“Conversion Therapy,” “Free Speech,” & Rising Aggression
Listen on YouTube Episode 289 This week Sam speaks with Wayne Besen, longtime activist with Truth Wins Out, the pioneering LGBTQ rights organization that has led the fight against so-called “conversion therapy.” They talk about the recent (terrible) Supreme Court ruling on this cruel and anti-scientific quackery and the movement that is needed to stop […]
All Out for May Day: Trump Must Go Now!
Watch on YouTube Episode 288 This week we’re sharing the recording of the organizing webinar held April 19, hosted by Sam Goldman featuring Refuse Fascism leaders Coco Das and Andy Zee. From the statement posted to refusefascism.org on April 19: This May Day must be a day of no business as usual—walking out of work and […]
The Dangerous Precedent of the Prairieland “Antifa” Trial
Listen on YouTube Episode 287 Sam recaps the moral challenge before all of us living in a country led by a president who just this week explicitly threatened to unleash genocide against a whole people, saying he would “end the whole [Iranian] civilization” unless they bow to his demands. Join the Refuse Fascism webinar next […]
A Short History of American Fascism: From the KKK to the Trump Era
Listen on YouTube Episode 286 Dr. John Donoghue discusses how the Trump regime’s fascism is rooted in deep white supremacist historical currents running from colonial North America through the present. Confronting this history is essential if we are going to determine what it will take to defeat MAGA fascism, which poses a grave menace to […]
Get Ready for No Kings: What Will It Take to Stop Trump?
Listen on YouTube Episode 285 Trump’s war on Iran is illegal, illegitimate and immoral. It has already killed thousands. It isthreatening to spiral into a far wider catastrophe. At home: ICE terror continues. New camps are being built. More people are dying in detention.Trans rights are being erased. Voices and media that doesn’t toe the […]
From Minab to Armageddon
admin/ Listen on YouTube Read the Transcript Episode 284 To better understand the impact of the US/Israel War on Iran this week, Sam talks with Sussan Tahmasebi, Executive Director and the Co-founder of Femena, the support organization for women human rights defenders in MENA/Asia. Then, she talks with journalist Jonathan Larsen about the influence of […]
Christian Nationalism, War on Iran, and Trump’s Concentration Camps
Listen on YouTube Episode 283 This week, Sam speaks with Matthew D. Taylor, about the religious undercurrents underpinning this incredibly dangerous new war against Iran. Dr. Taylor is a visiting scholar at Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice. His latest book The Violent Take It by Force offers a history of the New Apostolic Reformation movement […]
The State of Fascism and The New War of Aggression Against Iran
Listen on YouTube Read the Transcript Episode 282 “Donald Trump, in onjunction with Israel, has launched a murderous, illegitimate, and illegal war against the sovereign country of Iran—openly aimed at regime change. This is an unprovoked war of aggression, the supreme war crime, and it must be stopped now.” -from the new statement posted to RefuseFascism.org Friday afternoon, […]
STOP the ILLEGITIMATE & ILLEGAL WAR on IRAN
GET in the STREETS — TRUMP MUST GO NOW! Donald Trump, in conjunction with Israel, has launched a murderous, illegitimate, and illegal war against the sovereign country of Iran—openly aimed at regime change. This is an unprovoked war of aggression, the supreme war crime and it must be stopped now. This war has nothing to […]
Trump’s New International Law: Might Makes Right
Listen on YouTube Episode 281 Stephen Miller, Trump’s Goebbels, has openly declared that the new “international law” is “might makes right.” To discuss how that is playing out with the attacks on small boats off the coasts of South America, the kidnapping of President Maduro of Venezuela, the attempt to squeeze the country of Cuba […]