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…

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 Syri…

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 w…

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 …

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.על ידי John Steppling

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 …

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…

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 fai…

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 e…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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? T…

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…

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 wi…

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…

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…

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 assa…

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 ot…

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.על ידי John Steppling

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, …

Lecture 3: Theatre & Death (or introducing cinema) by John Stepplingעל ידי 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 …

Lecture 2: Theatre and Mimesis by John Stepplingעל ידי John Steppling

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada.In this episode: Palestine and slave revolts. Surreal Politik: "Ukraine is winning", two mentally incompetent presidential candidates in the United Stats, a “peace conference” in Switzerland without one side in the conflict invited, provokin…

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Dennis Riches.Theme: A vast regression in public consciousness, sleepwalking to full war in Europe.על ידי John Steppling

This is the first in a series of lectures, or educational video and audio programs, that will cover art, philosophy, culture, psychology, sociology and history. The learners we have in mind for these lectures are not only the familiar readership and listeners of John’s Aesthetic Resistance blog and podcast but also they are the younger everyman and…

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Varun Mather, Shaenah Batterson, Cory Morningstar, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the slave revolt in Palestine, the financialization of the economy (case study: the live concert business), the individual's alienation from consumed cultural products, alienation f…

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Max Parry, Dennis Riches.Topics discussed: a week of assassination attempts, coups and suspicious deaths, Wikipedia censorship, Swedish Nazi "war heroes" in Ukraine, the clown world of Western leadership, Anthony Blinken rocking Kiev, the IC…

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Dennis Riches.In this episode: Gaza, Palestine, Trump derangement syndrome (2024 version), educational decline, True Detective (season one), the environmental and cultural impact of lawns and lawn mowing, two varieties of family reunions in Canada and Thailand.…

Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Cory Morningstar, Shaenah Batterson, and Max Parry. Discussed in this episode: 1. The FBI tells Americans to prepare for a “heightened threat environment.” 2. Reactionary responses to the protests on American campuses 3. Echoes of 1968 in student protests—including the Democratic convention…

Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Max Parry, Lex Steppling, Varun Mathur, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada and Dennis Riches.Links to articles and subjects dissussed in this episode:Slobodan Despot on the Parallels between Two Disintegrations, Yugoslavia and Ukrainehttps://dennisriches.substack.com/p/slobodan-despot-on-the-parallelsThe …

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Max Parry, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Varun Mathur, and Hiroyuki Hamada.Links to sources and subjects mentioned in this episode:On victims rights: "The Wrongs of Victim's Rights" https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2922&context=facpubU.S. and India set to announce fl…

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Varun Mathur, and Hiroyuki HamadaLinks to articles and subjects discussed in this episode:https://www.zerohedge.com/political/if-you-want-people-have-babies-youre-now-far-righthttps://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/23/reckoning-with-the-sovi…

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, and Varun Mathur.Israel's culture of rape and child abusehttps://beeley.substack.com/p/israels-culture-of-rape-and-childAnimal behavior and the total eclipsehttps://interestingengineering.com/space/total-eclipse-secrets-animal-behaviorOil palm…

with Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling and John Stepplingעל ידי John Steppling

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, and John Steppling.על ידי John Steppling

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, and John Steppling.https://leyla-acaroglu.medium.com/the-hidden-environmental-impacts-of-ai-887fb3f8613chttps://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/12/the-debate-over-israel-as-us-aircraft-carrier/https://www.wsj.com/video/series/in-depth-features/visual-evidence-s…

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, Lex Steppling and John Steppling.https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/are-israelis-jews-returning-to-jewish-minority-life/https://john-steppling.com/2014/04/revisiting-the-new-york-school/https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/08/michael-brenner-the-wests-reckoning/http…

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Varun Mathur, Dennis Riches, and John Stepplingעל ידי John Steppling

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, Lex Steppling and John Steppling.https://www.newarab.com/analysis/erase-gaza-how-genocidal-rhetoric-normalised-israelhttps://www.newarab.com/news/ben-gvir-says-israeli-army-can-shoot-women-children-gazahttps://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-788364https:…

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Varun Mathur and John Steppling--relevant links--https://john-steppling.com/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp78-03581r000200120001-3https://imeu.org/article/fanning-the-flames-of-hate-israeli-officials-in-their-own-wordshttps://francesleader.substack.com/p/dynamite-news-in-jerusal…

with Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur and John Steppling—links—https://aestheticresistance.substack.com/p/aesthetic-resistance-podcast-98על ידי John Steppling

with Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur and John Steppling--relevant links--https://www.palestineadvocacyproject.org/quotes/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvqcsbNyu-whttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/chilling-effect-pro-palestinian-1.7064510https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789089645630/bombs-for-peacehttps://www.blackagendarepor…

with Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur and John Steppling--relevant links--https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/29/not-just-ben-gvir-a-new-al-aqsa-provocation-is-building-uphttps://johnwight1.medium.com/the-problem-lies-not-in-israels-actions-but-in-its-very-existence-8ca05fdfe20ehttps://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2023/11…

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Varun Mathur and John Steppling--relevant links--https://www.kufiya.org/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBumTNZvVvkhttps://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israels-spin-about-hospital-massacre-quickly-comes-apart?fbclid=IwAR3D4FsOaEk8TojgH4UayvCNOc3PngkHKuZusN08CXOoJ5VSXjCkA-fUe7Qhttps:…

with Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur and John Steppling-relevant links-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fJ0AiO9lvo&t=189shttps://twitter.com/i/status/1711210202266276288https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2023/10/11/the-disastrous-inseparability-of-western-science-and-capitalism/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/…

with Christian Parenti, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Cory Morningstar and John Steppling--relevant links--https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2021/03/11/naomi-klein-conspiracy-theorist/https://compactmag.com/contributor/christian-parentihttps://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/21/jeffrey-sachs-nato-expansion-ukraines-destruction/https://forw…