Capital in crisis: COVID-19 reveals US housing nightmare
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Will Merrifield, a candidate for Washington DC City Council At-Large, about the plight of the US homeless population amid the outbreak of COVID-19. As a former attorney with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, Merrifield explains how government policy is responsible for the current housing crisis and describes the concept of "social housing", a possible solution to the problem.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote that he alleges was induced by US pressure. Massive protests have been held across the country to oppose Khan's removal. Scholar Junaid Ahmad analyzes Pakistan's new political crisis.
Guest: Junaid Ahmad. Professor of religion and world politics at the University of Lahore in Pakistan and Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality.
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In a landmark ruling, the International Criminal Court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to investigate Israel for war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. However, scholar and author Norman Finkelstein warns that the ICC decision, while historic, is unlikely to deliver justice.
According to Finkelstein, the Palestinian Authority's capitulation in the Oslo accords gives Israel room to flout the court's jurisdiction. Meanwhile, the reality of Israel today -- what the Israeli group B'Tselem recently called a "regime of Jewish supremacy" -- undermines any notion of a separate Palestinian state.
Guest: Norman Finkelstein. Author, scholar, and leading expert on Israel-Palestine. His latest book is "I Accuse!".
http://normanfinkelstein.com/
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At the funeral for John Lewis, former president Bill Clinton disparaged Stokely Carmichael's (later Kwame Ture) leadership role in the black freedom struggle of the 1960s. "There were two or three years there where the movement went a little bit too far towards Stokely," Clinton said, "But in the end, John Lewis prevailed."
Dr. Peniel Joseph, professor at University of Texas at Austin and author of "Stokely: A Life", responds to Clinton's comments and discusses Carmichael/Ture's legacy as a black power revolutionary.
"Bill Clinton was a terrible president for black people," Dr. Jospeh says. "So the disparaging of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael is really just another example of this
kind of racism and patronizing attitude coming from the forces of political reaction that people like Bill Clinton represent." Carmichael meanwhile "exposed the depths of state-sanctioned violence against black bodies in the context of the 1960s, and exposed the moral and political hypocrisy of American democracy and fantasies of
American exceptionalism."
Guest: Dr. Peniel Joseph, Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of "Stokely: A Life" and his latest, "The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr."
https://lbj.utexas.edu/joseph-peniel
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New reports explore how the OPCW suppressed findings that undermined US-led allegations of a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Dr. Piers Robinson and Aaron Maté discuss the latest revelations on how the OPCW censored science.
Senior OPCW officials doctored the original report; erased the conclusions of expert toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death; and thwarted the key investigate area of forensic pathology, which could have helped determine how the dozens of civilian victims in Douma lost their lives. Instead of explaining the extensive suppression, OPCW Director General Fernando Arias has avoided questions; offered false excuses; and smeared the veteran scientists who challenged the cover-up from within.
Guest: Dr. Piers Robinson. Co-Director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, and convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media. Working with the Berlin Group 21, led by veteran diplomats Hans von Sponeck and Jose Bustani to seek accountability for the OPCW cover-up.
Links:
Berlin Group 21: https://berlingroup21.org/
Piers Robinson: “The OPCW Douma Investigation: Manipulation of Key Toxicology and Related Information Regarding Alleged Victims between the Original Interim Report and the Final Report”
https://syriapropagandamedia.org/1200-2
Aaron Maté: "Corrupting Science" series at The Grayzone
Part 1: “In Syria probe, OPCW erased experts’ inconvenient findings”
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/11/22/corrupting-science-in-syria-probe-opcw-erased-experts-inconvenient-findings/
Part 2: “Shunning forensic expertise, OPCW left Douma murders in Syria unsolved”
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/06/corrupting-science-part2/
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In Managua, Ben Norton interviews Nicaragua's representative to the UN's International Court of Justice, Carlos Argüello Gómez, who speaks about his country's case against the US over its terrorist Contra war, the 2018 coup attempt, and why Washington's unilateral sanctions are an illegal form of warfare on civilians.
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Max Blumenthal opens the Rage Against the War Machine rally on February 19, 2023 with an impassioned call for political unity against the relentless push for military escalation in Ukraine and beyond.
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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the Biden administration circumventing Congress to deliver Israel with massive weapons shipments as it bombs UN schools and blocks critical aid to Gaza, including anaesthetic drugs and fuel.
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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the lobbying at Davos for extending the Ukraine proxy war into 2024, the latest palace intrigues from inside Ukraine's government, and discuss the continued struggle for the freedom of Julian Assange with Randy Credico.
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After a 12-day visit, UN expert Alena Douhan calls for the lifting of US-led sanctions on Syria, where 90% of the population lives below the poverty line, 12 million grapple with food insecurity, millions are internally displaced, and electricity is scarce. The impact of the sanctions are compounded by a US military occupation of areas containing Syria's oil and wheat.
Guest: Alena Douhan. UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights.
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"UN expert calls for lifting of long-lasting unilateral sanctions ‘suffocating’ Syrian people"
https://www.ohchr.org/en/node/104160
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