BILLY BOB—Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline welcomes special guests Jeremiah Kim, Serafina Harris, and Jahan Choudhry. These activists, journalists, and artists are contributors to the Avant-Garde journal that launched on November 9th. All contributors are associated with the Saturday Free School. Each guest discussed their work including Jahan’s provocative critique of Gerald Horne, Serafina’s Black Reconstruction painting: “The Black Worker and World Peace”, and Jeremiah’s provocative article on Norman Finkelstein. The roundtable also discussed current events and the necessity of properly contextualizing our current situation in order to make the most of the opportunities that present themselves due to the increasing geopolitical upheavals that lie ahead.
LIFE UNDER CAPITALISM
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ERIC ZUESSE—The chief source of gas to all EU countries was the by-far cheapest, which was Russian-supplied pipelined natural gas, which became increasingly barred by the EU countries throughout 2022, and was replaced mainly by U.S.-supplied fracked canned and cross-Atlantic-shipped liquefied natural gas (LNG), at prices many times higher than what EU countries had been paying for Russian pipelined natural gas. This recent history is ‘justified’ by statements that are false and that hide the key truths, so as to fool voters to fear Russia instead of America.
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Harpal Brar and Caleb Maupin: Roots of Imperialist War & the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
145 mins readEDITOR—Harpal Brar, Caleb Maupin and Joti Brar discuss the nature of Imperialist war, the importance of revolutionary defeatism, and the fact that Imperialist war isn’t an aberration within capitalism, but an inevitability while capitalism holds sway over the world. The panel also looks at the effect of the emergence of nuclear weapons on the international communist movement, the gain and subsequent loss, thanks to soviet ingenuity in Russia and China, of the monopoly of nuclear armaments by the US empire, and how revisionism used the fear of nuclear doom to undermine the necessity of continued class war.
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WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER EPISODE 32 – NATO MEETING , CHINA WARNING, FALSE FLAGS
5 minutes readWARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER EPISODE 32 – NATO MEETING , CHINA WARNING, FALSE FLAGS—Probably NATO changes the game to “frozen war” or an indefinite war to weaken Russia. The risk is that this may force Russia’s hand to contemplate the use of nukes, and then we’re all nuclear dust.
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Now that Fox News and Tucker Carlson have parted ways, the news host’s former employer is doing everything possible to smear him and explain the network’s reasoning for having to let him go. The latest – a private text message from Carlson and other videos leaked to liberal outfit Media Matters, designed to paint Carlson as a racist, has fallen flat and actually depicted Carlson in, if anything, a positive light. Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Carlson’s comments, including his curious appraisal of the difference between how white people and people of color fight.