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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, March 24, 2024 10:00 am
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| Ilya Matveev
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| Russian Elections, Putin's Power & Weakness
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| Ilya Matveev joins us with his insights and analysis of the recent so-called election giving Putin a fifth term in power – an election that was stage-managed and fraudulent, with the exact result ordered from above. What was the point? Repression and persecution of critical voices against the war in Ukraine and Kremlin policy has been stepped up dramatically as has nationalist and anti-Western propaganda. The independent media has been silenced, public displays of opposition are immediately stopped and critics detained with growing sentences in prison. The economy hasn’t tanked, and the war has provided a source for military Keynesianism. Yet Matveev insists that Putin’s being able to order an exact electoral result is a sign of weakness, not one of stability. The horrific terror attack of March 22 underscores that Putin is not managing everything. We end with Ilya’s analysis of the character of Putin’s autocratic dictatorial rule – is it Bonapartist, authoritarian oligarchic capitalist, Stalinist, or fascist, or?
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Sunday, March 17, 2024 10:00 am
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| Frantz Voltaire
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| Haiti in crisis
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| Frantz Voltaire, Haitian author, historian, filmmaker and publisher helps us untangle the continuing chaotic situation in Haiti after the unelected Prime Minister Arielle Henry agreed to step down in the face of an alliance of armed gangs who have taken control of the capital, closed the airports, and opened the prisons. No government is in charge and the power vacuum has been exacerbated by the almost complete withdrawal of the police force, while police stations have been burnt, and violent offenders are out of prison. Armed groups terrorize the population; murders, kidnapping, and rapes have more than doubled, and food imports through the ports are in chaos, threatening mass hunger and famine. Efforts by neighboring countries in CARICOM to create a transitional Presidential council got off to a rocky start when no Haitians were at the table to decide on Haiti’s future. That has been remedied, but whether anything effective can be produced is in question. We’ll get Frantz Voltaire’s analysis of what has happened, what’s next, and what could be.
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Sunday, March 10, 2024 9:00 am
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| Warren Montag
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| Weaponizing Anti-Semitism
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| Warren Montag, Professor at Occidental College was recently targeted for a talk on campus on the history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, showing that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. In retaliation, the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) campaigned to get him fired. We get the story of what happened in Warren's case and his understanding of how the very discussion of anti-Semitism has become weaponized to discredit and silence critics of Israeli policy.
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