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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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In this powerful and wide-ranging conversation, Margaret Kimberley—senior columnist at Black Agenda Report and a leader in Black Alliance for Peace—joins Breht to dissect the spectacle of American decline and, as usual, Kimberley offers a razor-sharp analysis of late-stage capitalism’s collapse into cruelty, chaos, and confusion.
Together, they explore the Democratic Party’s complicity in ushering in this moment, U.S. weapons transfers to Ukraine in support of their proxy war against Russia, and the genocidal assault on Gaza as a revealing - if disturbing - lens into the true nature of the American empire. Kimberley also shares firsthand insights from delegations to Nicaragua, Venezuela, and China, illuminating how the Global South is resisting U.S. domination and reshaping global power.
For those feeling the weight of worsening economic conditions, rising fascism, and political demobilization, Kimberley offers hard-won wisdom about organizing in the belly of the beast. We close with discussion about where real hope can still be found.
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. |
0:08.8 | Today I have on the one and only Margaret Kimberly from Black Agenda Report, Black Alliance |
0:14.8 | for Peace and other organizations, and she's been a longtime voice on the radical revolutionary |
0:19.6 | anti-imperialist, black liberation left. |
0:22.2 | And I've wanted to have her on for so long. |
0:23.8 | And I'm finally happy that we were able to make that happen. |
0:26.7 | And we were able to make it happen through our friend and comrade Nick Thompson from |
0:31.1 | the Black Alliance for Peace. |
0:32.3 | Nick's been on the show several times, I believe at this point. |
0:35.5 | Just an amazing organizer, a great human being, and he really |
0:39.2 | went above and beyond to try to make these connections happen so that I could get Margaret on the show. |
0:43.5 | And I'm very happy he did. In today's episode, me and Margaret, we walk through the current |
0:48.5 | political moment domestically, internationally. We survey the economic situation here in the United States and globally, |
0:57.0 | the Trump tariffs, the oligarchy that is rising up, the false promises made by the |
1:02.3 | faux populist right here in the U.S. And we also zoom out and look at the Ukraine situation |
1:08.5 | as a proxy war, the Palestinian liberation fight that's ongoing, the possibilities of war with Iran and China, |
1:15.7 | and just basically do an over the entire globe analysis of the current state of capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, colonialism, and fascism, |
1:23.8 | and point the way towards how we can resist it. |
1:27.3 | So really this is Margaret and I doing a collaborative |
1:31.2 | analysis of the current situation and we hope people find it useful and helpful. Now I do want to |
1:36.4 | remind people that on the Rev Left main feed, because of the whole Spotify situation, you can go |
1:42.1 | listen to that episode. We released a couple days ago talking about Spotify erasing our episodes. |
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