Brace makes an NFT: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/104503460708576514723677294791054914639824523807549586153085114764453373542401

Episode 145: New F*ckin Trueanon

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We welcome back Ben (twitter.com/housetrotter) and Aaron Good (twitter.com/aaron_good_) for the penultimate episode in our JFK series, talkin Jack Ruby, LBJ, the lyin fake news Warren Commission and more

Episode 158: JFK 101 (Pt. 5 of ???) [teaser]

This episode of TGOFV is a joint partnership with Podcast About List LLC. Spencer, Ty (@bobo_circus), and Andy (@Ex_AnarchoAnon) are joined by the PAL Boys (Patrick, Caleb, & Cameron) to celebrate 100 patrons and talk about a pretty good show that has been unfairly maligned by the culture.

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The Nutshack (feat. Pod About List)

The idea that there exists an ongoing effort to achieve a “two-state solution” in Israel and Palestine - often referred to as The Middle East Peace Process™ - is uniformly taken for granted by American media. This "two-state solution" is always at different stages of viability, yet never quite works out. Presidents fail to achieve it; Palestinian violence makes it "more difficult"; Israeli settlements are "unhelpful" to it.

Transcript: https://medium.com/@CitationsPodcst/episode-28-the-asymptotic-two-state-solution-part-i-e13e795ebc9d

But how honest is this effort? How are nonstop obituaries for a phantom "process" helping to maintain the status quo, or worse? How much does this infinitely regressive effort deliberately mask an ongoing and active policy of ethnic cleansing by the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza? 

In Part I of this two-part episode, we discuss this "two-state" racket with Professor Noura Erakat.

(Post image by Hamde Abu Rahma)

Episode 28: The Asymptotic 'Two State Solution' (Part I)

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17 years ago, less than one month after the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001, weaponized anthrax was sent through the mail in a biological attack that stunned an already traumatized nation. The first American died from anthrax infection on October 5th. During the weeks that followed, letters sent through the US postal system containing anthrax were targeted at US media organizations and sitting US senators. In the end, five people were left dead--two US postal workers, a Florida photojournalist, a New York city hospital worker and a 95 year old widow in Connecticut. Over 22 people were hospitalized from exposure. Many dozens more tested positive for anthrax in the months that followed. 

It was a one-two punch of guttural horror. Americans were already glued to their television sets, watching 24/7 coverage of planes exploding and iconic skyscrapers crumbling. Over and over, we watched thousands perish. But terrorism was still abstract to those removed from the tragedy. The anthrax attacks changed that, localizing the fear of terrorism to everyone––even your grandma living in the suburbs of Connecticut. Anyone could get a letter. Anyone could be the next target. 

With the remains of the World Trade Center still smoldering, the Bush administration made several attempts to connect Saddam Hussein to 9/11. The anthrax attacks gave them the perfect opportunity to piggyback ‘weapons of mass destruction’ fears on a very real bioweapons attack. They used willing reporters as instruments to tie nonexistent bentonite from the anthrax letters to Saddam’s nonexistent weapons cache. Journalist stenographers in DC were the conduit for government propaganda, hyping up the threat of terrorism. The anthrax attacks justified the fear-mongering that 9/11 was not simply a one-off incident, and that terrorism was America’s new normal. 

Not since the Zodiac killer letters had Americans been subjected to such strange visual threats like the block text in short lines that the anthrax letters read: “ARE YOU AFRAID? YOU DIE NEXT.. DEATH TO AMERICA, DEATH TO ISRAEL. ALLAH IS  GREAT.” 

The letters were almost a parody of an islamic terrorist. But who was actually behind the attack? Who had the expertise necessary to secretly manufacture and then distribute weaponized anthrax spores?  Who had the motive? 

In this special episode of Media Roots Radio, after conducting extensive research from public documents, tv news archives, wire stories, first hand interviews and eye witness accounts, myself and Robbie Martin will tell the story of the 2001 anthrax attacks, what preceded them, what happened during the investigation and how this seemingly small event was instrumental in selling the Iraq war, shaping the reality tunnel we live in now. In Part 1 of our investigation, we start with a chronology of the lead up to the attacks and a blow by blow account of how they unfolded.

Show Notes & References: 

Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy by Philipp Sarasin

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme Macqueen

The Anthrax Letters by Leonard A. Cole

GERMS: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad

American Anthrax by Jeanne Guillemin

The Mirage Man: Bruce Ivins, the Anthrax Attacks & America's Rush to War by David Willman

FRONTLINE: The Anthrax Files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLqFihXFyc&t=3s

TLC: Anthrax Detectives
https://youtu.be/HcyYh_QDY74

Thom Hartmann Program: The Untold Story of the 2001 Anthrax Attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKGtF3zmrvc

CBC: Anthrax Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PquqlX8wnT0

American Anthrax 1.5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqU7dXEirU

Marcy Wheeler: Anthrax Timeline (revision 2) 
https://www.emptywheel.net/2008/08/06/anthrax-timeline-two/

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Schrödinger's  Super Patriot : The 2001 Anthrax Mystery,  Pt 1 of 2

To escape the subordination of politics to theology under the church, Machiavelli creates a new kind of strictly political normativity, leaving morality behind. We examine why Machiavelli had to do this, and how this leads to new liberal moral theories, like the one Adam Smith describes in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. Featuring Augustine, Dante, and Kant

Machiavelli, Smith, and the Separation of Politics and Morality

In this episode of SPS, Sophia and Pamela discuss the moral panic surrounding Netflix's new film, Cuties (2020), and take up the responses by Spiked Online and Jacobin magazine. Platypus members Marco Torres and David Faes join us to reflect on Polanski's critically-acclaimed J'Accuse (2019)and how it speaks to the present. In the final segment, Sophia interviews Jack Conrad from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). They consider how the 'Left' uses and abuses Karl Kautsky's legacy in order to avoid Kautsky's Marxism and discuss what the CPGB is up to.

