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Today, David Osit, filmmaker and director of the movie "Mayor” joins us, to talk about the Mayor of Ramallah and all the challenges for life under the occupation. Today, we also have John from Discourse Podcast join us as a guest host.

The film is available on Virtual Cinema

Show Notes

2:00 - How Ramallah Changed

4:00 - Limitations on the Mayor’s Job

5:01 - City Branding and What it means

7:35 - Municipal Services and the Challenges under Occupation

10:58 - Christmas in Ramallah

11:32 - Connecting with Mussa

13:45 - Meeting with The Prime Minister Abbas

16:24 - Schooling and Universities in Ramallah

18:37 - Daily indignities in Ramallah

“It took them 15 years to get a permit to build a cemetery”

21:03 - American conversation about tone vs conversation in Palestine

24:12 - Repeated oppression in Palestine and the Raid

26:01 - Trump’s Jerusalem Embassy and how it worked in Ramallah

29:13 - What is within Mussa’s power to control?

33:00 - Settlers’ leave their mark

39:10 - How Israel breaks the Oslo agreement

43:15 - Surprising issues in Ramallah

You can find David Osit on twitter

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US propaganda is always quick to explain that America is a bringer of Democracy to the world. Of course, most of the world wants no part of this alleged Democracy. Yet, we have lived this same script over and over with no more awareness from our public, media or our politicians.

Today, we have economist Alexandr Buzgalin joining us to talk about the Breakup of the USSR, the history of Belarus since the breakup of the USSR and the latest attempt at a NATO coup attempt.

He also brings us a unique perspective on what Freedom looks like to the newly freed person. It involves rising water prices, homelessness, holocaust denial and corporate extraction. Wages go down, health of the country decrease, suicides increase and the population starts to dwindle away.

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Today, Marjorie Cohn joins us from the Defend Assange legal team to talk about Wikileaks, Julian Assange and the unjust prosecution.

1:00 - Why does US have jurisdiction over espionage?

3:00 - Collateral Murder

5:00 - Why the Obama administration didn’t prosecute Assange?

7:00 - Why is there a corporate media blackout?

12:00 - Questions with Podesta Emails and Wikileaks?

14:00 - Waiver of Death Penalty

19:00 - President Trump’s potential actions: Dismiss the indictment

22:40 - Effects on the National Security State

25:00 - Guantanamo Bay and Wikileaks

Resources:

Assange Defense

Marjorie Cohn on “The Meaning of Assange’s Prosecution”

Other Relevant Episodes

* The Chagos Conspiracy

* The Pentagon Papers

* The Truth about Guantanamo Bay whether or not You can Handle it

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Earlier this year, Belarus, "spontaneously" , popped into centerstage on Western Media outlets. They recycled the usual comical narrative of "Pro-democracy opposition" against the "brutal dictator." I am always awed by the number of grown adults who accept very serious newspapers referring to anyone as "pro-democracy” candidates. Of course the opposition, like the incumbent, are "pro-democracy," that is why they are both participating in an election!

Today, we have an ordinary citizen from Belarus Elaina, who will tell us about the protesters, the platform and also what NATO has in store for Belarus in this short episode.

Resources:

* Leaks from the opposition:

* “Platform” by the opposition that disappeared

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I feel like it is ground-hog day. The American left keeps falling fo the same old regime change propaganda over and over! Today, Ben Norton from the Grayzone joins us to talk about how not to be a regime-change dupe

Show Notes

1:00 - What is the first sign of a regime-change effort by the US?

4:45 - Why do some protests get covered and not others?

7:30- TV Shows, Movies and entertainment is also propaganda

8:00 - How Esha fell victim to propaganda too!

14:29 - Anti-DPRK propaganda apparatus

“Economics Departments are barren wastelands of Koch Bros propaganda” - Benjamin Norton

16:00 - How US Media is like human centipede!

17:00 - Ortega’s Alleged Death

18:00 - Nat-Sec propaganda in Academia

20:00 - Dissidents are not value neutral

21:00 - Liberalism is a right-wing ideology

23:00 - Racism an ideology that is spawned from imperialism

25:00 - Democrats are more effective imperialists

26:00 - Internal politics within Nicaragua

33:00 - Blue-Brown Alliance: Liberal Fascist alliance

41:00 - Socialist International Expose

43:00 - Fascist Founding Member of NATO

45:00 - “Authoritarianism” is a propaganda term

55:00 - Being an active anti-imperialist!

58:00 - Fascism in Asia looks different than Europe

59:00 - “Listen to Bolivians”, why Ben disagrees with Standpoint epistemology.

1:00:00 - Liberal Fascism

1:11:00 - Freedom for the Bourgeoise

1:13:00 - We both recommend Lenin.

You can find Ben Norton at the Grayzone and his podcast Moderate Rebels

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Dan Kovalik, author of No More War joins us to talk about the Human Rights Industrial Complex

Show Notes:

00:30 - Uribe and the violence against union members

3:55 - What are Humanitarian interventions?

In Venezuela the largely created the humanitarian intervention used to justify the overthrow the government.

Dan Kovalik

5:00 - IMF denied loans to Venezuela

6:25 - US Sanctions and their effects.

CEPR Paper on Venezuelan Sanctions

9:34 - Amnesty International and how they opposed Mandela

10:00 - Structural problems with Human Rights Groups

12:54 - Human Rights Watch

14:00 - Ken Roth’s Tweet on Hezbollah

16:00 - Human Rights industry was “neutral” on Iraq.

17:49 - Human Rights Watch use Christian Extremist Adrian Zenz in their Report

22:00 - Human Rights Groups that peddled Iraq lies

23:00 - Revolving Door for Human Rights Group

24:00 - Human Rights by Non-State Actors

25:00 - Mining Companies in Congo

26:00 - Elon Musk’s confession

30:00 - International Law and How it is applied

32:00 - US Sanctions against the ICC

34:00 - The Right to Peace

36:00 - How to Smell Regime Change Propaganda from a Mile Away

38:00 - Selectivity about Genocide vs Word Genocide as a weapon

43:00 - Corporate Crimes Against Humanity

45:00 - Right to Organize as a Union as a Human Right

49:00 - How to organize in the US and Abroad

Daniel Kovalik graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1993.  He then served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW) until 2019. While with the USW, he worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects.

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This week, while the media is rehabilitating establishment Republicans, we take a walk through history to learn about the “good Republicans” or the Irish Republicans. We have author Conor McNamara, Author of Liam Mellows, Soldier of the Irish Republic, to talk about colonization, Irish fight for independence and the state of Ireland today!

00:59 - First invaders for Ireland

2:20 - The distinct Ethnic Groups Ireland

3:14 - The Great Famine of the 1840s

4:00 - Why Ireland is a divided?

5:34 - “The Irish Revolution”

7:00 - Ireland and World War I

8:18 - Irish Volunteer Militia and the bloody crackdown

11:00 - Sein Fein

12:00 - What is an Irish Republican?

16:00 - Easter Week Massacre

18:00 - Irish American support for Ireland

20:00 - Woodrow Wilson’s Betrayal of Irish Independence

22:00 - The Irish War of Independence

24:00 - Divide between Irish Americans and Irish

26:00 - Black and Tans and their Reprisals

30:00 - The Song called Black and Tans

34:00 - Anglo-Irish Treaty

35:00 - The Irish Civil War between Moderates and the Republics

40:00 - Execution of the more militant rebels.

42:00 - Liam Mellows funeral

44:00 - Partition of Ireland

46:00 - The Border has gotten stronger

49:00 - The legacy of silence

53:00 - English Nationalism, Brexit and Re-unification of Ireland

56:00 - Failures of Irish Republicans

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Last week, in part 1 we left off the story with the OAS and their hired guns using “Creative mathematics” to defend their attempted coup in Bolivia. Today, David Rosnick from the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) continues to compare the state of the US elections with that of Bolivia. We also learn about the more nefarious purpose of the OAS, which acts as a US proxy in regime-change.

Resources:

* October 21, 2019: Original OAS statement (no analysis offered)

* October 22, 2019: CEPR Offers a rebuttal

* October 23, 2019: Preliminary data shows Morales increased lead

* November 2019: CEPR analysis

* November 2019: OAS “analysis”

“[Nooruddin’s] discontinuity analysis is a joke” — Andrew Gelman

* November 2019: Columbia University Study on Bolivia

* December 2019: OAS final report

* The NYT story about the data (June 2020)

* August 2020: Nooruddin’s “clean” data

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The OAS issued a statement in 2019 questioning the validity of the Bolivian elections, which then snowballed into a full-blown fascist coup. Thousands of Bolivians have died. Today, we have David Rosnick from the Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) telling us about the “intellectual collaborators” who gave a pseudo-intellectual cover for the coup.

Follow David on Twitter: @ViscidKonrad

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Today, Jarvis Tyner from the CPUSA joins us to talk about nearly 100 years of history of the CPUSA and some of the important fights they were involved in such as desegregating the dance hall, meeting with Fidel Castro, unemployment councils and world war 2. He also inspires us about the future and what we should do!

Show Notes:

2:00 - Dance, Dance Revolution…. well, at least how the CPUSA helped integrate dance halls in Philadelphia.

Read: Dick Clark’s memory on integrating the American Bandstand

8:00 - Why we need Unions?

11:30 - The Anti-Union Propaganda

12:00 - Bourgeoise Government vs Worker’s Government

15:00 - “Trade Union is a military training for the working class.”

17:00 - Trump’s Union Wrecking Ball

20:00 - Jarvis’ Meeting of Fidel Castro

“Fidel is like a regular dude” - Jarvis Tyner on Fidel Castro

22:00 - “ Don’t give your life for capitalism”

25:00 - The Temporary Vehicle for Workers (for now)

26:00 - What Henry Winston has to say about Identity Politics?

Workers marching against unemployment in the 1930s

28:00 - American Vets who fought in the Spanish Civil War

31:00 - Henry Winston’s time in Prison

40:00 - Addressing Rumors Spread Against the CPUSA

46:00 - CPUSA's Against the Vietnam War

Read Black Lives Matter by Jarvis Tyner

About Jarvis

Jarvis Tyner is executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and a long-time member of the party's national board.. He was a founding member of the Black Radical Congress and served on its national coordinating committee for five years. Tyner was born in the Mill Creek community of West Philadelphia in 1941 and graduated from West Philadelphia High School. He joined the Communist Party USA at the age of 20. After several years working in various industrial jobs in the Philadelphia area, where he was a member of the Amalgamated Lithographers and the Teamsters union, he moved to New York in 1967 to become the national chair of the DuBois Clubs of America, and later founding chair of the Young Workers Liberation League. He was the Communist Party USA candidate for vice president of the U.S. in 1972 and 1976, running with party leader Gus Hall.

As a leader of the CPUSA Tyner has been an active public spokesperson against racism, imperialism and war. He has written numerous articles and pamphlets and appears on the media, campuses and in other public venues advocating for peace, equality and the socialist alternative. He currently resides in the Inwood section of Manhattan, N.Y., is married and the father of four adult children and one grandchild.

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