Real Sankara Hours

Recorded August 26, 2023. In this free episode, Adam and Peter cover BRICS welcoming new nations, which is disrupting the Western-led world order, Donald Trump’s arrest in Georgia, the coup in Niger and West Africa’s dissatisfaction with French neocolonialism, and how the Democratic Party fearing low Black voter turnout, especially low turnout among Black men.     Links:    Mapping Police Violence...

Recorded July 2, 2023. In this episode, Adam and Peter discuss the Wagner Group coup in Russia, the African peace mission being detained in Poland, French police killing an unarmed North African teenager and protests against racist police violence in France, SFPD quiet-quitting, and the Supreme Court’s decisions gutting affirmative action and Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.   Links:    Wagn...

Recorded May 21, 2023. In this free episode, Adam and Peter discuss the Walgreens guard killing of Banko Brown, African leaders’ peace summit with Ukraine and Russia, and the rise of AI warfare. Links: Video shows Walgreens guard killing trans organizer Banko Brown as he left store https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/15/banko-brown-killed-walgreens-security-guard-video San Francisco Distr...

Recorded April 22, 2023. Adam and Peter are back…this time in the same time zone to record another episode. In this episode, they discuss Sudan, U.S. war on terror in Somalia and why it doesn’t make sense, the possible end of capitalism due to greedflation, and Antioch cops sending racist text messages to each other.  Links:  A counterterrorism mission in Somalia doesn’t make it a “vital U.S. inte...

Recorded February 25, 2023. In this episode, Adam and Peter mostly dive deep into the Florida ban of AP African-American Studies. Then they talk about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.    Links: Train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio East Palestine disaster shows how America’s railroad system is dangerously broken https://priceofoil.org/2023/02/16/east-palestine-disaster-shows-how-am...

Recorded February 4, 2023. In this episode, Adam and Peter talk about Burkina Faso kicking out French troops from the country in the context of Africa standing up to the West, the massive tech industry lay-offs, and the police murder of Tyre Nichols and how people are becoming desensitized to the ritual of Black death.   Links:   Burkina Faso kicks out French troops Burkina Faso ends ties with Fre...

Recorded December 29, 2022. It’s the final (and second, haha) free episode of Real Sankara Hours in 2022. In this episode, Adam and Peter talk about the U.S.-Africa summit of 2022, how lower Black voter turnout impacted the Democratic Party and what it shows about growing Black American pessimism.    Links:    U.S.-Africa summit 2022:  U.S. sends more special ops forces to Somalia: https://www.nyt...

Recorded on December 11, 2022. After a year-long hiatus, the firebrands of Real Sankara Hours are back! Adam Hudson and Peter MGunn after hibernation to bring another episode before 2022 ends. The guys talk about the big events of 2022, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, inflation, the 2022 midterm elections, then dive deeper into the new phase of U.S. secret wars, why dating in 2022 sucks, men...

Recorded November 17, 2021. We (Adam and Peter) recorded this before the verdict of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, which we discuss in this episode. On November 19, Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges (murder, attempted homicide, recklessly endangering safety). What Adam (just now) noticed is how the fact that Kyle admitted to killing a guy on the phone during the protest (he was phoning someone...

Recorded October 27/28, 2021. Adam and Peter discuss the situation in Haiti (including more details about the assassination of Moise and the beating of Haitian migrants), the recent coup in Sudan, and, for most the episode, they talk about the death of Colin Powell, his dirty work for U.S. empire and why he's not a Black American hero.  Links:  Colin Powell’s record and Iraq war lies: https://www....

Recorded October 6, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about a recent U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan that killed civilians, Facebook shutting down for a day and a Facebook whistleblower speaking out against the company's policies, a Hollywood union strike, an ACLU lawsuit against institutional racism at a Bay Area school district (Pittsburg Unified School District in Pittsburg, California), and Adam defi...

Recorded September 9, 2021. This is sort of the "9/11 episode." We recorded this 2 days before the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Adam and Peter talk about the recent anti-abortion law in Texas, the decline of U.S. imperial primacy, and the "Great Resignation" where millions of workers are quitting their jobs. Links: anti-abortion law in Texas:  https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033202132/texas-abortion-...

