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In this episode Dylan Rodríguez returns to the podcast.  Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. His lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist confrontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. He was elected to serve as President of the American Studies Association in 2020-2021, and in 2020 was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars. Since 2021, he has served as Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. Since the late-1990s, Dylan has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UCR Department of Black Study, among others. He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In January of 2021 we published an episode with Rodríguez on his most recent book White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide. In that conversation along with many of the other themes and topics from that book, Rodriguez began to frame out some thoughts with us on counterinsurgency. This past fall on Black Agenda Report, Dylan published an interview with Roberto Sirvent entitled "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency."  In this episode we pick up that conversation, talking about counterinsurgency as a totality, as a curriculum, and as epistemic. We get into various elements of what that means to Rodriguez, and about the composition of the counterinsurgent bloc. We also talk about how we recognize it, resist it and embrace beautiful revolutionary wildness. For this month our book for incarcerated readers is Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism. A big thank you to Verso Books for donating the copies. We do need to raise some money for shipping for those and there's a link in the show notes where you can pitch in to that effort over at Massive Bookshop. We also have a big goal for this month, we're hoping to add 40 patrons for the show. Despite meeting our goal in February, we actually had more non-renewals than new patrons for the month. So we are hoping we can make up for that in March. Our show is totally supported by listeners like you, we don't sell ads and we don't run on any grants. So if you appreciate our work and get something out of it, then become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links:  More of Dylan's books, edited collections, and writings (in collections) can be found at Massive Bookshop. Dylan Rodríguez can be reached on Twitter (@dylanrodriguez), Instagram (dylanrodriguez73), and Facebook.  

  On this episode of the podcast, I get to speak with journalist and author Danny Haiphong.  Co-Author of, "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to the War of Terror".  The title may be a mouthful, but Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent take on the lies of American Imperialism, racism and neoliberalism.  We discussed Colin Kapernick, Lebron James, Michael Jordan and the birth of the corporate athlete.  We also talk problematic nature of Captain America and SO. MUCH. MORE. Check out Danny's writing at Black Agenda Report Here Pick up a copy of the book Here Follow Danny, and another previous show guest Margaret Kimberley on their new podcast Here The Great Unmasking:  American Exceptionalism in the Age of COVID-19   Thank you again for taking the time to check this out.  We truly appreciate you.  Please support independent media by becoming a patron.  You'll get all the bonus content, extra shows, Bitter Lake merch, AND SO MUCH MORE! Become a patron HERE   Also, don't forget to share, like, subscribe, at the sites below:   Facebook   Twitter   Instagram   YouTube   Medium

"The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday painted a bleak portrait of the global economy, saying the coronavirus pandemic has caused more widespread damage than expected and will be followed by a sluggish recovery," the Washington Post reported Wednesday. How will this IMF projection of the global picture impact the US economy? "The global economy will shrink this year by 4.9 percent, worse than the 3 percent decline predicted in April, the IMF said," according to the Post. First, What does this mean, and second, how does it impact the US?While COVID-19 case numbers climb in the US, "reports circulated that the federal government is poised to stop providing federal aid to testing sites in some hard-hit states, including Texas," the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Meanwhile, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have ordered 14-day quarantines for travelers from Florida and other states hit hard by the coronavirus.What does this tell us about the future that the administration does not want to discuss?"A Republican policing reform measure collapsed in the Senate on Wednesday when Democrats lined up to block it after criticizing the legislation as an inadequate response to nationwide calls for action to address police misconduct and racial injustice," CNN reported Wednesday. Is this just political posturing by Democrats who don't want to allow the president a win on this issue, or are they actually standing on principle?Are there similarities or parallels between reparations for African Americans and the right of return for Palestinians? How about the calls “Black Lives Matter” and “Free, Free Palestine?” In a recent MintPress News article, Miko Peled writes, "'Black Lives Matter' and 'Free, Free Palestine' serve to remind us that Palestine is not free and that if the lives of Black people mattered, there would be no need for the call. In both cases, people are in the grips of a cruel, racist system that refuses to let go. In both cases, people are being hunted down, caged, strangled, and shot to death, and the root cause of their suffering is rarely addressed."According to a June 18 piece in The Grayzone, leaked documents reveal a right-wing, oligarchic plot to overthrow Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, better known as AMLO. "Mexico's oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street," the article says.GUESTS:Dr. Linwood Tauheed - National Economic Association (NEA) president and associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Dr. Yolandra Hancock - Board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist. She is on the faculty at the Milken School of Public Health at George Washington University and has a telemedicine practice called Ask Dr. Yola.Danny Haiphong - Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the book “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News - From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.”Miko Peled - Author of “The General's Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine” and “Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.”Nino Pagliccia - Activist and freelance writer based in Vancouver. A retired researcher from the University of British Columbia, Canada, he's a Venezuelan-Canadian who follows and writes about international relations with a focus on the Americas, and he is also the editor of the book “Cuba Solidarity in Canada – Five Decades of People-to-People Foreign Relations.”

