Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

We've got another briefing on the larger contexts of the current  conflict between Ukraine and Russia.  Sure, Putin is a horrible and brutal force in the world and the attack on Ukraine is indefensible, but we ignore the larger contexts at our own peril.     We talk about the impact of the breakup of the USSR, the privatization of the Russian economy, the sense of western/NATO encirclement felt by  Russia, and U.S-Russia-Ukraine economic and trade relations.  -------------------  Follow Green and Red//   https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast   Check out our new and improved website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/     Join our Discord Party: https://bit.ly/36hqx7X Donate to Green and Red Podcast//   Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  ** Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR     This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced   by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues"  by Moody.  Editing by Scott.

Welcome back to G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco!  We wish we had a happier story to share today for his return.    This week, Russia invaded the Ukraine sparking the largest land assault on the European continent since World War Two. The markets went into turmoil. The price of oil and gas went up. Political and media establishments scrambled to act on what's next.  Biden moved 7000 US troops to the Polish-Ukrainian border and NATO is expected to send more troops. In cities across Russia, antiwar protestors took to the streets to protest Vladimir Putin's war with over 2000 being arrested. Finally, the Biden administration and allies have begun a sanctions war against Russia's people, it's elite institutions and Putin himself.    In our latest episode, we go deep into the history of the Ukraine-Russian conflict and the bipartisan involvement by the U.S. ruling class.  We discuss the break up of the Soviet Union, the expansion of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO), the role of the 1999 war in Kosovo in all of this and the Russian invasion of the former Soviet republic of Georgia in 2008. Most importantly, we talk about how U.S. foreign policy has sought to contain Russia and wield economic and political influence over Europe and the former Soviet republics.    Right now, in this moment, the global elite are trying to contain another shock to the political economy and turn it into a profitable enterprise. And G&R is talking about what led us to this moment.    Our hearts go out to the ordinary Ukrainians fighting back, being displaced and killed by the Russian attack, and to the ordinary Russians  who will be affected by the West's sanctions and are taking to the streets against Putin monstrous invasion.    We close out with a quote by a great American socialist politician (and not the one you're thinking of) Outro- Neil and Eddie "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World."  -------------------------------------------  Links//  In Gazprom deal, JPMorgan takes on business that some banks fear (https://reut.rs/3sv6yLL)  John Matlock: NATO and the origins of the Ukraine crisis  (https://bit.ly/3si5Uku)  U.S. companies push Biden, Congress for caution on Russia sanctions (https://reut.rs/3hgdYMe)   War and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine (https://bit.ly/3JWzSjT) Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast  Check out our new and improved website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/   Join our Discord Party: https://bit.ly/36hqx7X Donate to Green and Red Podcast//  Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR   This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced  by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Scott.

For a month, a group of truckers, anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers and  various elements of Canada's far right occupied the streets around Canada's capital in Ottawa. They've also occupied border crossings between Canada and the U.S. The so-called "Freedom Convoy" has demanded  everything from an end to vaccine mandates and mask mandates to the jailing of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They've targeted  Canada's liberal ruling class, but have disrupted and harassed the lives of Ottawa residents. Police and the Conservative Party either have  stood by or been in active support   This past week, Trudeau declared a state of emergency not seen since  unrest in Quebec in the 1970s. The police first cleared the trucker  blockade on the Ambassador Bridge. And then police moved in to clear the truckers occupation of Wellington Street resulting in 100 arrests.    In this episode, flying solo, Scott first talks with Prof Roberta Lexier (@rlexier) of Mount Royal University about the situation, what is driving these protests, Canada's politics and how the left in Canada can  respond.    And then he talks with organizer James Hutt (@jamesrhutt),  a labor  organizer, about what's happening on the ground in Ottawa and how the  truckers occupation has led to disruption and harassment of vulnerable communities throughout Ottawa. James also talks about the "Battle of  Billings Bridge," where communities have organized to stop truckers' resupply into downtown Ottawa.    Music- during the break, we played "And We Thought Nation States Were a  Bad Idea" by the Clusterfuck Theory. And the outro music is "Failed  States" by Propagandhi.   --------------------  Links//  https://robertalexier.com/   How we blocked the convoy in Ottawa (https://bit.ly/3I5tmH1)  Freedom convoy is steering pandemic response to the right (https://bit.ly/3sRufwx)  What the Left can learn from the “Freedom Convoy” (https://bit.ly/3Bw1nOq)  James Hutt: The Battle of Billings Bridge (https://bit.ly/3Bw1nOq)   Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast  **Check out our new and improved website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/   Donate to Green and Red Podcast//  Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR   This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues"   by Moody.  Editing by Isaac.  Thanks to Executive Consultants Jeff and Jen. 

