History Against the Grain

A World Steeped in Violence


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America’s Fourth of July holiday left the H A G team feeling flat, but not to worry, you’ll find all your favorite fireworks lighting up this episode. The saucy boys take a roman candle to the patriotic nonsense of a president’s July 4th speech, and place firecrackers under the feet of a corporate media still playing the awful charade of both side-sides-ism. And with a huge assist from Frantz Fanon and Michel Foucault, Chris drops a cherry bomb on the New York Times, and says we must ditch the media’s fake narratives about protest ‘violence.’ It’s time to acknowledge how those with power have done the real violence. As the smoke clears, Josh takes us home with a close look at the ambiguities and ambivalences of violence, through the life and lens of India’s Mohandas Gandhi.

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History Against the GrainBy Josh Weiner & Chris Padgett

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