Bulletin N° 1173
“The Hollow Men”
1925
https://craigboehman.com/blog/ts-eliots-poem-the-hollow-men-illustrated-by-artificial-intelligence
illustrated with artificial intelligence by Craig Boehman
Subject : "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper."
Grenoble, France
July 6, 2025
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Among the many works I’ve read on the history of the middle ages, one stands out as being exceptional -- not for its originality, nor for its unique influence on the direction of further research, but instead as a synthesis that provides a historiography for the European middle ages. David Herlihy’s article, which was first published in his collection of essays, The History of Feudalism (1970), deserves our close attention for its lucid account of the study of Feudalism and a history of the various meanings and methods associated with this study of Europe’s distant past.
“Feudalism: Meaning and Methodologies”
by David Herlihy
Meanings.
. . . With the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, a certain bifurcation becomes evident in the meaning and uses of the word ‘feudal,’ and this variance has persisted to the present, to the frequent confusion of students and the annoyance of scholars. To some historians, then and now, feudalism retains its late-medieval, early modern essentially juridic sense as the aggregate of those institutions connected with the support and service of knights. To investigate feudalism therefore requires a consideration of the relationships, personal and proprietary, between the ruler or the chief and the warriors who attended and served him. Feudalism in this reconstruction is a system of law, of government, and of military organization, but not of economic production. ‘Manorialism’ is the term usually used to connote the system of large estates which frequently, although not always, accompanied the ‘feudalism’ of the aristocracy. This concept of feudalism thus exclusively describes the political and social relations within the free, ruling, and preeminently fighting classes. Serfs, who were not free and thus could not enter into the feudal contract, should therefore be excluded from consideration under the feudal rubric. To write ‘feudal’ is necessarily to think of an aristocracy.
But there remains a second, quite different use of the word; it was later in emerging but was already established in the writings of Adam Smith and the reformers of the eighteenth century. Tautologically defined, feudalism is a system of economic production founded upon ‘feudal rent,’ which means in turn reliance on force and not on incentives to severe labor and support for the workers. It is not exactly slavery, as the peasant was not chattel and could not be moved about at the lord’s will; there were, moreover, traditional limits set upon the services and payments the lord could demand. But it was a survival of bondage, and of course it contrasted greatly with the wage system and the ‘cash nexus’ of the capitalistic economy, which stimulated and disciplined the workers not by direct power but by the incentive of monetary payments.
In the nineteenth century, the socialists borrowed this conception of feudalism (as they did much else) from the liberal economists. Marx and Engels in particular made it a part of their sweeping characterization of the stages of human development. In the beginning there was primitive communism; poor and unproductive; there followed slavery which allowed greater wealth at the cost of human degradation; feudalism came next, and then capitalism; finally, communism returned now wealthy and triumphant. The word ‘feudalism’ is scattered through the Communist Manifesto of 1848 (‘feudal society,’ ‘feudal property,’ ‘feudal system of industry,’ and the like). It is viewed of course with opprobrium, but often favorably compared with the subsequent, still crueler exploitations of the bourgeois state.
This understanding of feudalism had remained canonical for Marxists and has regained considerable appeal to some other, especially economic historians, who find the concept of feudal rent a valid one and a cornerstone in the social and economic structure or medieval society. Disagreement over the meaning of this basic term has produced a major anomaly in the historical literature concerning feudalism. Marxist scholars have professed that they were investigating feudalism and have written extensively on tenures, rents, and the methods by which the peasants were allegedly exploited. Many non-Marxists have professed the same intent and have not gone beyond a consideration of the services owed by knights and the means used to support them.
Today, many historians, anxious to avoid battles over terminology, which soon become idle, prefer not to offer rigorous definitions of feudalism, but rather to describe feudal society, in the sense of listing their characteristics which seem central to it. This descriptive approach avoids the implication that one factor –whether the practice of aristocracy or the organization of production—necessarily determined all others.
As summarized by Marc Bloch, one of the great historians of the medieval world, whose work we shall subsequently consider, the following characteristics may justifiably earn for a society the name ‘feudal’:
A subject peasantry; widespread use of the service tenement (i.e. the fief) instead of salary; supremacy of a class of specialized warriors; ties of obedience and protection which bind man to man; fragmentation of authority; and in the midst of all this, survival of other forms of association, family and State.
Bloch’s large and loose definition of the essential characteristics of feudal society effectively combines much of what both Marxists and non-Marxists alike have said about it or have written concerning it. Although his words may be criticized as lacking both conceptual and methodological rigor, they offer a good working description, to which most scholars would readily give assent. In stressing the importance of investigating not feudalism alone, or feudal institutions, but feudal society, Bloch also laid breath stress on the importance of comparative history. It was his hope and expectation that a careful comparison of east Asia, Japan especially, would deepen our understanding of feudal institutions and our appreciation of the place a ‘feudal stage’ might hold in human development. Although the results of a comparative history of feudal societies have not so far been spectacular, it remains fair to say that the quest is only now beginning and that with time Marc Bloch’s great faith in its potential may prove justified.
Historians, over the centuries, have differed not only in their interpretations of the word ‘feudalism,’ but also in the methods they have used to investigate the feudal centuries. An appreciation of those methods is similarly needed to understand the nature of feudal society, or at least what historians have discovered concerning it.
Methodologies.
The lawyers who made the earliest efforts to find dimension and order in the array of feudal customs were not primarily concerned with the historic origins of the practices they studied. Much in contrast, the social commentators and reformers who continued the effort were vitally concerned, as they wished to know when and why their society had adopted the institutions which most of them regarded as deplorable. We have already mentioned that the writers in the age of the Enlightenment concluded variously that feudalism was the product either of Roman decadence, German arrogance, or medieval brutality. In the course of the nineteenth century, the methods of historical research changed drastically, but the interest remained. This age marked the birth and development of scientific history, in the sense of a discipline which was rigorously exact, ingeniously critical, and powerful enough to uncover knowledge about the past which even contemporaries had not realized or recognized. This development of historical science has continued to the present, and in the course of its growth historians have made use of various approaches to their documents and to the realities behind them. Specifically in regard to feudal society, it is possible to discern in modern analysis three distinct methods, each with its own purpose and advantages.
The Genealogy of Traditiion.
One of the oldest and still today one of the most cultivated of the scholarly approaches to feudalism is to establish the line along which the basic institutions, customs, and traditions associated with it grew and changed. Historians, for example, have for long carefully investigated the changes in military institutions between the ancient and medieval worlds, and especially the replacement of the foot soldier of antiquity by the mounted warrior or knight as the main support of armies. They have studied with equal care the character and the history of the personal tie between warriors and their chiefs known as vassalage, and the distinctive sort of land grant known as the fief. For both institutions, they have succeeded in finding antecedents in the Roman and barbarian worlds. So also, for a later period, scholars have investigated , and still investigate, the influences upon the legal systems and governments of Europe which the revived knowledge of Roman law or new philosophical ideas concerning nature or society may have exerted. On a more restricted scale , the question of origins has long posed one of the greater problems of medieval English history: what impact did the Norman conquest and Norman policies have upon the growth of English governments.
