Episode 60: How the Exception Became the Rule (EDS Part 3)
Added 2022-07-26 01:04:57 +0000 UTCWe discuss the creation of the US national security state and the rise of US exceptionism!
This is Episode 3 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
Great stuff, Aaron & Ben! I do think you're gilding the lily in trying to explain away Brother Malcolm's remarks in the wake of Dallas. Malcolm in '63 was not the Malcolm of '65, so I think he meant (at that time) that what was coming "home to roost" was Kennedy getting what he deserved. Over the last year or so of his life, Malik Shabazz realized his error.
Johnny Case
2022-08-03 02:41:24 +0000 UTCThe reason Germany, Italy and Spain went fascist and the US didn't had everything to do with those European countries having more communists and more class-conscious workers and also the fact that the Soviet Union was a lot closer.
Cultus Daemon
2022-08-01 20:36:46 +0000 UTCThanks, Sam! Big pharma is an arm of the regime. I don't focus much on them because the medical stuff is out of my wheelhouse and regardless I don't want to end up like Whitney Webb...kicked off Patreon. But the fact that the parafascists will destroy one's livelihood over this issue is itself confirmation that it is of ongoing importance to the regime...a regime that cannot plausibly claim to be the guardian of public welfare....
Aaron Good
2022-07-28 16:27:43 +0000 UTC[Pressed return instead of shift and return] Much of this is outlined in RFK jr’s book on Fauci. A great read alongside Aaron’s American Exception.
Sam
2022-07-28 13:21:59 +0000 UTCI don’t think there can be full exposition of the deep state without analysis of the US health agencies and Big Pharma; their iron grip over scientific research, bioweapons, vaccines and biopower control over Africa and vast swathes of the global south; their complex relation with the military and intelligence groups and Wall Street.
Sam
2022-07-28 13:20:08 +0000 UTCThe final part of the discussion, about domestic politics, is what makes Chomsky’s claims that “9/11 doesn’t matter, JFK doesn’t matter,” so infuriating. You cannot have a democracy without addressing, or even god forbid acknowledging these crimes.
Brendan Garcia
2022-07-26 23:40:09 +0000 UTCLooks like Ben forgot to cut out his M. Hudson joke flop 😭 great episode I love this series
Nicholas Kos
2022-07-26 18:14:25 +0000 UTCAhh well welcome to the garden state! https://youtu.be/0Pg8_9c3eUk
NYCM&AHole
2022-07-26 03:02:42 +0000 UTCI'm at the Jersey Shore...but the show goes on!
Aaron Good
2022-07-26 02:39:41 +0000 UTCI thought you were taking a much deserved vacation
NYCM&AHole
2022-07-26 01:28:01 +0000 UTC
