new cold war

Ultimately, our freedoms and rights power the innovative culture that makes the United States the most successful political experiment in history. Even with its historical warts, America has improved the living standards of its citizens more than any human culture that has ever existed. Democracy, protection of individual freedoms, harnessing the power of diversity while creating a strong collective identity. These are strengths that China and Russia will never have without a revolution. This makes me optimistic that we still have what it takes to win The New Cold War. We just need the right leaders, united in mission, to galvanize the public into believing in the power of a United States of America. It’s been said that politicians only act when there’s fire in the living room. Guess what? There is fire in the living room. We can do this!

For this episode, Miguel did something a little different. First, Miguel read the article he wrote last month on Antincopquista.com called "Paper Tiger Imperialism and the US-Beijing Boycott."

If you missed it, on December 6, 2021, the Biden Administration announced a Diplomatic Boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which will begin in 10 days, on February 4, 2022. The Boycott is one of many current smear campaigns against China from Washington.

Now, we will make one thing clear: We believe in abolishing the Olympics and have been critical of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) corruption in the past, but we are anti-imperialists first, and we will defend China against the Cold War rhetoric and lies pushed by the US government, its allies, and the US corporate media, which acts as the PR arm of the US government.

To end the podcast, Miguel has a little fun at the expense of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki talking about margaritas because the Democrats are incompetent and don't care about working-class people. 

 Links:
 
The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz (@RodericDay and Redsails.org)

Ugly head of 'imperial jealousy' rears in US reaction to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics (Danny Haiphong/CGTN)

Zero Covid: China silences the critics (Carlos Martinez/MorningStar)

China is not a democracy… or is it? The Chinese Toolkit (Stefania Fusero/Friends of Socialist China)

Our Comments to The Nation (QIAO COLLECTIVE)

Miguel Garcia produced this episode. The Sports As A Weapon Podcast is now part of the @Anticonquista Media collective. Subscribe to the Antincoquista Patreon and follow on YouTube and Instagram!

Be sure to listen/subscribe to the Sports As A Weapon Podcast on Spotify,

Miguel Garcia produced this episode. The Sports As A Weapon Podcast is part of the @Anticonquista Media Collective. Subscribe to the ANTICONQUISTA Patreon and follow ANTICONQUISTA on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok!

Also, listen/subscribe to the Sports As A Weapon Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Follow us on:

Twitter: @sportsasaweapon
Facebook: fb.com/sportsasaweaponpodcast
Instagram: @sportsasaweaponpodcast
Tik Tok: @SportsAsAWeapon
BlueSky: @sportsasaweapon.bsky.social
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sportsasaweaponpodcast (If you want)
Visit our website: www.sportsasaweapon.com

Beloved Friends, Listeners and Marmots,

For those who prefer just the straight dope without any background music or skits, here is the entire Barbarian Noetics unabridged interview with historian and author Dr. Ken Hammond, all about modern China, raw voice file only. Enjoy!

If there are any other conversations you'd like me to post in raw voice file only, let me know! Email: barbarian.noetics@gmail.com

One Love,
little raven kawww

Here's a bonus quote from Carl Sagan:

"The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before."

Support My Sponsor:
Magic Mind Adaptogenic & Nootropic Elixir 20% off at Checkout!
https://magicmind.com/barbarianpod | Use Code: BARBARIANPOD20

If you dig the pod, check out the adjacent video & livestream show Barbarian Yak Fest w/ Dr. Sylvie & Deus ex Machinist on Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/BarbarianYakFest

Find me on IG: barbarian_noetics

Become a Beloved Patron: patreon.com/noetics (unlock bonus content plus win a Dream Interpretation)

Direct Donate on PayPal @barbarian.noetics@proton.me
or Cash App@ $BarbarianRaven

One time donation: buymeacoffee.com/noetics.

Spread the word and tell a friend. Remember to set the BNP on Auto Download after you subscribe. I appreciate you all.

Let's Activate the human spirit!

