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Whitney Webb on why the CIA teamed with organized crime during WWII, protecting corrupt interests and backing ethnonationalism.

Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for Unlimited Hangout. She is the author of the book One Nation Under Blackmail. Recently her work was referenced by Ian Carroll on the Joe Rogan Podcast. Follow Whitney on X https://x.com/_whitneywebb

Finkelstein:

It is incorrect to describe [what has happened since October 7^th^] as a State project. It's a National project. Israel has a citizen army. It's representative of the cross-section of Israeli society. The people carrying on the genocide are representative of—anchored in—Israeli society. If it's not the person, him or herself, it's an uncle, it's a father, it's a brother, it's a son, a daughter. They all know; they all approve. Every poll taken since October 7th has shown that roughly 95% of Israelis believe—knowing full well what's going on—that Israel is using enough or too little force in Gaza. That is, 40% of Jewish Israelis believe that Israel is not using using enough force in Gaza.

Full interview for paid subscribers: https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/extended-interview-norman-finkelstein

This video is about why people who claim that the end of woke is good for the left are wrong and why I'm going to get woker than ever

The Labour Party has gone to war against disabled people. They hate you and want you to work till you die

Michael Burns’ new channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelOBurns

Sources: https://www.patreon.com/posts/latest-video-124471747

I mean at this point it's on you if you thought otherwise but they still manage to find new lows

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26716124

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A lot of people view this rise of fascism as a some as a sort of fundamental opposition or reaction to the liberal or neoliberal order under which we're living. You know, it's like do you want fascist Trump or neoliberal Kamala? That sort of thinking […] seems to me to be both individualizing—like making fascism into something fascist ideologues do rather than like a constellation of features which make up a fascist society—but also kind of undermines the various continuities between neoliberal societies (and liberal ones) and fascist ones. And it's in this context that Clara Mattei offers a really important intervention which clarifies these important continuities.

Specifically, Mattei highlights how austerity as a form of authoritarian state practice functions to rebalance the capital relation in favour of capital, and in doing so paves the way to Fascism in the early 20th century.

The book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo181707138.html

Requisite Yellow Parenti: The third world is not poor. You don’t go to poor countries to make money. […] These countries are not under-developed, they’re over-exploited.