https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlFp1kQ7kbM

There are great female singer/songwriters. Brandy Clark is my favorite. She recently released her 4th album. She's also an out lesbian.

I experienced this in Canada. We danced to Achy Breaky Heart.

For more on the subject, check out this book:  https://www.amazon.com/Id-Fight-World-Political-Hillbilly/dp/0226923002/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

FGL has always been the epitome of middle-class surbanite, poser cowboy pop garbage. Real hicks moving pipe out in the boonies will call you every homophobic slur in the book for listening to this dogshit.

this is like the 1970's version of john occhipinti

I grew up in rural GA, heard country music a lot, but I never liked it, so musically simple and boring, but this overview is fascinating

“Among these central ranges of continental mountains and these great companion parks…lies the pleasure-ground and health-home of the nation,” wrote journalist Samuel Bowles in 1869. “Mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life,” mused naturalist John Muir in 1901. “National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst,” opined writer Wallace Stegner in 1983.

North American and European traditions of conservationism, especially those in the U.S., are endlessly celebrated in Western media, with figures like Teddy Roosevelt and John James Audubon placed at the forefront. They’re not without their merits, especially at a time when some of the world’s most powerful countries refuse to take action on climate change. What often goes underexamined or ignored, though, is the deeply racist, settler-colonial history–and very much still the present– that has informed the “conservationist” movement in the US and much of the North Atlantic.

What have been and still are the ecological and human costs, particularly for Indigenous and Black people in the US, of this settler-colonial ‘conservation’ movement? Why, in the American collective memory, is the ‘conservation movement’ often credited to powerful white figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries, despite the extreme environmental and social destruction that they helped caused? And why should there be a need for a settler-driven conservation movement when the original inhabitants of, what we now know as the US and Canada already very often already had systems of ‘conservationism’ in place?

On this episode, we study the racist origins of Western conservation movements, primarily in the United States; how the conservation movement and romanticization of nature have served the settler-colonial project; how these histories continue to inform certain currents of the mainstream climate activism of the present; and what an inclusive, decolonial understanding of environmental conservation can look like.

Our guest is UConn professor Prakash Kashwan.

Ep 155: How the American Settler-Colonial Project Shaped Popular Notions of 'Conservation'

The Grayzone's Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal interview Michael Tracey live from Madrid, where NATO meets to plan a major escalation in the Ukraine proxy war and admit Sweden and Finland as members.

Guest: Michael Tracey. https://mtracey.substack.com/

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NATO escalates the Ukraine proxy war (w/ Michael Tracey)

Dimitri and Khalid continue discussing Otto Rahn’s downfall, (now #metoo’d) cult filmmaker Richard Stanley’s “The Secret Glory” documentary about Rahn, Stanley pledging himself to a White Lady spirit in Montsegur, traveling to Afghanistan in 1988 to search for ancient Aryan shapeshifters, dropping LSD in a war zone, joining CIA proxy force Hezb-e Islami as a bit, Stanley’s African colonizer great-grandfather Henry Morton Stanley, his witchy Seutheefreken emigré mother, dabbling in Haitian Vodou, LaRouche’s accusations against the synarchist Martinists, possible Lovecraft allusions in Rahn’s writings, and whether we should care about finding the Graal.

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#120b - TRIUMPH OF THE GRAAL: Richard Stanley’s Quest To Become Otto Rahn (Part 2)

In this bumper edition of the Verso podcast we talk to authors Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha about their new book Against Borders: The Case for Abolition. In it we explore what a world without borders might look like and the intricacies of imagining or advocating for that world. We then talk to Zehrah Hasan of JCWI about practical ways we can get involved in building a borderless world for today and tomorrow.

