Max Parry

Journalist/Writer. My work is currently featured in @CovertActionMag and I co-host the podcast @CaptiveMindsX.

[Captive Minds @captivemindsX]

Captive Minds ep #38: "The Rise of China and the Decline of Western Hegemony (with Amy Yang)"

https://t.co/TEHV7NKYqC

[Max Parry @MaxRParry]

@chargers Brandon Staley must be laughing his ass off

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🇺🇸 Dems with military backgrounds promote militarism, not peace - analyst

US foreign policy stays imperialist no matter who sits in the Senate — both parties answer to the military-industrial complex and Wall Street, Dr Jeremy Kuzmarov, managing editor of CovertAction Magazine, told Sputnik.

Nonetheless, Kuzmarov found 67 Democrats running for Congress with military or intelligence backgrounds campaigning in uniform and promising even bigger military budgets, already over a trillion dollars.

"The Democrats seem especially hawkish with regard to Russia and Ukraine," he stressed, pushing Russophobia while selling Kiev as a "model democracy" — despite Zelensky's torture chambers, 17 banned parties and thousands of political prisoners.

"What we might see is a more aggressive policy toward Russia and Ukraine, even though that's a failed policy with the Democrats. So the American voter who cares about peace has nobody really to turn to."

[Sputnik @SputnikInt]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 US & Israel 'under illusion' if they believe they can achieve regime change in Iran - expert

"Millions and millions of Iranians came out to support the Ayatollah at his funerals, one of the best-attended funerals in world history. And they're going to rally and defend their country from foreign aggressors," Dr. Jeremy Kuzmarov, managing editor of CovertAction Magazine, told Sputnik.

He drew a parallel with Russia, which will likewise rally to defend itself against "Ukrainian aggression backed by the United States."

"So both of those wars are unwinnable, but the politicians don't seem to have any grasp on reality," he concluded.

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

For those of us who live under the bombs, American elections are hardly the political spectacle we are expected to celebrate.

We couldn't give two hoots about which party wins an election in a system that has perfected the art of manufacturing the illusion of choice while keeping the machinery of imperialism firmly intact.

Choosing between two horse manures with the same smell is not democracy. And expecting us to applaud because one smells marginally less offensive is frankly insulting.

The people casting ballots are told they are deciding their country's future, while the machinery that determines whose lives are expendable, whose countries get bombed, whose land gets occupied and whose suffering gets funded by American taxpayers operates well beyond their reach.

And spare us the excitement over the Democrats. Was Obama not bombing weddings in Yemen? Did Biden not arm and shield the genocide in Gaza while Israel carried out its ethnic cleansing campaign in Lebanon?

Apparently, we are supposed to develop selective amnesia every four years, pick our favourite shade of American imperialism and celebrate when the supposedly lesser evil wins.

Forgive us if we aren't emotionally invested.

When your foreign policy is someone's funeral, your democracy is someone else's nightmare.

We are for sure not obliged to celebrate the electoral choices of an empire that keeps choosing us as its targets.

طوشتونا عاد.

[That Aro-Ace Hoxhaist @AntiRevisonist1]

Anti Communist museums will be like “Everyone lived in insane poverty and everyone hated it blah blah” and then show you this as the exhibit of the average apartment of the era.

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

Here’s the video of Requiem for the Postmodern Left, now with much better audio. We definitely need more Marxist reckonings with French Theory and French Nietzscheanism and it feels to me that this conversation is very timely. Thanks to Aymeric Monville and Gabriel Rockhill @GabrielRockhill for the discussion!
https://t.co/HPV93LheR8

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

The casual acceptance of forced conscription in Ukraine by the war’s blasé cheerleaders in the west is so insane. It’s literally war slavery. And they have forced a million men to their deaths.

