Hey everyone, this is Ben Norton and this is moderate rebels. This is part of a live stream

discussion that I held with my co-host Max Blumenthal and our colleague at the Grey Zone,

Aaron Mate. We were talking about regime changers in Western academia. These Radlib academics, radical liberals, who pretend like

they have such revolutionary radical politics, they use language of decolonization, while they end up

supporting imperialism. They're just liberal imperious and they use woke language about gender identity and identity politics while

they're actively supporting racist military coups, far-right regimes backed by the United States

installed in places like Bolivia and reactionary candidates in countries like Ecuador. It's a

pretty interesting conversation. If you want to hear the rest of our

conversation where we talk about the hawkish foreign policy of the Biden administration or the

new Cold War on China or the brutal U.S. sanctions on Syria, definitely check out the other

parts of this conversation. But without further ado, here is one part of our live stream discussion with Aaron Mate.

You know, since we're making fun of different liberal groups, liberal homophobes, liberal rusophobes,

since we mentioned Ecuador, Ben, should we talk about the academics who attacked you

for calling out the fake eco-socialist Ecuador and candidate, and now he is, or his VP, is now backing

the right-wing candidate?

Yeah, I mean, I can briefly address it.

I mean, we're going to cover this more. The election, the second round of the election is coming up this upcoming week in Ecuador. So we'll come back to this story. So I'm not going to spend too much time, but just, it's actually a good segue because this has been the latest in a series of very angry, open letters attacking us because that's all of these

toothless academics. They can't refute anything that we report because it's factual. So they

resort to these ridiculous smear campaigns. And because they're academics, the first thing they think is

like, oh, what can we do? Oh, let's do an open letter.

And we'll do an open letter calling for us to be deplatformed or whatever.

And one of the latest is that a series of academics, including many of them who actually

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