WHAT IS POLITICS?

How Inequality of Wealth and Power are like Obesity and Diabetes

Why are human beings so greedy and why are our societies so hierarchical, if our ancestors were so fiercely egalitarian?    What is “human nature” in this regard? A new theory about inequality of wealth and power in human societies. TO SUPPORT MY EXISTENCE: PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS TRANSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY / WORKS CITED (coming soon) VIDEO VERSION (includes high entertainment val-u memes) RSS FEED tweeter: @worbsintowords ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE https://archive.org/download/14-diabetes-and-dominance-hierarchy/14%20-%20DIABETES%20AND%20DOMINANCE%20HIERARCHY.mp3

Hello, Fellow Jews! How Lies About Oslo led to the Destruction of Gaza

My message to Jewish supporters of the war in Gaza. (TIMESTAMPS BELOW) TO SUPPORT MY EXISTENCE: PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS:  PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS:   KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS:  TRANSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY / WORKS CITED VIDEO VERSION AUDIO PODCAST (or search for “worbs” on your podcast app) RSS FEED tweeter: @worbsintowords ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE:  BLURB 00:00 hello fellow jews: competing israeli and palestinian moral universes 04:31 moral justifications for the war “we have no choice” 06:43 “all the atrocites are fake, but they deserve it” 07:46 defeating the Nazis 08:40 moral poisoning by fake history 10:53 how to protect Israel 14:00 how Israel could have had all the hostages back in October 2023 15:31 Tamir Pardo ex-Mossad chief’s view on the hostages 16:38 the prisoner exchange 18:03 the need to “do something” 18:32 identity politics and the state 19:30 public reactions to Israel’s war in Gaza vs to Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen 21:45 how an ordinary person sees October 7th and the response to it 24:25 ex-PM Ehud Olmert’s view on the war 25:36 Israeli reactions to civilian deaths in 2002 vs 2025 28:06 polls in favour of ethnic cleansing 29:17 comedian Gil Kopatz’ Holocaust remembrance day thoughts 30:12 the Israeli Knesset debate on starvation in Gaza 37:39 how we got here: historical propaganda about 1948 and Oslo 39:31 The original vs current Israeli explanation for the Palestinian refugees of 1948 43:31 The lessons that Israelis and Palestinians learned from the failure of Oslo 45:53 the official Israeli/US version of the failure of Oslo vs reality 54:03 recent polls of Israelis and Palestinians on co-existence 56:10 Netanyahu on making it impossible for people to stay in Gaza 57:14 Israeli soldiers’ testimony on destroying neighbouhoods in Gaza, Lebanon and West Bank 1:05:00 Smotrich on preventing people from returning to Gaza 1:05:42 Genocide 1:11:05 Blocking aid for 90 days  1:13:08 The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation  1:14:52 Netanyahu and Smotrich on why they resumed aid to Gaza 1:16:29 daily mass shootings at GHF aid distribution lines 1:18:16 human shields 1:22:09 outtro https://archive.org/download/from-oslo-to-gaza/FROM%20OSLO%20TO%20GAZA.mp3

Why Elites Ruined the Meaning of the Left Right Political Spectrum (and we need it back!)

Market Exit, like many others before him, tells us that the left-right political spectrum is obsolete and does more harm than good. That’s because he doesn’t know what they mean. This video explains: 1. What the political left and right actually mean 2. Why elites don’t want us to know what they mean 3. How confusion about left and right is a major cause of growing inequality 4. How understanding what they mean is a crucial to the survival of democratic civilization 5. How to vote in your own economic interest! And I finally explain why communism is on the left and fascism is on the right, even though both systems produced similar authoritarian, nationalist political systems. BIBLIOGRAPHY TRANSCRIPT PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS AUDIO PODCAST: or search for “worbs” on your podcast app RSS FEED tweeter ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE (spotify) https://archive.org/download/13.1-left-and-right-forever/13.1%20-%20LEFT%20AND%20RIGHT%20FOREVER.mp3

“Nationalism vs. Globalism”: Why is the Populist Right on the Rise?

