ROTTEN CULTURE

DD–This video discusses Candace Owens’ ongoing investigation into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative figure. Owens has been vocal about challenging the official narrative, which she claims is a cover-up, and has gone so far as to open a tip line for information. Initially, there was skepticism about her claims due to a lack of tangible evidence, but Owens recently released what she calls “receipts”: a group chat conversation involving Charlie Kirk and several associates, including Josh Hammer and Rob McCoy. In this chat, Kirk explicitly states that he is abandoning the pro-Israel cause due to pressure and bullying from Jewish donors, just 48 hours before his assassination. Owens argues this is a critical piece of circumstantial evidence that corroborates earlier reports of Kirk’s strained relationship with pro-Israel donors.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—We can be absolutely certain that it will happen again because nothing has been done to ensure that it doesn’t. No major policy changes have been put in place. Nobody has been punished — not the government officials responsible, nor the media who ran cover for their criminality this entire time. They torched the place and then walked away scot-free, just like they did with Iraq.

EDITOR—The panel discusses the various ways the ruling elites in the US and the West manipulate ideas and concepts to control mass consciousness about sensitive topics, especially in foreign policy, while hiding the true face of capitalism and imperialism, and the horrific costs it imposes around the globe and at home, as Americans are finally beginning to understand. Discussed: Syrian history and recent developments, nature of the “Syrian regime”; the West’s losing competition with China due to her superiority in socioeconomic and political organization (central planning, etc.); ditto for Russia, and how well applied Marxism is not dogmatic but pragmatic (allowing for capitalist firms to operate under party control); ideological concepts used opportunistically by the US ruling class to control the narrative (“branding”—like who gets called “dictator”, “authoritarian”, “ally”, etc.); mythology of US exceptionalism to justify supremacism/hegemonism; moral superiority; informational confusion and work pressures hindering mass awakening by ordinary citizens, etc. 

PATRICE GREANVILLE—Russell Bentley, quickly nicknamed “Texac” after he first touched Slavonic ground, has always. been a highly improbable character. A native son of Texas and a Communist, gifted with more than his share of valor and audacity, but above all a man of action, he didn’t have to meditate too long to figure what he needed to do when he heard about the US coup in Kiev in 2014, and the ensuing war by the new neo-Nazi regime on the rebel republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Echoing the International Brigades, he simply packed his things and made his way at his own expense to the Donbas, via Russia. Once there, to the surprise of many (he was certainly not exactly in his prime), he offered his services as a frontline soldier and soon enough was involved in several (by now) almost legendary battles in the first war between the young but tough little republics and the much larger but apparently tactically deficient (though still vicious) Ukrop army. 

JACQUES PAUWELS—Ever since the epoch of the French Revolution, the noble (and conservative) elite had never dissimulated its antipathy towards the idea of liberty and progress for the benefit of the masses. The haute bourgeoisie was liberal by conviction and therefore partial to the concepts of liberty and progress, in theory for everybody, but in reality for itself; it detested the idea of democracy, which it perceived not as an ideal but a nightmare, the rule by the stupid and cruel “masses.”