Live-streamed on November 26, 2024 Richard Beck, senior writer at n + 1 Magazine, discusses his recent book Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life. https://x.com/richard__beck https://www.nplusonemag.com/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677393/homeland-by-richard-beck/ Richard Beck then joins, jumping right into his particular perspective for the war on terror as a teenager at the time of 9/11, unpacking the bipartisan normalization of the shift to a domestic surveillance state backing a globalized project of enforced American hegemony, and looking at how the Democratic Party (under Obama), in particular, worked to simultaneously present the Bush administration as an aberration, while bureaucratizing, rationalizing, and, ultimately, reinforcing the exact project that was supposedly so absurd. After briefly touching on the window Occupy provided to the Obama administration’s blatant rejection of a progressive movement outside of the political establishment, Beck steps back, diving into the overwhelming media backlash to any sort of critical lens on US hegemony, with a direct line between the “owning the libs” politics of today and the Limbaughian obsession with making fun of the progressive identifiers of the nineties and aughts, alongside a direct tie-in to the bipartisan militarization of American society, be it tanks in police departments, an influx of Humvees on the street, or the catapulting of “SpecOps”-esque comic movies to the forefront of US culture, and how those elements worked to further legitimize the amoral (and often actively immoral) maintenance of US hegemony across the globe. Wrapping up, Richard, Sam, and Emma briefly touch on the particular role of oil in the War on Terror, and why it fails to actually explain the quest for American hegemony in an age of dwindling capitalist expansion, tackling the major role of the US plays well outside of petroleum reserves in an effort, more than anything else, to simply protect its impunity at the top of the global liberal order. Watch the Majority Report live Monday–Friday at 12 p.m. EST on YouTube OR listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #politics #news Support the show by becoming a member: https://www.fans.fm/majority/join Get all your MR merch at our store: https://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://www.fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://www.am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://www.majoritydiscord.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://www.majority.fm/app CHECK OUT MORE from the MR crew: Matt Binder DOOMED https://www.youtube.com/MattBinder Brandon Sutton DISCOURSE https://www.youtube.com/@Th3Discourse Emma Vigeland ESVN https://www.youtube.com/ESVNShow Matt Lech LEFT RECKONING https://www.youtube.com/LeftReckoning OTHER LINKS: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://www.avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://www.majorityreportradio.com/

• published: 12 Dec 2024
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