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JFK and the Gangster Nature of our State with Max Good Dec 30, 2022

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With the release of a new cache of documents, there has been a renewed interest amongst the American Public on the truth behind the JFK assassination. Today, we interview film director JFK Assassination and Mrs. Paine, where he painstakingly, over a few years interviews a key witness in the Kennedy Assassination Ruth Paine.

0:00:45 - Introductions and how Max Good funded his film

0:02:55 - Michael Parenti’s Lecture Gangster Nature of our State

0:03:26 - Who is Ruth Paine?

0:04:55 - Lee Harvey Oswald and the Single Bullet Theory

0:07:10 - How Ruth Paine Become Acquainted from Marina Oswald?

0:07:46 - White Russians and White Terror

0:10:02 - George DeMohrenSchildt

0:11:10 - Fairplay for Cuba and Lee Harvey Oswald

0:14:24 - DeMohrenSchildt’s Mysterious suicide

0:15:00 - Oswald’s Weapon and Ruth Paine’s house

0:20:37 - Ruth Paine and the Warren Commission

0:22:12 - Jack Ruby and the Oswald Murder

0:26:26 - Ruth Paine’s Connection with Allen Dulles

0:28:29 - JFK, Bay of Pigs and the CIA

0:30:30 - The Role of the Secret Service during the Kennedy Assasination

0:31:33 - Vincent Salandria and the JFK Investigation

40:00 - The Gangster Nature of our State

44:12 - Conspiracy Theory and Class Power

46:34 - Fidel Castro’s Speech on the Kennedy Assassination

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Higher Immorality with Aaron Good Dec 20, 2022

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Today, we have Author Aaron Good, join us to talk about the driving force behind the US foreign policy for the past 100 years. He talks about who the actors are, what actually occurs and what the end result is, in this extremely informative interview.

0:00:49 - Aaron Good’s transition from working on the Obama Campaign to writing the book “American Exception”

0:03:36 - The impact of JFK and the unspeakable

0:04:41 - The US Empire being a mass criminal enterprise

0:05:31 - Political Scientist with a skewed “Democracy Scale”

0:05:59 - Hegemony

0:06:29 - US Hegemony

07:26:15 - Deep Politics

09:36:01 - Parapolitics

10:56:31 - Management of Savagery

11:23:23 - Putin’s Observation about lack of change in US policy across Presidents

15:04 - Pax American Speech

17:42 - The Nixon Ouster in a Different Light

18:32 - “Every President since Reagan has basically been Reagan”

19:27 - National Security State operates on a permanent state of exception

21:11 - “Rules-Based International Order”

22:19 - Propaganda and the National Security State

26:03 - What is the “East India Company Point of View”?

30:50- What is Higher Immorality?

31:55 - Conundrum of Human Civilization

The State Department Leak on Afghanistan

Thread on Morales

39:56 - Concept of Permanent War

42:12 - Aerospace crisis

45:00 - The Dollar Gap

47:37 - Who Killed JFK?

51:00 - A Brief History of Every US War Since then

59:00 - the Trump Card for the Dollar Hegemony

You can find Aaron Good on Twitter

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CFA Franc Zone: Colonialism By Another Name Dec 05, 2022

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Last month, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni drew some waves when she (rightfully) criticized French Colonialism in Africa. She drew particular attention to the CFA Franc Zone.

While her critique was rightful, there is much to be said about her motivations.

Today, we are joined by Ndongo Samba Sylla, author of “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” to talk to us about the brutal history of the CFA Franc and how it purposefully impoverishes Africa.

Show Notes

0:41 - Colony within a nation:

“Neoliberalism is another iteration of colonial logic, at least economically speaking”

5:14 - President Mitterand in 1957, “Without Africa, France would have no history in the 21st century”

6:48 - CFA Frank with two monetary zones

9:11 - Who liberated France?

10:11 - CFA Franc was born out of the devaluation of the French Franc

12:12 - Sham Decolonialisation

13:40 - Guinea

15:45 - Sekou Toure

17:34 - Fundamental Principles of the CFA system

21:06 - The third pillar “Guarantee of convertability”

* Central banks are obliged to deposit with the central bank 50% of their exchange reserves.

30:00 - Military Agreement with Relation to the CFA Frank

32:15 - Thomas Sankara Example

36:28 - French Interventions of Africa

38:53 - What is going on in Mali?

