Washington Babylon

This week Ken is in the field reporting from parts unknown so Andrew sits down to interview Margaret Kimberley. She is a senior columnist and editor with Black Agenda Report whose Freedom Rider column is essential reading for progressives during these interesting times. Her recent column is titled “The Trump and Pelosi Lovefest” and says that the President and Speaker of the House “are birds of a feather when it comes to beating up on dissident women of color.” We talk about why she says progressives need to #DumpTheDemocrats and vote for the Green Party not despite Trump but because it was the intentional decisions of the Dems that got us into this mess in the first place! RussiaGate, foreign policy, the Black Alliance for Peace, the rising tide of class consciousness in the United States, the misery caused by austerity, and her book being published next winter are just some of the topics we discuss!

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Heather Roberson Gaston writes on human rights and has previously published a graphic novel with Harvey Pekar about the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.

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This week, Ken is talking about his recent essay “Eight Reasons the Left Should Root for Donald Trump in 2020 and Ilhan Omar in 2024” with Dr. Johnny Eric Williams, Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, and Elliot Sperber, the editor of our new Aesthetics and Anesthetics section. The conversation orbits around what the Left needs to do strategically in 2020 and beyond in both electoral politics and, more importantly, the streets.

This week Ken speaks with legendary investigative journalist Gareth Porter about his contribution to the new anthology from Haymarket Books The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory edited by Mark Pavlick and Caroline Luft.

Recently, Barrett Brown has been censored on social media for his important journalism. Your can read his account of this on Medium in the story “I’m proud to be the first National Magazine Award winner to be kicked off Twitter at the request of a Nazi.” In the meantime, because of these recent developments, we are going to run our interview with him from last week discussing the role of Big Data firms in supporting raids by ICE. (For our supporters on Patreon, please understand this is a one-off thing and we don’t intend to make it a recurring thing. In the future we promise content no one else will have the chance to read ever!)

This week Ken sits down to speak for the full hour with Harvard Kennedy School Professor of International Affairs Dr. Stephen Walt. The conversation spans a range of topics, from Donald Trump’s foreign policy to Walt’s critique of American-Israeli relations and how they impact diplomatic connections to other players in the Middle East and the wider international community.

Dr. Gerald Horne is an African-American historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His new book White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela from International Publishers is an epic history reaching back into the archives of the Woodrow Wilson administration onward that profiles one of the hottest zones of the Cold War, the battle against apartheid.

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This week Ken talks with Whitney Webb of Mint Press News about her recent reporting on The Intercept and its dubious connections to the deep state it claims to oppose. Then Corey Pein stops by to chat about his recent journalism, the eerie developments within Big Tech oligarchical firms, and the potential convergence of those firms with the militant white nationalists in the Trump base.

This week Ken talks with Whitney Webb of Mint Press News about her recent reporting on The Intercept and its dubious connections to the deep state it claims to oppose. Then Corey Pein stops by to chat about his recent journalism, the eerie developments within Big Tech oligarchical firms, and the potential convergence of those firms with the militant white nationalists in the Trump base.