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Eugene Hasenfus died this week. He had been part of a covert operation to supply weapons to the anti-Sandinista group known as the "contras." As part of this activity, he was in an airplane shot down over Nicaragua while doing an arms delivery. His capture exposed a massive scheme by the U.S. government to sell arms to Iran in exchange for freeing U.S. hostages taken by pro-Iranian militias in Beirut and use the money to fund the contras war against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. It became known as the "Iran-contra" affair, or "Iran-contraGate." It reached the highest levels in the U.S. government. And led to a number of convictions (and, later, presidential pardons.)In our latest, we look into the history of Reagan's wars in Central America, the Iran-contra scandal and subversion as foreign policy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the game against Sunderland, and the rising pressure on Arne Slot again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week is the anniversary of two events which define the State in the U.S., both in the past and today. In 1969, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Dept. assassinated Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and his associate Mark Clark while they slept in Hampton's home. Hampton had been an up and coming, inspiring, leader in the Chicago community and worked to build coalition with a variety of groups in the area. The FBI had viewed Hampton as a potential “messiah,” who needed to be “neutralized.” When the COINTELPRO program was exposed, it was clear that the FBI had worked to eliminate domestic enemies like Hampton and the Black Panther Party. In 1980, the rape and murder of four Catholic missionary nuns by U.S. backed death squads sparked international outrage and criticism of President Carter's support for the government in El Salvador. Carter initially suspended aid to the regime, he later reinstated it, and President Reagan continued this support. Later in the 1990s, when documents were declassified revealing the extent to which the U.S. support torture and terror campaigns, former NJ congressman Robert Torricelli said that it was "now clear that while the Reagan Administration was certifying human rights progress in El Salvador they knew the terrible truth that the Salvadoran military was engaged in a widespread campaign of terror and torture".Despite a history of these events, the movement continues. As Hampton said, "You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution."In 2025, the Trump administration is sending ICE to terrorize undocumented people in communities across the country, designating dissidents as "terrorists" and provoking war with Venezuela. We also just recently witnessed "blowback" from Salvadoran style death squads in Afghanistan with the shooting of national guard solders in Washington D.C. Here's an encore of our episode from 2020 discussing the terrible events. Much to learn from this history. ---------------------------
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the game against Sunderland tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark Kelly and other former military and intelligence community members now in Congress posted a video calling on active service members to refuse illegal orders. This happened while the Trump administration contines to strike alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean and the Pacific. At the same time, a former Afghan child soldier shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard at a metro station in Washington DC. The shooter had been part of a “Zero Unit”, an Afghan death squad, that was backed by the Central Intelligence Agency. These incidents show the tension building between military-civilian-intelligence agency relations. In our latest, we dive deep into the conflict between Senator Mark Kelly and the Trump administration. We also discuss Hegseth's war on the Pentagon and how war crimes against people off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia. And then we get into the background of the DC shooter and the blowback created by CIA backed militias in Afghanistan. Please listen in to this important discussion about U.S. military-civilian relations. -----------------------------------------
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at some predicted lineups for the game tomorrow, AFCON dates and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the match against West Ham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Davis looks at all the latest Liverpool headlines ahead of the West Ham game including transfer links and Slot's embargo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the upcoming match against West Ham and their season so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the match from last night, as the reds suffered another embarrassing loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City Mayor's race , Marjorie Taylor Green splits from Trump, Schumer and Jefferies punch to their left and Trump wages war on everyone . As the divisions in both major parties begin to crack, we're reposting our 2022 interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky about the dramatic shift to the far right in American politics beginning with the 1972 presidential election. Happy Fall Holidays! -------------Republicans go to war . . . Democrats go to brunch!The past 50 years have seen a dramatic shift to the far-right in American politics. On the heels of the 1972 McGovern debacle, the Democrats all but abandoned their New Deal heritage and moved swiftly to a stronger pro-business position and embraced Neo-Liberalism. They abandoned class politics and giving priority to workers and the poor and instead have embraced ID politics and wokeness. As the Republicans stole elections and Supreme Court seats, gerrymandered congressional districts, packed the courts, and ran scorched-earth campaigns at every level, the Democrats have offered a timid resistance at best.In this fantastic interview, Noam Chomsky gives us a history and analysis of the evolution of the Democrats from the party of FDR to a party that's Republican-Lite. We discussed the Carter campaign, the Trilateral Commission, the DLC and the Clintons, Obama, Democratic hawkishness, and other factors in the Democratic retreat from progressive ideas, all while the GOP waged an open and ruthless war on workers, non-whites, women, and others.Don't miss this important interview with the world's greatest living intellectual. Bio//Professor Chomsky is an American linguist, political philosopher, social critic and political activist. He is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. He is the author of scores of books, including American Power and the New Mandarins, Towards a New Cold War, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Requiem for the American Dream. -----------------------------------------
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the game tonight! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at more things wrong at the club at the moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks back at the loss to Forest, and the record of Arne Slot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On today's latest episode of The Daily Red Podcast, Jack McIndoe brings you all the latest news on Liverpool and the fan fallout as Liverpool suffer yet another disappointing result at the hands of Forest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On the latest Daily Red podcast Jack McIndoe brings you all the latest Liverpool news over the last 24 Hours! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Green & Red has been at the forefront of refuting the various romantic versions, lies,and conspiracy theories about JFK and we once again discuss the reality of Kennedy. For decades now, especially after Oliver Stone's JFK created the idea that Kennedy had changed course and was going to withdraw from Vietnam, develop a relationship with Cuba, and end the Cold War, various pundits and commentators, including many on the Left, have accepted Stone's revisionist ideas and now present them as fact.But the reality, rooted in documents and archives, is very different. Kennedy was a consummate Cold Warrior who came to office dedicated to flex American muscle and extend American empire. We began by discussing his approach to Latin America, where he made the overthrow of Castro in Cuba one of his first priorities at the Bay of Pigs and then, despite Stone's insistence he'd had a change of heart and mind after the Missile Crisis continued to subvert Cuba in the hopes of ousting the government there. Meanwhile, he developed an internal security model for all of Latin America in order to prevent Left movements from gaining momentum. In this context he also subverted governments in places like Brazil and Guyana.Of course, the main point of Stone's argument related to Vietnam, where he and his followers claim that JFK had decided to wind down and withdraw from Vietnam in 1963. The reality was very different. Kennedy actually ignored the advice of U.S. military officials, who consistently warned that Vietnam was not an American security priority, that American troops weren't well-trained and prepared to fight a jungle guerrilla war, and he authorized a coup against Ngo Dinh Diem, surely a sign that he was not preparing a withdrawal.Conspiracies are anti-political . . . the seek good individuals and heroes and posit that nefarious characters in the "deep state" are upending the better angels in government. These theories distract us, especially on the Left, from analyzing systems and structures, like the ruling class. The continued obsession with Stone's conspiracies may be lucrative for some, but they're a dead end for people trying to make sense of American power and resist it.For more on this, see "JFK: 60 Years of Myths and Disinformation" with links to relevant articles and podcasts, at https://afflictthecomfortable.org/2023/11/22/jfk-60-years-of-myths-and-disinformation/——————-
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at tomorrow's game against Nottingham Forest, as the reds desperately need to get back to winning ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at issues at the club, as club football nears its return. He also looks at the Forest squad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the current and ex Liverpool players time this international break. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When World War II ended 80 years ago, the fighting ended but global stability and peace did not emerge. Instead, a "Cold War" between the forces of capitalism and communism, represented by the U.S. and Soviet Union, dominated global politics and led to instability, interventions, wars, a militarized economy, a mass-surveillance National Security State, and so much more---and its legacy continued to this day as we look at Venezuela, Palestine, Iran, and other places across the globe.The U.S. posed the Cold War as a battle between "freedom" and Soviet domination, but that was always a ruse as the Americans held overwhelming dominance in all major military and economic matters. The U.S. had emerged from the war with global hegemony while the USSR had lose about 25 million people, a million farms and factories, and half its economy.So, 80 years later, it's important to examine and understand the role of the U.S. in using its power to create global dominance, disrupt 3rd World development, and destabilize countries across the globe. ----------------------------------
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the potential conundrum buying Semenyo could cause with both he & Wirtz best position the left side. Also he may favour a move to Arsenal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the pros and cons of Antoine Semenyo who has been linked with a January move to Anfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In our latest, Scott talks with climate campaigner Collin Rees (@collinrees) in Belem Brazil for COP 30. They discuss what's happening on the ground, the high concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at the conference, who's sending oil to Israel, Trump, Gavin Newsom and more. Bio// Collin Rees is the US Campaign Director at Oil Change International. —————————————————
