#1447 Settler Colonialist Structures Around the World (Repost)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Original Air Date 10/9/2021
Today we take a look at structures and specifics of settler colonialism from around the world including the US, Caribbean, Australia, Israel and Mexico
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SHOW NOTES
Ben Norton was invited to give this talk on US imperialism in Latin America, for the Workers' Party of Ireland. He discusses the history from European settler colonialism, through the Monroe Doctrine, the first cold war, and the three revolutions.
Ch. 2: Slavery, race and capital in the sixteenth century / Gerald Horne - This Is Hell! - Air Date 7-21-20
Gerald Horne discusses the relationship between racism and expansionist foreign policies
Ch. 3: Settler Colonialism Is Behind Climate Denial - Novara Media - Air Date 1-5-20
Australia is on fire. So why do so many of its politicians seem intent on denying the cause?
Ch. 4: Pearls for empire / Molly A. Warsh - This Is Hell! - Air Date 9-20-21
Historian Molly A. Warsh on her book "American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700" from UNC Press.
Ch. 5: Rewriting resistance: how Black rebellion shapes world events - People's Republic - Air Date 8-20-20
This week, we continue our commemoration of Black August with Dr. Gerald Horne, professor of history and author of over 40 books, including The Counter-Revolution of 1776.
A 2017 lecture by Ilan Pappé titled "The Value of Viewing Israel-Palestine Through the Lens of Settler-Colonialism" hosted by the WRMEA.
Ch. 7: Crimes of Apartheid - In The Thick - Air Date 5-14-21
Maria is joined by guest co-host and ITT All-star Jamilah King to discuss the continued violence and attacks against Palestinians by Israeli settlers and forces in Gaza. We hear from Gaza-based journalist Hana Salah about what she is seeing on the ground.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Marc talks with Rick Perlstein about growing up Jewish in Milwaukee, the process of unlearning Zionist indoctrination, and how the United States' support of an Israeli ethno-state foments continued violence.
Did racism and white supremacy arise as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the 17th century, or did these concepts exist prior to the mass enslavement of Africans and the genocide of the indigenous peoples on what is now called America?
The boys speak with Alexander Aviña, an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University, about the history of Mexico and U.S.-Mexican Relations from the 1810 Mexican War of Independence to the "drug war" of today.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: No velvet glove - Nick From California
Ch. 12: Followup on conspiracy theory hot take - Nick from California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 13: Final comments on how conspiracy theorists are like timeshare sales people
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions):
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world)
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, you're about to hear one of our excellent episodes handpicked from the archives. |
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| 0:27.5 | Now enjoy the fruits of our labor. |
| 0:57.5 | And in the thick, the real news, last born in the wilderness, and American prestige. |
| 1:09.5 | The topic we're discussing today is US imperialism in Latin America. |
| 1:13.5 | And I like, I'll just start with something very subtle, but I think important. |
| 1:18.5 | The event is about US imperialism and not the term American imperialism. |
| 1:23.5 | And this is an interesting topic for us. |
| 1:25.5 | In the United States, we call ourselves Americans. |
| 1:28.5 | And there very much is this kind of Eurocentric American exceptionalist mentality |
| 1:34.5 | that sees the so-called West as a political construct. |
| 1:38.5 | Because there's no reason that Western Europe and the United States |
| 1:43.5 | should actually be a coherent political block. |
| 1:46.5 | If you just look at pure geopolitics, that doesn't even make sense geopolitically. |
| 1:50.5 | And it's a coherent political block over the construction of 300 years of, |
| 1:56.5 | 200, 300 years of US imperialism. |
| 1:59.5 | This project was integrating the United States into this larger Western block of capital. |
| 2:06.5 | And of course, the United States was founded by European colonialists who came to the United States, |
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