Dear friends,
Here is my latest interview with Bonnie Faulkner for her show “Guns and Butter” on Pacifica Radio’s KPFK. Bonnie had some connectivity problems, so the sound is not stellar, but good enough, I hope, for our purposes. Enjoy!
The Saker
Saker Message:
I really enjoyed this. Yes, sound is not stellar but one can live with that. The message is stark and dangerous, yet, the Saker and Bonnie with her questions explain it well, so that anyone can understand the influences. This is one that will go out to my American friends.
Hi Saker
I’m older, and hearing-challenged, and I need a transcript of this message. If you didn’t speak so darn fast I might have caught more of it, but that’s not your fault. :) Hope you can get one posted!
Patrick
That would cost me 100 bucks or so, but I can try.
Please stay tuned
cheers
The Saker
Perhaps try You Tube.
“FREE Audio to Text with YouTube CC Transcription”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZJa-iM2Gw
Another video on the process of using You Tube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNmnVwIdfpg
One solution I see:
– download the MP3 file
– copy it to your smartphone
– play it in the app named “Smart AudioBook Player”
It’s an Android app (don’t know if iPhone as well). The app has a control for varying the playback speed, in 10% increments, for example 90%, 80%, etc.
Excellent interview. However, it was not easy to understand, as it was, apparently, a telephone interview, and there was an echo sound, with words being repeated, making it difficult for them to be understood. I thought I would point this out. Greetings.
Time to chip away and back off the neocons :
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/10/china-is-reportedly-thinking-of-halting-us-treasury-purchases.html
And let those who do the empire’s dirty work know that there will be consequences especially from the ” Trusty Ruskies”. As in trust me, there will be consequences. So this is what mirror response looks like—take a long hard look.
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-claims-victories-after-syria-bases-attacked-2018-1
(note the snotty adjective in the phrase “supposed strikes” which of course is never used if it is some claim by the White Helmets etc.)
Saker,
Your comments about American Generals and the military shows real insight and is very illuminating.
This discussion is in totality a very important interview that begs for a transcript.
Defining the generals at the very top as corporate representatives versus the echelons of Colonels and below who represent the true military forces.
Throughout the interview you denote and eviscerate the US neocon establishment who now control foreign policy. This POV is more than criticism. You expose their frailty thought they wield power. Neocons use of force and no diplomacy. Pure ideological hubris. Primitive and predictable people.
Empire, which later you explore
Tillerson’s ineffectiveness to control his Department of State.
Pointing out there is no person with personality or brains left in the US government.
Importantly, you show that the US is not a credible military threat. And its allies suffer from the same weakness, no boots on the ground.
Thus, Wars on the cheap are finished.
Sad that the sound on your end was not clean, but the ideas you delineate are worth the trouble to filter through the echo-static.
I urge everyone to suffer the sound issue but learn.
Saker at his best.
I used ear buds, and they enabled me to understand the whole thing despite being hearing challenged. This is an amazing interview, so succinct, yet wide-ranging in its subjects concerning this dangerous empire.
I found the sound ok and understandable.
A good sound engineer should be able to clean and reduce the echo/reverb (or whatever it is in Saker’s channel).
Real leather often has marks.
Right! you talked me into it. I’ll do a transcript but you have to give me 4 days or so. This is excellent and clear work. It needs a transcript.
Haaa, just got the message … It is being done! I can rest. (grins).
I’m not sure if Saker has read Phil Butler’s article in NEO ,”The Rebellion: Ukraine’s Only Salvation”
https://journal-neo.org/2018/01/10/the-rebellion-ukraine-s-only-salvation/.
In the article he gives a lot of praise to Saker’s articles.Its well worth reading.
Somewhat OT but deeply insightful on exploring the neocon mentality and duplicity involved in the occupation of Palestine. The interviewer’s discomfort with Finkelstein’s facts on the ground is clear at times — in spite of his apparent support for the Palestinians in general.
This anxiety is a window into the cognitive dissonance condition in the tribal context. Similar to psyops on Iran based on a intel research (via 5 layers of university ‘research’ projects in some cases) indicated that a proud people could be influenced strategically by propaganda aimed at painting them as brutish and barbarian.
Clearly Finkelstein is one of those Jews who qualify as an olde Hebrew ‘prophet’ in the sense that Noam Chomsky defines it. All credit to him, especially his comments (end of 4/4) on Justice Richard Goldstone, the former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals (Goldstone report). Not just a slap in the face (referring to the young Palestinian girl) but a “spit on them” … harsh words from such a clearly civilised and moral individual.
“Norman Finkelstein on Gaza’s Martyrdom (1/4)
In his groundbreaking new book “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom,” Norman Finkelstein argues that Israel, with U.S. backing, has caused a “humanitarian disaster” in Gaza, and that international human rights groups have failed to uphold justice for its besieged people”
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20855
When it comes to SWIFT, it is of no importance if Russia gets excluded from it by the US. Russia has introduced its own version of SWIFT, including a debit card called “MIR”. China, too, has introduced its debit card, which has already become popular.
The Saker on fire. In no uncertain term he is voicing his shock, disgust and utter disbelieve that apparently a Zombie movie production company has taken over the US corporation. Each policy an abject failure, each decision taken a stinking pile of shit, each statement handed out to the press an indecipherable mumbo jumbo of hate speech, fear porn and thinly veiled Talmudic death threats.
Forget politics for a moment. Listen to Saker’s authoritative speaking-in-tongues as a cathartic healing meditation. It works wonders. Share widely.
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Saker says “USA choice of allies” ie Saudi, Israel, I know he does not mean that literally, As almost everyone is aware Israel via its lobby has taken comlpletely over US policy. Thats the reason US policy looks as it looks. Could it be that the Jerusalem recognition by the US was really designed to provoke a terrorist, military whatever response against the US or even a false flag to have it as an excuse for the American public to bring soldiers to Syria?
Interesting theme in this recent ZH post.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-13/army-strategist-exposes-disturbing-parallels-between-us-domestic-policing-military
Should not be a surprise to anyone who has been watching the show for a while.
A USA ‘security force’ trained in occupied Palestine by the star-badged neo-Nazi invaders and tormentors of the locals who are working for a small national 0.01% ‘gated community’ that has been hoovering up the free-money pouring out of the Fed ATM since 2008. Many of these criminals should be bankrupt and buried based on the raw ‘Atlas Shrugged’ capitalism they espouse for others lower down the food chain.
That the average Joe six-pack and his little Jane-of-the-jungle can’t get their befuddled heads above the psychic Bearnaise’n miasma engulfing the American ‘dream’ is a pitiful sight. Something strange is definitely occurring on the plantation.
They just don’t seem to realize that from the real American ‘great again’ 0.01% perspective that are not all only ‘deplorables’ but of little distinction than the Gazan ‘cattle’ the Israeli apartheid fascists herd and brutalize on an almost daily basis.
The only effective counter-move against hegemonic neolib/neocon global capitalism–and the inevitable austerity and war the Saker knows it engenders–must be made on the national level, with the average citizens of each country reclaiming their numerical power to shape domestic policy and influence foreign policy. A crucial tool that opens space for such counter-moves, space still available to citizens in countries that have not foolishly given away their monopoly on currency creation, is the fast-growing movement called Modern Monetary Theory. Dry and academic as the name of the movement appears to be, there is genuine power in this new economic theory, power that has the potential to restore the sovereignty of the people IF they grasp the basic–indeed, self-evident–concepts. Here’s the best resource I’ve found for that necessary public education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1SMjeuyF-Y