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“From settler colony to slaveholder republic”–Gerald Horne Talks to Democratic Left

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.

Rewriting resistance: how Black rebellion shapes world events–Gerald Horne on “People’s Republic”

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...

John Bellamy Foster presents a history of Eco-Socialism to “Letters and Politics”

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...

The COVID Heroism of Cuban Doctors: CP reviews “Cuban Health Care” by Don Fitz

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...

Kenosha, after police shooting of Jacob Blake–Gerald Horne, “Loud & Clear”

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...

Gerald Horne on “The Critical Hour” via Sputnik News

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, author of several books, including, most recently, The Dawning of the Apocalypse, talks to Wilmer Leon and Garland Nixon, hosts of The Critical Hour on Sputnik, about U.S. / China relations. Listen, below, or at The Critical Hour...

Gerald Horne & Utrice Leid on “Leid Stories,” PRN.FM

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...

“In Theory”: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Gerald Horne about Europe and Atlantic Settlement in the Sixteenth Century

February 20, 2024

Disha Karnad Jani, writer and historian from Markham, Ontario and host of In Theory, "Journal of the History of Ideas Blog," talks with author Gerald Horne about the long century depicted in his latest book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century

Gerald Horne on Radio Sputnik’s “By Any Means Necessary”

February 20, 2024

Hosts Sean Blackman and Jacqueline Luqman are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, to talk about his new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, why the police lynching of George Floyd isn't a 'bug' but a 'feature' of a system fundamentally based on settler-colonial violence, and how white supremacy manifests in the bipartisan imperialist aggressions of US foreign policy.

Five days that shook Seattle: Real Democracy Movement reviews Cal Winslow’s history of the General Strike

February 20, 2024

“Over a century ago a historic general strike took place in Seattle on the Pacific North-West coast the like of which had not been seen before in the United States and it is fair to say, not since. In fact, this kind of total shut down verging on revolution has happened a mere handful of times anywhere....”