Useful Idiots & Shills Misinform Ppl On Geopolitics

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Half Maximums' Saturday night Lucky Schmuck set from the Tiny Empire Takeover, June 2023.

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Half Maximum - Lucky Schmuck: June 2023

The problem with oppressing a population with maximum force is that at some point they start figuring they've got nothing to lose by fighting back.

Reading by Tim Foley.

A Population With Nothing To Lose

The western press are largely to blame for all this. If they'd just told the truth instead of running "Palestinian child walks into bullet" headlines this whole time and telling everyone that boycotting Israel is genocide, political pressure could've long ago been brought about to force a peaceful and just resolution to this mess.

Reading by Tim Foley.

All This Death Is The Fault Of The Western Press

The Israel-Palestine issue is not complicated; an apartheid regime abuses and oppresses an indigenous ethnic group who don't have the same rights as others. The only reason anyone thinks it's complicated is because they assume if it were simple, the news would've told them so.

Really Israel-Palestine is one of the easier conflicts to understand on the world stage; conflicts like Ukraine or Syria are much more complicated. It's obvious at a glance that there's one group in power and another group being treated very badly by that group, but because the press frames it as a complicated issue with its sympathies wildly slanted toward the apartheid regime, people assume it can't be as simple as what it looks like at first glance.

It is, though. Israel is exactly the abusive apartheid regime it looks like on the surface. Remember this as the bodies pile up and Gaza is turned into a smoldering crater. This is exactly what it looks like.

Reading by Tim Foley.

This Is Exactly What It Looks Like

People are going insane, in the same way they went insane after 9/11. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks there was this shrieking emotional intensity which saw critical thinking go out the window and saw people's minds consumed with a rabid lust for Muslim blood.

Reading by Tim Foley.

People Have A Serious Case Of 9/11 Brain, And It's Scary

The "human shields" argument is just bombing civilians and blaming it on someone else. That's all it's ever been.

The "human shields" argument is like if London had responded to an IRA attack by dropping thousands of bombs on Belfast, killing thousands of Irish civilians and hundreds of children, and justifying its bombing campaign by calling it an unfortunate but necessary measure to take out the IRA's Belfast Brigade because they're located in the same places as civilians.

It's like if the western political/media class defended and supported the carpet bombing of Belfast, saying "All those thousands of deaths are the fault of the IRA, because they're in Belfast where the civilians are. England has a right to defend itself, after all."

It's like if Belfast was walled in with nowhere for civilians to escape to, and London carpet bombed it targeting schools, churches and hospitals, and the western press framed this relentless assault on civilian buildings as "the UK-IRA war" in which London is exclusively bombing "IRA targets in Belfast".

It's like if the British spent a week dropping military explosives on locations it knew were packed with Irish children, and anyone who criticized this was accused of anti-Britishism and blood libel.

And to be clear this is not something I'd put past the British actually doing during the Troubles… if the Irish were Muslim and their skin was a little darker.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Bombing Kids And Blaming It On Hamas

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You see kids, Israel needs to keep dropping bombs on buildings full of children and targeting civilians with siege warfare and murdering Palestinians in the West Bank and censoring the media and arresting dissidents and killing journalists, because if it doesn't, the bad guys will win.

No no you don't understand: if Israel stops killing children by the thousands in its relentless bombing campaign, the nation could be taken over by murderous terrorists.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If Israel Stops Murdering Thousands Of Children, The Bad Guys Might Win

How high does the pile of mutilated and dismembered children need to be before it's high enough? Give me a specific height please, in meters or in yards.

Reading by Tim Foley.

How Much Killing Is Enough Killing?

They don't have truth on their side, and they don't have morality on their side, so all they can ever do is attack the sources of the ideas and information that are opening people's eyes to the criminality of Israel and its western allies.

Reading by Tim Foley.

All Israel Apologists Have Is Ad Hominem Attacks

It’s okay to admit you were wrong about this. It’s okay to change your mind.

It’s okay to admit you reacted inappropriately to the news of what happened on October 7 and advocated some Israeli responses that you should not have advocated.

It’s okay to admit that you were wrong to cheer when the bombs started landing on Gaza.

It’s okay to admit you were wrong about the longstanding debate over Palestinian rights.

It’s okay to admit that you shared some things online that you now regret sharing.

I say this because there are probably a lot of pro-Israel people looking at what’s happening in Gaza and starting to feel a bit dissonant about it. Like maybe they’re on the wrong side of this thing after all.

And I just want to reassure you that you can change your position on this. It’s perfectly fine and normal to do so.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Okay To Admit You Were Wrong About Gaza

The thing is there's only so much propaganda spin you can put on the murder of thousands of children.

With other imperial military actions the propagandists had an easier time spinning things. Oh no those evil communists are taking over Vietnam, we need to stop them! Oh no Saddam's got WMDs, we need to get him! Oh no Gaddafi's gonna kill and rape all those Libyans, we have a responsibility to protect them!

In Gaza, Israel and its western backers are massacring children by the thousands with a shockingly vicious bombing campaign that is turning entire neighborhoods into gravel. They're raining down military explosives on a giant concentration camp that is densely populated by children. There's only so much a propagandist can do with that.

Reading by Tim Foley.

There's Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put On The Murder Of Thousands Of Children

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Extremist Javier Milei won Argentina's presidential election on a far-right platform, pledging to abolish most government ministries, abandon monetary sovereignty, and adopt the US dollar, while cutting ties with China and withdrawing from BRICS. Ben Norton explains how a history of debt and colonialism keeps the South American nation trapped in seemingly endless crisis.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FN6hoIb-QqA

Check out our article "How Argentina has been trapped in neocolonial debt for 200 years: An economic history": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/18/argentina-neocolonial-debt-history

Our related video "Global debt is unpayable: How Wall Street traps poor countries, profiting rich ones": https://youtube.com/watch?v=WRkhWQ0sRn4

Judicial coup in Argentina: Corrupt judges conspire with media oligarchs to ban Cristina Kirchner from office: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/08/judicial-coup-argentina-cristina-kirchner


TOPICS
0:00 Meet Javier Milei
7:54 History of debt traps
13:38 Sergio Massa and Peronists
19:27 Economist Ha-joon Chang on dollarization
22:27 Cut ties with China and Brazil?
24:51 Far-right "libertarianism"
27:55 Inflation, IMF, and foreign debt
30:46 Alberto Fernández surrenders to IMF
33:58 Investocracy: Rule by foreign investors
38:09 Exports and imports
39:35 Dependency theory
43:09 Protectionism and kicking away the ladder
46:28 Past failed dollarization schemes
52:56 Outro

How extremist Javier Milei became Argentina's president: A story of debt, crisis, and empire

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

There's Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put On The Murder Of Thousands Of Children

Caitlin Johnstone

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