The numbers are in: the US economy shrank at an annual pace of 4.8% in the first quarter of 2020. "The decline in seasonally and inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, was the steepest quarterly contraction since the last recession and signaled the end of the longest expansion on record," the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. How big of a problem will this be for the country going forward?"A second round of the coronavirus is 'inevitable,' the nation's leading epidemiologist says, but just how bad it is will depend on the progress the US makes in the coming months," CNN reported Wednesday. Are we seeing indicators that the necessary steps are being taken?In his most recent Black Agenda Report piece, activist Danny Haiphong writes, “The US and Western Left has rarely been a friend of China. As arguably the most successful of the socialist revolutions of the 20th century, China is also a country with 1.4 billion people of a non-white hue. The combination of centuries of white supremacist ideological conditioning and at least one hundred years of military, cultural, and economic warfare against socialism has firmly placed a large section of the US and Western left in the anti-China camp.” What's the historical context, along with China's conscious decision to no longer play the weak, subservient role on the global stage? How does this pose a significant problem for humanity in the age of COVID-19?GUESTS:Gerald Daniels — Assistant professor of economics and the associate director of undergraduate studies in the Department of economics at Howard University.Dr. Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Kevin Zeese — Co-editor for Popular Resistance.Danny Haiphong — Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the forthcoming book "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News - From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror."

"A record 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the new coronavirus struck the US economy and sent a recently booming labor market into free fall," the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. "The large number of claims was double the 3.3 million who sought benefits two weeks ago as the US shut down parts of the economy in an effort to contain the virus. Jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, provide temporary financial assistance for workers who lose their jobs." On its face, the answer to this question might be obvious, but what do these numbers really signal?"The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called for an immediate halt to 'warmongering during the coronavirus outbreak' as US forces reportedly deployed Patriot missiles to Iraq and President Donald Trump warned — without presenting a shred of evidence — that Tehran is planning a 'sneak attack' on American troops in the region," Common Dreams reported Thursday. This sounds a lot like the Bush administration and its allegations of WMDs."The State Department released what it called its 'democratic transition framework for Venezuela' on Tuesday; a 13-point plan for the removal of Nicolas Maduro and a radical overhaul of the country's political system," MintPress News reported Wednesday. What's the legal basis, the moral basis, the ethical basis for such demands?"To deflect from the unconscionable failures and deceptions that allowed the pandemic to spread deep into the US population, the White House has launched a blame-shifting PR campaign targeting China," says a Wednesday article in The Grayzone. "At the heart of Washington's narrative is the accusation that Beijing orchestrated a 'cover-up' that is responsible for the disastrous situation in the US." What's going on here?GUESTS:Dr. Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Jefferson Morley — Journalist and editor who has worked in Washington journalism for over 30 years, 15 of which were spent as an editor and reporter at The Washington Post. The author of "The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton" and "Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA," Morley has written about intelligence, the military and politics for Salon, The Atlantic and The Intercept, among others. Alan MacLeod — Academic and journalist. He is a staff writer at MintPress News and a contributor to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), as well as the author of "Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting."Danny Haiphong — Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are the co-authors of the forthcoming book "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News - From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror."

