BLOWBACK-BILLY BOB

EDITOR—7/5/2024 Episode 93 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guest Alex Suarez. While the East continues to strengthen their ties, US empire vassals actually boast of their abject vassalage as seen in smoothly produced cringeworthy propaganda pieces circulating on social media, with Ukrainians celebrating the 4th of July, and Kosovars shamelessly licking the boot of the Empire by impersonating Americans and doing line dancing. Unfortunately, this kind of foolishness has awful consequences, as the Ukrainian nation is demonstrating. 

The panel also examines the Assange case, including a persistent cloud of accusations describing Assange as a spy or a limited hangout working for the CIA; or an operative working for or against the Russians or Chinese, or as a tool for or against the Republicans or Democrats. All that is nonsense says guest Alex Suarez, who claims authoritative knowledge of Assange. The activist, says Suarez, was not a tool of the Russians, nor was he a shady player helping the Trump campaign.

EDITOR—The panel discusses the delicate situation engulfing the EU and the United States, where the anti-immigrant issue has gathered considerable momentum, presenting difficult problems (and opportunities) for the reigning oligarchy. It’s noteworthy, says Dust James, that in both the US (capital/imperial core) and Europe (the periphery, where a “labor aristocracy” developed) the capitalists are drifting toward fascism. In America, where the economy continues to worsen for the working class, and the immigration issue (exploited mercilessly by Trump), adds fuel to the flames, such situation could easily drive some sort of fascistic movement forward, even if Trump himself may not be fully aware (or concerned) about the chaotic consequences of his careless opportunism. Mass immigration is an issue with no easy answers, notes Billy Bob; socialists could arguably defend or oppose either side of the equation. There is no doubt, however, that lowly paid Americans—including many Latinos—are fiercely hostile to “illegal immigration”, since any mass influx of undocumented workers will inexorably depress wages.

EDITOR—The panel discusses the pathetic Biden-Trump debate, and how it reflects the extreme political decomposition of the United States as it flops around in its late imperial stage exhibiting pathetic leadership and rotten policies at home and throughout its client states in Europe, Asia and other corners of the globe. The main question right now for humanity is whether humanity can survive the fall of US imperialism without an economic implosion or, worse, a cataclysmic nuclear war. 

EDITOR—The panel discusses the government attempts to shut down Scott Ritter, and the rapidly spreading decomposition of even the last veneer of democracy (and Constitutional protections) in the US. Some panelists opine that Ritter may have facilitated the US persecution by becoming too visible a player in international politics and media, especially Russian affairs, by traveling with controversial figures (like Chechnya’s leader R, Kadyrov), and by becoming too outspoken in his denunciation of US crimes. Other panelists think the US will find a pretext —or a law, like the Logan law—to put Ritter away or silenced him sufficiently to avoid damage to US policy and its supporting narrative. In the final analysis, as the Assange case shows, do not need to have any specific law to justify their actions. In the second part, dedicated to the cynical propaganda dedicated to demonise socialism, the panel discusses the concerted effort throughout the West, led by the Anglo-Americans, to depict the events at Tiananmen Square as a “massacre”, and the contributions of Russia and China to the world victory over fascism as minor and at best secondary to the effort made by the “Western allies”, all of this crude cultural and historical revisionism typified in films such as The Longest Day, The Guns of Navarone, Saving Pvt Ryan, etc.

EDITOR—SCOTT RITTER | CARL ZHA |America’s Upcoming Conflict With China | China Is Next | GAZA, IRAN, UKRAINE | Reporterfy Media. This is going to be a huge livestream. Carl Zha and Reporterfy plus Scott Ritter. A Not-to-be-missed discussion! MANY TOPICS DISCUSSED.

How well does the West —especially its ruling elite—understand Putin? Can they grasp what Xi is all about? These questions matter because the Western world is literally on the brink of economic and political collapse. Many economists and bankers throughout the “collective West” have announced that a huge economic implosion is liable to happen very soon, with incalculable political and geostrategic effects, including the inability of the US empire to maintain its hundreds of military bases, and a hypertrophied annual military budget that, in dollar amounts, dwarves the rest of the world’s expenditures, but which does not buy the Empire the quality nor effectiveness it seeks. The panel also discusses Scott Ritter’s debate with Carl Zha, and the reasons why Scott feels dismayed by the seeming lack of response and commensurate antiwar reaction to the criminal plots being hatched by the Western elites.