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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Redspin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss the profound and personal reflections on the NFL lifestyle penned by Super Bowl champion tight end and author of "Dear Black Boy," Martellus Bennett, and the hyper-exploitative dynamics which have come to characterize the game of football at every level.

Articles and link to Martellus Bennett's tweet storm on football's pathologies most in the sports media industrial complex prefer to keep at arm's length (can't let being too critical get in the way of unfettered access nowadays in mainstream sports "journalism").

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/02/martellus-bennett-reveals-the-harsh-realities-of-football-in-a-brutally-honest-twitter-thread

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/02/martellus-bennett-reveals-the-harsh-realities-of-football-in-a-brutally-honest-twitter-thread

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/martellus-bennett-nfl-favorite-players-arent-good-people/1qymhptsqkxz914ptju23egqil

Checkout NFL Hall of Fame Safety Ed Reed's reaction to Martellus Bennett's realness when it comes to football's uncomfortable realities.

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/sports/nfl/sportspulse/2021/02/04/ed-reed-discusses-martellus-bennetts-tweets-address-dark-side-football/4386757001/

Martellus Bennett's Epic Super Bowl Week Twitter Thread that Kicked off Badly Needed Discussion

https://twitter.com/MartysaurusRex/status/1356670923546316802?s=20

Recorded and aired live on Friday, February 5th, 2021.

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Part II features a series of #ApartheidIsrael​ #NFL​ whitewashing videos produced by groups ranging from Christians United for Israel to NFL Films. The insidiousness of this alliance is not only on full display, but brought into focus with the critical analysis you won't find in mainstream (political or sports) media.

Redspin Sports founder Nate Wallace co-hosts Part II of this two-part special with Max Blumenthal, Editor of The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) and co-host of the Moderate Rebels (@Moderate_Rebels) podcast, & the co-host of Redspin Sports Michael Sampson, an organizer with the Jacksonville (Florida) Community Action Committee (@JaxTakesAction), working to galvanize public support around the demand for Community Control of the Police.

The context for the discussion stems from our incredulity at the way in which some of the most far-right elements of the Israel Lobby have exploited the situation Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Desean Jackson created, and then found himself in the midst of a firestorm as a result, earlier this month when he re-shared anti-Semitic words in an Instagram Story from a sermon delivered by the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan.

Far-right Israeli lobby & Bibi Netanyahu P.R. firm, From the Depths, has cynically deployed the MAGA Trump devotee and corrupt New Jersey real estate developer & multi-millionaire, Edward Mosberg, to play a central role in the reeducation and potential "reclamation" of the 33 year-old Jackson. The problem centers around what we've learned about Mosberg and From the Depths founder, Jonny Daniels. Jackson agreeing to be educated on anti-Semitism by From the Depths' frontman, Edward Mosberg, means he'll be learning a lot more about the importance of embracing political Zionism than he will about seriously combatting anti-Semitism. This is evidenced by Mosberg's unabashed praise for the racist politics of Trump and Netanyahu, and From the Depths' record of providing what amounts to Jewish political cover for far-right Eastern European heads of state like Hungarian President, Viktor Orban, and Polish President Andrzej Duda; both of whom benefit greatly from having their domestic anti-Semitism whitewashed by From the Depths thanks to their staunch for Israel on the international stage.

In short, opposition to Israel's political Zionist ethnocracy is NOT analogous to anti-Semitism! However, as this Redspin Sports special illustrates, this fact will hardly stop Netanyahu and his From the Depths lackeys from doing all they can to portray the two as being one in the same.

The discussion portion of the program was recorded on July 12th, 2020, and was published to YouTube on July 31st, 2020.

Intro Music Credit:

Copyright Free Music: CFM Productions
https://youtu.be/4D-LoMTbvx4​

https://cfmfreemusic.com/victory-hip-​...

