Episode 76: The Imperial Behemoth (EDS Part 12)
Added 2022-09-30 17:58:20 +0000 UTCIn this episode, we begin our historical exploration of the post-World War 2 US empire. As explained in the book and in previous episodes of this history, the history of the post-World War 2 US empire is essentially the history of the US deep state.
This is the 12th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
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Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
[Edit: The original episode file was missing the introduction as well as the final minutes.]
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Jon Croteau
2022-10-01 19:13:53 +0000 UTCAndrew Michael Ramsay (1736) "The noble ardour which you, gentlemen, evince to enter into the most noble and very illustrious Order of Freemasons, is a certain proof that you already possess all the qualities necessary to become members, that is, HUMANITY, PURE MORALS, INVIOLABLE SECRECY, AND A TASTE FOR THE FINE ARTS. Lycurgus, Solon, Numa, and all political legislators have failed to make their institutions lasting. However wise their laws may have been, they have not been able to spread through all countries and ages. As they only kept in view victories and conquests, military violence, and the elevation of one people at the expense of another, they have not had the power to become universal, nor to make themselves acceptable to the taste, spirit, and interest of all nations. Philanthropy was not their basis. Patriotism badly understood and pushed to excess, often destroyed in these warrior republics love and humanity in general. Mankind is not essentially distinguished by the tongues spoken, the clothes worn, the lands occupied, or the dignities with which it is invested. THE WORLD IS NOTHING BUT A HUGE REPUBLIC, OF WHICH EVERY NATION IS A FAMILY, AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL A CHILD. Our Society was at the outset established to revive and spread these essential maxims borrowed from the nature of man. We desire to reunite all men of enlightened minds, gentle manners, and agreeable wit, not only by a love for the fine arts, but much more by the grand principles of virtue, science, and religion, where the interests of the Fraternity shall become those of the whole human race, whence all Nations shall be enabled to draw useful knowledge, and where the subjects of all Kingdoms shall learn to cherish one another without renouncing, their own country. Our ancestors, the Crusaders, gathered together from all parts of Christendom in the Holy Land, desired thus to reunite into one sole Fraternity the individuals of all nations."
Jon Croteau
2022-10-01 19:11:27 +0000 UTCPeter Kuznick's book version of Untold History of the United States is great on this.
Aaron Good
2022-10-01 03:53:57 +0000 UTCAny book recommendations on the history discussed about the Japanese surrender and Manchuria invasion?
Jparisi
2022-10-01 01:19:15 +0000 UTCYeah, Byrnes was a deranged buffoon...
Aaron Good
2022-10-01 01:10:00 +0000 UTCDaniel Yergin - The Prize (series) for anyone interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2hSATHD634
Jon Croteau
2022-09-30 22:33:35 +0000 UTCTruman seems to have had the decency to regret his having approved the creation of these monsters before he died. In 1961, he said “they killed, and I said THEY, [U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarjskold],” on Hammarskjold’s Congo mission. And of course Truman’s December 22, 1963 op-Ed in which he calls for the CIA to be reined in after the JFK assassination. Notably, Sergei Lavrov ended his U.N. speech this week by quoting Hammarskjod, nice dig at the U.S. empire! Excellent presentation, please discuss James F. Byrne’s nefarious influence on Truman, as well.
William T Patton
2022-09-30 19:27:06 +0000 UTC
