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[00:00:03] [Music] [00:00:08] That was it. I'm glad I did if you want [00:00:10] to know the truth. Mr. [00:00:11] >> And by the way, I never went to the [00:00:13] island and Bill Clinton went there [00:00:15] supposedly [00:00:17] uh 28 times. Uh I never went to the [00:00:20] island, but Larry Summers I hear went [00:00:22] there. He was the head of Harvard and [00:00:24] many other people that are very big [00:00:26] people. Nobody ever talks about them. [00:00:28] I've I never had the privilege of going [00:00:30] to his island. Uh and I did turn it [00:00:32] down, but a lot of people in Palm Beach [00:00:34] were invited to his island. Uh in one of [00:00:37] my very good moments, I turned it down. [00:00:39] I didn't want to go to his island. [00:00:42] Okay, guys. That was your moment of zen [00:00:46] video before the horrors begin. Not [00:00:49] saying that Epstein's Island isn't that. [00:00:53] I just wanted to point out that saying [00:00:55] go that or characterizing going to [00:00:57] Epstein's Island as a privilege is a [00:01:00] very conspicuous word choice. Um [00:01:04] but anyways uh we all know that that [00:01:08] plays into foreign policy but it's not [00:01:10] the summation of US foreign policy. It [00:01:12] would still happen even if Jeffrey [00:01:15] Epstein wasn't what most of us suspect [00:01:17] he him to have been. Um, yeah. And just [00:01:20] so you guys know, as everyone's still [00:01:22] filtering into the uh to the lies, I [00:01:25] mean, sorry, into the live. Um, that was [00:01:28] from a meeting in the UK with Prime [00:01:31] Minister with British Prime Minister [00:01:32] Kier Starmer. And if you, that was just [00:01:35] the social media cutting I took from one [00:01:37] of my buddies who runs an account that [00:01:39] posts all of like Trump's antics. Uh, if [00:01:41] you zoom out, he is sitting right next [00:01:44] to Kier Starmer while saying that. And [00:01:46] Kier Starmer is just like, "Yeah." [00:01:48] Anyways, all right, guys. Gaza, we're [00:01:52] going to talk about it. Uh, but I got a [00:01:54] little bit of rant prepared for you. Um, [00:01:56] I wrote it out because, um, I think we [00:01:59] all need to hear it because as the [00:02:00] famine escalates in Gaza, uh, the the I [00:02:04] told you so crowd should have voted for [00:02:06] Harris crowd is out back and forth. [00:02:10] Okay. And I just have a message for any [00:02:12] of your friends or family members that [00:02:14] you want to send this intro to. And [00:02:17] maybe uh your thoughts echo mine, but it [00:02:20] starts a little something like this. Did [00:02:23] you know that resistance liberals are [00:02:25] big mad at you right now for voting [00:02:27] against genocide? Or at least not voting [00:02:30] for genocide when they did vote for [00:02:34] genocide. Uh and they only did vote for [00:02:37] genocide because it would have been [00:02:39] easier to organize against genocide [00:02:42] under Harris who was pro- genocide. [00:02:46] Yeah. Okay. And they know about [00:02:48] organizing. You know, they've organized [00:02:49] so many Sex in the City brunches. We [00:02:52] just wish they had organized themselves [00:02:55] into learning about things like [00:02:56] dialectical materialism, which takes a [00:02:59] lot of work. And you can't be pounding [00:03:01] them mimosas while doing it, or the [00:03:04] function of capitalism into imperialism, [00:03:07] into colonialism, and how that is always [00:03:10] or this is always going to happen. I [00:03:14] know that Trump is a real estate [00:03:16] developer who wants to develop Gaza and [00:03:19] so is Steve Witkoff, his Middle East [00:03:21] envoy. But isn't it also crazy how [00:03:25] Kamala's first public speaking event [00:03:27] after her failed election bid was at the [00:03:30] Australian Real Estate Conference? Isn't [00:03:33] that insane? Isn't it also crazy to see [00:03:36] history as a series of dizzyingly [00:03:38] unrelated events? Like what did the [00:03:41] Bengal famine during the Second World [00:03:43] War have to do with the earlier Irish [00:03:46] potato famine? What what does manifest [00:03:49] destiny have to do with Zionism? These [00:03:52] are all separate things that exist in a [00:03:54] vacuum and have nothing to do with [00:03:56] capitalism or economic system or the [00:03:58] American empire and the entire shebang [00:04:01] can absolutely be reformed under the [00:04:04] power structures of the boogeoisi and [00:04:06] ruling elite. the same people who want [00:04:08] to develop Gaza, both Trump and Harris's [00:04:10] landlord friends, through responsible [00:04:13] social democratic reforms. It's totally [00:04:17] gonna work, guys. And of course, they're [00:04:18] like, "Oh, so what's like the plan? Are [00:04:20] you radical leftists? Do you want to [00:04:22] have a plan behind a armed revolution? [00:04:25] Where's your vanguard party?" Bro, just [00:04:28] start by going to an anti-ISE or pro [00:04:30] Palestine action. Hell, go dump some [00:04:32] stuff off from your family uh from [00:04:34] sorry, yeah, from your pantry at an [00:04:36] anarchist food drive. Like, I mean, god [00:04:38] forbid you actually read a book that [00:04:40] will answer your questions instead of [00:04:42] posting dumbassery in my comment [00:04:44] sections, but you won't because deep [00:04:46] down you know in your twisted, blackened [00:04:51] little heart of hearts that AOC [00:04:55] and Bernie Sanders [00:04:57] will save you. Anyways, my name is Greg [00:05:01] Stoker and I'm the host of this little [00:05:03] live stream that you may have [00:05:04] accidentally stumbled onto and I don't [00:05:06] usually rant, but I got pissed off today [00:05:09] because my comment section was flooded [00:05:11] by idiots. Um, and yes, State of Play uh [00:05:16] twice a week on Mint Press News. It's [00:05:18] usually analysis based and not rant [00:05:20] based. This is going to be some rant [00:05:22] based stuff today. Um, but this one is [00:05:24] going to get into some very basic theory [00:05:27] that explains why all this is happening [00:05:30] under Trump, under Harris, that might [00:05:33] help your struggling liberal friends [00:05:35] understand what's going on in Gaza [00:05:37] behind the humanitarian catastrophe. [00:05:41] That was always going to happen, just [00:05:43] like manifest destiny was always going [00:05:46] to happen. Just like the Bengal famine [00:05:49] was always going to happen. These things [00:05:53] exist in a historical context and we [00:05:55] still exist in that same historical [00:05:57] context. You may think that the age of [00:05:59] colonialism and all these horrible [00:06:00] things, Leopold's Belgian Congo uh [00:06:04] existed in the history books, but I [00:06:06] think we've seen over the past almost [00:06:08] two years that that is not true at all. [00:06:13] Google Gaza 2035 for the ultimate plan [00:06:17] here while I do this Patreon plug. 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So if you [00:07:08] can like, share, subscribe, spread the [00:07:10] word. Also, if you don't like YouTube, [00:07:12] we are on all audio streaming platforms [00:07:15] for these episodes. So that's an option [00:07:19] if you're like an audio person. So which [00:07:22] I am. I I never watch anything on [00:07:25] YouTube. I always just listen to it in [00:07:27] the background. So I miss some of the [00:07:28] graphics, but I I don't know. I I have [00:07:31] to multitask, especially as the world [00:07:34] disintegrates. But anyways, glad you're [00:07:36] here. Let's get into it. So just for [00:07:38] some context for the unfolding [00:07:40] humanitarian catastrophe, President [00:07:42] Donald Trump today. And you know, we [00:07:44] have some B-roll that we're going to [00:07:46] play right now just to really drive this [00:07:48] home. Told reporters uh today in [00:07:51] Turnberry, Scotland during his meeting [00:07:54] with British Prime Minister, actually I [00:07:56] guess I need to find that B-roll [00:07:59] or someone can bring it up maybe. [00:08:02] So yeah, so today in turnberry Scotland [00:08:06] um during his meeting with British Prime [00:08:08] Minister Kier Starmer that quote, "We're [00:08:10] going to set up food centers. We're [00:08:12] going to do it in conjunction uh with [00:08:15] some very good people. We're going to uh [00:08:17] supply funds. We just took trillions of [00:08:20] dollars. We assume this trillions is [00:08:22] dubiously coming from the EU trade deal [00:08:25] that EU leaders agreed to on this [00:08:28] weekend. More on that later. Yeah, I we [00:08:31] assume that the trillions of dollars [00:08:32] that he's talking about um you know come [00:08:36] from the savings that he thinks he's [00:08:38] going to get from the EU trade deal [00:08:40] where we're hitting them uh or we're [00:08:43] hitting ourselves with a 15% tariffs [00:08:45] against u you know EU products and then [00:08:48] the EU has their own concessions as [00:08:50] well. Uh but yes, anyways, he says we [00:08:53] got a lot of money. We're gonna spend a [00:08:54] little money on some food and other [00:08:56] nations are joining us. So, we're going [00:08:58] to set up food centers and where the [00:09:00] people can walk in and no boundaries. [00:09:02] We're not going to have fences. This is [00:09:04] one of the rants he went on. Trump who [00:09:06] is large who has largely blamed the ham [00:09:09] Hamas for the delay in distributing aid [00:09:11] to civilians in Gaza acknowledged Israel [00:09:14] has a lot of responsibility for limiting [00:09:17] aid in the region but again called for [00:09:19] Hamas to release the hostages still held [00:09:21] in Gaza to ease negotiations and I just [00:09:24] want to point out [00:09:26] u as I try to bring one of these things [00:09:28] up u [00:09:31] h I guess they're not working. What a [00:09:32] weird day for technical issues. Oh, [00:09:35] okay. There we go. Yeah. So, the these [00:09:38] are some of the horrendous scenes we're [00:09:39] looking at. Um, where was I? [00:09:43] Sorry, guys. Yeah, you know, the basic [00:09:46] crux of this is [00:09:50] when it comes to the negotiations, it's [00:09:52] bad faith, right? So, it's the [00:09:54] negotiations are between the US and [00:09:58] Israel and then Hamas is approached [00:10:00] through Qatari mediums. So, they're not [00:10:02] actually part of the deal. Uh, so [00:10:07] they they they can't accept it because [00:10:08] they're actually not part of the [00:10:09] negotiations. We should just [00:10:10] contextualize that because I take some [00:10:13] clips from like neoliberal reporting and [00:10:17] um, [00:10:19] basically use that for context. So Trump [00:10:22] broke with Netanyahu's weekend assertion [00:10:24] that there is no starvation in Gaza. [00:10:27] That it's a real starvation. Sorry, he [00:10:29] said real starvation stuff. I see it and [00:10:32] you can't fake that. So, we're going to [00:10:33] be even more involved. Trump also said [00:10:36] aid centers will be built. And I wanted [00:10:38] to bring this up. Be advised, this is [00:10:41] Monday's imperial propaganda. This is [00:10:44] Biden's aid port 2.0. Okay. Trump, even [00:10:47] if he actually built these aid centers [00:10:48] that he just randomly brought up, [00:10:52] um is only playing for time until the [00:10:55] outrage over this demonstrable famine, [00:10:58] even though they're not technically [00:10:59] calling it a famine yet, has died down. [00:11:02] the aid centers might be built. Some [00:11:04] airdrops from Jordan might happen and [00:11:07] they did happen while I was writing the [00:11:09] show notes. Um, and then of course [00:11:11] reporters weren't allowed to uh actually [00:11:14] film out of the aircraft. They had [00:11:16] journalists inside the aircraft, but [00:11:17] they weren't able to film like uh film [00:11:20] once the cargo door opened uh because [00:11:23] the Israeli military said they don't [00:11:24] want anyone filming the devastation of [00:11:26] Gaza. They didn't say devastation, but [00:11:27] we know why they went through that uh [00:11:29] post-flight briefing. So air drops might [00:11:33] happen, but no food, no substantive food [00:11:36] to support the population is ever going [00:11:38] to get in. What did the aid port do last [00:11:42] spring under the Biden administration? [00:11:44] cost a lot of money, delivered a [00:11:46] negligible amount of aid via the world's [00:11:48] central kitchen, which hastily halted [00:11:50] operations after the idea deliberately [00:11:52] targeted its convoy, uh served as a [00:11:55] propaganda anchor for Israel to continue [00:11:57] the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and [00:11:59] potentially served, though there is no [00:12:01] direct evidence for this, as an [00:12:03] exfiltration point for the IDF and [00:12:06] Shinbet forces after the Nusat massacre, [00:12:08] which killed at least 276 Palestinians [00:12:12] and and injured [00:12:14] pretty much 700. Uh so if these aid [00:12:17] centers are built, they will serve a [00:12:18] similar function. Again, this is all [00:12:21] about playing for time and giving a [00:12:23] shred of political cover to Israel. [00:12:25] While it is delusional to think that [00:12:27] public opinion at home and abroad will [00:12:29] improve with regards to Israel's [00:12:30] genocide, that's US foreign policy for [00:12:33] you. So prepare yourself for the next [00:12:35] distraction. Epstein was actually a [00:12:38] foreign intelligence asset for Russia or [00:12:40] China according to former CIA Mike Baker [00:12:44] on last week's Joe Rogan podcast. Yeah, [00:12:47] I don't listen to Joe Rogan. Some of my [00:12:49] friends sent it me the clip from it. [00:12:50] Yeah, he had this ex CIA guy on Mike [00:12:53] Baker is now a political commentator [00:12:55] uh on to talk about how the Epstein [00:12:58] files might actually be connected with [00:13:00] Russia or China. So today, Trump just [00:13:03] told the press actually uh that [00:13:05] President Putin has 10 to 12 days to [00:13:08] institute a ceasefire with Ukraine. The [00:13:10] implication here being that the US will [00:13:12] begin to supply long range offensive [00:13:14] weapons. If they get real desperate, [00:13:17] they might tease aliens and project blue [00:13:21] book because Gaza [00:13:24] must be developed. As an imperial [00:13:27] president, he has a fiduciary [00:13:29] responsibility to do so. It is called [00:13:31] capitalism. It is not because of the [00:13:34] Epstein files or ZOG Zionist occupied [00:13:38] government neo-Nazi conspiracies. It's [00:13:41] because this is how the system worked, [00:13:43] how it's always worked. Does Israel [00:13:46] exert more influence as a colonial [00:13:48] entity upon the imperial corps than, you [00:13:51] know, what we saw in the 19th century? [00:13:54] Yeah. But, you know, Apac's not the only [00:13:58] interest at play here. So, uh, and we're [00:14:01] we're going to get into that. So, [00:14:05] which is why the and it's the whole [00:14:08] system. So, it's why the Department of [00:14:09] Homeland Security is posting manifest [00:14:11] destiny propaganda and why the US, a [00:14:15] country founded on the erasure of entire [00:14:17] peoples, is seemingly fine with a [00:14:19] genocide in Palestine, even if it's [00:14:21] starting to make Hakee Jeff, leader of [00:14:24] the House Democratic Caucus, a bit [00:14:26] squeamish. And it's why pseudo [00:14:28] progressive candidates like Bernie [00:14:30] Sanders and AOC are completely silent [00:14:33] right now. Even Hakee Jeff, Cy Booker, [00:14:37] Richie Torres, all of these like massive [00:14:41] APC uh beneficiaries are having to say [00:14:44] at least something. Uh but yeah, where [00:14:47] are the comments from the actual people [00:14:49] who are presidential and political [00:14:51] hopefuls? You know, even because like [00:14:54] look, if they attack the system, they [00:14:56] will assail their own privilege and [00:14:58] access to political power. Even outside [00:15:01] of the erratic and pathologically lying [00:15:03] nature of Donald Trump, this is why aid [00:15:06] will not continue in any significant [00:15:08] way. This is America and it's also [00:15:11] Canada and all the Western colonial [00:15:13] client nations of the US empire. Check [00:15:16] out this world salad. And to demonstrate [00:15:18] this, we we know uh let's just [00:15:22] Yeah. So to demonstrate this, let's [00:15:24] check out this world salad about uh [00:15:26] human rights by Canadian foreign min [00:15:29] foreign affairs minister, excuse me, [00:15:31] foreign affairs minister Anita Anad at [00:15:34] the UN meeting on quote the peaceful [00:15:36] settlement of the question