Perhaps you’re right and here he is being useful, and also unfortunately crowing about it:

https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2092817519723556986

Either way, good info.

Ha ha! Yeah it’s horrifying. I had a hard time watching. I think what Max means by stealing is no longer working with Max and thereby depriving him of an asset.

I don’t know if Max is a grifter, controlled opposition or just has terrible judgment. In practice the mixture of good information and nonsense he peddles serves to discredit the good information. I do like some of the people he works with like Kit Klarenberg and formerly Ben Norton who went solo. There’s a jawdropping video of Max on a bus taunting Ben and almost getting an ass kicking, fortunately someone who was with Ben de escalated.

I receive: buildings

You receive: wall

It was originally called Multipolarista which was a bit cringe, prefer the new name.

I don’t have a steady podcast rotation any more. I like Pascal when he has a good guest like Radhika. One of his best was with Adnan Husain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbasAeQZqEA

Those shows were very influential on me. However I feel they were too much on the same page and the discussions would hit the same beats over and over. Ben is at his best when he’s on another person’s podcast and his talk turns into the most incredible information dump.

In Nietzsche’s notion of “eternal recurrence,” “noble” spirits and the master race would again experience the triumph of the will in the cyclical swings of history. Yet, eternal recurrence, meant a lack of overall progress, so that the cumulative result was “Nothingness (the ‘meaninglessness’) for ever more!” Although Nietzsche wished to supersede nihilism through the Overman as the personification of the will-to-power, it was to nihilism that everything always eternally returned, as genuine forward progress was foreclosed.

I think this is part of what powers a certain toxic nostalgia.

Oh certainly, I agree - it’s just that this dude is the source of all those famous CHINA COLLAPSE - IT’S OVER - TWO WEEKS - FINISHED thumbnails from a few years back so like a stopped clock he doesn’t inspire confidence even if he’s right this time.

Japan is certainly in deep doodoo but wasn’t mr. concerned steeplefingers saying this about China recently - probably still is?

Heh yeah, only reason I know about him at all is because of his old stuff from the 00s. Which was still kinda weird, but not like this! I check in occasionally to see how insane he’s gotten. This heroic Hitler theme in 2026 is surely where he bottoms out. It’s instructive to note that his turn into genuine madness began with anti-trans ideology.

Does Tats have an audience that’s on his side? I never see any right wingers posting his stuff, just shocked leftists. Maybe I’m just not in the right circles.

I temp unsubscribed from Glenn when he started having “prof” Jiang on. He also had that weenie Gad Saad on at one point. The comments were absolutely scathing so I hope he doesn’t try that again.

Crooke is an interesting guy. I’m reading his Resistance book about Iran and it’s informative though I don’t expect ideological alignment with my views. With any of these people you have to exercise tolerance. Sachs for example has some geopolitical and historical insights but just cannot fathom that imperialism does what it does because it’s an obligate blood drinker. He’s constantly moaning about bad choices and why can’t we be more sensible. Uh, because that’s not where surplus value comes from, Jeff.

There is nothing wrong with migration in and of itself but this must be seen in context. US imperialism, through its stooges in Israel and Morocco, is encouraging migration for multiple reasons, among them to stoke right wing sentiment in Spain - hence, the talk from some US politicians and pundits about how this wouldn’t have happened if Spain had its own Trump. They are trying to weaken Sanchez and improve the standing of Vox, Spain’s right wing party. They won’t be happy with Spain until it gets its own Milei at the very least.

https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/bki11ns9tzx

That’s precisely right. It’s colonialism, but you have to read it not in isolation but in context of current events. When has the US ever come out against colonialism? When have they sided, say, with the Sahel states against France, or with the Palestinians against Zionist occupation? The US is simply angry at Spain for not allowing the US to use their airspace against Iran, for openly making modest noise in support of Palestine, as well as for forging closer ties with Algeria, which will never be forgiven for expelling the French (same as Haiti in that regard).

https://xcancel.com/leylahamed/status/2082988795960406305

https://xcancel.com/Megatron_ron/status/2083183169847615540

Spain is being punished.

https://xcancel.com/wallyrashid/status/2083051354818240539

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companion video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GD_NxUhXPc

As others have said, it’s simply a matter of truth and evidence.

Good book on the topic - Atrocity Fabrication and its Consequences (pdf link)

https://ia600302.us.archive.org/1/items/abrams-atrocity-fabrications/Abrams_AtrocityFab.pdf

I try to keep in mind that Mao allied with the Kuomintang even after they’d conducted a war of extermination against the communists. It was worth it to chase out the Japanese and achieve national liberation. The CPGB is of course hardly as bad as the Kuomintang despite their regressive gender views, but it’s a good reminder of the importance of tactical alliances.