April 28
GUEST: Ben Burgis, author, Jacobin columnist, and philosophy professor at Morehouse College, talks about his recent article "Left-Wing Opponents of War Aren’t Isolationists."
No, Left-Wing Opponents of War Aren’t Isolationists
It seems like war talk is all we hear on our media. No one seems to question the assumption that Russia is trying to take over the world, and that Putin is the most dangerous man on the planet.
What isn't said is probably the most important. The Pentagon has had a long term goal of backing Russia into a corner and eliminating one of the few remaining countries not under the thumb of the American Empire. That's what Obama's "pivot to Asia" was all about. It was a military pivot to undermine our strongest rival in the Far East.
Since world dominance has been the strategy for so many decades, President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken are only following Pentagon orders. But they are doing it with a righteous abandon, like everyone else in power. Even Alan Chartock, that sniveling voice of liberal America on NPR, is finding his balls by talking tough about Putin. It is a bad sign. A very bad sign.
Pushing Russia towards war with the US is gambling with the future of our species, the same gamble that burning more fossil fuels will eventually be. As the richest nation on Earth, with the strongest military, the US will be the one to push us over the line. Will this digital message to the future ever be read by what comes after? And will that being reading this message ever understand how we did this to ourselves, through our greed and militarism?
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. -MLK
