BEN TOTH—Decommunization is not only a process in which history is rewritten and new folklore for nation states is built, it is a continuous process of any land to blame its own shortcomings – poverty, war, economic hardship – on the go-to patsy : It is the fault of the communists. This in turn leads to ethnocentrism, and the central tenet of far-right ideologies : A Dream of Former Glory, lost because of the communists that must be restored, and usually at the expense of another group.
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Hinkle chats with Col. Douglas Macgregor, one of a handful of (ex) military truthtellers, and a common sense geopolitical analyst. While Macgregor is not a “progressive” in the classical sense of the term, he is rational and fair when examining the actions and history of US-designated “adversaries”, countries like Russia and China who, as fully sovereign nations, would like to have normal, peaceful and mutually rewarding relations with the US but which are obsessively punished and persecuted by the US’s ruling class as they represent de facto challenges to its supremacist unipolar entitlements. In a word, Macgregor is not a knee-jerk, flag-waving imperialist.
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ERIC ZUESSE—A coup is an illegal way to come to power, and both of Ukraine’s Presidents after the February 2014 overthrow of the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych acknowledged that the overthrow of him violated the law, and that the government which became installed after Yanukovych’s overthrow has no legitimacy whatsoever — that the “Maidan of dignity” and “democratic revolution” was actually a hoax.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—Another dispatch on the Ukraine war by probably one of its most deednable observers, this time Brian is joined by Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security expert based in Russia, and US Navy veteran. We will discuss the latest developments in Ukraine including a recent Pentagon briefing and Western media claims made in recent days.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—China’s response to Pelosi’s provocation has thankfully been relatively measured, though we’re about to see Taiwan fully encircled by the Chinese navy for a show of force unlike anything we’ve seen in decades, and Chinese sanctions upon Taiwanese commerce are still being announced. There will be political pressure in Beijing to escalate tensions with the US so as not to look weak, and the intensity of the new cold war has certainly been ratcheted up a notch, but when it comes to hot war it looks like humanity’s better angels have prevailed for now.
