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Militarized police against African Americans and Africans as well. There’s a sharp rise in consciousness from the murder of George Floyd witnessed by millions. The many resources in Africa have been a curse for that continent, according to our guest The post BLM Movement and Shut Down AFRICOM appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Whatever you say about Donald Trump, he is a skilled provocateur. The instant Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign, there was Trump, sowing divisions, insisting Bernie supporters “have a home” in the Trump campaign. Of course very few would ever fall The post Trump Provocateur Against Democrats//Weaponizing Coronavirus on Iran and Venezuela appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &a...

Putting out wildfires is one thing but how about paying attention to the causes? Our guest today is Daniel Judt who wrote a cover story for The Nation: “Australia’s Devastating Wildfires Were Not Inevitable.” Australia is among the highest emitters The post Australia’s Fires: Both Victim and Perpetrator appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

There’s been no coverage in America of the extended turmoil engulfing France since early December. But it is huge, and it is a major intensification of a worldwide struggle against neoliberal globalism. As Macron’s government and so many others aim The post Massive French Strike: What You Haven’t Heard appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Hard to imagine but the mainstream media has it wrong. What has been pictured as a crushing blow was actually a victory for progressive politics in the UK. Across Europe and Britain, working people are standing up against what our The post Brit Election Was Actually a Win for Anti-Globalist Left–Really! appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Chinese leadership in Beijing is very insecure. They control many distinct regions of the vast country and what’s going on right now in Hong Kong makes them worry about leakage. Former Hong Kong and China correspondent for BusinessWeek Dave Lindorff The post Hong Kong Explained appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It didn’t start with W’s 2003 war on Iraq. The British have plundered what is now Iraq since the 19th century. After the incredible economic and physical devastation and perhaps a million deaths, though little noticed in the news, the The post Plundered Iraq Rising Up appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Consumed with Brexit, the old upper and lower class divisions are themselves divided. According to professor Kenneth Surin, a Brit teaching at Duke, the decision made by voters in the upcoming general election will be of major importance. On one The post The Crucial December 12th British Election Explained appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We all know that, thanks to Trump giving them a green light, Erdogan’s Turkish military is now aggressively slaughtering the stateless Kurdish people. Kurdish women warriors were exceptionally effective in their fight against our common enemy ISIS. Yet Trump abandoned The post The Kurds are a Nation; Why Don’t They Have a State? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &am...

Bolivia’s first indigenous president Evo Morales brought better lives to many of the dispossessed, yet he was recently overthrown. What of the role of the US and Brazil’s right wing leader Bolsonaro? On part one Bolivia scholar Nicole Fabricant explains The post The Truth On Bolivia//Believing Trumps Lies appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Across Europe tens of millions of refugees are living in horrible conditions, as countries erect razor wire to keep them out. Our guest today Tim Horgan of the World Affairs Council argues it is best to keep people where they The post A Real Solution To Refugee Crisis appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Did Trump mean to be anti-Semitic with his insistence that Jewish Americans who vote Democratic are disloyal? According to our first guest, civil justice advocate and attorney Mark Bello, without question yes, Trump is anti-Semitic. And he says Trump is The post Trump and “Disloyal Jews”//The Corpse of Franco and Democracy in Spain appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast...

He’s often said to be England’s Trump. And many hope his reign as Prime Minister of the UK will be the shortest in British history. How much damage will Boris Johnson do to formerly great Britain? The chaos is astounding. The post BoJo’s Brexit Helter Skelter appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The middle fiddled and the right has risen. With the European Union elections fast approaching (May 23-26) the ascendancy of the racist right and the demise of the traditional mainstream left will be tested. On this show, Foreign Policy In The post Europe at Cliff’s Edge appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Always out of the headlines, on purpose, America’s military footprint truly spands the globe. And how well is our nearly 18 year old “war on terror” going? Is it working? After what she calls a “research odyssey” Stephanie Savell of The post Fueling The Backfire: Our Everywhere War on Terror appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s not a shooting war. Not yet anyway. But already begun is a 21st century version of war. And the fate of the earth is at stake. As both the US and China pour hundreds of billions into this intense The post We Are At War With China appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

If you thought something was fishy about what we’re being told about Venezuela you were right. The scene of blocked humanitarian aid at the bridge? Well the bridge has never opened. Our guest Alliance for Global Justice’s Chuck Kaufman goes The post Venezuela: Behind the Crafted Image appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Neither the traditional French Socialist Party nor the right wing National Front, the yellow vest movement sweeping across France is something new, leaving the political powers including President Macron befuddled. With about 70% public support, the people on the streets The post France’s Yellow Vest Movement Explained appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

A wall isn’t going to work. What will work is addressing the reasons desperate Central Americans walk a thousand miles. Foreign Affairs columnist Patrick Lawrence suggests ways to alleviate the conditions causing the caravan. And on part two, why did The post Obvious Migrant Solution//CNN Fires Professor appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s right there for us to learn from. Not facing history has terrible consequences. With the rise of right wing authoritarian Trumpism in America the long dead Spanish dictator Franco is being reborn. As Spanish political history professor at Oberlin, The post Not Learning From History: Franco Not Dead Anymore//WWI Women appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show...

Bombing a school bus that killed 44 children in Yemen was almost two months ago! We Americans have had so many other distractions since then. But the marriage of commerce and war continues largely unnoticed. The military contractors learned that The post Yemen: An Accountability Free Zone appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Nearly every inch of Africa used to be owned and controlled by the colonial powers: British, French, German, Portuguese, Belgian, Spain. Mussolini’s Italy finally went after its share with a one sided assault on Ethiopia in 1936. Is the long The post Pan-Africanism: Can Colonialism Be Overcome? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .