Name: The Real Story: Gerald Horne on Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing by The Socialist Program with Brian Becker in The Real Story
Duration: 57 min 58 s
Description: Professor Gerald Horne sat down for a conversation with Brian about his latest book "The Bittersweet Science -- Racism, Racketeering, the Political Economy of Boxing." From Jack Johnson to Muhammad Ali, Gerald Horne offers a fresh and fascinating look at the role of boxing and professional sports and their impact on capitalism and Black America.

Dr. Horne is probably being generous thinking listeners know who Canada Lee was, Body & Soul w/ John Garfield is a great anti-capitalist boxing movie featuring Mr. Lee. Like Garfield, he was a victim of the Hollywood red scare blacklist.

The Real Story

This week’s podcast is a recording of an event Navalny and Next: Possibilities, Prognosis and Perceptions in Russia I hosted a few weeks ago. This event was sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Russia Matters, and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. 

After a botched attempt to murder Alexei Navalny in August 2020, the Kremlin has decided to sentence him to over two years in prison upon the oppositionist’s return to Russia in January. Navalny responded with a bombshell video about the corruption around “Putin’s Palace.” Unsanctioned, mass protests in the two capitals and tens of provincial cities followed. The protesters were met with mass, indiscriminate arrests, and police violence. The political ante in this back-and-forth has certainly risen but to what end? 

Russia has experienced the ebbs and flows of protest on the federal and local level for years. And while each eruption quickly elicits a sense that Russia is at a turning point, more cautious and sober assessments follow in the weeks and months after. So, is what we’re now seeing something new or more of the same? What do the protests suggest about Russian society, politics, and the state of Putin’s power? Especially, as Russia will hold parliamentary elections in September.  

Guests:

Ilya Budraitskis is political and cultural writer. He currently teaches in the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences and the School of Design at the High School of Economics. Budraitskis is currently a member of the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine and host of the Russian language podcast Political Diary. His book Dissidents among Dissidents was awarded the Andrey Belyi prize in 2017. His most recent book We All Live in the World Huntington Invented (2020) treats modern Russian conservatism. 

Svetlana Erpyleva is a sociologist, a researcher with Public Sociology Laboratory, Center for Independent Social Research in Russia, and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research is focused on protest movements and collective action, political involvement, political socialization, youth and children’s political participation and cognition in Russia and abroad. She’s written for a number of academic journals and Russian and international media. 

Greg Yudin is a Professor of Political Philosophy at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. His research focuses on the political theory of democracy with the special emphasis on public opinion polls as a technology of representation and governance in contemporary politics. His book Public Opinion: The Power of Numbers was published in Russian by European University Press in 2020. He is a regular contributor to several Russian media outlets.


Navalny and Next

Abby Martin explains what's behind the cringe ‘Humans of CIA’ recruitment ad promoting themselves as a place of ‘intersectional’ social progress. 

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The Woke CIA PsyOp

Robbie and Abby Martin recorded an entire episode on Friday May 14th about the ongoing Israeli Defense Force massacre (which they call 'Operation Wall Guardian') on the Palestinian people in Gaza. So far over 126 Palestinians have been killed via bombings or by live ammunition including 31 children. At the end of the episode Robbie breaks down all the zionist connects to 'anti establishment' media like The Blaze TV (Glenn Beck), Breitbart (Steve Bannon), The Hill Rising (Saagar Enjeti) and the so-called 'Intellectual Dark Web' (Eric Weinstein & Bari Weiss) 

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Gaza Under Attack Again, Operation Prison Wall Guardian & Alt-Media Zionism

NEW RP! @LukewSavage of @MichaelandUs and @jacobinmag joins Jack & Geraint to discuss the BBC's 1995 documentary series Labour: The Wilderness Years, in which the great & the good of the Labour Party (and the SDP) put forth their often drastically divergent perspectives on the party's post-1979, pre-Blair history. Plus - the British and Canadian elections, Neil Young's endorsement in the latter, and Luke's Twitter beef with Mike Gapes.