History conceived and pursued as a genealogy of institutions or of traditions offers several advantages to the scholar. The problems are usually well defined, and the method –chiefly the careful collation of documents—is proven and reliable. Moreover, the principal institutions or society are usually well illuminated, even in medieval sources. A strong documentary record, clearly delineated problems, and precise methods thus enable the historian of institutions to proceed with a rigor that is often the envy of scholars working in other areas of human culture. As a result of generations of research, we today posses a rather good idea concerning the development of the chief institutions of feudalism; we can date with sole accuracy the major changes in them and observe with some detail how these institutions functioned.
But institutional history also possesses some limitations, as even its most accomplished practitioners have recognized. Institutions rarely explain themselves. Often the very sources which illuminate them appear only after the institutions have acquired a certain stability and maturity; law, someone had remarked, is born late. To investigate their formation, the historian must also consider why these institutions acquired certain characteristics rather than others, or developed in one direction rather than in another. At this point, the kind of history he is pursuing becomes less a consideration of the lines of institutional development and more an analysis of the causes and factors which explain social change.
The Skein of Causes.
A second, major interest of historians concerned with feudalism has there been this: Why, at a certain point in time, did there occur changes in the social and political institutions of western Europe? If feudalism by definition consisted of these institutions concerned with the service and support of knights, to know its origin was primarily to determine when and why knights came to play so decisive a role in Western warfare, and hence in Western society and government. The armies of the ancient world –the Macedonian phalanxes or the Roman legions—had relied primarily upon foot soldiers to wage and win the wars. Medieval armies relied on the heavily armed, mounted warrior. When and why did the change occur?
In 1887, a German historian of law, Heinrich Brunner, advanced one of the most ingenious and still one of the most influential explanations for this shift in military statics. Brunner argued that this fundamental change to cavalry occurred in the eighth century. In 755, King Pepin the Short ordered that the Frankish army be mustered in May instead of March. May offered more fodder, and this must have meant that more Frankish soldiers were coming on horseback. Shortly afterward, in 758, he changed the tribute imposed on the subject Saxons from cattle to horses, for which the Frankish army had an apparent grater need. Why was this happening? Brunner himself pointed to the penetration of the horse-riding Arabs through Spain and across the Pyrenees in the early eighth century; the Carolingian mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, repulsed them at the battle of Poitiers (732), but even afterward their menace continued. To resist the invaders required that the Franks adopt their tactics, and particularly enlarge and strengthen their cavalry. This military reform necessarily brought about a number of political, social, and economic changes. Horses were expensive engines of war, and the Carolingians had to find economic support for them and for the men who rode them. Charles Martel seized part of the possessions of the churches, or ordered ecclesiastical institutions to provide his soldiers with land, by grants known as precaria or beneficia. This was the origin of the fief, and the Carolingians further insisted that the mounted fighters assume toward their superiors and toward themselves the obligations of vassals.
The military change further made fighting an enterprise of the aristocracy, even its monopoly. The few freemen who had the means to afford the expensive horses and armor, or were favored with grants of land by the ruler, became the new feudal nobility. To fight was the great mark of freedom in early medieval society, and the poor who could no longer afford to fight sunk into the ranks of full-time peasants and serfs. As the direct result of these ninth-century military reforms, medieval society thus acquired the basic feudal traits: a dependent peasantry and a warrior aristocracy tied to its chief or king, and he to them, by bonds created by the fief and by vassalage.
Scholars have since mounted a barrage of objections against Brunner’s theory of the origins of the military fief, and hence of feudalism, in the West. It now appears that the Muslim cavalry was not nearly as important as Brunner maintained, and probably could not have served as so powerful an incentive for Frankish military reform. Rather, mounted horsemen seemed to have been growing in numbers on both sides of the religious frontier in the eighth century at an almost equal pace.
But if this interpretation would tend to excise the prime mover from Brunner’s link of causes, his views are by no means dead, and have recently been given new breath of life by the researches of a historian of technology, Lynn White, Jr. In his Medieval Technology and Social Change, White has replaced the Saracen challenge with the introduction of a new tool, the stirrup, but he has otherwise left largely intact the sequence of causes leading to the formation of the feudal system. This stirrup, White maintains, was adopted for the Frankish army by Charles Martel, who learned of it from the East. For the first time, this deceptively simple device permitted a man on horseback to deliver a powerful blow without the danger of unseating himself. Feudalism was thus created by the Franks, ‘presumably led by the genius of Charles Martel,’ who recognized the military potential of the new tool and reorganized the Frankish army, and indirectly government and society, to take advantage of it.
Both Brunner and White thus offered an interpretation of feudalism which attributes its fundamental institutions to specific causes and links them together in a national pattern. Martel (in White’s reconstruction) adopted the stirrup, revolutionized warfare, and gave supremacy to the mounted horseman or knight. To support the new warrior class, fiefs were introduced and personal obligations imposed upon the persons who held them. The nobility had to train its sons from an early age in the difficult skills of mounted shock combat, and this educational and professional experience produced among the warrior class a kind of subculture, chivalry, a name appropriately deriving from the late Latin word for horse (caballus).Western society was thus transformed militarily, socially, and culturally, all because of the introduction of a small iron implement supporting the feet of horsemen.
There are other, comparable attempts to explain feudalism in the West through a reputed sequence of causes. One of the most famous was that advanced between the two world wars by a Belgian historian, Henri Pirenne. Pirenne’s contention was that the classical world had been founded on the unity of the Mediterranean Sea and the vigorous trade which this unity made possible. Commerce provided the Roman state with an abundance of money, with which it supported the two chief pillars of the empire, a paid bureaucracy and a professional army. That unity and that trade survived the barbarian invasions of the fourth and fifth centuries. But in the seventh century, the Arab followers of Muhammad broke into the Mediterranean, built a fleet, and turned an avenue of peaceful trade into a battlefield. The West was cut off from the East and from its life-giving trade. It was therefore thrown back upon its own, exclusively agrarian resources. Charlemagne (king of the Franks, 768-814) recognized the realities of the new situation and reorganized the army and his state in conformity with them. Without money revenues, he took to supporting his soldiers through granting them pieces of land in fief. Thus he created the new feudal state and society, and with these changes the Middle Ages was born. In a famous phrase, Pirenne affirmed that without Muhammad, Charlemagne would have been inconceivable. He meant that the economic and social order of the Middle Ages –the feudal order, in sum—was unthinkable without the intervention of the Saracen expansion and the destruction of the Mediterranean unity. By a series of brilliantly linked arguments, the dazzled reader is led from cause to cause, until he finds himself confronting the unlikely, nearly incredible conclusion that the prime cause of feudalism in the West was the Koran.
