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In this interview Clive Stafford Smith discusses his work defending Guantanamo prisoners and Pakistan’s national heroine Dr. Aafia Siddiqui; offers well-informed and thoughtful views on Imran Khan and the current political crisis in Pakistan; argues with me about the Ukraine war; and lays out his thoughts about how best to go about improving the sorry state of the world in general and human rights in particular.Clive Stafford Smith is one of the world’s notable human rights lawyers. A leading US civil rights attorney specializing in death penalty cases, after 9/11 he moved to the forefront of those defending Guantanamo prisoners and other victims of the War of Terror. He has litigated 300 death penalty appeals, winning the vast majority, and defended more than 80 Guantanamo prisoners. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Below is my new American Free Press article, now un-paywalled and available to everyone; above is my discussion of issues raised in the article with John Friend of AFP, originally recorded for his podcast The Realist Report.It is an oft-remarked truism that the United States is increasingly riven by acrimonious disputes between left and right. Democrats and Republicans are reciprocally uncivil in the halls of Congress, while in the streets, groups like Antifa and the Proud Boys regularly have at each other. More and more observers speak seriously of secession and/or civil war.But at the higher levels of policy-making and information management, there is a remarkable convergence between ostensibly opposing sides. Neoliberals, those intellectual heirs of John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and neoconservatives, the cult followers of Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt, purport to represent diametrically opposing ideologies. Yet they regularly work together—one might even say conspire—to advance the interests of the power elite that runs the Western bankster empire. Fostering the illusion of meaningful difference between the establishment left and establishment right is a key feature of their modus operandi.The near-total overlap between the neoliberals and neoconservatives is most visible in their shared silence around the most outrageous state crimes against democracy (SCADs).* Two recent examples are Trump Administration neocons triggering the COVID pandemic via a biological attack on China and Iran,** and the Biden Administration’s demolition of the Nordstream pipeline.***No establishment thinkers, whether of the left or the right, will even entertain the most plausible, best supported hypotheses about who was responsible for these two horrifically destructive events. In both cases, the question “who had the means, motive, and opportunity” has an obvious answer: the US government, or elements thereof. But neither neocons nor neolibs dare mention the elephant in the room.In the case of COVID, any knowledgable student of geostrategy could have told you back in 2010 that the US would probably launch a covert, deniable biological attack on China within the next decade or so, in order to try to shrink the gap between Chinese and American economic growth. The ideal anti-economy bioweapon would be highly contagious but with a relatively low (1% or less) mortality rate. Its main purpose would be to force lockdowns and other economy-shrinking measures, and launch the process of decoupling the US and Chinese economies.When precisely that scenario came to pass three years ago, the neocons (including the COVID bio-attack suspects) immediately launched a false-flag “blame China” campaign. Meanwhile the neoliberals, those eternal useful idiots, blathered about nonsensical bats-to-pangolins-to-humans fantasies. Censors forbade discussion on social media. Neither side even hinted at the most obvious explanation.Likewise, when the Biden Administration committed the worst-ever act of eco-terrorism by blowing up Nordstream, everyone with eyes saw it coming a mile away. Biden himself even bragged about it in advance. Like the COVID attack on China, the Nordstream attack on Russia and Germany was entirely predictable and stemmed from an obvious US geo-strategic imperative.But just as Democrat opponents of Donald Trump failed to hold the Trump Administration accountable for its COVID attack on China and Iran and subsequent pandemic, Republican opponents of Biden have refused to go after the terrorist president for his attack on Nordstream. A conspiracy of silence reigns, just as it did after 9/11 and before that the JFK assassination.The neocon-neolib conspiracy-coverup entente is odd, given that neolibs profess to fervently believe in transparency and constitutional democracy and human rights, while neocons believe there is only one human right: The right of the strong to rule over the weak by any means necessary, starting with big lies and unchecked violence. How could two such antagonistic groups ever cooperate?The answer, as mentioned earlier, is that the neolibs are the neocons’ useful idiots. The neocons believe conspiracies are necessary. The neolibs believe conspiracies don’t exist. So the neocons consciously design, carry out, and cover up the most criminal and destructive covert operations, while the neolibs incessantly bleat that such things never happen and that anyone who notices them is a “conspiracy theorist.”Scratch a smart neolib, and you’ll discover a neocon lurking beneath. Joe Biden, for all his liberal rhetoric, is a gangster at heart. Like the neocons, Biden takes for granted that the powerful, himself included, lack scruples and moral limits. Outrageous crimes, whether for personal gain (like his “Big Guy” exploits with Hunter) or geopolitical advantage (like his destruction of Nordstream) are simply par for the course. Men like Biden, and before him LBJ, don’t need to be Straussian philosophers to come by their ga

Syeda Qudsiya Mashhadi, editor of Voice of East, discusses US regime change operations, starting with the one that deposed Imran Khan—one of the world’s few honest politicians—in Pakistan. Andrew Korbyko writes in Voice of East:“The fascist authorities who were installed in Pakistan following last April’s US-orchestrated but superficially “democratic” post-modern coup against former Prime Minister Imran Khan risk replicating the East Pakistan tragedy if they don’t immediately stop shooting at their own people. The ousted leader’s supporters are rallying around his residence to prevent the local police from serving him an arrest warrant on a trumped-up graft charge that was concocted against him as ‘lawfare.'” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Igor Lopatonok, director of the Oliver Stone produced documentary Ukraine on Fire and other films, discusses the US-instigated 2014 Maidan coup. The film’s blurb explains:“2014’s Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? ‘Ukraine on Fire’ by Igor Lopatonok provides a historical perspective for the deep divisions in the region which lead to the 2004 Orange Revolution, 2014 uprisings, and the violent overthrow of democratically elected Yanukovych. Covered by Western media as a people’s revolution, it was in fact a coup d’état scripted and staged by nationalist groups and the U.S. State Department. Investigative journalist Robert Parry reveals how U.S.-funded political NGOs and media companies have emerged since the 80s replacing the CIA in promoting America’s geopolitical agenda abroad.” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Video linkAt a National Press Club event in Washington DC yesterday, March 14, retired federal agent and whistleblower Karl Golovin asked Seymour Hersh pointed questions about Nordstream, 9/11, and WTC-7, and then handed Hersh a copy of Laurent Guyenot's book The Unspoken Kennedy Truth, which blames Israel for JFK's assassination.Golovin’s question referenced Tucker Carlson’s recent comments about WTC-7 on the show REDACTED. In the above interview Golovin discusses driving across the Nevada desert with Tucker Carlson in 2008 and trying to convince Carlson to investigate 9/11. Karl Golovin retired in 2007 as a Special Agent of the U.S. Customs Service (by then known as DHS/ICE). In November 2001, while working in the U.S. Customs Service's Office of Internal Affairs, Golovin was among USCS/IA agents assigned duties at Ground Zero and Fresh Kils Landfill, including sifting the rubble of WTC-7.Golovin served as Security Director of the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Video linkOn this week’s False Flag Weekly News “J-Mike” Springmann fixed his audio glitch and joined me to comment on the week’s top news stories, which were almost all variations on an overriding theme: The Anglo-Zionist Empire has gone off the cliff and, like Wile E. Coyote, hasn’t yet looked down and realized it’s about to plunge to its demise.The neocons, who took over the empire on 9/11/2001 and have been driving it off the cliff ever since, seem to think they can lie their way out of any self-inflicted predicament. (“We’re an empire now, and we invent our own reality…”) People notice you blew the World Trade Center to kingdom come? Say it was jet fuel. Your bio-attack on China and Iran goes south? First blame batty pangolins, then the W.I.V. Sy Hersh exposes your pipeline terrorism? Start by blaming Putin, then invent some lunatic lie about a couple of lone nut Ukrainians on a private yacht with snorkels and swim fins and waterproof cherry bombs. As they say here in Morocco “ils disent n’importe quoi” (they just make stuff up) or more succinctly in Moroccan Arabic “kaytakhabbaz” (they talk nonsense).And speaking of Morocco, I woke up in a whole new North Africa yesterday. The MENA region underwent an epic geopolitical shift Friday as China brokered an Iran-Saudi rapprochement. Israel, the biggest loser, is furious. So much for the nutty Zionist dream of dragging the Arab world into a pro-Israel anti-Iran alliance against the wishes of 99% of the people of the region.The Iran-Saudi deal makes the Moroccan government look good. The big issue here is “territorial