RSH 67 -- Does Joe Biden Even Know What Neoliberalism Is? (11.14.2020)

Recorded November 12, 2020. The 2020 American presidential election is finally over. Adam and Peter discuss Biden's victory in the 2020 election and other issues. They begin by talking about Black voters' feelings on victory, then the 2020 ballot results in California, Biden's transition team, Trump's continuation of war in Yemen, and how a Biden/Harris administration means a return to neoliberalism and continuous of endless war. 

 

Links: Black voters on Biden victory: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/joe-biden-black-voters.html (2020 electorate demographic breakdown: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/03/929478378/understanding-the-2020-electorate-ap-votecast-survey) ; California 2020 ballot results: https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/11/12/what-we-know-about-proposition-results/ ; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez interview with New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/aoc-biden-progressives.html ; one-third of Biden's Pentagon transition team is from organizations financed by weapons industry: https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-department-of-defense-pentagon-transition-team-weapons-industry-military ; Trump continues secret war in Yemen: https://airwars.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Eroding-Transparency-Trump-in-Yemen.-Airwars-October-2020.pdf (Airwars report), https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-admits-injuring-civilians-in-yemen-drone-strike-2020-11 , https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-have-bombed-yemen-more-than-bush-and-obama-combined-2020-10, https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/trump-yemen-war-civilian-deaths/ ; antiwar movement declined under Obama: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/anti-war-movement-democratic-party-iraq, https://phys.org/news/2011-04-obama-election-antiwar-movement.html, https://ur.umich.edu/1011/Apr11_11/2250-did-obamas-election, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/08/29/where-did-the-antiwar-movement-go/ ; 

 

Theme song: "Real Sankara Hours theme song"

Peter MGunn -- bass guitar

Adam Hudson -- drums 

 

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