EDITORS—8/20/2024 Episode 105 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guests Slava and Max Parry.
In-depth discussion of how personal identity, race and culture are exploited by classism, colonialism and imperialism to maintain their hold on power, with a focus on the Ukraine/Russian conflict. PLUS: Cynical efforts by the Dems to split the pro-Palestinian movement using pro-ceasefire protests at Kamala Harris events as an attack on Kamala because she’s “black”.
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CJ HOPKINS—As my regular readers know, for the last two years, I’ve been experiencing the global crackdown on dissent “up close and personal,” and trying to report on it. A lot of my reporting has fallen on deaf ears. Which is understandable, given the nature of what we’re up against, which is (a) formidable, (b) rather challenging to really understand, and (c) virtually unassailable, currently.
People don’t tend to like stories like that. They tend to like stories with “good guys,” and “bad guys,” and identifiable enemies, and simple solutions, even if those stories are, essentially, bullshit.
One of the most prevalent bullshit stories (i.e., theories) about the global crackdown on dissent is the one about how The Big Bad Government Forced the Poor Helpless Global Corporations to Censor Everybody, or at least Conservatives. Americans are particularly fond of this story, especially conservative Americans, as it casts the Big Bad Government as the antagonist, and good, freedom-loving, military-contracting billionaires like Elon Musk as the heroic protagonists.
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EDITOR—Martin Scorsese narrates his journey through his favourites in Italian cinema. Few people will be unmoved.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—US foreign and domestic policy is developed with think tanks funded by the most powerful corporate-financier interests across the West Policy papers published by these think tanks are turned into bills by lawyers, brought to Washington by lobbyists, and signed off by Congress and the White House regardless of political affiliation or supposed political agenda. Multipolarism has challenged US political, military, and economic power by creating alternatives to the corporate-financier monopolies in the West driving US policies at home and abroad. Americans can create a better balance of power by redirecting their monthly income, time, energy, and attention away from these corporate-financier interests and toward local and foreign alternatives.
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EDITORS—The Paris Olympics, with its outrageous illogic of banning Russia and Belarussia, countries which are merely defending themselves from Western assault, but admitting mass-murdering Israel to the games proves the advanced social and cultural decomposition of the West, notes Joti Brar, and we all agree. Joti then explains why capitalism, and its offshoot, imperialism, cannot be fixed, and how all efforts by its current pathetic leadership to “fix the problem” can only lead to disasters and delay the inevitable. From Ukraine to Gaza and beyond, the US empire is showing everyone that its appalling corruption. irrationality, hypocrisy, and structural disease cannot be cured or covered up any longer by a prostituted media or political class.