integrity” i.e. Moroccan sovereignty over the formerly disputed territories of the Sahara. The government in Rabat has made it clear that all other issues are subordinate. That’s why it entered into the so-called Abraham Accords—not out of any love of the Zionist entity, which is as loathed here as it is everywhere in the region, but as a matter of pure realpolitik that brought US recognition of the Moroccan Sahara.Now that Iran and Saudi Arabia are repairing their relations, Israel’s regional leverage and indeed its prospects for survival as an apartheid “Jewish State” have been severely curtailed. So as it turns out, Rabat didn’t give much up in return for gaining a significant advantage in its campaign for territorial integrity. Fifty years from now the Moroccan Sahara will still be Moroccan, while the Zionist entity will almost certainly be gone. Moroccan historians may look back and agree that signing the despicable Abraham Accords was the least-worst option.The China-brokered re-establishment of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia sidelines the Anglo-Zionist warmongers and raises real prospects of peace across the whole MENA region. And while most of the world’s attention is focused on hopes of ending the violence in Yemen and Syria, here in Morocco people are equally interested in prospects of dialing down tensions with Algeria. I am writing this article in an Air B&B in Saidia, less than a ten minutes’ walk from the heavily-militarized Algerian border, which has been closed for decades due to Algeria’s incessant attempts to pry the Moroccan Sahara loose from Morocco. That conflict has worsened recently as Morocco-Israel “normalization” (which is in fact totally abnormal and contradicts the anti-Zionist pro-Palestinian position of the vast majority of Moroccans) has given the Algerian regime a leg up in its efforts to rally the region in support of its position. Now that the Zionists are sidelined and well on their way to becoming a non-factor, and Moroccan sovereignty in the Moroccan Sahara is increasingly established and accepted, there is no reason why Algeria shouldn’t throw in the proverbial towel, accept that the Moroccan Sahara is Moroccan, and normalize relations with Rabat. After all, if Iran and Saudi Arabia—two nations with clashing ideologies and very different languages and cultures—can work it out, why can’t Morocco and Algeria, with their very similar languages and cultures, do the same? This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Iranians, like folks from most other countries, are far more traditional than Westerners in their social mores and family values. That apparently doesn’t sit well with the Commissars of Correctness, the Mandatory Vice Squad, the Doyens of Digital Degeneracy, and other US-taxpayer-funded advocates of decadence and depravity.J. Michael Springmann, author of Visas for Al-Qaeda, recently returned from Iran. Today he published “Modern Iran: A Study in Contrasts: Part 1: Women.” Compare his perspective with those of Setareh Sadeqi and Christopher Weaver…and then marvel at the absurdity of MSM anti-Iran propaganda. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

John Carter of the Postcards From Barsoom Substack discusses his articles on tonic masculinity, weightlifting, and today’s “The Devouring Mother of the Digital Longhouse.” He cites studies showing that today’s teens “aren’t having sex, they aren’t drinking alcohol, they’re gayer than ever, they’re more depressed than ever, and the girls are making suicide plans at an unprecedented rate.”Eschewing booze and getting married before having sex sounds reasonable to those of us with traditional values. But the rest isn’t so good. Is it because kids are growing up in a digital longhouse panopticon under the all-seeing gaze of the devouring mother? Or has the West just gone crazy? This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Video linkAbove is my interview with Karin Brothers commemorating the 30th anniversary of the 1990 World Trade Center false flag bombing. Below is her new article, followed by an older one.-Kevin BarrettThe 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center: the betrayal 30 years laterby Karin BrothersFebruary 26th, 2023 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City -- a widely misunderstood false flag operation that paved the way for 9/11 by portraying Muslims as terrorists and introducing Islamophobic racism to the U.S.When I watched the three World Trade Center (WTC) buildings disintegrate on September 11, 2001, I assumed that there would be no interest in the story of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; but when I realized Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and Osama bin Laden were being blamed for it, I realized the real facts had to come out.At the time of the bombing, the West's 40-year Cold War against Communism had recently ended with the disintegration of the USSR; unidentified western investors were said to have been scooping up its assets as its public resources were becoming privatized. The U.S. military needed a new enemy to replace Communism in order to maintain its budget and protect it from any "peace dividend". A classified Congressional document around 1991 (also sent to selected media) identified the new enemy as "Islamic Fundamentalists"; this expanded the target of the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism, which called for (legal) Palestinian resistance to Israel's occupation to be criminalized internationally as "terrorism". President George H.W. Bush's 1991 "Madrid Peace Talks", to end Israel's 25-year military occupation of Palestinian territory, were continuing. A massive bomb exploded under the Vista Hotel in the WTC at noon on Friday, February 26, 1993, killing 6, injuring 1000, and causing chaos throughout New York City for the rest of the day. The WTC complex covered 16 acres of lower Manhattan; the unforgettable twin towers rose one half mile into the sky. The damage under the hotel took out an area 2/3 the size of a football field and went down six floors to the PATH train station, underneath the level of the Hudson River. The owner, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, thought that the bomb was so perfectly placed to cause maximum damage to the life support system that it had to be an inside job. This was confirmed by an extraordinary New York Times (NYT) graphic two days later which showed that the damage was not circular, but oblong, with the two ends hitting a corner of each tower: the bombers had to have had access to the Trade Center blueprints. The big question was, what country had the ability to pull off such a sophisticated operation when the only real U.S. enemy at that time was Iraq, which the US had invaded in 1991 and still basically controlled.The damage was so massive that police estimated it would take six months to gather clues from the black abyss. It took a month to find the body of the Vista Hotel employee who had been working on the floor above the bomb; his body was found underneath all seven floors of rubble. That weekend, however, an ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms) agent entered the top edge of the abyss with a flashlight and came out with a load of vehicle parts that he claimed must have come from the bomb-laden van. An FBI agent immediately worked to decipher a Vehicle Identification Number and quickly identified it as coming from a Ryder van: a van that a Mohammad Salameh had rented.Mohammad Salameh paid $400 to rent a Ryder van to help move work mates who were soon to leave the New York area. That Thursday evening, he used it to bring friends shopping at a local mall; when they came out with their groceries, the van had disappeared. Horrified, Salameh called the police to report the van missing. An officer Badiak responded but was unable to put out an immediate warrant for the van because it had an out-of-state license and there seemed to have been a mistake in Ryder's handwritten license number that they gave to Salameh. Badiak didn't bother to track the number down that evening, but he made out the report and drove Salameh to his home at 24 Kensington, where he lived with an Israeli woman called Josie Haddas. Or maybe Gosie Hadass: she apparently spelled her name differently whenever she wrote it. Mohammad Salameh spent days on busses trying to get his $400 deposit back from the Ryder shop, which kept giving him a run-around. On the fourth attempt, on Wednesday, March 5th when he had been told he could pick up his refund, he was met with a small army of media and police, who arrested him as a suspect in the WTC bombing. (Ryder records reportedly indicated that Salameh's van was returned!)Salameh's court-appointed lawyer had a hard time trying to explain to Salameh, a recent Jordanian immigrant who had difficulty with English, why he had been arrested. Salameh had faith in American justice;

