It kinda sucks now that all this writing and video is behind paywalls. I realize you need money if you want to live of being an interviewer or or media figure but people like Greg Greenwald and other famous voices are just silence to me and I don't even like talking about what they may have said. For actual poor people the new media situation kinda sucks. The pay media game is kinda also gonna partially be a grift and grifty things will end up in them if they are paywalled controlled. People like finklestien and chomsky donate their time and then people try to make that access soemething they can sell to others.
It would be good if there was an option to pay one amount your comfortable with and have it divided amongst your Substacks
Or, my favourite independent journalist, James Corbett of the Corbett Report has an option to pay $1 or any amount you choose per month.... and only a tiny fragment of unimportant things behind the pay wall...
America is riddled by rampant individualism. Organizing Americans is like herding cats.
The leading super stars on Rumble and substack are not socialists in the sense they would communally organize. They are individualists and it is individualism tied to capitalism that is also internally destroying the mind and the country, in this case America.
News has always been behind a paywall of sorts. Newspapers had to be bought for a few coins and magazines for a few dollars. Regular home delivery for subscribers. Yes, people benefited from libraries making access free but it was old news by then and useful only for research. The ‘free’ model you refer to was a temporary solution only because the media companies were too stupid to understand the new internet paradigm they were in. But don’t worry they will survive because they’ve learned to manipulate the internet in their favour.
Many of these public figures are grifts. This is the epoch of morbidities as we see capitalism and imperialism make life senseless. No need for me to mention names but the celebrity figures that compose much of the podcast communities really do nothing but build viewers and their rolodex. They seem to only prepare and do shows and commentary. And after many historical events stemming say from Snowden, sites like the Intercept who still have 99 percent of the Snowden files, many cannot be trusted. Many are plants, spies.
This model of media will not last for when it comes down to buying food or listening to a podcast food prevails.
The intelligentsia will continue to support sites such as you mention but working people will be stuck behind the paywall as capitalism continues its expedition to destroy all that is sacred, all that is needed and all that is life.
Pardonne mon français. . . Je suis obligé d'écrire dans plusieurs langues parce que : 1. La plupart des gens aux États-Unis ont subi un lavage de cerveau leur faisant croire que les Juifs sont leur salut ; et 2., leur anglais est de la merde et ils ne peuvent pas rester silencieux assez longtemps pour entendre ou voir ce qui se passe évidemment autour d'eux . . . Le judéo-messianisme répand parmi nous son message empoisonné depuis près de deux mille ans. Les universalismes démocratique et communiste sont plus récents, mais ils n’ont fait que renforcer le vieux récit juif. Ce sont les mêmes idéaux.
Les idéaux transnationaux, transraciaux, transsexuels, transculturels que ces idéologies nous prêchent (au-delà des peuples, des races, des cultures) et qui sont le subsistance quotidienne de nos écoles, dans nos médias, dans notre culture populaire, à nos universités, et sur nos rues, ont fini par réduire notre identité biosymbolique et notre fierté ethnique à leur expression minimale.
Les banquiers juifs ont inondé l’Europe de musulmans et l’Amérique de déchets du tiers-monde . . . L'exil comme punition pour ceux qui prêchent la sédition devrait être rétabli dans le cadre juridique de l'Occident . . . Le judaïsme, le christianisme, et l’islam sont des cultes de mort originaires du Moyen-Orient et totalement étrangers à l’Europe et à ses peuples.
On se demande parfois pourquoi la gauche européenne s’entend si bien avec les musulmans. Pourquoi un mouvement souvent ouvertement antireligieux prend-il le parti d’une religiosité farouche qui semble s’opposer à presque tout ce que la gauche a toujours prétendu défendre ? Une partie de l’explication réside dans le fait que l’Islam et le marxisme ont une racine idéologique commune : le judaïsme.
On dirait que Don Rumsfeld avait raison lorsqu’il disait : «L’Europe s’est décalé sur son axe», c’est le mauvais côté qui a gagné la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et cela devient chaque jour plus clair . . . Qu’a fait l’OTAN pour défendre l’Europe? Absolument rien . . . Mes ennemis ne sont pas à Moscou, à Damas, à Téhéran, à Riyad ou dans quelque croque-mitaine teutonique éthéré, mes ennemis sont à Washington, Bruxelles et Tel Aviv. . . Va te faire foutre toi et ton dieu juif.
