David Talbot and Aaron Good on Useful Idiots
Added 2023-06-23 22:50:56 +0000 UTCCheck out our appearance on the Useful Idiots show with Katie Halper and Aaron Mate. We talk about the Kennedy assassinations and RFK Jr's presidential campaign.
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It's crazy how so called leftists like Aaron mate can be so resistant to the idea that the security state is the public institution charged with maintaining the class relationship and the MIC by any means. Like how do they not see that capital has to maintain a veto over democracy in order to keep the DoD money printer going.
Starry Pr1nce
2023-07-06 17:18:51 +0000 UTCI’m not trying to virtue signal my political leaning by using Chomsky or Hersh here - the mostly left or alt-left piece here Luc is unimportant. What I do think is important is that if a few more voices like them had done better/more honest work, it would be much harder for the empire to maintain these myths. If we can laud them for reporting Mai Lai or analyzing communication/linguistics furthering public knowledge and opinion - debunking empire - at times, I think their reluctance to address what many of us instinctively know - has harmed our entire culture because of fragmentation and the killing off of the lefts leaders in 60s and beyond. This hurts the right as well because they have less room to grow and change opinions as the entire country moved to the right in the 80s (forcibly in my opinion). Deregulation, privatization and financialization locked it in as Upton Sinclair notes - a whole generation of neoliberal (mostly white) imperialists not understanding what they are paid to not see - and two notable people like Chomsky and Hersh who could clearly see decided not to - this hurts because of the vacuum of truth tellers during this period who had the peoples respect. And now when you see the likes of Hedges, Klein revising histories to suit a narrative that "elides" truth, well that kind of thing should not be happening if you care about avoiding WW3, or revving down the empire, or establishing new institutions to repair the damage we have done in the last 100 years (like a Department of Peace) - Kucinich etc...
John McElroy
2023-06-24 15:04:23 +0000 UTC
