Both John Mearsheimer and, especially, Stephen Cohen are both extremely smart and knowledgeable academics and it is a crying shame that these two men are so completely ignored by the current US elites. I highly recommend this very good show. Enjoy!
The Saker
Personal note: I want to add something here. Mearsheimer and Cohen are the living proof that the caricature which a lot of non-US people have about Americans being arrogant, ignorant and stupid is fundamentally wrong. During the Cold War an entire generation of very savvy academics and analysts materialized who were refined, well educated and sophisticated thinkers with the ability to truly look ahead in a non-ideological fashion. I have had the pleasure and honor to study with Paul Nitze and I personally knew Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and I can attest that while not necessarily always sinless saints, these men were truly remarkable decision-makers who loved their country and who wanted to do what is right for it. Listening to Mearsheimer and Cohen I had a flashback to my conversation with Nitze who by the end of his life also had reached a certain wisdom and detachment which allowed him to see things from a higher perspective. I also hope that Steven Cohen will impress those who naively believe that all American Jews are sayanim or AIPAC/JINSA/ZOA agents as this is far from being the case. The USA is far more complex than a lot of non-Americans think and it should not be judged by the performance of clowns like Dubya, Obama or Biden.
@EVERYBODY:Guys, please keep your replies to each other always polite and friendly.
Thanks,
The Saker
@New Insight
Glad I didn’t post my version, yours is much better.
Another very prescient work on the need of capitalism to continually expand is Lenin’s “Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism”, 1916, Zurich, before he came to power. He blamed it on the banks, finance capital, and the financial oligarchy. Very unfashionable now, but spot on as an analysis of where we are now.
You’ll might have to translate the Kiev City website yourself. Here’s the link…
http://kievcity.gov.ua/news/14504.html
PS about Argentina, the ‘triangle’ of drug/weapons dealing and gangsterism on the tri-borders of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil: I don’t dispute that this devils’ triangle exists. What I would dispute is the claim that Hezbollah is up to its armpits in it. It is of course a propaganda gift to USrael to state that this is so, and indeed the USG has made great mileage with it. Just a quick google immediately brings up a lengthy paper (87 pp, pdf) from the Library of Congress, prepared in consultation with all the three-letter agencies, asserting just this.
But you can have all sorts of gangsters, including Lebanese ones, without actually having Hezbollah. They use this smear (and I would say that is all that it is) as a launchpad into all the other well-known accusations about Hezbollah terrorist activity in south America, none of which can be proven, just as in Lebanon itself we have the endless fraudulent activities of the so-called Tribunal on the Hariri assassination and so on.
So my point is simply that you should think twice before proceeding from a straightforward observation of criminal activity involving Lebanese gangsters, who could be of any ideological persuasion, to this systematic blackening of Hezbollah’s reputation as a one-issue, geographically-focused resistance organisation. And so should the excellent Furzev.
As to weather weapons, you seem to be construing Fursev’s enigmatic remark on this as a sort of veiled threat, subtly insinuating that Russia also has these weather weapons, and could use them to ignite this super-volcano. This reminds me of the classic disinfo campaign launched by “Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain” back in the 1970s, a marvellous psyop designed to exploit the superstition of the decadent lumpen element in the West.
:-)
Anonymous said…
@ were-wolf: “Before any of this can be done we have to understand who we are and who are our opponents and pick our targets accordingly.”
Then stop talking about such stupid nonsense like the non-existent “Canadian politics” or the non-existent presidential “elections” in the USA.
That’s right. Your life is entirely defined by what’s writtwen on a piece of paper. Are you a lawyer?
SoupNazi says: No respect for you!
Can we agree that Canada is a Bitumen-Bananastan and leave it at that?
>Judy Wood again, the towers were demolished by unspecified ‘energy beams’ from orbital weapons platforms of unspecified ownership, very bright, thank you very much for that nonsense.
In defense of Dr Judy Wood, there is no way of knowing for sure what weapon was used to bring the towers down, but her research strongly suggests that it was classified technology that has not been revealed to the mainstream public. Dr Wood wisely chooses not try to draw conclusions she can’t back up with concrete evidence, but examine what can be verified from public sources.
Amongst her key findings is:
– How unlike it would be that buildings would come down at near free-fall speeds in a normal building demolition.
– The lack of debris (the buildings were turned into dust in midair) and lack of seismic activity when the buildings collapsed.
