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Episode 80: Imperial SUCCESS (EDS 15)
🕑 Added 2022-10-18 19:10:42 +0000 UTCIn this episode we briefly discuss what the deep state is and is not before looking at the Eisenhower administration’s imperial chicanery in Guatemala and Vietnam.
This is the 15th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Comments
Kent Smith
Regarding the beginning inventory of what it is not, perhaps 'Empire' is inaccurate and a new term should be coined....?
Aaron Good
I like Grandin. The program was called Project Truth. Robert Parry wrote a book about it.
richard parker
Great episode as always. Loving this series
Hordeum
I can’t find it but I remember Rania Khalek and Kevin Gozstola interviewing Greg Grandin about the CIA ratfuck in Nicaragua and Latin America in general under Reagan. He spoke of a campaign of media manipulation that gave reporters every incentive to go along with the US narrative. The idea was to make the cost of skeptical reporting so high that reporters and editors would choose easier stories. There was a specific operative who led it whose name I can’t remember. It seems to describe the current US government playbook. Have you come across Grandin’s work?
Aaron Good
Glorious Victory (1954) by Mexican painter Diego Rivera
Major bit me
What’s the name of the painting in the photo? I swear I searched all over google a few weeks ago trying to find it l, cause I had seen it years ago, but I completely forgot the name and had no luck.
Aaron Good
I am trying to explain these things as clearly as I can. I think attempts at "humor" might help. I am not looking to treat all perspectives with undue reverence. Right-wing libertarianism is not a useful lens for understanding this stuff. As for making fun of libertarians, Illuminati watchers, etc... well, I try not to make it too gratuitous or mean spirited.
Sam
The intro here is pretty condescending, especially the mispronunciation of “government” that draws a derisive laugh from Norton. Surely the task here is to try to engage and persuade on this issue, not ridicule. It’s very disheartening to hear.
Jon Croteau
It is a very difficult puzzle to solve, but I think we are on the right track. In my mind, the Freemasons are the same thing as the Illuminati after the Council of Wilhelmsbad. The Freemasons are persuasively connected to controllership of the East India Company, the Corporation of London, and the Bank of England. That makes them progenitors of the Pilgrim Society, the Federal Reserve, and the Council of Foreign Relations. The Rosicrucians, possibly established by Francis Bacon, who was possibly Queen Elizabeth I's unacknowledged son, are persuasively connected with the original colonial corporations.
