VIDEOS

CALEB MAUPIN—In this chat Caleb covers as usual a wide range of topics, including: A major and powerful analysis of the political origins of 9/11 (the attack on the Towers).  Caleb explores the rise of Wahabism, a fanatical branch of Islam supported by Saudi Arabia and the US, and used criminally and cynically by the latter to fight genuine anti-imperialist forces and nations. Caleb reminds us that the 9/11 attacks were NOT carried out by anti-imperialist forces or nations, and that such nations —Cuba, Iran, Syria, Russia, China, etc., well acquainted with the consequences of Wahabism—were in fact clearly opposed to such an act of indiscriminate terror against the American people.  The conceptual failure of the left to point out that the attack on the twin towers was not the work of anti-imperialists, but of a Washington proxy and ally, was a huge tactical failure for the American left, including its most famous voices.

P. GREANVILLE—Legendary director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Born on the 4th of July, Salvador, and the indispensable series of interviews with Vladimir Putin) has just released the first volume of his memoirs, Chasing the Light (reviewed here). This video presents a wide-ranging interview with Red Lines host Anya Parampil. Self-effacing for a man of such stature as artist and political activist, Stone touches on many things rarely or ever discussed by the mainstream media: the barbarism of US imperial wars; the training of death squads and support for terrorists; the refuge given to war criminals on American soil after their collaborationist regimes have been finally overthrown at immense cost to patriotic populations.

PATRICE GREANVILLE—Non-criminal presidents are the exception—the rare exception. For no one can climb to the imperial throne without swearing allegiance to the consensual imperial policies adopted by the ruling elites, which for generations has included as its cornerstone meddling in other countries affairs, invasions and outright wars, overt and covert—all such actions regarded as the highest form of international crime by the Nuremberg court. That’s why the system’s propaganda arm —the American media and their subsidiaries abroad—has long “sacralised” the office of the president, according it the treatment of kings ordained by God. It’s cruelly ironic that after slaughtering countless millions around the world in the name of “democracy”,  America is neither a true democracy nor a republic in practice or spirit.

We covered this story extensively, but here’s Jimmy Dore’s take, which we find useful due to Jimmy’s talent in bringing all sorts of topics to the mass public with conviction and no condescending simplification. Jimmy and Max Blumenthal (who exposed this fraud) discuss the many ways in which the “respectable” mainstream press is hoaxing their own publics about these extremely important stories. Max also denounces how US government and mainstream media assets (starting with many lavishly funded disinformation sources such as AXIOS, Bellingcat—frequently used by the NYTimes et al—try to defame truth tellers like Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore and this very publication. Yes, and a lot of the hoaxing of mass audiences against China is coming from the so-called “left media”, who thereby show, by doing the bidding of Trump’s warmongering moves against China, that when it comes to imperialist goals there is no oppositional party in America. 

Jimmy Dore analyses the unsurprising hypocrisy and cluelessness of Hollywood celebs, as they browbeat everyone to vote for Biden. Meanwhile, they keep everyone from pressing popular needs mirroring desperately needed measures: like Medicare for All, infrastructural reconstruction programs, a generous UBI, extensive and well-funded environmental protection programs, quick shift to non-hydrocarbon fuels, and much more.