Redspin Sports founder Nate Wallace -is joined by the show's co-host- Mike Sampson Part I of this two-part special with Max Blumenthal, Editor of The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) and co-host of the Moderate Rebels (@Moderate_Rebels) podcast, & the co-host of Redspin Sports Michael Sampson, an organizer with the Jacksonville (Florida) Community Action Committee (@JaxTakesAction), where they have galvanized public support around the demand for Community Control of the Police.

The Israel Lobby's exploiting the situation Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Desean Jackson created earlier this month when he re-shared anti-Semitic words in an Instagram Story from a sermon delivered by the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. Max's critique of Julian Edelman's failure to understand the fundamentally asymmetrical power dynamics at play in his widely played (and praised) offer to take Desean Jackson on a DC museum trip where they visit the Holocaust Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History. In fact, his critique transcends this particular issue and applies to a much larger social and political context.

Far-right Israeli lobby & Bibi Netanyahu P.R. firm, From the Depths, has cynically deployed the MAGA Trump devotee and corrupt New Jersey real estate developer & multi-millionaire, Edward Mosberg, to play a central role in the reeducation and potential "reclamation" of the 33 year-old Jackson. The problem centers around what we've learned about Mosberg and From the Depths founder, Jonny Daniels. Jackson agreeing to be educated on anti-Semitism by From the Depths' frontman, Edward Mosberg, means he'll be learning a lot more about the importance of embracing political Zionism than he will about seriously combatting anti-Semitism. This is evidenced by Mosberg's unabashed praise for the racist politics of Trump and Netanyahu, and From the Depths' record of providing what amounts to Jewish political cover for far-right Eastern European heads of state like Hungarian President, Viktor Orban, and Polish President Andrzej Duda; both of whom benefit greatly from having their domestic anti-Semitism whitewashed by From the Depths thanks to their staunch for Israel on the international stage. 

In short, opposition to Israel's political Zionist ethnocracy is NOT analogous to anti-Semitism! However, as this Redspin Sports special illustrates, this fact will hardly stop Netanyahu and his From the Depths lackeys from doing all they can to portray the two as being one in the same.

The discussion portion of the program was recorded on July 12th, 2020. 

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Max Blumenthal joins Redspin Sports to discuss the NFL's Unholy Alliance with Apartheid Israel & much more

In Episode 1 of Redspin Sports, co-hosts Nate Wallace and Michael Sampson analyze and discuss the upsurge of radical politics in U.S. professional sports amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests. 

Redspin Sports co-hosts Nathaniel Wallace & Michael Sampson breakdown dramatic shifts in power dynamics within the world of sports, & why a political analysis of sports & vice versa helps to explain both worlds with politically and socially relevant discourse on Covid-19, police brutality and rebellion (Part II). 

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The US sports landscape in a time of Pandemic, Police Brutality, & Rebellion

Part discussion, part interview, Nate Wallace & Mike Serazio hit on a compelling mix of contemporary issues that relate to topics he writes about in his book, and an illuminating deep dive into the book itself. If you want to better understand why (love them or hate them) sports are so powerful in U.S. society, you''re going to want to check out this episode. 

Michael Serazio is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Boston College. His research and teaching focuses on media production, advertising, popular culture, political communication, and new media. His latest book is The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture (available from NYU Press). A behind-the-scenes investigation that draws upon dozens of interviews with leaders and professionals in the media business, "The Power of Sports" provocatively analyzes how sports culture explains and reflects contemporary American life – from journalism to politics to commercialism to gender.

Professor Serazio received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he won the National Communication Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. He also holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of San Francisco and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. A former staff writer for the Houston Press, an alternative newsweekly, his reporting was recognized as a finalist for the Livingston Awards and he has continued to write essays on media and culture for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, Bloomberg, and Salon.  

A native San Diegan, Mike enjoys rooting (often frustratingly) for the Padres and Chargers, and, above all, spending time with his wife and daughter. His webpage, with links to writing, can be found at his website in the link below.

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