Why are nationalist / populist / far right candidates and parties getting elected all around the world? Why isn’t the populist left enjoying the same success? Why does inequality keep getting worse nomatter who gets elected? PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XJ6HBHFJ6C3RU  PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS: https://www.patreon.com/whatispolitics  KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: ko-fi.com/whatispolitics TRANSCRIPT: (TBA) AUDIO PODCAST: https://www.podfollow.com/worbs or search for “worbs” on your podcast app VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/pbq6bPkrpOM RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WHATISPOLITICS tweeter: @worbsintowords ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE: starsixnine.bandcamp.com https://ia601201.us.archive.org/18/items/the-rise-of-the-far-right/THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT.mp3

12.1 – The Secret History of Israel / Palestine, Part I: the Jews of Europe and the rise of Zionism

This series focuses on those aspects of the origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict that partisans on both sides mutually ignore. This episode examines jewish life in Europe and the conditions leading to the rise of Zionism until the first wave of Zionist immigration in 1882.  Cover image: Marc Chagall, Falling Angel (1923-1947) PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XJ6HBHFJ6C3RU  PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS:  https://www.patreon.com/whatispolitics  KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: ko-fi.com/whatispolitics  TRANSCRIPT: (TBA)  BIBLIOGRAPHY: (TBA) YOUTUBE VERSION (full of illustrative graphics and articles): https://youtu.be/am5HpdExLjo AUDIO PODCAST: https://www.podfollow.com/worbs or search for “worbs” on your podcast app AUDIO PODCAST RSS FEED: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WHATISPOLITICS tweeter: @worbsintowords ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE: starsixnine.bandcamp.com  https://spotify.link/uYoXHLwmkDb CHAPTERS 0:00 introduction 2:43 when both sides hide the same facts 4:27 The Haïtian revolution: Silencing the Past 8:28 Palestinian and Israeli versions of history 19:24 Class conflicts of interest in hierarchical societies 23:03 Origins of the Jewish diaspora in Europe 26:00 Origins of the Ashkenazi Jews 28:06 Origins of Christian hostility towards the Jews 32:44 The Jews between al-Andalus and Christian Europe 36:23 Medieval anti-semitism as an instrument of class rule 37:17 European Jewish class structure: financiers, beggars and thieves 41:13 Jewish migration to Eastern Europe 42:05 The rise of liberalism and decline of anti-Judaism 43:04 Jews in the Russian Empire 45:45 The Rise Nationalism and Anti-Semitism 46:04 What is nationalism? The psychology of group identity 51:55 Identity politics and class in hierarchical societies 55:38 Nationalism, democracy and class conflict 1:00:32 Nationalism vs democracy and socialism 1:03:27 Nationalism, anti-Semitism and Socialism  1:10:30 The Socialism of Imbeciles: Anti-Semitism as an instrument of class war 1:17:18 Anti-Semitism vs anti-Jewish discrimination 1:18:55 Nationalism in the European Empires 1:20:32 Assimilation, Integration, Socialism, Autonomism and Zionism: Jewish reactions to the rise of industrialization and anti-semitism 1:24:15 The purpose of the Jewish state in early Zionism 1:25:25 Jewish secular and religious hostility to Zionism 1:26:35 The Dreyfus affair and the rise of popular Zionism in the West 1:28:56 The assassination of Alexander II and the rise of popular Zionism in the East 1:33:06 What is Colonialism? 1:46:45 Power imbalances vs Worbs: Colonialism, Capitalism, Patriarchy and manipulation 1:50:55 Secret #1: Zionism, The Jewish province? 1:57:45 Zionism before Autoempancipation 1:59:11 Muhammad Ali Pasha and the birth of modern Zionism 2:01:19 19th Century religious Zionism 2:05:26 Romanian independence and the rise of Zionism 2:07:28 Autoemancipation 1882 2:24:49 The Jewish Province: Ottoman Pashalik / American Territory 2:30:32 The BILU Manifesto 2:37:58 Why Palestine?  Zionism and Judaism 2:46:16 Early Zionist thoughts about the Arabs in Eretz Israel 2:50:14 Outro, donation info, seeya! https://archive.org/download/12-1_20250401/12.1%20-%20JEWS%20IN%20EUROPE.mp3