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Dec 22, 2021
Dec 22, 2021
1 hr 22 min
Since the rise of Trump in 2016 debate has increased in liberal and left political spaces pertaining to the rise of a fascist moment in America. With the election of Joe Biden in 2020, some believed the Trump threat had abated. Then on January 6, 2021, the Trump insurrection at the US Capitol building took place, alarming many Americans. With Biden's agenda not generating enthusiastic support as his poll numbers drop, the reactionary right is on the march again as recent electoral victories have served as an unfavorable referendum on Biden.
Considering these current political realities, what direction should those on the left take? Should there be a popular front union with the Democratic party to challenge the reactionary right? Or is there a more radical and effective strategy?
Kali Akuno
Kali Akuno is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson. Kali served as the Director of Special Projects and External Funding in the Mayoral Administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, MS. His focus in this role was supporting cooperative development, the introduction of eco-friendly and carbon reduction methods of operation, and the promotion of human rights and international relations for the city.
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
Read Jason's Grifters' Piece here: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/left-influencers-this-is-not-a-grift-5630ee792c25
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Dec 20, 2021
Dec 20, 2021
1 hr 21 min
Pascal, Jason, and Djene talk with Ashley Frawley about the bumbling inefficiency of political elites and why this should dispel any notion that they are capable of any kind of ‘conspiracy’.
Ashley Frawley
Ashley Frawley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at Swansea University and the author of Semiotics of Happiness: Rhetorical Beginnings of a Public Problem. She is also a member of Diet Soap Media. Follow her on Twitter @Ashleyafrawley
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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
Read Jason's Grifters' Piece here: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/left-influencers-this-is-not-a-grift-5630ee792c25
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Dec 19, 2021
Dec 19, 2021
1 hr 10 min
We are joined by Hoi and Jeff of the Appendix N Book Club to talk about the politicization of the sword and sorcery of the Appendix N book list, the actual politics of that list, and the politics around Dungeon Crawl Classics and other OSR/OSR-adjacent games. Hoi and Jeff have been reading Appendix N literature for several years as well as other books they have added to expand and modernize this canon. We have this to be first on many discussions of the neo-70s gaming revival.
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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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Dec 17, 2021
Dec 15, 2021
Dec 15, 2021
2 hr 19 min
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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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Dec 13, 2021
Dec 13, 2021
1 hr 53 min
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
Read Jason Myles' Latest Grifters piece here: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/left-influencers-this-is-not-a-grift-5630ee792c25
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Dec 12, 2021
Dec 12, 2021
1 hr 12 min
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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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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Dec 10, 2021
Dec 10, 2021
1 hr 39 min
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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Readings
To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
Dec 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021
2 hr 51 min
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?
Dec 6, 2021
Dec 6, 2021
1 hr 18 min
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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Pascal Robert in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert
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