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Redspin Sports: @RedspinSports (Instagram too)

Nate Wallace: @NateWallace9

Michael Sampson: @BrotherFlourish

Max Blumenthal: @MaxBlumenthal

Justin Williams: @JuiceTinTweets

The Grayzone: @TheGrayzoneNews

Moderate Rebels: @Moderate_Rebels

Jacksonville Community Action Committee: @JaxTakesAction

Other Twitter Handles Associated with this Episode:

From the Depths: @FTDepths

Jonny Daniels: @MrJonnyDaniels

Desean Jackson: @DeseanJackson10

Julian Edelman: @Edelman11

Show Citations and Further Info on Edward Mosberg and From the Depths:

https://www.nj.com/morris/2013/07/oop​...

https://www.nj.com/news/2009/05/holoc​...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports​...

https://deseanjacksonsfoundation.org/​...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/​....

https://www.jns.org/is-israel-rejecti​...

https://forward.com/news/377086/contr​...

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Redspin Sports founder Nate Wallace co-hosts Part I of this two-part special with Max Blumenthal, Editor of The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) and co-host of the Moderate Rebels (@Moderate_Rebels) podcast, & the co-host of Redspin Sports Michael Sampson, an organizer with the Jacksonville (Florida) Community Action Committee (@JaxTakesAction), where they have galvanized public support around the demand for Community Control of the Police.

The Israel Lobby's exploiting the situation Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Desean Jackson created earlier this month when he re-shared anti-Semitic words in an Instagram Story from a sermon delivered by the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. Max's critique of Julian Edelman's failure to understand the fundamentally asymmetrical power dynamics at play in his widely played (and praised) offer to take Desean Jackson on a DC museum trip where they visit the Holocaust Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History. In fact, his critique transcends this particular issue and applies to a much larger social and political context.

Far-right Israeli lobby & Bibi Netanyahu P.R. firm, From the Depths, has cynically deployed the MAGA Trump devotee and corrupt New Jersey real estate developer & multi-millionaire, Edward Mosberg, to play a central role in the reeducation and potential "reclamation" of the 33 year-old Jackson. The problem centers around what we've learned about Mosberg and From the Depths founder, Jonny Daniels. Jackson agreeing to be educated on anti-Semitism by From the Depths' frontman, Edward Mosberg, means he'll be learning a lot more about the importance of embracing political Zionism than he will about seriously combatting anti-Semitism. This is evidenced by Mosberg's unabashed praise for the racist politics of Trump and Netanyahu, and From the Depths' record of providing what amounts to Jewish political cover for far-right Eastern European heads of state like Hungarian President, Viktor Orban, and Polish President Andrzej Duda; both of whom benefit greatly from having their domestic anti-Semitism whitewashed by From the Depths thanks to their staunch for Israel on the international stage.

In short, opposition to Israel's political Zionist ethnocracy is NOT analogous to anti-Semitism! However, as this Redspin Sports special illustrates, this fact will hardly stop Netanyahu and his From the Depths lackeys from doing all they can to portray the two as being one in the same.

The discussion portion of the program was recorded on July 12th, 2020, and was published to YouTube on July 24th, 2020.

Intro and Monologue Music Credit:

Copyright Free Music: CFM Productions
https://youtu.be/4D-LoMTbvx4​

https://cfmfreemusic.com/victory-hip-...​

Connect with us on Twitter:

Redspin Sports: @RedspinSports (and Instagram)

Nate Wallace: @NateWallace9

Michael Sampson: @BrotherFlourish

Max Blumenthal: @MaxBlumenthal

Justin Williams: @JuiceTinTweets

The Grayzone: @TheGrayzoneNews

Moderate Rebels: @Moderate_Rebels

Other Twitter Handles Associated with this Episode:

From the Depths: @FTDepths

Jonny Daniels: @MrJonnyDaniels

Desean Jackson: @DeseanJackson10

Julian Edelman: @Edelman11

Show Citations and Further Info on Edward Mosberg and From the Depths:

https://www.nj.com/morris/2013/07/oop...​

https://www.nj.com/news/2009/05/holoc...​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports...​

https://deseanjacksonsfoundation.org/...​

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/....​

https://www.jns.org/is-israel-rejecti...​

https://forward.com/news/377086/contr...

This is an audio only podcast version of our Redspin Sports pilot episode. It was recorded in Washington, DC (Nate) & Jacksonville, FL (Mike) on June 8th, 2020, and published to YouTube on June 18th, 2020.

