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  • RSH 136 -- Rhodesian Vibes No More (8.23.2024)

    Recorded August 4, 2024 

    It’s been a LOOOONG time since Adam and Peter recorded a new Real Sankara Hours episode and…A LOT has happened! They discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race, and Kamala Harris’s run for president. 

    Links: 

    Text messages, radio chatter show confused communications around tracking Trump’s would-be assassin https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/29/politics/trump-shooting-text-messages/index.html 

  • Trump Assassination Attempt Laid Bare Long-standing Vulnerabilities in the Secret Service https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-assassination-attempt-laid-bare-long-standing-vulnerabilities-in-the-secret-service 

    Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song” 

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar 

    Adam Hudson – drums 

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/ 

    1 hr 25 min
  • RSH 134 -- Israel is Gentrifying the Middle East (and Still Fuck John Kirby) (4.20.2024)

    Recorded April 15, 2024. In this free episode, Adam and Peter mostly discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza by Israel. In particular, we discuss Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel, and Israel’s other AI kill list. 

     

    Links: 

    ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ 
  • Israeli attack that killed aid workers consistent with multiple precision strikes, analysis shows https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/middleeast/world-central-kitchen-strike-analysis-intl/index.html 
  • Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in Syria killed 2 generals and 5 other officers, Iran says https://apnews.com/article/israel-syria-airstrike-iranian-embassy-edca34c52d38c8bc57281e4ebf33b240 
  • Iran launches retaliatory attack on Israel with hundreds of drones, missiles https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-launches-drone-attack-israel-expected-unfold-over-hours-2024-04-13/ 

     

    Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song” 

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar 

    Adam Hudson – drums 

     

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/ 

    1 hr 24 min
  • Genocide Is Against The Rules (and Fuck John Kirby) (2.6.2024)

    Recorded January 28, 2024. First free episode of the new year – 2024. In this episode, Adam and Peter discuss South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the ICJ’s interim ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza, the 2024 election and the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, and Houthi rebels in Yemen attacking Israeli ships in the Red Sea. 

     

    Links: 

    • U.S. strikes Houthi rebels in Yemen https://apnews.com/article/biden-houthis-yemen-shipping-attacks-fc5c1ed40f4e370bed81670bfdda0899 
  • Yemen: why is the war there getting more violent? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29319423 
  • Who are the Houthi rebels and why are they attacking Red Sea ships? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67614911 
  • The ICJ ruling could implicate the US in war crimes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/27/ijc-verdict-israel-gaza-war-biden-pressure 
  • What has the ICJ ordered Israel to do on Gaza war, and what’s next? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/26/what-has-the-icj-ordered-israel-to-do-on-gaza-war-and-whats-next?traffic_source=KeepReading 
  • The ICJ ruling (full text) https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/01/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf 

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    Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song” 

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar 

    Adam Hudson – drums 

     

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/ 

    1 hr 20 min
  • RSH 130 -- Genocide by ChatGPT (12.18.2023)

    Recorded December 10, 2023. In this episode, Adam and Peter discuss the death of war criminal and former U.S. national security advisor Henry Kissinger, the conflation between anti-Semitism and pro-Palestine solidarity on college campuses, and Israel’s mass assassination factory. 

     

    Links: 

    • Henry Kissinger’s crimes and blood-filled legacy 
      • Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, Dead at 100 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/ 
  • On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East https://theintercept.com/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-israel-egypt-soviet-union/ 
  • Survivor’s of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-survivors/ 
  • Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100 https://theintercept.com/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-death/ 
  • Lawmakers grill the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn over antisemitism on campus https://www.npr.org/2023/12/05/1217459477/harvard-penn-mit-antisemitism-congress-hearing 
  • “A mass assassination factory”: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/ 

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    Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song” 

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar 

    Adam Hudson – drums 

     

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/ 

    1 hr 5 min
  • RSH 128 -- The Gun and the Olive Branch (11.5.2023)

    Recorded October 22, 2023. This is a special episode – the first episode where Adam and Peter record in the same room! In this episode, the two discuss Las Vegas police arresting Keefe D for his involvement in the murder of late rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996. Then, for most of the episode, they discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israel’s current war in Gaza. 

