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State of the Exception - September 2025 (Video)

🕑 Added 2025-10-08 19:32:52 +0000 UTC

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Jack Shneidman

Yeah, I saw that interview with Vijay Prashad that Tonery mentioned where he said that Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda did 9/11 (he was implying that the left and everyone else should stop it with this conspiracy nonsense). Prashad further clarified himself by saying something like (I'm paraphrasing from memory), "Let's not act like Islamic jihadists don't have agency and aren't competent enough to do the things they set out to do" and then he nodded and said, "They can do things" (he said exactly that). I think Prashad said this during a recent interview with Richard "RJ" Eskow on Eskow's show The Zero Hour. I still like Vijay Prashad and think he's a decent, well-intentioned guy, but I'm finding him a little less insightful and compelling than I used to, and especially so with the greater and greater profusion of journalists, analysts, and commentators that are out there now.

JB

Somebody cross reference the people who showed up in Trump's "peace" conference with Lolita Express's passenger manifests.

JB

I feel like the Charlie Kirk killing could become the skeleton key to the entire US/Israeli deep state.

Aaron Good

"Right-wing conspiracist" was the descriptor I used. She's a libertarian. She blames our late imperial nightmare on bad conspirators rather than situating state/elite criminality in the context of an imperial capitalist system that cannot but resort to lawlessness and clandestine criminality to reproduce an oligarchy of corporate wealth. That doesn't mean all her research is wrong or irrelevant--just that her analysis has serious limitations in my estimation.