These reconstructions offer the student numerous insights into the origins of feudalism. Their validity has been endlessly but fruitfully discussed, and we shall content ourselves here with some comment on their methodological implications and some of the difficulties implicit in them. In locating the cause of feudalism in the Saracen horse or the Asian stirrup, or the Arabian prophet, these arguments assume an answer to the most fundamental question of all the social sciences: What really causes or explains human behavior? For example, even if the recognized value of the stirrup promoted Charles Martel to reorganize the Frankish army and distribute land among his soldiers, the explanation remains evidently incomplete. Why did he place so much importance on a military decision? Was he influenced by present and pressing military need or a traditional cultural value? Why could he not have supported the arm by other means? His response to the problem’s which confronted him was clearly conditioned by many factors, by the economic, administrative, and cultural resources at his disposal, and further by the fundamental character of his own society. To understand human decision and human behavior requires something more than an appreciation of immediate stimuli. It requires, too, a consideration of the totality of forces, material and spiritual, which condition, influence, or direct human response. And because we are dealing with human beings, the forces which helped shape their actions must b recognized as multiple, subtle, and infinitely complex.
Thus efforts to explain feudalism through single and simple causes, whether through horses or tools or prophets, are open to the criticism that they are founded on too simple a conception of human behavior. To explain what happened (at least according to some critics), the historian should function as does the social scientist. He should not try to isolate apparent causes, as these will often prove specious. Rather, he should seek to combine them, thus reconstructing the total social milieu, the total life situation, in which the events occurred. Only then will the actioins of past generations become not explained but understandable.
In France, between the two world wars, a group of historians associated with a journal which today bears the name Annales-Economies-Sociétés-Civilistions took issue with the traditional methods of history which then dominated the schools. They called for a new historical method which should make use of the other social sciences and the insights they offer. They argued that the academic historians, for all their admitted power in establishing what happened in the past, were still guilty of self-deception. They pretended to write ‘definitive’ works, in the sense of exploring, once and for all, given historical topics, they claimed that they could explain not only what happened but the causal relations among events. Definitive history, for these critics, was dehumanized history, as it pretended to a knowledge of the past and a mastery of human behavior which not even he most advance social sciences possessed.
The Analysis of a Situation.
One of the prominent figures among these critics was also one of the great historians of feudalism. This was marc Bloch, who died a hero’s death in 1944 as a member of the French resistance in World War II. His great work, Feudal Society, characteristically begins with an extended treatment of the feudal environment. To understand how men act, one must know how they live, not only economically or politically, but culturally, intellectually, and religiously. Every human action is a product of many causes and many influences, and it would be naïve for a historian to rank them by supposed importance. Rather, he should seek to reconstruct the entire social milieu, the total life situation of the period he is studying.
Bloch’s book on feudal society is one of the most influential historical works to have been written the this century, and its influence is by to means confined to medieval history. Many historians of many periods have sought to follow Bloch’s advice, to reconstruct the ‘total social environment’ of past society. To be sure, this approach is itself not without some weaknesses. To reconstruct the total life situation, the tone and style of a past epoch, the historian must frequently propose conclusions beyond the power of traditional historical methods to prove or disprove; he must, in other words, resort to impressions. Bloch himself, in describing characteristics of the feudal period, frequently cited examples or evidence well beyond the chronological limits of age he was examining. Because specific causes are all but lost in the total milieu, so specific events and specific personalities lose their importance. A kind of chronological vagueness hovers over the analysis. Bloch, as we shall see, distinguishes two fundamentally different feudal ages, but he shifts the division between them, according to his context, backwards and forwards, over a century or more. Finally, Bloch’s approach has also developed a rhetoric of its own. The rhetorical question, suggesting a conclusion, frequently replaces the confident affirmation of the older academic historian. Historians inspired by the spirit of the Annales, anxious to avoid the pretense of writing definitive studies;, now often parade an exaggerated modesty. Like the medieval authors who announce in excellent Latin their inability to write excellent Latin, they often claim that their chief purpose in writing is only to pose questions and to inspire others to carry the work a little further.
But in spite of some weaknesses, it is probably fair to say that this effort to reconstruct and to understand a total human situation has proved its merit in the past generation, and scholars are far from exhausting its potential. More rigorous use of the sources and better exploitation of the other social sciences promises abundant harvests in the future.
The history of feudal society, illuminated by this and other methods, should attract not only those interested in the Western past but all who are concerned with the dynamics of human change. If the feudal society of the Middle Ages has left us comparatively few sources, its history has one advantage which the history of the modern age cannot duplicate. It has time; it permits the study of human change over centuries, amounting to a millennium. The legal issues involving the fief, the moral and social need for reform, which first brought men to the study of feudal society, have all but faded in our modern world. But the fascination of this lengthy chapter of Western history, and in human history, remains.(pp. 73-81)
The 26+ items below are selected articles and essays taken from the Anglophone social media over the past several days, which reflect the unprecedented crisis the world is now facing as a result of the extreme inequalities which have evolved under monopoly capitalism and are now reinforced by ruling-class control over new technologies. The incompetence of today’s ruling class is palpable, as its morbid ideology is manifest in the present depopulation drive reminiscent of the notorious Jamestown “collective suicide” in Guyana on November 18, 1978, when 913 members of The Peoples Temple, led by James Jones (with the enthusiastic endorsement of then President Jimmy Carter) met their fatal end in a paranoid frenzy. Among other things, this event reflects the sadistic cast of a dominant ideology, which is nothing more and nothing less than ideas circulating among ruling-class families today.
The following critical descriptions and deep analyses of events occurring around the world may well serve us to immunize ourselves from the vicious effects of these pernicious class-based ideas, and to respond proactively to the ill will of those authorties now ruling in our society, before it is too late –keeping in mind the old axiom: “If we are not part of the solution, we are part of the problem.”
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
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Professeur honoraire de
l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
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“Is the Israel-Iran Ceasefire Real Peace? Abby Martin on Ceasefire, US Militarism & Gaza’s Fight”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9xGye541Sc
by Indian Express, with Abby Martin
(22:22)
Independent journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin joins The Indian Express' Charulata Biswas to unpack the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran, following Israel’s June 13 attack on Iranian nuclear sites. Martin, known for her film Gaza Fights for Freedom, offers a scathing critique of US and Israeli foreign policy, calling the truce a mere pause in ongoing aggression. @EmpireFiles
· 00:00 – Opening & Introduction
· 01:40 – Will the Iran–Israel Ceasefire Hold?
· 03:07 – Was Regime Change in Iran the Real Motive?
· 04:46 – Trump Wants a Peace Prize, Yet Pushed for War — Why?
· 06:08 – What’s the Real Solution to the Gaza Conflict?
· 09:12 – Can the World Unite to End the Gaza Crisis?
· 11:07 – Why Does the U.S. Always Shield Israel?
· 13:45 – Who Profits From America’s War Machine?