The real problem is that we have nothing but commentary and very little organizing.
All day long one could sit in front of important sites like this and hear news and analysis and this is good and important.
But it is not enough.
If one thinks the dreadful problems we face are capitalism and imperialism, then we are going to have to come up with an organized media plan connected to organizing on the ground.
and yes, it must involve low payments and volume.
But then you get people like Democracynow who found they could not support their high salary network and thus turned to NGO's and such.
This is not vialble either, just watch the show.
My fear is that soon this generation of 38 year olds, will find themselves under-ground, eventually.
Rationality is competing with high tech appeals to emotion and this does not bode well for critical thinking.
Love all 3 of you. Appreciate the propaganda free analysis. And especially the empathy and imagination for what shapes the identity and mentality of the young Hamas fighters. Thanks for creating the space to be with sane, decent, humane humans.
A slave has no choices and works for the dreams and aspirations of others, a soulless mission. A person in a concentration camp’s soul is destroyed through their dreams and aspirations being denied whilst NOT having to work for the oppressor. Although it is a matter of degrees, I agree with Finkelstein, the soul of a human is at the heart of the matter and when it is denied, the retaliation is likely to play out in a similar way.
As a victim of sexual violence, I have spent my entire life under criticism for my own agency in that victimization and a compounding and demeaning, heavy weight of rejection for my reactions to that.
I understand, in my limited way, why this jailbreak was both an atrocity and a victory.
Pardonne mon français. . . Je suis obligé d'écrire dans plusieurs langues parce que : 1. La plupart des gens aux États-Unis ont subi un lavage de cerveau leur faisant croire que les Juifs sont leur salut ; et 2., leur anglais est de la merde et ils ne peuvent pas rester silencieux assez longtemps pour entendre ou voir ce qui se passe évidemment autour d'eux . . . Le judéo-messianisme répand parmi nous son message empoisonné depuis près de deux mille ans. Les universalismes démocratique et communiste sont plus récents, mais ils n’ont fait que renforcer le vieux récit juif. Ce sont les mêmes idéaux.
Les idéaux transnationaux, transraciaux, transsexuels, transculturels que ces idéologies nous prêchent (au-delà des peuples, des races, des cultures) et qui sont le subsistance quotidienne de nos écoles, dans nos médias, dans notre culture populaire, à nos universités, et sur nos rues, ont fini par réduire notre identité biosymbolique et notre fierté ethnique à leur expression minimale.
Les banquiers juifs ont inondé l’Europe de musulmans et l’Amérique de déchets du tiers-monde . . . L'exil comme punition pour ceux qui prêchent la sédition devrait être rétabli dans le cadre juridique de l'Occident . . . Le judaïsme, le christianisme, et l’islam sont des cultes de mort originaires du Moyen-Orient et totalement étrangers à l’Europe et à ses peuples.
On se demande parfois pourquoi la gauche européenne s’entend si bien avec les musulmans. Pourquoi un mouvement souvent ouvertement antireligieux prend-il le parti d’une religiosité farouche qui semble s’opposer à presque tout ce que la gauche a toujours prétendu défendre ? Une partie de l’explication réside dans le fait que l’Islam et le marxisme ont une racine idéologique commune : le judaïsme.
On dirait que Don Rumsfeld avait raison lorsqu’il disait : «L’Europe s’est décalé sur son axe», c’est le mauvais côté qui a gagné la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et cela devient chaque jour plus clair . . . Qu’a fait l’OTAN pour défendre l’Europe? Absolument rien . . . Mes ennemis ne sont pas à Moscou, à Damas, à Téhéran, à Riyad ou dans quelque croque-mitaine teutonique éthéré, mes ennemis sont à Washington, Bruxelles et Tel Aviv. . . Va te faire foutre toi et ton dieu juif.
Can't completely let go of what Blinken lay down, besides his weary tune.
“Men, women, young children, elderly people, it’s extraordinary.” (in mock concern that Israelis & Americans taken hostage) Or could he be talking about those lying beneath the bounced rubble of Gaza?
