Over the past week, Israel has begun a major escalation against Hezbollah in Lebanon with the “pager attack” on the Lebanese population, assassinations of senior Hezbollah leadership and airstrikes in southern Lebanon that has killed at least 500 people and led to thousands to flee their homes. Israel has called this strategy “De-escalation through escalation,” and done it with the full support of the Biden-Harris administration.
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In our latest episode, Scott talks with host and producer of Breakthrough News Eugene Puryear about the escalation, how it effects politics and movement politics in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. They also talk in depth about the connections between the black liberation movement and the Free Palestine movement. They also discuss why black churches and organized labor have supported a ceasefire, why the mainstream environmental groups haven’t. And finally how there is increasing support of socialism, dislike of capitalism in the U.S. and the backlash to that growing consciousness.
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Eugene Puryear (@EugenePuryear) is a longtime journalist and community organizer currently-based in New York City. He is the host and producer of Breakthrough News (@BTnewsroom). Puryear is the co-founder of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the author of the book “Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America,” and spent five years in radio prior to helping found BT News.
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