While everyone is focusing on the elections, we thought we should look at something far more important: The Labor Movement. Because when there is a historically hostile presidency to labor, the only thing that will advance the cause of the working class is a strong labor movement.

I want to take a look at the history of Anticommunism within the US Labor movement from both inside and outside factors with the knowledge this anticommunism often left the United States’ borders and had deep rooted effects that are still present in Labor today.

Slater Mill, located on the Blackstone River, still stands in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This Mill is famous for being the 1793 birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. I’ve seen this building countless times and my thoughts on it run the gamut. Mills like Slater, ushered in so much progress but also so much pain. In the struggles of that huge contradiction, workers and their families came together to fight for better lives and were torn apart by the propagandist lies and deceptions, sometimes coming from within, to keep only a handful of mostly white men in power.

John Francis Bray, the American labor activist who also spent time in England as a Chairtist, he said

“If the word had been in use with us a few years since, then every anti-slavery man would have been denounced as a Communist.”* (Footnote: Gutman, “Tompkins Square ‘Riot’”)

As Bray implied, sometimes anticommunism isn’t a direct attack on those who push for or call themselves communists. It houses any anti-labor activity and the attacks on the ideologies under the Socialist umbrella including socialism, anarchism and of course communism.

Many people believe capitalism doesn’t work, however, it works well for the very few,k mainly the top one percent of the population. The system is designed to work in a class system divided into  the “haves and have-nots”, and though there have been reforms put in place to create a middle class, these reforms protected the ones who already accumulated a majority of the wealth and created an even larger inequality between the rich and poor.

Capitalism is the perfect system for the white supremacists that require a class system to gain power by funneling the wealth off what the workers, who they exploit, make. Whereas, socialism is a system that puts the workers, the major majority of the population, in power giving them control of means of production that they create themselves. This does not serve those in power and they will do anything to keep themselves in power and continue to profit from the fruits of the workers’ labor. 

In order to do this, they deploy tactics that including intimidation, manipulation, deception, outright lies, and even murder. They claim it is actually the “insert name of group that is going against the capitalist here” doing these things to them.

The slave owning colonists figured out that they needed to pit the enslaved, poor whites, and the indigenous people against one another so those groups wouldn’t turn on them. They offered concessions to the poor whites and put them in positions of “middle management” like being the overseer of enslaved people in a field or offering awards for them to act as a police force that would be used to hunt down escaped slaves which were considered property for the slave owner of course. This was the base and still very much the mindset of our current police force.

In these series of episodes and articles, we will look at the red scare and all the tactics used by them.

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Iraq Body Count is a website that has maintained the most thorough list of civilian casualties from the Iraq War. According to Jonathan Steele, writing in The Guardian, IBC "is widely considered as the most reliable database of Iraqi civilian deaths.” It has been featured in the Chilcot report, and other official government websites. But, there is much to the war that most people don’t know about:

* The US began softening-up strikes in 2002, well before the official entry into the war.

* A chilling story of how the US attacked a hospital in 2004 for reporting Morgue Deaths

* The Al-Jazeera bombings and the US bombing of a Reuter’s desk in Baghdad

* Within the first few weeks, they had recorded over 7,500 civilian deaths with more devastation coming

Violence as Communication - Fallujah

Perhaps no city has been hit as hard as Fallujah, Iraq. After the shock and awe campaign that led to the capture of Baghdad, the city of Fallujah had already established its own local government and security forces. There was no need for US forces to be there because they had not met with resistance at all. But, on April 23, 2003, the 82nd Airborne Division occupied the city.

As a result, on April 28 2003, children and parents were marching in protests towards a school. US troops indiscriminately shot them. With that memory still present in amongst the people of Fallujah, on March 31, 2004, four Blackwater mercenaries were killed on a bridge with their bodies mutilated in brutal way. Unfortunately, most of the western media chose to portray them as innocent victims, instead victims of revenge.

The US authorities took this as a challenge to their dominance. Then in late 2004, they began a campaign to conquer Fallujah which was filled with unbelievable atrocities.

