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Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
This Saturday we will be talking with Michael Kim about Veterans issues. What are the problems that veterans in the United States face? In what ways do racial dynamics impact upon the experience of veterans? And how might these issues be resolved?
Mike Kim
Mike Kim is a psychoanalyst, an Iraq War vet, an ex-friar monk, a war trauma care provider and a doctoral researcher at the Teachers College of Columbia University. Find him on his website www.mikekimveteran.com
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Read Jason's Grifters' Piece here: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/left-influencers-this-is-not-a-grift-5630ee792c25
Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
The question of healthcare in the United States has been one of the preeminent questions in American politics. While some form of socialized healthcare exists in most countries, the United States is almost unique in the way that it leaves such life and death issues to market forces. In 2010, the passage of the Affordable Care Act, so-called Obamacare, was supposed to solve the healthcare question. However, unfortunately for millions, the profit-driven nature of healthcare provision remained in place.
This week on This is Revolution, we speak with Dr. Eric Osgood about the brutality of the US healthcare system and discuss with Qualia Redux her recent video that drew parallels between American healthcare provision and the SAW movie franchise.
Eric Osgood
Dr. Eric D. Osgood is an internist in Trenton, New Jersey, and is affiliated with St. Francis Medical Center-Trenton.
@EdoajoEric
Qualia Redux
Qualia Redux is a YouTube content creator, cultural critic, and political observer.
@QualiaRedux
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
This week on Masha and the Bears, Maria is joined by Kuba and Pascal to talk about some of the important world news stories that may have flown under your radar. These include China and the United States’ competing democracy conferences, the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia, and recent protests against lockdowns in Guadalupe.
Dr. Maria Repnikova is a scholar of global communication, with a comparative focus on China and Russia. Her research examines the processes of political resistance and persuasion in illiberal political contexts, drawing on ethnographic research approaches and extensive time in the field. Maria holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She speaks fluent Mandarin, Russian and Spanish. The courses taught at GSU include International Communication, Chinese Media, Politics and Society, and Communication in Global Contexts. You can follow her @MariaRepnikova.
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Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
In his latest book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change, historian Alfred McCoy explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devastating Black Death of 1350 through the coming climate crisis of 2050—has produced a relentless succession of rising empires and fading world orders.
During the long centuries of Iberian and British imperial rule, the quest for new forms of energy led to the development of the colonial sugar plantation as a uniquely profitable kind of commerce. In a time when issues of race and social justice have arisen with pressing urgency, the book explains how the plantation’s extraordinary profitability relied on a production system that literally worked the slaves to death, creating an insatiable appetite for new captives that made the African slave trade a central feature of modern capitalism for over four centuries.
After surveying past centuries roiled by imperial wars, national revolutions, and the struggle for human rights, McCoy seeks to prognosticate about the future, highlighting the ways in which climate change and changing world orders will shape the life opportunities for younger generations. What does the past tell us about the future of the global order? How and why is this order changed? And what will this mean for future generations?
Alfred McCoy
Alfred W. McCoy holds the Harrington chair of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches classes on the Vietnam War, modern empires, and U.S. foreign policy. Most recently, he is the author of "In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power" (Chicago, 2017). He is also the author of "Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State" (Madison, 2009) which won the Kahin Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
His best-known book, "The Politics of Heroin," stirred controversy when the C.I.A. tried to block its publication back in 1972, but it has remained in print for nearly 50 years, been translated into nine languages, and is generally regarded as the "classic" work on global drug trafficking.
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To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Wednesday Dec 08, 2021
Martin Luther King, Jr once said, ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character’. This is one of the aspirations many had when they fought against racism. They understood that for this aspiration to succeed everyone must participate in the project of completely transforming society to eradicate racial divisions and achieve equal treatment. Today, with the increasing demand to recognize the seemingly insurmountable gap between black people and white people, identity-based anti-racism has become more of a hindrance than a solution for a better and freer world for us all. The shift, from aspiring to transform social organization in order to transcend racial divisions to demanding recognition of racial divisions and identities and protection for minorities, represents the defeat of the universalist and radical politics of the past. Racial thinking, actively promoted by racists, has now become an acceptable tool for identity-based anti-racist activists in their demand for representation, diversity, inclusivity, segregation and safe spaces. Christine Louis-Dit-Sully examines the origins of racial thinking and the relationship between race and culture, she asks us to recognize that racial thinking is not the only way of understanding ourselves and the world around us.