"With the coronavirus death toll soaring in the United States and health experts warning that 'no state, no metro area will be spared' by the outbreak, President Trump steeled the nation for an extended shutdown, dashing hopes of a quick resumption of normal life," the Washington Post reported Monday. The president had previously floated the idea of lifting pandemic-related restrictions by Easter. What are we to make of this?Cliver Alcala, a "retired Venezuelan general who was charged by the United States with 'narco-terrorism' along with President Nicolas Maduro and other officials has surrendered in Colombia to US authorities, prosecutors said Saturday," AFP reported Sunday. The outlet noted, citing a Colombian prosecutor, that "there was no arrest warrant when he gave himself up." AFP continued, "As part of the US Justice Department indictment, up to $10 million was offered for the capture of Alcala, who has been living in the northern Colombian city of Barranquilla for the last two years." This sounds a bit fishy to me."The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen carried out several air strikes on Monday on the capital Sanaa," Reuters reported Monday, citing eyewitnesses and media. "A number of sensitive sites including the presidential palace compound, the school and an air base close to Sanaa airport were hit, and loud explosions were heard across the city, residents said. The coalition said the operation was aimed at destroying 'legitimate military targets including Houthi ballistic batteries which threaten civilian lives.'" So, as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is under continued pressure related to the October 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he's acting up again in Yemen. What's going on?"Once again, Benjamin Netanyahu wins big in Israeli politics," Miko Peled wrote in MintPress News on Friday. "Even as his main opponent, former Israeli army chief Benny Gantz, was given a mandate to form and head a coalition government, Netanyahu, indicted and presumed to be on his way out, managed to pull in Gantz, break up the Blue and White opposition party, stop the coalition from forming, and remain on top." What happens next?GUESTS:Danny Haiphong — Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the forthcoming book "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News - From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror."Teri Mattson — Code Pink Latin America coordinator and founder and coordinator for the Campaign to End US and Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela. Nino Pagliccia — Activist and freelance writer based in Vancouver. A retired researcher from the University of British Columbia, Canada, Pagliccia is a Venezuelan-Canadian who follows and writes about international relations with a focus on the Americas, and is also the editor of the book “Cuba Solidarity in Canada – Five Decades of People-to-People Foreign Relations.” Kathy Kelly — Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.Miko Peled — Israeli-American activist and author of "The General's Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine."

Buy me a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Thomas Jefferson called the U.S. an “Empire of Liberty.” Barack Obama called the U.S. an “Indispensable nation.” These manifestations of American exceptionalism and American innocence provide the doctrine of U.S. empire building at home and abroad. Danny Haiphong and Roberto Sirvent’s new book, "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence - a People’s History of the United States from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror" not only exposes this doctrine as myth but also analyzes its impact on the class struggle to develop a world free of U.S. capitalism, war, and white supremacy. Join anti-imperialist activists and journalists in a discussion about the book and its relevance as a tool toward dismantling the actually-existing fake news of U.S. Empire. Panel sponsored by Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/ Watch the full livestream: https://youtu.be/AV_IZ1OFKCE Theme Music: Monolith https://youtu.be/jRn8ruK-TRA Please donate $1/month to support Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Follow Essential Dissent on Twitter to be notified of upcoming livestreams: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub iTunes: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy

