Conversation with Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

[@GlobeHackers]

Thanks for having Aaron on; he deserves to be featured on more enlightened platforms.

[@SallyValjean]

Aaron Good is one of the very best American public intellectuals-historians of the post-WW2 US Empire working today! Thank you, Professor Sachs!❤☮🙏🏽

[@merfymac]

I'm glad Jeff Sachs got to know Aaron Good. Aaron is a clear-eyed, rigorously academic, and no nonsense interlocutor, collaborator, and - on occasion, for Prof Sachs - father confessor. Mutual benefit. Long live both of these honest Americans!

[@pilard4482]

It's 3 am in Costa Rica, can't sleep, and I find an Aaron Good video.

[@paulheydarian1281]

Try CBD oil...😴😴😴

[@MLF-kq8ut]

What a massive vote of confidence in the good work Aaron Good's been doing with his American Exception project. Having Sachs invite him on to discuss this is a boon and hopefully a lot more people get to hear Aaron's work on parapolitics as a consequence.

[@uhu597]

I'm a big fan of these two true scholars. It's fantastic to listen to them both at the same time.

[@juliegrimme]

Aaron Good rocks. Thanks for putting him on.

[@frankaczmarek3042]

it is a privilege to be here. Thank you!!

[@josephcaldwell7692]

Fascinating conversation cannot wait to read the book, Aaron. Like Professor Sachs I was naive when I joined the intelligence community (1985). I served during Iran/Contra, Iran/Iraq war, Soviet/Afghan war, Cold war and Panama invasion. Working in the same room with powerful warlords was a lesson in arrogance.

[@kfork814]

Why

[@ptassets]

Great new kid of the block . I understand so much more on why the world is heading this way. Mr Sachs I watched you all the time but with Aaron doubling down its crystal clear. Hope BRICS can be the solution to cure this evil.

[@marie-laure.]

It's doubtful. Human societies always come with some major inhumane flaws. That said, I agree that this is the only visible option.

[@teardrop720]

Thanks Prof Sachs. I bought Aarons book in early 2023 and I am glad that now it is getting the visibility that it deserves. As an Indonesian which is part of the Global Majority, it was definitely an eye opener.

[@adrianthompson7033]

Excellent and informative podcast Jeff, thank you.

[@dontaskmewhy100]

I read the book and it's good！ I recommended it to the public library here and they bought it and out in circulation almost two years ago！

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Look up ex Nazis Verner Von Braun’s book The Mars Project! In it the protagonist argues we should be a multi planetary species and go to Mars. When they get there there is already a colony and they survive in Mars by boring tunnels underground …. Elons Father named him after that Character

[@Hystericall]

Thank you for having this discussion. You guys are awesome!!! God bless and protect you.

[@edazzz16]

We do need more of you, and I hope in your dreams that you imagine what that might mean!

[@TheDAT573]

Thank you both for this wonderful conversation.

[@jamesgilmore2389]

This is possibly the most important and interesting conversation I have ever heard regarding the true character of the United States. It answers many questions I have had about why the world and the US look the way they do today. Thank you.

[@kittysawtelle5552]

A discussion par excellence!

[@jameskelley3365]

Excellent. It all fits together with my experience and answers my experiential questions.

[@markbabson6997]

Thank you both! thanks for creating this podcast

[@djalals.moharrer5510]

So young and so knowledgeable guy is a treasure of the truth ❗️✊🫡👏🙏

[@azalia423]

Thank you. I learned so much from this conversation. I've also ordered Good's book, American Exception.

[@mnet1514]

It's great to see Aaron Good and Jeffrey Sachs on the same platform. Aaron did an excellent overview series of his book with Ben Norton at Geopolitical Economy. They unfortunately didn't finish the series, but it was brilliant.

[@justinredente347]

I’ve been watching that series. Any idea on why they didn’t finish it?

[@mnet1514]

@@justinredente347 No idea. They stopped the series right around the time Ben moved to China.

