Disaster Capitalism: The UN's Two-State Solution is a War on the Transnational Working Class

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this episode, we are joined by Elina Xenophontos as we center Palestine while unpacking a rapidly shifting global landscape. From the UN’s new “Two State Solution” resolution to Israel’s expanding regional ambitions in Syria, Cyprus, and beyond, the conversation dives into how imperial powers continue to use war and crisis as tools for control.

We look closely at the concept of disaster capitalism—first outlined by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine—and how Gaza risks becoming the latest case study, following Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. Political elites and international institutions routinely exploit chaos, stripping local communities of sovereignty, resources, and the ability to chart their own futures.At the same time, Washington is floating reckless military objectives: threatening Venezuela over oil and rare earths, retaking Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to pressure China, and destabilizing Pakistan under the guise of nuclear containment.

Meanwhile, Israel appears to be preparing for a long struggle against Turkish interests in West Asia, while U.S. allies like Argentina’s President Javier Milei remain entangled in IMF debt and neoliberal experiments. This episode connects the dots between Palestine, imperial strategy, and the global machinery of resource extraction. If you want to understand how “humanitarian aid” and “reconstruction” are often code words for privatization, dispossession, and permanent war economies, you won’t want to miss this.

You can follow Elina here: https://www.instagram.com/elina.xenophontos/

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0:00.0	And we will also be most importantly looking at who is funding Antifa and who is funding these other violent left-wing groups that we've seen perpetuate so much crime and mayhem across our country.
0:12.5	Thank you.
0:14.2	Okay, y'all, that.
0:17.6	All right, well, first, Civil War is for cowards two weak to unite against the tyrannical government and the capital interests that control it, at least left, right, civil war. But anyways, that was KKK, Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary married to real estate mogul. Keep that in mind, because real estate is a central theme of this episode. Nicholas Richio talking about
0:39.9	how the Trump administration is going to crack down on anti-fascista action. So up next, you know,
0:46.0	the FBI to investigate George Soros dark money funding Bigfoot and El Chupacabra's extravagant
0:52.4	lifestyles. So all of this is very fun.
0:55.4	I'm glad to not be in America right now.
0:57.7	I am currently on the global Samud Flotilla aboard the veterans boat sailing to Gaza.
1:02.0	And I'm actually like 400 kilometers east of you right now, Alina.
1:05.8	How are things in Cyprus?
1:08.6	Oh, yeah.
1:09.3	They're progressively getting worse. But, you know, there's still
1:12.7	a relative calm, calm before the storm, someone say, but yeah, relatively all right.
1:18.6	Yeah, I hear there's a troop buildup of about 250,000 Turkish troops in the north of Cyprus right now,
1:27.1	so that's exciting.
1:28.3	Yeah, that's very exciting. So normally there's around 40,000 troops. I mean, that's always been the kind of numbers that Turkey's had to, obviously,
1:34.3	sustain like the occupation up in the north. But now it's obviously escalated. It was started off to be, it was 100,000 end of August, and that's 250,000. And it's kind of obviously has to do with the military buildup and the posturing right now. It's taking place between Israel and Turkey and their own interests within the region, which Cyprus is becoming a rather essential point of because, you know, Hamas is in the north of Cyprus, apparently. You've got to remember Hamas is everywhere. And they're also here and Israel obviously has to deal with the problem in the north.
2:02.6	And Turkey obviously has the north.
2:05.4	So yeah, it's going to be, there's another point of conflict here in confrontation.
2:10.2	Yeah.
2:10.8	And hopefully we'll be able to get into that in terms of Hamas being everywhere.
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