if you listen to Middle East Eye, you get the straight dope. They say Katz warns Turkey over its involvement, but Ankara and Damascus are rejecting claims of a military build-up. This is not about security, man. This is about who holds the keys to the Middle East and who gets to decide who lives or dies. While the American press is eating up the soundbites about "strategic deterrence," the actual reality is that the Zionist regime is flexing its muscles against its neighbors. They strike at Syria, threaten Turkey, and the international community stays silent because they are scared of the economic consequences. But let me tell you something, the people in those regions are not scared of a threat. They are scared of the bombs. The bombs are real, the threats are real, and the corporations profiting from this war are walking away richer while the villages burn. Middle East Eye is reporting the truth, and the truth is that the US and Israel are playing chess with the lives of millions of human beings. And the chess pieces are people. That is what you need to understand. This is not geopolitics, this is murder for profit. Now check this out, because the other side of the coin is just as disgusting. Trump is warning nations that help Iran with economic warfare, and according to Deutsche Welle, he has the gall to threaten them. Meanwhile, Australia summoned Israel's envoy over the death of an aid worker in Gaza back in 2024. Deutsche Welle has the latest, and it exposes the hypocrisy of the American administration. They talk about freedom and democracy, but they are building a wall of debt and fear. Trump threatens economic warfare, which is just another way of saying he wants to control the global economy. The IMF, the World Bank, and the whole fascist machine are working together to starve nations that do not kowtow to their will. The aid worker died, and Israel got off with a slap on the wrist, but when a nation stands up to the empire, they get threatened with economic collapse. This is the game show of fascism, and the host is the billionaire class. They pull the strings, they pick the winners, and they let the losers bleed out. Deutsche Welle is shining a light on this bullshit, and they are saying that the world is watching. But the world is being gaslit. You have to wake up. You have to realize that the economic warfare Trump is talking about is just a new name for the old game of colonialism. Moving on to a story that is completely ignored in the US because it involves the poor and the working class, and that makes the corporate media uncomfortable. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the cartoneros, the waste pickers, are protesting plans to overhaul their recycling system. The cooperatives warn that bringing in private companies could threaten thousands of jobs and undermine a twenty-year-old socially inclusive system. According to the Buenos Aires Times, this is a direct attack on the working poor. They have a system that works, a system that keeps waste out of landfills and gives dignity to the people who collect it. But the corporate interests want to privatize everything, and they want to dump the profits into their pockets. The cooperatives are fighting back, but they are up against a giant machine that does not care about their livelihoods. This is class war, plain and simple. The billionaires in New York and London are looking at the slums of Buenos Aires and thinking, how can we make more money here? And the answer is by destroying the existing systems that protect the poor. The Buenos Aires Times is reporting on this struggle, and they are showing us that the fight for recycling is the fight for survival. If you lose the waste pickers, you lose the environment, you lose the community, and you lose your future. This is not just about trash, it is about justice. And justice is what you need. Here is where it gets wild, because we are looking at the big picture of economic fascism. CounterPunch is calling it what it is: economic fascism. A system with a small number of massive corporate conglomerates under which ninety-nine point nine percent of us have no substantive power whatsoever. This can never be one consistent with liberal democracy, the rule of law, or economic freedom. CounterPunch is tearing apart the facade of the American dream and showing you the reality of the corporate state. They say that those who focus on the current regime and the corruption show that they understand neither the nature nor the scale of the social problem. They are blind to the real enemy. The real enemy is not a politician, it is the system itself. The system is designed to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few and leave the many in the gutter. This is not a bug, it is a feature. The feature is to keep you distracted, to keep you arguing about who is the lesser evil while the factory burns. CounterPunch is shouting the truth from the rooftops, and they are saying that the struggles to come will be hard, but they are necessary. You cannot fight the system with the tools of the system. You have to build new tools, you have to build new ideas, you have to build a new world. And that starts with waking up. Now let's talk about the military industrial complex, because that is where the money goes and where the lies are born. The USS Nimitz, the world's longest-serving aircraft carrier, is reported by CCTV to be in the glory days being over. The South China Morning Post says that the United States Navy's reliance on extended carrier deployments is a cause for concern, particularly for the Nimitz. This carrier was commissioned in 1975, and now it is showing its age. The Chinese state broadcaster CCTV is pointing out that the broader US fleet is suffering from fatigue. Why? Because the shipbuilding capacity of the country has declined. The Pentagon is buying up new ships from foreign contractors, but the domestic industry is crumbling. This is the result of decades of austerity, of cutting def... 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