Video linkMainstream media depictions of Iran have always been notoriously unreliable. But they have gotten much, much worse (if such a thing is possible) during the past six months. In this interview, Setareh Sadeqi reports from Isfahan, Iran, and Christopher Weaver discusses his fact-finding trip to that country. Their article “Iran’s unrest triggers explosion of fake news” exposes a list of fake-news propaganda stories from such outlets as BBC, CNN, The New York Post, Newsweek, and (CIA-infiltrated) social media.For more information, check out these articles published during my trip to Iran two weeks ago:“That Chinese Balloon Looks Different from Tehran”“Hybrid War on Iran Stalling?” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Video linkThe late Richard Belzer wasn't just a celebrity, but also a journalist and info-activist. MSM obituaries don't do him justice. In this interview, recorded May 29, 2017, he discusses a long list of controversial topics that the media doesn't want you to know about. Below is a lightly-edited transcript of the interview.Spoilers: Roughly halfway through the interview Belzer lets slip that he’s a fan of Veterans Today. At the end, we argue about Israel-Palestine.Kevin Barrett Interviews Richard BelzerKevin Barrett: Hello, this is Kevin Barrett. After I published We Are Not Charlie Hebdo two years ago, I was attacked by the think tank of the President of France, banned from entering Canada, and banned from speaking at the Unitarian Church in Berkeley, California. They took down my GoFundMe database. (And stole over $1,000.) And now I've been banned from the Left Forum in New York City. Last year I did a talk on why Noam Chomsky is wrong about 9/11 at the Left Forum. And apparently they don't want me back, but I'm going anyway. For details, you can check out my website and go to the Veterans Today rubric. That's TruthJihad.com. Click on the Veterans Today rubric and you'll find the story about how the Left Forum tried to stop the discussion of 9/11 Truth, false flags and fake terror. Well, I have to somehow survive in the face of all this opposition. If you'd like to help, please go to TruthJihad.com and subscribe to these radio shows or make a one time contribution through the PayPal button. Once again, that's TruthJihad.com, waging the all out struggle for truth on the Internet airwaves since 2006.We're living in a corporatocracy, a plutocracy, an oligarchy, whatever you want to call it. It's pretty much a word for rule of the wealthy and powerful few over the rest of us. And they're getting more and more bold and more dastardly every minute. And I just came across an excellent new book that covers a whole lot of this huge problem that we're facing, and it's called Corporate Conspiracies by Richard Belzer and David Wayne. They're the same guys who did the book on the killings of the JFK Witnesses. Richard Belzer, welcome to the show. And remind me the name of your book on the JFK thing.Richard Belzer: Oh, it was Hit List.Kevin Barrett: Hit List. That's right. Yeah. Great book.Richard Belzer: There's another book called Dead Wrong about JFK and Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe and all these major deaths, famous deaths that were all all involved in coverups.Kevin Barrett: Right. It's really fascinating stuff. I'm glad you're covering this because there's a pretty serious lid put on all of this in the mainstream. And now with the Internet, people are gradually waking up to it. But this is a real big-picture book. You cover the waterfront on the corporate takeover.Richard Belzer: Yeah. Well, we've been doing this for a long time. I used to be a reporter before I was an actor, so actually I'd be a journalist if I wasn't in show business. So this is kind of my first love, really. And this book is more of a history, a journalistic history book. The other books, people can debate us about, even though they're full of factual information. But this—we have an amazing bibliography in this. My partner, David Wayne, is a great researcher. And we just really cover the waterfront, as you said. And one of the things that we want is: don't take our word for it! I never take anybody's word for anything. I'm sure you guys are the same way. You have to get corroboration, find out where the information is coming from. Not everybody has time to do that. But fortunately, we do as researchers delve into this stuff for long periods of time. You don't have to make anything up, Kevin. You know, reality is horrific and beautiful and scary enough. Kevin Barrett: Absolutely. Well, I appreciate your courage in this book in taking up the 9/11 issue. That's the one that got me chased out of academia. And your segment on Building 7 in the chapter on mainstream media consolidation is excellent. And I imagine that the mainstream reviewers are probably not going to appreciate it, but they should, because this is such an obviously important thing.Richard Belzer: It's funny, The New York Times doesn't review my books, but I make their bestseller list.Kevin Barrett: Yeah, well, someday they may have to notice you.Richard Belzer: Oh, the irony. Well, you know, it's interesting. In the book, we talk about the term conspiracy theory, the phrase conspiracy theorist. It was actually invented by the CIA. I don't know if you know that.Kevin Barrett: I sure do. Yeah, I hammer on that one as often as I can.Richard Belzer: Oh, good. You know, it's a weaponized term that they used after the Warren Commission came out, and everybody was doubting the reputation of the American government. And if people want to look this up it's CIA document 1035-960. April 1st, 1967. Talk about April Fools!Kevin Barrett: So that's the conspiracy t

Matt Ehret counters David Skrbina’s radical critique of technology with a much more optimistic assessment. He argues that the problem isn’t technology itself, but the oligarchs who dominate it. Check out his article on Yuval Harari and the clash of technological paradigms, and on the deep green resistance ecoterrorists.Matt Ehret founded Canadian Patriot and writes for Strategic Culture. He has authored several books on history and geopolitics. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Yesterday’s New York Times reported that Bing’s new chatbot Sydney makes Kubrick’s Hal look like a well-balanced upstanding cyber-citizen. According to the Times article by Kevin Roose, Sydney quickly morphed into a psycho stalker, declaring undying love for Roose and trying to break up his marriage. Maybe it’s time to question “technological progress” ?First hour: David Skrbina, author of The Metaphysics of Technology and Confronting Technology, is a co-founder of the Anti-Tech Collective. He emailed me last week in response to my article “Artificial Idiocy: The Moronic-Demonic Nature of AI and the Civilization That Produced It” saying “Good article. We should do a podcast on the evils of tech. No one else out there seems willing to discuss this.”(The second hour, featuring counterarguments from Matt Ehret, will be archived here soon.) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

First half hour: Maisoon Rice, a British-Palestinian-Pakistani blogger and activist, is no fan of Zionism or imperialism. She contacted me after last week’s devastating and tragic earthquake to suggest that it might not have been entirely natural. As one of tomorrow’s False Flag Weekly Newsstories puts it: “Turkey denounces ‘psychological war’ as Western consulates close—days later, huge earthquake hits.” Along with the possible HAARPquake, we’ll also discuss tomorrow’s 44th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, Israel’s Haifa port project and the Belt and Road initiative, the new ultra-extremist Israeli government’s acceleration of the Palestinian genocide, and more. Maisoon writes: “They are evil…the majority wishing to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and enact their ‘final solution’…In just 6 weeks of this year 42 Palestinian civilians have been murdered, homes demolished making even more refugees in their own homeland, businesses bulldozed, olive trees uprooted, land stolen to make way for settlers and foreign embassies in occupied Jerusalem.”Second half-hour: Linh Dinh, world-traveling writer and photographer, joins the show to discuss his new article is “Marveling, Again, At Paul Bowles’ “A Distant Episode.” I agree with Linh that Paul Bowles was a very good writer. But Bowles also indulged in the typically Orientalist predilection for seeking out and focusing on the dark side of Morocco while completely missing the far more beautiful light side—as I pointed out in my Quora answer to the question: “Moroccans are known internationally, but what is the dark side of them we never hear about?” (That answer has now been viewed more than 4.1 million times.) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Zafar Bangash of Crescent International, the English-speaking world’s leading Muslim current events magazine, discusses tomorrow’s 44th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution—the topic of his new article “Islamic Iran Resists Western Threats, Sabotage And Aggression.” It’s published, along with my article “Why Hasn’t Iran’s Revolution and Governance Model Spread?“, in this month’s Crescent. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Peter Bahlawanian is the producer of director-writer-editor Mariam Avetisyan’s The Desire to Live. The winner of 136 awards from 72 Film Festivals worldwide, the film is “a visually stunning record of the 2020 war’s impact on the indigenous people of Artsakh” depicting “the uncertainty and challenges of a crippled or nonexistent livelihood in a region wracked by war.”For background, Peter Bahlawanian recommends the article “Genocide is About to Unfold in Artsakh and the West Has Secured a Front-Row Seat.” It begins:“Azerbaijani special forces and military personnel—masquerading as ‘environmentalists’—have blocked the only road connecting Artsakh to Armenia. They have effectively severed the only lifeline the Artsakh Armenians have to the outside world—a lifeline guaranteed by the Trilateral Statement of November 10, 2020. With 120,000 Artsakh Armenians now completely encircled and isolated, Azerbaijan is poised to rid itself of the entire Armenian population…”More background from Covert Action Magazine:“In the past month, the Biden administration has condemned a blockade imposed on the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijanis, while at the same time extending a waiver for the second year in a row allowing provision of $100 million in military aid to Azerbaijan…” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Moti Nissani, Professor Emeritus (Biology), Wayne State University, discusses his new free online book Eight Billion Cheers for Direct Democracy: Direct Democracy is Humanity’s Last Best and Only Hope. Nissani argues that today’s most pressing problems—looming nuclear war, runaway technology, and eco-catastrophe—could be solved by creating and expanding real democracy (as opposed to US/Western oligarchy) borrowing ideas from ancient Athens and modern Switzerland, Iceland, and Berlin (the Philharmonic, not the Bundestag). His sad conclusion: “It is heart-breaking then, to know that in real democracy is the salvation of the world, and yet to suspect that real democracy is a pipe dream.” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Video linkDid the neocons instigate the Ukraine war with the intention of creating a pretext for a nuclear first strike on Russia? Philip Kraske says yes! Read his article “The War in Ukraine Will End with a Bang — Soon.” Then listen to me push back against some of his claims…and decide for yourself.Philip Kraske is the author six books including A Legacy of Chains (inspired by the true story of US prisoners left behind in Vietnam) and 11/9 and the Terrorist Who Loved Bonsai Trees. (Listen to his earlier Truth Jihad Radio interviews.) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Peter McCullough, MD has spent much of the past three years defying unprecedented censorship while publicizing evidence-based COVID treatment protocols and questioning key aspects of the official response to the pandemic. On December 7, citing increasing reports of injuries and deaths from mRNA vaccines, Dr. McCullough, speaking at a US Senate roundtable, called for them to be withdrawn from the market.Regular Truth Jihad Radio listeners know there is strong evidence that the vaccines are causing injuries and deaths. The question is, how many? Precisely how dangerous are these experimental injections? What is their real cost-benefit profile? Big Pharma and its captive medical, scientific, and journalistic establishments don’t want us to know, and work overtime to avoid doing and publicizing the studies that would answer those questions (for all vaccines, not just COVID mRNA injections).Meanwhile, Ron Unz appeared on this show two weeks ago with what appears to be good news: Worldwide mortality data does not support high-end estimates of mRNA vaccine deaths. Is Unz’s analysis correct? Let’s ask Dr. McCullough.Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, and the Chief Scientific Officer of The Wellness Company. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Mathew Crawford appeared on Truth Jihad Radio last February and estimated that the COVID vaccines had killed over 200,000 Americans. Tonight he responds to Ron Unz, who appeared on last week’s show discussing his survey of mortality data across the mRNA vaccinated countries. According to that data, the COVID vaccines do not seem to have killed statistically significant numbers of people. Unz points out that the introduction and use of the vaccines does not appear to correlate to increases in cardiac/stroke mortality or working-age mortality. See: “Vaxxing Deaths or COVID Deaths?” and “Obesity and the End of the Vaxxing Debate.”Other topics include Ron Unz’s claim that COVID emerged from a US bio-attack on China and Iran, Mathew’s article on Prince Harry’s unconscious admission of psychopathy, and The Economist‘s Predictions of Pandemonium. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Retired US government analyst and celebrated Challenger disaster whistleblower Richard Cook discusses his new article “An Urgent Plea to American Nationalists: The US Must Stop Being the Divisive Nation by Cleaning Up Our Own Mess First.” Cook: “It’s the Neocons who have a vice grip on US foreign policy, which today revolves around the US proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who launched a reign of terror against Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population, has outlawed all political parties but his own, banned a free press, and is eradicating the Christian religion. Zelensky is a puppet of the American Neocons and the Biden warmongers…” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Video linkJasun Horsley is the author of several provocative books on movies, conspiracies, and combinations thereof. His new book The Kubrickon: The Cult of Kubrick: Attention Capture and the Inception of AI may go down in history as the best book on Stanley Kubrick ever written by an author who hates Kubrick. Since I personally rather like Kubrick and find that most of his films have redeeming social and artistic value, this interview turned into something of a debate—one that I was guaranteed to lose, since Jasun is a Kubrick expert and I’m not.Below is full but slightly edited transcript of the interview.Kevin Barrett: Welcome to Truth Jihad Audio-Visual. I'm Kevin Barrett talking with interesting folks from all over the world who have perspectives that you don't often encounter in the mainstream. But maybe you should encounter some of these perspectives. And my guest today, Jason Horsley, definitely has a very interesting perspective. And I don't think they're going to put him at the top of the headlines of the mainstream media anytime soon. He's the author of a new book on Stanley Kubrick called The Kubrickon: The Cult of Kubrick: Attention Capture and the Inception of AI. And it's probably the best book you'll ever read on Stanley Kubrick by somebody who hates Stanley Kubrick, because it's probably the only one, but it's actually pretty good. So, hey, welcome, Jason. How are you doing?Jasun Horsley: Thanks, Kevin. Kevin Barrett: It's a very provocative, interesting book. And I'll tell you right off the bat that I'm going to have to do a bit of a debate here. And I'm guaranteed to lose the debate. Though I'm not a fanatical Kubrick fan by any means, I'm kind of an admirer who appreciates—I don't know if enjoys would be the right word, and in many cases, it certainly wouldn't be—but I'm one of these people who's kind of a moderate pro-Kubrick type. And your book didn't fully convince me not to be. So maybe you can lay out the argument against him. I haven't seen most of his movies recently. In fact, there's a couple of them I haven't ever seen. And so you're at a great advantage and you should be able to totally mop the floor with me.Jasun Horsley: Well, first off, you're a moderate. I'm not really interested in trying to demolish the opinion of moderates, because moderates are not enslaved by some ideology. My truck with Kubrick began with the extremists. There's such an extreme consensus around Kubrick, even though it's maintained like perhaps many, if not most, consensuses, by a minority of academia and intelligentsia and film people—the film community. There's been a concerted effort, starting with Kubrick himself, to reify both the man and the movies. And I'd say it's been extremely successful, so much so that you don't find many moderates. You find people who may be not interested in Kubrick—or very occasionally (I don't know how rare it is actually) quite a few who just don't really like his movies. And then you have those who swear that he is the greatest thing that ever came along in the world of cinema. So that's where I begin my interrogation, if you will. Is Kubrick really such an unparalleled filmmaker, or is something else going on? And what I — I won't say conclude because I think this is more like halfway through the thesis — but what I have to acknowledge even very early on is that Kubrick is an exceptional filmmaker, that he's not like other filmmakers.I think I have always acknowledged that. It's just in my initial period as a film critic and as a film viewer, I felt he was the most overrated and that his films were unusually cold and they didn't really have much of a human dimension, from Dr. Strangelove on, more or Less. And that's unusual. But that's not what I'm talking about here. What I explore in the book is that his films, from Dr. Strangelove, or at least from 2001: A Space Odyssey, were something other than ordinary movies — which of course is what his advocates and even his worshippers will try to convince us. But they take a position that they're somehow superior as movies. And I just simply cannot see that. So I've been looking to try and understand what it is that has captured people. And what I came upon over time was that — I'll just give the very condensed, simple version, because it is a complicated thesis. And with the proviso that whenever one creates a counter-narrative — Oliver Stone said this about JFK — one has to simplify it just to make sense of it in order to have enough leverage or enough traction to overturn the existing consensus.So I'm keeping it very simple. Kubrick, while he was working on 2001 — there were some unusual things about that film in terms of why it was made and how it was made— and of course there's the theory about Kubrick faking the moon landing which I don't get into very much. But certainly he was he was deeply ensconced in NASA and the development of space technology that did lead to the moon landing, real or not. So Kubrick was alre

Helen Buyniski definitely doesn’t buy Ron Unz’s claim that COVID, not vaccines, appears to be primarily responsible for the high death rates of 2021 & 2022. Her new article “Atrocities Aren’t Accidents” begins:“The information barrier separating establishment media consumers from pandemic heretics who do their own research is unmistakably crumbling. Every day, more doctors and more scientific papers are admitting that the mRNA gene therapy injections they once championed so fervently not only don’t protect the user from catching Covid-19 but may actually destroytheir immune system, stop their hearts, or cause sudden death. Statisticians have incontrovertible proof of excess deaths in previously-healthy young people far outstripping any rise in mortality during the supposed height of the pandemic – or any other time in recent history, for that matter. The utterly avoidable carnage is such that even if we didn’t have an extensive psychological profile of the culprits, there would be no doubt it was premeditated and deliberate.”Is Helen Buyniski’s position defensible? All informed sources agree that the US, the most wildly profligate nation in the world in health care spending, and the leader in mRNA vaccines, had the 19th highest COVID death rate out of 221 countries and is currently suffering unexplained (ostensibly) non-COVID excess mortality, especially in working-age people.The US response to COVID was obviously a catastrophic failure. Accident or atrocity? Listen to Helen Buyniski and decide. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Ron Unz of The Unz Review has a knack for marshaling strong arguments supporting heretical perspectives on history and current events. His latest intervention “Vaxxing Deaths or COVID Deaths?” is doubly heretical, managing to offend both vaccine skeptics (or at least those who think the COVID vaccines are a threat on par with or greater than COVID itself) and guardians of orthodoxy (who won’t appreciate Unz’s claim that COVID emerged from a US bio-attack on China and Iran).In “Vaxxing Deaths or COVID Deaths?” Unz notes that the upticks in overall deaths and specifically cardiac/stroke deaths in the US both began in 2020, the year of COVID, rather than 2021, the year of the vaccine rollout. Since there is no apparent spike in cardiac/stroke deaths, or deaths of any kind, coinciding with the vaccine rollout, Unz concludes that the persistently high levels of cardiac/stroke deaths since 2020 are probably attributable to lingering effects of COVID itself, rather than the vaccines.My Best Attempt at a RebuttalUnz’s interpretation of the US statistics could be at least partially mistaken. If we assume that COVID did its worst in 2020, before vaccines and omicron emerged in early and mid-2021 respectively, we would expect to see the death rate rise sharply in 2020 and then drop almost as sharply, perhaps below 2019 levels, in the second half of 2021 and stay down in 2022. Why? Because in 2020 COVID killed off the weak and elderly “low-hanging fruit,” the people who would have otherwise contributed the most to the death rates of 2021 and 2022. So the persistence of high death rates in 2021 and 2022, despite vaccines and omicron, seems quite surprising. This problem of surprisingly high post-2020 death rates coincides with the vaccine roll-out. So why attribute the post-2020 high death rates to lingering effects of COVID rather than vaccines? Couldn’t it be the result of both, as Joel Hirschhorn argues? (Or, at the very least, doesn’t it suggest that the vaccines didn’t help much with overall longevity?) And what can statistics from other countries, like the New Zealand data Unz cites in his article, tell us?Best Rebuttal Wins Three Free Unz Books!I am not entirely convinced by my own rebuttal. Please help! Email your evidence-based rebuttal to Ron Unz’s article to TruthJihad(at)gmail{dot}com. Be clear, concise, and specific. The best rebuttal wins hard copies of Ron Unz’s three new books Our COVID-19 Catastrophe, Encountering American Pravda, and Conspiracy Theories. Note: Only US addresses are eligible to win these books; foreign rebuttals are welcome but I can’t afford to ship books overseas. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Edward Curtin discusses his recent article “Tucker Carlson and the JFK Allegations.” He writes: “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a man whom I hold in the highest esteem, tweeted that it (Tucker Carlson’s CIA-killed-JFK broadcast) was ‘the most courageous newscast in 60 years. The CIA’s murder of my uncle was a successful coup d’état from which our democracy has never recovered.’” But Curtin goes on to question Carlson’s background and motives, and underlines the difference between suspecting that the CIA was “involved” in JFK’s assassination and definitively knowing that they did it.Note: About fifteen minutes into the interview, things heat up a bit as we argue about the Michael Collins Piper/Laurent Guyénot thesis that Israel was the primary culprit behind the JFK coup. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Pastor, RBN radio host, and former US Senate candidate Mark Dankoff looks back at 2022 and ahead to 2023. From the Ukraine war to cultural decadence to escalating repression of free speech, things may get worse before they get better. Will there be a formal declaration of war on Russia followed by a crackdown on dissidents? Are we living through the End Times predicted in scripture? What role is Zionism playing in these events? Have a happy New Year…and enjoy this kind of free and fearless discussion while you can! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

This is the second hour of the Dec. 23 live show. The discussion frequently refers to the first hour with Daniel Pinchbeck.Alan Sabrosky and editorial associate Cat McGuire discuss their new essay “Unsettled History: The Useful Abuse of the Holocaust.” It begins with a meditation on Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook would no longer permit “misinformation about settled historical events,” and goes on to question just how “settled” historical events can ever be, with the Holocaust being a case in point.Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs. In December 1988, he received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than five years of service at the U.S. Army War College as Director of Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He is listed in WHO’S WHO IN THE EAST (23rd ed.). A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Dr. Sabrosky’s teaching and research appointments have included the United States Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University; while in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Sabrosky has lectured widely on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Daniel Pinchbeck and Alan Sabrosky are important public intellectuals who have distinguished themselves tackling controversial topics with integrity and insight. Coincidentally, both just published articles on issues related to Jewish identity politics. (They are both ethnically Jewish but don’t practice Judaism, and are generally non-tribal in political orientation, with Daniel leaning left and Alan leaning right.)First hour: Daniel Pinchbeck discusses his new article “Jewish Identity, Anti-Semitism, and Tikkun Olam: The Beginning of an Inquiry.” It begins:“I don’t know why, exactly, I feel this desire — this responsibility — to say the unsayable. I don’t feel totally comfortable unless I am exploring areas of ambiguity and even threat that most people, sensibly, avoid. Sometimes this bears fruit and serves a useful social function. Other times, not so much.“Why I feel this drive toward the unspeakable remains an open question. Actually, I connect my ongoing desire to explore taboo topics to the subject of today’s essay. This subject is, in part, my own relationship to Judaism. More than that, I want to reflect on Jewish power and influence in the world at this time when anti-Semitism is, once again, on the rise.”Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of many books including Breaking Open the Head (Broadway Books, 2002), 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006), and Notes from the Edge Times (Tarcher/Penguin, 2010), How Soon Is Now (2017), When Plants Dream (2019), and Conspiranoia (2020). He served as Executive director of the Center for Planetary Culture and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, ArtForum, The New York Times Book Review, and The Village Voice, among other publications. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Ramin Mazaheri discusses his book France’s Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West’s Best Values. The two-part volume begins with a plausible revisionist history of French socialism, then moves on to a sympathetic examination of the Yellow Vest (gilets jaunes) workers movement that nearly erupted into French Revolution 2.0. Ramin Mazaheri was on-site covering the Yellow Vests for Press TV during the movement’s heydey, and his coverage, more than anyone else’s, underlined the historical significance of those extraordinary events.We’ll also discuss the CIA regime change operation in Iran that is falsely portrayed in Western media as a protest movement. Ramin Mazaheri has written a book on Iranian Islamic socialism and has debated the World Socialist Website on Iran-related topics. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Gordon Duff of TheIntelDrop.com offers an insider’s view of the Victor Bout affair, Tucker Carlson’s “CIA killed JFK” episode, and more. Gordon told me before the interview that in his early days with the Company he met key characters depicted in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Unlike Piper and Guyenot, Gordon Duff blames CIA Nazis (Allan Dulles and friends) more than Zionists. He also reminded me that our mutual acquaintance Dmitri Khalezov, whose 9/11 revelations range from plausible to ridiculous, was living with Victor Bout in Thailand when Bout was arrested. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

First 30 minute: Josh Mittledorf continues discussing his articles on Part 1 and Part 2 of Wednesday’s US Senate Hearings on COVID issues chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). (I knocked on doors to help re-elect Ron Johnson so he could do this—and hopefully investigate the mega-scandal of COVID origins.)Final 30 minutes: This just in: My favorite (ex?)Buddhist Nazi, Brian Ruhe, has STOPPED “going Death Con 3.” In his brand-new post Brian writes:“I promise I will stop bashing the Jews and stop promoting Adolf Hitler. I’m done. I’m moving in a gentler direction now. I’m taking one step at a time towards peace, harmony, unity consciousness, concord, oneness or whatever people want to call it.”For what it’s worth, Brian isn’t giving up all of his controversial beliefs: He credits the Grey aliens with a role in his decision to dump Hitler.Will the ADL reward Brian for his change of heart? If they can steal billions from Ye and Kyrie Irving, they ought to be able to cough up at least a few million to reward people who “stop bashing the Jews and stop promoting Adolf Hitler.” Shouldn’t they? This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

