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Political Art From Marie Antoinette To Ben Garrison with Eli Valley and Jason Katzenstein Sep 23, 2020

Show notes

1:00 - What is Political Cartooning?

3:11 - Evolution of Political Cartooning to “hackwork.” Political art gets point across better than the editorial format.

Paul Conrad & Israel

8:00 Marie Antoinette Cartoons from the French Revolution

* Check out the Gallery of Libelles against Marie Antoinette

9:36 - Tijuana Bible -

10:00 - What do Simon Bolivar, Gandhi and Sarah Palin have in common? Porn

21:00 - Eli’s Drama with Megan McCain

23:00 - What is Diaspora Boy? -

* Eli mentions the controversies regarding the Diaspora Boy.

* AB Yehoshua’s views on Diaspora Jews

* Benjamin Netanyahu’s flirts with Alt-right

25:00 - New Yorker Cartoons -

* Jason explains his role in the New Yorker.

36:00 - Jerry Seinfeld

* IDF Soldier Cosplay

38:00 - Hamilton - Jason’s Live Drawing

40:10: Hunger and Revolt Drawings

* Upton Sinclair’s Donkey

Handshake Meme

45:17

Original Racist Thanks Giving Cartoon

Edited Cartoon

51:00 - Ben Garrison Cartoons

Stefan Molyneux is a cult

Eli Valley’s Book: Diaspora Boy

Jason Katzenstein’s twitter

Jason’s new book

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Africa Needs Monetary Sovereignty Sep 06, 2020

Show notes

Africa does not need to be filled with poor, ill and suffering people. It’s a human design. One of Africa’s biggest problems: Africa just needs monetary sovereignty. Right now, all systems are designed to hold Africa hostage by the Bretton Woods Institutions, Europe and US. Today, Fadhel Kaboub from Denison University and Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla from Rosa Luxemburg Foundation joins us to talk about their new effort to fight back against Africa’s lack of monetary sovereignty.

Website: MES Africa

Check out Dr. Fadhel Kaboub’s previous episode: Big Structural Adjustments

We’ve spoken about the CFA franc! Dr. Ndongo Sylla is the co-author of Africa’s Last Colonial Currency with Fanny Pigeaud.

Important: Can we get #AfricanMonetarySovereignty trending?

Shownotes

2:00 - Why the invisible hand of the market is fiction for developing countries

3:50 - 2 Trillion dollars a year are moving from poor countries to rich countries

5:00 - Monetary Sovereignty and Sovereign Debt: Monetary Sovereignty is a Spectrum

7:20 - Senegal and the CFA Zone

10:20 - Practical effects of Monetary Sovereignty

15:00 - Role of the World Bank

17:00 - Why countries just don’t say “no” to paying back IMF and world bank loans?

19:00 - Why Leftist world leaders aren’t as leftist as you expect? It’s the system

20:00 - Africa and Covid-19

23:00 - African Monetary Sovereignty Initiative

28:00 - Monetary Sovereignty and Humanitarian Disasters

30:28 - How to get out of this infinite cycle?

31:00 - IMF increases inequality in formerly colonized country

40:00 - What is the future of markets?

50:00 - A Better World Is Possible

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Police State for Black & Brown People: Part 2 Sep 04, 2020

Show notes

Today is part two of my two part conversation with Shavone Torres, a core person for Black Lives Matter New Jersey and network rep for BLM national in the United States. Shavone describes her view of what happened to George Floyd, the hundreds of years of systemic racism that preceded it, and the protests and largely performative responses by companies, government, and the president. Finally, we discuss the differences between acknowledging one’s complicity in society's ills, and doing something about it. This is the second part of a two-part conversation. This interview was hosted by Jeff Epstein, who is also the host of the podcast Activist #MMT (Twitter, Facebook, web). This interview was recorded on June 17, 2020.

Resources

* June 8, 2020 thread by Taniel of non-performative (if not enormous) changes occurring thanks to the George Floyd protests.

* My interview with historian, author, and mutual friend of my and Shevone's, Keith Errol Benson. This was my very first interview with Historic.ly

* My interview with Racial Taxation author Camille Walsh: parts one and two

* New York Times article: George Floyd, From 'I Want to Touch the World' to 'I Can't Breathe'

* CNN article: New video appears to show three police officers kneeling on George Floyd

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Police State for Black & Brown People Aug 26, 2020

Show notes

This is part one of a two-part conversation. This interview was hosted by Jeff Epstein, who is also the host of the podcast Activist #MMT (Twitter, Facebook, web). This interview was recorded on June 17, 2020.

Today I talk with Shavone Torres, a core person for Black Lives Matter New Jersey and network rep for BLM national in the United States. Shavone describes her view of what happened to George Floyd, the hundreds of years of systemic racism that preceded it, and the protests and largely performative responses by companies, government, and the president. Finally, we discuss the differences between acknowledging ones complicity in society's ills, and doing something about it.