    Fact check: The Central Powers of World War I were Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Italy didn’t side with the Central Powers, even though it nominally joined the Triple Alliance in 1882.

    Links:

    Tupac Shakur

    • Last living suspect in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted in Las Vegas on murder charge https://apnews.com/article/tupac-shakur-killing-duane-keefe-davis-vegas-3f7050c2a68813d86a96b96fbb3f1d1a

    Israel-Gaza war

    • Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861
  • Live maps and charts tracker of Israel-Gaza war from Al Jazeera English https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
  • How Britain Started the Arab-Israeli Conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXfuqUhzESg

    • The Gun and the Olive Branch by David Hirst https://www.amazon.com/Gun-Olive-Branch-Violence-Middle/dp/1560254831

    Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song”

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar

    Adam Hudson – drums

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/

    1 hr 27 min
  • RSH 126 -- Niger Please (9.5.2023)

    Recorded August 26, 2023. In this free episode, Adam and Peter cover BRICS welcoming new nations, which is disrupting the Western-led world order, Donald Trump’s arrest in Georgia, the coup in Niger and West Africa’s dissatisfaction with French neocolonialism, and how the Democratic Party fearing low Black voter turnout, especially low turnout among Black men.  

     

    Links: 

     

    Mapping Police Violence: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ 

     

    Trump arrest: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/donald-trump-to-be-arrested-in-georgia-live-updates.html 

     

    BRICS welcomes new countries https://www.reuters.com/world/brics-poised-invite-new-members-join-bloc-sources-2023-08-24/ 

     

    Niger 

    • Burkina Faso and Mali warn against foreign intervention in Niger https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/1/burkina-faso-and-mali-warn-against-foreign-intervention-after-niger-coup 
  • Burkina Faso and Mali say foreign intervention in Niger would be considered a declaration of war https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230801-burkina-faso-and-mali-say-intervention-in-niger-would-be-declaration-of-war 
  • How dependent France is on Niger’s uranium https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/04/how-dependent-is-france-on-niger-s-uranium_6080772_8.html 
  • Is France to blame for instability in West Africa? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66406137 
  • Niger is among world’s biggest uranium producers https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/uranium-mines-niger-worlds-7th-biggest-producer-2023-07-28/ 
  • French nuclear giant to explore potential of uranium deposit in Niger https://www.africanews.com/2023/03/19/french-nuclear-giant-to-explore-potential-of-uranium-deposit-in-niger// 
  • Former French Intelligence agent exposes dirt on uranium mining operation in Niger https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/economy/1691490311-former-french-intelligence-agent-exposes-dirt-on-uranium-mining-operation-in-niger 

     

    Democrats fear low Black voter turnout (and ignoring of Black male voters) 

    • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/31/democrats-black-voters-2024-election-biden/ 

     

    Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song” 

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar 

    Adam Hudson – drums 

     

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/ 

    1 hr 50 min
  • RSH 124 -- I’ve Had Burritos More Supreme Than This Court (7.11.2023)

    Recorded July 2, 2023. In this episode, Adam and Peter discuss the Wagner Group coup in Russia, the African peace mission being detained in Poland, French police killing an unarmed North African teenager and protests against racist police violence in France, SFPD quiet-quitting, and the Supreme Court’s decisions gutting affirmative action and Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.  


    Links: 

     

    Wagner Group coup in Russia 

    • Russia’s Coup with Mark Ames and Yasha Levine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdRNIqhEDs 
  • The Wagner uprising https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/prigozhins-march-on-moscow-chronology-of-an-attempted-coup

    • African peace mission: Ramaphosa’s security stuck in Poland https://www.africanews.com/2023/06/16/african-peace-mission-ramaphosas-security-stuck-in-poland/ 

     

    French cops kill North African teen; protests erupt  

    • Twitter thread from Yasmine Jibril https://twitter.com/YasmineJibril/status/1674399557986181120 
  • France: teen shot by police given private funeral as crisis grips government https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/crowds-gather-for-funeral-of-nahel-merzouk-shot-dead-by-french-police
  • France shooting: Who was Nahel M, shot by French police in Nanterre? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66052104
  • France is roiled by protests after police killed a teenager. Here's why https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185394143/france-teen-police-shooting-protests-nahel
  • France riots: Why are police using guns during traffic stops? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66066438
  • ‘I blame one person,’ mother of teen killed by police says as hundreds arrested in fresh violence across France https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/europe/nanterre-france-police-shooting-protests-mother-intl/index.html 