of Palestine [00:15:39] and the implementation [00:15:41] of the twostate [00:15:43] solution. We can't listen to the whole [00:15:46] thing because it's it's too [00:15:46] insufferable. But here we go. [00:15:48] >> We are here today because this moment [00:15:51] demands political courage and resolve. [00:15:54] And we must stand together and choose a [00:15:57] different path, one that leads toward a [00:16:01] sustainable and a just solution. And [00:16:04] political agreements alone are not [00:16:07] enough. We must also address the [00:16:09] narratives shaping identity, perception, [00:16:13] and legitimacy as these lie at the heart [00:16:16] of the conflict. As G7 President, Canada [00:16:20] is engaging closely with regional [00:16:22] partners and the message is clear. The [00:16:25] region must be defined by peace, by [00:16:28] stability, and by dignity for all. [00:16:33] >> These are Western values. It seems [00:16:35] increasingly like western values are [00:16:38] things you just say and then completely [00:16:42] ignore. Crazy idea, huh? Guided by this [00:16:45] understanding, Canada alongside [00:16:49] Qatar and Mexico is co-leading this [00:16:52] narrative for peace working group aimed [00:16:55] >> narrative for peace [00:16:59] >> aimed at building an inclusive framework [00:17:02] grounded in dignity and coexistence. [00:17:06] Peace is not only about borders and [00:17:08] agreements. It is also about shared [00:17:11] stories and understanding that humanize [00:17:14] all sides and foster trust. Canada is [00:17:19] committed to initiatives that amplify [00:17:21] voices of peace, promote understanding [00:17:24] and reject division. [00:17:26] We support local mediation and [00:17:30] peaceuilding efforts, empower youth and [00:17:33] women leaders, and champion press [00:17:35] freedom and inclusive do [00:17:38] >> more women fighter bomber pilots. [00:17:43] My lord, [00:17:46] I don't know how else to explain what is [00:17:50] happening without talking about theory [00:17:53] for like 10 minutes. something I've [00:17:55] never done before, but there's a reason [00:17:59] we called the annihilation [00:18:01] of Gaza back in October 2023, and [00:18:06] everyone was pissed at us for it. Why is [00:18:09] this happening? It's happening from [00:18:11] money. [00:18:13] Uh, so the rich can extract everything [00:18:14] they can from the working class at home. [00:18:16] And when that is not enough, they have [00:18:18] to look elsewhere. This is where [00:18:20] imperialism and colonialism come in. [00:18:21] Michael Pari, an important left-wing [00:18:23] political scientist, asserted that [00:18:26] America's biggest addiction is not [00:18:28] alcohol or heroin or gambling. It's [00:18:31] greed. The ruling class throughout [00:18:33] history has always wanted the best land, [00:18:35] the best herds, the finest luxury goods. [00:18:38] This existed under primitive headman [00:18:40] societies, and it existed under the [00:18:43] iniquities of feudalism and the divine [00:18:45] right of kings. the kings and the [00:18:47] aristocracy used this millennia old idea [00:18:50] to take what they wanted up to a point [00:18:53] where the peasants would revolt and then [00:18:55] they'd walk it back a bit. But and then [00:18:58] there have been other theories for [00:18:59] governance like Aristotle's political [00:19:02] cycle which gets a lot of play in [00:19:05] western liberal education but is utterly [00:19:07] utterly useless. Aristotle has [00:19:10] classified uh six forms of states and it [00:19:13] believes that these keep revolving in a [00:19:15] cyclical order. The cycle begins with [00:19:18] monarchy which soon gets perverted into [00:19:20] tyranny which then is replaced by [00:19:23] aristocracy. The rule of the few and the [00:19:25] wise able people and aristocracy soon [00:19:28] gets perverted into oligarchy. The rule [00:19:30] of the rich to be replaced by the rule [00:19:33] of the people. Polity. Polity then gets [00:19:36] perverted in democracy. and then mob [00:19:38] rule and then democracy in the final [00:19:40] term gets replaced by monarchy and the [00:19:43] cycle begins all over again. This is the [00:19:45] this is what I was taught uh during like [00:19:47] my classical education on the like [00:19:50] neoliberal east coast. This has been one [00:19:53] of the most criticized theories of [00:19:55] Aristotles and for good reason. Uh, and [00:19:57] it may have sounded good back during the [00:19:59] Athenian golden age watching the cycles [00:20:01] of revolution of ancient Greek [00:20:03] citystates, but it really doesn't answer [00:20:06] the question why the three noble forms [00:20:08] of government what you call monarchy, [00:20:10] aristocracy, and polity [00:20:13] uh [00:20:16] uh devolve always into absolute [ __ ] [00:20:19] And it definitely doesn't answer why [00:20:22] capitalism, the response to feudalism [00:20:24] sucks so bad and why governments under [00:20:27] the capitalist system do such horrible [00:20:29] things. To define terms, capitalism is [00:20:32] an economic system where private [00:20:34] individuals or businesses own and [00:20:38] control the means of production, the [00:20:40] factories, the land, and where goods and [00:20:44] services are produced for profit in a [00:20:46] free market. It is characterized by [00:20:48] competition, private property, and [00:20:51] limited government intervention in free [00:20:53] market economics. A core fundamental is [00:20:56] at the primary goal of business is to [00:20:59] try to generate profit. At the heart of [00:21:01] the entire system, it's profit motive. [00:21:03] When you're looking at Gaza, it's profit [00:21:05] motive. When you're looking at the [00:21:07] annexation of the West Bank, profit [00:21:09] motive. When you are looking at Taiwan, [00:21:12] Ukraine, that's at the heart of it. If [00:21:14] you consider yourself on the political [00:21:16] left, that funding fundamentally means [00:21:18] you oppose this system. Liberals and [00:21:21] Democrats do not. That is why they are [00:21:23] that's why dem yeah they are centerright [00:21:25] party at best and why all their foreign [00:21:28] policy decisions closely align with [00:21:30] Republicans. Why the Dems love sending [00:21:33] arms to Ukraine which Trump opposed on [00:21:35] the campaign trail but now he's all [00:21:38] about it. Right? So you cannot [00:21:40] understand what's going on with at least [00:21:42] putting out a little effort to [00:21:44] understand a Marxist uh concept which [00:21:47] serves as a basis for socialism to [00:21:49] include a lot of anarchist thinkers as [00:21:51] well dialectic materialism. It takes [00:21:54] effort to internalize this concept. So [00:21:56] it's not going to happen here. But the [00:21:58] basics are dialectics are kind of like [00:22:02] derived from Hegelian Hegel like [00:22:04] Hegelian philosophy. it which views the [00:22:06] world as a process of change driven by [00:22:08] contradictions and conflicts. And this [00:22:11] is often summarized as change, conflict [00:22:14] and development. Right? And materialism [00:22:17] in this context emphasizes the primacy [00:22:20] of the material world over ideas or [00:22:23] consciousness. The noble idea of [00:22:26] liberalism, for example, always just [00:22:29] collapses into rich people wanting more [00:22:33] [ __ ] We want equity and you know [00:22:36] liberty for all men all mankind but [00:22:39] actually in the end we just want more [00:22:42] [ __ ] So it asserts that material [00:22:44] conditions particularly economic [00:22:47] structures are the foundation for social [00:22:49] and cultural development. Dialectical [00:22:51] materialism specifically applies this [00:22:53] materialist view to the dialectical [00:22:56] process of contradictions, change, and [00:22:58] conflict, suggesting that material [00:23:01] forces and their interactions are the [00:23:04] primary drivers of change in this world. [00:23:06] Okay, [00:23:07] that's a lot. Takes a long time to [00:23:10] internalize, but this is going to get [00:23:11] into the easier section about why this [00:23:14] is happening. You know, check it out on [00:23:16] your old chime. Also check out the [00:23:18] tendency for the rate of profit to fall. [00:23:20] You know it's a crisis theory of [00:23:21] political economy and according to which [00:23:24] the rate of profit the ratio of the [00:23:26] profit to the amount invested in capital [00:23:29] decreases over time. Essentially when [00:23:31] profits fall or decline in rates of [00:23:33] their expansion within a limited [00:23:35] economic space i.e. a country's domestic [00:23:38] economy. It's time to expand your [00:23:41] horizons. Imperialism and colonialism. [00:23:44] That's what Israel is. Okay. It is our [00:23:47] colony and an extension of the American [00:23:50] Empire to wage adventurous wars and [00:23:52] destabilizations operations and to do [00:23:56] our dirty work for us in the region and [00:23:58] carve up the Middle East into vassal [00:24:01] states that will allow Western [00:24:03] capitalists to exploit their countries [00:24:05] and resources. And the idea that [00:24:07] colonialism is the highest stage of [00:24:10] imperialism is a concept popularized by [00:24:12] thinkers like uh Lenin andqwame uh [00:24:17] sorry [00:24:18] um [00:24:20] uh necrumaqwame [00:24:23] necruma he was a Ghanian academic who [00:24:26] wrote an extension of uh Lenin's book uh [00:24:30] and the US actually sanctioned Ghana [00:24:32] over the book itself. So anyways, Lenon [00:24:35] in his work imperialism the highest age [00:24:37] of capitalism argued that imperialism [00:24:39] driven by capitalist monopolies [00:24:42] uh and the export of finance capital [00:24:45] necessitates colonialism for its [00:24:47] survival and expansion. Um Necruma in [00:24:51] his book Neoc colonialism the last stage [00:24:53] of imperialism extended this idea [00:24:55] arguing that neoc colonialism a more fle [00:24:58] subtle form of domination is the current [00:25:01] manifestation of imperialism in a postc [00:25:04] colonial world. So guys imperialism [00:25:08] colonialism imperialism [00:25:10] boilerplate is the policy of extending a [00:25:12] nation's power and influence through [00:25:14] diplomacy or military force often [00:25:16] involving the acquisition of colonies. [00:25:19] Colonialism is the policy or practice of [00:25:21] acquiring full or partial political [00:25:23] control over another country, occupying [00:25:25] it with settlers and exploiting it [00:25:27] economically. So what it looks like for [00:25:29] most settler colonies, be it the United [00:25:33] States [00:25:34] or Israel or Australia is one of the [00:25:39] worst. Uh they declare, you know, [00:25:42] because they don't want to have to admit [00:25:43] that they, you know, created their [00:25:45] country off genocide and settler [00:25:47] colonialism. They declare Teranolius [00:25:51] uh a land with no people, a land of [00:25:53] nothing. This is why one of the big [00:25:55] Zionist talking points was [00:25:59] um you know a land without a people for [00:26:03] a people without a land. You know the [00:26:06] the main thrust of this argument was [00:26:08] that you know when capitalism reaches a [00:26:12] high stage there's a monopoly [00:26:14] concentration of economic power in the [00:26:16] hands of a few large corporations who [00:26:18] have a fiduciary responsibility and a [00:26:21] mandate to expand expand into other [00:26:23] places. Black Rockck has a lot of [00:26:25] reconstruction rights in Ukraine. [00:26:27] They're also getting involved and so are [00:26:29] a lot of other hedge funds in Gaza 2035 [00:26:33] project and other redevelopment plans [00:26:34] for the strip. And then the finance [00:26:36] capital is the merging of industrial and [00:26:39] banking capital [00:26:41] uh creating financial oligarchies. [00:26:44] And yeah, basically there's an argument [00:26:48] to make that these factors necessitate [00:26:49] colonialism to secure resources, [00:26:52] markets, and investment opportunities [00:26:54] for capitalist powers that must grow. [00:26:58] And then, well, we all know what [00:27:00] neocolonialism is. We talk about the IMF [00:27:03] and we talk about the World Bank uh and [00:27:05] NATO all the time that which is the [00:27:07] indirect control of a developing country [00:27:10] by a former colonial power [00:27:13] uh or nation you know often through [00:27:15] economic and political influence rather [00:27:17] than direct military rule. So what are [00:27:20] the characteristics of it? Economic [00:27:22] dependence. Developing countries remain [00:27:24] relying on other forms of colonial power [00:27:26] for trade, investment and aid. A lot of [00:27:28] Sahel countries like Burkina Faso are [00:27:31] rejecting the economic depend uh [00:27:34] dependence. Another characteristic is [00:27:36] political instability do uh former [00:27:38] colonial powers can manipulate political [00:27:40] systems to maintain their influence. [00:27:42] This generally looks like [00:27:45] yeah during the colonial era uh you know [00:27:49] the uh the French in Syria uh propped up [00:27:52] the aloways uh to be the dominant [00:27:55] political force from which a political [00:27:57] authority um flowed and then in son the [00:28:01] British colony of Sri Lanka uh they put [00:28:04] the uh the British put the Tamils in [00:28:07] power over the Buddhists and it ended in [00:28:10] the uh the Tamil tigers and the genocide [00:28:12] in Sri Lanka which Israel was absolutely [00:28:15] complicit in uh in you know the '9s [00:28:18] 2000s and then of course um you know [00:28:22] we're seeing what's happening with the [00:28:22] Alawways in Syria now that they've [00:28:24] fallen out of power when they were uh uh [00:28:26] colonially installed and so uh and then [00:28:30] there's cultural influence. Dominant [00:28:31] cultures can perpetuate colonial [00:28:33] mentalities and values. Of course they [00:28:35] do. And so neoc colonialism is even more [00:28:37] insidious than colonialism because it [00:28:39] operates under the guise of independence [00:28:42] making it harder to identify and resist. [00:28:44] But the reason Israel is so horrifying [00:28:48] because it isn't a global south neoc [00:28:51] colony. It is an actual white [00:28:52] supremacist settler colony that should [00:28:55] exist only in a history book and its [00:28:57] entire existence is a horrifying [00:28:59] vindication of a vast amount of [00:29:01] left-wing political and economic theory. [00:29:04] That's it. like lecture over. A lot of [00:29:07] capitalists want to turn Gaza into a new [00:29:09] Dubai for a lot of reasons, not just [00:29:12] because of real estate ventures because [00:29:15] of the IMC corridor uh you know the uh [00:29:18] India, Mumbai across Saudi Arabia going [00:29:22] through the Trans Jordan into the ports [00:29:24] in Hifa into Europe. It's a we've talked [00:29:27] about that before. It's basically a [00:29:29] challenge to a certain section of the [00:29:32] bricks, a global infrastructure plan. U [00:29:35] the Middle East has to be dominated [00:29:37] because it's the most strategically [00:29:39] significant location uh one of the most [00:29:41] in the world. It sits at the access of [00:29:43] three different continents. It's rich in [00:29:45] minerals and it possesses now the Suez [00:29:48] Canal. And so there's a lot of interest [00:29:51] going in there. And then of course, you [00:29:52] know, we want to see an investment in [00:29:54] the Gulf States and a normalization with [00:29:58] Israel to not only secure the region, [00:29:59] but to create a kind of AI tech hub, a [00:30:03] challenge of tech infrastructure to uh [00:30:06] to challenge China and other BRICS [00:30:09] nations uh because we're losing the race [00:30:12] badly. And then Israel can help out with [00:30:14] that. They're one of our biggest tech [00:30:15] sectors. Normalization would be [00:30:16] important for AIdriven competition [00:30:18] against China. that's not going to work. [00:30:20] But that's another factor. Then of [00:30:22] course Turkeykey's kind of breaking out [00:30:23] being its own regional player. And there [00:30:25] is something to be said for a [00:30:27] transnational capitalist elite or [00:30:29] transnational security elite that exists [00:30:32] outside of just straight up western [00:30:33] hegemony. I mean you can make various [00:30:36] arguments on that. One thing to be aware [00:30:37] of is that no matter how this Israel [00:30:40] thing works out, even if a Harris was [00:30:43] president, even if Trump was president, [00:30:46] uh, is that if they lose here against [00:30:49] the resistance in Gaza, it will be [00:30:52] intensely damaging to Western hegemony [00:30:55] going forward. Same thing in Ukraine. So [00:30:58] one of the things we have to actually [00:31:00] bear in mind is a lot of people in not [00:31:06] only the Israeli government but in the [00:31:10] American government see a military [00:31:13] solution as still the only viable option [00:31:17] to end this thing. And there's no [00:31:20] military solution to end this thing. As [00:31:22] I said since the beginning, if you want [00:31:23] to dis defeat the resistance in Gaza, [00:31:27] you'll have to kill everybody. And we [00:31:29] talked the last episode about how [00:31:32] voluntary or enforced migration isn't [00:31:35] something that's really viable [00:31:37] politically. They may try to just force [00:31:39] it through military intervention, like [00:31:41] literally militarily dumping people off [00:31:44] in random places. That would be insane. [00:31:48] But what we're looking at right now, and [00:31:50] because their military option, even [00:31:52] though it's completely delusional, you [00:31:54] know, will turn Israel into a pariah [00:31:56] state, uh, is that they're having to [00:31:59] play for time. That's what they're [00:32:02] doing. And of course, when we bring in [00:32:04] Harris and the Democrats, [00:32:07] they do things less egregiously than the [00:32:10] Republicans. You know, you can't say [00:32:12] that they're the same party. I mean, [00:32:14] they have the same ultimate goals. They [00:32:16] expand the police national security [00:32:18] state. They serve the uh professional [00:32:21] managerial class and the oligarchs as [00:32:23] well. But um so it would be better [00:32:27] manner because you know Obama made this [00:32:30] bombing of seven seven Muslim countries [00:32:34] because it was so well spoken and [00:32:36] articulate. Seven Muslim countries. Uh [00:32:39] what else did he do? Expanded ICE [00:32:41] solidified the national security state [00:32:43] beyond the Patriot Act. But he made that [00:32:45] go down all go down so damn smooth. And [00:32:51] the exact same thing would be happening. [00:32:52] It would be less egregious. There'd be [00:32:53] like more calls from aid from the [00:32:55] president where Harris would be like [00:32:57] this it just breaks my heart, you know, [00:32:59] where I've been pressuring I've been [00:33:01] pressuring pressuring Benjamin Netanyahu [00:33:04] and then we're just all going to blame [00:33:05] it on Netanyahu. And then they would [00:33:08] have leaks from the White House like [00:33:10] this is what Paris really said behind [00:33:12] closed doors and they and Axios News [00:33:14] would would report it and everyone would [00:33:17] be like, "Oh yeah, real change is [00:33:19] coming." No, it would look a little bit [00:33:21] different under Harris administration, [00:33:22] but this exact situation would still be [00:33:26] happening. Actually, you know what? [00:33:27] Under Harris administration, let's be [00:33:29] honest, the original ceasefire that [00:33:31] happened when Trump was inaugurated [00:33:33] wouldn't even have happened. So, at [00:33:35] least they got some relief that way. [00:33:38] But, um, yeah, man. You guys, I just [00:33:40] haven't been paying attention. If you [00:33:41] think anything would be different, I was [00:33:45] in the military in special operations [00:33:48] under Obama. And Obama's policies [00:33:52] were way more violent than Bushes were. [00:33:57] Who started the whole damn war? Or, you [00:34:00] know, the invasion of Afghanistan and [00:34:02] the unwarranted invasion over Iraq. I'm [00:34:04] not saying that Afghanistan wasn't, but [00:34:06] yeah. Um, it's the same same thing. And [00:34:10] the violence that we do overseas always [00:34:11] comes back home. So, this is a forever [00:34:13] war here in Gaza. Uh, we got one in [00:34:16] Ukraine. And the one in Afghanistan that [00:34:19] we did is actually just come home via [00:34:21] ICE. And of course, would the Democrats [00:34:25] have expanded ICE [00:34:28] like the Republicans have? Absolutely [00:34:30] not. But that budget was still going up. [00:34:32] This is all how it works. [00:34:35] We are in collapse into fascism. The [00:34:38] merging of the corporate and [00:34:40] governmental power, subservient mostly [00:34:43] to corporate power at this, you know. [00:34:44] So, um, I don't know what to tell you [00:34:47] guys if you're still hanging on to that, [00:34:48] but um, yeah, that was my little primer. [00:34:51] It was probably a little too wordy. I [00:34:52] could have like refined it a little bit [00:34:54] better and made it more engaging for [00:34:56] people who already aren't too familiar [00:34:59] with this stuff. I don't know. I just [00:35:01] kind of threw it together. But um let's [00:35:04] actually look at some uh reporting going [00:35:08] on going back to Gaza. But just before [00:35:10] we continue into our next segment, there [00:35:13] is a great video on social media about [00:35:16] all of this. Leftist is to be right but [00:35:20] too early and to be continuously [00:35:23] punished for being right too early. As [00:35:26] early as October 8th, leftists were [00:35:28] saying Israel has used starvation as a [00:35:31] weapon of war against Gaza. And it is [00:35:33] going to exponentially increase that use [00:35:36] of starvation as a weapon of war. And [00:35:38] now you have liberals walking around [00:35:41] seemingly dumbfounded that their ally, [00:35:45] Israel, is using starvation as a weapon [00:35:47] of war. Oh my god. How crazy is it that [00:35:49] a US ally and settler colony could [00:35:53] commit war crimes? It's not like we have [00:35:55] any historical parallels that we could [00:35:57] turn to that would make analyzing this [00:35:59] situation even a little bit easier. The [00:36:02] reason liberals do this is because they [00:36:04] genuinely have no way of analyzing [00:36:07] history. To them, history is just a [00:36:10] series of unconnected events. They [00:36:13] cannot analyze patterns and extrapolate [00:36:15] truths. Their ideology prevents them [00:36:17] from having this skill, which is why [00:36:19] they fall for this stuff every single [00:36:22] time. they are doomed to eternally beat [00:36:24] Charlie kicking the ball right as Lucy [00:36:27] yanks it away. But this lack of [00:36:29] historical analysis is a feature and not [00:36:31] a bug. Because if liberals could analyze [00:36:34] patterns and predict what can happen [00:36:36] next, then they would have to implement [00:36:38] some sort of preventative measures for [00:36:40] atrocities rather than being purely [00:36:42] reactionary, which is what liberalism [00:36:44] is. All liberals know how to do when bad [00:36:47] things happen is turn around and get [00:36:49] angry at the people who said that those [00:36:51] bad things were going to happen because [00:36:54] they do not have the power of foresight. [00:36:57] >> Yeah, there was a little thing about [00:36:59] that. Um, yeah, I saw in the comments [00:37:03] being like, you know, okay, I hear all [00:37:05] that. I I already knew that kind of [00:37:07] stuff, but the United States is still [00:37:11] Zog. And uh Zog means Zionist occupied [00:37:15] government. And it's a term [00:37:18] begun by um white supremacists within [00:37:22] the United States. uh as a response. [00:37:24] Well, I mean, they did catch on first to [00:37:27] uh well, I mean, in the context of a lot [00:37:30] of people who weren't u like involved in [00:37:33] like what Zionism really was, [00:37:36] we're kind of some of the first people [00:37:37] to remark on the fact that Israel has a [00:37:40] lot of influence on the United States. [00:37:45] Um but there's a lot of things that [00:37:47] prove that that the United States has [00:37:49] the same tendencies completely separate [00:37:51] from from Israel. You know, we are [00:37:54] expressing coloniality and imperial uh [00:37:58] wars on our own soil. You know, we are [00:38:01] reinforcing Taiwan for a multi-deade [00:38:06] shift towards China, fortifying it in [00:38:08] what Marco Rubio calls the porcupine [00:38:10] strategy. That has no bearing on Israeli [00:38:13] politics, the isolation of in China. Um, [00:38:16] and there's countless other things going [00:38:18] on in Africa. Sudan's not a good in uh [00:38:20] and the Congo are not um good instances [00:38:24] of that because of course Israel's [00:38:25] heavily