Resources

* June 8, 2020 thread by Taniel of non-performative (if not enormous) changes occurring thanks to the George Floyd protests.

* My interview with historian, author, and mutual friend of my and Shevone's, Keith Errol Benson. This was my very first interview with Historic.ly

* My interview with Racial Taxation author Camille Walsh: parts and two

* New York Times article: George Floyd, From 'I Want to Touch the World' to 'I Can't Breathe'

* CNN article: New video appears to show three police officers kneeling on George Floyd

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The Lebanese Conundrum with Rania Khalek Aug 15, 2020

Show notes

Many of you may have heard about the explosion in Beirut’s port last week. After the port, many people protested, but suddenly it looks like the protests are being co-opted by foreign forces with different agendas. Today, Rania Khalek talks to us about the brief history of Lebanon, the unique factionalism within the government. Finally, we talk about who the key players are and what the key interests are. We also learn about Lebanon’s economy and how the Syrian war is affecting Lebanon. At the end, we have some fun regarding various online personalities and Rania Khalek’s own experience with “getting cancelled”

Shownotes

00:00-Introductions

01:25 - Brief synopsis of recent Lebanese history?

11:00 - What is Hezbollah

17:00 - Saad Hariri’s bizarre 2017 resignation

20:34 - Lebanon’s Color Revolution

26:11- Explosion Shadiness and theorizing

33:00 - Covid-19 in Lebanon

36:00 - How Rania got Cancelled for Syria and No one Cared

37:00 - Oz Katerji and his Bizarre Excuses

This is the child that Oz Katerji alleged that had a “genetic aging disorder”

44:57: Lebanon Garbage Crisis

46:00 -Tulsi Gabbard, MSNBC and Assadist

51:00 - Assad and his Voice

55:00 - Rania getting Deplatformed and her “free speech” being curtailed

1:00:00 - Why are leftists, so often, regime-change dupes?

About Rania

Rania Khalek is an independent journalist living in Beirut, Lebanon. She is the co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast with Kevin Gosztola. You can find it on Patreon, Apple or Spotify. You can find her on twitter.

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Smallpox to Covid-19: the history of diseases with Dr. Michael Oldstone Aug 08, 2020

Show notes

Today, Dr. Michael Oldstone joins us to discuss the history of diseases. We talk about diseases, viruses and their role in our history.

Left: A yellow-fever epidemic when building the Panama Canal

Right: Children would be regularly paralyzed before the polio vaccine

Shownotes

00:00: Introductions

02:36: What is a virus?

03:45: DNA viruses vs RNA Viruses

07:30 Understanding virulence and persistance in viruses

08:45 How do viruses evolve?

10:00 Smallpox

“In the 20th century, smallpox has killed more people than all the wars of the 20th century combined”

10:30 Ancient inoculations against the smallpox

12:00 Attenuated viruses: The Slow Road to the Vaccine

14:14 Why haven’t other viruses been eliminated like the smallpox?

16:00 Smallpox in the new world

18:00 The slave trade and yellow fever in the new world

20:00 Yellow fever during the Haitian Revolution

21:00 Yellow fever during the continental congress

22:00 How businesses refused to lockdown during yellow fever in Memphis

25:00 Doctors who self-experimented to find the inoculation against the yellow fever

Viruses cause more casualties than guns during war

31:00 SARS

35:00 Covid-19 vs SARS: How Covid-19 spread fast?

39:00 How would a functioning public health system deal with Covid-19?

42:00 How to develop a vaccine?

48:00 Accurate information about viruses

About Dr. Michael Oldstone

Viruses lie at the heart of some of humanity’s most pernicious and devastating diseases, such as AIDS, hepatitis, and influenza. Michael Oldstone, a professor of immunology and microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, has devoted his career to a molecular understanding of how viruses infect cells, evade and manipulate the immune system, and cause disease.

Learn more about his book: Viruses Plagues and History

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Caste Dismissed: Dalit Schooling in Colonial India with Dr Sumeet Mhaskar Jul 26, 2020

Show notes

In this episode with Sumeet Mhaskar:

We discuss the caste system, India, untouchability and the efforts in 1800s Maharashtra, India to educate the Dalit caste.

Jyothirao Phule and Savitribai Phule

Show Notes:

0:52: What is a Dalit?

2:58: Pre-colonial educational system

4:16: Educational initiatives started by Indians

5:15: First School Open to Dalits in 1848

8:00: Violence against educating Dalits

11:00: Jyothirao Phule’s Vision for educating India

16:00: Anticaste activism of Jyothirao Phule

23:00: Challenging the ritual position of Brahmins

26:00: Did anti-caste activists compromise with colonialism?

