ERIC ZUESSE—Here is a news-report about one of the U.S.-backed-and-funded ‘Neo-Nazi’ (i.e.: racist-fascist) organizations’ training-camp for Ukrainian children. (Where it says “A young boy holds a mock weapon and creeps behind a wooden fence as he takes part in drills at the summer camp” this “wooden fence” is shown festooned with German Nazi Party insignia but the right-wing newspaper makes no note of, nor comment about, that incredibly significant fact.) This is a multi-generational operation by the CIA going all the way back to its founding in 1947, by Harry Truman, warping FDR’s ww2-only OSS against the German nazis — against the Nazi Party, the original nazis — to become instead the newly-created U.S. regime’s coup-and-subversion machine, to grab control ultimately over the Soviet Union and now Russia, so as to achieve the world’s first all-encompassing empire. Carlson and Fridman appear to be ignorant of all of that history. Not only is Putin rational to be determined to denazify Ukraine but he’d be derelict in his duties to the Russian nation if he weren’t.
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ANDRAJIT—The reason the war questions are emerging now is that Americans are dying. This nominally raises the stakes. But which Americans? Three Black soldiers have just died in Syria/Jordan and the ‘volunteer’ army is primarily made up of debt slaves. Rich people’s children don’t get drafted so, fundamentally, what do they care, besides thanking these people for their ‘service’ while gutting their veterans services? Do these deaths count as war if the ruling class doesn’t actually give a shit?
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A Chinese documentary seeking to explain the slow-motion downfall of the USSR in terms of historical nihilism, basically a cultural disease eventually corroding politics. Obviously many forces and events contributed to this outcome, both internal and external. During its entire life the Soviet Union was subjected to the immense hostile pressures of world capitalism—economic (boycots, sanctions, sabotage); political, military (arms race), diplomatic (isolation, blockades), cultural (defamation) etc— all spearheaded by the US, which forced Moscow to alter its course and often adopt policies that proved more costly to its socialist construction than anticipated.
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BILLY BOB—Dr. Aaron Good, joins the Blowback roundtable for a wide ranging discussion focusing on the myths of American exceptionalism. Aaron summarizes the last 75 years of US imperialism with a focus on the Kennedy family and their rocky relationship with the deep state. Aaron is an expert on the subject matter and he effortlessly articulates the most salient points while providing solid analysis about the West’s inevitable decline and prospects for a peaceful and prosperous future.
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Understanding American Capitalism (Revisited/ 2)
35 Mins readPATRICE GREANVILLE—Capitalism has always drowned and faltered on its unjust social relations. The outrageously lopsided way it distributes income, the product of society, continually augmented by advances in technology, is a contradiction that has no economic answers because it is really a question of power, a question of politics. The constant elimination of jobs by automation, and their hemorrhage toward cheap-labor zones cannot be “cured” by job training programs or even better education for all (as Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich, the main evangelist for this pseudo-solution, still preaches).