Oh hello.
Welcome to System Fail.
The show where carbon emissions are no laughing matter.
Tonight sabotage at sea.
Underwater explosions caused damage to
both Nord Stream pipelines
Scientists say the pipelines could be pumping out
the biggest methane release on record.
Denmark's armed forces released footage of
bubbles boiling in the sea.
[Farting Noises]
Questions of blame remain.
He who smelt it, delt it.
Whoever denied it...
Supplied it.
[Farting Noises]
How dare you?
I am your host, Dee Dos,
and in case you hadn't noticed, the world has
become a pretty polarized place.
In America you can't say you're innocent
The left is obsessed with teaching children about
gender identity.
Italy's first leader from the far right since
the second world war.
Let's do it again.
It didn't work out too well.
Let's do it again.
Although human beings like to see
themselves as rational, autonomous individuals,
the truth is that they are herd animals.
And faced with the overwhelming complexity
of an unthinking and uncaring universe,
Get fucked!
they compensate by over-simplifying
complicated situations, and reducing them
to a set of binaries.
Binary can be an efficient way of handling data,
if you have the computing power for it.
Sadly, humans do not.
And so they muddle along
with simple conceptual binaries, like
good versus evil,
and us vs them,
which transform the world into a reassuring, yet
unrealistic fantasy of heroic protagonists
and their eternal opposites.
Cool mask
For Western Leftists, one of these binaries
has had to do a lot of heavy lifting of late.
The question of imperialism and anti-imperialism
pro-imperialist or anti-anti-imperialist
The imperialist vs anti-imperialist split is an updated version
of the previous Cold War framework,
which serves to divide the world into two
competing geopolitical blocs.
On one side, the capitalist, imperialist west,
made up of the United States, NATO, Israel, Japan
and their junior partners,
and on the other, the so-called Axis of Resistance ,
made up of China, Russia, Iran and their own
corresponding network of allies.
Rather than seeing all states as
fundamentally similar, this binary logic demands
that you pick a side, and stick to it.
You either support Russia's war in Ukraine,
or you support NATO.
You support Bashar al-Assad,
or you support Israel.
Either you are with us or you are with
North Korea
Often associated with the strange Internet-dwellers
known as tankies,
this clownishly oversimplified worldview is also popular
among the liberal anti-war crowd,
so-called progressives,
and even some anarchists.
In many ways, it is simply an inverted reflection
of western propaganda.
It's a state-centric paradigm that ignores human agency,
and downplays antagonisms based on class, ethnicity, sect and gender.
The latest flashpoint in this global chess board is Iran,
a regional imperialist power facing a popular uprising
that has drawn in millions of people,
but which self-described anti-imperialists
from the west have convinced themselves
is actually a cleverly orchestrated CIA plot.
This so-called protest movement which
I believe is a colour revolution where
you start to see government forces getting attacked and hurt
more than uh the people
that's not generally how peaceful protests and
demonstrations go...
They said they would probably invade
they would use ground tactics
hand to hand combat.
Iran has witnessed several waves of militant protests
over the past five years.
The current uprising was sparked when the country's
morality police beat and murdered 22 year old
Kurdish woman Zhina Amini,
who was arrested for improperly wearing her hijab.
Since then, a feminist revolution has swept the country,
swelling into a popular uprising against the
country's Islamic regime.
The unrest has spread to towns and cities across Iran
Clashes between police and protesters turning deadly
Crowds of women shouting "death to the dictator"
have ripped off their hijabs and burned them in the streets,
demanding an end to misogynist public decency laws.
Symbols of the regime and the country's so-called
Supreme Leader have been targeted.
Cop cars and police stations have been smashed up
and set on fire.
Several members of the state security forces
and religious paramilitaries known as the Basij
have been killed.
In Oshnavieh, protesters burned down a military base
and took over the city.
Baluchistan, near the border with Pakistan,
has been turned into a war zone.
So far, protests have been recorded in more than 80 cities,
and all 31 of the country's provinces.
The regime has arrested thousands of the
uprising's participants, and killed more than 100.
Among them was Nika Shakarami a 16 year old high school student
whose disappearance and subsequent murder
by security services has further fueled public anger.
In response to her murder, and a brutal crackdown
on protests at Sharif Technical University
on Sunday October 2nd,
high school and university students
across the country have launched a wave of
protests and strikes.
These have been accompanied by general strikes in the
provinces of Kurdistan and West Azerbaijan.
Members of the Iranian diaspora have held protests at embassies
around the world, including in the UK, where protests
led to clashes with police, in which several
officers were injured.
Large solidarity protests have also taken place in Iraq,
where in recent years, Iranian-controlled militias
have ruthlessly repressed a number of popular uprisings.
Solidarity protests have also taken place among the
Kurds in Rojava, in Northern Syria.
As the protest continue, it remains to be seen if
the movement will achieve their lofty goals.
But one thing is certain.
The women and men who are bravely risking
their lives in pursuit of greater freedoms,
are not waiting for permission from western leftists.
Meanwhile, in the so-called United States,
thousands of prisoners from multiple
Alabama Department of Corrections facilities
launched a coordinated work stoppage on Sept 26th,
demanding changes to sentencing guidelines
and reforms to the state's racist parole system.
A 2019 report from the US Department of Justice
reported that Alabama's prison system
routinely operates at 182 percent capacity,
and that inmate conditions constitute cruel and unusual punishment
due to the high rates of violence and poor sanitation.
Retaliation against organizers has been swift.
On September 30th, guards at Limestone Correctional Facility
viciously assaulted Robert Earl Council,
better known as Kinetic Justice,
and threw him into solidarity confinement.
Multiple other inmates have faced beatings from guards.
Despite the repression, organizers have vowed
to continue the strike until their demands are met.
It's time to stand up, man not quit, not lay down.
This war ain't over with until it's over with
and ain't no way nobody be giving you custody
of your own body to go work for them
should be worth more than you obtaining your damn
freedom right now.
This ain't where we stop at.
You got any courage in you?
This where the fuck we start at.
We have now reached the end of this episode
of System Fail.
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