29:00: British Prioritizing and Promoting Brahmins

31:00: The Concept of untouchability and what education did for that

34:00: Dr. Ambedkar and his vision for caste-based liberation

36:00: Negotiation vs collaboration with the colonial state

41:00: Sumeet’s Project on Bombay textile mills

Prof. Dr. Sumeet Mhaskar is as an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Student Affairs) at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O. P. Jindal Global University in NCR of Delhi, India. He is also a Research Partner with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen, Germany.

You can find him on twitter

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Separate & Unequal: American Education w Camille Walsh Jul 14, 2020

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In this episode with Camille Walsh:

We discuss the state of American public schools, and how it is meant to uphold racism and inequality by design. We also talk about her book Racial Taxation

Detroit Public Schools:

Grosse Pointe High Schools

I wasn’t kidding when I said “It looks like a castle”

Show Notes:

* 1:00 - Who is a taxpayer and what is taxpayer money?

* 4:35 - Parents and Taxpayer Association

* 8:30 - Slavery, Reconstruction and the Rise of Property-tax funded local schools

* 10:00 - Emergence of “Separate and Unequal”

* 12:30 - Milliken v. Bradley

* 22:00 - Samantha Bee and Jason Jones’ supporting School Segregation

* 27:38 - Do we have a right to an education in America?

* 33:00 - Segregation Vouchers and Charter Schools

* 36:00 - Why didn’t the Federal government step in?

* 38:00 - School Boards and what is allowed to be taught

* 39:00 - Why Texas controls all public education?

* 43:00 - Advice for concerned parents

* 44:00 - I diss Guilford Public Schools a bit (nothing personal)

* 45:00 - University and State Residency Requirements in Education

Are you happy with your public schools?

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Winston Churchill - The Early Years Jul 06, 2020

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In this episode with David Lough:

Winston Churchill was a product of late 19th century British aristocracy. Today, we learn about the habits, practices, finances of the aristocracy and what propelled Winston Churchill to the Parliament.

Show Notes:

* 1:00 - David Lough discusses what motivated him to write his books.

* 4:50 - Life of 19th Century aristocracy in Britain

* 6:45 - History of Winston Churchill’s Father’s side

* 12:01 - History of Winston Churchill’s American side

* 19:26 - Marriage settlements in the 19th century

* 22:07 - Lord Randolph’s career as a Tory MP

* 24:07 - Mechanics of how mining expeditions worked

* 29:00 - Lord Randolph’s luck in the mining business

* 31:39 - Winston Churchill’s inheritance

* 32:37 - Winston Churchill’s schooling

* 36:07 - Winston Churchill’s time as an officer

* 43:56 - Winston Churchill’s career as a war correspondent

* 48:08- How Winston Churchill became an MP

* 53:00 - Winston Churchill upgrading the Navy

* 59:00 - We discuss David Lough’s next project: Wealth of the Royal Family

David Lough won an open history scholarship to Oxford University where he gained a first class degree. He founded and ran a private banking business that advises prominent British families on their investments, tax affairs and estate planning.

Following the business’s sale, David has returned to history, using the experience gained in his career to research the untold story of Winston Churchill’s precarious personal finances.

David is a trustee of the London Library and of the UK National Archives Trust. lives with his wife in Kent, England and has five adult children and nine grandchildren.

His books are available here

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Petty Tyrants with Roger Shuler Jun 24, 2020

Show notes

Roger Shuler would be called a political prisoner if he were in any other country. In 2014, Shuler was arrested after he refused to obey a judge's order to stop writing about an alleged affair involving Robert Riley Jr., an attorney who is part of Alabama's most prominent political family, and the son of former governor Rob Riley.

Robert Riley and his father.

Think Progress wrote:

An Alabama blogger who continued to write about the alleged extramarital affair of a prominent lawyer despite a court order was arrested and jailed last week. He was still being held without bond as of Tuesday, according to reports.

Roger Shuler, a former local newspaper reporter, writes a blog about Alabama politics, Legal Schnauzer. He wrote a series of posts alleging that Robert Riley, Jr., son of former Alabama governor Bob Riley and a lawyer rumored to be running for Congress, had an affair with lobbyist Liberty Duke.

Riley sued Shuler and his wife, Carol Shuler, last year for alleged defamation. The court issued a temporary restraining order and preliminary and injunction that prohibited Shuler from writing anything about Riley’s alleged extramarital affair, allegations that he had a child out of wedlock, and other related stories, according to documents posted online. When Shuler continued to write about Riley’s alleged affair, police pursued him during a traffic stop and arrested him for contempt.

Roger Shuler explains:

* Karl Rove’s First Election Fraud

* Railroading Don Seigelman

* Tyranny of the Shelby County City Officials

* Governor Riley, Neopotism and the State Bar Association

* Bradley Foundation and how we lost the VRA in Shelby County

* Police Brutality

* The Cruelty of Jails

* The Catch-22 that Keeps inmates in Jails

* Cancer of our mass incarceration system

Roger Shuler is the editor of Legal Schnauzer, where he offers sharp insight on politics of Alabama and the south.

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