KIM PETERSEN—The US is so fixated on the economic rise of China that it even scuppered a multibillion-dollar deal its ally France had to sell submarines to Australia and replace it with nuclear submarines to be supplied by itself and the United Kingdom — AUKUS. The obvious target of the nuclear subs: China. China’s foreign minister Qin Gang has called on the US to put the brakes on to avoid confrontation and conflict. What does all the militaristic hoopla directed at China portend?
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SERGEI KARAGANOV—”This weakening infuriates not only the imperial-cosmopolitan elites (Biden and Co.), but also the imperial-national ones (Trump). Their countries are losing their five-century-long ability to syphon wealth around the world, imposing, primarily by brute force, political and economic orders, and cultural dominance. So there will be no quick end to the unfolding Western defensive but aggressive confrontation…”
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ERIC ARNOW—The Cuban Revolution had kicked the US and its gangster brothels, casinos and US corporate interests out of Cuba. The CIA had tried and failed to overthrow the Cuban government in the Bay of Pigs attack, without getting authorization from President John F. Kennedy. Allen Dulles, CIA founder and Director, had thought he could drag the US into invading Cuba. The result was that Cuba felt directly threatened by the United States. And the Soviet Union felt –indeed was—directly threatened by the United States. For that reason, Cuba and the USSR agreed that Russia would reciprocate the ‘favor’ of having nuclear weapons in striking distance of the United States, by placing missiles and Soviet troops in Cuba.
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INDI SAMARAJIVA—These arms dealers have so deeply corrupted the American state that’s it’s all legal and in the open. The current Defense (War) Secretary Lloyd Austin stepped directly out of the Raytheon board room into the Pentagon, a conflict of interest if anyone gave a shit. But this is normal. There’s a constant revolving door between the bureaucrats starting wars and the arms dealers supplying them, and it’s all out in the open. The arms dealers produce think tanks as much as tanks, and the latter are more dangerous.
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Joe Rogan Interviews Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (The Complete, Unedited Interview – Episode #1999)
9 minutes readAn in-depth, unhurried chat between Joe Rogan and Robert Kennedy, Jr. Those (many) who are still at a loss to understand Kennedy’s position on many topics of pressing interest will find this exchange invaluable and highly illuminating.