Aesthetic Resistance Podcast

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump becomes Bush, the pale criminal, Franz Fanon on colonial war and mental disorders, is the Israel-Iran conflict a controlled demolition of the Zionist state? curbing one's enthusiasm for schadenfreude, BBC obeys Israeli state censorship rules, the Scofield Bible and its influence on American politics, the color of marble. Music track: “Tin Tin Deo” by Dizzy Gillespie (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Daniel Broudy, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, a few words in honor of the life of Christopher Black, police actions in Los Angeles against migrants and minorities and their defenders, Mike Davis' “No One is Illegal” (2006), Alexandre Havard-Dianine on Descartes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche, Jacinda Adern's career after the covid years in New Zealand, digital money vs. travelers' checks, the occupation of the mind of the target population, Jacques Ellul: agitation and integration propaganda. Music track: “Spanish Key” by Miles Davis (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, US backtracks on General Langley's hostile rhetoric about Burkina Faso, US plays dumb while Ukraine provokes Russia toward nuclear war, Lindsay Graham grandstanding on another trip to Ukraine, Sartre's theory of “bad faith,” Freud vs. evolutionary psychology on the unconscious and self-deception. Kenyans fight against an imposed carbon capture scheme, Hollywood's turn toward fascist narratives. Music track: “Diddie Wa Diddie” by Blind Blake (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: A.I. apocalypse or A.I. decline? Who still sees a purpose in art? Ann Carson, OSLO Freedom Forum, the mayor of Hamburg asks for “living space” for Israel. Do all podcasts have to converge into the same format of book reports and interviews? Was Carlos Castaneda run by MK-ULTRA? Why do spies wannabe novelists and why are some of them great novelists? Music track: “Bemsha Swing” by Thelonius Monk (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Normalization of punishment of dissidents, the end of free speech protections, A.I. companions, Chicago Sun Times lets A.I. make its summer reading list and the result is non-existent titles, why is Israel in Eurovision and why can't its team be jeered? What happened to the Carlos Castaneda cult? Music track: “Just a Mood” by Reed Norvo Sextet (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ann Carson's lecture on handwriting, poetry and living with Parkinson's, Trump's whirlwind Middle East tour, Burkina Faso and Congo, Yemen damages the US Navy, New Zealand emigration, sign of the times: a sculpture of “someone just like us” for Times Square, Andy Warhol and the creation of artistic taste, Nikolai Petro's book “The Tragedy of Ukraine”. Music track: “Pine Top's Boogie Woogie “by Pine Top Smith (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ann Carson's lecture on cursive writing, poetry and living with Parkinsons, plans, structure and improvisation in the creative process, the brazen, shameless attitude of Israel in its attacks on Gaza, why satirists shouldn't get close to politicians. Bonus track: Partial interview with John Steppling on Press TV, May 6, 2025 (5-minute segment).

Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ibrahim Traoré, Canadian federal election, is entertainment being made for profit or pacification? April 30th—50th anniversary of Vietnam's liberation, May Day, US and French officials speaking openly about the need to rule Africa again, recycling when we know the material is not being recycled, willful self-deception, pro sports culture driving athletes to bodily ruin, and no, your old Windows 10 PC is not junk. Bonus track: Interview with John Steppling on Press TV, April 28, 2025 (10 minutes).

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The history of Israel's nuclear weapons program, Seymour Hersh's “The Samson Option” (1991), death of the Pope and the conclave, Italy marks the annual date of the end of fascism—April 25th, Schwab dethroned at the WEF, Ibrahim Traoré, Jon Hamm: from “Mad Men” to “Your Friends and Neighbors”—same show, different decades? Music track: “How Long Blues” by Leroy Carr (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Cory Morningstar and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: A.I. promoters want an expansion of nuclear energy, the use and abuse of youth “to save the world”, dealing with despair during a genocide that seems unstoppable, tariff wars and the end of brand value on luxury goods made in China, lost culture: journeys to family reunions, Kafka's aphorisms. Music track “Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues, Part 1” by Jim Jackson (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The “hands off NATO” protests against Trump, anti-NATO protests in Belgrade, tariff shocks, Japan's US T-bill selloff, the power of blackmail, or lack thereof, the decline of movie theaters/going out to the movies, editing movies for television (films of the 40s vs. films of the 80s) the films of Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Ed Wood, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Genet for Palestine. Music track “Motherless Children Have a Hard Time” by Blind Willie Johnson (public domain, see also modern covers of the song by Eric Clapton and friends on YouTube).