– The impossibility of real planes penetrating buildings made out of steel girders and concrete
– The “coincidence” of Hurricane Erin being close to NY on 9/11
Nowhere in her presentation does she claim that energy beams on orbital weapons platforms destroyed the towers. It is disinfo shills like Jim Fetzer, Kevin Barrett and Steven E Jones who have been making these bogus claims to discredit her work.
Not that these claims should necessarily be dismissed off-hand when you consider the very high probability that the elites of the world have been developing secret space weapons programs without telling us.
“Andreas Walsh said…
To Juliania and others who disagreed with me whether Americans are “arrogant, stupid and fundamentally wrong,” I’ll partly concede the point that most Americans may be antiwar, fundamentally progressive in sentiment, etc… But I’d suggest they’re still so clueless about how to deal with the permanent aggression, brutality and corruption of their own government, and so totally unable to check or slow its insanity, that you can still call them arrogant, stupid and fundamentally wrong and not be too off-target.”
Andreas, thank you for responding. As Nora has said, you can certainly call us clueless, and I would add impotent, but I draw the line at ‘arrogant’ because if anything I would say ‘a crushed and humbled heart’ is what applies here.
Americans are coming to realize the enormity of the betrayal of cherished ideals, and the very trappings of a wellordered government of the people for the people have been whittled away within a short space of presidencies, as the video conversation on this thread points out. The system, and it is a huge powerful one, is not only broken, it has been hijacked.
I would like to take the opportunity to add my voice in opposition to the idea of Kissinger as hero, however. I don’t believe he is held in high regard by most Americans at all. Our present heroes are those who speak truth to power, and those are hardly heard beneath the din of corporate media, but their voices are getting stronger as the system selfdestructs.
I watched the video of the Maidan ‘mass violence’. I was glad to see that while tempers flared and in places blows were exchanged almost everyone in the crowds were trying to be peaceful, whoever they were.
Thank you thank you thank you, Where-wolf, for the Grand Inquisitor link. That part of The Bros K is my single favorite piece of literature. Can’t wait to check that out.
Re: banker “suicides” and insurance policies and trade secrets- from Wall Street On Parade (via Global Research link)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/suspicious-deaths-of-bankers-are-now-classified-as-trade-secrets/5379644
O/T? Maybe. But in a larger sense, is it not the Bangsters that are the driving force manipulating events the world over? The all-encompassing drive for profit, control over markets and resources, the lengths they’ll go to get that money and power? Illustrative of the depth of their depravity, and informative as to the staggering amount of money the banks stand to make off the life-insurance policies they take out on their employees.
juliana — YESSSSS! to everything you said.
Anonymous 09:29
You’re kind-of right — our elections are a farce but no, the Electoral College is just a bunch of people selected by the two parties to make things official after the tallies are in. Our “candidates”, otoh, are selected by people WAAY higher up in the party/corporatist structure; then We The People cast our ballots and whoever stole the vote best (the numbers have already been made public) is automatically affirmed x-number-of-days-later by the Electoral College. If there’s a tie, either a dirty deal is made (Tilden vs. Hayes, 1877) or the Supreme Court chooses whoever they want (Dubya).
And finally, re: the super-volcano in Yellowstone, and super-fault lines in New Madrid. They’re real, and not to terrify anyone or anything but I seriously doubt anyone anywhere would want to mess with them, especially since New Madrid would toke a whole lot of this country and the Yellowstone super-caldera could pretty much finish off most food supplies everywhere during the ensuing (long) volcanic winter. Even the usual suspects couldn’t be that stupid or crazy since they, too, would have nowhere else to go, spaceships and potentially-habitable exo-planets not exactly offering luxury lifestyles. Plus, think of what it would do to the finish on their cars… ;~)
Well, I don’t know why we’re discussing 9/11 here, because as we all know, discussion of 9/11 obeys its own version of Godwin’s Law. But my own account of how the towers were demolished does not involve making wild hypotheses and then pretending you haven’t made them. I have a completely satisfactory account of how it was done which relies upon the pertinent fact that all the core columns could be accessed from the lift shafts, and that Silverstein and Lowy had ‘lift repair teams’ going in and out all the time, closing down lift shafts while (according to me) they fitted cutting charges every three stories or so to all these columns. Several of the cutting charges can actually be seen still burning at the cut ends, as the neat, 30-foot sections fall, in one breathtaking photograph that I have stored for posterity here. For the detailed methodology, see here. Finally, on the basis of the circumstantial facts, I am prepared to offer a suggestion as to whom the highly skilled sappers posing as ‘lift repair teams’ actually were. I nominate these people.