Against Borders: The Case for Abolition is out now: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3983-against-borders?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=author-videos

What comes after we abolish borders? Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha

Dimitri and Khalid continue their discussion with ex-Moonie @Alisa_Mahjoub about Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, including: Mike Flynn’s “I AM” Activity, “Cults, Anti-Cults, and the Cult of Intelligence”, the abusive “deprogramming” industry, Rick Ross, Jolly West and the Cult Awareness Network cult, Ed Lansdale’s Blue Beam plot against Cuba, Elimination by Illumination, Sean Moon’s AR15-toting Rod of Iron Ministries, “Inside The League”, the American Security Council, abandoning the pretense of bourgeois democracy, overlaps between QAnon, Alex Jones, and the Moonies, and more. 

Follow Alisa on Twitter: @Alisa_Mahjoub @no_more_cults

Instagram: @deprogrammingimperialism

How Well Do You Know Your Moon blog: https://howwelldoyouknowyourmoon.tumblr.com

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#131 - BAD MOON RHIZOME, Part Two: Rise of the Contracults (with Alisa Mahjoub)

Prominent French intellectual Emmanuel Todd argues the Ukraine proxy war is the start of WWIII, and is “existential” for both Russia and the US “imperial system”, which has restricted the sovereignty of Europe, making Brussels into Washington's “protectorate”.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=82WPLWEN_9M

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/14/world-war-3-us-russia-china-emmanuel-todd

French ambassador: US ‘rules-based order’ means Western domination, violating international law: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/11/21/gerard-araud-france-us-rules-based-order

CIA and NATO are waging sabotage attacks inside Russia: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/29/cia-nato-sabotage-attacks-russia

'World War 3 has already started' between US and Russia/China, argues French scholar

Historian Aaron Good explains how the CIA organized a coup against Guatemala's democratically elected left-wing President Jacobo Árbenz to stop land reform and help the United Fruit Company (Chiquita today). He also discusses the Dwight Eisenhower administration's policies in Southeast Asia and the Vietnamese national-liberation struggle against French colonialism.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTfMOH-j4Oc

This is PART 15 of the Empire and the Deep State series we are co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

How CIA overthrew Guatemala's elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)

Late release! Jake and the stalker. Plus: Luisa interrupts, they talk mad shit, something about decompartmentalization ... Classic-style WYM! Enjoy!

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The One Where Jake Gets Attacked Again

Polygon's Patrick Gill joins Theo and Ben to discuss: Travelling too far into turtle holes and storm drains, the worst liquid to sit near on a plane, and the best place not to land your hot air balloon.
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EPISODE 304: Please Be Careful As Your Blood May Have Shifted In Flight (with Patrick Gill)

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Charles and Alex contemplate the value of a dinner with Jay Z and speculate about Garth Brooks' new album available exclusively at Bass Pro Shops. Fortune Kit on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fortunekit

181 - Jay Z Weighs In on Dinner with Jay Z

By now, it's largely taken for granted that country music is a racialized signifier, interchangeable with right-wing politics. And it’s not such an unreasonable generalization: the political currents of twanged and drawled patriotic paeans like Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)," and Brooks & Dunn's "Only In America" leave little to the imagination.

But how, exactly, did this come to be? After all, country music, a descendant of the blues, folk, Tejano, and other genres, with connections to labor organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World and social-justice movements, has historically attracted musicians spanning the political spectrum, and didn’t necessarily emerge from such a staunchly right-wing political tradition.

Rather, popular conceptions of country music have long been deliberately shaped by a series of broader ideological projects. Throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, conservative politicians and other right-wing forces have exploited the genre to promote illiberalism, racism, revanchist politics, and runaway anti-intellectualism where not giving a shit about the world beyond one’s own cold beer, pickup truck, old lady is not only acceptable, but actively encouraged and flaunted. 

On this episode, we examine how the genre of country music has been wielded as a tool of reactionary politicking in the US, from the machinations of Henry Ford in the 1920s to the Nixon administration’s Southern Strategy in the 1960s and ‘70s to the heady Shock and Y’all days of the Bush years, and how a once working-class tradition became a cultural cul de sac of worn-out tropes and middle-class, white grievance politics.  

Our guest is writer, editor and artist Alexander Billet.

Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music

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