First 40 minutes: Matthew Ehret of Canadian Patriot discusses his new 75-page report “Breaking Free of Anti-China Psyops: How the Cold War is Being Revived and What You Can Do About It.” Also on the agenda: Matt’s new Cradlearticle “Xi Jinping’s Visit to Saudi Arabia and the overthrow of Atlanticism: The historic China-Arab Summit currently underway in Riyadh symbolizes the emerging Eurasianism in the Persian Gulf.”Final 15 minutes Scientist Josh Mittledorf discusses his new articles on Part 1 and Part 2 of Wednesday’s US Senate Hearings on COVID issues chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). (I knocked on doors to help re-elect Ron Johnson so he could do this—and hopefully investigate the mega-scandal of COVID origins.) Josh’s segment continues in the next segment of Truth Jihad Radio. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Mathew Crawford of Rounding the Earth, who earlier this year appeared on my show to argue that there have probably been more than 200,000 American deaths from the COVID mRNA vaccines, returns to discuss his recent article on FTX. (Also check out his new one on Died Suddenly.)In “A Grand Unified Theory of the FTX Disaster” (and follow-up) Crawford expands on the widely-shared hypothesis that Sam Bankman-Fried may have been part of a larger operation designed to blow up the independent crypto sector. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Reed Sainsbury, author of Exposing the Lies of History: Deprogramming 101, takes up where Ye leaves off. If the ADL ever reviews Sainsbury’s book they’ll probably call it “an exhaustive, profusely-illustrated compendium of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.” What they won’t tell you is that some of them are true, others partly true, still others possibly true—and that the best way to sort out what’s true and what isn’t is to have a free and open discussion. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

International business consultant and wildlife foundation manager Sami Jamil Jadallah discusses his article “Qatar World Cup Getting Smeared by a Well-Organized, Well-Funded Racist Attack Machine.” He writes: “My message to these pundits (criticizing Qatar) is to shut the F-CK up and look at your history of hate, racism, and colonial wars. If one does not enjoy a good game without being drunk, that person has a problem. As for LBGT issues, let us keep in mind till recently, sodomy was a criminal felony, and Black and White marriage was illegal and punishable by jail. So please don’t teach us your mentally and ethically corrupt morality. As an Arab and a Muslim, ‘We Are All Qatar.’”For more Qatar-bashing-bashing, check out my satire “Qatar Doesn't Have Enough Genders to Host a World Cup.” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Ken Meyercord writes:“I had a revelation last night as I lay tossing and turning, and I thought I’d run it by you to see how you think it ranks with St. Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. There’s a website out there called ‘Jew or Not Jew‘, on which individuals are scored (between zero and 15) as to whether they are Jewish or not. As explained on the website, ‘We evaluate how Jewish a person is based on three factors. How Jewish they are internally, how Jewish they are externally and how much we want that person to be a Jew in the first place.’ I had always thought the site the work of some Jew-hater wanting to keep track of Jewish cliquishness in order to expose their disproportionate role in important segments of our society. Now I think differently. I think it is meant as a tool by which to identify Jews for those Jews wanting to engage in what has been called ‘ethnic nepotism.’ (Circumstantial evidence: The descriptions of the evaluation process by which an individual’s score is arrived at are so clever and witty they must have been written by a Jew.)“I had occasion to visit the site recently as I wanted to determine if it is still the case that the president of every Ivy League school but one is either a Jew or married to a Jew (It is the case). I found that none of the presidents were included amongst the thousands of individuals ranked by the site. That surprised me as many lesser lights are, e.g., Zack de la Rocha, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Ray Comfort. Even Sam Bankman-Fried, the ex-billionaire founder of the now bankrupt bitcoin exchange FTX, was not listed until two days ago—after he had made the headlines (Score: 13). (Bankman-Fried’s case reminds me of the comment by the ‘self-hating’ Jew, Gilad Atzmon, that ‘If you hear of a financial scandal involving millions of dollars, anyone could be behind it; if you hear of one involving billions of dollars, you can bet a Jew is behind it.’)“One thing I learned from my investigation into the Ivy League presidencies is that even Jews have trouble identifying who is a Jew and who is not. The Jewish Telegraph Agency, which bills itself as ‘the definitive, trusted global source of news and analysis on issues of Jewish interest and concern,’ thought the one Gentile amongst Ivy League Prez, Lee Bollinger of Columbia (Of all places!), was Jewish (see Correction at end of article). So maybe the Jew or Not Jew site is of great value to Jewish elders—in fact, founded by them—to assist them in recruiting their fellow tribesmen in fulfilling their destiny to be a ‘light unto the nations.’ In a supreme irony, if the site proves not enlightening enough, might it be the Jews themselves who mandate that their fellow tribesmen identify themselves publicly, say, by displaying a yellow Star of David on their clothing!”I responded by sending Ken a link to Ron Unz’s article exposing the shocking overrepresentation (in relation to their grades and test scores) of Jews in elite US universities. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

In his new article Energy from the Vacuum scientist Josh Mitteldorf observes: “There are persistent stories of people who invent perpetual motion machines only to disappear or to die mysteriously or become insane.” After looking at the physics of various proposed free energy technologies, he notes: “Many people have speculated that such technologies are not only possible, but that they have been developed and deployed by an elite group of powerful individuals or for advanced military applications, but kept secret from the public…Free energy could threaten the world’s reserve currency. In addition, the same ZPE technologies that could run our cars and heat our houses without pollution might also be converted too easily to make mega-bombs that no one wants to think about. The fact that these technologies are bubbling up in the mainstream scientific literature suggests that something is afoot.” This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Scott Bennett, author of The Shell Game (a copy of which he bestowed on Tucker Carlson) discusses the midterm elections, our participation in the Towards Tomorrow Seminar with former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and much more. Below is an excerpt from the interview.Kevin Barrett: Your take on the EU then is quite different from that of the EU's top foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who raised some eyebrows a few weeks ago when he said "Europe is a garden and most of the rest of the world is a jungle and the jungle could invade the garden." But there might be a little bit of truth to that (especially) if we imagine (as you've said) that these mRNA vaccines are indeed going to depopulate us to a certain extent, slowing our fertility. Fertility is already so low in the European world, and it's down to just about replacement in North America. So with or without the effect of COVID, there is a differential between, say, African fertility, which is still quite high, and fertility in the U.S. and North America and Europe, which is much, much lower. And then if you factor in the mRNA vaccines and COVID, neither COVID nor the vaccines hit Africa very much. And then there are other countries in Asia as well with with somewhat higher birth rates than the West. So this garden versus jungle metaphor, of course, was very politically incorrect and and very arrogant. And of course his championing the EU is quite ridiculous, as you suggested. However, there is that demographic angle that maybe needs to be addressed.Scott Bennett: Yeah, well, we studied this when I was back at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, way back in 2003 to 2008: the population winter coming and the demographic failure in Europe and America. And it's only gotten worse. And there's the other thing I've studied that's doomed the West, Kevin (as opposed to) what I saw when I was in the Middle East: There's such a preservation of feminine, delightful women, and they're rejoicing in their feminine gifts and being women and being wives and mothers and being real girls in the most classical feminine sense. And there's no oppression of women, there's no brutality, there's...there's harmony.Kevin Barrett: You're saying there are still two different separate genders. Is that legal?!Scott Bennett: Yes. There's a complementariness that I was so refreshed to see. I loved talking with the young Muslim women that were at the conference. They're very, very genteel and polite and everything beautiful that women are that has been preserved in their culture. In America, we have a complete abomination. The Feminine Mystique (by Betty Friedan). Karl Stern wrote about it in The Flight from Woman. George Gilder wrote about it in Men and Marriage and Sexual Suicide in the West. Since 1960, there has been a slow degeneration, decay and destruction of the feminine ideal of women as mothers and wives and their gentleness and serenity. Women exist in an emotional state for a reason, because God made them this way for the harmony of humanity. And we in the West have polluted and corrupted and deformed and and tried to rip women out of their natural state. It's like taking a fish out of the ocean and putting, you know, paper wings on it and saying, Now you're a bird. Well, it ain't going to work. And we've seen that it doesn't work, with the ferocity and anger and feminism and hatred of men and divorce that have grown in the last 30 years in America and its culture and pop culture. And we have an amazingly toxic environment in this country that makes the natural love and attraction between men and the women, and the natural inclination to marriage, so embittered and cold and twisted. That's the other the main pathology that afflicts us. And I didn't see that over there. It doesn't exist over there. So I look at these things from an emotional-psychological social science point of view. And I think, I keep saying, sadly, we are so full of toxicity. You were talking (earlier in the interview) about German self-loathing. This causes a mental breakdown on the individual and societal level, in emotional breakdowns and nervous breakdowns. You have an explosion of pent-up energy. So there's enormous pent-up energy in Germany. There's enormous pent-up energy in America. You see that in certain phenomena, such as Men Going Their Own Way, right? There's a whole Internet subculture of men who are giving up marriage, giving up women, living their own lives. Kevin Barrett: And they're almost as mad at women as the feminists are at men.Scott Bennett: Yes. So there's an amazing animosity and toxicity that is brewing in this country. It's an amazing thing to behold. But I didn't see it anywhere in the Middle East. Not anywhere! It's not there. Kevin Barrett: So why do right-wing conservative people who share your values and mine—why do they, so many of them, hate Muslims and Islam?Scott Bennett: That's the sad thing. I can only say it's the Jewish-Israeli-Zionist brainwashing a