Nora,
You can throw out all the straw man arguments that you like it doesn’t change the fact that:
Yes. Absolutely for sure, Really. MSNBC are propagandists. So is CNN. So is FOX. Not only are they all propagandists, they are all leftists in varying degrees.
The people that back/support Obama are all leftists. Left-wing ideology attracts left wingers. Sure, not all people on the left support Obama, however the majority of left-wingers here in the US absolutely do support him.
When comes to different types of left-wing ideology, that’s a subject that’s in my wheelhouse.
You see my dear Nora, I was raised in a left-wing family. I was born in a communist country. I have quite a few family members that were card carrying party members. To this day they can tell you in great detail why “back in the day things were so much better in the Soviet Union or in Tito’s Yugoslavia, etc.,”
A lot of our extended family here in the Chicago area are heavily involved in the Unions, the Democratic party & Chicago machine politics. This same Chicago Machine, through a very slick propaganda campaign, was able to get “their guy” elected to the State Senate, the US Senate & POTUS in a matter of a few short years.
Now the same propagandists that got Obama “elected” are now protecting him here & abroad against any & all opponents.
Regards,
Meezer
Re: Andrei Fursov talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXLUJpqaQpY
Good work by wikispooks and niqnaq, improving the presentation of the transcript, adding commentary and making it into readable articles!
Please give credit to the original producers of the video, namely Poznavatelnoe.tv
They permit re-publication of the video, as long as their name is mentioned (it’s all over the video anyway).
New Insight only provided the English subtitles, no credit needed. :)
Also good work by those who provided further depth on the many topics touched upon in the video.
When I went into ‘commie’ territory ,terrorized by ’em ‘Ruskies’ I found kids my age [10 @ that time] and they were…, well, kids…, just like me.
Please disagree with us Yanks, but do not blame us for the sins of our ‘fathers.’
Jane & Joe six pack might be portrayed or come across as misinformed, but there isn’t anything wrong with where their heart is at. A single trip to ‘this’ country will show you so.
Condemn Obambi and W’s policies, but not every single US citizen, because it’s unfair and untrue.
Propaganda is a tool used by all sides. Stay calm and stay cool, so you’ll be able to decipher what’s the truth and what’s utter BS.
Rowan Berkeley, Frank Lowy more or less runs Australia. Every politician fawns over the ‘former’ Haganah ‘fighter'(unkind observers might say ‘terrorist’)whose Lowy Institute is a lavishly financed propaganda unit pushing the Western line. He even runs the local football association. Australia is certainly a prize jewel in the Zionazi Empire. Our current Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, (a lovely creature who as a lawyer acting for asbestos peddlers, hit on the tactic of delaying court cases with legal tactics, until the victims died their swift and agonising deaths of mesothelioma, whereupon the case lapsed) recently observed that the Judaic colonies in the Occupied West Bank were actually legal, a new act of groveling supplication to these amazingly wonderful people.
Rowan Berkeley, Frank Lowy more or less runs Australia. Every politician fawns over the ‘former’ Haganah ‘fighter'(unkind observers might say ‘terrorist’)whose Lowy Institute is a lavishly financed propaganda unit pushing the Western line. He even runs the local football association. Australia is certainly a prize jewel in the Zionazi Empire. Our current Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, (a lovely creature who as a lawyer acting for asbestos peddlers, hit on the tactic of delaying court cases with legal tactics, until the victims died their swift and agonising deaths of mesothelioma, whereupon the case lapsed) recently observed that the Judaic colonies in the Occupied West Bank were actually legal, a new act of groveling supplication to these amazingly wonderful people.
Rowan Berkeley, the vilification of Hezbollah serves two purposes, I would say. One it allows Israel to justify and prepare for the eventual ‘redemption’ (translating from the Ziogibberish-the occupation of south Lebanon and the expulsion of the Shia ‘two-legged animals’)of the land up to the Litani, which the Zionists always claimed as the ‘patrimony of the tribe of Asher’. All others who have lived there over its tens of thousands of years of human occupation, being goyim, have no such divinely ordained claims. And second, destroying Hezbollah, whose heroic and successful resistance against formidable and barbarous oppression, would send a message to all the global untermenschen everywhere, that revolt against the Empire will never be tolerated.