· 16:03 – Trump’s Immigration Crackdown: What’s Coming?
· 18:27 – Zohran Mamdani’s Win: A Turning Point for U.S. Politics?
· 20:29 – Is There Still Space for Pro-Palestine Voices in U.S. Media?
#usnews #usisrael #trump #netanyahu #gaza #iran #usiranwar #middleeast #worldnews #clrcut #clrcutnews #internationalnews #globalnews #news
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“The U.S. Empire is Overreaching”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAwvtBDlfVY
with Larry Johnson
(50:36)
In this explosive interview, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson breaks down why U.S. foreign policy is unraveling across multiple fronts. From the brutal war in Gaza and Washington’s unwavering support for Israel, to Iran’s growing defiance and strategic alliances, to the grinding NATO–Russia conflict in Ukraine — Johnson argues that the U.S. is overextended, miscalculating, and losing credibility. He exposes the intelligence failures, the propaganda gap, and the strategic missteps that are accelerating the decline of American global power.
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“Full Speech in English: Lavrov's 1st Serious Warning After 'Millennia-Old' Arminia Church Attack”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7WCyJheNLc&si=u8JbbkSsi4FiDPsi
by Hindustan Times
(6:07)
In his most serious warning yet, Russia’s Sergey Lavrov condemned the attack on Armenia’s ancient Apostolic Church, calling it a threat to Armenian identity. Speaking after the CSTO meeting, Lavrov urged Armenia to resolve its internal crisis through its Constitution and warned against abandoning allies. He also addressed Serbia’s unrest, Kazakhstan’s drone corridor, and mocked NATO’s fear politics. Lavrov accused the West of stoking chaos and issued a veiled warning to Yerevan: Don’t trade 1,000 years of faith and alliance for fleeting promises from the EU.
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“Is Russia Using Laser Weapons in Ukraine?”
https://blog.polymernanocentrum.cz/is-russia-using-laser-weapons-in-ukraine/
by Simon Hilton
Investigating claims that Moscow has developed and deployed laser weaponry for counter-drone defence.
Western military commanders and defence analysts are scrambling to confirm or refute claims by a top Kremlin official that Russia has developed and deployed advanced laser weaponry in Ukraine.
The news came as Reuters confirmed of how Yury Borisov, the deputy prime minister in charge of military development boasted in a news conference that, “it was using a new generation of powerful lasers in Ukraine to burn up drones, deploying some of Moscow's secret weapons to counter a flood of Western arms.”
Borisov specifically cited a test where “which he said had burned up a drone 5 km away within five seconds.” He also supported Putin’s 2018 claim that the Russians had developed a laser weapon called Peresvet which could “blind satellites up to 1,500 km above Earth.”
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« La Chine dévoile un drone miniature de la taille d'un moustique »
par Célia Cuordifede
Armement. La télévision d’État CCTV a présenté des robots miniatures adaptés aux missions de reconnaissance ainsi qu’au champ de bataille.
C’est sans doute l’un des plus petits drones jamais fabriqués. D’après les images diffusées, il se tient du bout des doigts. Fin juin, la télévision d’État chinoise CCTV a présenté un drone de la taille d’un moustique, censé être un atout pour des opérations militaires secrètes.
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“Attrition war reality. Pentagon halts Ukraine weapons”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTNm5MQmDc
by The Duran
(34:16)
0:00 - Discussion on Pentagon's announcement regarding arms supplies to Ukraine
1:41 - Analysis of the US's inability to supply weapons due to depletion
3:02 - Explanation of the critical low levels of specific weapon systems
10:00 - Examination of the impact of US arms supply halt on Ukraine
12:14 - Insights on the dependency of NATO and Europe on US military support
19:07 - Discussion on the limits of American power and need for honest debate
25:02 - Overview of Ukraine's critical position and dwindling resources
31:10 - Speculation on the future of Ukrainian leadership and funding
32:25 - Reflection on Trump's opportunity to disengage from Ukraine conflict
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“Trump, Macron Call Putin: Weapons for Ukraine and Iran Agenda”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnxdSJQTbU
with Vladimir Brovkin
(16:27)
I discuss here what was discussed in the phone conversation etween President trump and President Putin as well as between President macron and President Putin. Was it weapons for Ukraine or Iran?
Dr. Brovkin is an American historian of Russia, now retired, a former Associate professor of Soviet History at Harvard University, the author of several books on Russian history. His latest book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin was published by Routledge, London 2024 and is available at Amazon, routledge.com and Barnes and Noble.
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“EUROPE in RAGE: The US Gives UKRAINE and Eastern EUROPE to RUSSIA amid Behind the Scenes Agreement”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGGZ0L_XLCs&si=XaoLW4ka4PS0O_WI
by Borzzikman
(9:09)
Currently, Insiders are reporting a real panic in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. According to them, the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, cannot regain consciousness for the second day in a row after the United States officially suspended the supply of all types of weapons to Ukraine.
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“Why Russia and Iran Are Closer Than Ever - The Untold Alliance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kjtesiF78c
by Dialogue Works, with Alex Krainer
(31:43)
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“RUSSIA has Launched an Operation To Save IRAN┃China has sent its Warships to the Shores of Iran”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i6k9M6hFfk&si=OEt6ujL1EoixEf9f
by Borzzikman
(9:32)
As you probably already know, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz made a rather resonant statement. In particular, during a conversation with reporters, he officially stated that the main goal of Israel's military operation is not only the destruction of Iran's nuclear program but also the physical
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“Israel Prepares Proxies for Next War with Iran?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN01IUbMcSM
with Glenn Diesen and Seyed M. Marandi
(33:43)
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran's Nuclear Negotiation Team.
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“U.S. Can No Longer Control Outcomes Abroad, Putin’s Strategy is Working”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhEhBopUsK8
with John Mearsheimer
(9:22)
In this exclusive video, we explore Mearsheimer’s extensive body of work, shedding light on his pivotal theories of offensive realism, his critical views on U.S. foreign policy, and his lasting impact on discussions around great power politics and international security.
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“Why Are So Many Countries Turning Their Backs on America?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhpK2A_I7tQ&t=28s
by Dialogue Works, with Ray McGovern and John Helmer
(1:06:08)
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“Trump's ‘The Big, Beautiful And The Ugly’”
https://www.youtube.com/live/-5vl79OTfzY?si=KkZYdRZDre9FkA9a
by Dialogue Wroks, with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson
(1:09:23)
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“If Every Country is In Debt … Who’s the Money Owed To?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMVjZ5r38A
by the Invisible Hand
(17:33)
This video was disseminated on behalf of GoldMining Inc, and was funded by Gold Standard Media LLC and/or affiliates. For our full disclaimer, please visit: https://portal.goldstandardir.com/dis....