According to the Boston Globe:

Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.

As well as being conscripted for forced labor:

One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoon

Later on, white phosphorous would be used in Fallujah.

In part 1 of our series, we discuss the Iraq war, the implications of the casualties and also we try to form a memorial for the people who lost their lives. We also talk about the digital memory project for the Iraq war.

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Perhaps no country has been subjected to the whims of US imperialism as much as Nicaragua. In the 1800s, it was seen a new breeding ground for the Monroe Doctrine, and sent mercenaries over there to fight wars. In the early 1900s, during the quest for colonies, the US marines invaded again, and through the efforts of Agosto Sandino, they were pushed out, not before establishing a foothold in the form of Anastasio Somoza and his sons who ruled the country with an iron fist. Somoza and his allies grew wealthy while most of the peasants starved and impoverished. Somoza, even took blood from the Nicaraguans and sold it to the US.

However, the Sandinistas began their resistance in 1961 to the Somoza dictatorship. It was a David vs Goliath fight. Somoza had bombers from the US, while Sandinistas merely had their guns. Through their determination, the successfully defeated the Somoza dictatorship not before Somoza absconded with over $3 billion of aid.

However, even victory was bittersweet as the US decided to train one of the most horrific militias known to man: the Contras.

No action was deemed off-limits for the Contras. They beheaded children, they gouged out eyes of peasants. As one activist puts it, “The contras don’t win the hearts and minds of the people. They take the arms and limbs”

However, the Sandinista Revolution improved the lives of the Nicaraguan people in unprecedented ways. Within just 5 short months, the literacy rate rose up from the 50s to the 80s. But, they were fighting a brutal civil war with the Contras for the next decade, while under US sanctions.

Being under the axe of imperial sanctions, and tired from the constant civil war, and under the pressure from the US, the Nicaraguan people voted out the Sandinistas for a US-backed leader: Violeta Chamorro.

Once again, the gains from the revolution were rolled back. Literacy went down, many essential services were privatized. But, the Sandinistas did not give up. They continued to organize for the next 16 years and finally, their efforts paid off. Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas came back to power in 2006.

However, they Sandinistas have been under attack by the US through organizations like the NED that fund the violent opposition including the coup attempt in 2018 where 100s of innocent civilians in Nicaragua were killed. The US put Nicaragua under economic sanctions.

The Sandinistas and Ortega skillfully navigated through this minefield using caution. For example, they did not immediately recognize the one-china policy because of all the factories Taiwan had put in. Only when the opportunity came forward did they do that.

Finally, we walk about Ben and Dan’s experience in the latest Nicaraguan elections and compare it with the US elections. We also discuss the US propaganda campaign against Nicaragua. In the end, Dan says “ God Bless the Sandinistas”

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Today, we have the lovely Carl Zha join us again to tell us about the history of Bruce Lee, whose family story is the story of Hong Kong itself!

Show Notes:

3:17 - The Coolie Trade - “Coolie” is a transliteration from a Chinese (and Indian) word. Coolie, in Chinese, means “bitter labor.” In the mid-to-late 1800s the slave trade was abolished in many So…

On Part 2 of Blindingly Unjust, we look at the way the law, public relations, the media interact with each other in order to manufacture consent. We start by examining the kid-gloves in which Sam-Bankman Fried is treated with and then we move on to examine the larger power structures that allows impunity for some and imprisonment for others.

Show Notes

0:50 - Sam Bankman-Fried Scandal

1:30 - Elizabeth Holmes

2:00 - Sam Bankman-Fried admits to running a Ponzi Scheme

10:36 - Coordinated Pump and Dump

12:42 - FTX’s backdoor: The exchange is supposed to be a safe that cannot cracked, but FTX figured out how to “crack” the safe.

14:19 - FTX being embedded with politicians and appearing with Zelensky

15:13 - Old lady being in jail over Christmas

16:38 - Prosecutorial power

17:30 - Arrested over “a 1000-yard stare”: Racial discrimination where a black person was sitting outside.