California prides itself on being more progressive than most on solving the issue of the climate crisis. Whether it's phasing out the internal combustion engine or promises to take on the state's many oil extraction sites. There is a notion of "climate exceptionalism" in California's liberal ruling elite.    But the California state government is captured by oil interests like many others. The pro-industry legislation and political action just comes in different forms.    Flying solo, Scott talks with Gary Graham Hughes (@vozsilvestre) from Biofuelwatch (@biofuelwatch) to discuss the idea of California's "climate exceptionalism." They discuss the false solutions to the climate crisis being promoted by industry.  Gary gives us a background on false solutions like carbon capture and storage, "net zero" and market schemes like cap and trade. They also talk about the revolving door of public sector employees, lobbyists for industry and the Big Green non-profit industrial complex. And how corporate media lifts up the ruling classes' ambitions for climate capitalism and false solutions.    Bio//  Gary Graham Hughes (@VozSilvestre) is the California Policy Monitor at Biofuelwatch and the co-Host/co-Producer of Terra Verde on KPFA in Berkeley, CA.  He also has Masters in Environmental Science from the University of Montana and splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Humboldt County.   ----------------------------------  Links//  Biofuelwatch: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/ Biofuelwatch: Carbon Capture or Captured Futures (https://bit.ly/3rANbQR)   Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast  Donate to Green and Red Podcast// * Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast* Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR  This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.   Editing by Isaac

Last year, Indigenous women led movements waged a fierce campaign to stop  Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline. Police escalated in a multitude of ways (felony charges, high bails, rubber bullets, tear gas, etc) against water protecting pipeline opponents.    Thanks to the bold reporting of outlets such as The Intercept and Unicorn Riot, we're still finding out the strategies that the Canadian oil giant and the Minnesota police state colluded on to neutralize water  protectors.    We talk with Alleen Brown (@AlleenBrown) about the latest on policing  the Line 3 pipeline protests.    Alleen Brown is New York-based reporter, focused on environmental  justice issues. Prior to joining The Intercept, she worked as an  education reporter in Minnesota. Her work has been published by The  Nation, In These Times, YES! Magazine, and various Twin Cities  publications. --------------------  Links//  Policing the Pipeline (https://bit.ly/3utRUFP)   Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition (https://bit.ly/3BdxsKI) Prosecutors Hit Anti-Pipeline Protesters With Felony Charges to Send a Message, Defense Says (https://bit.ly/3oKSzz4) Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast  https://greenandredpodcast.org/   Donate to Green and Red Podcast//  Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR   This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Isaac.

Another professor from Collin College has been fired in retaliation for  speaking out against President Neil Matkin's continued rejection of  their First Amendment rights and their concern for safety on campus.   Michael Philips has now been fired along with Suzanne Stateler Jones,  Audra Heaslip, and Lora Burnett, all in violation of their First  Amendment righs.  Philips first was reprimanded by Collin College for  being active in a campaign to remove Confederate statues in Dallas in  2017.   More recently he has defended his fired colleagues and he has  urged mask-wearing amid the COVID pandemic, though Matkin has told  professors they are not allowed to mention it.      Weeks ago, he was notified that his contract would not be reviewed  though he has been one of the best-regarded and most popular professors  on campus for 15 years, with nothing in his background to merit any kind  of penalty.     Philips is another victim of Matkin and the local Republican Party to  remove anyone who is not in lock-step with them and who is concerned  about the COVID pandemic and who believes in free thought on campus. We talk with Dr. Phillips about his firing and the political situation  at Collin College.    Outro- The Nervebreakers "Politics" ------------------------------------ Bio// Michael Phillips is a scholar of American race relations, Texas history,  right-wing politics, and apocalyptic religions.  After a seven-year  journalism career, including a stint at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, he  received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. His dissertation won the University of Texas at Austin Outstanding  Dissertation Award and was published as White Metropolis: Race,  Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001, That book won the 2007  Texas Historical Commission’s prize for best book on Texas history.    Phillips has combined his scholarship with activism and was one of the  leaders of the movement to take down Confederate monuments and rename  schools named after Confederate leaders in Dallas.  In 2019 he was named part of the first group of community college  professors to receive a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies  Community College research fellowship for his project on the history of  eugenics in the state of Texas. Phillips, and his wife and research  partner Betsy Friauf, are under contract with the University of Oklahoma  Press to write an upcoming book, The Strange Career of Eugenics in  Texas, 1854-1940.  Since 2007, he has taught at Collin College in Plano, Texas and is  currently engaged in a fight over free speech and labor rights at that  institution.  ----------------------------------  Links//  Yet Another History Professor Says Collin College Fired Him Over Free  Speech Concerns  (https://bit.ly/3Gx9GKP)  Dallas Morning News:Collin College doesn’t renew contract of historian, author who claims retaliation  (https://bit.ly/3LagNMN)  G&R: Professors fired from Collin College, Retaliation in Texas (https://bit.ly/TXFiredGandR) (from Feb. 2021)   Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast   Donate to Green and Red Podcast//  Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR   This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.    Editing by Isaac.

