Guest Danny Haipong (Black Agenda Report), Host Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com); Sue Lin Wong (Financial Times); Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Pro-democracy campaigners Jimmy Lai and Martin Lee talk to The Financial Times about Beijing's attempts to override Hong Kong's mini-constitution while the world is distracted by a pandemic. |
| American Exceptionalism |
Did the USA really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what the country has done to for them? Are we actually spreading freedom and democracy when we fight wars? Or is this all fake news?
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News -- From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror examines the stories we’re told that lead us to think that the U.S. is a force for good in the world, regardless of it crimes against humanity:
- chattel slavery,
- Native genocide,
- and more than a century’s worth of imperialism and wars of aggression the U.S. has wrought on the planet.
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| Hong Kong is crowded with apartment blocks. |
Co-authors Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong detail what Captain America’s shield tells us about the pretensions of U.S. foreign policy, how actor-ambassador Angelina Jolie and vaccination-profiteer Bill Gates (W.H.O.) engage in "humanitarian" imperialism (hegemony), and why the Broadway musical Hamilton is a monument to white supremacy. More
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