The Politicrat

In this Friday edition of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore analyzes the response in the Metropolitan Police and in the UK news media (specifically Sky News) to Wayne Couzens, a Met Police officer who today admitted to (and pled guilty to) abducting, raping and killing Sarah Everard in March 2021. July 9, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESI...

In this Thursday edition Omar Moore asks, “why?” This episode features a bizarre press conference held by President Biden on July 8, 2021. Bizarre given history and the reality of systems that brought Afghanistan into the U.S. view in the first place—especially after the Soviets got their comeuppance in Afghanistan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. July 8, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Se...

A wild, melancholic Wednesday chronicled by Omar Moore. Episode includes reflections on a Suzanne Douglas, Robert Downey Sr, the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moise. Also: Haitian ambassador to the U.S. on audio with Sky News. Plus: Sir Keir Starmer, Ian Blackford and Boris Johnson. July 7, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-s...

It’s getting closer to an inevitable open sesame for Boris Johnson and England on July 19. And that spells disaster. Johnson and the Delta variant look destined for history making—for all the wrong and deadly reasons. Plus: The Stockton Six, 50 years later—three Black men had their convictions quashed by the Court Of Appeals—they spent 50 years as wrongly accused and convicted men and behind bars...

Omar Moore on the increasing number hate crimes against Black people in California. July 5, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy now! (Designed by Omar) https://bit.ly/3vWqnKf FREE: SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE BRAND NEW POLITICRAT DAILY PODCAST NEWSLETTER!! Extra content, audio, analysis, exclu...

Omar Moore pays tribute to American heroes Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, former enslaved Black persons who escaped enslavement, revolutionized the US to a large degree with their tireless work, liberating and life-saving—and were its conscience. Plus: Our responsibility in this present day. July 4, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE...

Before you can be comfortable you must first be uncomfortable. No one wakes up comfortable. None of us are born comfortable. Before you can have numbers you must have passion. How passionate are you? July 3, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy now! (Designed by Omar) https://bit.ly/3vWq...

Against all the doubters, naysayers, prognosticators’ and news media forecasts, early on Friday morning Kim Leadbeater won the by-election in Batley And Spen, the constituency and district in West Yorkshire, England that she was born in and has lived in all of her life. Omar Moore on Ms. Leadbeater’s sensational win, her campaign, the bruising, violent and hateful atmosphere some of her opponents...

It is now July 1, 2021. Six months have already passed. How did these first six months of 2021 treat you? Which goals did you achieve? What lessons have you learned? And what are you planning for the next six months of 2021? Omar Moore ponders these questions and others. July 1, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at THE POLITICRAT da...

Omar Moore on the news of Bill Cosby’s release from prison today. Survivors relive THEIR own terror. June 30, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy now! (Designed by Omar) https://bit.ly/3vWqnKf FREE: SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE BRAND NEW POLITICRAT DAILY PODCAST NEWSLETTER!! Extra content, audi...

Omar Moore on the severely contagious Delta variant, and people who still choose to go unmasked in the midst of a pandemic, whether fully vaccinated or not. June 29, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy now! (Designed by Omar) https://bit.ly/3vWqnKf FREE: SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE BRAND NEW P...

On June 17, 2021 when valedictorian Bryce Dershem began speaking at his high school graduation at Eastern Regional High School in New Jersey this is what happened next. Includes audio. And Omar Moore describes the “next” and the “therefore”. June 28, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy...

Omar Moore on the corporate and cisgendered appropriation and exploitation of gay people and the larger LGBTQIA community. Plus: England men’s national team players receive increased levels of abuse on social media during the Euro 2020 football tournament—racist abuse and other abuse. June 27, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at TH...

Omar Moore on UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who on Saturday quit his job at long last but should have been sacked. Plus: The key press conference US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Asst Attorney General Kristen Clarke held on Friday. Also: More thoughts on the reaction to and the sentencing of murderer Derek Chauvin. And: Simone Biles, viewed through a lens that is white. June 26, 2021. B...