embedded in in Sudan and the [00:38:28] Congo as well. Um yeah, so again, Taiwan [00:38:33] doesn't need its own lobby. Ukraine will [00:38:36] get unconditional support within certain [00:38:39] parameters without its own lobby. Um [00:38:43] yeah, so I don't know. I just [00:38:45] fundamentally disagree uh with the ZOG [00:38:49] argument because it doesn't make sense [00:38:51] for the entirety of the US system. So to [00:38:53] pick and choose kind of seems [00:38:55] disingenuous from my perspective as [00:38:58] well. Um yeah. So I mean it just it just [00:39:02] encompasses a tiny fraction of you know [00:39:07] what we're looking at. And and if you [00:39:08] look at the whole ZOG theory, it's like, [00:39:10] okay, we've used Israel all across the [00:39:13] world to do our dirty work from [00:39:15] Guatemala, from overthrowing communists [00:39:18] or like to fighting the sand Sandinistas [00:39:20] to, you know, helping us organize death [00:39:23] squads in, you know, Guatemala, stuff [00:39:27] like that. And you know they were [00:39:29] intermediary to sell arms to Iran during [00:39:34] the contra because we didn't want Iran [00:39:36] to like completely cave to Saddam during [00:39:40] the war because they were virantly [00:39:42] especially at the time super [00:39:44] anti-communist because uh communists [00:39:47] were like no USSR wanted Persia. They [00:39:50] were like no religion. Well, that's not [00:39:52] entirely true, but um yeah, so that's [00:39:55] why we have always used them as an [00:39:57] intermediary. And again, it only [00:39:59] explains a fraction a fraction of US um [00:40:04] foreign policy. Um yeah, so someone says [00:40:08] Ukraine is not a good example. Okay, [00:40:12] Ukraine is literally the Kazar nomad [00:40:15] step. Oh, we're not doing Kazar theory. [00:40:18] Okay, we're getting back to Gaza because [00:40:19] we're getting into some uh not chill [00:40:22] territory. But um here we go. Basically, [00:40:27] here's the state of play uh going going [00:40:30] continuing on in Gaza. The humanitarian [00:40:32] situation is at its worst point since [00:40:35] ever, right? With 122 Palestinians dying [00:40:38] of starvation in recent weeks, according [00:40:41] to the health ministry, uh the [00:40:43] Palestinian death toll since the war [00:40:44] stands at nearly 60,000 according to [00:40:47] Axios News. We know that to be um way [00:40:51] higher than that. There's a reason why [00:40:53] the Office of Director of National [00:40:54] Intelligence and why Trump says there's [00:40:57] 1.8 million, sometimes 1.9 million uh [00:41:01] people in Gaza. Well, okay, cool. You [00:41:04] guys keep misspeaking. Where do the [00:41:06] other you know [00:41:09] 4 million.3 million go? So I a lot of [00:41:13] people are out unaccounted uh for and [00:41:16] buried in the rubble. [00:41:18] But even you know these Zionist articles [00:41:22] uh well even in these axias news uh [00:41:24] written by let me see let's pull it up [00:41:26] Barack Ravid. [00:41:28] Yeah it says you know nearly all western [00:41:30] leaders have been urging Israel with [00:41:32] increasing desperation. They're not [00:41:34] desperate. They're just trying to cover [00:41:35] their ass to stop the fighting and allow [00:41:37] in more aid by making Trump's finish the [00:41:40] job message all the more jarring. By [00:41:42] contrast, the humanitarian catastrophe [00:41:44] that we are witnessing in Gaza must end [00:41:48] now. France, Germany, and the UK said in [00:41:51] a joint statement Friday, "Withholding [00:41:54] essential humanitarian assistance to [00:41:56] civilian population is unacceptable." [00:41:59] Now, of course, France, Germany, and the [00:42:01] UK have been giving uh running political [00:42:03] cover and giving limited unlimited [00:42:06] support [00:42:08] uh to Israel up until now because it's [00:42:11] completely unavoidable what's happening. [00:42:13] So, the bottom line is Israel and the US [00:42:16] are together in a diplomatic island seen [00:42:18] by many of their allies as jointly [00:42:20] responsible for the dire situation. At [00:42:23] least some in the administration [00:42:25] acknowledged privately that their [00:42:26] strategy hasn't worked, but they hadn't [00:42:27] yet decided how whether or how to change [00:42:29] it. They are not going to change it. [00:42:31] They are currently in a loop playing for [00:42:33] time. And now [00:42:36] it's getting worse because for the first [00:42:37] time, Israeli human rights groups say [00:42:39] Israel is committing genocide in Gaza [00:42:41] and calls for international [00:42:42] intervention. Of course, a lot of most [00:42:46] Israelis hate Betelum and positions for [00:42:49] human rights. Um but this is the first [00:42:52] time any uh Israeli human rights group [00:42:56] of any significant clout has dis uh has [00:42:59] described this as a genocide. Now I [00:43:02] would like to point out one thing a lot [00:43:04] of people haven't don't really consider [00:43:08] if Israel if hypothetically and I've [00:43:11] said from the beginning I don't think [00:43:12] it's going to work. [00:43:14] just [00:43:16] I wouldn't I haven't heard a single [00:43:19] explanation how genocide could be [00:43:21] effectuated and Israel still exists [00:43:25] but of course we're living in [00:43:26] unprecedented times. I would just like [00:43:28] to point out that they delete a [00:43:30] significant portion of their uh [00:43:32] population both in Gaza in the West Bank [00:43:35] and in Israel proper itself because [00:43:37] after Gaza in the West Bank they're [00:43:38] coming for Palestinian uh or [00:43:41] ArabIsraelis [00:43:43] uh who are not Jewish. Um what exactly [00:43:47] would the state look like? Would people [00:43:49] stay there? Would they still have an [00:43:51] economy? Would people go to vacation in [00:43:55] Israel ever again? How would the state [00:43:59] survive? [00:44:00] I I haven't I haven't heard an [00:44:03] explanation for how that would happen. [00:44:05] And of course, there's no long-term [00:44:06] thinking here. Netanyahu, who is in [00:44:09] control of the government, wants to take [00:44:12] the summer to solidify his political [00:44:15] position [00:44:16] in order to be unassailable for his [00:44:18] Supreme Court charges. [00:44:20] Then he will actually try along with his [00:44:23] m [00:44:25] in an effort to keep Smootrich and Ben [00:44:27] Gavir and the far-right power base on [00:44:31] his side. He will attempt in some way [00:44:34] this voluntary migration scheme. [00:44:38] What will happen to Israel after that? [00:44:40] Say Gaza is deleted. The tourist [00:44:43] industry is gone. Pariah stayed. People [00:44:45] will move back. at least a lot of the [00:44:48] liberal Zionists in Tel Aviv, small [00:44:50] businesses and foreign investment. [00:44:52] I don't know. Um [00:44:55] we're we have a precedent for South [00:44:58] Africa and now this is something [00:45:00] everybody knows about. So their economy [00:45:02] is already in shreds. Um [00:45:06] we've seen Intel pull out of a huge [00:45:09] deal. Of course, you know, Nvidia's [00:45:11] thinking about investing a lot of their [00:45:14] infrastructure in Israel. I think if [00:45:17] Nvidia pulls out of their deal, we know [00:45:19] how this is going. So, [00:45:22] how how does it how does it continue? I [00:45:25] I think like when we look at this [00:45:28] darkest perspective, this is the darkest [00:45:30] hour of the war so far. [00:45:36] What is the endgame? No one, no policy [00:45:40] maker [00:45:42] has articulated an endgame or a viable [00:45:45] endgame beyond genocide. But how does [00:45:48] the state exist? Israel is a country [00:45:49] with no strategic depth [00:45:52] economy. And that's just not militarily. [00:45:55] The strategic depth they have is because [00:45:56] we can give them bombs and do mass [00:45:59] logistical Roman Empire style logistical [00:46:01] miracles [00:46:03] to give them [ __ ] [00:46:06] But beyond that, there's small tiny [00:46:08] country, no standoff between the [00:46:11] industrial centers and the front lines, [00:46:14] not a not a huge economy, especially [00:46:16] when you're taking out hundreds of [00:46:17] thousands of reservists out of the [00:46:19] workforce and not uh and then employing [00:46:23] employing them in a multi-year war of [00:46:26] attrition. [00:46:28] You