ANTI-IMPERIALISM FIGHTERS

CALEB MAUPIN—IN THIS EPISODE, ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT SHAM ELECTION OF 2020, CALEB DISCUSSES:
Lessons from history: Capitalism’s rise fueled the Protestant Reformation, pits the Catholic Church (invested in feudalism) against much of the world • Spain with a weak capitalist class chooses to defend Catholicism and the Pope • Rise of the Spanish Inquisition • Persecution of heretics at home and abroad • The US in the 20th century replicates feudal Spain, fighting the “heresy” of socialism across the globe • The rise of McCarthyism “to defend the American Way” •   The real Trump’s “thugs”, according to Biden • Sit this one out, folks. Despite all the noise and hysterics, you have no dog in this fight • There is no Lesser Evil in 2020, only a Different Evil.

Why this clown, the “eunuch senator from Vermont”, after all the flim flam and betrayals still tries to inject his verbiage in the political debate is hard to fathom. Vanity? Lack of self-awareness? He’s got some nerve, that’s for sure. But the rest of the (admittedly execrable) political establishment never respected him, seeing him as a mere annoyance. A mosquito with a big ego and lot of very naive followers.

The recent elections in Bolivia did not happen just because the “interim government” of Jeanine Áñez, duly anointed by the US-proxy OAS, decided to act fair and square and agree to hold elections. It happened after many obstacles and delays because the masses threw themselves out on the roads and streets to make their presence felt, defying harsh repression at every turn. 

A.B. ABRAMS—North Korea’s two new tactical missiles are seen to largely compensate for its lack of a modern air force, the one glaring gap in its otherwise comprehensive military modernisation efforts – but also in some respects its strength given the very high cost of operating modern fighter aircraft and the arguably much greater cost effectiveness of developing state-of-the-art missiles domestically. These missiles were complemented by a very wide range of new rocket artillery systems, many of them never seen before, which provide a cheaper means of carrying out major strikes on military facilities and, if needed, against population centres, all across South Korea. North Korea’s KN-09 rocket artillery system previously set a world range record in 2013 at 200km, which was later eclipsed by the KN-25 unveiled in 2019 which holds the record today with a range of over 400km.

CALEB MAUPIN—Dispatch dateline October 2019 • Topics included:
The fake (synthetic) left destruction of real leftism in the developed world • Criticism of identity politics, LGBTQ, transgenderist idealism, etc.  • Deliberate “de-industrialisation in the developed world heartland • Dismantlement of the postwar “welfare state” in Europe, and rollback of worker gains in the US (the “Great American Middle Class”) • The imposition of austerity and unending war • Why bourgeois feminism leads nowhere •The century long campaign to defame the Soviet Union and J. Stalin • The accomplishments of socialism • Art & music under the Bolsheviks: it wasn’t the way the film Ninotchka presented it —and much more.