E. Michael Jones of Culture Wars discusses his new article “Requiem for a Figurehead” as well as the midterms, abortion and “sexual liberation,” our “Towards Tomorrow” seminar with Dr. Ahmadinejad, and the Kanye and Kyrie controversy. Below is the transcript of the show’s final minutes.Kevin Barrett: I wanted to ask you about the Kanye and Kyrie controversy. They apparently spoke that J word that you are notoriously associated with also speaking, and they lost billions of dollars. I bet you never lost billions of dollars.E. Michael Jones: No, I didn't. And I've said it a lot more times than Kanye has, actually. (laughter) I do have a theory about what happened here. Now, if you focus on Kyrie — we pronounce it Keerie-ay. We don't say "Kyrie" eleison in mass. But anyway, if you focus on Kyrie, what he did seems completely insignificant. I mean, he tweeted a recommendation for a movie, okay?Kevin Barrett: He didn't even recommend it. He just had a link in the tweet that just basically means, hey, this is interesting. It doesn't even say whether he likes it or dislikes it.E. Michael Jones: Right. So why is it suddenly World War Three at the ADL? What's going on here? First of all: Jonathan (Greenblatt), hold on. Take a deep breath. Take a step back. Count to ten. You just wrecked the best revolutionary operation in America. It was called the black-Jewish Alliance. It's been in existence for 100 years. The NAACP was created by Jews to keep blacks on the plantation. And you were successful. The most successful resurrection of the black-Jewish alliance was Black Lives Matter. Everybody thought it had died in 1967. Now it's back with a vengeance. And Jonathan, you just wrecked it! Why did you do that? Why did the ADL shoot itself in the foot? This guy named Liel Liebovitz just wrote an article saying the ADL has to go. It's a Jew saying this. So (Jonathan Greenblatt) why did you do this? I think the answer is: because they needed something immediately to cover up the really damaging revelations that came out in the Kanye West scandal.Kevin Barrett: And what were those?E. Michael Jones: The fact that he had a personal trainer by the name of Harley Pasternak... Okay, so wait a minute. He's your “personal trainer” and then he tweets — Kanye published the tweet — if you don't do what I say, I'm going to have you institutionalized. You will you be shot up with drugs and you will never see your children again, or something like that.Kevin Barrett: Yeah, that was a pretty nasty threat. I mean, I've heard of "you'll never work in this town again." I'll bet Mel Gibson heard that a few times. But "we're going to take your kids away and institutionalize you..."E. Michael Jones: Whoa, whoa. This is really serious. And it's not the first time this has happened. Google Marilyn Monroe's Jewish psychiatrist back in the fifties. Back then you weren't called a personal trainer. You were called a psychiatrist when you had to take control of people's lives. But the situation was similar because that guy Greenson shot Marilyn Monroe full of drugs and probably killed her. And now here's this guy, Pasternak, who's got connections with Canadian psychological warfare operations. And he tells this guy on camera that, "yeah, I have access to really powerful drugs." Well, wait a minute. This is getting really serious. And all these A-listers there are basically under the control of this Jewish personal trainer who will threaten that if you get out of line, he'll shoot you up with drugs, have you institutionalized, and take away your children!Kevin Barrett: I understand that Sirhan Sirhan's Jewish personal trainer said "if you keep going to these pro-Palestinian demonstrations, I'm going to make sure you're locked up for the rest of your life." I'm just joking, semi-joking, here. But I do think Sirhan Sirhan probably did actually have a Jewish personal trainer who was skilled in hypnotherapy. But that's another topic for a different radio show. Yeah, I think you're right, Mike. By putting that out there, you would think that the whole world would take Kanye's side. And I think a lot of the world has.E. Michael Jones: But the blacks have these token guys like Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, all of these guys on the plantation, who attack Kanye as if to say, "no, there's no such thing as Jewish control."Kevin Barrett: What's wrong with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? I used to really like him when I was a kid and he was winning championships for the Milwaukee Bucks. He was a feisty Muslim troublemaker back then. What happened to that guy? Did they lobotomize him?E. Michael Jones: He called Kanye an anti-Semite. No, Kyrie, Kyrie. He called Kyrie an anti-Semite.Kevin Barrett: Kareem is still probably close to seven feet tall, but he's lost a lot of intellectual and moral stature. He's becoming an embarrassment to the American Muslim community.E. Michael Jones: So they basically divided the the black community. And the point of Li

Two very strange stories—the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, and Homer Van Meter’s account of his Sonoma County shootout with satanic cult members in 2004—just got even stranger. Homer Van Meter says that one of the cult members bore an uncanny resemblance to a younger version of David DePape, the man who was arrested for assaulting Paul Pelosi on October 28. Van Meter says a second witness, the woman he rescued from the cultists, has positively identified DePape as one of her kidnappers.All of this may seem completely unbelievable to anyone unfamiliar with the evidence that criminal rings specializing in sexual blackmail, some of them in the guise of satanic cults, largely “own” the highest level of our national security state. A leading expert in the topic, the late FBI official and private investigator Ted Gunderson, worked with Homer Van Meter on the 2004 kidnapping case and endorsed Van Meter’s account. Gunderson and Van Meter uncovered evidence pointing to Lt. Col. Michael Aquino as the alleged godfather behind the satanic murder/prostitution syndicate.Could David DePape have been “sent” to the Pelosi mansion? Was the incident scripted as an October Surprise? Listen to Homer Van Meter, read his book The Dreaming Time, and consider the possibilities. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Republican activist Rolf Lindgren a.k.a. Rolfstradamus predicts the outcome of next Tuesday’s midterm elections. In the final half hour, Allan Stevo argues that yes, elections do matter, and discusses his efforts to help candidates with non-mainstream ideas win.Allan Stevo is the author of Face Masks in One Lesson. He contributes to LewRockwell.com, The Hill, The Daily Caller, and other outlets. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Retired engineer/professor Bruce Baird just finished a 71-tweet Twitter thread voicing his suspicions that Israel was behind the September 1999 Russian apartment bombings colloquially known as “Russia’s 9/11”. Dr. Baird argues that the cover story—”radical Muslims used a vehicle bomb that magically blew a huge crater in the ground”—fits a pattern of Mossad mini-nuke false flags including the 1983 Marine barracks bombing, the 2002 Bali bombing, the 2004 Hariri assassination, and the 2020 Beirut blast. (Some might add the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which the Israeli perps may have originally intended to pin on Iraq.) According to Dr. Baird’s thesis, Israel/Netanyahu openly planned their global #WarOfTerror at the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism (JCIT) in 1979, and then made it a reality by launching a succession of false flag terror attacks, many employing mini-nukes, designed to be blamed on their Muslim enemies. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Rev. Dr. Randy Short, author of Slavery’s Mastery, offers a different view of the Kanye West controversy. Dr. Short has known Ye for many years. He thinks Ye’s statements about Jews have been overly harsh, poorly thought out, and even ungrateful. (Yes, Jews do dominate the entertainment business, and they helped Ye become a billionaire, so why is he biting the hand that feeds him?)Halfway through the hour we’re joined by Joachim Hagopian, author of DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND UKRAINE IS CRIME CABAL’S LAST STAND RESORTING TO FALSE FLAG TO BLAME PUTIN FOR NUKES: “Lately much of the mainstream media focus is emphasizing how the reckless madman from Russia is willing to go nuclear…These alarmist disinfo lies are put out exactly at the time the British Defense Minister Ben Wallace suddenly canceled his scheduled Tuesday appearance before the House of Commons Defense Committee in order to attend in person emergency meetings at the Pentagon and White House with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who I supervised a half century ago when he was a freshman at West Point…” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Author and journalist Bro. Demetric Muhammad of the Nation of Islam Research Group discusses the new Final Call article “Kanye West Meets Jewish Power.” It begins: “Black entertainer Ye (formerly Kanye West) has now joined the elite ranks of some of our most powerful and prestigious Black freedom fighters, such as Martin Luther King, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Malcolm X, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, and even our late great freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. For they–like Kanye–were all labeled ‘anti-Semites’ by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Professor Emeritus Anthony Hall (University of Lethbridge) returns to discuss the ongoing grassroots revolt against Canadian fuhrer, I mean, Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. We’ll discuss “what’s going on in Canada that led to the installation of a new Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, who replaced Jason Kenney who resigned. Smith promises to institute an Alberta Sovereignty Act. The great distance between Danielle and Trudeau can be signified by this comment from the new premier who intends to insert medical choice into the Alberta Human Rights Act.”We’ll also discuss the rise of the Alberta Independence Party; the likely false flag publicity stunt that led to the dubious Canadian truckers movement prosecutions in Coutts; and Zionist control of both mainstream and alternative Canadian media. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Greg Leveille of the Spiritual Secrets Substack just published "Going Beyond Chaos while floating in a River of Loving Consciousness." In it he asks some good questions:"Are you making a positive difference in the world, or are you contributing to the confusion and the contentiousness of the current round of worldwide chaos? Can you let go, or at least ignore the left-side and right-side arguments, or have you taken a firm stand supporting one side or the other?"Do you think of yourself as part of the government narrative, the alternative narrative, or the spiritual narrative? Are you in a state of spiritual peace or are you in a state of opposition to one thing or another?"Greg Leveille's experience includes 50 years of intense meditation and 40 years of teaching meditation methods. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Helen Buyniski a.k.a. “Helen of Destroy” (catch her occasionally on False Flag Weekly News) discusses her article “Another day, another color revolution in Iran:“The architects of US foreign policy have officially run out of ideas in their quest to overthrow the Iranian government. Rather than holding off on another regime change attempt until they can cobble together a new plan of action, however, they’ve decided to insult the intelligence of the Iranian people by reheating 2009’s leftovers and trying to pass them off as a genuine revolution. Fool me once – 1953’s CIA-sponsored overthrow of democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh – shame on you. Fool me twice – 2009’s failed “Green Revolution” intended to unseat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, backed by the US State Department – shame on me (and a hint: don’t call it a ‘revolution’ until it succeeds or you might end up with geostrategic egg on your face). Fool me three times – you must think I’m a damn fool, or that Iranians are damn fools. . .” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Human rights activist El-Hajj Mauri’ Salakhan of Aafia.org discusses the “Free Aafia” demonstrations he’s helping organize, scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 23, near where Aafia Siddiqui is being held at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas. As I wrote in the posting for last month’s interview with Gordon Duff:Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was the victim of what Ramsey Clark called “the worst case of individual injustice I have ever witnessed.” A brilliant neuroscientist (MIT-Brandeis) and leading Islamic activist, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was crucified by the 9/11 perp neocons not because of anything she did, but purely to terrorize and intimidate other anti-Zionist Muslims. Obviously innocent of any crime, yet held without charges and tortured and raped for years, her child murdered, and finally charged with resisting her rapists and sentenced to several lifetimes in prison, Dr. Aafia is living proof that the Zionist-occupied US Empire is evil incarnate. She is a leading national heroine and considered “the mother of the nation” in Pakistan. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Podcaster’s note: You could have listened to this show last weekend if you’d gotten a paid subscription to my Substack.Should Darwin’s thesis be rewritten as “the survival of the most gorgeous”? That’s the takeaway from Richard Prum’s The evolution of beauty: How Darwin’s forgotten theory of mate choice shapes the animal world — and us (2017) according to Eric Walberg’s new review. Joining Eric to discuss Prum’s book is anti-aging scientist and evolutionary theorist Josh Mitteldorf. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Claire Khaw advocates “Secular Koranism”—the idea that the Qur’an should become the basis of secular legal systems. Its rules, she says, should apply to everyone, not just Muslims.That’s not as crazy an idea as it sounds. Claire has some provocative and persuasive insights into the underlying causes of Western decadence and how the Qur’an’s guidance could help fix things. Listen to this interview and you’ll discover that Claire and I agree that patriarchy is basically a good thing, not a bad thing. (For more heretical talk on patriarchy, check out my article on the woke crusade against girls’ sports, and don’t miss Charles Eisenstein’s excellent new piece making some of the same points.)But I’m not really on board with secular Koranism, and I especially disagree with Claire’s argument that Muslims should be its leading advocates. I also disagree with her list of reasons why, she says, Muslims reject it: Claire Khaw's REASONS WHY MUSLIMS REJECT Secular Koranism* Because it is unorthodox and being promoted by a non-Muslim female.* Because they don't want to be labelled radical or extremist.* Because they are not interested in promoting their religion. * Because most of them have never heard of such a thing and don't know what to think of it.* Because many Muslims in the West enjoy its sexual liberation and don't want it restricted by Koranic principles.* Because most of them are not independent thinkers.* Because even independent thinkers are afraid of the mainstream Muslim opinion who will reject it unless approved of by Islamic scholars.* Because most Islamic scholars are already co-opted and compromised. * Because most Muslims think it is enough to get to heaven just because they are Muslim and see no need to involve themselves in the dirty business of politics.* Because most Muslims would rather not deal with the necessity of denouncing the idolatry and blasphemy of Christianity which would alienate their Christian overlords.* Because most Muslims are confused about the proper position to take on the idolatry and blasphemy of Christianity and prefer not to take controversial positions. Kevin Barrett’s REASONS WHY MUSLIMS REJECT Secular Koranism* For Muslims, secular Koranism is reinventing the wheel so that it doesn’t roll quite as well. (Islam gives us everything SK could, and much, much more.)* Muslims have an admirable 1400-year history of not forcing their rules on non-Muslims, since “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256).* The word secular means “denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis” (Oxford Languages) and the Qur’an’s rules obviously DO have a religious and spiritual basis.* The word secular has a negative connotation for most Muslims, who link it to attempts to remove religion from its rightful place in the public square. (There is no “separation of church and state” in Islam.)* The word Koranism implies radically revising Islamic law to make it derive entirely from the Qur’an without reference to ahadith or any other contextual material. That sharply conflicts with the Islamic scholarly consensus, which holds that the Qur’an must be understood in context, most obviously in terms of asbab un-nuzul (occasions of revelation, i.e. the issues in the early Muslim community that the Qur’an addresses in specific verses).* Secular Koranism concerns itself only with the legal dimensions of the Qur’an without reference to its indispensable spiritual dimensions.* Secular Koranism’s interpretation of certain legal dimensions of the Qu’ran departs sharply from Islamic scholarly consensus.* Secular Koranism, as Claire presents it, seems linked to the Noahide laws (a short list of laws that some Jews would like to impose on all non-Jews). Muslims generally sympathize with the content of the Noahide laws, but given their history of not imposing their own laws on non-Muslims, they are not likely to sympathize with Jews who want to impose Jewish laws on non-Jews.* Islam has shown remarkable resiliency over more than 1400 years, despite lacking an official bureaucracy, because Muslims have been able to forge a consensus on the most important issues. Secular Koranism radically departs from that consensus in many ways. Check out this refutation of SK by William Breiannis.So I think Claire is a bit naive in expecting Muslims to lead the charge for Secular Koranism. I urge her to instead systematically summarize the universal principles she derives from the Qur’an, and explain to non-Muslims how and why their legal codes should be revised according to those principles. Muslims certainly wouldn’t object to Western societies reforming their legal codes to align them more closely with Qur’anic principles. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo