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🗓️ 22 May 2020
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This edition of the Antifada sideproject on the paranormal, parapolitical, sci-fi conspiracy theories and space tackles the newest autonomous branch of the US Military: SPACE FORCE.
Is it some Trumpian flight-of-fancy, a Bezos/Musk money grab, or a doomsday plan for astro-nuclear American hegemony? I talk to Bruce K Gagnon, a lifelong activist against the militarization of space, for a perspective on what Space Force is and how to fight back.
Before that, my audio essay "The Plot Against Space," also textually published on the Pluto Books blog.
And listen to the end to hear Breht O'Shea of Rev Left Radio read an excerpt from the introduction of my book I WANT TO BELIEVE: J. Posadas, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism, now available from major retailers and PlutoBooks.com with a 20% discount using code POSADAS20.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Aside from design sensibility, space force or space X resembled the defense force of the United Federation of planets very little. |
| 0:25.0 | Their mission is not to maintain peace and freedom within our Federation borders, |
| 0:29.0 | to explore strange new worlds to seek out new life and new civilizations and to boldly go where no one has |
| 0:34.6 | gone before, but to strengthen U.S. Empire and create immense profits for corporations |
| 0:40.0 | like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, and Halliburton, to name a few. |
| 0:45.9 | In order to do so, they must first roll back the half century of treaties as the |
| 0:50.8 | collective frontier of mankind. |
| 0:53.0 | Congress passed legislation encouraging moon and asteroid mining in 2015, |
| 0:57.0 | and in 2017, the Department of Defense announced it would treat space as a war fighting domain by using satellites to coordinate |
| 1:04.9 | use of force on the ground. |
| 1:07.1 | This February, Space Policy Consulted Rand Simburg wrote a column for reason, equating the collective concept of space as socialism. |
| 1:16.6 | He argued that space should be instead treated like the American frontier. |
| 1:21.6 | The Trump administration concurred this year in its executive order, quote, |
| 1:25.0 | outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, |
| 1:30.0 | and the United States does not view it as a global commons. |
| 1:34.0 | Accordingly, it shall be the policy of the United States to encourage international support |
| 1:39.0 | for the public and private recovery and use of resources in outer space. |
| 1:44.0 | The imminent goal, however, is controlling life on Earth. |
| 1:47.4 | Space Force will protect the rollout of satellite arrays for the purpose of spying and implementation |
| 1:52.1 | of 5G networks. |
| 1:54.8 | There are of course civilian uses for these technologies, but their main purpose is reinforcing |
| 1:59.5 | communication between military installations, coordinating airstrikes, protecting |
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