44:51 - Struggle against Monetary Repression

“Instant Misery Fund” = IMF

47:03 - Secrecy behind the CFA institutions

50:20 - France is a “Guaranteer”! What does it mean?

* Africans provided loans to the French Government.

56:03 - Myths surrounding the CFA Franc

What do you think about the CFA Franc Zone?

You can follow Ndongo Samba Sylla on Twitter

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Russia and Beyond with Alexander Buzgalin Nov 18, 2022

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In today’s episode we have Alexander Buzgalin from the Moscow State University to talk to us about the history of Russia, Ukraine and the economic implications of this war.

We apologize for the delay, I am currently in Russia reporting about the war in Donbass, and our internet connection has been spotty. We have worked out the kinks, and we will be back to our regular schedule. We apologize for the delay.

Show notes:

1:22 - Poland-Russian War from 1650

6:58 - The Russian Revolution

10:58 - Donbass, the heart of Russia

14:05 - The Truth about World War 2 - Europe vs Soviet Union

18:02 - General Plan Ost

23:02. - The Break up of the Soviet Union

27:02 - Rehabilitation of Banderites

31:20 - Two stages of Reform in Ukraine

39:20 - 2008 and Ukraine

46:50 - Maidan

55:56 - Punishing Russia for…

"Of course for United States and NATO, this is terrible challenge and they must punish or so-called punish Russia. And to show to everybody, you must be our slaves or you will be punished or you are punished with Russi

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Spring is in the Air with Brian Mier of BrasilWire Oct 23, 2022

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We have come a full circle. When we first started our podcast back in 2018, Lula was in prison because of a judicial coup called “Lavajato.” Bolsonaro was the leading candidate. We were trying to understand the coup effort sponsored by the US state department against Lula De Silva.

Before he went to prison, Lula gave a very inspiring speech, where he said “ The elites can kill one rose, two roses, or a hundred roses, but they cannot stop the arrival of spring and ours is a fight for spring.”

Four years later, it looks like spring is in the air and to understand what happened, we are doing a special super episode, where we go through all our interviews with Brian Mier from BrasilWire where we talk about the judicial coup from start to finish.

This super episode is based on three earlier episodes:

To support Brian Mier and independent journalism, please visit his patreon.

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Theoretically Speaking with Booker Omole from The Communist Party of Kenya Oct 12, 2022

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Sorry for the delay in posting. Esha is in Russia and is just getting settled. We will resume our scheduled posting next week.

Today, we have Booker Omole, the head of the Communist Party of Kenya to discuss with us everything related to theory: Dialectical & Historical Materialism, Hegels, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Gramsci. We also learn about why we need to have a party that has an educated citizenry that is capable of fighting for its rights, and how to turn your citizenry with the stellar secondary education program.

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Torches of Freedom with Fran from Mango Press Sep 18, 2022

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At the turn of the 19th century and early 20th century, people all over the world were demanding the rights given to them in theory on old documents, be put into practice. There was unprecedented activity in unions, unemployment collectives, and civil rights organizations. All of them demanding a voice in the government. Edward Bernays realized the “problem of Democracy” early on:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

And we have been under this type of conscious manipulation of society since the time of Edward Bernays. Today, Fran from Mango Press joins us to discuss propaganda and Democracy.

Show Notes

:00 - Intro

3:43 - When a non-war is a war for PR purpose

8:20 - Edward Bernays and WW1 propaganda

11:34 - Bernays creating first PR firm

13:34 - Cleaning up the politicians

17:09 - Big Tobacco and Psychoanalysis

22:26 - Controlling with PR

24:23 - Birth of the Department Store

25:31 - PR in WW2

26:30 - PRing Guatemala into a Coup

45:16 - The Regime Change Playbook

48:09 - Protecting the Order of Things

50:53 - Inventing Reality

53:15 - Inventing Reality in Ukraine

1:02:00 - Goodbyes

Extras:

Watch my lecture on Real Progressives about our responsibility on Propaganda

Check out Mangopress on their telegram and their website

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The Critical Academic World War with Gabrielle Rockhill Aug 24, 2022

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Critical theory as it's been canonized within the Western Academy, is a tradition that comes out of a group of thinkers affiliated with what's called the Frankfurt School. It purported to offer a kind of radical critique of capitalism, consumer society and issues of contemporary society and how they are controlled. However, once again proving Gramsci true, instead, the Frankfurt School has been blunted by its funding sources, used by the CIA and in the end, while prevasive in Western academia, offers no real study on “how the world works” and of course, it critiques Actually Existing Socialism (AES) more than it critiques capitalist or even fascist regimes. On top of it, it has a very reactionary bend to it. Today, Gabrielle Rockhill, philosopher and critique of critical Theory joins us to talk to us about what’s wrong with Western Academia.