Rising tensions in eastern Europe between the U.S. and Russia over the Ukraine have dominated the news.  We discuss the situation with scholar and retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich.   We discussed why the U.S. is so concerned, and hawkish, about Russia and Ukraine--Russophobia?   We talked about the role of NATO in this current crisis.  We talked about the many more pressing issues the U.S. should focus on--like inflation, COVID, the surveillance state, and especially Climate Change! It's a great conversation with one of America's leading intellectuals and critics of foreign policy. Andrew Bacevich is an emeritus  professor at Boston University and  President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (@QuincyInst).  He's also the author of several books on U.S. foreign policy and one of the foremost critics of America's war and interventionism for decades now.  He is also a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, armored cavalry.  And he's a frequent columnist in The  Nation, as well as many other  publications. His most recent book is "After the  Apocalypse:America's Role in a World Transformed" ---------------------------------- Links// Adam Tooze: Strategy of Tension - updated on the economic fallout from Russian-Ukraine crisis (https://bit.ly/3AXocKv) Anatol Lievan: Ukraine: The Most Dangerous Problem in the World (https://bit.ly/3oclUCb)  Andrew Bacevich: After the Apocalypse:America's Role in a World Transformed (https://bit.ly/39oI1O2) Follow Green and Red// https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Donate to Green and Red Podcast// Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob   (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.   Editing by Isaac.

At Green and Red, we're big fans of popular culture and how it can  politicize and radicalize people.  We've already done shows on sports  and activism, progressive Country music, cancel culture, Socialism and the Sopranos and other such themes.    So, continuing our pop culture arc, we talk about our favorite political-radical television shows.   We start with our "top five" hall of famers, and then go into a decade by decade breakdown.    Heaps of fun!  Outro- Carroll and Jean ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  Links//  The Wire and the World  (https://bit.ly/3ARCVqx)  How "All in the Family" Changed TV Forever. (https://bit.ly/34gM3bF)   Follow Green and Red//   https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast Donate to Green and Red Podcast//   Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast    Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR     This is a Green and Red Podcast production. Produced by Bob   (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.   Editing by Isaac.

Oliver Stone's new documentary "JFK Revisited" have been hitting the  airwaves of late claiming to have a "smoking gun" about the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK). Stone and his team of assassinologists main thesis is that the military-industrial complex  conspired to have JFK killed because Kennedy was a secret dove and  wanted to pull the troops out of Vietnam, end the Cold War and splinter the Central Intelligence Agency into a thousand pieces.      Scott interviews G&R co-host, author and professor of history Bob  Buzzanco about Kennedy era foreign and military policy disproving the  claims of Stone and his films. Bob also challenges Oliver Stone or any of his team of assassinologists  to a debate on the facts of this thesis.  We doubt they'll respond, but  if they do, you'll hear it on the Green and Red Podcast.    Robert Buzzanco is co-host of the Green and Red Podcast, a professor of  history at the University of Houston, and has been a visiting professor  at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Buzzanco was the recipient of the Stuart L. Bernath Book and Lecture Prizes, given by the Society for  Historians of American Foreign Relations, for his book Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era and as best emerging  scholar, and a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston.   He’s also the author of "Vietnam and the Transformation of American  Life," "American Power, American People," and co-editor, with Marilyn  Young, of Blackwell's "A Companion to the Vietnam War."   Outro is "High Hopes" (John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Song) by  the Chairman of the Board.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  Links//  Noam Chomsky on Oliver Stone's "JFK Revisited" (https://bit.ly/3tzg55o)  Bob Buzzanco's Bio (https://bit.ly/3tzCX4G)  Bookshop.org: "Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era" by Bob Buzzanco (https://bit.ly/3tIt9oK)   Follow Green and Red//  https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast  https://greenandredpodcast.org/   Donate to Green and Red Podcast//  Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast  Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR   This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Isaac.

In celebration of MLK's 93rd birthday, we're re-posting two episodes about Martin Luther King Jr.  Here's the second one from January 18th, 2021. In it, we talk about the radical politics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We discuss King's democratic socialist beliefs, his stance against the war in Vietnam, the campaigns he worked on, --including the 1968 Olympic Boycott and the Poor People's Campaign--, and his thoughts on property  destruction. Links// Buzzanco: MLK for Sale (http://bit.ly/2LzGR9S) Martin Luther King on riots and property destruction (http://bit.ly/3nHPvAk) VIDEO: Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence (https://bit.ly/3spBgnr) Follow Green and Red// https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast https://greenandredpodcast.org/ Donate to Green and Red Podcast// Become a recurring donor at  https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make a one time donation here: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR This is a Green and Red Podcast  (@PodcastGreenRed) production.  Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Isaac and Scott