FAIR USE DISCLAIMER:
Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 allows for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research.

"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What's up to my luscious leopards and tassel-tipped tanagers!

Welcome back to the BNP everyone and thank you for joining! This episode is slightly abridged and coming out early because I am going camping this weekend up on the Utah-AZ border. I'm stoked. :) But enough about me. 

This episode we welcome back esteemed writer and historian Dr. Ken Hammond PhD. Dr. Hammond is a professor of East Asian history and founder of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico St. University. He is also an activist for Pivot to Peace: https://peacepivot.org/.

Dr. Hammond continues our deep dive into the rise of modern China since the 1949 Communist Revolution.  We tackle the years of the so-called Cultural Revolution, including its internal facets, flaws and unreported benefits. Importantly, it is a fair and nuanced assessment of an event that is universally demonized and exaggerated in the West.

We then touch on China's guiding ideology as it has evolved over the years, and how the presidency of Xi Jinping has signaled a noticeable shift away from Capitalist oligarchic corruption and towards the Socialist vision that animated the revolution. China's anti-corruption campaign is working, and they are leading the world in the field of green and renewable technology.

To save the planet, we as Americans need to work together with China whether we like it or not, and sabre rattling from the Pentagon is both unproductive and dangerous.

Finally, Dr. Hammond recounts his experience at Kent St. University on the very day in 1970 when National Guardsmen opened fire on students, killing 4, paralyzing 1 and injuring many others. Fascinating to have a firsthand account of that horrible day.

Thank you for listening and supporting the BNP!  Spread the word and tell a friend!
 
Follow the BNP on IG @conantanner
Original Poetry TikTok @barbarian.noetics

Help expand our tribe of philosopher-barbarians by rating, reviewing and subscribing to the BNP on whatever podcast platforms you use to listen.

Support the podcast for just $1/month by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/noetics. Act now to secure your monthly truckload of pygmy go

Support My Sponsor:
Magic Mind Adaptogenic & Nootropic Elixir 20% off at Checkout!
https://magicmind.com/barbarianpod | Use Code: BARBARIANPOD20

If you dig the pod, check out the adjacent video & livestream show Barbarian Yak Fest w/ Dr. Sylvie & Deus ex Machinist on Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/BarbarianYakFest

Find me on IG: barbarian_noetics

Become a Beloved Patron: patreon.com/noetics (unlock bonus content plus win a Dream Interpretation)

Direct Donate on PayPal @barbarian.noetics@proton.me
or Cash App@ $BarbarianRaven

One time donation: buymeacoffee.com/noetics.

Spread the word and tell a friend. Remember to set the BNP on Auto Download after you subscribe. I appreciate you all.

Let's Activate the human spirit!

FAIR USE DISCLAIMER:
Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 allows for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research.

"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

What's up to my belly-laughing bamboo shoots and burly baby pandas!

Welcome back to the BNP everyone and thank you for joining! Shout out to my patrons, y'all are the butter flavor in my movie popcorn.

This episode I'm thrilled to feature historian and author Dr. Kenneth Hammond, PhD. Dr. Hammond received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in History and East Asian Languages in 1994. He specializes in the history of China in the Early Modern period, and is the founder of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University.

Since 2017, Dr. Hammond has been affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has been a lecturer for the National Geographic Society and for the Smithsonian Institution. Finally, Dr. Hammond is a writer and activist for Pivot to Peace, a coalition of concerned Americans from all walks of life, who have come together in opposition to the dramatically increasing drive toward confrontation between the United States and China. You can check it out at: https://peacepivot.org/.

Dr. Hammond so generously jumped on the BNP to unpack two critical junctures in modern Chinese history: The Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.  

It is so important to have a materialist, non-bias awareness around these foundational chapters in recent Chinese history. Equally important is to push back against the many misconceptions held in the U.S. about China.

This two part series with Dr. Hammond is my effort to dispel stereotypes and common tropes, and help my fellow citizenry to have a greater and more nuanced understanding of the forces and events that have shaped modern China. 

