January 6th Hearings Showcase Declining Empire and Growing Fascism
In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace to discuss the politics of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and how he walks a line between the influence of the US empire and efforts to present a challenge to that influence by supporting integration of Latin America, AMLO's role in the current trend of progressive politics that is sweeping Latin America and his defense of the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and others, and how the anti-imperialist movement should orient towards the attacks on progressive governments and AMLO.
In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Miguel Garcia of the ANTICONQUISTA Collective and host and creator of the Sports as a Weapon podcast to discuss a recent article in Sports Illustrated chronicling the work of a so-called “extractor” who helps Cuban athletes defect to the US and furthering the state department line on Cuba, the exploitation of the athletes he helps defect as well as himself by the people he works for, LA Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts' efforts to be an ambassador for baseball to the Black community , and baseball's continued problem of race and catering to white audiences.
Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of dozens of books, including “The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of US Fascism” to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine and its disastrous ramifications for the politics of western Europe, the explosive revelations of the last hearing of the Congressional January 6th committee hearing and its relation to imperial decline and US fascism, and the task before movements for justice as the US capitalist system speeds toward fascism.
In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace to discuss the politics of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and how he walks a line between the influence of the US empire and efforts to present a challenge to that influence by supporting integration of Latin America, AMLO's role in the current trend of progressive politics that is sweeping Latin America and his defense of the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and others, and how the anti-imperialist movement should orient towards the attacks on progressive governments and AMLO.
In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Miguel Garcia of the ANTICONQUISTA Collective and host and creator of the Sports as a Weapon podcast to discuss a recent article in Sports Illustrated chronicling the work of a so-called “extractor” who helps Cuban athletes defect to the US and furthering the state department line on Cuba, the exploitation of the athletes he helps defect as well as himself by the people he works for, LA Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts' efforts to be an ambassador for baseball to the Black community , and baseball's continued problem of race and catering to white audiences.
Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of dozens of books, including “The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of US Fascism” to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine and its disastrous ramifications for the politics of western Europe, the explosive revelations of the last hearing of the Congressional January 6th committee hearing and its relation to imperial decline and US fascism, and the task before movements for justice as the US capitalist system speeds toward fascism.