[@vincentnguyen7385]

I bought the book. It was very interesting and I learned a lot from his book. Thanks Aaron Good and Prof. Sachs.

[@aliciaczechowski3281]

Aaron is exceptional. Thanks, for inviting him to share his insights.

[@tishm2102]

I love Aaron!

[@honestyfirst3994]

Such excellent educational session, thanks to both of you professors!

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Yes, this conversation brings back many memories of those past, awful years. I began to question the US Gov't when they started the Iraq war. It made no sense to me, and it still doesn't. Bush Jr, Chaney and Rumsfeld...ugh! Bad memories!

[@desert.mantis]

Excellent, insightful conversation!

[@deebo27]

What an incredible conversation. I have learned a lot from this. Excellent, thank you, gentlemen!

[@jasperigbokwe5166]

Great discussion fellas

[@nancymartin1551]

Thank you for informing me about Aaron Good’s podcast. I saw him for the first time on Bad Faith. Looking forward to buying his book at my local bookstore and hope he writes a sequel. He is an important scholar that must reach a wide audience, especially among U.S. citizens.

[@talathaque2904]

How lovely to hear the truth for once !

[@jeffgardner7515]

Excellent analysts- Aaron Goode is a major figure in US political science.

[@micheleyapur2065]

What an amazing talk, great thinkers and humans! Thank you for this!

[@sejaleeuwen]

Excellent discussion thank you for having this guy introduced to me please invite him again

[@pattyhoge1725]

Such a great conversation. Thank you!

[@barbara-b5m]

Great discussion. Aaron has also discussed his book extensively with Ben Norton like 16 episodes chapter by chapter.

[@ginob6062]

Thank you!

[@gweduck]

wonderful interview, Jeffrey. And Aaron, you need to start writing more and more books--ala Noam ! ! BTW, American Exception is a great podcast!!

[@KristiBrennan-e7d]

Great discussion

[@suki0venkat]

Wow! Jeffery what a book! What a guy and erudition.

[@Pauljg1956]

What can you say? Just two great Americans talking,amazing and informative.

[@Jimi_Lee]

Good show. 😎👍

[@LyBamOli]

This was excellent, thank you.

[@justmaj]

Excellent show, gentleman.

[@jasperigbokwe5166]

you two need another video please 🙏🏾

[@inconvenient-truth99]

Thank you for the critical information

[@StabilityReport]

Thanks guys. Glad I got to know about Good, he is definitely not bad.

[@babettegrunow7195]

Really great program and discussion between Jeffrey Sachs and his guest Aaron Good.

[@charlottewilliams7866]

Yay🎉 and thank you!

[@dimitredimitrov-k4b]

Fascinating ! Thank you Gentleman !

[@catchmonster]

Thank you both. Yugoslavia, my country where I grow up and I would not change my childhood for any other country was bombed and ran over by Nato planes. I can tell you this much, most of the world is done with psychopaths in white house. GB, US, France and Germany among other west countries will go down and go down hard. I am 100% behind Bricks, Putin and China. I hope that in my lifetime, I see west being marginalized to third grade countries. This type of hypocrisy and greed combined with no moral scruples is just about as low as you can get. Biden and his cohorts are the worst evil trash i have ever seen ...

[@honestyfirst3994]

Totally in agreement!

[@anastojanovic2552]

Excellent comments and reasoning especially on Serbia.

[@ClaraLoughin]

Aaron would be a great guest for the judge to talk to

[@galileo_rs]

When it was built Camp Bondsteel was the second largest USA military base in Europe. Some 10 years after it was built it was quietly expanded so now it's probably the largest USA base in Europe.

[@Larkinchance]

Omission is the most effective propaganda tool. To call attention to deleted or omitted facts is to conjure up an unlikely conspiracy theory.

[@sejaleeuwen]

The overworld 😊 i like that. I'll watch the rest tomorrow it's late.

[@geguieffawilliams]

With all do respect, every time the guest started on a point, he was never given a chance to finish his thought and then interrupted and led to another point before finishing the last point. I have much respect for Professor Sachs, but it’s important to let the guest finish their thoughts. That will then allow the viewer to be enlightened from both the guest and the host.

