Longtime anti-war activist David Swanson recently returned from a trip to Russia. “I wanted to see what Russians thought about foreign policy, about the United States, and about all the ‘scandals’ in Washington that mention Russia all the time but hardly ever have any evidence in them,” said Swanson, publisher of the influential web site WarIsACrime.org. Russians are keenly aware of the history of U.S. encirclement and hostility towards their country. “They see opposition to Trump in the United States as all coming out of an anti-Russian agenda,” he said. “They have no idea, whatsoever, that people might dislike Trump for some other reasons.
This week, we discuss the UK, where a Black woman was chosen to lead the conservative party. First, we cover the U.S. presidential election and the angry reactions within the Black community.
Afeni provides analysis on the results of the presidential election and the reaction of many angry Black voters who have expressed reactionary and racist commentary in the wake of these results.
Roger McKenzie joins us to discuss Kemi Badenoch, a member of parliament in the UK, who was recently chosen to lead the Tories, the conservative party.
While Donald Trump is frequently called a fascist and is even compared to Adolph Hitler, some angry democrats are engaging in their own racist and eliminationist rhetoric in the wake of his impending…
Dominican author Sorayda Peguero Isaac on the persistence of anti-Haitianism.
