PEPE ESCOBAR—China’s millennial diplomatic protocol establishes that discussions start around common ground – which are then extolled as being more important than disagreements between negotiating parties. That’s at the heart of the concept of “no loss of face”. Only afterwards the parties discuss their differences. Yet it was totally predictable that a bunch of amateurish, tactless and clueless Americans would smash those basic diplomatic rules to show “strength” to their home crowd, distilling the proverbial litany on Taiwan, Hong Kong, South China Sea, “genocide” of Uighurs.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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NATO and the EU Are Sending a “message” to Russia. Again.
32 minutes readTHE SAKER—Their problem, however, is that they are now true US protectorates/colonies, with no real foreign policy of their own. Their top leaders, political and military, are also prostitutes, just like “New Europe”, so while they have a wealth of historical experience to draw from, they cannot act on it because of the iron grip Uncle Shmuel has on their political throats. Even France, which used to have some real independence, under such leaders as de Gaulle and Mitterrand, now is just another voiceless and clueless protectorate.
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Rachel Maddow’s Hilarious SELF-OWN While Russia-Gating!
5 minutes readFew media figures are more seriously obnoxious and lacking in journalisitic ethics than Rachel Maddow, the default Russiagater “brainiac” at MSNBC. In this segment she ends up practically giving the game away, and Jimmy catches her.
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REGIS TREMBLAY–Dr. Lev Korovin, MD and I continue our discussion about the societal collapse due to Capitalism and the post-capitalist reality. The collapse of the order of the world is catastrophic with the evidence everywhere. The big questions are, can we fight out way out of it, and how. This is another in a series exploring the ideas and practices of the Essence of Time movement.
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CALEB MAUPIN—After a hiatus, Caleb returns with a rich discussion covering many topics. Caleb argues that Biden’s [recent] gratuitous insult (Putin is a “killer”) was simply a staged event to erase Trump’s admission that the US, too, has engaged in pretty sordid and criminal acts. (see appendix). Of course, Caleb does not say Russia goes around the globe committing the same type of criminality that makes the US so singularly despised.