Nope. The dope has a one-chambered heart of sympathy that beats only for non-combatant Israelis. But, perhaps to compensate, he speaks in a two-tongue way of & to Palestinians.
Actions speak louder than words. But some words are so noxious that they choke the air & stop action in its tracks by what they leave out.
Finkelstein is an amazing source, but a horrible communicator. He needs to learn to answer succinctly, stop monologing/speaking over his hosts. I'm a super sympathetic listener, and I set him to 1.75 or 2.0.
I want his knowledge and perspective on Gaza. I do NOT need a celebrity reading of "The Fires of Jubilee," nor do I need a 20 minute discussion on the appropriateness of the analogy between a slave and concentration camp (Gaza) resident.
It is rude to your hosts to repeatedly "ask" if you can read something, quote something, etc., and then not wait for an answer before launching into an extended monologue.
I can imagine that it is only people with no time constraints, secure audiences, and/or thick skins like Jimmy Dore who will have Finkelstein on, because Finkelstein ignores the hints and directions of his hosts. That is a real shame, because Finkelstein's depth of knowledge on the subject of Palestine is singular. If he could learn to rein himself in I think he would be able to reach a MUCH broader audience.
Does the outburst of rage by Hamas militants against their confinement & the smothering of their freedom justify the horrors that everyday Palestinian families now must suffer from Israel’s ongoing merciless response? Wasn’t such a response not expected?
After Turner’s rebellion, did slave owners across the South wantonly kill their slaves in reprisal? Perhaps useful as an explanation but as a strategy that would change facts on the ground beyond one day?
Who’s really looking out for the well being of the Palestinian people? What do they gain from this action? They appear to be pawns in someone’s larger game.
Thank you for hashing out some of these questions.
It kinda sucks now that all this writing and video is behind paywalls. I realize you need money if you want to live of being an interviewer or or media figure but people like Greg Greenwald and other famous voices are just silence to me and I don't even like talking about what they may have said. For actual poor people the new media situation kinda sucks. The pay media game is kinda also gonna partially be a grift and grifty things will end up in them if they are paywalled controlled. People like finklestien and chomsky donate their time and then people try to make that access soemething they can sell to others.
I think the same thing
I can’t afford to support everyone I like
It would be good if there was an option to pay one amount your comfortable with and have it divided amongst your Substacks
Or, my favourite independent journalist, James Corbett of the Corbett Report has an option to pay $1 or any amount you choose per month.... and only a tiny fragment of unimportant things behind the pay wall...
America is riddled by rampant individualism. Organizing Americans is like herding cats.
The leading super stars on Rumble and substack are not socialists in the sense they would communally organize. They are individualists and it is individualism tied to capitalism that is also internally destroying the mind and the country, in this case America.
Begging for shekels on the internet . . . the Jewing of America . . .
Isn't this on youtube?
News has always been behind a paywall of sorts. Newspapers had to be bought for a few coins and magazines for a few dollars. Regular home delivery for subscribers. Yes, people benefited from libraries making access free but it was old news by then and useful only for research. The ‘free’ model you refer to was a temporary solution only because the media companies were too stupid to understand the new internet paradigm they were in. But don’t worry they will survive because they’ve learned to manipulate the internet in their favour.
Many of these public figures are grifts. This is the epoch of morbidities as we see capitalism and imperialism make life senseless. No need for me to mention names but the celebrity figures that compose much of the podcast communities really do nothing but build viewers and their rolodex. They seem to only prepare and do shows and commentary. And after many historical events stemming say from Snowden, sites like the Intercept who still have 99 percent of the Snowden files, many cannot be trusted. Many are plants, spies.
This model of media will not last for when it comes down to buying food or listening to a podcast food prevails.
The intelligentsia will continue to support sites such as you mention but working people will be stuck behind the paywall as capitalism continues its expedition to destroy all that is sacred, all that is needed and all that is life.
Norm should have a microphone and a camera rigged up in his house ready to stream a monologue at any moment he feels he has something worth saying
Pardonne mon français. . . Je suis obligé d'écrire dans plusieurs langues parce que : 1. La plupart des gens aux États-Unis ont subi un lavage de cerveau leur faisant croire que les Juifs sont leur salut ; et 2., leur anglais est de la merde et ils ne peuvent pas rester silencieux assez longtemps pour entendre ou voir ce qui se passe évidemment autour d'eux . . . Le judéo-messianisme répand parmi nous son message empoisonné depuis près de deux mille ans. Les universalismes démocratique et communiste sont plus récents, mais ils n’ont fait que renforcer le vieux récit juif. Ce sont les mêmes idéaux.
