February 20, 2024
John Bellamy Foster, one of the foremost thinkers about ecological Marxism, is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Here, Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters and Politics, talks to Foster about his work, beginning with his latest book, which opens with an account of the funerals of Karl Marx and Charles Darwin…
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne: Pardon the expression, but it may be a game-changer. What I mean is, these athletes have a lot of social, and potentially political capital. LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, the top player in the league, has about 47 million Twitter followers. These players have a very strong union. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the ownership team of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, and of course, those Milwaukee Bucks who are now leading this protest, the ownership team basically endorsed the protest….
February 20, 2024
“This book gives an excellent account of the nature, history and achievements of the Cuban health system. It is fairly lengthy, quite detailed, heavily documented, and easy to read. It has implications and lessons that go well beyond the health of people, to the nature of healthy social systems, dramatically evident in the comparison the book gives between Cuba and the USA…”
February 20, 2024
“On Thursday February 6, 1919, at 10:00 am, Seattle’s workers struck. The Seattle general strike is the only general strike in US history. It lasted for five days during which nothing in Seattle moved. Hotel guests were politely informed that room service and restaurant facilities would resume after the strike. Telephone operators, women’s barbers, Japanese service workers, lumbermen, shingle weavers, longshoremen, and just about everybody else, came out on strike in support of Seattle’s shipyard workers….”
February 20, 2024
Magro: The 1619 Project—and much of your work—puts settler colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy at the center of the unfolding history of the United States. It seems straightforward, so how do we account for resistance to the Project among some historians?
Horne: The 1619 Project stirred controversy in part because it unsettled the widely accepted “creation myth” of the founding of the United States.
February 20, 2024
With Covid-19 roaring through the U.S., now is a good time to discuss Cuban health care. It’s about as different from the American variety as possible. It is not for profit. It is socialized. It does not first resort to expensive medical technology. Its doctors live among the people, like in Haiti after the earthquake, not in luxury hotels, like American doctors. It does not rely on the thinking that there is a pill for every ailment. It is successful. Cuba has suffered 88 deaths from covid, and the 3408 infected people have not gone bankrupt receiving care…
February 20, 2024
Walter Smolarek, host of Loud & Clear, via Radio Sputnik, is joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history at the University of Houston and the author of many books, including The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. Dr. Horne discusses the RNC and the unfolding crisis in Kenosha…
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne, historian and author, most recently, of The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, talks with Brianna Griffith, host of the podcast People’s Republic, via Spreaker…
February 20, 2024
Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report, talks to author and historian Gerald Horne about his latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century
February 20, 2024
Utrice Leid, host of Leid Stories broadcast on the Progressive Radio Network talks to author and pundit Gerald Horne about his latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse and burgeoning global hot spots, beginning with the nomination of Kamala Harris…