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, war fever in Europe while the US turns away, Norway's surrender of neutrality, tariffs, the Inquisition (13th to 19th century) and anti-communism (19th-21st century), feudal Japan's anti-Christian inquisition (15th-19th century), Ernst Bloch on Marx and surplus value. Music track “Blue in Green” by Miles Davis (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, war fever in Europe while the US turns away (dog wags the tail, tail wags the dog, now the tail wags itself), Sweden's surrender of neutrality, reification, commodification, the normalization of prostitution and surrogate pregnancy. BONUS FEATURE at the end of the podcast: John Steppling's interview on Press TV about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, recorded on March 26, 2025 (7.5 minutes).

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Newly released information in the JFK assassination files, the normalization of scriptwriting by A.I., writers who describe E.U. governance as “communism”, Elon Musk's grandfather's connection to Technocracy and its resemblance to the Trump plan to establish a North American sphere of control, Errol Morris' new documentary about Tom O'Neil's book CHAOS (on the Manson murders and their connection to MK-ULTRA.) BONUS FEATURE at the end of the podcast: John Steppling's interview on Press TV about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, recorded on March 19, 2025 (6 minutes).

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the ceasefire arrangement made by the US and Ukraine, driving cab in New York and Vancouver, youthful naivete, the lasting impact of toxic people, art influenced by the censorious grant application process. Music track “Match Box Blues” by Blind Lemon Jefferson (public domain).

This track consists of excerpts from a previous podcast episode. Edited together, these excerpts form the second lecture that attempts to sort out the confusion in contemporary discourse about fascism, communism, capitalism and liberalism. Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada and Dennis Riches.

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The Trump-Zelenski feud, Freud and the working class, Russell Jacoby and psychoanalysis, Brecht, Film: A Complete Unknown—are biopics performed by actors or re-enactors? Who will save Europe from itself this time? RFK Jr.'s chances of success, in reforming Health and Human Services, Music track “The St. Louis Blues” by Bessie Smith (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the death of sports under capitalism with American characteristics, every athlete is a mercenary, cultural franchises vanish in corporate transactions, American citizens flee to greener pastures, pushing the message that there is no alternative, the philistinism that leads to political and moral decay. Music track “Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling (writer of “Rambo III”), Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Phase 2 of the American war against Europe, documentary film “No Other Land”, Adorno on “adults acting like the adults they never became,” why our present leaders don't even rise to the level of mediocrity (rhetorical question), celebrity activists who fall silent or fall for dubious causes, politicians as effigies for global financial interests, writing “Rambo III” in 1988. Music track “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” by Charles Mingus (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump Derangement Syndrome: the sequel. Liberals hating Trump for all the wrong reasons. Clinging to illusions of the potential for progressive victories. The right calls liberals “commies”, liberals describe themselves as anti-communist capitalists. The Gnosticism of some conspiracy obsessions. The downfall of USAID and NED. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in athletes. Persistent myths and misunderstandings in anti-communist propaganda.