Les idéaux transnationaux, transraciaux, transsexuels, transculturels que ces idéologies nous prêchent (au-delà des peuples, des races, des cultures) et qui sont le subsistance quotidienne de nos écoles, dans nos médias, dans notre culture populaire, à nos universités, et sur nos rues, ont fini par réduire notre identité biosymbolique et notre fierté ethnique à leur expression minimale.
Les banquiers juifs ont inondé l’Europe de musulmans et l’Amérique de déchets du tiers-monde . . . L'exil comme punition pour ceux qui prêchent la sédition devrait être rétabli dans le cadre juridique de l'Occident . . . Le judaïsme, le christianisme, et l’islam sont des cultes de mort originaires du Moyen-Orient et totalement étrangers à l’Europe et à ses peuples.
On se demande parfois pourquoi la gauche européenne s’entend si bien avec les musulmans. Pourquoi un mouvement souvent ouvertement antireligieux prend-il le parti d’une religiosité farouche qui semble s’opposer à presque tout ce que la gauche a toujours prétendu défendre ? Une partie de l’explication réside dans le fait que l’Islam et le marxisme ont une racine idéologique commune : le judaïsme.
On dirait que Don Rumsfeld avait raison lorsqu’il disait : «L’Europe s’est décalé sur son axe», c’est le mauvais côté qui a gagné la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et cela devient chaque jour plus clair . . . Qu’a fait l’OTAN pour défendre l’Europe? Absolument rien . . . Mes ennemis ne sont pas à Moscou, à Damas, à Téhéran, à Riyad ou dans quelque croque-mitaine teutonique éthéré, mes ennemis sont à Washington, Bruxelles et Tel Aviv. . . Va te faire foutre toi et ton dieu juif.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
Something like a cell phone, tablet, or computer.
The real problem is that we have nothing but commentary and very little organizing.
All day long one could sit in front of important sites like this and hear news and analysis and this is good and important.
But it is not enough.
If one thinks the dreadful problems we face are capitalism and imperialism, then we are going to have to come up with an organized media plan connected to organizing on the ground.
and yes, it must involve low payments and volume.
But then you get people like Democracynow who found they could not support their high salary network and thus turned to NGO's and such.
This is not vialble either, just watch the show.
My fear is that soon this generation of 38 year olds, will find themselves under-ground, eventually.
Rationality is competing with high tech appeals to emotion and this does not bode well for critical thinking.
Love all 3 of you. Appreciate the propaganda free analysis. And especially the empathy and imagination for what shapes the identity and mentality of the young Hamas fighters. Thanks for creating the space to be with sane, decent, humane humans.
A slave has no choices and works for the dreams and aspirations of others, a soulless mission. A person in a concentration camp’s soul is destroyed through their dreams and aspirations being denied whilst NOT having to work for the oppressor. Although it is a matter of degrees, I agree with Finkelstein, the soul of a human is at the heart of the matter and when it is denied, the retaliation is likely to play out in a similar way.
As a victim of sexual violence, I have spent my entire life under criticism for my own agency in that victimization and a compounding and demeaning, heavy weight of rejection for my reactions to that.
I understand, in my limited way, why this jailbreak was both an atrocity and a victory.
The Mate Fallacy: Do People - Hamas - Have 'Agency'
What is it about Israel and western intellectual and religious culture that let them get away with the Gaza genocide?
Article: https://cloudwoods1.substack.com/p/the-mate-fallacy-do-people-hamas
Pardonne mon français. . . Je suis obligé d'écrire dans plusieurs langues parce que : 1. La plupart des gens aux États-Unis ont subi un lavage de cerveau leur faisant croire que les Juifs sont leur salut ; et 2., leur anglais est de la merde et ils ne peuvent pas rester silencieux assez longtemps pour entendre ou voir ce qui se passe évidemment autour d'eux . . . Le judéo-messianisme répand parmi nous son message empoisonné depuis près de deux mille ans. Les universalismes démocratique et communiste sont plus récents, mais ils n’ont fait que renforcer le vieux récit juif. Ce sont les mêmes idéaux.
