AMERICAN PROPAGANDA

CALEB MAUPIN—In this episode Caleb discusses the importance of understanding the truths underscored by Dialectical Materialism, among which the fact that everything changes all the time, that NOTHING stays the same, not even from one second to the next, is central.  This means anything is possible, that the past, even the immediate past, does not need to rigidly determine the future. That A ≠ A. The chat also dwells on how people’s “high” events, highly romantic things they participated in—Vietnam war, the Great Depression,  the McCarthy period and the fight against anti-communism—seem to freeze their perception of what is possible, providing them with a single lens to view history.

JOSHUA CHO—One should expect corporate media outlets like the Times to equate corporate interests with the US national interest. By spinning the intellectual property of large US corporations as something that must be safeguarded rather than something that should be shared, US media are failing to inform their audiences about how corporations are delaying the development of a vaccine—and causing unnecessary deaths.

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CLARENCE TAYLOR—De Blasio and the City Council made a big show of cutting one billion dollars from the police budget, but the sleight of hand will not lead to any reduction of the police force. As the New York Daily News reported, the cut was nothing more than an “accounting trick” that moved “school safety officers, who are currently part of the NYPD, to the Department of Education.”  

MoA—The Chinese consulate in Houston is accused, without any evidence, of being a “hub of illegal spying and influence operations”. The U.S. consulate in Chengdu is, according to the New York Times, involved in “gathering information on Xinjiang and Tibet” and also used for the fake “human rights” campaigns against China – i.e. CIA information operations. Why is the chosen depiction so different? As U.S. has many more diplomats in China than China has in the U.S. we can therefore be sure that the U.S. has more agents doing their nefarious stuff in China than Chinese agents are doing in Washington, Houston and elsewhere.