Massive protests are ongoing in South Korea, demanding the end of right-wing President Yoon Suk-yeol's tenure and the U.S.-South Korea-Japan war exercises.
Capitalism is said to be rooted in “human nature”, but for the majority of our existence as a species, humans have coexisted in egalitarian societies. They were, in other words, communists.
8 years of China's poverty alleviation campaign (2012-2020):
3+ million Communist Party cadres lived and worked in impoverished communities to help carry out the campaign.
1,800+ cadres sacrificed their lives while doing so.
100 million people were lifted out of poverty.
Sanctions are war.
When you deprive people of food and medicine, you are killing them. You're using another means, a silent means, to kill them.
They are not the solution.
Why is the U.S. really opposed to escalation with Iran?
It could topple the U.S. oil Empire in the Middle East.
“They know Israel will be on the losing end,” says Professor Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling has been released from a halfway house in St. Louis, arriving home for the first time in over two-and-a-half years.
@BrianBeckerDC
and
@JohnKiriakou
discuss his case and FBI efforts to break him even after his release
Voting for the Democrats because they are the “lesser of two evils” only hurts the progressive movement and helps the far-right.
@EugenePuryear
explains.
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Today Brian and Esther Iverem discuss how George W. Bush was directly confronted at a Los Angeles speaking event by anti-war organizers including an Iraq war veteran who said that Bush was personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, & more
Did you know that just a few years after the end of World War II the US government seriously considered dropping nuclear bombs on China and North Korea?
1) Taiwan was taken from China by Japan in 1895, during the “Century of Humiliation” when China was subjugated to and dismembered by colonial powers until the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the end of the Chinese Civil War & the victory of the revolution.
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The U.S. claims Cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism, but Cuba is actually a victim of U.S. sponsored terrorism. 3,478 Cubans have been killed by U.S. sponsored terrorism.
“In what reality is it called a war when you are bombing a population that you have caged?... It is sick. It is depraved.”
“This is a strategy. This is terrorizing the population into a 2nd Nakba to flee, to be expelled”
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@AbbyMartin
,
@BrianBeckerDC
:
Who else but Israel can kill medics, journalists, and children and get away with it?
@AbbyMartin
&
@BrianBeckerDC
talk about the urgency of ending the genocide against Palestine now and what we can all do.
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Taiwan was taken from China by Japan in 1895, during the “Century of Humiliation” when China was subjugated to and dismembered by colonial powers until the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the end of the Chinese Civil War & the victory of the revolution.
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Lee Camp -- CENSORED
For eight years Lee hosted the television show “Redacted Tonight”, but this anti-war, anti-imperialist program has now been shut down along with all the shows on RT America amid the anti-Russia frenzy sweeping the country.
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4) The ROC, with U.S. support, still claimed that it was the govt. of all of China, despite Taiwan being less than 1 half of 1 percent of Chinese land. The ROC was the official representative of all of China at the UN until 1971.
Why the Pentagon Lost in Afghanistan — Today Brian and
@MikePrysner
discuss the rapid fall of key cities in Afghanistan to the Taliban, the consequences of 20 years of brutal U.S. occupation of the country, organizing against imperialist war, and more.🎧
2) In 1949 when the U.S.-backed nationalist KMT army lost against the communists in the Chinese Civil War, they fled to Taiwan, and their government, the Republic of China (ROC), became the current government of Taiwan.
8) In October 2021, U.S. officials admitted that U.S. special forces and marines have secretly been in Taiwan training Taiwanese troops since 2020 or earlier.
Today Journalist Abby Martin and PCJF Exec. Dir. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard join Brian to discuss the recent major court victory for free speech & Palestine solidarity protest, & what this means for the BDS movement & the state of civil liberties in the US.
5) In the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué official diplomatic agreement the U.S. declares:
"there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China." &
"[the U.S.] reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves."
Only one in eight people in Niger have access to electricity and recent shortages have led to a spike in infant mortality. The most outrageous part is that Niger is rich in uranium and powers one-third of all lightbulbs … in France.
6) Since 1979 the U.S. has sold $89 Billion+ in military hardware to Taiwan. The Biden admin has so far approved the sale $1 Billion+ in military hardware to Taiwan, including $750 Million in tanks.
