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A State Made Hell

A State Made Hell

The limited television series thriller (and Zionist propaganda) The Patient evokes the hell that was the Nazi killing center Auschwitz with a direct reference to Victor Frankl’s memoir, Man’s Search for Meaning: “I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about...

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Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s like to work within the world’s premiere intelligence agency. It’s worth a listen. And don’t be intimidated by its 3-hour running time. There are plenty of laughs and it’s a great way to avoid listening to your spouse while you cook dinner or walk the dog. Here are some fun takeaways: 1: Kiriakou and Bustamente are both charming,...

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Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism

Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism

On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least twelve people were killed, mostly teenagers and children. Israel blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah denied the charge and claimed Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome technology malfunctioned and hit the soccer field. On Tuesday, Israel hit the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, with an air strike. The bombing killed civilians and possibly a Hezbollah commander. However, the Golan Heights bombing, which Israel might frame as the “inciting incident” for an...

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You Don’t Want to Get Out of Line…

You Don’t Want to Get Out of Line…

The fallout from the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania continues. Speculation abounds that it was an “inside job,” the head of the Secret Service became “embattled” and resigned, and the assassin’s bullet that just missed the mark killed Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday. Reaction to the assassination attempt has also revealed just how deeply, how fanatically, and how pathologically the Establishment and its minions harbor contempt and hatred for anyone who deviates from their...

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Trump’s Attempted Assassination and the Betrayal of the Heroic Ethos

Trump’s Attempted Assassination and the Betrayal of the Heroic Ethos

On Saturday, former president Donald Trump came within less of an inch of being assassinated by a rooftop sniper during an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A Secret Service counter sniper “neutralized the shooter,” but not before Trump and at least two rally attendees were injured. One rally attendee was killed. The fallout has (and will continue to be) historical. There are a lot of questions being asked right now. Important questions. Disturbing questions. But the botched attempt on Trump’s life has already highlighted something that everyone, especially young men, should know: the...

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The Means of Our Future Horror

The Means of Our Future Horror

Presidential campaign season is in full heat. Given the vast power of the state, the warring identity lines within our society, and the people’s susceptibility to all manner of propagandistic discourse, it’s looking a lot like midnight in America. Americans consume their propaganda the way Walter Benjamin observed people consume art: “Reception in a state of distraction, which is increasing noticeably in all fields of art and is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception, finds in the film its true means of exercise.” It is therefore not surprising that film (and television) deploys...

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A Social Critique of the Judgment of Imperial Taste

A Social Critique of the Judgment of Imperial Taste

Taste is existential. For example, if your tastes include Christianity, homesteading, homeschooling, firearms and dining at Cracker Barrel, the “decent and loyal people of America” will fully support the federal government burning your house down with you and your children in it. The state, viewed as a corporate agent, has its tastes. And it sits at the apex of a social system in which the way taste is “legitimated” by regime intellectuals subtly legitimates the state itself and perpetuates a government-supremacist, anti-capitalist cultural order. The philosopher and sociologist Pierre...

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A Critique of Practical Hasbara

A Critique of Practical Hasbara

Immanuel Kant published The Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. It was the same year the Rebel Alliance triumphed at Yorktown, Virginia. The victory at Yorktown made possible the decline of the British “liberal” empire and the eventual rise of Washinton DCs “non-empire” empire. The “first critique” made possible the rise of Kant into the pantheon of western philosophical “big rocks,” alongside Plato and Aristotle. Kant created a shockingly contemporary interpretation of reality without recourse to the as yet to be conceptualized theory of evolution by natural selection or quantum field theory...

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