Episode 61: Imperial Hegemony (EDS Part 4)
Added 2022-07-30 02:05:44 +0000 UTCWe discuss the concepts of hegemony and empire in relation to the USA!
[We updated the file after a slightly incomplete file was missing...basically without the very brief intro]
This is Episode 4 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
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
Comments
I can't remember if this is the right episode, as I didn't have a chance to post these two thoughts immediately after listening, but they were stimulated by either the third or fourth in this series. While DeGaulle would be happy with anything discomfiting the Anglo-Saxons, the accumulation of gold under his presidency could also be interpreted as a resumption of French interwar monetary policy. As I recall, they were sitting on a hefty pile of gold at the time of the 1929 Crash, and just kept at adding to it for a while afterward. The British working class was fairly anti-imperialist in sentiment at least up to the Indian 'Mutiny', and probably into the last quarter of the nineteenth century. (One could propose that the popular racism of Britain might be anti-imperialist in origin rather than in pro-imperialist ideas of an inherent White Supremacy.) Also, if Corelli Barnett is to be believed, in the empire's autumnal phase after 1918 by all accounts the only genuinely profitable part under direct rule was Malaya.
Paul Brewer
2023-12-06 04:31:42 +0000 UTCAlthough I question the utility of theory when discussing human activity (in part because it smacks of determinism, although if presented as “if-then” or contingent then I suppose it avoids this pitfall), this was outstanding especially as historical overview of the interplay between theory & events & of the former’s development in light of the latter. 👏
William Stearns
2023-09-02 20:01:08 +0000 UTCPeter Phillips has an interesting list in his book Giants
Aaron Good
2022-12-04 16:08:10 +0000 UTCWe need an "enemies of the people" list (database), starting with David Rockefeller.
Sean Atkinson
2022-12-03 18:57:42 +0000 UTCTheory?- What theory, we just need to start pointing fingers. The CIA/DIA are just the way the aristocracy bypasses elections.
Sean Atkinson
2022-12-03 18:56:41 +0000 UTCIt is definitely a key example. We do talk about them at different points in the book, so stay tuned for this in later episodes. Further down the road, we are planning to do a Gladio series which will certainly talk about the Years of Lead, P2, and the Moro assassination.
Aaron Good
2022-09-15 22:07:26 +0000 UTCThis is a great series. Thank you! It would be good if you could be incorporate the Italian situation in your analysis. It is a textbook case.
Caterina Strambio De Castillia
2022-09-15 19:27:19 +0000 UTCWell, even Clinton wanted to do some New Deal type stuff, but he was given "the talk" by Rubin and Greenspan...basically told his only choice was to be Reagan.
Aaron Good
2022-08-05 14:38:40 +0000 UTCI think it's wishful thinking to image that US presidents come into office genuinely intending to do some good things or be their own man. These people are very carefully vetted and they have the examples of JFK and Nixon to help them remember who they actually serve.
Cultus Daemon
2022-08-03 19:22:35 +0000 UTCProblem solved
Ken hoop
2022-07-30 17:42:29 +0000 UTCNot getting any sound
Ken hoop
2022-07-30 17:40:54 +0000 UTCThis series is really exciting. Looking forward to the theoretics!
William Toms
2022-07-30 16:27:19 +0000 UTCThank you so much for this awesome theory episode!! I'm working on my thesis on a related topic so this was great to listen to.
Melissa Sanford
2022-07-30 06:28:38 +0000 UTC