Mohammed, thank-you, and respect and regards to you also.
America is the only country in the world that made torture legal and to buy U.S. makes everyone an accomplice to this sadistic fact (some feigned goodie two-shoes head war you got there)
Where’s the offical call for Justice, he’s due.
W.H.G.
While we’re talking about Poznavatelnoe TV, I shall take the opportunity to introduce something that may be a little disturbing, or make some readers think I am a sort of provocateur, but here it is nonetheless. One of my own long-time concerns is Alexander Dugin (also featured on Poznavatelnoe TV”). I have serious problems with him. Most importantly, I have collected what I regard as unmistakable evidence that he is a supporter of extreme ultra-right Zionism.
This is partly ideological (like Evola post-WW2, he has become an admirer of ‘Jewish mysticism’ because at the very least it survives, and he respects that), but also for reasons of realpolitik. He considers that Russia should and could ally with the Zionists against the Jihadis. The Jihadis are anti-Russia, he reasons, so logically must be considered pro-West, and indeed I agree with him here, but I do not agree that he either can or should trust the Zionists. My evidence, which is not new but is nevertheless lengthy and detailed, is here:
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/dugin-on-the-jews/
By the way, Saker: is it not possible to persuade the Captcha machine to use only numerical texts, not alphabetical ones? Anyway, if I were you, I would plan a complete migration to WordPress. I have been using it for years and I have only had a complete blog suspended once, the precursor to my current one, and at the time I didn’t even ask why, because I was in no mood for grovelling, I just started my present one, with an almost identical name.
@Rowan Berkeley: Alexander is a supporter of extreme ultra-right Zionism.
Yes. And he is also a neo-Bolshevik and a rather obtuse Russian nationalist. I frankly don’t like him very much or the folks around him for that matter. This is why I think that I have never posted anything by him here. Ditto for Fursov who is a very interesting guy, but not somebody I like or trust. This is in NO WAY a criticism of those who like them, to each his/her own opinion, but just my strictly personal point of view.
Cheers!
The Saker
While I’m putting forward material I’ve collected myself, Saker, let me offer you and your readers a 10-year-old, exceedingly obscure item by Eduard Hodos, another Ukrainian Jew, an ex-leader of the anti-Lubavitch faction in the leadership struggles of the 1990s, which is extremely amusing, even in translation (and the translation is excellent, by the way).
I don’t think I’m promoting a particular point of view, except insofar as I have always liked to dwell on the pretzel-shaped strategies of the Jewish leaderships. Pretzel-shaped, besides being a suitably Jewish metaphor, seems just right to me, because these strategies go far beyond any rational ‘hegelian strategy’ of playing both ends against the middle. They often end up crossing right over into the opposite of what they originally intended, and the Zhido-Banderites of today are just another example of this.
The whole thing is darkly comical, and Jews wouldn’t go along with it if their culture was not so extremely plutocratic and arbitrary. What I mean is, they do what their ‘leaders’, who are simply the richest Jews and their rabbinical attendants, command them to do. Anyway, here is the item, which I warn you ridicules President Putin mercilessly:
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/selected-reminiscences-of-eduard-hodos/
Afterthought: actually, the english prose style of Eduard Hodos’ memoir is so good that I rather think Hodos wrote it in english. In the comments, I say that it is still up on a mirror site of the original, but now the mirror site is extinct too. It would all be in the Internet Archive, under eairc.boom.ru.
@Saker, what particularly do you not like or trust about Fursov? My only exposure to him so far has been the video that was posted, which I was very impressed by (despite a few strange sections, which others have talked about). I really don’t know very much else about him.
I have seen some interesting remarks by russian-speakers on Moon of Alabama, about the Q&A following Fursev’s lecture. I don’t think those were translated by New Insight, were they?
Ray McGovern has published a comprehensive piece on propaganda wars which considers the issues discussed by Cohen and Mearsheimer..
It is easy to blame “Russian propaganda” for just about everything, including the public distrust of the endless propaganda pouring forth from Official Washington and its “fawning corporate media.” But people tire of the constant spin from U.S. officials and the one-sided coverage by the U.S. mainstream press. I may be naïve about this, but I think people really do prefer the truth.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/05/02-1
Brian
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