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Episode 48: Ukraine and the End of the (Unipolar) World w/Lawrence Wilkerson and Peter Kuznick

🕑 Added 2022-06-04 13:01:01 +0000 UTC

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Aaron Good

Peter's a great guy. He has a few liberal tics here and there. I try and take the good and shrug off the bad when I can. "Uyghur genocide" is a brazen fabrication...so brazen that a lot of people don't interrogate it.

Rachel Winkel

Listening to this 16 months after initial release, Kuznik's China comments are so cringe! Most of the show, Kuznik sounds rational, but enter China and it's "China is authoritarian...Uighyr genocide..." I laughed out loud. What a difference 16 months make! I'll take China's authoritarianism over US authoritarianism any day, any day. I'm curious to see how Kuznik's views have (hopefully) shifted.

Aaron Good

I like Larry. A small number of old Establishment people like him and Jeff Sachs choose to speak candidly about dimensions of our imperial corruption that the media/politicians/academics typically get paid to ignore or lie about.

William Stearns

Wilkerson has always fascinated me; just when you think our institutions are completely toast they produce someone like this. To me he’s sounds like a leftist at times (conservative anti-interventionists having become an endangered species decades ago). In fact, when he was commenting about big oil’s influence on foreign policy I found myself wondering if he realizes that he’s essentially saying that we have a fascist foreign policy. Wilkerson is a textbook example as to why we should make every effort to establish cross-party political coalitions when it comes to important issues like foreign policy. There’s no other peaceful way to reform the warfare state. As the empire’s decline results in an increasingly deformed politics and ridiculous political figures, this becomes more and more difficult. But try we must in my opinion.

William Toms

Great episode.

Aaron Good

Many thanks John! It has been a ton of work, but I have gotten some priceless help from a number of people as well as the support of everyone here. I could never have predicted that things would play out this way, but it is awesome!

John McElroy

Just have to say, since you’ve started in the winter with all these projects, 48 episodes, interviews and even tweets, the quality of your work and the team you’ve help to construct is the very best! Your ideas for content, work ethic for the listener and important scholarly voice are a very real public service of the highest order. Telling the truth in a society full of liars can be pretty tricky and I for one am riveted to see how this grows and continues to bring light into our lives! Cheers 🍻!

Patrick

Love that you got Wilkerson back, I loved the first ep and can’t believe I find myself nodding along and agreeing with a prominent member of the Bush administration lol. Also, maybe you’ve used it before but my favorite intro music so far, good song