The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong

Left Lens Co-Hosts Margaret Kimberley and Danny Haiphong discuss the significance of the 2020 presidential election. What will a Joe Biden presidency or a 2nd term for Trump mean for the oppressed? Find out here!

The U.S. claims to hold a monopoly on human rights despite being the most egregious human rights violator on the planet. Margaret Kimberley and Danny Haiphong discuss the domestic and international scope of U.S. human rights abuses and the hypocrisy of the evidence-free claims made against China.

On this episode of The Left Lens, co-hosts Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley analyze the record of Kamala Harris and why she represents a negation of everything that the Black liberation movement and U.S. political prisoners currently fighting for freedom stand for.

In the fourth of the Left Lens, co-hosts Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley discuss why Donald Trump's re-election is not as unlikely as the Biden/Democratic Party let on. Also, Danny and Margaret discuss just some of the reasons we should oppose the U.S.' New Cold War against China.

Danny Haiphong interviews NBA champion and activist David West on his political transformation and how this moment of crisis for the U.S. power structure creates a need for NBA players and social movements alike to address the nature of U.S. society itself.

In the second episode of The Left Lens, Danny and Margaret discuss emerging developments relating to the debate about "free speech" that has surfaced amid the mass uprising against racist policing in the United States.

In this debut episode of the Left Lens, Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley introduce viewers to Black Agenda Report, question neoliberal confidence in Joe Biden's 2020 chances, discuss why community control of the police is so critical to the development of the movement against racist policing, and end with a brief analysis of internationalism and solidarity.

In this episode, I read brief remarks from the book Malcolm X Talks to Young People and my co-authored book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror to frame a discussion on where do we go from here in the mass rebellion taking place in the U.S. against racist policing and white supremacy.  

Danny Haiphong discusses a major lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic: the centrality of white supremacy in the struggle against capitalism and imperialism.

As part of a new series on the lessons we must learn from COVID-19, Danny Haiphong discusses the need for the left and anyone who calls themselves socialist to defend the right of oppressed nations to self-determination.