    • French cops kill North African teen; proteste erupt  

    • Twitter thread from Yasmine Jibril https://twitter.com/YasmineJibril/status/1674399557986181120 
  • France: teen shot by police given private funeral as crisis grips government https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/crowds-gather-for-funeral-of-nahel-merzouk-shot-dead-by-french-police
  • France shooting: Who was Nahel M, shot by French police in Nanterre? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66052104
  • France is roiled by protests after police killed a teenager. Here's why https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185394143/france-teen-police-shooting-protests-nahel 
  • France riots: Why are police using guns during traffic stops? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66066438 
  • ‘I blame one person,’ mother of teen killed by police says as hundreds arrested in fresh violence across France https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/europe/nanterre-france-police-shooting-protests-mother-intl/index.html 

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    SFPD’s low morale and staffing issues 

    • Police report low morale https://missionlocal.org/2022/06/police-report-low-morale-hundreds-of-officers-may-leave-sfpd/ 
  • SFPD has a staffing crisis but it goes deeper https://missionlocal.org/2023/03/police-staffing-crisis-san-francisco/ 

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    Supreme Court guts affirmative action 

    • Supreme Court rejects affirmative action programs at Harvard and UNC https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/supreme-court-admissions-affirmative-action-harvard-unc.html 
  • White women benefit the most from affirmative action https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11682950/fisher-supreme-court-white-women-affirmative-action ; https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/06/29/affirmative-action-who-benefits-white-women/70371219007/ 
  • Who’s who in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case https://www.reuters.com/legal/whos-who-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-cases-2023-06-29/ 
  • The “Unseen” Students in the Affirmative Action Debate https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/affirmative-action-students.html 

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    Supreme Court kills Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rule-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-plan-friday-rcna76874 

     

    Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song” 

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar 

    Adam Hudson – drums 

     

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/ 

    1 hr 32 min
  • RSH 122 -- State Department Hoes Mad (6.1.2023)

    Recorded May 21, 2023. In this free episode, Adam and Peter discuss the Walgreens guard killing of Banko Brown, African leaders’ peace summit with Ukraine and Russia, and the rise of AI warfare.

    Links:

    Video shows Walgreens guard killing trans organizer Banko Brown as he left store https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/15/banko-brown-killed-walgreens-security-guard-video

    San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s paid involvement in the Chesa Boudin recall https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/theyre-like-hillarys-emails-powerhouse-behind-boudin-recall-dismisses-ethics-concerns-over-brooke-jenkins/

    African leaders plan peace summit with Ukraine and Russia https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/world/europe/russia-ukraine-peace-ramaphosa-africa.html

    AI warfare and killer robots

    • US launches artificial intelligence military use initiative https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-china-the-hague-artificial-intelligence-d49c5fb442fa825e0a7a7419d6f04469
  • Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drone-advances-6591dc69a4bf2081dcdd265e1c986203
  • Killer robots are the future of warfare and the ‘inevitable next step’ in Russia’s long bloody invasion of Ukraine https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/killer-robots-a-i-future-warfare-russia-ukraine-invasion/
  • How missiles and drones shape the future of the military https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiHFtubW4JM&ab_channel=CNBC
  • How killer robotics are changing modern warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8L5-gecho&ab_channel=TheGuardian
  • How AI is driving a future of autonomous warfare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwHszy7bMk&ab_channel=DWNews
  • San Francisco bans killer robots, reverses plan to allow them https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/san-francisco-lawmakers-ban-killer-robots-u-turn; https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/7/23497922/killer-robot-policy-san-francisco-reversed
  • SFPD may resubmit killer robot proposal https://abc7news.com/killer-robots-san-francisco-sfpd-deadly-force/12761983/

    • Theme song: “Real Sankara Hours theme song”

    Peter MGunn – bass guitar

    Adam Hudson – drums

    Real Sankara Hours website: https://realsankarahours.org/

    1 hr 26 min
  • RSH 120 -- Don’t Do Racism On Your Work Phone (4.29.2023)

    Recorded April 22, 2023. Adam and Peter are back…this time in the same time zone to record another episode. In this episode, they discuss Sudan, U.S. war on terror in Somalia and why it doesn’t make sense, the possible end of capitalism due to greedflation, and Antioch cops sending racist text messages to each other. 