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“The U.S. ‘Mafia Economy’ & The Imploding American Empire! Full Interview”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM0F3OzZpyA
by The Jimmy Dore Show, with Chris Hedges
(1:19:22)
In this interview, Jimmy speaks at length with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, activist and the best-selling author Chris Hedges. During the wide-ranging discussion the two cover whether the Trump administration’s actions herald the precipitous decline of the American empire and whether fellow anti-imperialist commentator Glenn Greenwald is right to credit Trump for potentially ending the Ukraine War and gutting the FBI.
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“INTERVIEW: M!6 and the N*ZI bloodline”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va6CHzvUerk&t=32s
with George Galloway and Craig Murray
(16:40)
The state is still in denial, says former ambassador Craig Murray. Waving its frail arms like a dying cockroach. As the world watches the present order's end of times Follow #MOATS 460 X: @CraigMurrayOrg #Kneecap #CraigMurray #Starmer #Trump #Israel
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“How Deep Fascist Parallel Run”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_HSk6HixNk
by Economic Update, with Richard Wolff
(30:35)
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff, responding to requests, explores the parallels between what led to the rise of Hitler and fascism in Germany after World War I and what has brought the US to Trump and his current policies. Many key basic parallels are presented alongside some remaining differences that help explain why what Trump is doing is not yet what a fully formed US fascism would entail.
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“We Were the Nazis, They Were the Jews”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRlJ0U2pGE&t=88s
with George Galloway and Kneecapped
(18:19)
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“Violent Delights Have Violent Ends”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPXGtm_qKJc
with John Mearsheimer
(20:40)
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power. #johnmearsheimer #israel #iran #china #chinese #chinanews #usa #usarmy #new #newworld #ww2 #ww3 #history #geopolitics #asia #america #xijinping #donaldtrump #trump2025 #sanctions #war #warzone #politics #power #empire
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“Israel violates every ceasefire agreement it signs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ab1lT2slik&si=QkUxIf5HBgT4OSTQ
with George Galloway and Chris Hedges
(17:09)
We've seen the opening salvo in the permanent war against Iran by Israel, who'll try to suck the US in again and clueless Trump will probably do it
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“What Happens Next Is Unthinkable”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HAkWfB3pw&si=NMy1xEnV9HNdB6v7
with Prof. John Mearsheimer
(27:13)
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“The Global Elite Knows, But You Don’t”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYwlH-e1iD0
with Col. Douglas Macgregor
(33:08)
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“Extensive Damage to Israel’s Defense Industry”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUjckivz8S4
with Glenn Diesen and Larry Johnson
(42:22)
Larry Johnson is a former intelligence analyst at the CIA, who also worked at the US State Department's Office of Counterterrorism. Johnson discusses the extensive damage to Israel's Defence Industry, military and economy as a result of its surprise attack on Iran. We discuss Johnson's recent article in Sonar: https://sonar21.com/update-on-irans-t...
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“Netanyahu Now Useless – British project NetO crumbles”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRGdUtD_rgg
by Dialogue Works, with Alex Krainer
(39:53)
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“Jeremy Scahill REVEALS Hamas Ceasefire Strategy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9i15BaQKaU
by Breaking Points
(13:18)
Ryan and Emily discuss Hamas strategy for ceasefire negotiations. Jeremy Scahill: https://x.com/jeremyscahill
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“Israel’s Final Hour: Iran's Next Attack WIPES OUT IDF, Trump in SHOCK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrZkaeVX8Aw
(1:35:31)
with Danny Haiphong and Greg Stoker, Mnar Adley & Elina Xenophontos
Iran is warning that Israel's next attack on its sovereignty may be its last. On this July 4th, the US empire faces the devastating consequences of its war on Iran that saw Israel begging for a ceasefire after 12-days of fighting. In this stream, former US army veteran Greg Stoker and journalists Mnar Adley & Elina Xenophontos break down the aftermath of this conflict and the reverberations it is sending across the region as the US retools for endless war.
Follow
Greg Stoker: 
• State of Play
Support Mnar Adley's Mintpress News: https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/ Follow Elina Xenophontos: https://exenophontos.substack.com/
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“U.S. Arms Both Sides while Preaching Peace”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gDREfefqk
with Abby Martin
(22:21)
Independent journalist Abby Martin joins APT to dissect the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran, questioning whether it's truly a step toward peace or just another pause before escalation. From U.S. arms exports to covert assassinations, Martin exposes the deeper agenda behind the rhetoric of security, freedom, and diplomacy in the Middle East. #abbymartin #iran #apt
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“Putin’s Contempt for Macron”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QAHhzJfhMY
by The Duran
(20:39)
0:00 - Discussion on the recent phone call between Macron and Putin
1:30 - Analysis of Macron's role and the Kremlin's perception of him
3:44 - Overview of the call's focus on Ukraine and the Middle East
5:50 - Implications of Macron's call for future EU-Russia dialogue
7:11 - Macron's stance on unwavering support for Ukraine
9:19 - Breaking of Western leaders' previous decision to avoid speaking with Putin
10:58 - Discussion on the need for a long-term dialogue with Russia
12:51 - Overview of Iran's potential departure from the NPT and its implications
14:45 - Macron's request to Putin regarding Iran and the IAEA
19:20 - Importance of reforming the IAEA to address the Iran situation
20:22 - Conclusion and call to action for viewers
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“German Politician REVEALS: Insane War Preparations in Europe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMTVoZPg_K0
with Pascal Lottaz and Petra Erler
(54:12)
Western guilt in the Ukrainian catastrophe is still stubbornly denied by exactly those political criminals who bear the responsibility for it. Fortunately, there are also honest and courageous voices in Germany who resist the mainstream narrative. One of them is Dr. Petra Erler, a former East German politician who played a key role in working toward reunification with West Germany, including in her role as State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister. Together with her husband, the prominent EU politician Günter Verheugen, Dr. Erler has written an important book about Germany’s current situation titled “The Long Road to War: Russia, Ukraine, and the West – Escalation Instead of Détente.” Petra Erler's Book in German: https://www.penguin.de/buecher/guente... Dr. Erler's Substack: https://petraerler.substack.com
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“The Battle For Congo: Trump Thinks He Just Grabbed Congo’s $2 Trillion Minerals — But China’s Not Backing Down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AabLrKcIY0s&pp=0gcJCcEJAYcqIYzv
by GVS Deep Dive
(15:51)
Donald Trump just brokered a peace deal in the heart of Africa. But this isn’t just about Rwanda and Congo. It’s about cobalt, copper, and control of the critical minerals that power AI, electric vehicles, and global warfare. In this GVS Deep Dive, Najma Minhas exposes the real reason behind Trump’s sudden interest in the Congo — and why China is quietly watching. From the M23 rebel conflict to China’s dominance over the cobalt refining chain, we break down the $2 trillion resource war that could shape the 21st century.
🔹 What’s really in the Congo?
🔹 How does China control the global cobalt supply? 🔹 Can Trump actually outmaneuver Beijing? This isn’t a peace deal — it’s a power play.
