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Episode 54: Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light w/Peter Dale Scott (Part 12)
🕑 Added 2022-06-26 21:14:22 +0000 UTCThis is the 12th installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott—the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
In this episode, we delve further into the confusion surrounding the structural deep event that we refer to simply as Watergate. Peter and I talk about connections between Watergate other deep events like the JFK assassination. We even discuss the very suspicious Ruth Paine and the extremely grave issue of COG--Continuity of Government—aka: the Doomsday Network.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange
Comments
PN
I hope my memory's as good as Peter's if i make it to 93 lol. he's crushing it
Aaron Good
I'd acknowledge that Russia does seem to have some serious problems but I do think you have to look more at the situation VP inherited. I also think that not having come of age during the Cold War makes subsequent generations like mine pretty different.
BruceInAdelaide
yes, i am a very long way from an admirer of the stalin era , or even the post stalin era governments, but viewing western imperialism as the only positive alternative is far from a genuine alternative.
Johnny Case
Brilliant coda, Aaron. Bravo! I'm always stunned when reminded that the view of the Soviet Union as held by Mssrs. Chomsky, Zinn, Izzy Stone(yuck), and PDS is pretty much on par with Barry Goldwater's. Regarding Scott's comment on the Polish President governing "like Putin" -- what exactly does that mean? Increasing the longevity rate of your own people by over 15 years from when your leadership began? Significantly decreasing the hold of oligarchs over your own society? (Not enough. There's still time.) Standing up to every threat posed to your own federation by the vampire capitalist goal of world domination? If the Polish President did those things -- hooray for him!
Jon Croteau
Read everybody, don't trust anyone 100%, that is my strategy. Definitely read all the ones you're not supposed to.
NYCM&AHole
Yeah I can’t remember specifics of what I work on from week to week, let alone footnotes
NYCM&AHole
Finally ordered your book.
BruceInAdelaide
let PDS know no one remembers details and footnotes "photographically"!
Zachary White
Thoughts on Webster Tarpley? I'd never heard of him, based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7T5ToX00T0
