Watch the full episode here: https://rumble.com/v35ikjm-system-update-show-125.html Good evening. It's Monday, August 7. Welcome to a new episode of SYSTEM UPDATE, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday, at 7:00 pm Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight: While the U.S. fixates obsessively on the war in Ukraine – and on the apparently vital question of who will govern provinces in Eastern Ukraine – the rest of the world is reorganizing its core alliance and power structures. For the last twenty years, an alliance of developing countries called "BRICS" – named for its key members: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has been rapidly growing. It would be a clear exaggeration to assert that BRICS is on the verge of replacing the U.S. and NATO and the various neoliberal institutions of the West in exercising hegemony, but every year, it is getting closer to doing so. Nothing has fueled the ambitions of BRICS more than the virtually monomaniacal fixation of the U.S. National Security State on the war in Ukraine. While the U.S. sends tens of billions of dollars, after tens of billions of dollars, depletes its own weapons stockpiles, and gives away major concessions in order to avoid a humiliating loss to Moscow, the BRICS alliance and its undisputed leader, China, has been aggressively expanding its influence and power on every continent on the planet other than North America and Antarctica. Washington's obsession with Kyiv in this war is providing a major boost to BRICS and in part by distracting American and European policymakers, but even more so by fueling the core narrative that BRICS exploits to fuel its growth, namely that the U.S. has a long history of colonizing the developing world, of abusing its hegemonic power at everyone else's expense, and of attempting to rule the world through superior military force and threats of endless war. What matters is not so much whether this narrative is correct, though clearly, at least parts of it are, but rather how the U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine with no end in sight is enabling Beijing, Moscow and other BRICS members to play on long-standing resentments toward the U.S. and bring more and more countries out of the sphere of influence of the U.S., NATO and into the seemingly much more comforting arms of the China-led BRICS alliance. We'll examine all the implications of exactly how this is taking place, where it's taking place, and how the war in Ukraine is the biggest boost to it. Then, it is probably not surprising to learn that Hollywood has long ensured that its biggest films about war and the American military align with the U.S. government's propagandistic narratives and policy aims. But an extraordinarily well-researched and compelling documentary released last year, called “Theaters of War”, demonstrates just how deep, multipronged and systematic the control by the Pentagon and the U.S. security state over many of the most popular studio films, including ones that do not appear to be directly about topics of the military or war. FOIA has unearthed sprawling and rigid contracts between the Pentagon and the CIA on the one hand, and some of the most famous producers and directors of many of Hollywood's most successful films on the other, that give those agencies full power and script approval in return to giving filmmakers various rights and privileges that are often necessary for the film that only the Pentagon and the CIA can provide, such as access to aircraft carriers, fighter jets and even top secret information. The director and narrator of this truly compelling film, the University of Georgia professor, Roger Saul, will be with us tonight to talk about this film's key revelations and just how longstanding and deep this control is over the most influential mass-marketed films that Hollywood has produced. As a reminder, every Tuesday and Thursday night after our live show here on Rumble, we have a live interactive show for subscribers only on our Locals platform, which is part of Rumble and is designed to be interactive in nature. We take your comments and critiques and ideas for topics to cover and for guests to speak to. To become a member, which gives you access to that show, simply join our Locals community by clicking the Join button, which is right below the video player on the Rumble page. That will give you access to all of that content, and you’ll be helping support the independent journalism that we do here. In fact, one of our subscribers and a participant in that Locals community is the person who brought this film to my attention and the attention of our team here. And that's what caused us to watch it and become so excited about speaking to the director and telling you about the film. So, it really is interactive in nature and provides great value to us to be able to speak directly with our audience – and I hope to our audience as well. As another reminder, System Update is available in podcast form as well. You can follow us on Spotify, Apple and all other major podcasting platforms. The episodes are posted 12 hours after they first air, live, here on Rumble and you can rate and review each episode which helps us spread the visibility of the program. 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The Biden Crime Family owes Ukraine big time. Almost as much as they owe China.
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