In Part I of a two part episode of Redspin Sports, co-hosts Nate Wallace and Michael Sampson analyze and discuss the upsurge of radical politics in U.S. professional sports amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests.

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Esteban Almiron (@taseenb on Twitter) joins Nate Wallace for this 2020 in review episode focused primarily on the perceived threat Diego Maradona posed in the eyes of Western corporate media; and the effects "anti-communism" ideology (the official state ideology of the U.S. empire) has on sport, politics, and progressive people's movements; all of this to ensure that socialist and/or anti-imperialist voices are marginalized, slandered or -if need be- worse.

Esteban lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but has also lived in Italy during the time of Maradona. He works as a designer and programmer and does investigative reporting into issues dealing with the intersection of big tech & politics. He has worked closely with The Grayzone's Ben Norton on an investigation into the politics that drove the insane Trump-era IMF loan (largest in history) to Argentina; the hope for the U.S. was that Argentina would then assist Washington's efforts to illegally insert Juan Guaido in as president (usurper in chief) of Venezuela.

Diego Maradona tragically passed away late in 2020, and this is a way for us to examine the ways in which he was maligned and even posthumously character assassinated by some in the mainstream press.

Esteban and Nate get into a range of sport-related topics that connect back to the world of political power, imperialism, people's resistance to empire and much more.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55085947

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-11-25/maradona-football-legend-was-a-champion-of-latin-americas-left

Recorded on Saturday, December 19th, 2020.

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Justin Williams (@juicetintweets) joins Nate Wallace to talk baseball and class struggle in his Redspin Sports debut performance. We get into a lot of current event (the rise of Justin Jackson as formidable figure on the left) related stuff that's relevant as ever now in 2021. Justin breaks down the Curt Flood story's impossible to overstate significance in U.S. labor history, and much much more.

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Nate @NateWallace9, Mike @BrotherFlourish, & Justin @JuiceTinTweets live debut of our new Redspin Sports trio talking everything U.S. politics and sports related from an unapologetic, working-class partisan point of view.

Nate, Mike, & Justin riff on NFL ownership's reactionary fuckery, from Detroit to Houston to Jacksonville (all 32 of 'em TBR), Deshaun Watson demanding a trade from the Houston Texans & how it relates to the Rooney Rule (only TWO Black NFL head coaches remain now), Barstool (I mean Bar Drool) Sports kicking their harassment outfit into high gear in response to National Women's Hockey League's (NWHL), Saroya Tinker leading the struggle against them gaining media credentials (i.e. normalization) from the league, critical analysis right-wing (at least) Fascist adjacent snowflakes like Dave Portnoy fit the profile of the "aggrieved right-winger" inverting reality by making the bully (them) sound like the victim -and using their platform as a megaphone to do it, NBA All Star Game cynical ploy to use HBCU philanthropy as cover to potentially un-cancel the ASG by moving it to Atlanta, potential transformative influence (on college & pro athletes) of LA Chargers running back and socialist activist, Justin Jackson, and much much more.

Recorded and aired live on Friday, January 29th, 2021.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, another edition of the weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss why National Women's Hockey League player Saroya Tinker is speaking out against reactionary media outlet Barstool Sports, worrying indications by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that Michigan could reinstate high school athletics within a span of "“weeks or days," and how and why the NBA could ultimately hold its annual All-Star Game as the pandemic continues to rage.

Recorded and aired on Friday, January 29th, 2021 in Washington D.C.

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Michael Sampson, who is part of the national leadership of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and co-host of Redspin Sports, joins us for our Foul Play segment. With Joe Biden at the White House will it allow apolitical sports players feel better about coming to the White House after winning championships again? Will sports protests will slow under Biden’s administration simply because he wasn’t Trump or have sports and their relationship with protests turned a corner?

Recorded and aired on Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 in Washington D.C.

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In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast, for another edition of our weekly segment "The Red Spin Report." They discuss why more than one in four NCAA basketball coaches doesn't think conference tournaments should be held this year, why NCAA recruiting rules are regularly violated by big teams, and the disturbing implications of the league's refusal to compensate student-athletes.

Recorded and aired on Friday, January 22nd, 2021 in Washington D.C.

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