[@andrekeefer2034]

Excellent presentation!!!

[@MatewanMassacre]

Excellent discussion fellas. 👍

[@evanokeroa4877]

Your strong Jeff because uniquely your truthful

[@Paeoniarosa]

I love Dr. Sachs and also wish he would interrupt his guests much less.

[@ValentinBrutusBura]

You want to be a great American here, Prof. Sacks... That's what you want to be.... It's win-win. :)

[@salonez91]

There is this weird acceptance of USA being big spoiled boy. I grew up in Serbia and i saw the anger and disbelief people felt there towards USA to allow Albanian terrorist doing all sort of inhumane stuff that its really hard to imagine to a normal person. Then came this war and land grab of Kosovo by NATO, but modern Serbian historians are actually happy how Serbian government and people endured everything. They think their decisions were as good as you could make them in that kind of situation of USA determination to land grab Kosovo. But today most Serbians accept the fact NATO is just the biggest bully in the block you need to avoid and make happy and so is probably what everyone else is doing around the world. Even regular people not just experts are accepting the rogue nature like some sort of pirate of USA international politics.

[@katymeigs5290]

Jack Ruby said he did it for the Jews. What's not to understand?

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Look up Joshua Halderman. He was part of an American group called “ Technocracy “ in the 1930’s. They advocated for a US engineer and scientist run coziness stretching from Panama to the North Pole . Joshua Halderman was Elon Musks Grand Father

[@tk80mufa5]

wow, thank you! 👌

[@toscabrutus1781]

Prof Sacks! Hy is Briljant!

[@louisesumrell6331]

Thank you gents!

[@anastojanovic2552]

Bravo!!!!

[@os3ujziC]

Very interesting discussion.

[@Lobishomem]

Jeff is interviewing himself most of the time.

[@kp-ij1rz]

I wish I heard more from Aaron than Jeff.

[@NancyRode-u9i]

🙋🏽‍♀️Jeffrey Sachs Aaron Good

[@markbabson6997]

The Putin quote is amazing

[@edgeman148]

Thank you, as always, this is a wonderful episode. What happens when those serving in US Security Forces become openly aware of all this?

[@jackshultz2024]

I know enough US history to remember the Palmer raids 100 years ago against immigrants who were bringing left wing ideologies like communism, socialism, and anarchism into America. Thousands were deported back to Europe, including some American citizens. This was 3 decades before McCarthyism. Suppression of oppositional ideas is quite normal in the US. What is abnormal are the short bursts of progress that occurred in the ‘60s and early 70’s. Since then progressive movements have been on the defensive, and have largely been losing ground.

[@judykinsman3258]

Wow. You just explained the connection that Jack Ruby had to assassinate Lee Harvey Oswald. Been wondering that for over 60 yrs.

[@katymeigs5290]

Jack Ruby said he did it for the Jews. What's not for you to understand?

[@venkatramakkineni]

To me, as somebody who was born and raised in non abrahamic society, has seen what abrahamism has done and is doing to his society, has lived in united states for two decades( and left recently), American world view aligns with the abrahamic world view perfectly. Abrahamism believes in convert or perish and not in live and let live. That world view is militaristic in that sense. The founders went against that (atleast in many ways, considering they didn't abolish slavery right away) when they drafted the constitution and bill of rights. So, personally I have always tried make sense of the happenings in the US as a fight between humanity and abrahamism. Otherwise how would one make sense of the need to wage wars with the rest of the world when most of the rest of the world has no means to threaten or invade a nation which has two of largest oceans on east and west, a client state to the north and dysfunctional state to the south. I wonder if that angle is explored in the book, it wasn't in the talk.

[@warrennelson5190]

If only this type of content had an audience to match MSM numbers

[@fartunali7857]

I dont know if KZbin is trying to enforce the message that America is not for the people by the people because lately George Carlin clips have been showing up often. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 He nailed it when he said the American dream only comes true when you are sleeping.