    Links: 

    A counterterrorism mission in Somalia doesn’t make it a “vital U.S. interest” https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3953360-a-counterterrorism-mission-doesnt-make-somalia-a-vital-us-interest/ 

     

    “Greedflation” and the possible end of capitalism https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/end-of-capitalism-inflation-greedflation-societe-generale-corporate-profits/  

     

    Antioch, CA cops’ racist text messages 

    • Inside Antioch Police Department’s racist text message group https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/11/exclusive-inside-the-antioch-police-departments-secret-racist-texting-group/ 
  • More racist text messages https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/13/new-text-messages-show-antioch-gang-unit-boasted-about-injuring-suspects-kicking-heads-like-a-field-goal/ 
  • Resident angry at racist Antioch police https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/antioch-police-racist-text-message-scandal-confirms-resident-suspicions-about-local-officers/ 
  • 45 Antioch police officers, nearly half of the department, are involved in the racist text message group https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/public-defender-da-antioch-police/3206129/ ; https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/antioch-police-racist-texts-nearly-half-of-department-now-involved-in-scandal/ 
  • Lawsuit against Antioch police https://apnews.com/article/racist-texts-antioch-police-lawsuit-552c5026bd049e4eaaddeabd12e4e93d  


    • Akron bail fund https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-the-akron-bail-fund 

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    1 hr 27 min
  • RSH 118 -- There’s No Such Thing as East Palestine (3.8.2023)
    Recorded February 25, 2023. In this episode, Adam and Peter mostly dive deep into the Florida ban of AP African-American Studies. Then they talk about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. 
     
    Links:
    Train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio
    East Palestine disaster shows how America’s railroad system is dangerously broken https://priceofoil.org/2023/02/16/east-palestine-disaster-shows-how-americas-railroad-system-is-dangerously-broken/
  • Derailed train cars were labeled non-hazardous (even though they were) https://grist.org/accountability/derailed-train-cars-ohio-not-labeled-toxic-cargo/
  • Media coverage of East Palestine train derailment https://newrepublic.com/post/170650/media-coverage-east-palestine-train
  • Health hazards of East Palestine train derailment https://www.vox.com/science/2023/2/18/23603471/east-palestine-ohio-derailment-water-contamination-health
  • Details of East Palestine, Ohio train derailment: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ohio-train-derailment-buttigieg-pens-sharply-worded-letter/story?id=97327971; https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/us/ohio-train-derailment-east-palestine-monday/index.html; https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157333630/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment
    Florida bans AP African-American Studies
    Florida bans AP African-American Studies class because of its “woke indoctrination”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/us/florida-ap-african-american-studies.html; https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/floridas-ban-on-ap-african-american-studies-explained/2023/01
  • 4 states review AP African-American Studies class amid Florida ban: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/18/states-review-ap-african-american-studies-class/; https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/four-states-review-ap-african-american-studies-class
  • Florida’s Stop WOKE Act text: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/148/BillText/Filed/HTML
  • Florida’s Stop WOKE Act:  https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2022/11/17/judge-stops-enforcement-stop-woke-act-florida-colleges-universities/; https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/judge-blocks-floridas-stop-woke-censorship-bill-taking-effect-higher-education ; https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/judge-blocks-floridas-stop-w-o-k-e-censorship-bill-from-taking-effect-in-higher-education/; https://www.aclufl.org/sites/default/files/stop_woke_act_one-pager_2022_v2.pdf;
  • College Board strips its curriculum for AP African-American Studies class: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html
  • Interviews with Ta-Nehisi Coates (included in original AP curriculum) on the Florida ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWDeBHmxjcs; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6212Z38WM
  • AP classes lack diversity: https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/ap-classes-lack-diversity/ 

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    58 min

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