CounterVortex Podcast

Feb 02 2025 263 ep. 39 mins 156
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Is it fascism yet?

Feb 02 2025 35 mins  
In Episode 263 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg decontructs the moves by the unconstitutional Trump regime to consolidate a dictatorship over the United States—attempting to seize autocratic contol over the bureaucracy, and (in a case of fascist pseudo-anti-fascism) weaponizing concern with anti-Semitism to supress free speech while institutonalizing indifference to (a

South Korea and MAGA-fascism

Jan 26 2025 22 mins  
In Episode 262 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg contrasts the intransigent resistance to the attempted power-grab by would-be right-wing strongman Yoon Suk Yeol in South Korea (and Robert Fico in Slovakia) with the craven capituation to the consolidating Trump regime in the US—despite the unconstitutionality of his very presidency, the fascist stench from his team of o

The Gaza ceasefire and MAGA-fascism

Jan 21 2025 18 mins  
In Episode 261 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg urges that Donald Trump is an illegitimate president under the 14th Amendment, and that any propaganda exploitation of the Gaza ceasefire to sell his fascist agenda to progressives must be rejected. All political signs indicate that his white-supremacist rule will ultimately mean a disaster for the Palestinians, and it is i

Nullify the election! VI

Jan 12 2025 26 mins  
Mere days before Donald Trump is to be inaugurated, Bill Weinberg continues to raise his demand for nullification of his election on 14th Amendment grounds. As Congress certified his victory last week, a demonstration calling for this was held in Washington, organized by podcaster (and former Trump campaign worker) Jessica Denson. But the centrist establishment—including Kamala H

Nullify the election! V

Jan 05 2025 33 mins  
Mere days before Congress is to certify the Electoral College votes, a movement has finally emerged to have Donald Trump disqualified from office under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment. A "14th Now March" in Washington is raising the demand, and is being promoted by the podcast and vlog Lights On with Jessica Denson. The idea has also been discussed on The Legal Breakd

Rojava and the Rohingya: fearful symmetry

Dec 29 2024 29 mins  
Three weeks after the fall of the Bashar Assad dictatorship, the only fighting in Syria remains between Arab and Kurdish militias—holding grim potential for destabilization of the democratic revolution. Kurds had been persecuted and even denied citizenship under the Assad regime, but the invasion of their autonomous territory of Rojava by the Turkish-backed rebels of the Syrian N

Nullify the election! IV

Dec 22 2024 26 mins  
Around the world, with inspiring heroism and courage, people are putting everything on the line to defend democracy and prevent the consolidation of dictatorships. In the Republic of Georgia, protests continue in the wake of contested elections that consolidated the rule of an authoritarian pro-Russia party, and the incumbent opposition-backed president is refusing to step down unt

Free Syria and the Kurdish question

Dec 15 2024 29 mins  
Amid jubilation following the overthrow of long-ruling dictator Bashar Assad, the only fighting in Syria is now between Arabs and Kurds—as the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) expels the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the town of Manbij. Ankara's design is clearly to expunge the Kurdish autonomous zone in the northeast region of Rojava. Yet there are als

Syria: after the fall of the regime

Dec 08 2024 28 mins  
As Syrian rebels advanced on Damascus in a surprise lightning offensive, the Rojava Kurds seized territory from the Bashar Assad regime, and the Druze took up arms in their own region. After years of the lines in the conflict being frozen and the genocidal Assad dictatorship being "normalized," on Dec. 8 the unthinkable happened and the dictator fled. Suddenly the 13-year aim of th

Nullify the election! III

Dec 01 2024 31 mins  
In Episode 254 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg continues to make the case for mass pressure to demand nullification of the election—on the constitutional basis of the Insurrection Clause. Trump indisputably instigated an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, and the Supreme Court has ruled that invoking the Insurrection Clause to bar him from the presidency is the prerogative