Murderer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22.5 years for executing George Floyd. Omar Moore weighs in. June 25, 2021. BRAND NEW: The Summer Sensation Series continues with the new MEDITATE DON’T HESITATE t-shirt at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy now! (Designed by Omar) https://bit.ly/3vWqnKf FREE: SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE BRAND NEW POLITICRAT DAILY PODCAST NEWSLETTER!! Extra content, audio...

When will we see the faces and names behind the millions of people this virus has killed? And what do numbers mean, anyway? Omar Moore on the already forgotten faces we’ll sadly probably never see as people take off their masks in the midst of an ongoing pandemic. June 24, 2021. BRAND NEW: Second item in the new Summer Sensation Series—Greenwood, 1921 at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—b...

The Brexit referendum was voted on exactly five years ago today in the UK. And that fateful decision to leave the European Union, largely based on lies, hate, fear-mongering and racism has five years later come back to bite England and the United Kingdom at large in the backside. Omar Moore takes a trip down memory lane and the silence of the lies today around Brexit, which Boris Johnson, Nigel Fa...

Omar Moore in conversation with Antonio Chavez, the San Francisco resident who was verbally and physically assaulted and falsely imprisoned by a white male resident in Pacific Heights, San Francisco back in April. The video of the traumatic incident went viral. June 22, 2021. ADVISORY: Contains foul language. BRAND NEW: Second item in the new Summer Sensation Series—Greenwood, 1921 at THE POLITICR...

Death. How do we talk about it? And do you? June 21, 2021. BRAND NEW: Second item in the new Summer Sensation Series—Greenwood, 1921 at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy now! (Designed by Omar) https://bit.ly/3z9Rd4f FREE: SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE BRAND NEW POLITICRAT DAILY PODCAST NEWSLETTER!! Extra content, audio, analysis, exclusive essays for subscribers only, plus special offers and d...

Reflections on Juneteenth and its aftermath by Omar Moore, who also focuses on John Bercow, the former Speaker of the House of Commons in the UK parliament who has switched to the Labour Party. Also: Why on earth are two male US senators blocking a bill that would make legal actions and prosecutions against rapists in the US military easier? June 20, 2021. BRAND NEW: Second item in the new Summer...

Today is Juneteenth across the United States of America. A federal holiday for the very first time. Juneteenth is the date (June 19, 1865) that enslaved Black persons in Texas, specifically in Galveston, first learned that they were free after decades and centuries of enslavement. Enslavement had been proclaimed over for more than two years before enslaved Black people in Texas were told. The date...

The US public is being miseducated by some news anchors, commentators and social media posters about Juneteenth. In this episode Omar Moore eliminates the lies and falsehoods that are oft-repeated and gets to the truth of Juneteenth and what it means as the federal holiday arrives tomorrow (Saturday) in the U.S. Also: Pandemic? What pandemic? A full explanation in this episode. June 18, 2021. BRAN...

Omar Moore looks at President Biden’s signing into law today the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act as a new federal holiday in the United States. Plus: Obamacare, undefeated; a solemn remembrance of the nine people murdered at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina exactly six years ago today. And: Andrew Yang, DQ’d. June 17, 2021. BRAND NEW: Second item in the new Summer S...

Omar Moore looks at some of the responses by President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in their post-Geneva Summit press conferences, including Biden’s harsh treatment of CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins. June 16, 2021. BRAND NEW: Second item in the new Summer Sensation Series—Greenwood, 1921 at THE POLITICRAT daily podcast online store—buy now! (Designed by Omar)...

California reopened today (no masks required, no physical distancing restrictions), and Omar Moore asks: is it too soon? Wherever you are in the world, are you ready to get back to your routine, whatever that may be? Or does mental health play a role in suddenly returning to pre-mask wearing while a pandemic continues on? Plus: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s apology re: the film “In The Heights” and the abs...