Gabrielle’s Writings

* The CIA & The Frankfurt's School of Anti-Communism

* CIA reads French Theory: Intellectual Disarming of the Left

* Foucault - Faux Radical

* Foucault, the Anti-Communism, the Global Theory Industry

Show Notes

1:38 - What is critical theory?

3:55 - Critical and revolutionary for the reinvention of the critique in the age of idealogical realignment

4:15 - Theory in the Marxist Sense vs Theory in the Liberal Sense

7:45 - Divorcing Critical Theory from Political Action

9:49 - Tiktok

11:42 - Political Science for Imperialism

13:51 - The Parcelization of Academia in the West

15:00 - Common sense assumptions without Proofs

22:13 - Frankfurt School at Inception

27:44 - The Foundations, Corporations and the Institute for Social Research

34:55 - Infiltration of Unions

41:47: Anything But Socialism

43:00 - Esha uses the opening to rail on Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum

54:23 - The War Propaganda and Academia

1:02:00 - Marxism in the West

Gabrielle Rockhill can be found on twitter.

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A Historian's Guide to the Galaxy with Sean Johnson Aug 10, 2022

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We have studied many events in human history, we have delved a little bit into humanity before history, but today, we decided to learn more about time and space itself. Sean Johnson, a professor of Astronomy from the University of Michigan joins us to talk to us about the history of the universe. We answer questions like “How did our solar system form?” and “What is a galaxy?” and how big is the universe? It is the episode that answers questions about Life, Universe and Everything and we end with pet irritants on science fiction movies.

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Show Notes

2:47 - Sean Johnson explains why Astronomy

4:03- What is a Solar System?

5:06 - What came first? Solar System or Galaxy?

7:04 - What is dark matter?

11:07 - The Sun fuses Hydrogen

13:00 - How are exo-planets and how are they discovered?

15:37 - Nasa’s Next Generation Telescope and what can be seen

21:00 - Galaxies and spiral arms.

23:00 - Quasars and Pulsars

28:00 - How do we know the universe is so big?

31:00 - Seeing into the center of the Galaxy

34:00 - Is the universe quiet?

35:00 - Gravitational Waves - Ripples in space-time

43:00 - Neutrinos

49:00 - What do we know what we need for life?

50:00 - Pet Sci-Fi movie fails

Check out Astrobites

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The Rising Sons of Japan with Tim Shorrock Jul 26, 2022

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Today, on our podcast, The Rising Sons of Japan with Tim Shorrock.

Summary of Podcast Episode

Since the murder of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, there has been many hagiographies that distort his historical role and his rise to power, in the process of doing so, they also end up distorting the history of post war Japan.

Today, we have Tim Shorrock, self described “Writer, guitar player, author (SPIES FOR HIRE). Working on investigative memoir of US intervention in Korea & Japan after WWII.”

Tim Shorrock has previously published article in He has written articles for several magazines, including Harper's, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Salon. He also appeared on a previous episode of historicly to talk about COIN

Show Notes for the Podcast Episode -

0:45 - Unconditional Surrender

2:23 - US had complete control of the occupation. For the first few years, they forbade fascists and the working class flourished.

6:09 - The Corporate Empire strikes back

10:09 - Start of US Military Buildup in Japan

13:00 - Korean War as a boon for industrialists in both US and Japan

19:19 - Shinzo Abe’s Grandfather, class A War Criminal

21:00 - Japan’s One Party rule The Liberal Democratic Party

22:17 - Secret Treaties with US

23:24 - Protest so Massive, they could not guarantee Eisenhower’s Safety

26:00 - Article 9, why Neocons and Class A War Criminals Hate it.

34:00 - Japanese investments in Occupied Korea

35:00 - Power of US military in Japan

40:51 - Okinawa

48:00 - Nixon, Japan, Taiwan and China.

You can find Tim Shorrock on twitter.

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