If you want to learn more about Platypus, and get involved, read the Platypus review, visit us on Facebook under the Platypus Affiliated Society or visit www.platypus1917.org. You can follow us on Instagram: ShitPlatypusSays, and on Twitter: @PlatypusSays. If you like the podcast, share it, rate it, and write us a review.

Mentioned: 
(0) Theodor W. Adorno, "Sexual Taboos and the Law Today" (1963)
https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/readings/adorno_sexualtaboostoday.pdf
(1) Brendan O'Neill, Cuties Review
 https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/15/in-defence-of-cuties/
(2) Eileen Jones, Cuties Review 
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/cuties-scandal-netflix-controversy-french-movie

 (3) The Spartacist League on Polanski, “Stop the Puritan Witchhunt Against Roman Polanski!” printed in the Workers Vanguard, No. 192, 10 February 1978
https://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/944/polanski.html 

(4) Platypus' 'Kautsky in the 21st Century' Panel (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2TWNd1ntc
(5) Communist Party of Great Britain's website
https://communistparty.co.uk
(6) The CPGB's Weekly Worker website
https://weeklyworker.co.uk
(7) The CPGB's Communist University 2020
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOkaFWQNpCTrQfT65UszE4A

Hosted by Pamela C., Sophia F., with editing assistance by Michael Woodson, Audrey Crescenti and music from Tamas Vilaghy.

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Ep. 28: On Cuties, Polanski & the "Pope of Marxism"

Andrew, Lucy, and Ben are joined by friend of the show, pervert, and Business Insider Australia editor JR Hennessy to talk about the ongoing fight between Australia's news publishers and the big boys over at Google and Facebook. In addition to this: using the secret to kill Donald Trump, and eels.
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EPISODE 169: Walter Reed Buy Sell Swap (Feat. JR Hennessy)

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What would it mean to take climate change as seriously as it demands to be taken? What kinds of political action are adequate to the climate crisis? Why are states acting so slowly, and so inadequately? And why is the climate movement so wedded to a near-absolute pacifism? Andreas Malm, author of one of the most penetrating accounts of carbon capitalism, thinks he knows why – and what is to be done. In a new polemic, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, he makes an urgent call for the climate justice movement to take radical action against the infrastructure of death – before it's too late. He joins James Butler to discuss. The two Catholic Worker activists mentioned in the episode, Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya, face over 100 years each in prison. The Climate Focus is part of Novara Media’s Decade Project, an inquiry into the defining issues of the 2020s. The Decade Project is generously supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (London Office). https://novaramedia.com/?p=28949

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#NovaraFM: The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow up a Pipeline

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BONUS: Live At Palma's

In this special episode of SPS, we discuss Joe Biden's inauguration and the relationship between Art and the capitalist state. Professional creative artists are facing unemployment at rates well above the national average. We take up the proposals for WPA-style intervention, a Ministry of Culture, and a White House Office for Culture. In the second half, we consider the artist Brad Troemel and his attempt to reinterpret “Liberal Cringe” into meme art.

Images and videos for this episode can be found at: https://caesuramag.org/montezsps01292021

SPS is a production of the Platypus Affiliated Society, more at: https://platypus1917.org/

 
Links for this episode:
 
Alison Hewitt Ward, 2010, RIP Art Trump
https://caesuramag.org/posts/rip-trump-art
 
Letter of resignation from the President's Committee on the Arts & the Humanities (2017)
https://twitter.com/kalpenn/status/898547257062174724/photo/1
 
Chris Cutrone, 2010, What was postmodernism? -- Habermas’s critique 
An incomplete project? Art and politics after postmodernism 
http://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/?p=955
 
Platypus Art & Politics syllabus
https://platypus1917.org/2020/06/17/art-and-politics/
 
Brad Troemel, Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/bst
 
Barbra Kruger’s Selfridges campaign in London with Behance,
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58329969/Selfridges-Co-Sale-campaign
 
Ryan Long, 2020, When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
 
Jason Farago, "The Arts Are in Crisis. Here’s How Biden Can Help," New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/arts/design/arts-stimulus-biden.html
 
Susan Buck-Morss, response to Visual culture questionnaire (1996)
https://platypus1917.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/buckmorss_visualcultquest.pdf

Efraim Carlebach, “Forgetting Mark Fisher” Platypus Review 115 (April 2019)
https://platypus1917.org/2019/04/01/forgetting-mark-fisher/
 
Original tracks by Tamas Vilaghy
Hosted by Sophia and Pamela

Ep. 32:  On Brad Troemel, and Art & the Capitalist State

The commentary on the commentary on the Left.

Ep. 32: On Brad Troemel, and Art & the Capitalist State

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