19:15 - Prosecutor’s office and Police are extremely comingled which is why we cannot get a single conviction

20:50 - The limits of Law - it is an expression of societal power.

23:12 - Bush Vs Gore and Legal fiction

25:42 - The same power circle within the USA

27:38 - China’s meritocracy

30:22 - The way China works vs the Way the USA works

32:50 - Who owns BMW

36:15 - Media driven blood-lust

38:15 - Korean War Posters

43:17 - Who the us fights a war with..

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Justice is often depicted as a blind woman who holds an evenly balanced scale as it is meant to reflect that justice is supposed to be dispensed impartially and to all members of society. Of course, within American hegemony is a popular myth that judiciaries are impartial arbiters of constitution and constitutionality. Today, attorney Christopher Dilworth joins us in a two-part episode to debunk this myth while explaining the history of the US judiciary.

Show Notes

2:10: What do Lawyers do? Nuance-Cuck

3:20 - Law is not a vehicle to change the world.

4:04 - Supreme Court, a bullwark against change

5:30 - Streamlining straight to the Supreme Court

6:54 - Hammer v. Dagenhart

10:56 - IG Farben and Zyklon B with Neal Kayal

13:34 - Atkins v Children’s Hospital: Minimum wage conflicts with Due Process

15:22 - Scalia’s anti-intellectualness

17:17 - “Originalism”

18:15 - Qualified Immunity

20:18 - Civil Asset Forfeiture

22:30 - Police have no constitutional duty to protect and serve

24:14 - Christopher Dilworth’s personal experience with the police

28:20 - Esha’s Experience with the Russian Police

29:24 - Janet’s Story with the Police

37:02 - Legalized Sadism

44:53 - Government’s involvement in bringing drugs - Gary Webb

48:04 - Three Strikes

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The world has a lot of borders, but very few people understand what it means for the ordinary citizen and how it affects their lives. The problem this century is that these borders are not decided by people, in order to best serve them. Instead, there is a multi-tiered system that gives some humans some rights and many corporations a free-for all. Today, journalist Todd Miller, and author of Empire of Borders and Build Bridges and Not Walls, joins us to discuss the meaning of the borders and why we may need a world without borders.

Show Notes

0:43 - The Crisis at the Kenya-Tanzania borders: Tanzanian police are attempting to evict a big swath of the Massai people at the behest of a trophy hunting company.

2:15 - Ending the cliche that the immigration system is broken but working as intended.

4:15 - Orwellian technology at the border

5:50 - Border Patrol Memo from 1994 - “The border was created for mortal danger”

The preknowledge that people would die is built into the system.

7:40 - The border budget exceeded $25 billion in 2020.

10:41 - “ There were a 105,000 contracts given to private companies just by CPB and ice which was $55 billion. The $55 billion given to companies over the 12 year old span was more than the amount given between 1975-2023”

12:25 - The logistics and services by private companies. “In 2022, there were drones, unmanned aerial drones. The CPB has a contractor for predator B drones”

15:30 - Request for proposals for a small drone system equipped with a facial recognition system

16:50 - Does the US government conduct surveillance on people who have never set foot inside the US because of the border technology?

19:00 - The border patrol shot into Mexico and killed someone

23:10 - “The nothing that happens in the other 97 case (where the US border patrol shot into Mexico and killed someone), makes me think that there is impunity”

24:22 - The similarities between the US military installation and border control.

24:52 - There are no borders for corporations: The Guatemala - United Fruit Situation

25:54 - There is already an open border system for certain people, by the accident of where you are born. If you have a US passport, that opens doors for many places that if you are born in other places that is not.

30:08 - El Salvador’s iron fist and an example of the open border system for corporations with the heavy hand of brutality that ensures the corporations always get what they want!

