In this week’s segment, we discuss Canada’s role as a U.S. imperialist client state and how its image as a friendlier northern neighbor is contradicted by support for Israel’s genocide, increases in military spending and fossil fuel production, and by neoliberalism and racist domestic and immigration policies. But first, we have an analysis of the Trump administration's policy towards Africa, and the continuation of U.S. efforts to interfere in those nations' affairs, extract resources, and use African countries as deportation sites.
China shows leadership in Asia while the U.S. relies on threats and interference to get its way.
This week’s featured author is Miguel Valerio. Valerio is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. His book is Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640.
The Congressional Black Caucus has strayed far from the politics of its original members. Once called the "conscience of the congress," the group is made up of Democratic Party loyalists living off…
The governor of Missouri refused to grant clemency to Kevin Johnson and the state Supreme Court denied motions to halt his execution. The US Supreme Court refused to hear his case. Kevin Johnson was…
Racial inequity is the result of racist and capitalist policies and can't be defeated by the self-interested Black political class.