know, they they do their [00:46:29] military-industrial complex is deeply [00:46:32] embedded with ours. [00:46:35] But again, we have to we we have to keep [00:46:39] in mind in some revolutionary optimism [00:46:41] here. [00:46:43] How did it end in Vietnam for the [00:46:45] empire? How did the global war on terror [00:46:48] end? The US is great at causing [00:46:51] destruction, destroying governments, [00:46:53] annihilating militaries, and then what? [00:46:57] fighting forever war counterinsurgencies [00:47:01] that make a lot of rich people a lot of [00:47:04] money until it becomes politically and [00:47:07] economically unviable and then they pull [00:47:09] out. Yeah. And then Israelis themselves, [00:47:13] there's the also the cultural depth. You [00:47:15] know, their one thing was I'm Israeli. I [00:47:17] have like three different passports and [00:47:18] like I travel the world and I'm rich and [00:47:21] my producer is accidentally trying to [00:47:22] come on. Um so I think Yeah. [00:47:27] We we don't know how this is going to [00:47:30] end. We just know that they're playing [00:47:31] for time. [00:47:33] This would happen under Harris, probably [00:47:34] a little bit less egregiously. I don't [00:47:36] actually know. She's actually a bigger [00:47:37] Iran hawk than Trump. But just remember [00:47:42] these bestlaid plans by these policy [00:47:44] makers. These people are so smart and [00:47:46] control all the military. When when has [00:47:49] it worked out? And what would Israel [00:47:52] look like without a Palestinian [00:47:55] population? [00:47:56] How does it survive? If someone could [00:47:58] give me like a working theory, I'd be [00:48:00] like, "Okay, it's possible." But like [00:48:02] right now, um I don't know. There Israel [00:48:06] is kind of like that. What's the [00:48:07] cartoon? Coyote runs off a cliff, keeps [00:48:10] running and running and running, and he [00:48:13] doesn't fall until he actually looks [00:48:14] down. Second they look down, they um [00:48:18] they're done. So anyways, sorry. Woo! [00:48:21] Unconventional episode. Let's get into [00:48:23] some questions. All right. [00:48:26] Someone's like Sanders is a fascist. [00:48:29] He's a liberal Zionist. I was at the No [00:48:31] Kings protest in DC. [00:48:34] And someone was like, one of the [00:48:36] organizers was like, you know, [00:48:39] Republicans are fascists. And I was [00:48:40] like, you know, I I believe that the [00:48:42] Dems are too. He's like, no, the Dems [00:48:44] are like a neoliberal party of war. And [00:48:48] then I was like, "Okay, but they don't [00:48:50] like every time the fascists do [00:48:53] something, they they feain incompetence. [00:48:56] The King Jeffries, they have all the [00:48:58] leverage. There's nothing we can do." [00:49:01] Um, okay, cool. So, you're going to be [00:49:04] like every other liberal party from the [00:49:07] 1930s who be like, you know, they [00:49:09] they're super violent and they they [00:49:10] control everything. What can we do? Um, [00:49:13] so if you like don't resist fascists and [00:49:16] you're elected to do that [00:49:19] and you move further to the right [00:49:21] yourself and you coddle them and you [00:49:24] make excuses for them and you you bungle [00:49:29] the the political gold mine that was [00:49:31] this Epstein case. I don't know. Seems [00:49:34] like liberalism has failed. You're [00:49:36] either a fascist or a socialist now. So [00:49:39] um I don't disagree. I think we can be [00:49:41] very disciplined in our characterization [00:49:44] of these people. So, [00:49:48] let's see what we got. It's almost like [00:49:50] the richest and the most powerful people [00:49:52] on the planet all know each other. I [00:49:54] mean, I think the Epstein [00:49:56] case kind of like really demonstrates [00:49:58] that, right? um you know the the most [00:50:01] wealthy business families in the world [00:50:04] you know whether they're from the United [00:50:05] States or France or the UK or India or [00:50:08] CH well China's a little bit more [00:50:10] complicated but yeah they all know each [00:50:12] other they all have some sort of [00:50:13] business even if they don't like each [00:50:14] other but um what else we got economy of [00:50:18] genocide [00:50:20] still to still vote for red or blue is [00:50:23] an imperial example of Einstein's [00:50:25] definition of extanity doth butter no [00:50:28] parnips Yeah. Okay. So, you you you [00:50:33] can't know what your protest [00:50:34] accomplished because nobody will ever [00:50:36] say they acted differently because of [00:50:37] public pressure. H [00:50:41] uh the Dems did nothing for eight years, [00:50:42] bro. Under Hill, don't go through don't [00:50:46] go through customs with that profile [00:50:48] with that profile picture. I hear [00:50:50] they're trying to interrogate people for [00:50:52] JD Vance memes right now. You know, this [00:50:56] is this is actually really stupid of [00:50:58] them because even though Mike Huckabe, [00:51:00] the evangelical [00:51:01] uh right now I pulled up Israel Zionism [00:51:04] has just bombed a Christian church in [00:51:06] Gaza, Palestine land. [00:51:09] Um my partner her uh her oh her her [00:51:13] grandmother actually just brought up [00:51:17] Gaza because of this. like even through [00:51:20] her circles she heard that Israel is [00:51:22] doing this. Alienating the the Christian [00:51:25] right is probably not the the move to [00:51:28] make, but they're so rapidly unhinged in [00:51:30] their quest for um complete domination [00:51:33] and control of the land. Even though [00:51:34] they're moving way too fast, I know it [00:51:37] it's it's it's absolutely insane. But [00:51:40] the he the thing you have to understand [00:51:42] is these Christians, they can bomb kill [00:51:44] as many Palestinian Christians as they [00:51:47] want. They can destroy literally every [00:51:48] church in the Holy Land except the ones [00:51:51] they need for the apocalypse. [00:51:53] And these a lot of these evangelicals [00:51:55] will tow the line. A lot of MAGA will [00:51:58] tow the line. When Trump said, I could [00:52:00] execute like before he was elected for [00:52:02] his first term, I could shoot someone in [00:52:04] the head in Time Square and these people [00:52:06] would still vote for me. Well, [00:52:07] apparently you could be a pedto in Times [00:52:09] Square and these people will still vote [00:52:11] for him. So yeah, if he supports Israel, [00:52:14] they're going to. So yeah, this just [00:52:17] another one of their crimes. Uh all eyes [00:52:20] on the freedom flotillaa deft. Okay. Um [00:52:24] yeah. Uh we should hear soon. I'm not in [00:52:26] contract contact with a control team um [00:52:29] or command team, but we should have [00:52:32] answers soon [00:52:34] freedom for corporations represent [00:52:37] psychopathy and structured form. [00:52:39] Capitalism exists to make profit. [00:52:41] Period. Both serve the greed of [00:52:42] unbridled patriarchy. [00:52:45] Yeah. I mean I mean there's a lot of [00:52:47] philosophical like um exterior to [00:52:51] economic theory. There's a lot of [00:52:53] philosophical theory about how you know [00:52:56] capitalism itself just re just um [00:53:01] rewards sociopathic behavior. I grew up [00:53:04] around finance capitalism. My father uh [00:53:07] was an investment management banker with [00:53:09] a boutique firm that went under in 2008 [00:53:13] during the financial uh collapse. Uh but [00:53:17] yeah, I grew up in that world. You know, [00:53:19] the the mantra was it's not business. [00:53:22] I'm sorry. It's not it's business. It's [00:53:24] not personal or it's not personal. It's [00:53:26] business. Well, when you destroy [00:53:27] someone, you destroy their livelihood. [00:53:30] you know, their, you know, their kids uh [00:53:33] like can no longer afford to go to like [00:53:35] the same school or, you know, anything. [00:53:38] It's it's pretty personal. So, like [00:53:40] literally these hedge fund managers are [00:53:44] looking at Gaza because I I know I grew [00:53:46] up around. They're looking at Gaza and [00:53:49] they're like, "This is terrible. This is [00:53:51] absolutely horrific." But this is [00:53:54] business. It's not personal. We have a [00:53:57] fiduciary responsibility [00:53:59] to turn a profit for our shareholders to [00:54:03] maximize profit for our