31:20 - The Gadsen Purchase which was a gun-totting push

34:26 - Treaty of Versailles and Sikes-Picot agreement and how they randomly drew borders around the world. “I can’t even see my grandmother”

36:01 - The “border zone” where the constitutional rights are exempt

39:34 - DHS in Portland disappearing people from Bortac

42:22 - A culture of Cruelty with Border Patrol

44:39 - Facade of the enemy

46:30 - An agent with his finger on the holster

46:50 - The “hazing” of the border patrol agents where they get beaten and pepper-sprayed

A CBP trainee dies of a stroke

50:12 - A world without borders

51:13 - 77 Borders around the world since 1989

53:04 - A different world

56:15 - “Open Borders” vs “No Borders”

57:50 - The border between Kenya and Tanzania was not drawn by a single African

1:00:10 - Concerns about the Border

1:03:51 - Impact of Borders on the Environment - The DHS action plan

Check out Todd Miller’s blog “The Border Chronicles”

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It started with protests that was dubbed the Arab Spring, but western sources wants us to believe that protests over housing prices spontaneously erupted into a full-blown civil war. But, this is not the case. In fact, the so-called “moderate rebels” of Syria were armed, trained and funded by the west in a grandmaster plan to destabilize Syria in order to access its natural resources. Today, veteran journalist Vanessa Beeley, who has spent the better part of the last 8 years in Syria, tells us the story that they won’t tell you.

Show Notes:

2:24 - Syria Solidarity Network

3:43 - Wikipedia Vandalism

5:15 - The Syrian Regime Change Coalition

6:15 - Propaganda War in Syria

7:57 - Accusation of Crimes against White Helmets

11:00 - Syrian Pipeline propositions that was rejected

17:01 - A big red flag - No Christmas in areas controlled by “Moderate Rebels”

22:13 - Early Protests with Hate

24:21 - “Smuggle Hope” in Syria

31:02 - Rebranding “rebel groups”

37: 00 - White Helmets

KLA Organ Trafficking

40:00 - Crimes by Moderate Rebels

* Burning Civilians alive

* Civilians held captive in Rebel jails

* Atrocities in Rebel-held jails

45:45 - Western Media narratives turned upside down

48:00 - White Helmets and organ trafficking

UN panel on White Helmets

58:21 - Al Qaeda oil Monopoly

1:15:21 - Amnesty in Syria

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Today, we have Carl Zha from the Silk and Steel Podcast joining us to discuss the Opium wars.

Show Notes

0:00:00 - 0:03:12 - Introductions

0:03:14- 0:05:20 - Opium Beginnings

Originally, opium was ingested orally. However, ingesting it in large quantities lead to death because it stopped breathing. However, after Europeans colonized the New World, they brought back tobacco from the Americas. Particularly, the Spanish and the Portuguese, who brought it to the Philippines and Malaysia, both countries had a significant Chinese diaspora. Later, when the Dutch colonized Indonesia, they, too, brought tobacco. Now, Opium was mixed with tobacco and it could be smoked allowing for consumption in larger amounts without death.

0:05:21- 0:07:08 - Damn British and Opium

Opium, itself, is not grown in china. It is grown outside of China and had to be imported. India grew Opium. In the Late 18th century when the British Colonized India, they forced the farmers in India to grow opium. Their policy of making Indian farmers grow Opium was responsible for many famines.

The British East India Company (BEIC) would license the opium through their opium monopoly. They would sell the opium to individual traders who would carry them into China, because the British want plausible deniability. If someone every questioned them, they would say, “Oh, we are the venerable British East India company. We don't we don't actually believe in the opium trade.”

0:07:08- 0:08:01 - Smoke and Mirrors

The BEIC ships the opium, but the individual parcels will be parceled out and sold to employees of BEIC. A famous opium smuggler is William Jardine, who started as a sergeant under the BEIC. As an employee of the BEIC, he got his own cargo space on their shops which was used to ship opium that he sold to China.

0:08:02- 0:09:48 - China’s Opium Epidemic

Opium was illegal in China and soon the Chinese government realized they had a crisis. Initially, opium was a luxury good because it was not grown in China. However, the innovation of the BEIC flooded the market with cheap opium. Now, laborers could afford it. It blossomed into a full-blown opium crisis.

0:09:49- 0:13:42 - Limits on Foreign Trade

Originally, foreign presence in China was curtailed. It was limited to a few port ciites and the British could only stay for 6 months before having to go to the island of Macau. The British weren’t happy that they could only conduct trade in the city of Canton. The British had to resort to selling opium because originally their product was not competitive.

British had developed a taste for Chinese tea, and they needed silver to trade because China had gone into the Silver standard.

0:13:43 - 0:14:48 - The Magic Formula

Soon, the British hit the magic formula of selling drugs to the Chinese to drain China of it’s silver. The British ran a trade deficit with China prior to the massive operation of opium smuggling. According to some estimates, 50% of the silver mined in the South America is from the 18th and 19th century, ended up in China. The British just decided to sell drugs to drain the silver.

0:14:48 - 0:18:28 Enter Americans

During the founding of the United States, most of the New England old money was made in the opium fortune. There was Astor who has an area in Queens named after him: Astoria. Other families who made their fortune through the Opium Trade:

* The Forbes Family whose descendant John Forbes Kerry was Secretary of State under Obama.

* The Delano Family - FDR’s Grandfather.

* HSBC bank

During a famine in Guangzhau, American traders hid opium under bags of rice. All the Ivy league universities were also heavily invested in the opium trade. That’s how America was founded on: Drugs and Slaves.

0:19:24 - 0:25:47 China Fights Back

Chinese officials tried to tackle the problem by banning opium. The first few bans were ineffective because the British had paid off many officials. In the 1830s, the sends his minister Lin Tse-Hsu’, who is known to be a very honest, upright official to Guangzhou, specifically put a stop to the opium trade.

The British gave up the opium, but they were very indignant. William Jardine returns to London and buys up many newspapers and starts to agitate a media campaign against China in order to start a war. He hobnobs with UK politicians, especially Lord Palmerston, to urge for war with China. There was a lively debate in the British Parliament about morality of going to war with China over opium. But, in the end, they decide to wage war against China for Opium.

0:25:47-0:32:12 The First Opium War

The British sent their troops from India and landed in the port city of Guanzhou. The British had obtained Mysore rockets and their arsenal was significantly better than China’s. While Britain had industrialized, they did so by destroying more advanced industries in India. Britain decided to bombard the Chinese coast and went up to the mouth of the Yangzi river. they decided they're going to apply pressure by raiding other Chinese coastal towns. So the sale of the salt from the South China Sea and bombarding the Chinese coast totally. And if they go that went up to the mouth of Yangzi River near Shanghai. They took over some islands to create big their headquarter for opium smuggling.

And more importantly, they threatened to cut off the north-south traffic at the Grand Canal. At that time, most of the Chinese shipping was along the coast under the Grand Canal to sail from Nanjing to Beijing. Beijing, in 1839, had a population of more than a billion. The plains around Beijing was dry and couldn’t feed the population. The British Navy blockaded the area around Nanjing, threatened to cut off the the rice shipment from from the south to Beijing to basically to starve the population. At this point, China capitulated. They paid large indemnity for the pleasure of being invaded and also recognized Hong Kong as a port.

0:32:12 - 0:36:16 Treaty of Nanking

* China Ceded Hong Kong in Perpetuity

* Indemnity was paid to British ships

* Opening up China for foreign exploitation.

* Chinese law did not apply to British missionaries

Soon, the french began negotiating with the British to allow a little colony in these areas. The city of Shanghai, British, France and even the US got their own concessions. The British and American concession eventually merged into the international Settlement of Shanghai. The colonialism was so bad that there needed to be a Chinatown in Shanghai. The Chinese were restricted to the Chinese city, where the Chinese law would continue to apply. But for the rest of European concessions, British, French, and American laws were applied. British imported Sikh police from British India to police the Shanghai concessions.