Recorded August 13, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about the Taliban take over of Afghanistan, the 2020 census that shows the U.S. white population has declined, the Black American heritage flag, and the recent IPCC report on climate change.    Links: U.S. 2020 census shows that white population declined for the first time (still majority at 58%): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/12/us-2020...

Recorded July 28, 2021. It's episode 99! Adam and Peter talk about the situation in Haiti after the assassination of President of Jovenel Moise. Some of the assassins were trained by the U.S. military. Then they talk about #SOSCuba, the Black Lives Matter statement on Cuba, and the weaponization of identity politics and anti-racism for U.S. interventionism. During the last segment of the episode,...

Recorded July 9, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about the recent assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise, details of which are still emerging. They also mention the building collapse in Florida, the intense heat wave in the U.S. West coast and Pacific Northwest, the California drought, and how it is all related to the climate crisis. At the last half of the episode, Adam brings up an article i...

Recorded June 25, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about Biden admitting he won't do much on reparations, along with how liberals are watering down the reparations fight to vouchers and piecemeal reforms that are not reparations at all and still reinforce the system of racism and capitalism. Then they talk about the right-wing backlash and controversy over critical race theory and how their agenda: white...

Recorded June 10, 2021. Adam and Peter begin this episode by talking about the Ethiopia-Tigray crisis. Then they talk about Germany recognizing its genocide in Namibia and paying the Namibian government over $1 billion in "reconciliation," even though the victims are demanding financial reparations and their land back. Adam explains why this is a crucial lesson for reparations for African-American...

Recorded May 26, 2021. It's been on year since the police murder of George Floyd. Adam and Peter discuss how there has been no substantive police reform in Ferguson (where the first BLM uprising started in 2014) and how activists and changing their approach, rising crime in the United States and it's caused by the economic fallout of the pandemic but mainstream media, politicians, and the police w...

Recorded May 12, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about the COVID-19 catastrophe in India and the human toll in the country. Then they talk about protests in Colombia and a deadly police raid in Brazil, the deadliest in Rio's history, and how police violence in Brazil targeting mostly poor Black people is similar to the racist police violence in the United States. After that, they focus half of the episo...

Recorded April 27, 2021. Adam and Peter are back. First, they begin the episode discussing how Blaise Compaore will be tried in absentia for assassinating Thomas Sankara. They also talk about the recent police killings of Ma'khia Bryant, Adam Toledo, and Daunte Wright. After that, they weigh in on the ongoing debate about police abolition versus community control over policing. They explain how th...

Recorded April 11, 2021. Real Sankara Hours hosts Adam Hudson and Peter MGunn talk to Boston University professor Takeo Rivera about the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and their roots in white supremacy and U.S. imperialism and colonialism.  Links: NPR segment with numbers on anti-Asian hate crime perpetrators (5% are Black): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/980437156; white supremacy is the root o...

Recorded March 14, 2021. It's been one year since the COVID-19 pandemic started so Adam and Peter do a retrospective on the past year. They talk about protests in Senegal, a CIA base in the Sahara, the impact of the pandemic, and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests -- how the dialogue has somewhat shifted but that doesn't mean a substantive change in policy. Links: protests in Senegal: https://ne...

Recorded February 28, 2020. February is over and Adam and Peter are back. They talk about Biden's airstrike in Syria. Then they talk about two additional police killings (of Kurt Reinhold and Angelo Quinto), including one in Antioch, California and how the city council recently passed police reforms. Then they wrap up by discussing the next COVID relief bill in Congress and wondering when the hell...

For more bonus episodes, subscribe for $5/month at https://www.patreon.com/realsankarahours   Recorded February 21, 2021. Bonus episode, Real Sankara After Hours portion. Adam and Peter talk to Raz, a writer and activist in Texas, about the polar vortex, the blackouts, ERCOT, climate change creating more disasters with both California and Texas as examples of what's to come (and already here), why...

Recording February 10, 2021. Adam and Peter discuss the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), its hopes and issues to look out for, such as ongoing European neocolonialism in Africa. Then they talk about a split within Black Lives Matter -- a local chapter splits from the global network over the latter's grifting and attachment to the Democratic Party. Finally, they talk about a teacher re...