Eduardo and Andy discuss the furor over President Trump's meeting with Russian President, Vladimir Putin. We also ask what's really behind the Mueller investigation and claims of Russian meddling in the US elections?
Links to information in video:
2013 Statement by the Press Secretary on the President’s Travel to Russia
Evidence that DNC e-mails were a leak not a hack
Corbett Report on Russia Hacking
Homeland Security takes over US election
On US role in Ukraine Coup
Evidence that Bernie WON the Dem. Party primary in 2016
What’s Left? On independent Media 2013
Statement by the Press Secretary on the President’s Travel to Russia
Lawmakers Push Anti-Protest Laws as Mass Resistance to Trump Sweeps U.S.
Prosecutors Drop All Charges Against Remaining #J20 Defendants
Dems refuse to “Abolish ICE”
Dems refuse to “Impeach Trump”
Saturday, July 28, 2018
Saturday, July 21, 2018
AMLO and Change Through the Ballot Box
Eduardo and Andy continue their discussion from last week about AMLO and ask what should be the attitude to AMLO's victory/presidency? Is it a step forward for the working class? Is it a development that must be welcomed or fought against (or both)? What kind of change is possible through elections and the ballot box?
For background on AMLO see our last episode:
What's Left? Website:
Links:
The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
Facing Foreclosure? Don’t Leave. Squat.
One Mexican town revolts against violence and corruption. Six years in, its experiment is working
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade.
Mexican Vigilantes: Citizens become armed to take on narco rule
Mexico's Vigilante State - Fault Lines
Cherán, el pueblo purépecha en rebeldía
AKA Lonely: From California gangs to Mexican vigilante | Guardian Docs
The Vigilantes
With an estimated 70,000 people dead in Mexico's drug war, armed vigilantes are now taking the law into their own hands.
Vigilante ranchers, fruit growers kick out brutal drug cartel in western Mexican state
Mexico: Self-Defense Movement takes over policing Michoacan
Fighting Mexico's Knights Templar Cartel
Marichuy: Mexico’s First Indigenous Woman Presidential Candidate
Marichuy, Mexico’s indigenous candidate: “My goal goes beyond being president”
The Feminist Indigenous Candidate Running for President of Mexico
Zapatistas declare for independent Marichuy
Mexico has its first indigenous woman candidate for president
Documentary into who she is in Spanish with English subtitles:
Historias debidas VIII: María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (capítulo completo) - Canal Encuentro
For background on AMLO see our last episode:
What's Left? Website:
Links:
The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma
Facing Foreclosure? Don’t Leave. Squat.
One Mexican town revolts against violence and corruption. Six years in, its experiment is working
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade.
Mexican Vigilantes: Citizens become armed to take on narco rule
Mexico's Vigilante State - Fault Lines
Cherán, el pueblo purépecha en rebeldía
AKA Lonely: From California gangs to Mexican vigilante | Guardian Docs
The Vigilantes
With an estimated 70,000 people dead in Mexico's drug war, armed vigilantes are now taking the law into their own hands.
Vigilante ranchers, fruit growers kick out brutal drug cartel in western Mexican state
Mexico: Self-Defense Movement takes over policing Michoacan
Fighting Mexico's Knights Templar Cartel
Marichuy: Mexico’s First Indigenous Woman Presidential Candidate
Marichuy, Mexico’s indigenous candidate: “My goal goes beyond being president”
The Feminist Indigenous Candidate Running for President of Mexico
Zapatistas declare for independent Marichuy
Mexico has its first indigenous woman candidate for president
Documentary into who she is in Spanish with English subtitles:
Historias debidas VIII: María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (capítulo completo) - Canal Encuentro
Saturday, July 14, 2018
AMLO and the Mexican Elections
Andy asks Eduardo about his trip to Mexico and what it means to him, then the discussion turns to politics in Mexico, the recent election and who is AMLO, Andrés Manuel López Obrador?