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at the possible need to change shape to get the best out of the squad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at some new numbers from Hamzah about Liverpool against the long ball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Guy Drinkel looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at Howard Webb's comments about the disallowed goal from Sunday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Who authored the novel "Animal Farm?" Play. Share. Listen with Host of The Red Podcast, Michelle Barone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's the 60th anniversary of the failed coup in Indonesia, the rise of the dictator Suharto and the removal of popular leader Sukarno. The events that followed the coup led to a period mass killings across the archipelago nation. It's estimated that anywhere between 500,000-3 million people, mostly members of the PKI (the Indonesian Communist Party), were killed. Besides the mass murder of PKI members and anyone else identified as an opponent to the regime, Suharto's forces carried out an erasure of the history and culture of the opposition. Since the fall of Suharto in 1998, declassified documents have shown us the significant role that the Indonesia military took in the genocide and the role western governments (the U.S., the U.K., Australia) played in Suharto's takeover.To discuss all of this, we're re-joined by Dr. Clinton Fernandes. We discuss the history of Indonesia's failed coup and the subsequent genocide, the role of western governments and politics in Indonesia today. Bio//Clinton Fernandes is an Australian historian and scholar who is professor of international and political studies at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia.-----------------
Guy Drinkel looks at all the latest LFC news. He looks at a variety of things, with numerous things for Liverpool to improve upon, and some contract updates and hints. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick looks at all the latest LFC news. He reflects back on the awful performance against Man City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Democratic Party won big on Tuesday but what does it mean? They're still running away from Zohran Mandani while promoting "centrists" like Navy Vet Mikie Sherrill and CIA operative Abigail Spanberger. Meanwhile, there's conflict within the Republican Party brewing with Marjorie Taylor Greene possibly seeing cracks in Trump's armor and calling him out on Israel, health care, the Epstein Files, and even aid to Argentina, while the establishment GOP is just shocked, shocked that Tucker Carlson platformed Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Amid the condemnations no one is reminding Americans that Fuentes was Trump's guest at Mar-a-Largo.In the end, the Democrats remain the Washington Generals of Politics.--------
Dave Davis looks at all the latest LFC news ahead of a huge game against City, including Semenyo & Diomande links as well as Slot's embargo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the upcoming game against Man City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the news the club are looking to extend the contract for Dominik Szoboszlai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Arch-war criminal and former Vice-President Dick Cheney has died. A consummate DC insider who was White House Chief-of-Staff, Defense Secretary, CEO of Halliburton, and Vice President, he shaped and reshaped the GOP and the conservative movement. Responsible for the Global War on Terror and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, he promoted the invasion of Iraq based on blatant lies. Brown University estimated over 4.5 million people died in the post-9/11 forever wars. He also changed government policy on "enhanced interrogation" (i.e. torture) and mass surveillance. And despite his redemption by liberals in recent years because of his opposition to Donald Trump, his politics and polities paved the way for Trump. In this episode, we discuss Dick Cheney, Trump and fanboy liberals redeeming Cheney. Today, we don't mourn Dick Cheney, only his victims. ----------------------------
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the win over Real Madrid, as the reds put on their best performance in a while! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The economy the past 5 years have been really rough. High food prices. Skyrocketing housing prices. Unemployment rates are creeping up. The government shutdown has escalated economic precarity even more. At the root of all of this is the billionaire class. In our latest, we talk with author and policy analyst Chuck Collins (@inequalityorg) about the billionaire class and how they ruining our lives and planet. Bio//Chuck Collins is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and the racial wealth divide and author of over ten books and dozens of reports about inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the racial wealth divide, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties. He is the author at Oligarch Watch at The Nation.His new book is Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power is Ruining Our Lives and Planet.-----------------
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the games against Real Madrid tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the win over Villa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Guy Drinkel is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the win over Villa! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Davis looks at all the latest LFC news including Slot and VVD talking ahead of a massive Villa game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode of the #GreenAndRedPodcast, historian #GeorgeKatsiaficas discusses the #ErosEffect and recent #AsianUprisings shaping global resistance.Mass political awakenings have occurred recently in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and most recently, Madagascar. This is part of an overall pattern of mass movements called “The Eros Effect” by historian and social theorist George Katsiaficas. In the past 60 years, this includes the global uprisings of 1968, the nuclear disarmament movement of the early 1980s, the anti-corporate globalization movement, Asia's pro-democracy uprisings in the 80s and 90s, the Arab Spring, the Indignados Movement and Occupy Wall Street movements of 2011, and now the Gen Z uprisings sweeping Asia, Africa and other parts of the world.In our latest, we talk with George Katsiaficas about the recent uprisings and the Eros Effect. Bio//George Katsiaficas is a historian and social theorist. He's the author of “Asia's Unknown Uprisings” and “The Subversion of Politics.”-----------------