US President Donald Trump was acquitted on both charges by the Republican-led Senate on Wednesday afternoon. "The final vote was 52-48 on abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress," the Learfield Wire Service reported. "Trump was impeached by the Democratic-controlled House for abuse of power and obstructing Congress in the investigation of the Ukraine scandal. Republicans rejected Democratic demands for witness testimony and documents that have been blocked by the White House. The House accused Trump of illegally withholding vital US military aid to Ukraine while pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democrats. Republicans called impeachment a partisan charade and argued that Trump's conduct was not impeachable." Politically, Tuesday was one raucous day. In his State of the Union address, "President Trump framed his third year in office as an unmistakable success and his fourth as more of the same," The New York Times reported Wednesday. Due to a coding glitch, we still don't know who won the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses. What are we to make of all of this?"The US trade deficit fell for the first time in six years in 2019 as the White House's trade war with China curbed the import bill, keeping the economy on a moderate growth path despite a slowdown in consumer spending and weak business investment," Reuters reported Wednesday. "The report from the Commerce Department on Wednesday also showed the Trump administration's 'America First' agenda decreased the flow of goods last year, with exports posting their first decline since 2016. President Donald Trump, who has dubbed himself 'the tariff man,' has pledged to shrink the deficit by shutting out more unfairly traded imports and renegotiating free trade agreements. Trump has argued that substantially cutting the trade deficit would boost annual economic growth to 3% on a sustainable basis. The economy has, however, failed to hit that mark, growing 2.3% in 2019, which was the slowest in three years, after expanding 2.9% in 2018." In Danny Haiphong's new piece for the Black Agenda Report, entitled "Why Attacking the Green Party to Assist the War Party Helps Donald Trump," he states, "We've heard it before. Independent political parties such as the Greens should refrain from organizing in 'swing states' during the general election to ensure that the Democratic Party vote isn't split in favor of the Republican Party. Ever since liberals blamed Ralph Nader for Al Gore's loss to George W. Bush, the Green Party has become a favorite scapegoat for the Democrats to explain away their electoral failures. This time around, the argument is being made by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher and Barbara Ehrenreich. In an open letter published in the LA Progressive, Chomsky and the rest warn Green Party activists and organizers not to play spoiler for the Democratic Party in the 2020 election." What's going on here?GUESTS:John Kiriakou — Co-host of Loud & Clear on Sputnik News Radio. Stephen Lendman — Editor of and contributor to the book "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." Dr. Linwood Tauheed — Associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Danny Haiphong — Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the forthcoming book "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News - From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror."

On this episode of The Critical Hour, Dr. Wilmer Leon is joined by Lee Stranahan, co-host of Fault Lines on Sputnik News Radio.Well, hear ye, hear ye, the historic trial of US President Donald Trump, the 46th chief executive of the US, has begun. On Thursday, the House of Representatives impeachment managers entered the Senate chamber, where their leader, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), read the articles of impeachment against Trump aloud to the assembled senators. The reading initiates the presidential impeachment trial, only the third in American history. A lot of developments continue to unravel. What are we to make of this?"Women's rights advocates celebrated Wednesday as the Virginia legislature became the 38th in the nation to approve the Equal Rights Amendment, nearly 100 years after activists first called for equality between men and women to be enshrined in the US Constitution," Common Dreams reported. "The approval of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by Virginia's state Senate and House means that the required three-quarters of US states have now voted to ratify the amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1972." As significant as this event is, there are problems.When it comes to China, here in the West, we have been led to believe that it is a tyrannical, oppressive and politically backward dictatorship that is oppressing millions of Muslims in the Uyghur Autonomous Region. Is this an accurate portrayal of the situation, or is reality a bit more complex than this?GUESTS:Lee Stranahan — Co-host of Fault Lines on Sputnik News Radio. Sharon J. Hill — Former national vice president of development of the National Women's Political Caucus and principal human relations strategist of Public Eye Relations.Joia Jefferson Nuri — Political strategist and CEO of In The Public Eye Communications.Danny Haiphong — Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the forthcoming book "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News- From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror."

In the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to The War On Terror, authors Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong assert that “The mainstream corporate media is one of the chief propagators of American exceptionalism and innocence...the narratives of American exceptionalism and American innocence work together to serve white supremacy, empire, capitalism, and the US war machine.” Jacqueline Luqman talks to author Danny Haiphong about what this means in relation to real life issues and policy today

The United States has long considered itself to be above the law, and it has gotten away with it by manufacturing public support for its actions, no matter how heinous, through the myths that we are better than everyone else and that we mean well even when things don't work out. Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong's new book busts through these myths and shows why all of the problems of today are consistent with the history of what "America" has always been. Every chapter exposes truths and raises questions about who we really are. We can only live up to the values we claim to support if we understand these hard truths and recognize that to fix anything, we must fix everything. While it sounds daunting, the world is changing and this book provides essential knowledge for a path to a better place. Subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through, plus Clearing the FOG totes, water bottles and T shirts. Visit Patreon.com/ClearingtheFOG. And visit the new Popular Resistance Podcast Network at www.PopularResistance.org/prpn/  

