Wow this was amazing!! Always great content!! And perspective!

larry hit the nail in almost all the comments.amazing this interview is from 5 years ago.

Where is part 3?

Quite surprisingly, Wilkerson's somewhat rather generous, if suspiciously obfuscating/essentializing characterization of Bush senior comes dangerously close to an indefensible justification, if not outright apology in both tone and context. A brief inquiry into 'papa' Bush's motivation, history and open, unapologetic Fascist methodology/ideology should clarify ANY questions as to just exactly WHO and WHAT he was: a complete and total murdering, drug dealing and terrorist funding Fascist, worthy of the 3rd Reich (allegedly his lineage = Prescott Bush/Serf and Operation Paperclip). Full stop! -And right about now I'm pretty fucking sure I don't want to hear ANY validation or relativizing of his thoroughly corrupt career, contextualized through a broader understanding of the "real politique" aspect of this country or NOT!

@ocumstweezers

5 жыл бұрын

Larry is doing some politicking. If Jeb won the White House and he got names for his FP team from Powell instead of Condi Rice or Dick Cheney, Larry would have probably been on the list. Lawrence has probably read more Chomsky than most people, and most likely agrees with him about many key issues, but as a person who could be appointed to a role in the State Department or National security he has to be a lot more guarded in his rhetoric than Noam, George Galloway or Ron Paul. If Bernie wins, I'd like to see Wilkerson in his administration. They are very similar, they aren't pacifist, but they are not hawks.

As an anti-war progressive, Hillary scares me, too. That's one of many reasons why I was a Bernie-then-Jill voter in 2016.

@scorp10fl53

5 жыл бұрын

I'm with you on that! 👍

Well, I loved it. You both are extremely honest, and it's Real Journalism. So much respect.

So fascinating to see what Paul Jay and Col. Wilkerson were saying about Jeb Bush and Republicanism before Trump.

Glad you put this up again.

Thank you Col for your expertise and professional opinion. Hilary is not electable. How about Tulsi Gabbard?

@ocumstweezers

5 жыл бұрын

Tulsi is actually a lightweight. She has an undergraduate understanding of Foreign Policy and Geopoltics. Best outcome of 2020 would be Bernie in the WH, Larry Wilkerson, Michael Scheurer, Wesley Clark and perhaps Colin Powell running the the State Department and National Security. Bernie doesn't talk about Foreign policy but that doesn't mean he doesn't know it, he was right about the US in the 1980's so he is probably right now. Tulsi would be alright as the UN Secretary or if Bernie was President he needs allies in Congress to support the policies that he wants to pursue. For the most part, Bernie wouldn't be taking progressive Senators and Congresspeople out of the State House to be in his cabinet,, unless they are moderates who can do the job, and be replaced by Progressives in Congress.

@ocumstweezers

5 жыл бұрын

@Bruce DaBuc There is no question that Powell got duped. He had no reason to think that the Intelligence that he was being given was being fabricated and he was being set up to be a patsy. He was a Military Man, not a politician. He wasn't aware that his office was infiltrated by adversarial entities. Lawrence talks about that. Could he have been more skeptical, yes. I remember people trying to make me feel guilty for not having a "Support our Troops" bumper magnet on my truck. After the mass hysteria dies down and the smoke clears and the innocent victims are buried and the story breaks that it was a fable, everyone claims they knew it was a hoax all along. Except the conspirators, Bolton, Cheney Rumsfeld and Khrystal and Perls,

@taromanharris172

5 жыл бұрын

@@ocumstweezers Tulsi the Lightweight Undergraduate on foreign policy, getting praises and an endorsement from the likes of Mike Gravel and Ron Paul like what do they know about foreign policy