[@DavidLockett-x4b]

I always find it fascinating that young people with zero experience of life other than attending school, feel that they are somehow entitled to tell others with more experience, how they should live their lives. Plus, I am amazed at how Americans can delude themselves into believing that they are somehow exceptional and superior to everyone else on the planet. I have known many Americans during my long life, and the words arrogance and stupidity constanty spring to mind.

[@larryyank3566]

Yup. US continued what crude Hitler Nazis failed at. One Western cousin (USA) overthrowing its Euro-cousin, (Nazi Germany) to build with much more Sophisticarion, EMPIRE [Over and against Eisenhaurs warning].

[@StephenPadgett-e5f]

Obama conned me too, but I found he would not say anything in his state of the union speeches, just platitude.

[@michaelmullins3396]

Both excellent knowledgeable gentlemen validates Putins assertion, when sometime back, Putin was asked during an American president ion campaign, who was his preference, as a candidate. Putin said “It doesn’t matter who the Americans president is as American Foreign policy will always be the same”

[@uncleshamus3451]

Thank you

[@eemoogee160]

FYI - Sachs endorsed Jill Stein and would have been Secretary of State had she won

[@justmyopinion9883]

Aaron Goode’s book is not available at my library. ☹️

[@Jean-rg4sp]

*Terribly depressing and frightening even for someone like myself who lives in Spain near the American naval base at Rota, Andalucía.*

[@richardbluhm1873]

It is a fantastic book! I read it a couple of years ago and took it off the shelf to review the scribbles and underlines that I made back then. Now in my 80s and often forgetful, it reminds me of why I've been so against the criminals that are running America and the duplicity that abounds. I keep thinking that perhaps America will wake up especially during the country's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Every Saturday I join a bunch of real human beings who are demonstrating against this genocidal slaughter of the innocent in Palestine. I repeat the words of the old western song: "Stand of something or fall for anything."

[@marcobsomer5574]

Laissez parle Aaron.

[@mattluck2826]

This is why I’m a full blown Marxist. The Soviets under Lenin and Stalin praised us democracy as the most progressive revolution of its time but said in the 20s(!!) that thIs exact thing would happen with wall st.

[@aaronhoffman9020]

Repetition' is all it takes to convince the 'masses'. Advertising is based on triggering basic instincts and repetition. {Bernais'

[@Kuleto]

Great conversation. Thanks much. I said some things about Sachs economics earlier regarding one of his books and I think I spoke (wrote actually) too soon and judged too quickly. It probably is a good book, surely, environmental health such as improving the very poor people's of the worlds water and sanitary comditions etc. And trying to help with malaria etc. Is good. is a huge deal. At the same time I may disagree a bit with him with the prescriptions the world should take economically as the right, most correct path forward for humanity and that's fine, it's a very large issue and we are probably not that far off from each other in actuality. Assalaam alaikum.

[@Kuleto]

I got more into politics as well when I was a very young adult, about 20 or so, with Obama and had some hopes of real change as well. I did vote for him again in 2012 as I thought he was the still the best pick at the time considering the alternative and how Obama handled some situations it seemed he was a lot more reasonable (or sober) and pragmatic than the Republican opposition. I was in year 2 of the Army and it seemed important to choose a commander, a president, with more intelligence and patience in handling the various sticky situations and conflicts the U.S. was and had been going through at the time, especially that past year. I wasn't so knowledgeable about the criminality of the U.S. foreign policy neither, like these two gentlemen. I had actually got a Noam Chomsky book and started reading a little bit of it before and while I had already signed up to join the Army in late 2010. It seemed, I was a bit intimidated psychologically to read the book more while knowing I was joining the Army; albeit, I was just going into a very short 3.5 year contract and my MOS being a mostly defensive MOS (14S short range air defense (SHORAD)). So I went in to the Army with an attitude of I was just going to do my job, experience life and gain more personal improvement for myself, but I wasn't going to let the Army change who I fundamentally was or what I believed in.