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Gaza to be under “new ownership”, rebuilding on blood-soaked Gazan soil, early Zionist atheists, Zionism's religious piety as a worn-out mask over conventional imperialism and US power projection, duopoly as a distraction, how Hollywood films solidify and perpetuate historical narratives that were proven false long ago (narratives about Serbia and Rwanda, for example), why the Democrats must be the focus of criticism and why they must take the blame for Trump. A short tribute to the life and work of Keith Harmon Snow. Music track “Tourist Point of View” by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Do the Democrats understand why they lost? Does Trump understand why he won? Trump's tariffs and economic warfare on allies. RFK Jr. faces an inquisition by Democrats. Why don't billionaires spend money a good tailor? 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Music track “Desafinado” by Stan Getz (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Aghogho Akpome, Lex Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. The passage read aloud at 1:24:10 is by Luciano Canfora, “From Stalin to Gorbachev: How an Empire Ends”—Afterword for Domenico Losurdo, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend (2008, English translation by Iskra Books, 2023) 343-344. Music track “Walk on the Wild Side” by Big Band and Jimmy Smith (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: confirmation hearings for Trump's appointees, Trump's Greater Israel ambitions, change in Iran's foreign policy? implications of the Israeli ceasefire, Los Angeles fires, the history of California fires, building back better, disaster recovery, housing and rental accommodation shortages, Trump's expansionism and the 19th century history of US territorial expansion—“transactional colonialism,” “no, the app is not more convenient or efficient.” Music track “Just a Mood” by Red Norvo Sextet (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Aghogho Akpome, Daniel Broudy, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. First podcast of 2025. Topics covered: Los Angeles fires, Trump's expansionist rhetoric—“transactional colonialism”, Operation Gladio, domestic terror attacks in the U.S., self-censorship in academia. Music Track: “My One and Only Love” by Art Tatum/Ben Webster Quartet (public domain)

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Final podcast of 2024. Topics covered: The “canon” of television serials: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Lost. Also mentioned: Blood in, Blood Out, Snowfall, Homicide--Life in the Street, Quarry. Related works in film and theater: The Caretaker (play by Harold Pinter), The Godfather, Goodfellas, The Mission, Stalker (directed by Andrei Tarkovsky). Music track: “Every Day I Have the Blues” by Count Basie (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Aghogho Akpomé, Max Parry, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling, and Dennis Riches. Topics discussed: International law vs. the rules-based international order. “The Hague invasion act.” The empire has exhausted its ability to exploit NGO's, so reactionaries become the social critics. “We see with the mind, not the eyes.” The history of UN general secretaries failing to push back against US power. The ecological and human cost of green energy. Progressive signifiers—driving a Tesla and putting a Black Lives Matter sticker on it? What's up with the drone or alien invasion over New Jersey? Music track: “Perdido” by Duke Ellington (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, Shaenah Batterson, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Topics discussed: Murder of a health insurance corporation's CEO, green marketing of things people don't like—why can't we have systemic ecosolutions that people like? Healthy for the planet, not for you necessarily. Assad falls from power, but will Syria survive as a state or be balkanized? Biden in Angola while the shit goes down in Syria. American railways for Africa. Can BRICS survive the attempts of the US to pull away its members? Music track: “Blue in Green” by Miles Davis (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, George McIntyre, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Looking back at the Covid years five years after the first cases, war again in Syria, the campaign against “animal racism” in Oregon, hostile takeovers of media platforms, Cormac McCarthy: America no country for old men with young lovers, 100 years since Edward Bernays turned women onto smoking "Torches of Freedom". Music track: “Take Five” by Dave Brubeck (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, John Bower, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Lex Steppling. Topics discussed: Billy Bob Thorton in “Landman”: is Hollywood ditching the “woke” agenda? Is the pro-Palestine movement slowly becoming a gentrified signifier? Is Netanyahu on the way out? How can people be pro-Palestine and anti-Russia when they both have the same enemy? Distortion of history in works of fiction, as in “Bridgerton”, “Inglorious Basterds”, and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. Battleship fleets and nuclear weapons: are they useless in modern warfare? Russia swapped out nuclear warheads from a supersonic ICBM with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-Entry Vehicles (MIRVs), loaded them with conventional bombs, and made history with the first ICBM attack during warfare. Thanksgiving approaches after an autumn season of flirting with WWIII. Music track "Bemsha Swing" by Thelonius Monk (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: NATO long-range missiles used against Russia, reckless escalation of the war, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, historiography of famine and revolution. Music track: "Tin Tin Deo" by Dizzy Gillespie (public domain).

