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Danny Hiphong
CHATS WITH ABBY MARTIN & LOWKEY
Streamed live 20 hours ago
This video features a discussion between host Danny Haiphong, independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin, and rapper/journalist Lowkey regarding the escalation of military tensions between the United States and Iran.
Key Discussion Points:
- The War on Iran and Oil: Abby Martin links the ongoing US military actions against Iran to her film, Earth's Greatest Enemy, which explores the environmental and planetary destruction caused by the US military. She describes the US military as an enforcement arm for oil corporations (1:51 - 4:34).
- Military Attrition and Tactics: Lowkey argues that the United States is facing a strategic defeat due to Iran's "Mosaic" defense system—a network of underground missile cities and infrastructure. He notes that Iran operates with significantly lower military spending compared to the US and has successfully turned previous US bases in the region into vulnerabilities (5:08 - 12:00).
- The Role of Donald Trump: The participants discuss Donald Trump's presidency, framing him not as an aberration but as an encapsulation of the US imperial system. Abby Martin criticizes his "chaos" approach and the lack of accountability regarding his policies and personal enrichment, while Lowkey details Trump's reported links to specific financiers and his short-termist approach to foreign policy (12:01 - 27:09).
- Normalization of Atrocities: There is a consensus that the Gaza genocide and the current conflict in West Asia have led to a flattening of the moral threshold in international politics. Abby Martin and Lowkey highlight how international norms are being abandoned to preserve the power of the US empire (15:24 - 18:21, 33:00 - 37:31).
- The Future and Resistance: The speakers emphasize the need for international solidarity and consciousness-building. Abby Martinpositions her film as a tool for intervention in the environmental movement, urging viewers to challenge the machinery of imperialism that threatens the planet's future (52:47 - 55:10).
1 comment
Re “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”
Unfortunately, this documentary is a “convenient” whitewash of the true WHOLE reality.
The irrefutable yet highly undesirable truth is that so-called advanced progressive civilized people ARE “Earth’s greatest enemy” and have been for centuries — read the essay The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon” at https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
Yet so-called advanced progressive civilized people of all sorts, including the makers of this documentary and people interviewed in it, always put the blame elsewhere — it’s the fault of the system, or part of the system such as the US military or AI, etc.
Gustave Le Bon understood this as he pointed out in 1895…
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduces them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
Therefore, this film is self-serving propaganda in its own right. It’s more self-indulgent myopic misdirection of, by, and for civilized humanity.
To stop being Earth’s greatest enemy means this for “advanced” people …
First, virtually everyone has to DEprogram themselves from the programing (“official education” or official brainwashing) they’ve received since they were a child. It starts with seeing that YOU HAVE BEEN PROGRAMED ALL ALONG.
Second, constantly analyzing and debating current events is a waste of time. Because it’s not enough to describe over and over the prison cell (and its guards) — the ruling pack of psychopaths AND its many loyal minions — but explain how we got into it and how to get out of it, potentially. Of course, the psychopathic ruling authorities WANT you and everyone to waste your energy and time doing this “clever” analyzing and “figuring out” (and 99% of all “alternative media” is doing this too!) as they had freely told everyone:
“[Reality-based people ] believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. WE’RE AN EMPIRE NOW, AND WHEN WE ACT, WE CREATE OR OWN REALITY. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, ALL OF YOU, WILL BE LEFT TO JUST STUDY WHAT WE DO.” — Former Senior Adviser of the US Empire/Regime, in 2002 (https://archive.is/8wG4Y)
Third, how we got into this deep mess is the clue on how we can get out of it (and create justice, freedom and peace for all) — by learning what TRUE morality is —99% of people don’t know what it is because (1) it’s NOT taught in the official indoctrination system, better know as the “education system,” and (2) it’s NOT the same as religious morality: https://odysee.com/@woeih:e/Mark-Passio-Government-Is-Slavery:a
Because if you don’t know what TRUE morality is you will not stop doing, unwittingly or wittingly, evil things…
“The solution is NOT to create something new (eg, new systems of organization, new technologies, etc). The solution is to STOP being complicit with evil. To STOP doing things that are not moral for a reward. To STOP being complicit with anything the control system tells us we must do.” — Mark Passio, Spiritual Teacher, in 2023
“Every time people accept a new restriction —mask mandates, digital IDs, cashless payments— they reinforce the system and normalize control. Authorities rely on social pressure and fear of consequences to drive compliance. Most individuals don’t want conflict, so they follow rules even when they disagree. THIS SILENT MAJORITY ENABLES A SMALL ELITE TO CONTROL BILLIONS. Without MASS OBEDIENCE, digital IDs … and surveillance grids cannot be enforced at scale. The system thrives not just on active co-operation, but on PASSIVE ACCEPTANCE —shrugging off restrictions as inevitable or ‘for the greater good’. NON-COMPLIANCE —whether through using cash, rejecting digital IDs, or resisting propaganda— denies elites THE PARTICIPATION THEY NEED to legitimize their agendas. Ultimately, compliance is the lifeblood of control; RESISTANCE, EVEN IN SMALL ACTS, IS THE ANTIDOTE.” — AI Chat bot in 2025 (https://archive.ph/Wdzsg)
Fourth, commit yourself to ACT on the principles of real morality (see first url at third point).
Fifth, spread and teach these principles far and wide..
“Ignorance is the root cause of all Evil. Since only Knowledge eradicates ignorance, it is our duty and moral obligation to educate ourselves, as well as the masses around us.” — Anonymous