Pandemic Xenophobia, the Decline of US Empire & Normalcy of the Extremist Right w/ Danny Haiphong

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Danny Haiphong of Black Agenda Report joins Robbie Martin for an in-depth discussion about COVID-19 showing the US empire in decline, revealing an ugly undercurrent of anti-Chinese xenophobia that has exploded exponentially. In the second half, Danny talks about how Black Lives Matter could merge with other leftist issues movements like anti-imperialism and the class struggle, and how leftists can effectively oppose Trump without resembling the neoliberal press that thrives on sensationalizing everything he does. In the last third, Robbie brings up the 'Boogaloo Boys' shooting death of an officer in Oakland, which was initially blamed on Antifa but was actually done by an active duty US air-force sergeant inspired by a troll right-wing group on 4chan that wants to start a civil war. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/SpiritofHo

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The This is Robbie Martin, your host of Meteor Roots Radio for today.
0:35.2	Thanks for tuning in, everybody.
0:39.6	Someone asked me recently why we're called Media Roots Radio. It's not that complicated. It's not just a name for the hell of it either.
0:48.4	When we originally started this podcast, we actually did it in part because we were being
0:53.6	broadcast on shortwave radio.
0:56.5	We're not anymore. That was really only for the first year of us doing this. And ever since
1:01.6	it's just been a podcast. So the name is actually somewhat legitimate in the sense that we
1:07.6	didn't just name ourselves Media Roots Radio, and we've always been doing a podcast.
1:13.2	So thanks for turning into our podcast.
1:16.6	Abby is, of course, still on a little bit of a maternity leave.
1:21.8	And today, we have a very special guest on Media Roots Radio,
1:26.1	talk about a lot of different stuff,
1:28.3	to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic, xenophobia that has erupted afterwards against China
1:35.1	and against Asian Americans.
1:37.8	And also the current state of the Black Lives Matter movement, the protests, sort of zooming out from all that
1:45.1	and looking at it, you know, what the potential of it could be moving forward to attach different
1:51.6	leftist causes to that struggle. And we also go into the mysterious boogaloo boys group,
2:00.5	which had some members launch a deadly attack
2:04.4	against two law enforcement officers that the right wing media was quick to blame on BLM or
2:11.4	Antifa, of course. When it turned out actually to be a crime committed by an active duty
2:17.0	Air Force sergeant who was influenced by
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