Caleb Maupin

EDITED BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
This Caleb Maupin episode is a tour de force, remarkable even by the superior standards that characerize Maupin's highly accessible historical analyses. In this chat besides addessing the GameStop kerfuffle and the inevitable excesses of "fictitious capital",  Caleb covers the historical repercussions of the Holocaust, good and bad. From the rise (and fall) of McCarthyism barely 7 years after the Holocaust, to the emergence of the "New Left ("synthetic left" sponsored by the CIA), and its false political categories, such as the equating of Nazism with Communism (Hanna Arendt's "Totalitarianism"). This false equation continues to sow confusion among a heavily indoctrinated public.  By the 1990s, Caleb notes, the ruling class had come up with a new set of variations on the subject, this time, milking the psychic wounds and revulsion toward the Holocaust, by pretending to be committed to the prevention of another Hitler, or the "duty" to intervene to prevent another human rights catastrophe, the empowering of a mass murderer, wherever he may threaten to appear. Our audience is well aware that candidates for regime change, as this foreign policy approach has become known in modern days, are only those whom the empire regards as international foes, or as obstacles to its hegemonist designs. This viciously excoriated group never includes a Washington ally, a roster that includes many of the greatest crooks and murderers of the last two centuries.  As any moderately aware person can easily confirm, the US has never backed the coming to power of a genuine democrat, and its elites remain in bed with the world's most brutal and corrupt despots. The chat also presents a fine discussion of capitalism's casino culture, the shenanigans of "fictitious capital" (in recent days triggering the so-called GameStop scandal), and the perverse market logic of capitalism that insures periodical crises of "overproduction", with their attendant wholesale suffering. All this and much more. Be sure to watch!
Dispatch dateline: Jan 29, 2021

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Caleb Maupin has worked as a journalist and political analyst for the last five years. He has reported from across the United States, as well as from Iran, the Gulf of Aden and Venezuela. He has been a featured speaker at many Universities, and at international conferences held in Tehran, Quito, and Brasilia. His writings have been translated and published in many languages including Farsi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is originally from Ohio. As a reporter with RT.com, Maupin's focus has been the United States. He has had many intense interactions with US State Department spokespeople including John Kirby, Mark Toner, and Heather Nauert confronting them about diverse issues like Syria, Russia, and the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons. Maupin was the primary US correspondent for RT’s international broadcasts during the 2016 Presidential elections. He reported from both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and also directly from the riots in Oakland, California, during the aftermath of the vote.