GABRIEL ROCKHILL—Once the war was over, Senior U.S. intelligence officials, including Dulles, Wisner and Carmel Offie, “worked to ensure that denazification only had a limited scope,” according to Frédéric Charpier: “Generals, senior officials, policemen, industrialists, lawyers, economists, diplomats, scholars and real war criminals were spared and put back in their positions.” The man in charge of the Marshall Plan in Germany, for instance, was a former adviser to Hermann Göring, the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force). Dulles drafted a list of high functionaries of the Nazi state to be protected and passed off as opponents to Hitler. The OSS-CIA proceeded to rebuild the administrative states in Germany and Italy with their anti-communist allies.
KOREA/NORTH KOREA
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ASIANOMETRY—One of South Korea’s greatest economic strengths is also one of its biggest economic weaknesses. Their country’s economy is defined by a series of massive business groups with names familiar to everyone: Samsung, Hyundai, and LG. These groups power its export economy and dominate its people’s everyday lives. They also manipulate the Korean economy to their own advantage, and pay millions to maintain corrupt ties with the highest levels of power in Korea.
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GARLAND NIXON—An in-depth discussion of current conditions in Ukraine and the Middle East with analysts Ritter and Martyanov concluding that both conflicts will end with a huge setback for the US empire, and most shocking to many, with the complete defeat of Ukraine’s Neonazi regime, and the beginning of the dissolution of Israel as an Apartheid state. This discussion is quite probably the most important forecast of what the world will likely see in the near future, barring a nuclear Armageddon triggered by a desperate Empire. The second part (Bonus Feature) is Garland’s conversation with leading analyst Joti Brar, head of Great Britain’s Communist Party, about the US Empire’s rapid unraveling due to over-reach, arrogance and the appalling mediocrity of its leadership (which is, in itself, a huge danger to all of humanity).
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DECADENT IMPERIALISM: WITH JOTI BRAR EPISODE 16 – RUSSIA NORTH KOREA – LEGACY OF ANTI IMPERIALISM
110 Mins readEDITOR—A heartfelt and insightful discussion of what imperialism is all about, the struggles of socialist countries to gain and sustain sovereignty, and the accelerating rise of the global anti-imperialist bloc, led by China, Russia and Iran, precisely at a moment when the US-led “rules-based order” seems more unhinged, dangerous, and depraved than ever. Joti Brar, a leader of Britain’s Communist Party (ML), is eloquent and masterful in her analysis of North Korea’s heroic and exemplary struggle for survival and independence in the face of the most vicious enemy of humankind in modern times: US imperialism. With Russia as a formal ally, the people of North Korea can accelerate their development in all social and strategic fields, and no longer worry about diplomatic isolation, sadistic attacks or the strangulation of their revolution via starvation. Moscow, who has stood by North Korea since its birth, and has often been, and still is, like Pyongyang, the target of NATO’s depraved fury, fully understands her suffering, and also her immense value as a military ally.
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GARLAND NIXON—The SK people had deposed US-puppet dictator Syngman Rhee in a massive popular uprising in April of 1960. Not long after the popular uprising, Park Chung Hee launched a military coup of the elected civilian government, taking power with 20 armed divisions and forcing the resignation of the civilian government. The leader of the army met with JFK on May 24th, and by June, the US had fully approved the coup. NK was worried Park would attack NK (he had spent the whole half of his early career trying to hunt down guerrilla leader Kim Il Sung in Manchuria for the Japanese imperial army. NK was worried about this, anticipated a new war by SK, and signed treaties of mutual aid with both the USSR and China by July of 1961.