JOHN VAROLI—Trump won’t scale back the empire. He is obsessed with American “greatness”, which means that the U.S. will continue to destabilize the international order, enhancing our status as a pariah nation. (Yes, most of the world hates us). Whoever wins the presidential race, the loser will be the human race.
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HAMMI—In this insightful episode, I sit down with political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the implications of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Finkelstein examines the progression of Israel’s military strategy toward Gaza, tracing it from past operations to the current crisis, and offers his perspective on the U.S. candidates and what their potential leadership means for the future of American foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere. Join us as Finkelstein shares his unfiltered analysis on one of today’s most urgent issues, providing historical context and a candid look at what’s ahead.
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ROGER BOYD—You would expect some substance from a person that could be a heart beat away from being president of the United States, but then we have J. D. Vance. He was born in Middletown Ohio in 1984, and he has written that his childhood was one of poverty, abuse and his mother’s drug addiction; being raised mainly by his maternal grandparents. In 2003, after graduating from high school, he joined the US Marine Corp in the non-combat role of military journalist, including six months in Iraq in 2005. Working to all intents and purposes in the public affairs section of the US Marine Corp, Vance would have become experienced in how to put stories together that hide much of the truth and weave stories that humanize what is an elite killing machine.
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RAINER SHEA—As part of its attempts to manage the situation, the imperial state is fueling left-wing pro-imperialist ideology, with its culturally based hostility towards countries like Iran and Russia. The imperialist media and its allies within the left are smearing principled anti-imperialists as “rightists,” seeking to divide the pro-Palestine movement over social issues. This psyop’s larger goal is to proliferate Neoconservativism under a leftist cover, letting the empire target countries for regime change on the basis that they’re “reactionary” and “fascist.” If any organization or state doesn’t conform to American leftism’s cultural sensibilities, it needs to be eliminated; that’s the mindset of this ideology.
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MARK TAYLOR—The link above confirms what is now Legally possible in the US as earlier reported in the link below posted January 11, 2012 on the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act giving the US Military legal authority to grab American citizens out of their homes or off the street, and lock them up indefinitely in some Gitmo-Gulag based on bureaucratic determination that someone has some vague association with terrorism.
There is no phone call to a lawyer. The Writ of Habeas Corpus, or a day in court, to contest the government allegation is removed. Anyone arrested becomes one of the Disappeared.