A discussion that clears up the common confusion and misunderstandings about the differences between communism and fascism. Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, George McIntyre, and Lex Steppling. Topics discussed: Democratic voter panic, Trump's long con against his supporters, the contradiction of Elon Musk—with his green energy vehicles—now being aligned with Trump's rejection of the green new deal, “pogroms” in Amsterdam against Israeli soccer hooligans, fentanyl as the latest instrument for fearmongering, the re-criminalization of shoplifting in California, the aesthetics of the “Day of the Jackal” remake, QR codes inducing the sound of silence in public spaces. Music track “Statesboro Blues” by Blind Willie McTell (public domain).

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson, George McIntyre and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Non-endorsements and vote strikes by people for whom genocide is a red line. Wide acceptance of genocide in an era that lacks public intellectuals. The erasure of race relations and history in recent "historical" dramas (i.e. Bridgerton). The erasure of women in sports and other institutions. Young athletes rushed into adulthood while the adult-aged masses are infantilized. This episode was recorded on the eve of the 2024 US presidential election. Might it stand as a testament to the end of an era? Come what may from the new administration, this election drove a spike into decades-long modus operandi of the Democratic Party. Closing music track: Lonesome Road Blues by Sam Collins (copyright: public domain).

Participants: Dennis Riches and Hiroyuki Hamada. In this lecture, Dennis Riches discusses the final years of the US support for South Vietnam, 1973-1975, and the path followed by Vietnam after the war. The analysis relates this period of the conflict to other wars that the US fought through proxy forces. Another subject is the history of the US failing to honor peace accords and instead continuing conflict through means other than direct military force. The second half of the one-hour recording is a discussion of the lecture with Hiroyuki Hamada.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, George McIntyre, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Israeli Defense Forces: weaknesses and vulnerabilities, Money for Nothing and your MTV: massive US defense spending may be producing an ineffective fighting force, popular music and television of the late 20th century—heroes of yesteryear ended up as reactionaries and Zionists, the opposition to Trump freaks out about his “Nazi rally” at Madison Square Garden. Natural wonders of the U.S.A. Music track “Suffer Me” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, George McIntyre and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Biden biding his time on the beach, storm damage in the Eastern U.S., historical changes in attitudes about sex change surgery and non-binary identities, the rise of identity politics after the crushing of radical politics, Israel off the leash while no one is in charge in Washington, the misconception of Israel as a liberal democracy, the complicity of Arab states in Israel's quest for lebensraum, Palestine in light of what the U.N. Charter states about de-colonization, or the obligation to assist Non-Self-Governing Territories in gaining independence. Music track “Holy Hunger” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Dennis Riches, and George McIntyre. Topics discussed: Popular support for genocide within Israel, nuclear materials in Israeli weapons used in Lebanon? weakness of the US Navy in the Middle East, the new semiotics of political leadership—coaches, school teachers and school administrators to our rescue, Left publications drift away from the Left and embrace liberalism, theories about the moon landings and the possibility of thousands of conspirators keeping a secret for decades. Music track “Betty” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Dennis Riches, Hiroyuki Hamada, and George McIntyre. Topics discussed: Exploding pagers in Lebanon, Democratic Party corruption of the presidential candidates' debates, the apparent return of CIA mind control operatives in the recent Trump assassination attempts (similarities to the strange wanderings of Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman and Charles Manson), Vietnam 1973-75/Ukraine 2022-2024, a culture of departure: the dream of colonizing Mars. Music track “Take the Wind” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Dennis Riches, and Shaenah Batterson. Topics discussed: increasing numbers of activists and journalists being arrested, violation of basic free speech rights, the CIA budget: look around at social media and traditional media—how big is the budget and what is it being spent on? Anti-communist “left” media. Tucker Carlson and Russell Brand put a prayer performance into the political discourse, increasing and worsening degrees of anti-communist historical revisionism, the “simplification” of the US presidential election cycle: is this one sign of the end of electoral democracies? Artistic freedom in mid-century film and television. Directors mentioned: John Boorman (Zardoz, 1974), Val Lewton (Cat People, 1942), Abraham Polonski (Force of Evil, 1948). Music track “Big Plans” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, George MacIntyre, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry and Dennis Riches. Topics discussed: Political crisis in France, arrest of Telegram owner in France, the slow death of Israel, entertainment depleted of significance for the culture, fear of communism, Gramsci's warning: the time of monsters or the time of morbid symptoms? The Century of the Self, interpreting the history Vietnam's independence struggle, 1940 to the present.