@ocumstweezers

5 жыл бұрын

@@taromanharris172Ron Paul is a simpleton. I agree with him on a very basic level but his foreign policy is basically "America First" It's not a matter of being like Judge Judy and rendering a verdict that will fit on a bumpersticker, that the parties in contention have to abide by. We have India and Pakistan and Kashmir. The Kurds want a Homeland but the territory that they inhabit is on Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran and it has oil fields. Saudi Arabia wants to develop it's military and sieze oil resources of other countries and extract their oil wells and preserve theirs. Hezbollah is developing as a power in the Region. They have a terrible reputation ins the west because they have an adversarial relationship with Saudi Arabia, the US and Israel, but they are actually kind of awesome. They have a democratic theocratic system of government and are developing military doctrines and tactics and training and they are allied with Iran, their philosophy is spreading through the region. They are growing. Israel is in decline. They are expending enormous resources in the US to oppose BDS because the US veto in the UN is in jeopardy, the rest of the world is opposed to them, and they are desperately trying to bolster their alliance with the US, that is why they want a war with Iran. Israel is also going into the Oil Business. They are drilling wells off the coast and coastal waters off Syria, the Golan Heights have proven oil Reserves, that is why Bibi got Trump to support them annexing the Golan Heights. China's strategy in the region is to offer Countries a better deal than the US oil companies give them. China is a better strategic Partner the the US and UK, they don't send battalions of mercenaries into areas that they want to trade for minerals and resources they send in engineers and humanitarian aide. Nigeria is one of the largest oil producers and the poorest country in Africa. The US gets 10% of it's oil from Nigeria, but they don't share any of the benefits with the population. instead the US consumer pays 40% of what other countries pay. Russian and China have weapons that can take out an Aircraft Carrier, that means that our fleets are in a lot of trouble. Contries like the Philippians and Indonesia are going to be under water. Most island nations have dense populations on their coastal regions, that means we are going to have to deal with displaced populations. We can either fortify against invasions from refugees or incorporate the Green New Deal into developing strategies to turn Refugee Camps into independent self sustainable communities. i don't know what Tulsi and Ron Paul are offering for solutions outside of basic reactionary rhetoric against the Deep State and MIC. People criticize the Greens, because they suck at political strategy, but they do their homework, and that is the type of issues that they try to come up with solutions for. I don't think Tulsi gets it, I agree with her, in a very basic level but I haven't seen any evidence that she has anything more than a political strategy. Maybe I'm cynical, but she doesn't seem like a deep thinker to me. Bernie on the other hand is aware of the problems that the years of Cold War Chess and geopolitical maneuvering has created. He doesn't talk about it, it's not his shtick, but he gets it. Like I said, she'd make a good Secretary to the UN, but she's not ready for the big time.

@taromanharris172

5 жыл бұрын

@@ocumstweezers Wow I'm impressed you have your own opinions on geopolitical happenings but having your own understandings and beliefs does not mean it's correct, Ron Paul is a simpleton so lets discount everything about his stance on foreign policy cause he's a simpleton. Do you hold any opinions of Mike Gravel? because he endorsed Tulsi, he especially loved Tulsi's understanding on foreign policy very similar to Ron Paul's and Mike Gravel's but according to your opinion Bernie already know's he didn't have to say anything because every one know's Bernie Know's also according to your opinion Tulsi isn't ready for the big job nor she is a deep thinker, nice we all have our own opinions lucky your opinions do not count in the world, they only count here LOL

Wow. Great interview. Amazing that Trump wasn’t even being considered at that moment!! But the interview (and conversation) itself is great!

You really need an audio engineer.

The capitalist class does. The billionaire ruling families in the US. The same group of families that guide domestic policies.

@5:25 I like how Paul brought up how Eisenhower's rhetoric and America's foreign policy were contradictory. This is the thing I love about Paul and Lawrence, there's no screaming, just discussing things. Lawrence Wilkerson / Paul Jay 2020

🐃💩🐃💩🐃💩🐃💩🐃💩🐃💩🐃💩 Rand Paul is Only a “Liberal” out of convince. He’s a Bloody Slaver and Carpet Bagger⁉️ He believes that a woman’s body And the Bodies of her children belongs to either, 1) The Church, 2) The State, 3) The Rapist 4) The Faceless Bureaucrat who decides using 5) The big red pen of legislation ❌NO ❌NO ❌NO ❌NO ❌NO ❌NO ❌ A WOMAN’S BODY and HER CHILDREN’S BODIES BELONGS TO THEMSELVES. 👉🏽They are not slaves to a Church 👉🏽 a State, 👉🏽 a rapist, 👉🏽 a faceless bureaucrat 👉🏽 or bogus legislation‼️. Rand Paul is just a Lying bitching a child is born he’s to busy guarding His war chest to make sure they grow Up to be Healthy well educated, Productive American Citizens ‼️

Hah! 8:40. Burn, bitch. Can't believe I missed this interview. Maybe hadn't come across TRNN quite yet. I guess it was five years ago.

