THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 233: TIR Crüe Weekly Round Up January 13 2022

Jason, Pascal, Kuba, and Djene discuss some of the top news stories of the week: the death of Sidney Poitier, the protests in Kazakhstan, and the new push for Medicare in California.

TIR PRESENTS Video Essay Recap: Death of a Revolution; Hardcore and Politics w/ Conan Neutron and Mike Cobra

THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 232: The History of the Enslavement of Indigenous Peoples w/ Keith Pluymers and Hayley Negrin

With a culture war heating up in an election year, the ideological battle over hot button topics like Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, and reparations intensifies, there remains one historical fact that is constantly glossed over or just outright ignored on both sides of the battle. The complicated history of Native American enslavement. A complex narrative that spans beyond the American South, where the plantation economy had a stronghold on the institution of enslavement, Native Americans were bought and sold throughout the Americas, Spain and even parts of Africa. In this upcoming episode we’ll take a deep dive into the forgotten history of Native American enslavement. 

THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 231: The Poisoned System w/ Ramsey Orta

THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 230: Will the Presidency of Pedro Castillo Survive the Right w/ Camilo Gómez

TIR PRESENTS Movie Night Extravaganza: Network w/ J.G. Michaels of Parallax Views

THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 229: The Art of Transition: Art in Post Soviet Russia

THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 228: Celebrating Haitian Independence w/Dr. Paul Mocombe

TIR PRESENTS BEST OF 2021: Capitalism, Healthcare and The Largest Wealth Transfer w/ Billie Mintz

TIR PRESENTS BEST 2021: AMERICA’S MOST CANCELLED W/ NORMAN FINKELSTEIN AND THE SATURDAY CRÜE

Political scientist Norman Finkelstein has been an active critique of how the Holocaust is used to protect the abuses of the state of Israel. His work and advocacy have made him perhaps one of the most cancelled intellectuals in recent American history. Finklestein in fact is currently writing a book on the cancel culture phenomenon. We will ask Finkelstein about how criticism of Israel gets one cancelled in America and how the nature of ruling class discourse helps facilitate that

About Mr. Finkelstein (from http://normanfinkelstein.com/)

Norman G Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1988. He is the author of ten books that have been translated into 50 foreign editions, including THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering and, most recently, GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom.​ GAZA: An inquest into its martyrdom (University of California: 2018)​; Method and Madness: the hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza (OR Books: 2014); Old Wine, Broken Bottle: Ari Shavit’s Promised Land (OR Books: 2014); Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish romance with Israel is coming to an end (OR Books: 2012); What Gandhi Says, About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage (OR BOOKS: 2012); “This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth and consequences of the Gaza invasion(OR Books, 2010; expanded paperback version, 2011); Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history (University of California Press, 2005; expanded paperback edition, 2008); The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering (Verso, 2000; expanded paperback edition, 2003); Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Verso, 1995; expanded paperback edition, 2003); A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen thesis and historical truth (with Ruth Bettina Birn) (Henry Holt, 1998); The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the intifada years (University of Minnesota, 1996).

Finkelstein has also published several pamphlets, most recently, Goldstone Recants: Richard Goldstone renews Israel’s license to kill (OR Books, 2011).