Aesthetic Resistance Podcast John Steppling

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Dennis Riches.
In this episode: Gaza, Palestine, Trump derangement syndrome (2024 version), educational decline, True Detective (season one), the environmental and cultural impact of lawns and lawn mowing, two varieties of family reunions in Canada and Thailand.

Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Cory Morningstar, Shaenah Batterson, and Max Parry. Discussed in this episode: 1. The FBI tells Americans to prepare for a “heightened threat environment.” 2. Reactionary responses to the protests on American campuses 3. Echoes of 1968 in student protests—including the Democratic convention taking place in Chicago. 4. France ready to send troops to fight in Ukraine, provoking dire warning from Russia, France’s lost skepticism about American power. 5. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), how neo-liberalism leads to chronic illness and depression, then to the conclusion that assisted suicide is the solution. 6. Corporate capture of social movements. 7. Capitalism’s short-term solutions for the environmental problems.

Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Max Parry, Lex Steppling, Varun Mathur, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada and Dennis Riches.

Links to articles and subjects dissussed in this episode:

Slobodan Despot on the Parallels between Two Disintegrations, Yugoslavia and Ukraine
https://dennisriches.substack.com/p/slobodan-despot-on-the-parallels

The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names
https://web.archive.org/web/20240415213007/https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/15/the-gaza-genocide-as-explicit-policy-michael-hudson-names-all-names/

Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301308455_Thinking-feeling_with_the_Earth_Territorial_Struggles_and_the_Ontological_Dimension_of_the_Epistemologies_of_the_South

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Max Parry, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Varun Mathur, and Hiroyuki Hamada.

Links to sources and subjects mentioned in this episode:

On victims rights: "The Wrongs of Victim's Rights"
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2922&context=facpub

U.S. and India set to announce flurry of deals spanning defense, chips and A.I.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/22/us-and-india-set-to-announce-flurry-of-deals-on-defense-chips-ai.html


A timeline of the events that led to the demolition of the mosque and those that shaped how it will be seen in history.
https://thewire.in/communalism/babri-masjid-the-timeline-of-a-demolition

John Steppling's blog
https://john-steppling.com/2024/04/deep-fake/

https://twitter.com/noisyimmigrant/status/1782755122332016935

In boost to Atmanirbhar Bharat, security forces to get India-made Israeli assault rifles
https://theprint.in/defence/in-boost-to-atmanirbhar-bharat-security-forces-to-get-india-made-israeli-assault-rifles/604934/

Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On 'Antisemitism'
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-turning-hospitals-into

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Varun Mathur, and Hiroyuki Hamada

Links to articles and subjects discussed in this episode:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/if-you-want-people-have-babies-youre-now-far-right

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/23/reckoning-with-the-soviet-role-in-the-creation-of-israel/

https://prolecenter.wordpress.com/2021/06/22/chris-hedges-who-is-he-and-what-is-his-purpose/

https://beeley.substack.com/p/canadas-expanding-euthanasia-laws-086

https://propagandainfocus.com/bringing-transhumanism-down-to-earth-part-1-military-intelligence-operations-cloaked-in-the-false-promise-of-transcendence/

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/28/natalism-conference-austin-00150338

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maid-canada-report-2022-1.7009704

https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1784708135196004620

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, and Varun Mathur.

Israel's culture of rape and child abuse
https://beeley.substack.com/p/israels-culture-of-rape-and-child

Animal behavior and the total eclipse
https://interestingengineering.com/space/total-eclipse-secrets-animal-behavior

Oil palm in Latin America: monoculture and violence
https://grain.org/e/7123

Akuntsu tribe's last three survivors speak of genocide
https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/akuntsu

Why the West is Punishing Gaza
https://youtu.be/NZDGvT04sNA

Structural Adjustment
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/structural-adjustment.asp

Hindu iconography and right-wing nationalism
https://hyperallergic.com/892110/how-hindu-iconography-became-an-extension-of-right-wing-nationalism/