Episode 37: Danny Haiphong Interrogates American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
Release Date: 08/25/2019
Prison Death-Worlds, COVID-19, and the Fatal Convenience of Crisis with Dalton Lackey and Teagan Murphy
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
In this episode, we are joined by Dalton Lackey and Teagan Murphy, co-authors of the article “The COVID-19 Murders”: Prison death-worlds and the fatal convenience of crisis. Their work offers a piercing critique of how carceral institutions weaponized the pandemic—not as an unprecedented emergency, but as a tactical opportunity to deepen control, dehumanization, and death. We’ll begin by hearing from Dalton and Teagan about their political motivations, the methodologies they employed, and the intellectual scaffolding behind their analysis. From there, we’ll unpack their challenge to...
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A History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement (1800-1958) with Francisco A. Santiago Cintrón & Sebastián Castrodad Reverón
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This episode is part of a two part project covering the Puerto Rican Independence Movement from the beginning of the 19th Century until the present. For this conversation our guests are Francisco A. Santiago Cintrón and Sebastián Castrodad Reverón. Francisco A. Santiago Cintrón was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico. He is an activist that currently forms part of Democracia Socialista and works as a labor lawyer. He is also the founder of the journal “Critica: Cuaderno de Discusión Política” Sebastián Castrodad Reverón, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is an organizer, documentarian,...
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“Remember to Blot Out the Memory” - The Biblical Recipe for Endless Genocide with Reverend Darren
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In this episode we interview Reverend Darren who is a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA in Wisconsin. This conversation started as a text and google doc exchange around the story of Amalek within the Old Testament of the Christian Bible and the Tanakh, or the Hebrew Bible. We talk about how we should understand the relationship between these biblical stories and documented history, their relationship to the Gaza genocide, and how we might fit our analyses of these narratives into the relationship between US imperialism and zionism. Along the way, Darren engages with questions of...
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2 Years of Genocide, 2 Years of Resistance (Live-stream Audio) with Abdaljawad Omar & Lara Sheehi
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Abdaljawad Omar and Lara Sheehi joined us on the 2nd anniversary of the beginning of Tufan Al-Aqsa! From the youtube (which I encourage people to watch): We will remember the morning of October 7th 2023. In the two years since then there has been a genocidal counterinsurgency war waged against the whole Palestinian population, most acutely through the apocalyptic decimation of the Gaza Strip. There has also been constant resistance in many forms. How do we consider the present moment, the possibilities (once again) of "ceasefire," the attempts to end the "Palestinian Question," the actuality...
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The “New” US Assassination Program & the Hybrid War on Venezuela with Joe Emersberger
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Recently the US Military has been bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. This marks a major escalation, and a new development in the US Empire’s hybrid war on Venezuela that has been waged over the last 20 years. In this episode we speak with Joe Emersberger who along with Justin Podur authored the book for Monthly Review Press. "" by Joe Emersberger and Richard Harris on We talk about the origins of this tactic of aerial assassinations, its deployment in international waters, and whether we could see the US expand its assassination program to target government...
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European Class Struggle Starts at the Bottom of the Sea with Iker Suárez
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In this episode, we speak with Iker Suárez, who authored a searing piece in the Monthly Review titled "." In it, he challenges the dominant humanitarian framing of migrant deaths at sea, arguing that it isn’t a moral crisis but a structural necessity of late imperialism. What unfolds on Europe’s shores, he contends, is but a violent expression of global capital’s unraveling. Further, diving into the works of scholars like Ali Kadri and Samir Amin, we explore how unresolved agrarian contradictions in the Global South, the accumulation of waste, and the labor-capital contradiction...
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Jordan as a Structural Byproduct of US-Led Imperialism with Tara Alami
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This is an episode recorded this week with Tara Alami to talk about a piece she wrote about Jordan for last Spring. The essay’s title is “” and it delves into Jordan’s role within the US-Imperialist led world system. And Alami discusses the history of the Hashemite monarchy, and the political legacy of Jordanian rulers with respect to Palestinians, Zionist colonizers, and western imperialism. This discussion gets into many of the contradictions of the history of Jordan, Tara’s own family history as Palestinians living in Jordan, as well as her personal history as a student...
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Palestine & the Struggle Against the International Fascist Counterrevolution with Corinna Mullin
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In this discussion we talk with Professor Corinna Mullin who is a member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. Corinna Mullin is an anti-imperialist academic who teaches political science and economics. Her research examines the historical legacies of colonialism and the role of capitalist expansion and imperialist imbrications in producing peripheral state “security dependency,” with a focus on unequal exchange, super-exploitation, resource extraction, and other forms of surplus value drain/transfer as well as resistance. Corinna has also researched and published academic...
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“The Story Where Truth Goes to Die” - Nora Barrows-Friedman on the Genocide in Gaza
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This is the lightly edited audio from a we hosted with Nora Barrows-Friedman. Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at , and is the author of (Just World Books, 2014). She hosts the that we all watch on Thursdays at noon eastern time. In this discussion, we talk about some of Nora's background as a journalist, her work covering student organizing around Palestine, and her recent piece, "." Nora also shares some of EI’s journalistic methodology covering a war that is so highly propagandized. We also get into some of the differences between "Israeli" media...
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Hala Sabbah from the Sameer Project (Recent Livestream Audio)
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We hosted an with Hala Sabbah of the Sameer Project back on July 21st to talk about the absolutely horrific situation in Gaza as a result of the US-funded and supported Israeli enacted genocide. Since conditions have not changed substantially, I wanted to also make sure to get a lightly edited version of that conversation out to our audio podcast feed. Just a reminder that due to our own limitations these days most of our work is on our , where we host multiple conversations per week. This is our third conversation with Hala Sabbah from the Sameer Project since its founding during this...
info_outlineIn this episode we interview Danny Haiphong, who along with Roberto Servant recently co-authored the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror on Skyhorse Publishing.
We discuss many aspects of how American Exceptionalism and American Innocence are weaponized domestically and internationally in the the name of spreading US Imperialism.
In addition to co-authoring this book, Danny Haiphong is an activist, journalist, and scholar. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles have also appeared in several publications such as The American Herald Tribune, MintPressNews, and CounterPunch. His work was featured in former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s latest book How the U.S. Creates “Sh*thole Countries (2018).