Danny Haiphong is a socialist writer whose work frequently appears on Black Agenda Report. His new book (with Roberto Sirvent), American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, explores the central mythologies about American benevolence that have served as the ideological spine for capitalism’s cancerous expansion. In this conversation, we talk about the disappointing foreign policy positions of left political figures like Bernie and AOC, and discuss the radical left’s longer history of engagement with issues of war, militarism, and imperialism.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: We’ll hear from a victim of torture at the hands of police in Chicago. He wrote a book about it. And, American Exceptionalism is really just a cover for American crimes around the world, starting with the founding of this Indian-killing, Black people enslaving nation. Black Agenda Report’s Danny Haiphong talks about his new book. The Black Is Back Coalition is gearing up for its annual conference, in St. Louis, August 10th and 11th. Chairman Omali Yeshitela, explains. Stanley Howard has been locked up in the Illinois prison system for the past 35 years, ever since he was tortured by Chicago police into confessing to crimes he didn’t commit. Over 100 other Black men were also tortured by Chicago cops. Some, like Howard, wound up on death row, and were later released by the governor. Howard remains in prison on other charges. He’s co-author of a new book, titled, “Tortured By Blue: The Chicago Police Torture Story.” He says, the public needs to hear the truth from the victims of police torture. Danny Haiphong writes a weekly column for Black Agenda Report. Roberto Sirvent is editor of BAR’s Book Forum. Together, the are authors of a ground-breaking new book, titled “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News – From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.” Haiphong says Americans are fed a daily diet of lies about nations around the world. What’s worse, almost everything Americans THINK they know about their own history, is fiction  

In this episode I talk to Danny Haiphong, author, with Roberto Sirvent, of American Exceptionalism and American Innocence - A People's History of Fake News from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.  Danny is well known to progressives for his columns for Black Agenda Report.  As Cynthia McKinney says "By carefully exposing the destructive myths that sustain U.S. empire, this book provides an intellectual anchor that will surely disrupt and unsettle the powers that be.”   We hope she's right!    

Today, Wednesday, November 21, is considered to be the busiest travel day in America as people try to get to and fro, hither and yon for Thanksgiving. In terms of airline travel, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is expecting to screen 25 million people throughout the week. According to live flight trackers, there are about 3,300 planes in the air at the moment. Assuming an average capacity of 200 passengers, there are about 660,000 people in the air right now. Since 9/11, the TSA has been created and Americans have been led to believe that the taxes and fees that are being charged and the security procedures that have been implemented are keeping airline passengers safe. Are we as safe as we are being led to believe? What are the three biggest flaws found in the so-called security system? Anti-Pelosi Democrats publicly vow opposition in House speaker race: 'The time has come for new leadership' – what does this mean for the politics of the Democratic Party going forward? So, as a result of the 2018 midterm elections, around 40 new women are on their way to Congress, including two Muslim women and some Bernie Sanders supporters. With that, a rebellious faction of House Democrats released a letter Monday vowing to mount a coup and derail Nancy Pelosi's bid to become House speaker. They seem to be starting a rebellion with no leader. Rep. Marcia Fudge has decided not to run for speaker and agreed to back Pelosi for the gavel after securing some concessions from the longtime Democratic leader. “My consideration was due in large part to the lack of sustained efforts that ensure diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of the House,” the Ohio Democrat said in a statement, noting Pelosi has assured her that black women will have a seat at the decision-making table. What are we to make of this in two frames, immediately relative to Pelosi and long-term in the context of Democratic solidarity in terms of policy? With Pelosi, Sen. Steny Hoyer, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. James Clyburn still at the helm of Democratic leadership, is the party failing to read the tea leaves? GUESTS: Dr. Stacey Tyler - Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, CEO of International Intelligence Corporation and author of The Inside Man: Evaluating Security Communication Failures at a United States Commercial Airport.Shermichael Singleton - Writer and political analyst.Dr. Jack Rasmus - Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression, who also writes at jackrasmus.com. Danny Haiphong - Activist and journalist in the New York City area. He and Roberto Sirvent are co-authors of the forthcoming book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News- From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: a Black historian reports on how U.S. banks stole the resources and sovereignty of whole nations in the Caribbean and Latin America; a new book explores the political culture spawned by the radical movements of the Sixties and Seventies; and, supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal believe upcoming hearings provide a real chance for freedom for the nation’s best known political prisoner. The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations recently held a national conference in St. Louis. The theme of the gathering was, “There is No Peace: Africa and Africans are at War.” Black Is Back chairman Omali Yeshitela told the audience President Donald Trump angered much of the world when he called nations in the Caribbean and Africa “feces-holes.” In an article for Black Agenda Report, historian Peter James Hudson pointed out that U.S. banks played a key role in making countries in the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa into places of poverty and oppression. Hudson is author of the book, “Bankers of Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean.” The radical movements of the 1960s and 70s produced a unique and compelling political culture, according to a new book titled, “Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State,” by Stephen Dillon. The book is featured in the Black Agenda Report Book Forum, edited by Roberto Sirvent. Stephen Dillon’s work is rooted in the writings and actions of the hundreds of activists that tried to stay one step ahead of U.S. law enforcement, four decades ago. Dillon says these activists produced a political culture of “fugitivity.” This is the month of Black August, which always means increased efforts to free political prisoners in the U.S. The next days and weeks will see a flurry of activity to end the long incarceration of the nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal. Orie Lumumba is a member of the MOVE Family, and of Family and Concerned Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal. That was prison abolition activist Orie Lumumba. From his place of incarceration in Pennsylvania, Mumia Abu Jamal files this Prison Radio report on the passing one of the Greats of Black American culture.  