Christine Louis-Dit-Sully
Christine Louis-Dit-Sully grew up in the 'banlieue 93', a working-class area near Paris, France that used to be demonized but she has since lived also in the UK, USA, and Germany. She worked for nearly 20 years in academic biological research. Since leaving her laboratory bench career, she has widened her field of research to politics and humanities.
Her research for her second PhD started with her looking at the demand for ‘safe space’ in US and UK universities. It led her to examine important issues such as identity, the self, race, citizenship, the meaning of politics, and identity politics. After reading some of the books and articles published today, she wrote her first book to remind herself and others that there have been and there are other ways of understanding the world around us.
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
Read Pascal in Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving-corporate-interests-misrepresenting-our-community-opinion-1652384
Read Jason Myles' Work Here: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/
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Readings
Transcending Racial Divisions: Will You Stand By Me?
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
In a recent article, entitled The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Death of the Left, Chris Cutrone wrote: “Today, the ostensible ‘Left’ — the avowed ‘socialists’ — have abandoned the goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, either in words or in fact, the latter by reinterpreting the dictatorship of the proletariat to mean the governing of capitalism by sociologically working-class political parties in a welfare-state or so-called ‘social democracy’.” What is the dictatorship of the proletariat? Why is it a critical concept for Marxists? And why has it been ‘abandoned’ by the contemporary left?
Chris Cutrone
Chris Cutrone is the original lead organizer of the Platypus Affiliated Society and the Campaign for a Socialist Party and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute for Clinical Social Work.
@ccutrone1970
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Friday Dec 03, 2021
Friday Dec 03, 2021
There was a mix up and the guest didn't show up. We did and so did the chat. Good times.
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
There was a brief hysteria in the media in 2018 and 2019, which returns anytime a new American massacre might be attributed to them, about incels. An incel – short for involuntary celibate - is not simply someone who would like to have sex but isn’t. There are many millions of those in America. Rather it refers to an individual who is not having sex, thinks this is very important, and formed an identity around this. This week we will discuss the development of inceldom and how this movement fits in with the broader discourse relating to the so-called “crisis of masculinity”.
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Often time the names of Black historical figures are relegated to the same usual suspects: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, W.E.B Dubois, or Marcus Garvey. This myopic narrative of Black history leaves out figures who often had radical political agendas that challenged institutions traditional figures did not pick up on until later in their lives. One of those neglected figures is Hubert Harrison, who was deemed, "The Father of Harlem Radicalism." On this episode we will ask Jeffry Perry, author of a two volume series on Harrison's life, what distinguished Hubert Harrison from his contemporaries and made him one of the most important Black figures in American history no one knows about.
About Jeffrey B. Perry
Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry (Jeff Perry) is an independent, working-class scholar formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia. The recently published, second volume of his Hubert Harrison biography entitled "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927" (Columbia University Press, December 2020) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Dr. Perry's work focuses on the role of white supremacy as a retardant to progressive social change and on the centrality of struggle against white supremacy to progressive social change efforts.
Get Perry's books and more here:
https://www.jeffreybperry.net/
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
Read Pascal's Piece in Newsweek Here: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving-corporate-interests-misrepresenting-our-community-opinion-1652384
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Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Sunday Nov 28, 2021
Great radical thinkers from Kwame Nkrumah to Amilcar Cabral and Even Frantz Fanon warned that a "neo-colonial bourgeoisie" would arise in the formerly colonized world and fulfil a management role in the exploitation of capitalist production throughout the Black and Brown world. This warning has come to fruition. Even in the United States, the Black Political Class acts as protectors of their own venal interests while acting as racial ventriloquists for the Black poor and working class for fatback and biscuits corporate patronage. In these circumstances is it logical to advocate for internal Black Class warfare against the petite bourgeois who act as the intermediaries with international capital and empire. Should there be an aggressive movement to displace these figures in the Black diaspora to create a politics based on the needs of the poor and working class of the Black world? How would such a program take place? What could be the costs?
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