What's Left? website:
Links:
AMLO Documentary “Estoy Soy”
What's Left? website:
Links:
AMLO Documentary “Estoy Soy”
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
What are the implications of the recent NY primary victory of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez? Is her candidacy a challenge to Democratic Party or a trap laid for U.S. workers and the Left?
What's Left? Website
Obama’s Attack on the Media 1
Obama's attack on leakers
Sane Progressive “Hillary Clinton Nomination a Coup”
What's Left? Website
Obama’s Attack on the Media 1
Obama's attack on leakers
Sane Progressive “Hillary Clinton Nomination a Coup”
Independent Media: From Left-Wing to Right-Wing Then Back into the Democratic Party
Continuing their discussion from last week, we debate the merits of independent media outlets like Democracy Now and what it means to be 'pragmatic' about making social change.
What's Left? website
Reform or Revolution:
“Facts” on immigration from the Right
What's Left? website
Reform or Revolution:
“Facts” on immigration from the Right
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Breaking-Up Families or Breaking-Up Borders?
What's behind the recent attack on immigrants by the Trump administration, the role of the Democratic Party and the possibility of open borders?
What's Left? website
Additional links:
Statistic on immigration under Clinton, Bush and Obama
The Deportation Machine Built for President Trump
As Detention Centres Hit Capacity, Trump Eyes Tent Cities on Military Bases to Jail Migrant Children
Exclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children
“Hidden Horrors”: Reporter Debbie Nathan on Mass Trials & Kids Separated from Parents at the Border
Hidden Horrors of “Zero Tolerance” — Mass Trials and Children Taken From Their Parents
Border Patrol Continues to Exaggerate Danger to Agents to Justify Violence Against Immigrants
Lobbyists given draft document outlining House leaders' contentious immigration proposal
Hearings on DOJ bias in “Russia probe”
Stats on E-Verify
Do undocumented workers pay taxes?
Do undocumented workers ‘steal’ benefits?
What's Left? website
Additional links:
Statistic on immigration under Clinton, Bush and Obama
The Deportation Machine Built for President Trump
As Detention Centres Hit Capacity, Trump Eyes Tent Cities on Military Bases to Jail Migrant Children
Exclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children
“Hidden Horrors”: Reporter Debbie Nathan on Mass Trials & Kids Separated from Parents at the Border
Hidden Horrors of “Zero Tolerance” — Mass Trials and Children Taken From Their Parents
Border Patrol Continues to Exaggerate Danger to Agents to Justify Violence Against Immigrants
Lobbyists given draft document outlining House leaders' contentious immigration proposal
Hearings on DOJ bias in “Russia probe”
Stats on E-Verify
Do undocumented workers pay taxes?
Do undocumented workers ‘steal’ benefits?
Interview with a Socialist
Eduardo interviews Andy on what he means by "Socialism" and poses his own questions/doubts about it.
What's Left? website
LOTS of links on terms referred to in the video:
Where does profit come from?
Lenin on “Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie”
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
More on Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Profit of Capitol
State and Revolution
The Paris Commune of 1871
Role of workers councils
Introduction to State Capitalism
Democracy and the soviets
Workers Councils in Germany
The Russian Revolution and Russian Colonies
The Seattle General Strike of 1919
Separation of mental and manual labor
Role of the Vyborg Workers in Russian Rev
Rosa Luxembourg (Reform or Revolution)
Marx and definitions of Class
Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
Solidarity in Disaster
Fredrick Douglas (reply of the colored delegation to the President)
Value of Women’s unpaid labor
Why we still want to strike!
Communist Manifesto
What's Left? website
LOTS of links on terms referred to in the video:
Where does profit come from?
Lenin on “Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie”
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
More on Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Profit of Capitol
State and Revolution
The Paris Commune of 1871
Role of workers councils
Introduction to State Capitalism
Democracy and the soviets
Workers Councils in Germany
The Russian Revolution and Russian Colonies
The Seattle General Strike of 1919
Separation of mental and manual labor
Role of the Vyborg Workers in Russian Rev
Rosa Luxembourg (Reform or Revolution)
Marx and definitions of Class
Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
Solidarity in Disaster
Fredrick Douglas (reply of the colored delegation to the President)
Value of Women’s unpaid labor
Why we still want to strike!
