An FYI for Gym Readers
I just finished watching a very important and informative talk featuring economist Richard Wolff, Historian and Political-economist Michael Hudson on Nima Alkorshid’s Dialog Works platform, “Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Middle East Exploding, Ukraine Crumbling! the US Take Action?” For those who don’t know, Michael Hudson was an insider for a decade or so at the start of his post-collegiate career well before he began teaching not just for Wall Street firms but most importantly as a member of the Hudson Institute—the surname sameness being more ironic than familial. For those unaware of what that Institute did and does, just listen to Dr. Hudson as he relays his experiences there—he’s one of the very few still living from the Era being described. Unfortunately, there’s no transcript yet, so the hems, ers, ums, and such you’ll need to live with. Dr. Wolff speaks very slow and deliberately so it’s very difficult to misunderstand what he says, and his counterpoints and additions to Hudson are as marvelous as they’re important.
The episode prior to that is just as important as are all those previous, “Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: How the US United China, Russia, and Iran: A Global Power Shift!.” Here’s the index page for all the podcasts. There appears to be about a two-week lag between podcast and transcript publication at Hudson’s website. The frequency of the podcast with Nima is weekly. The information and POVs are unique, although some of us are talking about it all at the edges.
My mind says I need to add more but can’t decide on just what to add aside f rom watch the podcast and spread it far and wide. Thanks!
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At MoA, Tannenhouser | Oct 5 2024 17:48 utc | 54 asked this:
"So is that saying the outlaw empire runs israel, if so please help understanding what the overepresentation of the zionist POV/Ajenda in all facets of western civilization is for. Thanks for all u do."
Here's my answer:
The key IMO is to understand just how long US policy in West Asia has been ongoing and why, which was explained very well by Hudson in his talk with Wolff that I suggest be seen by the world. Most revealing is the fact that the Neocons were initially within the D-party back when there were some differences between the two. Recall that all nationalist movements from Korea onwards were seen as Communist, a propaganda notion that was aided by Soviet aide to those movements and nations seeking independence from Colonialism. The Zionists were seen as actors who could be the US proxy within West Asia. The other major point made by Hudson is the inability of the Outlaw US Empire to wage major wars because of public backlash. So, after Vietnam there were none until 911 provided the basis for the Cheney/Wolfowitz/Clinton batch of Neocons to attempt to overcome the "Vietnam Syndrome" by using NATO initially then the "coalition of the willing" that didn't last very long. The interest pursued was control of oil despite OPEC. Today, Iraq's oil revenues aren't its own but 100% controlled by the Empire. Why the deliberate policy of negating the Two State Solution? To keep the Zionists in control. Note that Zionists within the USG have existed for decades and were then supplanted/augmented by the Evangelicals who are just as rabid as the Zionists. Ater Iraq and the new terrorists cultivated there, the willing abandoned the coalition except for its NATO core, which the Empire controls. Terror proxies became primary policy tools since the US Military had changed into a garrison army, not a strike army, and perpetual war was what the MIC wanted, and one of its biggest money makers is the ongoing conflict in Palestine that's powered by US weapons, ammo, money, and political shielding. The Ukraine project is similar in its nature but aimed at Russia and its goal has existed since WW1.
Clearly, Zionist philosophy and goals were understood early and adopted by a core within USG policy making circles. The hatred of Communists and nationalists was shared with the Zionists who also developed their own local hatred of all those preventing Greater Israel--even the many Jews globally who abhorred that idea. Megalomania and Pleonexia breed intense hatreds for those opposing them. But the realization that those hatreds were very difficult to inoculate into the polity led to what we now see--Team Biden can't come out and say they want all the Arabs in the Levant killed, although their actions say that's exactly what they want. The goal remains control of oil and the region's strategic transport corridors. Also, the funding/corruption process was initiated within the Outlaw US Empire long ago as the aid dollars sent to Zionists were recycled as planned into the US political process--there's a very good reason why AIPAC hasn't been deemed an agent of a foreign nation as that would cutoff the money recycling that corrupts the entire political process at the federal level--three full generations, 60+ years, this has occurred.
Yes, the USG could halt both conflicts in a day but it doesn't want that to happen--it wants them to continue as such happenings have become its life-blood. Monies sent to the MIC get recycled the same way as those provided to the Zionists--that's what makes government employees wealthy well beyond what their salaries and investments would otherwise. Hudson's testimony reveals just how long this has been ongoing, where it began and those who were behind it. Zinoviev called it American Nazism.
Thanks, Friday night viewing for me. Much appreciated.