Uncensored Stories with Tom Canetti

Charo exposes the horrific details of the human rights abuses currently being committed in Colombia. She talks about disappearing protestors, the police’s use of live rounds against unarmed civilians, neoliberal inequality, narco-trafficking, and the systematic oppression of afro-descendant and indigenous Colombians.

Charo’s bio:

Charo Mina-Rojas is a Colombian human rights defender with nearly 30 years of activism with the Black Communities Process –PCN. Mina-Rojas has served as National Coordinator of Advocacy and Outreach in the U.S, for PCN. She was part of the Ethnic Commission that worked to ensure the inclusion of the Ethnic Chapter in the Final Peace Agreement, which contains specific provisions to ensure the protection and advancement of Afro-descendant collective rights. Currently, she coordinates the "Afro-Colombian Initiative for Gender and Peace Justice, 2021", that recently organized the Community hearing “Development and Racism: Realities and Impacts of Violence against Black/Afro-Descendant Women in Our Various Identities”, on April 19th, 2021.

A recognized human rights defender and leading Black feminist scholar and public speaker, Mina-Rojas has authored several articles on the plight of Afro-Colombia women and women in Latin America, and has provided expert testimony on human rights before the committees of the United States Congress, Interamerican Commission for Human Rights, and various organs of the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council where she became the first Afro-descendant woman to testify as such before the United Nations Security Council on racial and gender violence against black/afrodescendant women in Colombia and Latin America.

Atar explains the difficulties Lebanon has faced politically in their struggle to accommodate Maronite Christians, Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims. Topics of discussion include corruption, powerful families, Israel and Hezbollah.

Samuel Holston (Host of BrainTools podcast https://braintools.podbean.com) breaks down the neuroscience behind why people vote for political figures such as Donald Trump.

Atar explains why Israel is looking at its fourth election in only two years and the reasons behind the country’s political instability.

Atar discusses the significance of the recent killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist as well as the general conflict Iran poses as a rogue state.

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Fran and Tom discuss the fundamentals of libertarianism, the differences between socialist libertarianism and capitalist libertarianism, anarchism, drug legalization, the welfare state and the necessity for welfare payments for those in need and more.

Avishai explains the psychology behind our need, and sometimes obsession, with improvement. Is it possible that self-improvement can be a bad thing?

Fran breaks down the core values of capitalism and its effects on society. He touches on universal basic income, taxation & regulation, some common misconceptions and whether or not socialism and capitalism can exist at the same time.

*(We fixed the muffling on Sam’s mic at 3:20). Co founder and host of Brain Tools podcast Sam Holston explains the neuroscience behind group thinking and its application to radically politically polarized societies today. He talks on evolutionary psychology, reward systems in the brain, defense mechanisms, confirmation bias, marketing neuroscience and more.

Avishai explains the ancient Chinese philosophy and religion Taoism and how its values can be applied to modern day society. Avishai also touches on Buddhism, Confucianism and East vs West philosophy.