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the game agaisnt Villa tomorrow night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the game agaisnt Palace as the heavily rotated Reds lost 3-0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the game agaisnt Palace tonight in the League Cup, and some transfer links. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In our latest episode, we talk with Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf about their new book "The Purifying Knife" and the history of eugenics in Texas and beyond. Bios//Dr. Michael Phillips (@drmphillipsut.bsky.social) is an American historian specializing in the history of Texas, racism in the United States, right-wing extremism, and apocalyptic religion in the United States. He is author of "White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity and Religion, 1841–2001," and co-author of "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas ."Betsy Friauf (@betsyfriauf.bsky.social) is an independent scholar and a longtime journalist in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. She is the co-author of "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas."-----------------------
Join us on October 26th at 7pm for a panel on resisting state repression. The panel will feature journalist and author Will Potter, Meg Calaw with Gabriela Berkeley, civil rights and criminal defense attorney John Viola, Sara Kershnar from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network . RSVP for the Panel (in person and watch on our YouTube channel): https://bit.ly/ResistStateRepression WHERE: First Unitarian Church of Oakland; 685 14th St, Oakland, CA WHEN: Sunday, October 26th at 7pm; Doors open at 6:30pm DONATE: $5-$20 at the door, sliding scale, no one refused for lack of funds President Trump has designated the anti-fascist movement as a terrorist organization. While, in fact, it's an opportunity for his administration to target and destroy a broader network of left and progressive groups. We're living in challenging times with crises around war in the Middle East, renewed McCarthyist attacks on free speech, corporate domination of everyday life, escalating climate disasters and, now, a fascist takeover of our government. As Will Potter has said, “The intention is to capitalize on this to crack down on their opponents and to consolidate authoritarian power.” We're also living in a time where large numbers of people have taken to the streets to confront those responsible for these crises. Today's state repression is aimed to eliminate that opposition. This panel will explore the ongoing conflict between democratic resistance movements and state repression and lessons that we can use to push back against this authoritarian takeover. Panelist Bios// **Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist and TED Senior Fellow who exposes political repression and the erosion of civil liberties. His reporting and commentary have appeared in The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of “Green is the New Red” and his new book is “Little Red Barns: Hiding The Truth, From Farm To Fable.” **Meg Kalaw is an organizer with Gabriela Berkeley, a local organization of Filipina women that fights for genuine liberation and national democracy in the Philippines. Currently, Gab Berkeley is waging the Chevron Out of the Philippines campaign, to expose the corporate plunder that multinational corporations like Chevron enact in the Philippines and the particular impacts on peasant and indigenous women and children. Meg is also the regional coordinator of the International League of People's Struggles NorCal, a regional alliance of anti-imperialist organizations in the Bay Area who are united under fighting state repression and promoting international solidarity. **John Viola is a Bay Area civil rights and criminal defense attorney. ** Sara Kershnar is the co-founder and international coordinator of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network established in 2007. Sara began her Palestinian solidarity work during the second intifada. Sara is also a co-founder of Generation FIVE, an organization working on transformative justice approaches to addressing child sexual abuse and works towards prison abolition in solidarity with currently and formerly-incarcerated people. **Donations on a $5-20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. Co-sponsored by Green and Red Podcast, Diablo Rising Tide, XR SF Bay, Oil and Gas Action Network and Bay Resistance. ------------------- Intro/Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody
In our latest, we talk with author David Obst about how “Big Car”—the complex of automotive, oil, insurance, media, and political interests—has shaped how we live, move, and die.Bio//David Obst is an American literary agent and author of “Saving Ourselves from Big Car.”——
In real time, , we're seeing Trump's authoritarian forces moving to consolidate power with an "authoritarian playbook" used in the past and other parts of the world. While institutions like the Democratic Party, Harvard and Columbia and the nation's big law firms capitulate, we're seeing resistance from the streets of Washington D.C., Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles. As mass movements are forming to fight back, strategic coordination is needed. In our latest, Scott talks with long time organizer and strategic nonviolence trainer Nadine Bloch to discuss a new education project from the Freedom Trainers teaching an "anti-authoritarian playbook" of non-cooperation, non-compliance and mass disruption. Bio// As an activist artist, puppetista, strategic nonviolent trainer & organizer, Nadine Bloch works at the potent intersection of arts/culture & people power. Find her in Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South; We Are Many, Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation; Education & Training in Nonviolent Resistance; SNAP:An Action Guide to Synergizing Nonviolent Action & Peacebuilding; and Waging Nonviolence. She is currently working with the Freedom Trainers. -------------------------