🔔 Subscribe for more Deep Dives into geopolitics, minerals, and global power shifts. 💬 Share your thoughts in the comments — is this peace real, or just the beginning of a new Cold War in Africa? #Trump #China #Congo #CriticalMinerals #Geopolitics #Cobalt #USvsChina #Africa #Rwanda #EVs #AIWar #MineralWars #GVSDeepDive
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“Arab Leaders Caught Helping Attack Iran and Gaza”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heo6QxpGWyQ&pp=0gcJCcEJAYcqIYzv
by DDN, with Lowkey
(14:13)
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“Exposed: The IAEA, British Intelligence, and Peter Theil’s Palantir”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAwxF9cWTDE
by Reason2Resist, with Kit Klarenberg
(31:34)
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“What I learned Watching Iranian missiles in Jordan’s Skies”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J-XPT9uK4o
by Electronic Intifada, with Ali Abunimah
(10:57)
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“War Crimes in Gaza: How Israeli Schools Militarize Children”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrqp6rMEV9s
by SaltCubeAnalytics, with Nurit Peled Elhanan
(1:13:55)
🔴 A Pornography of Evil in Israeli school books to indoctrinate children for war. In this powerful and eye-opening interview, renowned Israeli scholar Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan takes us deep into the hidden machinery behind Israel’s education system and how it fuels the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the mother of a daughter tragically killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing, Nurit’s insights carry a weight few can match—yet, despite her personal loss, she refuses to embrace hatred. Instead, she exposes how Israeli schoolbooks systematically dehumanize Palestinians, shaping young minds to see Arabs as enemies, and fueling a cycle of violence that leads to today’s war crimes in Gaza. 🔍 Discover the shocking truth: How the Holocaust narrative is manipulated to invoke fear in Israeli children—not of Germans, but of Arabs, now labeled as “Nazis” by Israeli leaders.
⚔️ Understand the transformation: How Israeli children, indoctrinated from an early age, grow into soldiers who carry out brutal acts without questioning their orders. 📚 Explore the research: Peled-Elhanan’s groundbreaking studies uncover the racism embedded in Israeli textbooks and media, revealing the disturbing connection between education and militarism. This interview is not just a conversation; it’s a wake-up call. Don’t miss this compelling dialogue about fear, indoctrination, and the critical role of education in shaping future generations. Watch now to challenge what you thought you knew about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of education in perpetuating cycles of violence.
👉 Subscribe for more thought-provoking interviews and discussions that dig deeper into the truths behind the headlines.
· 00:00 Intro
· 06:55 Racism in Israeli Education
· 17:55 Manipulation and deception as strategy
· 20:30 Israel is not a democracy
· 26:40 The indoctrination of future soldiers
· 46:40 How perpetual victimhood justifies war crimes
· 01:00:10 The stereotype of the Palestinian terrorist
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“Should Humanity Continue?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrcjmus-oXU
by System Update, with Glenn Greenwald
(20:56)
This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble. You can watch the full episode for FREE here: https://rumble.com/v6vontt-system-upd... Now available as a podcast! Find full episodes here: https://linktr.ee/systemupdate_
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“Something Big is Coming: Keep your eye on Blackrock”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CPO4Ofcv4g
by Redacted, with Clayton Morris
(9:11)
They’re not bringing back the gold standard… they’re weaponizing it. BlackRock and other financial giants are quietly remonetizing gold—not to stabilize the dollar, but to profit from its collapse. In this video, I break down how gold is being used as collateral to create money, how BlackRock is positioning itself to benefit from both war and economic crisis, and why they’re stockpiling gold and silver like never before. Former BlackRock insiders are sounding the alarm. The Federal Reserve is trapped. And war in the Middle East could trigger the next financial reset. Are you ready?
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“No One is Prepared for What BRICS is About to Unleash”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdJDn61HOKQ
by Unfiltered Minds, with Pepe Escobar, July 3, 2025
(12:35)
In this explosive conversation, renowned geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar breaks down the deeper motives behind the escalating tensions in the Middle East, particularly the coordinated pressure on Iran. He explores how Iran's strategic location threatens Western dominance over Eurasian trade routes and why BRICS nations may soon be forced to take a unified stand. From the JCPOA nuclear deal to the growing military alliances between Iran, Russia, and China, Escobar paints a detailed picture of a shifting global order. With inside updates from BRICS meetings in Rio and growing discontent with U.S. influence, he reveals why the West fears BRICS and what might come next in this unfolding geopolitical showdown.
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“No One Is Prepared for What BRICS Is About to Unleash”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUxqG7b9jg
by East Asia Rise, with Jeffrey Sachs, July 3, 2025
(12:56)
Jeffrey Sachs warns that Asia, especially ASEAN, is caught in the crosshairs of escalating U.S.-China rivalry, with global institutions increasingly weaponized by great powers. He underscores how ASEAN's neutrality is under threat as both Washington and Beijing compete for regional influence—forcing smaller states to make dangerous strategic choices. Sachs argues that diplomacy, not militarization, must define Asia’s future, and that China’s economic rise should be met with engagement, not provocation. The fate of Asia, he suggests, will hinge on whether leaders embrace multilateral cooperation or fall into the trap of polarized blocs.
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“BRICS Bombshell STUNS Trump – China, Russia & Iran Make Their Move!
https://www.youtube.com/live/i4WYc7DTEwg?si=qanvPMXDcCdLYfBy
by Dialogue Works, with Pepe Escobar, July 6, 2025
(54:31)
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“Trump Opened A Door That Can’t Be Closed”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rItiQ5_a8vQ&si=c8O5MGiJwD9FSXM2
with Richard Wolff
(24:58)
Today, we’re diving into Richard Wolff’s blistering critique of what he calls the “big beautiful bill” that’s anything but. In this lecture, Wolff exposes how Trump’s tax policy continues to funnel wealth upward, deepening the class divide while both parties turn a blind eye.
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“Russian economy, BRICS future”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDnh5QJI0Rs&si=iTDDDcp4ABKzlotq
by The Duran
(9:05)
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“South Africa’s BRICS Speech Shocks the World: Reveals Plans to Punish Israel!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGZa3Nn9jI
by We Love Africa
(Live)
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“How China Is Changing the US Dollar”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQ2Mqrx0FI&si=R_GN0o2v_yCwsX9e
with Yanis Varoufakis
(12:16)
In this compelling talk, former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explores the deeper reasons behind the United States' new Cold War with China. He argues that the conflict goes beyond geopolitics and centers around technological and financial supremacy.
The U.S. is actively trying to block China's rise in advanced microchips, AI, and digital finance—especially systems like WeChat and China's central bank digital currency—which threaten the dominance of the U.S. dollar. Varoufakis explains how this economic power struggle is reshaping global alliances and posing a serious challenge to American hegemony.
