BLOWBACK—John Steppling and Ian Kummer stop by the Blowback roundtable to discuss the situation in Palestine and other current events. The roundtable examines numerous topics including increasingly overt media duplicity, possible candidates for US president in 2024, and the general incompetence and decline of Western Imperialism. The panel agrees that an urgent issue is the countering and breaking of the capitalist/imperialist semi-monopoly on mass communication access, and the West’s still dominant pop culture power, a fact that permits the West the manufacturing of consent and the circulation of self-serving narratives across the globe.
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BILLY BOB—Scott Ritter joins guest Ian Kummer at the Blowback roundtable. Scott shares his thoughts and analysis on the Israel Palestinian conflict and the recent Hamas incursion. He also discusses his evolving perspective and his disdain for Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. Scott’s expertise provides great insight and has lots of anecdotes, which result in an astute and compelling analysis.
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BILLY BOB—The Blowback roundtable convenes to discuss current events and to relate them to the dominant political ideologies proliferated by the Western ruling class. The popular paradigm of “Democracy vs. Authoritarianism” (or “Democracy vs. Dictatorship”) peddled by Western propaganda is critically examined in this episode, and an alternative conceptual framework is advanced. A framework based on a (Marxian) material analysis of where wealth and power actually reside, and where they truly originate.
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BILLY BOB—The Blowback roundtable episode 20 with special guest Daniel Lazare. The regulars: Bill Bob, Carlo Parcelli, Ben Toth. In depth discussion of imperial policies, Canada’s descent into near overt fascism, along with most vassal nations controlled by the US. Canada now has the distinction—with the UK and the US—of harboring more Ukrainian war criminals than any other part of the world, except for Ukraine and other states in Eastern Europe, especially Hungary and the Baltics. These people were accepted by London, Ottawa and Washington with full knowledge of their Nazi past, but what mattered to the “Western allies” was the fierce anti-communist Russophobia that these individuals carried in their hearts and still do after many decades of silent residence in these complicit countries.
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BILLY BOB—China (and Russia, Iran, DPRK, Venezuela, etc) are truly the adults in the room, struggling to facilitate very necessary geopolitical changes, in a way that does not end in catastrophe for the planet or humanity.
The anti-imperialist block must be patient, long-suffering, and they ought not respond to Western provocations that are precisely intended to extricate themselves (the West) from the tightening noose which I described in point one.