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Episode 123 - Fuck The Wilderness (ft. Luke Savage)

Welcome to Episode 1 of our new "Black Political Thought" Series! The Good Doctor Reed is back on DPS to talk current events, the idea of "race as caste," and, finally, to discuss a very important debate around crafting an historical materialist account of race an class. 

Slight change of pace: ** The B-Side will land for patrons tomorrow -- catch it by becoming a patron at: http://www.patreon.com/deadpundits **

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"Black Political Thought" Series Kick-Off (ft. Adolph Reed, Jr.)

Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on his article "Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis" for Dissent, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen asks "what color is your smoke?"

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/climate-apartheid-is-the-coming-police-violence-crisis

1226: Policing the coming crisis / Olufemi O. Taiwo

Kate Clark on her report "War in Afghanistan in 2020: Just as much violence, but no one wants to talk about it" for Afghanistan Analysts Network

https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/war-and-peace/war-in-afghanistan-in-2020-just-as-much-violence-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it/

1231: Peace and death in Afghanistan / Kate Clark

Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic join PTO to talk about the US election results, why the 'blue wave' failed to materialise and how Joe Biden will govern with a Republican senate and a republican majority on the supreme court.

#101 What happened to the 'blue wave'? w/ Adom Getachew and Branko Marcetic

In the first installment of an ongoing series where The Socialist Program examines the real origins of U.S. society, we discuss the true history of Thanksgiving. Brian and Dr. Gerald Horne talk about the history of settler colonialism in the United States, how it gave rise to slavery and white supremacist ideology, and the enduring features of U.S. society that can be traced to these phenomena.

Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies 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.” He is also the author of “The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing.”

Creation Myths Part 1: The Real Story of Thanksgiving

A top Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated on November 27 in a brazen murder. Was it the Israeli Mossad, the CIA, or both? Brian discusses the killing and takes an in-depth look at U.S.-Iran relations as Joe Biden prepares to ascend to the White House with Mohammad Marandi. He is an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran.

The Real Story: The Criminal Assassination of Iran’s Top Scientist: What Comes Next?

The Korean War began 70 years ago and has still not ended even though North and South Korea want it to end. The key obstacle is not in Pyongyang or Seoul but in Washington DC. Brian takes an in-depth look at US-Korean relations as the Biden Administration prepares to take the helm. Hyun Lee and Gregory Elich are the featured expert guests in this fascinating analysis.

The Real Story: Why Not Have Peace with North Korea?

Militarism is everywhere you look in U.S. society. No country on earth spends sums anywhere near as vast as the U.S. government. We are fed propaganda from childhood glamorizing war and the armed forces, and the endless bombing and occupation of multiple countries around the world is normalized and forgotten.

Brian is joined by Lee Camp -- a writer, comedian, activist, journalist, and host of the television show "Redacted Tonight," which you can see on RT America. His latest book is called "Bullet Points & Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy."

The Real Story: Why U.S. Capitalism is Addicted to War

Donald Trump forfeited all support from establishment forces when he incited a fascist assault against the sitting U.S. Congress. Was there police and military collusion that allowed fascist forces to quickly seize control of the Capitol building?

The Real Story: Fascist Takeover in DC Isolates Trump

Anthropologist Ida Susser on her FocaalBlog article "Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen revisits the US military’s violations of the hospitality code.

http://www.focaalblog.com/2020/12/03/ida-susser-covid-police-brutality-and-race-are-ongoing-french-mobilizations-breaking-through-the-class-boundaries/

1284: Police violence, protest and working class convergence / Ida Susser

Professor Gerald Horne sat down for a conversation with Brian about his latest book "The Bittersweet Science -- Racism, Racketeering, the Political Economy of Boxing." From Jack Johnson to Muhammad Ali, Gerald Horne offers a fresh and fascinating look at the role of boxing and professional sports and their impact on capitalism and Black America.

The Real Story: Gerald Horne on Racism, Racketeering and the Political Economy of Boxing

Abby Martin explains what President Biden really means by the duplicitous language in his major Feb. 4 foreign policy speech on ending the Yemen war. 

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