[Max Parry @MaxRParry]

@alexinsdorf99 Only 4 hours? wtf

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

I'm hosting @GabrielRockhill and Aymeric Monville tomorrow in DC! I can't wait for this event. We have some great comrades coming out to attend. Join us in-person, doors open at 6. RSVP:
https://t.co/lHxqW20Uzm

[Max Parry @MaxRParry]

@barstoolsports @wakeupbarstool @VivaLaStool @BFW @BarstoolGruden @TBob53 @MeekPhill_ @Blutman27 @StoolBaseball There’s no city called New England either dumbass

[Max Parry @MaxRParry]

@Aaron_Good_ His admin was also the first to send lethal aid Ukraine in his first term, which Obama had declined to do despite backing the coup against Yanukovych.

[Max Parry @MaxRParry]

@realnikohouse I’ve had nocturnal panic attacks and don’t wish them on my worst enemy.

[Max Parry @MaxRParry]

@JimmyFalunGong https://t.co/JD8rgnMQ0g

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@SeanMcCarthyCom https://t.co/T5RhQJBe05

[Max Parry @MaxRParry]

@Criterion @BNBuzz I thought this was an Onion headline

[Helmut-Harry Loewen @LoewenHelmut]

Was Operation Gladio Behind the Unsolved Murder of Famed Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini? (Part One) https://t.co/gnYn4dlnrf

[Helmut-Harry Loewen @LoewenHelmut]

"Pasolini was not alone in his critique of post-war Western society. In fact, his observations about neo-capitalism strongly resemble those of the French Marxist sociologist Michel Clouscard.

"Pasolini detested the growth of consumerism in Italy and the Americanization of his homeland, which he believed were destroying authentic peasant and working-class cultures on a genocidal level. Like Clouscard, Pasolini viewed neo-capitalist consumer society as a new and more insidious form of fascism—one that did not require direct state coercion.

"Clouscard, similarly, argued that the sexual liberation movement inaugurated a new, permissive form of capitalism which converted rebellion into lifestyle politics. In keeping with Clouscard’s critique of what he termed “libertarian liberalism,” Pasolini contended that neo-capitalism eroded working-class and peasant values and encouraged a hedonistic culture that was ultimately more destructive to the social fabric than traditional fascism. “One is therefore justified in saying that the ‘tolerance’ of the hedonistic ideology of the new power is the worst kind of repression in human history,” wrote the legendary filmmaker. Labeled by some scholars as a “Catholic Marxist” despite his self-professed atheism, Pasolini believed activists who valorized tolerance of difference as an end in itself lost sight of the more important goal of universal human emancipation. In his view, they risked becoming incorporated into an increasingly “democratized” consumer society that remained fundamentally based off of class oppression.

"In fact, parallels between the two figures have been drawn by French essayist Aymeric Monville, who co-founded the Marxist publishing house Delga Éditions with Michel Clouscard in 2004. Monville himself has worked on translations of both Clouscard and Pasolini, and even published a French-language edition of previously uncollected interviews and texts by the late director. Philosopher Daniel Tutt has also drawn comparisons between the French sociologist’s and the Italian filmmaker’s views on the working class, particularly in Pasolini’s collection of writings titled Lutheran Letters.

"Although Pasolini was often a sharp critic of the Italian left, he generally did so from within the movement. From his youth until his untimely death he considered himself a Marxist and a communist. Although he has been frequently characterized as a reactionary because of his controversial views on abortion and the 1968 student movement, he never stopped giving his, albeit qualified, support to the Italian Communist Party (PCI)." - Was Operation Gladio Behind the Unsolved Murder of Famed Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini? (Part Two): https://t.co/shdGWhXSt7

[Daniel Tutt @TuttReal]

I highly recommend this new piece on the mysterious death of the filmmaker Pasolini which took place amid the "strategy of tension" orchestrated by the CIA across Italy. This is absolutely wild (link below).

[CovertAction Magazine @CovertActionMag]

Was Operation Gladio Behind the Unsolved Murder of Famed Filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini? Part II https://t.co/wf9AvjF19B via @CovertActionMag