This episode, Part One, covers The Great Leap Forward. Next week, I'll post Part Two, where we cover the Cultural Revolution.

Help keep the BNP on the air by becoming a patron for as little as $1/month (3.3 cents a day) at www.patreon.com/noetics. You receive monthly truckloads of magnum black jaguars when you sign up!*

I can haz followers? Find the BNP on IG @conantanner, and BNP's Original Poetry TikTok @barbarian.noetics.

I can haz haikus? Send me one at barbarian.noetics@gmail.co

Support My Sponsor:
Magic Mind Adaptogenic & Nootropic Elixir 20% off at Checkout!
https://magicmind.com/barbarianpod | Use Code: BARBARIANPOD20

If you dig the pod, check out the adjacent video & livestream show Barbarian Yak Fest w/ Dr. Sylvie & Deus ex Machinist on Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/BarbarianYakFest

Find me on IG: barbarian_noetics

Become a Beloved Patron: patreon.com/noetics (unlock bonus content plus win a Dream Interpretation)

Direct Donate on PayPal @barbarian.noetics@proton.me
or Cash App@ $BarbarianRaven

One time donation: buymeacoffee.com/noetics.

Spread the word and tell a friend. Remember to set the BNP on Auto Download after you subscribe. I appreciate you all.

Let's Activate the human spirit!

FAIR USE DISCLAIMER:
Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 allows for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research.

"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Where America slams a door, China immediately appears to knock in" - goes the popular saying and we see it becoming a reality in 21st-century geopolitical trends. Will the US be able to prevent a China-Russia alliance at the dawn of the new Cold War? How can we understand better Chinese foreign policy? Is the Belt and Road initiative actually a framework for expanding China's global influence or more of a "domestic" project? Guest: Gergely Salát, China expert, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Hosts: Attila Demkó, Head of the Center for Geopolitics, MCC; Péter Heltai, Editor of Corvinak.hu, MCC.

-----------------------

"Ahol Amerika becsap egy ajtót, Kína rögtön ott terem, hogy bekopogjon" - hangzik a népszerű mondás, ami a szemünk előtt válik a 21. századi geopolitikai valósággá. Képes lesz az Egyesült Államok megakadályozni Kína és Oroszország szövetségét az "új hidegháború" hajnalán? Miként érthetjük meg jobban a kínai külpolitikát? Az "Egy Övezet, Egy Út" kezdeményezés valóban Kína globális befolyásának növelését szolgálja vagy inkább egy "belpolitikai" projekt? Vendég: Salát Gergely PhD, Kína kutató, a Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet főmunkatársa. Házigazda: Demkó Attila, a Geopolitikai Műhely vezetője, MCC; Heltai Péter, a Corvinák.hu szerkesztője, MCC.

ANN/Groong Week in Review - May 2, 2021

Topics:

• Armenia-Russia Relations and the New Cold War
• Iran-Russia and Iran-Armenia Relations
• Election Politics and the Latest MPG Polls
• Serge Sargsyan’s Interview

Guests:

• Marine Manucharyan @armoland
• Pietro Shakarian

Hosts:

• Asbed Bedrossian @qubriq
• Hovik Manucharyan @HovikYerevan

Episode 60 | Recorded: May 2, 2021

Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

Paris Marx is joined by Mar Hicks to discuss why we need to know the history of tech and how the British history of sexism and colonialism in computing has lessons for the present-day US tech industry.

Mar Hicks is the co-editor of “Your Computer Is on Fire,” along with Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, and Kavita Philip. They are also the author of “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing” and an Associate Professor of the History of Technology at Illinois Tech. Follow Mar on Twitter as @histoftech.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Mar wrote about the story of COBOL computer systems in the early months of the pandemic and how Britain killed its tech industry.
• Google fired top AI ethicists Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell after their research was critical of the company’s practices. Diversity recruiter April Christina Curley was also fired in September 2020.