4) The ROC, with U.S. support, still claimed that it was the govt. of all of China, despite Taiwan being less than 1 half of 1 percent of Chinese land. The ROC was the official representative of all of China at the UN until 1971.
2) In 1949 when the U.S.-backed nationalist KMT army lost against the communists in the Chinese Civil War, they fled to Taiwan, and their government, the Republic of China (ROC), became the current government of Taiwan.
The U.S. regularly carries out "freedom of navigation operations" that send warships between Taiwan and mainland China.
U.S. Taiwan Strait crossings in
2019: 9
2020: 15
2021: 11
2022: 6 so far
5) In the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué official diplomatic agreement the U.S. declares:
"there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China." &
"[the U.S.] reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves."
Labeling the Houthis as terrorists and proxies of Iran erases their own history, and wrongly conflates the Ansar Allah political movement with the Houthi tribal people as a whole.
8) In October 2021, U.S. officials admitted that U.S. special forces and marines have secretly been in Taiwan training Taiwanese troops since 2020 or earlier.
What are the must-reads on the history of the socialist and communist movements in the U.S. that every organizer should put at the top of our reading lists?
The U.S. regularly carries out "freedom of navigation operations" that send warships between Taiwan and mainland China.
U.S. Taiwan Strait crossings in
2019: 9
2020: 15
2021: 11
The Israeli siege on Al-Shifa hospital only took place because of the full cover of the Biden administration. But no matter how much the U.S. repeats Israel’s lies, they’re losing the larger narrative war. The people of the world can see what’s happening with their own eyes.
The US General who directed the Manhattan Project said in 1944 that the nuclear bomb wasn’t about Japan, but subduing Russia. This was at a time they were dying by the millions fighting Nazis.
#oppenheimer
At the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, Jesse Owens became the first U.S. athlete to win 4 gold medals.
But he returned to a system of apartheid in the U.S.
After his welcome-home parade, he wasn't allowed to enter through the main doors of the hotel for his reception.
Human Rights?? U.S. Hypocrisy on Full Display as Beijing Olympics Open
U.S. corporate media subjected viewers to wall-to-wall war mongering propaganda targeting the government and people of China as the Olympics opened in Beijing.
🎧Listen here:
Thousands of students have been arrested protesting for Palestine. If this had happened in Cuba or China, the UN would be calling for sanctions against such a repression of free speech, says Manolo De Los Santos
@manolo_realengo
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The U.S. opened its notorious torture camp at the Guantánamo Bay naval base 20 years ago today - January 11th 2002.
779 men and boys (as young as 13, and as old as 89) have been detained there.
39 detainees remain there today.
The world demands: close Guantánamo now!
Every country that joins the NATO alliance becomes part of its "nuclear umbrella", meaning that even a small border incident could become a nuclear war.
The U.S. is deliberately using the threat of a nuclear war to try to bully Russia - risking one that could destroy humanity.
Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Leader Evgeniy Karas saying that fascists forces, though numerically a minority in the 2014 Maidan coup, had a central role in its success because of their willingness to use violence:
China Turns Left — As China emerges as a leading global economic power, the Communist Party led by Xi Jinping is taking measures to combat inequality and ensure “common prosperity” for the entire population. Brian is joined by Prof. Ken Hammond
Brian & Ju-Hyun Park of
@nodutdol
discuss the rising labor struggle in S. Korea demanding not only economic & social justice but also an expansion of democracy. Braving violent police repression, half a million workers in S. Korea went on strike last week🎧
Almost every mainstream news piece about US sanctions leaves out this most important fact: unilateral sanctions are illegal according to international law.
@BenjaminNorton
explains on The Socialist Program
Did Russia Steal DNC Emails? No Proof, According to New Transcripts
Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by
@aaronjmate
, a journalist with The Grayzone and The Nation, and host of the podcast Pushback.
The Untold History of NATO and Case for Its Abolition
@BrianBeckerDC
and
@EugenePuryear
discuss NATO in-depth, as Biden sends thousands of additional troops to Eastern Europe and threat of war is growing by the day.
🎧Listen here:
Korean "comfort women" were labeled by the U.S. army as "class 5 military supplies", and used as sex slaves by American troops for decades after the end of Japanese occupation.
