On the Madness (or Sanity) of Crowds

In addition to the anti-communist crusade, the Russian Revolution also gave rise to anti-communist conspiracy theories. At their most extreme, these posited that dark elements within the US Government secretly supported the rise of communism and even facilitated the Bolsheviks coming to power. In attempting to understand the nature of the Empire, what are we to make of such claims?   https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DSConsciousness   https://www.deepstateconsciousness.com/podcast   Notes: Conspiracy Theories: The Bolshevik Revolution, podcast by Tom Secker: https://www.spyculture.com/clandestime-episode-004-conspiracy-theories-the-bolshevik-revolution/   Killing Hope, by William Blum: https://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope   Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, by Anthony Sutton: https://archive.org/details/WallStreetTheBolshevikRevolution   Interview with Anthony Sutton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfbbebIBCA   Russia and the Soviet Union, by Ralph Raico: https://tinyurl.com/mrxn365d   Splendid Isolation?: Britain, the Balance of Power and the Origins of the First World War, by John Charmley: https://tinyurl.com/ybzs6e2t   Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, by Richard Spence: https://tinyurl.com/2a8evk69   Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years, by Jim MacGregor and Gerry Docherty:  https://tinyurl.com/b7d9dzfr   For a summary of Jüri Lina’s work see, Do Americans Face a Red Terror?, by James Perloff: https://jamesperloff.com/tag/russian-revolution/   A People's History of the Russian Revolution, by Neil Faulkner: https://tinyurl.com/sd3kzkct   Article on General Maurice Janin https://pandorinaskrinka.sk/general-maurice-janin-saved-the-legionnaires-in-siberia-but-died-in-oblivion-part-one/   Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution, by Kenneth D. Ackerman https://tinyurl.com/3xx8rd43   Lord Milner's Visit to Petrograd (UK Gov. Hansard) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/apr/03/lord-milners-visit-to-petrograd   America's Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920, by David S. Foglesong: https://tinyurl.com/yt7tkdfd   Albert Rhys Williams: https://www.marxists.org/archive/williams/index.htm   Bolshevik Propaganda: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate: https://books.google.im/books/about/Bolshevik_Propaganda.html?id=DW9WqP4sHKsC&redir_esc=y

14 Sep 20231h 33min

Full presentation on the history of Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31xf9ZggIL0   Daily antiwar updates: https://antiwar.com/

14 Sep 20231min

The consequences of lockdowns were as brutal as they were predictable. The United Nations warned of ‘multiple famines of biblical proportions’, that would kill ‘hundreds of thousands of children’, whilst Oxfam cautioned that ‘the economic crisis is potentially going to be even more severe than the health crisis’, moving half a billion people into poverty.    How could this be justified? Only through the claim that lockdowns would save more lives than they cost. Absent evidence, this is simply a gamble, so was it a gamble that paid off?   Read the full report at:  https://www.deepstateconsciousness.com/measuring-the-mandates

3 Sep 202330min

Dr. James Boswell returns to the show to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, which he’s been covering on his Wall of Controversy blog.    Read James’ Wall of Controversy blog here:  https://wallofcontroversy.wordpress.com/

31 Aug 202359min

Today’s guest, Gem, runs the YouTube channel, Humans of Earth, where he engages with Flat Earth arguments and Apollo Moon landing cynics. On the latter topic, he has produced two substantial documentaries: one presenting the positive evidence for the landings, and another aiming to debunk Bart Sibrel’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon. This is what I principally drew upon to form my critical questions when I recently interviewed Mr. Sibrel.   Gem agreed to come on and tell me what he thought of that interview, as well as balance this series out by presenting a positive case why we definitely went to the Moon. You can find his documentaries, along with all his other work, here: https://www.youtube.com/@Gempanda2012/videos

27 Aug 20231h 15min

Today’s returning guest, Daniel Thompson-Mills, spent decades in the environmental movement. Events of recent years caused Daniel to reevaluate some of his core beliefs, a process that ultimately led to his authoring the book: The Case Against Man Made Climate Change.   In this interview I focus on asking Daniel how this dramatic cognitive shift came about, why certain facts had previously been invisible to him, and how his change has been received by the people around him.    The Case Against Man Made Climate Change, as well as Daniel’s other books, are available here: https://www.dandelionspeaks.msvr.uk/   https://www.deepstateconsciousness.com/podcast

24 Aug 202351min

As a CIA Intelligence Officer, Dr. Michael Scheuer ran the Agency's Osama Bin Laden Tracking Unit, known as Alec Station, from 1996 to 99.   In the years after the September 11th attacks, Dr. Scheuer became famous for many of his views on US Foreign policy and criticised the Clinton and Bush regimes for failing to assassinate Bin laden when they had the chance.    This interview was shocking to both myself and my co-host Adam Fitzgerald, as Dr. Scheuer entertains the possibility that the 9/11 were assisted from inside the US Government, and ‘inside job’, but rejects the common position that the CIA’s Alec Station played a pivotal role in this, by withholding information on the hijackers from the FBI. Neither of us currently know what to make of this.   Dr. Scheuer’s writing and podcast can be found at: https://www.non-intervention2.com/about/

14 Aug 20231h 47min

When compared to the controversies of excess deaths, accusations of manslaughter, life changing vaccine injuries and the inhumanity of lockdowns, the issue of mask mandates may seem like a relative triviality. If they helped ‘stop the spread’ then great, and if not—what did we really lose by trying?  The deeper question raised by mandates however, is at what point is it acceptable for one group of people to impose medical interventions upon others? Is it after a certain amount of scientific evidence of efficacy has accumulated? Is it when a certain level of popular consent is attained? Can it only be done after a thorough study of potential harms? And what about the very nature of mandates, to what extent do any unintended and adverse effects of mandating behaviour need to be taken into account? This raises the further question: if mandates turn out to have a counterproductive or even harmful effect, what sanction should fall upon those who imposed them?   Read the full essay here:  https://www.deepstateconsciousness.com/measuring-the-mandates

8 Aug 202322min