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Today we have on Daniel Bessner (https://twitter.com/dbessner) to discuss his new book,

Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual http://amzn.to/2Gx9q0j, which will be available in April 2018 and is available for pre-order on Amazon. 

Daniel Bessner (Ph.D., Duke University) is the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Daniel works on intellectual and cultural history, U.S. foreign relations, the history of democratic thought, and the history of the social sciences.

The book is descrbed by the publisher as follows:

"Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth century, a must-read.

In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker and institution builder. Bessner delves into Speier’s intellectual development, illuminating the ideological origins of the expert-centered approach to foreign policymaking and revealing the European roots of Cold War liberalism.

Democracy in Exile places Speier at the center of the influential and fascinating transatlantic network of policymakers, many of them German émigrés, who struggled with the tension between elite expertise and democratic politics. Speier was one of the most prominent intellectuals among this cohort, and Bessner traces his career, in which he advanced from university intellectual to state expert, holding a key position at the RAND Corporation and serving as a powerful consultant to the State Department and Ford Foundation, across the mid-twentieth century. Bessner depicts the critical role Speier played in the shift in American intellectual history in which hundreds of social scientists left their universities and contributed to the creation of an expert-based approach to U.S. foreign relations, in the process establishing close connections between governmental and nongovernmental organizations. As Bessner writes: to understand the rise of the defense intellectual, we must understand Hans Speier."

Discussed in this episode:

* "On the Brink" by Daniel Bessner, a book review of Daniel Ellsberg's biography https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-the-brink/

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Today we welcome Dr. Jared Ball to discuss the myth of Black buying power.

Jared A. Ball is a father and husband. After that he is a multimedia radio and television host, producer and journalist. Ball is also a founder of "mixtape radio" and "mixtape journalism" about which he wrote I MiX What I Like: A MiXtape Manifesto (AK Press, 2011) and is co-editor of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X (Black Classic Press, 2012). Ball is an associate professor of Multiplatform Production at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and can be found online at IMIXWHATILIKE.ORG.

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Mentioned in this episode:

* Mia Love's history of being an apologist for racism, especially Republican racism, including defending Steve Scalise's attendance at a white nationalist conference, "Mia Love Will Get No Love From Us" by Denise Oliver Velez: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/1/11/1355846/-Mia-Love-will-get-no-love-from-us

* Mia Love's statement on Trump's comments: https://twitter.com/RepMiaLove/status/951603160254238720. Also her followup statements with Jake Tapper, where she brings up her parents were Trump supporters: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gop-rep-mia-love-trump-s-vulgar-remarks-i-can-n837616

* My Twitter thread about Mia Love https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/951620218094317568

* Hillary Clinton having the audacity to call out Trump on Twitter for calling Haiti a shithole, only for someone to respond in a killer thread to list all the bad things she herself did to Haiti https://twitter.com/MannarinoJoey/status/951896033000411136

* The slideshow where immigrantsss try to own Trump using their resumes and selfies https://twitter.com/i/moments/951914528622743553

* Two threads explaining how Europe, America, and Canada created the mess in Haiti. One by Jonathan M. Katz https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/951656979658870785 and another by me: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/813272746650140672

* John Avlon's tweet trying to own Trump by mentioning Alexander Hamilton (the version from the musical) https://twitter.com/johnavlon/status/951671012671844354

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We discuss the obsession of Black nerds and Blavity Blacks with the upcoming Black Panther movie.

* The Champagne Sharks reddit:

* The Black Panther toy commercial and commentary around it https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/951942622796431360

* A thread I made on the proliferation of grassroots organizing and fundraising Black People have been doing regarding Black Panther https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/951230707845578753

* A story about the Black Hogwarts hashtag and all the Black nerds obsessing over imagining a black version https://blavity.com/black-twitter-imagined-a-blacker-harry-potter-universe-making-magic-with-blackhogwarts

* Y2Dre's tweet about Harry Potter and representation-obsessed blerds that got the blerds pissed off: https://twitter.com/Y2Dre_/status/951988586542436352. More reactions to Dre's tweet: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FY2Dre_%2Fstatus%2F951988586542436352&src=typd

* An example of the entitlement Mike and I were discussing regarding blerds being included in white people's creations: https://twitter.com/yungpharaoh1996/status/952629294286753798

* A story by the Today show where they discuss the Black Panther fundraiser for poor kids and actually got child development experts to weigh in to say how important it is to poor black kids' development: https://www.today.com/parents/man-wants-send-kids-black-panther-great-reason-t121104

* The teacher who went viral for dancing with his black students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm8edbBHUig

* "Today's Word is...Performative" A blog post describing Blavity Blacks https://stanoffewwords.com/2017/08/14/todays-word-is-performative/

* A tweet that perfectly sums up how stupid the "We Are Not Our Ancestors" saying that Blavity Blacks like to say is so stupid https://twitter.com/NeezLouize/status/871354400698232832

* Books on the suppressed history of Black armed resistance and militancy.

