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.
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FELIX ABT—We also watch in disbelief as the last vestiges of moral decency are turned upside down: Those of us who oppose genocide are accused of condoning it. Those who commit genocide are exercising their right to self-defense! In September, before the paramilitary wing of Hamas overran the Israeli border on October 7, 2023 (a sober analysis can be found here), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a map of the so-called New Middle East at a session of the UN General Assembly. The Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem had all been incorporated into a Greater Israel. Ironically, he insisted that Israel should extend “from the river to the sea.” Palestine had ceased to exist. Palestinians are forced to choose between death by bombing, disease, exposure, starvation or expulsion from their homeland.
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BILLY BOB—The inculcated conceptualization of autonomous terrorist groups existing and violently pursuing their radical agendas while the West tirelessly works to track them and protect innocent people (you know, the basic understanding of “terrorism” as spread by Hollywood and the State Department on a daily basis) is absolutely false and entirely detached from objective reality. Terrorism is the tool of the elites. Those that the West calls “terrorists” but do not actually control (like Hezbollah, the IRGC, and the Houthis) of course are not terrorists at all. They are popular groups that resist Western imperialism and who fight against Western backed terrorists (like AL Qaeda and IS).
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Garland Nixon and Rainer discuss what the US ruling class may be hatching for the American people as it maneuvers to cling to power at any cost while the Empire crumbles across the globe. The Empire is probably bringing home the sordid methods of mass repression they have employed in a multitude of countries. The headlines sum it up nicely: COUNTER INSURGENCY – US IMPERIALISM GOES TO WAR WITH ITS CITIZENS. Everyone should take note.
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THE GRAYZONE—The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate connect the dots between ongoing revelations of Biden family corruption and the Ukraine proxy war, explaining how the former VP and those around him helped set up Kiev as a base for US plunder and war profiteering. They also cover Robert F. Kennedy Jr. casting his lot with the Israel’s lobby’s most fanatical elements, while Cornel West emerges as a threat to Biden’s re-election campaign.