Communist Manifesto
Rosanne Barr, Racism and the Media Frenzy
The media frenzy surrounding Rosanne Barr's tweets about Valerie Jarrett.
What's Left? website
Additional links to info in video:
Evidence of Institutional racism
Wealth inequality in the US
Racial discrimination in US criminal justice system
Race and deliberations in US juries
What's Left? website
Additional links to info in video:
Evidence of Institutional racism
Wealth inequality in the US
Racial discrimination in US criminal justice system
Race and deliberations in US juries
Gun Control and Violence in America
Gun control, the State, racism and violence in America.
What's Left? website
Additional links to podcast:
Andy wrote an article about the gun control debate several years ago.
Eduardo provides some links for many of the things he said in the discussion below.
Rate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows:
Everytown for Gun Safety report of domestic/family violence link to mass shootings (2009-2016):
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/mass-shootings-analysis/
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/guns-and-violence-against-women/
Democracy Now!'s domestic violence and mass shooting connection and related discussions:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/7/how_domestic_violence_and_militarism_open
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/9/mass_shootings_and_domestic_violence
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/suspect_in_texas_church_massacre_was
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/after_texas_massacre_drexel_prof_asks
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/why_did_media_overlook_sept_shooting
San Bernardino elementary teacher and students shot by estranged husband:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-shooting/california-gunman-kills-wife-self-as-she-teaches-class-student-also-dead-idUSKBN17C24T
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/11/headlines/california_husband_murders_his_wife_an_8_year_old_boy_at_elementary_school
In April of 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 and wounding 23 others. Within 12 days of the attack, Australia’s conservative government announced a bipartisan deal to enact gun control measures:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/4/after_las_vegas_massacre_advocates_look
Armed violence and gun laws, country by country
In a sea of web sites offering unverified, polarised opinions on gun violence, GunPolicy.org provides evidence-based, country-by-country intelligence from a broad range of official and academic sources. This university site is for researchers, officials, journalists and advocates who need accurate citations and rapid access to credible sources.
What's Left? website
Additional links to podcast:
Andy wrote an article about the gun control debate several years ago.
Eduardo provides some links for many of the things he said in the discussion below.
Rate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows:
Everytown for Gun Safety report of domestic/family violence link to mass shootings (2009-2016):
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/mass-shootings-analysis/
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/guns-and-violence-against-women/
Democracy Now!'s domestic violence and mass shooting connection and related discussions:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/7/how_domestic_violence_and_militarism_open
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/9/mass_shootings_and_domestic_violence
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/suspect_in_texas_church_massacre_was
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/after_texas_massacre_drexel_prof_asks
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/why_did_media_overlook_sept_shooting
San Bernardino elementary teacher and students shot by estranged husband:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-shooting/california-gunman-kills-wife-self-as-she-teaches-class-student-also-dead-idUSKBN17C24T
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/11/headlines/california_husband_murders_his_wife_an_8_year_old_boy_at_elementary_school
In April of 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 and wounding 23 others. Within 12 days of the attack, Australia’s conservative government announced a bipartisan deal to enact gun control measures:
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/10/4/after_las_vegas_massacre_advocates_look
Armed violence and gun laws, country by country
In a sea of web sites offering unverified, polarised opinions on gun violence, GunPolicy.org provides evidence-based, country-by-country intelligence from a broad range of official and academic sources. This university site is for researchers, officials, journalists and advocates who need accurate citations and rapid access to credible sources.
Monday, July 9, 2018
The Iran Deal, Israel and the Right to Resist
The Iran Deal and its implication for the Middle East, the United States and the Anti-war movement.
What's Left? website
What's Left? website
Sunday, July 8, 2018
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