Les idéaux transnationaux, transraciaux, transsexuels, transculturels que ces idéologies nous prêchent (au-delà des peuples, des races, des cultures) et qui sont le subsistance quotidienne de nos écoles, dans nos médias, dans notre culture populaire, à nos universités, et sur nos rues, ont fini par réduire notre identité biosymbolique et notre fierté ethnique à leur expression minimale.
Les banquiers juifs ont inondé l’Europe de musulmans et l’Amérique de déchets du tiers-monde . . . L'exil comme punition pour ceux qui prêchent la sédition devrait être rétabli dans le cadre juridique de l'Occident . . . Le judaïsme, le christianisme, et l’islam sont des cultes de mort originaires du Moyen-Orient et totalement étrangers à l’Europe et à ses peuples.
On se demande parfois pourquoi la gauche européenne s’entend si bien avec les musulmans. Pourquoi un mouvement souvent ouvertement antireligieux prend-il le parti d’une religiosité farouche qui semble s’opposer à presque tout ce que la gauche a toujours prétendu défendre ? Une partie de l’explication réside dans le fait que l’Islam et le marxisme ont une racine idéologique commune : le judaïsme.
On dirait que Don Rumsfeld avait raison lorsqu’il disait : «L’Europe s’est décalé sur son axe», c’est le mauvais côté qui a gagné la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et cela devient chaque jour plus clair . . . Qu’a fait l’OTAN pour défendre l’Europe? Absolument rien . . . Mes ennemis ne sont pas à Moscou, à Damas, à Téhéran, à Riyad ou dans quelque croque-mitaine teutonique éthéré, mes ennemis sont à Washington, Bruxelles et Tel Aviv. . . Va te faire foutre toi et ton dieu juif.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/pardonne-mon-francais-va-te-faire
Can't completely let go of what Blinken lay down, besides his weary tune.
“Men, women, young children, elderly people, it’s extraordinary.” (in mock concern that Israelis & Americans taken hostage) Or could he be talking about those lying beneath the bounced rubble of Gaza?
Nope. The dope has a one-chambered heart of sympathy that beats only for non-combatant Israelis. But, perhaps to compensate, he speaks in a two-tongue way of & to Palestinians.
Actions speak louder than words. But some words are so noxious that they choke the air & stop action in its tracks by what they leave out.
Finkelstein is an amazing source, but a horrible communicator. He needs to learn to answer succinctly, stop monologing/speaking over his hosts. I'm a super sympathetic listener, and I set him to 1.75 or 2.0.
I want his knowledge and perspective on Gaza. I do NOT need a celebrity reading of "The Fires of Jubilee," nor do I need a 20 minute discussion on the appropriateness of the analogy between a slave and concentration camp (Gaza) resident.
It is rude to your hosts to repeatedly "ask" if you can read something, quote something, etc., and then not wait for an answer before launching into an extended monologue.
I can imagine that it is only people with no time constraints, secure audiences, and/or thick skins like Jimmy Dore who will have Finkelstein on, because Finkelstein ignores the hints and directions of his hosts. That is a real shame, because Finkelstein's depth of knowledge on the subject of Palestine is singular. If he could learn to rein himself in I think he would be able to reach a MUCH broader audience.
I think you are right. As he said, forty years of combatting lies and he is old and tired.
His books are far better.
There are few who can replace him.
And that is the problem; the knowledge transfer is being wiped out as the books and internet are censored.
The past is being re-written and without the Finkelstein's of the world of which there are few, it will be forgotten by the young.
Does the outburst of rage by Hamas militants against their confinement & the smothering of their freedom justify the horrors that everyday Palestinian families now must suffer from Israel’s ongoing merciless response? Wasn’t such a response not expected?
After Turner’s rebellion, did slave owners across the South wantonly kill their slaves in reprisal? Perhaps useful as an explanation but as a strategy that would change facts on the ground beyond one day?
Who’s really looking out for the well being of the Palestinian people? What do they gain from this action? They appear to be pawns in someone’s larger game.
Thank you for hashing out some of these questions.