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Episode 57: High Crimes of Empire (EDS Part 1)
🕑 Added 2022-07-10 19:05:41 +0000 UTCThis is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2?
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
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Aaron Good
Yes, I assigned him when I taught Development and Globalization at Temple...
Gabriel Venter
Have you read Ha Joon Chang's economic stuff? He discusses economic nationalism in a particular way that I find extremely clear
Aaron Good
We remastered this one--Thanks to Dana Seamus for putting the time in after Squadcast vanished the audio!
Aaron Good
Yeah, something with the app we used screwed up and we had to use cloud recordings as a last resort.
snafujesus
These audio levels are all over the place
Aaron Good
This episode has some problems coming from SquadCast... Basically we could only use the cloud recordings and it made it all much trickier...
Cultus Daemon
Aaron is still talking as the theme song or whatever plays and drowns him out the last few minutes.
Aaron Good
I'll give this a relisten...
Jacob
The levels between the different voices are out of wack, I keep having to turn the podcast up and down each time a new person talks
Aaron Good
That's basically it...phonetically. But it is actually Ola Tunander.
Thomas Meade
What is the name of the author you mention who wrote about the Dual State? I'm going to botch this spelling but it sounds like... Oliton Ander?
BruceInAdelaide
i am just so happy to be able to listen to every one of you!!
Aaron Good
Thanks and I definitely am as well. Among other things, i's been nice to go back and reread the book and see these sections I'd half forgotten about...
Ben Norton
This episode turned out very well! I'm excited for this series
Aaron Good
David Talbot did write about Maheu in Devil's Chessboard. He's basically a guy the CIA used as a cutout to do various gangster things. Peter and I may do a show in the near future where we go over Morley's book--which we both like even if we do have a number of issues with it. Morley does write a bit about Maheu as I recall, but doesn't go too deep...just points out that the Mullen Co. did work for Maheu and Hughes iirc. In Jeff's defense, the book is about the two Dicks so going deep on Maheu would have made it a different book...
Johnny Case
Great stuff again! And another request. :-) Almost done reading the new collection of Carl Oglesby's works: https://www.amazon.com/Clandestine-America-Conspiracies-Surrender-Watergate/dp/099135205X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Incredible read. While I agree with Aaron that Oglesby tries too hard too often to fit everything into his Yankee/Cowboy dichotomy, his section on Watergate (especially after just finishing the new Helms bio) is fresh as a daisy and takes hold of forces Morley (imho) doesn't touch. So who the heck is ROBERT MAHEU?? This gilded gangster shows up everywhere: Batista, Bay of Pigs, Dallas, Saigon, Howard Hughes, Watergate. And Lisa Pease in her book basically nails this guy as the mastermind of the Ambassador Hotel hit. So who was he and where is David Talbot when you need him?? :-) Oglesby also opens doors I've never walked through before: the war between Hughes and the Deep State over control of TWA. The war between the Deep State/Mafia and Hughes over control of Las Vegas. (Where is this in Morley's book??) And where is it in that nitwit Martin Scorsese's movie on Hughes? (Scorsese is a perfect example of someone blessed with creative gifts along with a meatball mind. See: The Irishman.)