Need new blood with qualifications. Old blood runners are too set in their ways. If only old blood runners would be candidates in 2020, it would not change anything. Question is: are there any qualified, and if so, how voters would know they are "qualified" and what they "truly" stand for

@13:52 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thank goodness, Paul finally washed his face!

@MustacheVerra

5 жыл бұрын

lol...

The woke idealogest. Go figure !

Wilkerson: "... Netanyahu is willing to do anything to hold on to political power, including forfeiting the future of his own country...? What has happened to this guy; he made so much sense last week...

@AZOffRoadster

5 жыл бұрын

What's happening to BooBoo NuttinYahoo? Well, it looks like there is going to be another election because of his corruption and warmongering.

This is a view of what the world was like before Trump. It was a disaster under the helmsmanship of Obama and Hillary wouldn't be any better.

@ocumstweezers

5 жыл бұрын

@@yeshedorje175 Trump poured gasoline on a fire. Obama kept a lot of people on board from the Bush Administration and did very little to alter the trajectory. Making Hillary his Secretary of State was joke, She is velvet rope diplomat who doesn't understand policy, you have to care about people to understand how choices have consequences. She is they type of chooch who would read the CIA factbook page so she knew people's names and titles on her way to negotiate for Boeing. Her intermediary between the State Department and Obama's National Security Counsel was Cheryl Mills, Who is Cheryl Mills, is she a seasoned Diplomat? No she is an Ivy League Educated Lawyer, and one of Clintons trusted cronies. Obama was a disaster, Trump is worse by degrees, but he was still a disaster. Trump excavated the cesspool and it spilled out into the ground water, but he didn't create it.

@ocumstweezers

5 жыл бұрын

@@yeshedorje175 I'm pretty consistent. The Refugees who lost their homes and family members and are fleeing from the Wars in Syria and Lebanon, Nigeria, Somalia, the Congo, Chad, Honduras aren't pining for the good old days when Obama was in the White House. The US had a quota of 68k refugees under Obama, Turkey and Jordan are stuck with millions. Trump didn't take that drop in the bucket. Big whoop. Sorry to burst your bubble, Trump, Tillerson, Pompeo and Bolton are doing a terrible job, they couldn't do worse if they were trying, but don't act like Obama was a skilled statesmen with a deft hand at Foreign Policy. He was a NeoLiberal doing the bidding of the Banks. That is a fact.

@letstalk749curious2

5 жыл бұрын

@@ocumstweezers trump is as guilty as the others.foreign policy is not a presidents territory,which is why we continuity of war and oppression regardless of the party in power.

@ocumstweezers

5 жыл бұрын

@@letstalk749curious2 Foreign Policy is the Presidents Territory. But he is supposed to enact policies with Congressional Oversight. The problem is that Congress is reticent to put policies to a vote, because bad choices cost them their seat in Congress, so they have abdicated responsibility to the President and his Security Advisors. Kissinger in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos set a bad precedence. He was a War Criminal but he got a pass and a Noble Peace Prize to boot. Since then the Presidents National Security Advisors have been able to wield a free hand in Foreign Policy and the worst consequence to them if they kill millions of people is their resignation is accepted and they get to go to work in the Defense Industry, and become a "Chief Foreign Policy Analyst on CNN". We need to be able to give the UN and ICC the authority to drag these scumbags before the Hague, because Congress has dropped the ball.

@letstalk749curious2

5 жыл бұрын

@@ocumstweezers the national security advisors are puppets.if they are not,why the continuity of foreign policy advisor to advisor,president to president?

Larry stock has fallen completely with this series.