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“Musk Abandons U.S. for China & BRICS—No One Saw This Coming!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu-YQWGiphk&si=q-Um8aHZwlpuh9ky
by 3Daily News
(16:13)
OUTLINE:
· 00:00:00 Elon Musk's Break with Washington
· 00:01:09 A Calculated Exit Strategy
· 00:03:02 Starlink's Shift to BRICS
· 00:04:31 Tesla's Global Realignment
· 00:05:45 A New Frontier
· 00:06:59 Bypassing U.S. Oversight
· 00:07:54 Who Controls the Future of Tech?
· 00:08:52 Strategic Sidelining
· 00:09:48 America's Allies Get Nervous
· 00:12:24 China Welcomes Musk
· 00:14:39 A New Geopolitical Reality
· 00:15:40 The Final Question
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“The Scam is Back; the Quiet Collapse Begins”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAjKc0OG4LE&si=xAmEjfFk9fiHPAg0
with Richard Wolff
(27:01)
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“Russia is Playing Chess”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raGgmUf43yc
with John Mearsheimer
(38:05)
John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at University of Chicago. He is one of the most influential and controversial thinkers in the world on the topics of war and power. #johnmearsheimer #israel #iran #china #chinese #chinanews #usa #usarmy #new #newworld #ww2 #ww3 #history #geopolitics #asia #america #xijinping #donaldtrump #trump2025 #sanctions #war #warzone #politics #power #empire #russia #russiaukrainewar #putin #vladimirputin #zelensky #ukraine
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“New World Order? US, China & Russia in the New Great Power Rivalry”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHA_EBmcKb4
with Glenn Diesen and John Mearsheimer
(50:19)
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. Prof. Mearsheimer discusses how the shift from American hegemony to multipolarity compels the great powers to develop very different strategies. Liberal delusions are fading away and states must see the world as it is, not how they would like it to be.
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“Prof. John Mearsheimer: The Israel Lobby LOSING GROUND?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Hu8BaGIcg
with Glenn Greenwald and John Mearsheimer
(8:29)
This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble. You can watch the full episode for FREE here: https://rumble.com/v6v828x-system-upd... Now available as a podcast! Find full episodes here: https://linktr.ee/systemupdate_
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“Leaked audio: AIPAC leader details control over Trump natsec team”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHo7hyEczg0&si=LaNnDsSVgIZ4H47s
by The Grayzone
(6:49)
The Grayzone obtained leaked audio from AIPAC's 2025 Congressional Summit in which the organization's Executive Director Elliot Brandt boasted that his group had groomed several top Trump national security officials, and is able to “access” their conversations to ensure they continue adhering to Israel’s agenda. Read the full report by Max Blumenthal: https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/09/ai...
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“Leaked audio confirms Rep. Massie's comments on AIPAC control”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrRWmX2xik&si=gRVhP9_gfVTUK83L
by The Grayzone
(12:38)
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on leaked audio obtained by The Grayzone in which the organization's executive director says each member of Congress answers to a local AIPAC staffer, and describes his grooming of key national security officials in the Trump administration. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com
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“Daniel Levy: Israeli society has taken a genocidal turn”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWkcq7FcxZ8&si=aMv4mdXAnwsIMENd
by Middle East Eye
(10:55)
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“They’re Hiding What’s About to Hit Us”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsOqRKXq_E&si=x1uQFk3SqeXEeaJQ
by ŞAHİN Kamera & Fotoğrafçılık, with Max Blumenthal
(32:50)
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“What is about to unfold is Beyond Alarming”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpUmZK0SKzI
by Yemek Zamanimith,with Alastair Crook
(24:11)
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“Destroying Peace Since 1949. NATO: Anatomy of a Bad Idea”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daks1jL5m4E&si=ZEE1BwyG1N1t4b7-
by Neutrality Studies, with A. Lieven, J. Matlock & J. Mearsheimer
(1:02:16)
Interviews:
· 00:00 Highlights
· 01:56 Intro Katrina vanden Heuvel
· 05:05 Intro Pascal
· 08:19 Jack Matlock: What NATO is about
· 13:44 John Mearsheimer: NATO Expansion
· 18:56 Anatol Lieven: The Hubris of NATO
· 28:38 Jack Matlock: This is not a Cold War
· 34:56 John Mearsheimer: The Failings of the West
· 38:34 Anatol Lieven: Universal Rivalry of the West
· 42:36 Jack Matlock: Overcommitment of the USA
· 46:15 John Mearsheimer: What the USA cares about
· 50:26 Anatol Lieven: Illiberal domestic policies blamed on Russia
· 54:50 Jack Matlock: Necessity of turning AWAY from Nuclear War
· 58:19 John Mearsheimer: Necessity of NATO severing ties with Ukraine
On April 4, 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was founded in Washington DC. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the worlds largest military alliance, we hosted a panel with three iconic IR thinkers. Jack Matlock—the last US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Professor John Mearsheimer—the World's most renowned realist thinker, and Anatol Lieven—the Quincy Institute's finest journalist, are our guests.
The panel was convened by the American Committee for US-Russia Accord and Catharina vanden Heuvel, the former Editor in Chief of the Nation Magazine together with Neutrality Studies. In this talk, the three realists explain how NATO after the Cold War has morphed into a global linchpin of instability and a failed vehicle of US power projection.
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“The FASCIST Core of The Euro-Atlantic Regimes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX_71MgkJwg
with Dr. Niall McLaren
(1:09:35)
Can we explain the relentless drive toward warfare of the Euro-Atlantic collective by way of individual psychology? Is at the core of the warmongering actually a psychological malfunction? Yes, indeed, says my guest today. If we pare up psychiatric diagnosis with the functioning of societies, we find that in the absence of moderating domestic political mechanisms, states will tend toward fascism as those are the natural inclinations of power-seeking narcissist who will float to the top if not prevented from getting there alone. How this impacts international relations is our topic of today.
Dr. McLaren wrote—among other works—the insightful book “Narcisso-Fascism: The psychopathology of right-wing extremism”, in which he explores in great detail the connection between pathological narcissism, fascism as a societal phenomenon and the role of dominance in state systems.
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“The history of Germany's fall into fascism is worth noting”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dj0ZXdge_8
with Richard Wolff
(4:26)
"What [the historic inflation] meant was, over the previous 70 years as German families (very frugal) had accumulated savings, those savings were not worth a quarter pound of butter. And that all happened in a few months. The decimation of that. It was in the autumn of [1923] at the apogee of that inflation that a right wing military leader named Adolf Hitler tried to march on the city center in Munich, Bavaria in what became to be known as the Beer Hall Putsch. He had planned to take over the city of Munich in the South of Germany and march and take over the whole society, he and a kind of rough and ready bunch of mostly young, white, men. If it sounds familiar, that's the point." - Richard Wolff
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“Israel, Zionism, Politics & Gaza”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cvaOIEjyCw&si=nwRWMPik3vb1vkkQ
by Know Time, with Norman Finkelstein
(1:42:30)
Norman Finkelstein, historian and author of books like The Holocaust Industry and Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, returns in chapter two to talk about navigating American politics, Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani, the history of Nazism and Hitler, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, the history of Zionism, West Bank, Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat and the future of Gaza.