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: The Black economic condition has dramatically worsened in the 21st Century, with median Black household wealth on a track to disappearing entirely in the next few decades. However, the author of a new book says there’s not much that Black-owned banks can do to head of the disaster. And, the nation’s best known political prisoner has been behind bars for 35 years, but his supporters are stepping up the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home. Donald Trump’s presidency has seen U.S. prestige in the world hit new lows. But the U.S. had long been regarded as having little respect for international law. Black Agenda Report contributor Danny Haiphong has teamed up with Roberto Sirvent to author an upcoming book, titled, “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Fake News of Wall Street, White Supremacy and the U.S. War Machine.” Haiphong says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were champions of American exceptionalism. Danny Haiphong’s co-author, Roberto Sirvent, is the editor of the Black Agenda Book Forum. Last week, the BAR Book Forum featured Mehrsa BaRAdaran, author of “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap.” BaRAdaran is a law professor at the University of Georgia, specializing in banking law. She says Black banks are useful and should be supported, but they are not the solution to Black economic precariousness and the drastic decline of household Black wealth This month is known as “Black August” among many Black activists, a month to remember political prisoners and those that have died in service to the Liberation Movement. Mumia Abu Jamal has spent the last 35 years behind bars in the death of a Philadelphia policeman. Hearings resume on his contention that judicial bias led to his wrongful conviction. And, Dr. Johanna Fernandez, of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home, says there is photographic evidence of police tampering with evidence. Dr. Fernandez was part of the group that produced the 2010 film, “Justice on Trial,” which is being screened on August 23rd at the Maysles Cinema, In Harlem. She was interviewed by Black Agenda Radio producer Kyle Fraser.

Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Black political prisoners have been languishing behind bars for half a century, but are have finally gotten some major media attention: and, Are Black people’s individual identities more deeply rooted in the social life and fortunes of the larger Black group. We’ll talk with author of the book, “Consent Not To Be A Single Being.” Apple has become the first corporation in history to be valued at a trillion dollars. But, what kind of mileston is that? We put that question to Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Dubosian scholar who is active with the Saturday Free School, in Philadelphia. Black political prisoners in the United States got some much needed publicity, last week, from a British-based newspapers. The Guardian ran a series of articles, written by Ed Pinkington, on the plight of Black political prisoners, most of them former members of the Black Panther Party. Black Agenda Radio producer Kyle Fraser spoke with Jihad Abdulmumit, chairperson of the Jericho Movement and a former political prisoners, himself. Several months ago, Black Agenda Report inaugurated a weekly Book Forum, edited by Roberto Sirvent, featuring authors whose works are relevant to the African American condition. One of them is Dr. Fred Moten, a poet and scholar who is currently a professor at New York University. Dr. Moten’s latest book is a trilogy, entitled “Consent Not To Be a Single Being.” Writers and critics have associated Dr. Moten with so-called Black Pessimism, Black Optimism, and even Black Mysticism. But he doesn’t recognize himself in any of those “isms.”