shareholders [00:54:06] and there's nothing beyond that. That is [00:54:09] the ideology [00:54:11] that all these people have because they [00:54:14] were conditioned because a lot of them [00:54:16] come from generational wealth. So they [00:54:17] have been conditioned this way and [00:54:20] there's no unsticking them. [00:54:22] You know, they'll say the platitudes. [00:54:25] They may even be disturbed by what's [00:54:26] happening, but they will not be able to [00:54:29] consist in their life, in their [00:54:30] livelihood, in their job, which is most [00:54:32] of their identity, unless they're like, [00:54:34] "Okay, Gaza 2023rd uh 20 2035 project. [00:54:40] Let's start uh RFP request for proposal. [00:54:44] Let's get on on this thing before before [00:54:47] other hedge funds do." So yeah, it [00:54:49] rewards inherently the entire system [00:54:52] rewards psychopathy. Absolutely. [00:54:55] Hey Greg, what's up with Antifa? They've [00:54:57] been really quiet it seems. Any thoughts [00:54:59] on that? Antifa isn't a they it's just [00:55:02] anti-fascist action and it can't be [00:55:04] really infiltrated. I mean we haven't [00:55:06] seen any actions really happen right [00:55:08] now. Um there's no leader, there's no [00:55:12] central committee. [00:55:14] It's just decentralized actors [00:55:17] acting along ideological lines against [00:55:19] fascism. So there's no way to get in [00:55:22] touch with them. Uh there's people I [00:55:24] know who support Antifa who consider [00:55:27] themselves Antifa, but yeah, there [00:55:29] there's no actual organization. So we [00:55:31] might see some stuff. I don't know. [00:55:34] Let's see. [00:55:36] Let me see. Uh what else we got? Menra, [00:55:40] do you agree with the statement that [00:55:41] social [00:55:43] do you agree with the statement that [00:55:45] social democracy is the moderate wing of [00:55:49] fascism? I'm getting tired of social [00:55:51] democrats [00:55:53] pushing reformism and pretending that [00:55:55] the Dems can be pushed left. [00:55:58] Really? Uh I thought they were supposed [00:56:00] to be pushed left when the fire brand [00:56:02] AOC got elected. No, she's pushed right [00:56:05] now because the system she she's now [00:56:08] deeply embedded into the system. She no [00:56:09] longer hears Congresswoman AOC. She [00:56:12] hears Senator Cortez, [00:56:15] Speaker of the House Cortez. [00:56:18] No, she's become addicted and infatuated [00:56:21] with her position in the machine. And [00:56:24] you know, they all hang out with each [00:56:26] other. They all know each other. you [00:56:27] know, they may, [00:56:29] you know, attack each other on Twitter [00:56:31] or whatever, but like behind closed [00:56:34] doors, [00:56:35] they really know how to express class [00:56:37] consciousness, you know. Um, Kimberly [00:56:41] Gilfoil, Trump's ambassador to Greece, [00:56:44] who he just appointed as his MAGA [00:56:46] ambassador to Greece, is the ex-wife of [00:56:50] Gavin Newsome, who's going to be [00:56:52] probably heading the Democratic ticket [00:56:54] for presidency in 2028. Gavam Newsen, it [00:56:57] was reported by, I believe it was the [00:56:58] Financial Times, is actively getting [00:57:01] campaign advice [00:57:03] from Kimberly Gilfoil. [00:57:06] So, social democracy, [00:57:08] uh, different from democratic socialism. [00:57:10] I still have problems with democratic [00:57:12] socialism. I don't think it's far-left [00:57:14] enough, but that's that's me. Um, social [00:57:17] democracy is yes, we can reform the [00:57:19] Democratic party. We can reform [00:57:20] capitalism into something more [00:57:22] equitable. The problem with that is you [00:57:24] have to do it under the power structures [00:57:26] controlled by the boogeoisi or the [00:57:29] elite. So um pro the problem is they [00:57:34] control the apparatus of state violence. [00:57:36] They get to they get to determine what [00:57:38] kind of protest is acceptable, what kind [00:57:41] is violence is good or bad, what kind of [00:57:45] political action and discourse can be [00:57:47] tolerated. So I don't know. Good luck [00:57:50] performing. Yeah, they mostly just sheep [00:57:52] dog wannabe progressives. People who [00:57:54] actually want change with false promises [00:57:56] that they can. Their function really [00:57:58] isn't. And whether or not they believe [00:58:00] this or not, but their performative [00:58:02] function is to block actually [00:58:05] progressive movements from access to [00:58:07] political power because they promise, [00:58:09] hey, we have this established hierarchy. [00:58:12] we have this established, you know, [00:58:14] structure that we can use to fight the [00:58:16] fascists, [00:58:18] which they don't use. But people see [00:58:20] that and it's like, okay, it's already [00:58:21] in place. Maybe we can work to reform it [00:58:24] instead of building an alternative power [00:58:27] structure, which is scary, which is [00:58:30] complicated, [00:58:31] which actually will take a lot more [00:58:33] people being on board with that idea. So [00:58:36] instead, people get intimidated and they [00:58:38] go to social democracy instead of more [00:58:40] progressive politics. So, [00:58:43] hey Greg, I'm an hour south of Palanteer [00:58:46] Jewish Bors for Peace recently protested [00:58:48] at their uh at their location downtown. [00:58:51] Awesome. Awesome. Let me let me just [00:58:53] scan through some of these. We're out [00:58:55] out of time, but [00:58:57] okay. Stop arguing about labels. Fascist [00:58:59] going to fascist no matter what they [00:59:01] call themselves. Haven't heard. [00:59:04] Isn't imperialism fascistic? Oh yes. you [00:59:08] know, um, we I like to say I like to [00:59:11] envision fascism as imperialism turned [00:59:14] in on itself. Um, because I I was just [00:59:18] talking about this a couple weeks ago. [00:59:21] The same issues that we had in [00:59:23] Afghanistan [00:59:25] that some military act units were doing [00:59:29] are like the same thing ISIS is doing [00:59:30] right now. You know, they were told, "Go [00:59:32] hit targets. Go find the Taliban." But [00:59:34] they're like, "We don't have any [00:59:36] intelligence on where they might be." So [00:59:38] they'll be like, "All right, we'll come [00:59:39] up with targets." So it's like lit with [00:59:43] the same tactics, the same military [00:59:45] equipment in Afghanistan. We're just [00:59:46] doing it over here. So yeah, fascism [00:59:49] basically looks like imperialism but on [00:59:51] our own home ground. And I just wanted [00:59:54] to address this one um thing. I met [00:59:58] corridors why bricks cannot succeed. [01:00:00] India is in the pocket of the USA. [01:00:02] Russia sold a ton of oil to India in [01:00:05] exchange of worthless rupees. One of the [01:00:07] biggest Russian blunders. I don't know [01:00:09] about that deal uh specifically. But I [01:00:12] will say as someone who loves India, who [01:00:15] lived in India, that government's trash [01:00:18] and way too many people believe in the [01:00:20] BJP and their Hindu fascist BS and they [01:00:24] are the weakest link in BRICS. And [01:00:28] they're they're one of the biggest ways [01:00:30] that we know that bricks is burdened [01:00:34] under the weight of like its [01:00:35] contradictions. Uh so India is the [01:00:39] biggest problematic uh part of bricks in [01:00:41] my opinion as someone who has many [01:00:42] Indian friends. Um yeah [01:00:46] I actually might do an episode on India [01:00:48] because that's actually a really [01:00:49] important point. So anyways guys, sorry [01:00:53] this was kind of a schizophrenic episode [01:00:55] but we tried to do something new. Um, [01:00:58] hope it was helpful to some people. May [01:01:00] have not been. We're back to our [01:01:02] standard format Thursday. Don't know [01:01:05] what we're going to be talking about. [01:01:06] The latest catastrophe probably with [01:01:08] some people from the Mint Press staff. [01:01:12] So, hope to see you there. It's Monday. [01:01:15] Welcome back to the Salt Mines. You got [01:01:18] more work ahead of you this week. So, [01:01:21] cheers y'all. Uh, thanks for stopping [01:01:23] by. And yeah, someone says uh India had [01:01:28] a great past and we'll have a great [01:01:30] future past Modi and Dufa. Hopefully we [01:01:33] can only pray. All right, guys. See you. [01:01:37] Cheers.