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada and Max Parry. Subjects discussed: The 2024 Democratic Party Convention, sadism and torture go mainstream--Israelis' pride in genocide, the loss of knowledge about Marxism and anti-imperialism, the merger of mass culture and the political class. Music track "Suffer Me" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Daniel Broudy, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry and Dennis Riches. Subjects covered: Gaza, social media censorship in the UK, the 1989 invasion of Panama, critical research on “the Internet of BioNano Things”, biosecurity research and its links to the trans-humanism and de-population agenda, the problem with the theory of “mass formation,” the shifting narrative over the decades on catastrophes needed to pursue Sustainable Development Goals—the coming ice age, overpopulation, the hole in the ozone, global warming. Closing music track “Surrender” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson, Dennis Riches. Subjects covered: What has been lost with the loss of handwriting and letter writing, looking back at “the covid years” and their ongoing effects, induced food scarcity, performance enhancing drugs in sports and other competitive endeavors, missiles “find” a refugee camp, an atom bomb “fell” from the sky—how language use strips of acts of war of their human agency, as in the bland official pronouncements on the Hiroshima memorial day, August 6, 2024. Music track "Baby Love" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Subjects covered: the Olympics opening ceremony, the rise of Kamala “Kamalot” Harris, the Clinton-Obama factional divide, the disappearance of the Trump assassination attempt from Internet searches, elections in Venezuela, the demise of Israel, “Cuba: An African Odyssey” (documentary film) and the demise of apartheid South Africa, the privatization of forest fire suppression. Music track “Carpenter's Son” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, & Cory Morningstar. The US presidential election gets even weirder, environmental protection vs. climate crisis vs. war; apples, bees and honey, BlackRock (and other investment firms) capture the working class in private pensions, putting a young future assassin in their advertising, NATO summit in Washington. Recorded on July 16, 2024. Music track "Holy Hunger" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada & Dennis Riches. Topics covered: revelations about who did the killing on October 7th, 2023, French elections, Sweden and Norway ascend to NATO, the "trad wife" phenomenon, late stage capitalism as a con in which everyone is the mark being cooled out, a mark who must con others in order to regain his sense of worth. Music track "Betty" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Why does the right and much of the left denounce the Frankfurt School? Green capitalism and climate anxiety vs. genuine concern for environmental protection. Closing music track Take the Wind by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, & Johan Eddebo. Discussed in this edition: Escalation of war in Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine continues, was Joe Biden ever a “good, kind man”? protests in L.A. against the sale of Palestinian land reported as “antisemitism,” organizing, protests, group infiltration, group dogmatism, and group drift toward mainstream parties, Russia as a fixed point of reference for Western populations being flown to ruin by their leaders, can smartphones be regulated and stopped from acting as virtual bodily implants for surveillance and control? Closing music track "Big Plans" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Lecture 3: Theatre & Death (or introducing cinema) by John Steppling

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Topics covered: The green agenda, barriers to fossil fuel replacement, the energy footprint of artificial meat, the war on farmers, small business owners: are they the bourgeoisie or proletariat? splittism, dogmatism and purity tests of the Left, Russia accused by the West of being a colonial and expansionist power, how psychology became “adjustment therapy” in the West, glyphosate: a widespread toxin, the corporate coup d'etat blamed on a “Marxist” takeover, Maria Zakharova psychoanalyzes Emmanuel Macron, Rod Stewart booed in Germany for hoisting the Ukrainian flag onstage, trees cut down to make way for bike lanes, officials now denying reality by claiming authentic videos are “deep fakes”. Closing music track: “Rapture” by Jack Littman, used with permission.