0:36:16 -0:38:20 Modern Day Colony in Okinawa

This is eerily similar to Okinawa in modern day Japan. American soldiers can rape people in Okinawa. There is nothing that the Japanese government can do to them. The Japanese government is also a culprit because they don't want American soldiers on the Japanese mainland. So they stick them in Okinawa because, they never treated Okinawans at the same level as the Japanese citizens in Japan. Essentially Okinawa status is like it's a double colony of Japan and United States.

0:38:20 Century of Humiliation

A Chinese person at this time was a second-class citizen in your own country. A very famous scene in a Bruce Lee film illustrates this:

Some Western historians tried to disprove this as an urban myth. But, what they discovered was that there was that the sign actually said “This park is reserved for Europeans only, dogs not allowed.

0:42:00 - 0:45:16 - Second Opium War

The British were not very happy with the settlement for only $21 million. The opium was not fully legalized. So they waited for another opportunity to start another war. This opportunity came during the “Arrow Incident”. British authority had granted all the vessels registered in Hong Kong, British registration. So there was a cargo ship called Arrow. It was used by Chinese smugglers to smuggling opium again, which was captured by the Chinese authorities. The Chinese authorities arrested the crew and executed them for drug smuggling. Because the ship was flying a British flag, the British used this as an excuse to start another war.

In another incident, proselytizing was illegal. A French priest decided to ignore this regulation and went to the interior. He got in trouble with the locals who killed him. The French used this as an excuse to align with the British to form the Anglo-French consortium. Now, the French-Anglo forces used Hong Kong as a launchpad to start another attack on China.

The British just had finished fighting a war in India against the Great Sepoy Mutiny. They had shipped off mutineers to Trinidad, Guyana and other British colonies to work in bonded labor.

0:45:16 -0:49:29 Chinese Coolie Trade

Around the time slavery was formally abolished in many Latin American countries, but there was still a demand for the docile labor force. British and Dutch traders set up shop in Hong Kong. They recruited Chinese peasants They will have these the British and Dutch traders, they will set up shop in Hong Kong and they will Chinese peasants with the promise of jobs overseas. When they went abroad, there conditions were terrible and slave-like. Bruce Lee’s dutch great-grandfather was part of this.

0:50:13 - 0:59:07 The British Loot Beijing

After Britain captured Guangzhou in 1856, they decided it was not enough, so they decided to bring in more pressure. They sailed up to the port of Tianjin, just outside of Beijing where they defeated the Chinese coastal defense. They send in their last remnant force led by the Mongol Prince Sengge Rinchen because they were poorly equipped. At this time, the British decided to send an envoy to negotiate with the Chinese side. But the Mongol Prince, Sengge Rinchen, was so mad at the defeat that he had the British envoy put to death. And now the British were out for revenge. They decided to sack Beijing and the Chines emperor fled the palace.

The British commander Lord Elgin (the son of the famed Elgin marbles) decided to loot the Beijing summer palace and ordered the complete destruction of it. Today, the ruins stands. Everything within the summer palaces was shipped to Britain.

A clause was inserted so that foreign priests could go anywhere in China to proselytize anywhere in China and British ships were allowed to carry indentured Chinese servants to the USA to work.

0:59:07 - 1:05:19 - Opium and the devastation on the Population

* Foreign missionaries said nearly 40% of the adult male population were addicted to opium.

* One doctor said, “There is no slavery to that compared to opium”

Carl Zha tells us a personal anecdote about how opium ruined his grandfather’s family.

1:05:19 -1:14:12 KMT, Opium, CIA and the Cold War

After the communists seized power in China, the United States was sponsoring the remnant KMT troops who escape from southwestern China to northern Myanmar into this place now with nice golden triangle to start opium and heroin production over there.

When the communists took power, opium was outlawed. They burned all the crops and now food such as size could be grown.

Around this time, western pharmaceuticals started to develop more potent forms of opium to market it to the masses such as Heroin and Morphine which was treated as a cough remedy for Children.