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“Total Breakdown is Happening”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGsAPxVI1C4&si=aFPtwCl2GTGdfwwh
by Yemek Zamanim ,with Larry Johnson
(24:18)
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“Israel Will Use Aggression against Iran Again”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6JqmIt9Z_A&si=JRF0v_JeuvdZZuc-
with Alastair Crook
(23:56)
Alastaire Crooke is a former British diplomat and is the founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum, an organization that advocates for engagement between Islam and the West. Amongst his other career highlights, he was a former advisor on West Asia issues to Javier Solana, the former EU Foreign Policy Chief. He also has extensive experience with resistance movements like Hamas and Hezbollah. He also accurately predicted that Israel would use aggression against Iran before it happened.
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“The REAL REASON the Genocide Hasn't Been Stopped”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-9yO7u6AaE&si=8qO-Iaxic5MFZTgw
with Chris Hedges and Francesca Albanese
(13:13)
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“Iron Dome is Shattered: Iran Deploys Samson Option—Israel Unprepared”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRG4WZk_5XI&si=NIbo8eI64R-ScN3J
with Garland Nixon and Larry C. Johnson
(53:32)
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“Iran starts new chapter on nuclear programme as IAEA inspectors leave Tel Aviv”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbrj4IyTSpg&si=wmm6vzyA39PGQVEK
by JANTA KA Reporter
(9:46)
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“Iran says It won’t allow IAEA boss to ‘set foot’ on its Soil amidst spy charges”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HggFa1ZnocQ
by JANTA KA Reporter
(9:50)
In a huge development, a top aide to the Speaker of the Iranian parliament has said that IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi will never be welcome in Iran amidst allegations that he passed sensitive information on Iranian nuclear scientists to Israel. Rifat Jawaid explains the significance of this statement made by Ebrahim Amir Rasouli in light of Iran starting a new chapter of nuclear ambiguity.
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“How Zohran Beat the NYC Democratic Establishment”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ni3pmMSUQ&si=gtc7T6oUA3PS1RVl
with Glenn Greenwald
(15:06)
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“Why Zohran Marmdani Won”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6OIBOqpJSs
(15:01)
With Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein, historian and author of books like The Holocaust Industry and Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, talks about Zohran Mamdani.
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“This Is WAY Worse Than Anyone Realized”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-vBHYB52Y&si=kVv0ManoZcdRTsVf
with Seyed Mohammad Marandi
(11:56)
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“Most People Have No Idea What’s About to Happen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZncUKNvLE&si=6rhwqGA_pUQEqD8G
by Unfiltered Minds, with Alex Krainer
(17:16)
In this powerful breakdown, geopolitical analyst Alex Krainer exposes how Western governments—particularly the UK and France—are using proxy wars and covert operations to distract from internal collapse. From the disintegration of Britain’s healthcare and pension systems to secretive SAS deployments and media manipulation, Krainer draws historical parallels and reveals the elite strategies used to deflect blame and maintain control. He unpacks the desperation behind Western efforts to hold onto Odessa, the strategic implications of losing the Black Sea, and the quiet buildup to potential conflict in the Balkans. With deep insight into military tactics, global alliances, and the hidden hands behind modern warfare, this conversation challenges mainstream narratives and sheds light on the geopolitical game few are willing to acknowledge.
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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller
“In memory of those who “died suddenly” in the United States and worldwide, June 16-23, 2025”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Actors Diana Oh (38), Guido Tenesi, Pamela Peters Solow; R&Ber Cavin Yarbrough; bassist Steve Evans; choreographer Dave Scott (52); journos William Langewiesche, Scott Miller (62, C); & more
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“Kristi Noem rushed to hospital ("allergic reaction"); Ronnie McDowell slurs words on stage, rushed to hospital; T-Rex has seizure during rap battle; UK: TV journo Dermot Murnaghan has prostate cancer”
by Mark Crispin Miller
"Olympic Weightlifter Mattie Rogers suffers mini-stroke during training"; UK: singer Aston Merrygold rushed to hospital (no cause given); FR: footie Kylian Mbappé has gastroenteritis; more
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“Victor Willis rushed to hospital mid-show; Linkin Park cancel Bern concert; UK: Kate Middleton halts public appearances again; drummer Lionel Duke (The Christians) collapses on stage”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Emerson College DJ George Knight goes off the air (throat cancer); rocker Wayne Lozinak (Hatebreed) diagnosed with brain tumor on European tour; Angels manager Ron Washington "out indefinitely"; more
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“Water, water everywhere—and, everywhere, more dead: Reports from NZ to the USA (and Uruguay)”
by Mark Crispin Miller
"The science" must catch up with this bizarre development, and help explain it.
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“Paul Simon cancels more shows; Bret Michaels cancels shows; Steve Van Zandt rushed to hospital just after show; Dick Van Dyke skips long-planned fan event; Luke Bryan cancels shows”
by Mark Crispin Miller
Georgia Thunderbolts halt UK tour; bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman rushed to hospital; golfer Steve Pate pulls out of PGA Championship match; Irish band Hozier cancels two shows; & more
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“There's something wrong with Trump 47; rocker David Roach has aggressive cancer; CA: bassist Matt Keil diagnosed with ALS; Sen. Patrick Brazeau collapses mid-debate; IN: VP Dankhar collapses at event”
by Mark Crispin Miller
UFC's Ben Askren has double lung transplant after pneumonia hospitalization; Kelly Highland ("Dance Moms") has heart surgery after "cancer battle"; UK: singer Jessie J has breast cancer surgery; more
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“Embalmers Report Persistent Blood Clots in Corpses Since COVID Vaxx Roll Out!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE_V9B4AzQc
by The Jimmy Dore Show
(10:31)
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“‘1 out of every 37 vaccines You Get - There’s An Injury!’ Says HHS Secretary RFK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxww64jxYCA
by The Jimmy Dore Show
(30:17)
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“They Kept the Study Secret: CDC Autism Study Showed “1135% Elevated Risk In Vaccinated Children”! –RFK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-Pd2XM3y0
by The Jimmy Dore Show
(7:52)
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
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« Des multinationales s'enrichissent grâce au génocide en cours à Gaza, affirme un rapport de l'ONU »
par Clément Poursain
Francesca Albanese, rapporteuse spéciale de l'ONU sur les droits humains dans les territoires palestiniens occupés, appelle à des sanctions, à un embargo sur les armes et à la fin de l'impunité des entreprises qui «profitent du génocide».
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History News Network Archives
https://us1.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=191ccdd6c73c5afeafd52cfb8&id=4b27cc9cc2
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Global Research Archives
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CovertAction Magazine Archives
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Donald Trump’s Autocratic One-Man Government Regime: Doomed to Failure? But Not Before a Lot of Chaos and Destruction. Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
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