[{"item_id":9082733,"premium_state":"free","item_slug":"oleg-sentsov-directs-a-film-from-a-siberian-prison","item_title":"Oleg Sentsov Directs a Film from a Siberian Prison","release_date":"Mar 20, 2019","comment_count":0,"item_body_clean":"March 2019 marks the five-year anniversary of Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea. We explain why the fake referendum in Crimea is called a \"referendum by gun point\" and provide background on Russia's annexation which had been in the works since the mid-2000s. The story of human rights abuses that continue to this day in Russian-occupied Crimea are told through the political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, a filmmaker kidnapped from Crimea and held in a Siberian penal colony on trumped up charges. Despite the harsh conditions, Sentsov defies the odds by continuing to produce art, including a feature film. His story is an urgent reminder to choose hope over despair.  ","item_body":"\u003Cp\u003EMarch 2019 marks the five-year anniversary of Russia\u2019s\nannexation of Crimea. We explain why the fake referendum in Crimea\nis called a \"referendum by gun point\" and provide background on\nRussia's annexation which had been in the works since the\nmid-2000s. The story of human rights abuses that continue to this\nday in Russian-occupied Crimea are told through the political\nprisoner Oleg Sentsov, a filmmaker kidnapped from Crimea and held\nin a Siberian penal colony on trumped up charges. Despite the harsh\nconditions, Sentsov defies the odds by continuing to produce art,\nincluding a feature film. His story is an urgent reminder to choose\nhope over despair. \u003C\/p\u003E\n","item_body_short":"\u003Cp\u003EMarch 2019 marks the five-year anniversary of Russia\u2019s\nannexation of Crimea. We explain why the fake referendum in Crimea\nis called a \"referendum by gun point\" and provide background on\nRussia's annexation which had been in the works since the\nmid-2000s. The story of human rights abuses that continue to this\nday in...\u003C\/p\u003E\n","full_item_url":"https:\/\/gaslitnation.libsyn.com\/oleg-sentsov-directs-a-film-from-a-siberian-prison","image_content_id":null,"web_image_content_id":null,"image_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/9082733","primary_content":{"file_class":"audio","content_type":"Standard","url":"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/gaslitnation\/GN33_Final.mp3?dest-id=739446","url_secure":"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/preview\/gaslitnation\/GN33_Final.mp3","content_title":""},"player":"\u003Ciframe id=\"embed_9082733\"  title=\"Oleg Sentsov Directs a Film from a Siberian Prison\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/9082733\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/tdest_id\/739446\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E","extra_content":[],"display_download_link":true},{"item_id":9009866,"premium_state":"free","item_slug":"impeach-normalization","item_title":"Impeach Normalization","release_date":"Mar 14, 2019","comment_count":0,"item_body_clean":"Impeachment sends a message about who we are as a country and what we will accept and abide. The rule of law demands action. Refusing to take action is normalizing atrocity. Lawlessness must be confronted regardless of the outcome, as a matter of principle and conscience. Fighting only the battles that you know you will win is a sure way of ensuring you lose; preemptive surrender, in a rapidly consolidating autocracy, is permanent surrender. The American people have suffered enough under Trump; they should not have to suffer due to Pelosi\u2019s capitulation as well. We all deserve better than this.   ","item_body":"\u003Cp\u003EImpeachment sends a message about who we are as a country and\nwhat we will accept and abide. The rule of law demands action.\nRefusing to take action is normalizing atrocity. Lawlessness must\nbe confronted regardless of the outcome, as a matter of principle\nand conscience. Fighting only the battles that you know you will\nwin is a sure way of ensuring you lose; preemptive surrender, in a\nrapidly consolidating autocracy, is permanent surrender. The\nAmerican people have suffered enough under Trump; they should not\nhave to suffer due to Pelosi\u2019s capitulation as well. We all deserve\nbetter than this.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n","item_body_short":"\u003Cp\u003EImpeachment sends a message about who we are as a country and\nwhat we will accept and abide. The rule of law demands action.\nRefusing to take action is normalizing atrocity. Lawlessness must\nbe confronted regardless of the outcome, as a matter of principle\nand conscience. Fighting only the battles that you know you...\u003C\/p\u003E\n","full_item_url":"https:\/\/gaslitnation.libsyn.com\/impeach-normalization","image_content_id":null,"web_image_content_id":null,"image_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/9009866","primary_content":{"file_class":"audio","content_type":"Standard","url":"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/gaslitnation\/GN32_Mix02_Export_Final.mp3?dest-id=739446","url_secure":"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/preview\/gaslitnation\/GN32_Mix02_Export_Final.mp3","content_title":""},"player":"\u003Ciframe id=\"embed_9009866\"  title=\"Impeach Normalization\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/9009866\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/tdest_id\/739446\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E","extra_content":[],"display_download_link":true},{"item_id":8901179,"premium_state":"free","item_slug":"rotting-monuments","item_title":"Rotting Monuments","release_date":"Mar 6, 2019","comment_count":0,"item_body_clean":"Like Trump Tower Moscow, which was supposed to be the tallest building in Europe with a penthouse for mass-murderer Putin and an Ivanka Trump branded spa, the White House was another monument for Trump, in a long list of monuments he's built for himself over the years, and one that would help him and his family continue to live above the law.  ","item_body":"\u003Cp\u003ELike Trump Tower Moscow, which was supposed to be the tallest\nbuilding in Europe with a penthouse for mass-murderer Putin and an\nIvanka Trump branded spa, the White House was another monument for\nTrump, in a long list of monuments he's built for himself over the\nyears, and one that would help him and his family continue to live\nabove the law. \u003C\/p\u003E\n","item_body_short":"\u003Cp\u003ELike Trump Tower Moscow, which was supposed to be the tallest\nbuilding in Europe with a penthouse for mass-murderer Putin and an\nIvanka Trump branded spa, the White House was another monument for\nTrump, in a long list of monuments he's built for himself over the\nyears, and one that would help him and his family continue...\u003C\/p\u003E\n","full_item_url":"https:\/\/gaslitnation.libsyn.com\/rotting-monuments","image_content_id":null,"web_image_content_id":null,"image_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/8901179","primary_content":{"file_class":"audio","content_type":"Standard","url":"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/gaslitnation\/GN31_draft_AD.mp3?dest-id=739446","url_secure":"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/preview\/gaslitnation\/GN31_draft_AD.mp3","content_title":""},"player":"\u003Ciframe id=\"embed_8901179\"  title=\"Rotting Monuments\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/8901179\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/tdest_id\/739446\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E","extra_content":[],"display_download_link":true},{"item_id":8786786,"premium_state":"free","item_slug":"brexit-and-trump-are-the-same-crime-the-carole-cadwalladr-interview-0","item_title":"Brexit and Trump are the Same Crime: The Carole Cadwalladr Interview","release_date":"Feb 27, 2019","comment_count":0,"item_body_clean":"We are thrilled to welcome Carole Cadwalladr to Gaslit Nation. Carole is an investigative journalist who breaks major stories on the Kremlin and Mercer-backed Brexit vote, revealing a cast of nefarious characters that were also behind the election of Donald Trump. Her brave reporting, which won her the Orwell Prize and makes her a target of hit pieces, has uncovered the growing vulnerability of elections in a time of kleptocracy.  ","item_body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"8a68g-0-0\"\u003EWe are thrilled to welcome\nCarole Cadwalladr to Gaslit Nation. Carole is an investigative\njournalist who breaks major stories on the Kremlin and\nMercer-backed Brexit vote, revealing a cast of nefarious characters\nthat were also behind the election of Donald Trump. Her brave\nreporting, which won her the Orwell\nPrize\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"8a68g-2-0\"\u003E and makes her a\ntarget of hit pieces, has uncovered the growing vulnerability of\nelections in a time of kleptocracy. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n","item_body_short":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\"8a68g-0-0\"\u003EWe are thrilled to welcome\nCarole Cadwalladr to Gaslit Nation. Carole is an investigative\njournalist who breaks major stories on the Kremlin and\nMercer-backed Brexit vote, revealing a cast of nefarious characters\nthat were also behind the election of Donald Trump. Her brave\nreporting, which won her the Orwell\nPrize\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan data-offset-key=\n\"8a68g-2-0\"\u003E and...\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n","full_item_url":"https:\/\/gaslitnation.libsyn.com\/brexit-and-trump-are-the-same-crime-the-carole-cadwalladr-interview-0","image_content_id":null,"web_image_content_id":null,"image_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/8786786","primary_content":{"file_class":"audio","content_type":"Standard","url":"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/gaslitnation\/GN30_draft_3.mp3?dest-id=739446","url_secure":"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/preview\/gaslitnation\/GN30_draft_3.mp3","content_title":""},"player":"\u003Ciframe id=\"embed_8786786\"  title=\"Brexit and Trump are the Same Crime: The Carole Cadwalladr Interview\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/8786786\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/tdest_id\/739446\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E","extra_content":[],"display_download_link":true},{"item_id":8721815,"premium_state":"free","item_slug":"transnational-emergency","item_title":"Transnational Emergency","release_date":"Feb 20, 2019","comment_count":0,"item_body_clean":"We break down decades of intertwined corruption in both the US and the UK and urge officials to seek actual accountability, because time is running out. Kleptocracy anywhere is kleptocracy everywhere, and it is ordinary citizens who pay the most painful price. ","item_body":"\u003Cp\u003EWe break down decades of intertwined corruption in both the US\nand the UK and urge officials to seek actual accountability,\nbecause time is running out. Kleptocracy anywhere is kleptocracy\neverywhere, and it is ordinary citizens who pay the most painful\nprice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","item_body_short":"\u003Cp\u003EWe break down decades of intertwined corruption in both the US\nand the UK and urge officials to seek actual accountability,\nbecause time is running out. Kleptocracy anywhere is kleptocracy\neverywhere, and it is ordinary citizens who pay the most painful\nprice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","full_item_url":"https:\/\/gaslitnation.libsyn.com\/transnational-emergency","image_content_id":null,"web_image_content_id":null,"image_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/8721815","primary_content":{"file_class":"audio","content_type":"Standard","url":"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/gaslitnation\/GN29_FinalMix.mp3?dest-id=739446","url_secure":"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/preview\/gaslitnation\/GN29_FinalMix.mp3","content_title":""},"player":"\u003Ciframe id=\"embed_8721815\"  title=\"Transnational Emergency\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/8721815\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/tdest_id\/739446\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E","extra_content":[],"display_download_link":true}]