1:14:12-1:17:21 Heroin Crisis hits home

Soldiers who were in Vietnam became addicted to opium and it was shipped back home.

1:17:21 -1:23:20 -Getting back Hong Kong

While Hong Kong was leased in perpetuity, areas around Hong Kong was given a 100 year lease which would expire in 1997. At that time, Margaret Thatcher ran many scenarios to see if they could defend Hong Kong against Chinese forces. When she went to negotiate for Hong Kong, the Chinese government cut her off and flatly said no. They ran many scenarios and they realized they could not defend against an actual Chinese military.

In the 1980s, a lot of fear was whipped up by the capitalist class. So, to assuage them, China did One Country Two Policies

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Today, anthropology scholar Elijah Fanan joins us to discuss the rich history of Morocco. A very special episode where we go through over 3000 years of history of a beautiful country.

Show Notes

0:01:11 - The Geography of Morocco

0:02:00 - First Recorded Human life - 300,000 years ago.

0:04:11 - Mitochondrial Eve

0:04:38 - First Sign of Civilization in Morocco

0:05:21 - Amazigh Kingdom of Mauretania - During the Roman Times

0:07:15 - When did Islam Come to Morocco?

0:10:31 - Ibn Khaldoun

0:16:00 - The Fall of the Umayyad Empire

0:17:59:00 - Almoravid Empire

0:20:20- The Red City of Morocco

0:23:48 - Almohad Caliphate: The first non-Arab Caliphate

0:26:10 - The Islamic Golden Age

0:26:29 - The First University - Fatima Al Fihri

0:28:15 - The Koran and the Scientific Method

0:29:00 - The Alaween Dynasty in Morocco and how they kept power for over 500+ years

0:32:00 - The Ottoman Empire

0:34:10 - Sayyida al-Hurra - The Female Pirate of North Africa

0:36:10 - Esha approve of Robbing of Colonizers.

0:36:53 - Pirates and the Slavetrade

0:38:46 - The First Friendship Treaty with the USA

0:41:49 - World War 1 and Morocco

0:46:17 - Rebellion in Fez

0:47:10 - Rif and the Independence Movement

0:48:11 - The Istiqlal Party

0:50:56 - From Black to Gray

0:55:23 - How the King of Morocco Protected all the Jews During Vichy France

0:57:42 - The Birth of the Marxist Leninist Movement in Morocco

1:00:10 - Operation Gladio (Morocco Edition)

1:06:27 - The Arab Spring in Morocco

1:07:04 -Belt and Road Initiative and China in Morocco

1:10:54 - Western Sahara

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With the release of a new cache of documents, there has been a renewed interest amongst the American Public on the truth behind the JFK assassination. Today, we interview film director JFK Assassination and Mrs. Paine, where he painstakingly, over a few years interviews a key witness in the Kennedy Assassination Ruth Paine.

0:00:45 - Introductions and how Max Good funded his film

0:02:55 - Michael Parenti’s Lecture Gangster Nature of our State

0:03:26 - Who is Ruth Paine?

0:04:55 - Lee Harvey Oswald and the Single Bullet Theory

0:07:10 - How Ruth Paine Become Acquainted from Marina Oswald?

0:07:46 - White Russians and White Terror

0:10:02 - George DeMohrenSchildt

0:11:10 - Fairplay for Cuba and Lee Harvey Oswald

0:14:24 - DeMohrenSchildt’s Mysterious suicide

0:15:00 - Oswald’s Weapon and Ruth Paine’s house

0:20:37 - Ruth Paine and the Warren Commission

0:22:12 - Jack Ruby and the Oswald Murder

0:26:26 - Ruth Paine’s Connection with Allen Dulles

0:28:29 - JFK, Bay of Pigs and the CIA

0:30:30 - The Role of the Secret Service during the Kennedy Assasination

0:31:33 - Vincent Salandria and the JFK Investigation

40:00 - The Gangster Nature of our State

44:12 - Conspiracy Theory and Class Power

46:34 - Fidel Castro’s Speech on the Kennedy Assassination

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