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Today I'm joined by Ian Danskin of Innuendo Studios, who can be found on twitter at http://twitter.com/innuendostudios. We're here to talk about his new Youtube video series on dealing with the Alt-Right, "The Alt-Right Playbook." You can support his work via Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/InnuendoStudios.

* "The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY. "The Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY. "The Alt-RIght Playbook: Never Play Defense" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVkJvieaOA

* Data and Society website's papers https://datasociety.net/output/

* "Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online" by Alice Marwick and Rebecca Lewis https://datasociety.net/pubs/oh/DataAndSociety_MediaManipulationAndDisinformationOnline.pdf

* The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer http://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

* Don't Think of a Pink Elephant by George Lakoff http://amzn.to/2DaCh9v

* Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate by Jean-Paul Sartre http://amzn.to/2CJiInR

* The #ianlivetweetshisresearch hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/IanLivetweetsHisResearch?src=hash

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We discuss how Trump has been for Black people so far, Hispanic wannabe white supremacists, Asian and Hapa wannabe white supremacists including Eliot Rodger, Eurasian racist rapist cop Daniel Holzclaw and why Michelle Malkin is caping for him, Logan Paul, and Umar Johnson.

Discussed in this episode:

* "With the rise of the alt-right, Latino white supremacy may not be a contradiction in terms" by Gabriela Resto-Montero https://mic.com/profiles/189398/gabriela-resto-montero#.9BGn8LJsA

* Elliot Rodger's self-hatred https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g8QDreBj14&feature=youtu.be

* The r/Hapas message forum's Mega-Thread/Mission statement https://www.reddit.com/r/hapas/comments/58rwna/read_before_posting_the_2017_eurasian_half_asian/

* The r/Hapas ongoing list of White Nationalists who date/marry Asian women https://www.reddit.com/r/hapas/comments/5nafhd/updated_2017_full_list_of_neonazis_altrights/

* The r/Hapas "[Racist, Alt-Right, Conspiracy Theorist, anti-Feminist, anti-Asian, pro-White] Redditor who Loves Asian women HALL OF FAME!" https://www.reddit.com/r/hapas/comments/64om9l/the_racist_altright_conspiracy_theorist/

* r/Hapas updated list of racists who love Asian women: https://www.reddit.com/r/hapas/comments/6ekjt4/bump_updated_list_of_white_supremacists_trump/. Also, https://www.reddit.com/r/hapas/comments/5aqtz7/full_list_of_white_supremacists_that_fetishize/

* "Watch: Black Woman Verbally Attacked by White Pro-Trump Boyfriend for Supporting BLM" https://www.bet.com/news/national/2016/11/15/black-woman-verbally-attacked-by-boyfriend-for-supporting-blm.html

* "Daniel Holtzclaw Used Race To Bully His Victims Into Submission & His Victims Know Exactly Why" https://www.bustle.com/articles/129452-daniel-holtzclaw-used-race-to-bully-his-victims-into-submission-his-victims-know-exactly-why

* My thread on Logan Paul and the suicide forest and how it fits in an American tradition of structural and historical racism: https://twitter.

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We recorded this a while ago but I just fell behind on my editing.

We welcome Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and cohost of The Majority Report with Sam Seder to discuss the recent controversy The Majority Report got into thanks to the lies of Mike Cernovich and the alt-right trolls. The Michael Brooks show can be found and supported at https://www.patreon.com/TMBS

Discussed in this episode:

* "MSNBC Brings Back Sam Seder, Weird Mike Cernovich Flips Out On Twitter" by Michael Brooks https://trofire.com/2017/12/08/msnbc-brings-back-sam-seder-weird-mike-cernovich-flips-twitter/

* Articles documenting how Milo and Mike Cernovich were antigamer and antinerd until they saw an opportunity to hop aboard gamergate, (1) http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/20/gamergates-gamerhater-heroes-milo-yiannopoulos-and-mike-cernovich/ and (2) https://storify.com/x_glitch/the-gamergate-supporting-journalist-who-hates-game

* "Alt-Right Hyped Sexual Harassment Hoax to Attack Schumer" by Kelly Weill https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-cernovich-chuck-johnson-alt-right-hyped-anti-schumer-forgery-that-plagiarized-conyers-complaint

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We discuss the Doug Jones and Roy Moore election in Alabama, the aftermath with the media and Black women, and the opportunistic forces of the black misleadership class in media, politics and academia trying to capitalize on the grassroots effort done by poor black women on the ground.

Things discussed in this piece:

My twitter thread on the Alabama election: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941346154750636032

Another twitter thread by me: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941002908635680778

Thread on how black women are being turned into political mammies: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/941100228312170497

Mic.com's article describing the grassroots work done in Alabama and the responsible parties "Black women fueled a grassroots movement in Alabama — and may remake state politics": https://mic.com/articles/186790/black-women-fueled-a-grassroots-movement-in-alabama-and-may-remake-state-politics#.TxGfk56fi

Another article describing the work done on the ground: "How a former sharecropper in an SUV helped drive Doug Jones to victory in Alabama's Black Belt" http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/how_a_former_sharecropper_in_a.html

Another article describing the grassroots work done in Alabama "Black Women Are A Political Organizing Force. They’re Not Unicorns." https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-women-doug-jones_us_5a318dede4b091ca268508c2

Examples of figures coopting the voter turnout as a way to self-aggrandize and divert attention and money to themselves, cronies, and affiliated organizations like Angela Rye (https://twitter.com/OG_Humble_One/status/941326893835587586), Brittany Packnett https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/black-women-turnout-roy-moore-doug-jones.html, and Taylor Crumpton https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-support-black-women-after-the-alabama-senate-election

Twitter user Darkskintdostoevsky weighing in the opportunist celebrity activists coopting the narrative away from local Alabama grassroots organizers, here https://twitter.

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This episode we have Ryan Cooper (http://twitter.com/ryanlcooper) and Matt Bruenig (http://twitter.com/mattbruenig) discussing their paper "Destruction Of Black Wealth During The Obama Presidency" https://peoplespolicyproject.org/2017/12/07/destruction-of-black-wealth-during-the-obama-presidency/.

* Ryan's articles at The Week: http://theweek.com/authors/ryan-cooper

* "Why leftists don't trust Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Deval Patrick" by Ryan Cooper http://theweek.com/articles/715955/why-leftists-dont-trust-kamala-harris-cory-booker-deval-patrick

* My article in response to the liberal backlash against Ryan's article, 'The Centrist Smear: The Five Steps Liberals Take to Undermine Leftist Critique" https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/08/the-centrist-smear-the-five-steps-liberals-take-to.html

* Matt Bruenig's think tank, People's Policy Project https://peoplespolicyproject.org/

* "Yes She Can: Why Hillary Clinton will do more for black people than Obama" by Michael Eric Dyson https://newrepublic.com/article/124391/yes-she-can

* Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David J. Garrow http://amzn.to/2BUe5Yq

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We discuss the cancelled of Roland Martin's show by TV One. Mike's audio gets staticky in the last 5 minutes but I think his words can be made out still. We salvaged what we could.

* Roland Martin dancing "the wobble" with Hillary Clinton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifbPhPw__w

* The cancellation of Roland Martin's show: https://pagesix.com/2017/12/06/tv-one-cancels-roland-martins-morning-show/

* This is the swag surf on the White House lawn we were mentioning. Near the tail end of the Obama presidency, before Trump was elected and everyone thought Hillary was a shoe-in and the Blavity Buzzfeed Blacks thought the good times of superficial access and representation were going to continue, they were all celebrating an event where they all got invited to the Obama White House and got to swag surf on the South Lawn as some major win for Black people everywhere: "Watch: The Swag Surf Officially Made It to the White House Lawn" https://www.bet.com/news/national/2016/10/04/swag-surf-at-south-by-south-lawn.html

* Jake Tapper's Twitter beef with Roland Martin over the stolen debate questions Martin provided to the Hillary Clinton campaign http://soopermexican.com/2017/11/13/boom-jake-tapper-calls-out-roland-martin-on-stolen-cnn-question-scandal/