The Biden admin is disputing the findings of 17 World Health Organization infectious diseases experts that investigated the outbreak in Wuhan, and repeating the absurd lie that COVID started in a Chinese lab. (Full episode: )
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is leading opinion polls ahead Mexico's presidential election. The polls indicate that Mexicans are fed up with establishment politics and Donald Trump. Dr.
@JohnMAckerman
, law professor at
@IIJUNAM
, discusses the issue
Striking for a US president to stand at the UN and with a straight face champion the "sovereignty [and] territorial integrity" of "every nation, no matter how big or small.” What about the multitude of recent US invasions around the world?
Mass executions (killing an estimated 30-80 thousand), torture, rape, and the burning of villages was carried out by U.S.-directed forces on the island of Jeju, in an attempt to crush its resistance to the new U.S.-backed puppet dictatorship in South Korea.
China’s historic campaign that ended extreme poverty wasn’t just a distribution of cash, it required the deployment of millions of Communist Party cadre to the countryside to carry out this task.
Full episode: 'U.S. Prepares for War with China, 50 Years After Nixon’s Visit and Shanghai Communiqué'
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Exposing the chemical weapons lie — experts address Syria war crisis as the US beats the drum for a military response.
@ajamubaraka
and Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria, discuss the issue and the danger of an international war
CLIP: Leaked phone call of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland discussing who should govern Ukraine after the coup in 2014, revealing just how much the U.S. was involved in backing the coup.
Ukraine War: Russia, the United States, and the Nature of Imperialism
@BrianBeckerDC
and
@BenjaminNorton
, journalist and editor of
@Multipolarista
, discuss the character of the Russian government and the role it plays on the world stage.
🎧Listen here:
“When Lula visited the US he visited for 1 day—less than 1 day—and he signed no agreements. When Lula visited China he visited for 4 days & he signed...nearly 20”
That’s “how important this partnership is”
WATCH
@BenjaminNorton
:
“China is the core of the global economy & by further integrating with countries like the DPRK & Iran it is building this infrastructure in which the US is no longer even necessary”
WATCH
@BenjaminNorton
&
@BrianBeckerDC
discuss a new geopolitical era:
Palestine is and has always been an inspiration to oppressed people around the world struggling for liberation. Yara Shoufani (
@ysxsh
) of
@palyouthmvmt
explains why.
UN vote to end the US blockade of Cuba
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Socialism in the US Can Happen, and Here's What It Can Look Like w/
@BrianBeckerDC
&
@Jodi7768
A new book, "Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States," demonstrates what this could look like in detail.
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New Cold War Witch Hunt Targets Journalists Opposed to US Empire
War & censorship have long gone hand in hand. How is this playing out today as the war in Ukraine rages and US intervention deepens?
@BrianBeckerDC
&
@BenjaminNorton
discuss
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“They’re trying to put a lid on Aaron Bushnell … they’re scared that it’s going to be a catalyst for people to increase their determination, and their action, in particular people in the military,” says veteran and anti-war activist
@MikePrysner
, producer of
@EmpireFiles
The New York Times, the so-called "paper of record," published an article last week which, absurdly and outrageously, compares China's successful mobilization to stop Covid with ... Nazism and the Holocaust.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Climate disaster is already here. We need a socialist transformation of society, we need a system based on human needs and our survival as a species, not corporate profits.
Young people are increasingly rejecting the ruling elite narrative on Palestine, and on imperialism as a whole. The period has become more revolutionary than any since the fall of the USSR, says Mohammed Nabulsi of PYM.
Brian Becker and Walter Smolarek are joined by
@AbbyMartin
, host of The Empire Files, and
@MikePrysner
, the show's producer, to discuss the attack on their program and the broader assault on progressive alternative media.
What’s behind the New McCarthyism? It’s not just the domestic counterpart to the New Cold War, says Manolo de los Santos (
@manolo_realengo
). It’s also an attempt to intimidate a rising generation that is increasingly rejecting capitalism.
Russia’s October Revolution in 1917 and the rise of Soviet power reverberated across the world, from Latin America to Africa to Asia, & Middle East – that part of the world that lived under the ravages of colonialism and under-development.
@vijayprashad
🎧