TMBS ReAir 138 - Toward Freedom & Who Wants War With China? ft. Touré F. Reed & Dareece Polo
The Michael Brooks Show
Michael Brooks
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
TMBS 138 aired on May 5th, 2020
Episdoe summary:
We need to understand the financial interests behind ratcheting up tensions with China.
Toure Reed joins us to talk about his new book “Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism”
Dareece Polo (@dareecetelesur) joins us to talk about how the Caribbean is uniting to resist imperialism.
During the GEM, David Griscom breaks down how the US sanctions have devastated Iran and prevented them from responding to the COVID crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michael Brooks Show. |
| 0:14.5 | We are broadcasting live from our different quarantine zones across the whole wide world |
| 0:22.3 | or just across New York |
| 0:23.7 | with super producer Matt Lack. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello. |
| 0:29.0 | Economist |
| 0:30.2 | and country music advisor |
| 0:33.0 | David Griscombe. |
| 0:35.7 | How's he going? |
| 0:37.0 | Going good on this week's program |
| 0:39.3 | Toray Reed, Toray F. Reed. |
| 0:42.6 | He is author of Towards Freedom, |
| 0:45.3 | the case against race reductionism. |
| 0:47.7 | We're going into the history of the New Deal, |
| 0:51.3 | A. Philip Randolph, |
| 0:53.2 | and tackling inequality and racism from material and systemic base. |
| 1:01.2 | Then, Dorese Polo from Telesaur, she's going to join us to talk about the Caribbean fighting to maintain its independence in a time of hyper U.S. aggression. |
| 1:16.9 | We also touch on these mercenaries that have just been detained in Venezuela. |
| 1:24.1 | What was behind that? |
| 1:25.8 | We know that there was at least two U.S. operatives, one Canadian, and it was part of a global |
| 1:31.9 | mercenary firm that certainly appears to have some very direct connections with the Trump |
| 1:39.2 | administration on the post game. |
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