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The current war in Ukraine seems to be a trial run for what we can expect regarding censorship. People must be protected from information the government doesn’t want them to know, less they start having opinions that deviate from the official narrative. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

A brief few words about my trip to Florence. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

I asked my friend (who is Jewish) for his perspective on Israel-Palestine. His personal experiences, political leanings etc. It’s a wide ranging conversation going from how he founded a Jewish youth society at his university, his encounter with Palestinian society and experiences when visiting Israel. First 20mins is my summary not the conflict, rest his the actual interview --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

“Andreela” is female version is “Andre”. She was engaged at 20 and married at 21! She met her husband at university and they got married amidst the pandemic! Find out how they did it... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

In my first episode with an African living in Africa, I speak to Garnet (a Kenyan) about her journey relocating from Kenya to Rwanda via Turkey of all places! We talk about the Rwandan socio-political landscape, dating and work life. I learnt that electricity is 100x better in Rwanda than it is in Nigeria. Rwanda is actually fast becoming a melting pot for many Africans due to its stability and efficient government. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

In this episode, I sit down with Helena to talk about Environmental history and politics. We talk about how land shaped the history of the US and the history of culture. From the native Americans to the Palestinians, how displacement actively changes our politics and future. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

In the first episode of its kind, I speak to Tarot Enthusiast & LSU Tiger, Aris Williams. We talk the history of Tarot, Louisiana & the world in general! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

For my second season of BlackPolitik, I decided to do a news brief on the CIA sponsored fake news coming out about Xinjiang and the Uighur Muslims. Sadly, a lot of well meaning people are falling for this hoax rafted by the US govt to damage China’s reputation. This is right out of the colour revolution playbook. Exploit a genuine area of some tension in a country and exaggerate and focus on it microscopically to topple the government. Special thanks to @AdrienZenz, the con artists behind most of the fake numbers behind this story. As everyone should know by now, if there was a genocide of Muslims happening anywhere, the US would probably be at the front of carrying it out, not condemning it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

Saying one doesn’t see colour has become a “problematic” thing to say in liberal circles. While it is of course a semantic exercise, I do believe in principle it can lead to a more harmonious society than trying to create a society hyperfocused on a superficial and incoherent eugenics idea like “race”. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

In the second part of my two part series, I explore the economic and systemic aspect of what is being highlighted by BLM. I shed light on how we can connect our struggles and the tangible ways with which we can start to make changes. Also, I stress the need to connect this movement on a global level. Those of us living in the empire have a moral obligation to our fellow human currently under the boot of imperialism. It’s not simply enough to gain those boots for ourselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

In the first of a two part series, I review the incident involving Amy Cooper and the protests that resulted from the death of George Floyd. I comment on the worrying fact that so many people wanted her punitively punished and what it says about the culture of our society. When we talk about wanting to build a just society for everyone, we have to affirm those principles all the time. The principle of a just society is the dignity of EVERYONE, whether or not they’re “good” or “bad”. Also, corporations tweeted a black screen in “solidarity” with the protests. Sheep-herding people into thinking having more black faces on corporate boards is the answer is how the movement will the co-opted. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

Many of my U.K. listeners were taught about the Vietnam war in secondary school. We were taught that it was this epic communism vs freedom struggle of North vs South. And that the Americans were on the side of freedom loving people of the South. As I explain in this podcast, this type of propaganda would make Goebbels blush. The Vietnam war was Vietnam vs neo-colonialism of France and USA. From the day they drafted their independence, they were besieged by both countries who did all they could to prevent an independent Vietnamese nations. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

The Shock Doctrine explains how the wealthy use the mask of the pandemic to enrich themselves. While they believe no one is looking, the biggest looting is occurring. The euphemistically named “bailouts” are nothing more than profit protection. It ensures that even in times of a depressing the corporations keep making profit. This is how wealth inequality is entrenched and exacerbated. Additionally, it destroys democracy and creates economic and political apartheid. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

With the lose of Jeremy Corbyn and now the recent dropping out of Bernie Sanders. The optimism they inspired is slowly being replaced with anger and despair. In the episode, I try to analyse with the warning signs were there that this so-called “revolution” was never to be. I myself wanted desperately to believe in it, and I don’t begrudge anyone who didn’t see these hints. However, with Sanders dropping out without exacting ANY concessions on his agenda, it seems almost a betrayal. Furthermore, new details have come to light that questions his devotion to his movement. From the way he ran his campaign to wavering on taking billionaire money. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

The recent outbreak of the coronavirus has been a total vindication of the left, yes we can afford to house our people, yes we can afford free university, yes we can afford even free ponies. The diseased capitalist mind of the oligarchs have been well and truly exposed. Talk of saving the “economy” over people has revealed that while the wealthy may be stewards of this system, they by no means run it. Socially, our society has been infected by this same disease, we’ve seen hoarding, fights over supplies, gluttony, all the children of a system to worships a coloured piece of paper over human lives. Hopefully, people don’t fall for the same deficit handwringing again although somehow I remain pessimistic. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

I recently bought an audiobook about the lives of Douglass, Booker T Washington & Dubois. I have always been fascinated by in person tales of what life was like back in those days. I have completed the first part, by Douglass. I am intrigued by how it seems to prove my theory on how we currently live. We still very much remain slaves. Humans needs some basic necessities to survive. Food, water, oxygen, shelter, medical care. The only one of those available to all is oxygen. It seems a sorry state of affairs that 200,000 years after our species first evolved, only one of these necessities is available to ALL. The only thing on that list we don’t pay for is oxygen. It shouldn’t be controversial to guarantee everything on that list to all living things. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

In this episode, I delve into the emergence of “hate speech” laws and how they are not only ineffective but idiotic. They essentially amount to the crime of hurting someone’s feelings. That should not be a justifiable reason to prosecute someone. Also, with regards to the emergence of the far right and fascism, the West (US, UK) have their hands all over it. The violence they have inflicted on the world makes the Nazis look like choir boys. Hitler literally learned apartheid from the United States. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

Some of the things we find odd about animals we actually used to do ourselves. For example, did you know that it was common place for humans to kill the offspring of conquered people’s, just like lions do. The Mongols and Romana often did this. Consequently, a lioness sometimes sleep with as many males as possible to try and fool them all into thinking the cubs are theirs. This ingenuity was no doubt learnt and passed on from generations. This caused me to wonder if like us, animals undergo major shifts in their culture and behaviour just like we do. This would mean they too have civilisations. The potential of this for a history nerd like myself was very exciting, so I talk a bit about it here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

A roundup of news that’s been irritating me. Stupid questions about using nuclear weapons, America’s genocidal positions on nuclear weapons, casual anti-Palestinian racism. Article on US low yield nukes: https://fas.org/blogs/security/2020/01/w76-2deployed/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message

There has been great debate lately on Megan & Harry leaving the Royal Family. “Is the U.K. a racist country?” has been a dominant feature question in the news. Accusing a country, like the U.K., with its long history of genocide and terrorism against millions of brown people of racism for not accepting a woman of colour to their ultra-elitist circle is like calling Ted Bundy sexist. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/prolhistory/message