[@Kuleto]

I remember, one of my college professors, who was an I.T. professor who taught introductory computing, (probably Microsoft Windows)/networking classes and web design and development at this small community college encouraged us to look at the news everyday. He recommended CNN. I was 20-21 actually. I remember, CNN and some other MSM outlets like the NY Times, we're still more "center left" at the time where I would call them "center right" now, along with the core or the mainstream of the Democratic Party now days. How much the mainstream media has been captured now by the deep state/"national security state". It seems the deep state and the whole of the U.S. government is now more militarized than ever. It has obliged or taken over even the technology conglomerates such as Google, etc. I've always been, even as a teenager, adamantly against the Iraq war and the horrible policies of the deep state or national security state that were put in place while Bush Jr. was in office. It's truly a tragedy and a criminal takeover of the government of the United States. It really should be characterized more so as a kind of failed state or a... fake kind of, I don't know the words to best describe it.... It's really sad so many people are used and brainwashed kind of like, into serving this system which is characteristically oppositional to life, prosperity for humanity and the good welfare and sustainability of our planet ecologically.

[@Membwayne]

As the great Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”

[@billyclifton5710]

I heard Aaron Good say on a podcast that Vincent Bugliosi's masterful book on the JFK assassination 'Reclaiming History' (1200 pages w/1000 pgs of notes) was "likely written by the CIA". This was after Mr B. passed away and Prof. Good also opined that a review of the book he read was sufficient for him not to read it but make the insulting remark (without a shred of evidence) about the book's deceased author. I only wish the CIA was writing books rather than committing crimes all over the world!

[@robertmurdock8164]

Good is good at explaining the corporate state power structure and.even through I dont share the romantic idealism of Camelot I have learned a lot from his lectures

[@josephcaldwell7692]

I agree with Aaron that it all started with Reagan. One could take it further to Brezinsky and Carter, but Reagan was the catalyst that transformed the political mind. Clinton solidified neoconservative/liberalism.

[@haniefhaider4528]

Totally agree.Neoconservatism was incubated under Ronald Reagan.

[@betsieweil4865]

M.L. King was assassinated exactly one year to the day after his speech about Vietnam (see transcript) at Riverside Church in NYC.

[@bryansmith9231]

It all started when Governor Jerry Brown was running for President. How to Ross Perot stop his momentum and Clinton came in from nowhere. Think about it, Jerry was removed how, making Clinton who? Yeah, right here in America. Maybe the novel Harrison Burgeron was right, just have a public lottery for U.S. President, they don't make any difference, and all have a lovely smile!

[@robertseaborne5758]

It is time to stop beating around the global geopolitical bush. The pre-eminence of an American driven rules base world order with it's neo-Liberal forms of governance has come to an end. These challenging times demand more sophisticated, resilient and adaptable forms of governance; those which are capable of meeting the social and cultural needs of the people. Clearly the best example of such governance today is the People's Republic of China (PRC) with a system of governance it refers to as 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics', governed as it is by a single centralist party known as the Communist Party of China (CPC). The CPC has been successfully modernising socialism since the 1970s; to the point where China has risen from being among the poorest of countries in the world to now being the wealthiest when using the most pertinent metric of global Purchasing Power Parity (PPP).

[@tk80mufa5]

so you're in favor of even more surveillance and slave labor? switching out one oligarchy for a new party oligarchy. btw it's called the CCP, not CPC. all of the higher ups in the CCP are billionaires and multi-millionaires.

[@philiphewett2803]

Great to hear Aaron speak of his thesis but a pity Jeff Sachs didn't leave him enough free space to speak without breaking the audiences train of thought as Aaron explained his writing. Too much Jeff Sachs speaking. As a result there is limited intellectual flow in this interview, it's frustratingly disjointed. desperately wanted to hear Aaron's views but got mostly got Jeff Sach's views.

[@EldersTree]

What about Palestine 🕊️ & Gazah now

[@NashDr]

It's always been a mess indeed, internally inside Gazans leadership corruption and outside interests Iran