Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent U.S. policies in the Americas — militarism, economic warfare, political subversion and the denial of national sovereignty — have intensified and are becoming even more reckless. It is important that anti-war and anti-imperialist forces in the Americas remain especially vigilant. This webinar will highlight the popular struggles being waged for national liberation and the efforts being made by the U.S. imperialism and other colonial powers to subvert those efforts. ORGANZED BY: U.S. Peace Council SPONSORED BY: Black Alliance for Peace; World Peace Council (WPC) MODERATOR: Bahman Azad, U.S. Peace Council PANEL (In order of appearance): Alfred L. Marder, President, U.S. Peace Council Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research / USPC Executive Committee Margaret Flowers, Director, Popular Resistance / USPC Executive Committee Jemima Pierre, Haiti/Americas Coordinator, Black Alliance for Peace Monisha Ríos, USPC Executive Committee Netfa Freeman, Black Alliance for Peace / Pan-African Community Action Iraklis Tsavaridis, Executive Secretary, World Peace Council (WPC) Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent

Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party: workers.org Rather than change course from the disastrous policies of former President Donald J. Trump, the Biden administration has doubled down on the deadliest failures of the U.S. COVID response. The U.S. capitalist state is refusing to put modest safety protocols and lockdown procedures in place despite the skyrocketing infection rate of the even more deadly and contagious Delta variant. Meanwhile, President Biden and other U.S. lawmakers are hell bent on blaming the COVID catastrophe on China. The U.S. deliberately sabotaged a collective effort to learn more about the origins of the novel coronavirus by calling for the World Health Organization to focus solely on the laboratory in Wuhan, China. China has asked, why not also look at Fort Dietrich and 200 other U.S. labs? Why not investigate the earlier outbreaks before Wuhan in Italy, Spain, and France? Why is the U.S. choosing competition and protecting patents over global cooperation? What is billionaire Bill Gates' role in all of this? Join revolutionaries in the U.S. and China for this necessary pushback on "lab leak theory" and the Cold War being waged against China and the entire global working class. With Sara Flounders and Siu Hin Lee, co-editors of "Capitalism on a Ventilator: the Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S." Get your copy here: https://world-view-forum.myshopify.com/products/capitalism-on-a-ventilator Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent

Donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Audio of Professor Jason W. Moore's talk at the 2021 Real Abstractions web conference, hosted by Foreign Objekt. In this talk, Jason W. Moore argues that Man and Nature – operationalized through successive Christianizing, Civilizing, and Developmentalist Projects – are ruling abstractions constitutive of the capitalist world-ecology. In this light, Man and Nature are not only fundamental epistemological categories, but also instruments of bourgeois hegemony on a world-scale. (Hence, successive world hegemonies shape and are shaped by successive Civilizing Projects, with distinctive renderings of Man and Nature.) In this light, civilizational fetishism – embodying an ethos of planetary management – appears as the logical and historical precondition for commodity fetishism, not least through the Naturalization of imperialism, racism, and sexism, beginning in the long sixteenth century. Giving special attention to the post-1968 New Environmental Imaginary, Moore shows how the ruling abstraction Nature has been pivotal to the success of neoliberal rule and the climate crisis. Link to the conference page: https://www.foreignobjekt.com/real-abstraction--the-conference Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Daniel Hale is facing sentencing on July 27, 2021 that could bring him 10 years in federal prison after he pled guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act for releasing government documents that revealed the gross human rights violations and war crimes of the U.S. killer drone program. More information on Daniel's case can be found at Stand with Daniel Hale: https://standwithdanielhale.org/ Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Please donate $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Audio from a webinar organized by Worker’s World Party: workers.org Statement from Worker’s World Party: As the Communist Party of China approaches its 100th anniversary, Workers World Party looks to the CPC's accomplishments: eliminating absolute poverty for 800 million people, leading the world in pandemic response and vaccine distribution, and supporting the construction of 21st century infrastructure through its Belt and Road Initiative. Join WWP members Makasi Motema, Sara Flounders, Joshua Hanks, and Ted Kelly for a roundtable discussion on how the CPC was able to achieve these accomplishments – and why the US empire is so threatened by the success of socialist revolution Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Audio from a webinar organized by No Cold War Britain: nocoldwar.org Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent From the Organizers: Join a range of high-profile speakers at the launch meeting of the No Cold War Britain campaign. This event comes as Britain sends its largest ever warship to the South China Sea in a deliberately aggressive and provocative move. Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Audio from a webinar organized by U.S. Peace Council: https://uspeacecouncil.org/ You can watch the webinar at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKjDgYP1dw Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent At the end of the 18th century, two profound political processes unfolded. One, in 1776, led to the formation of the USA, which went on to dominate the African Slave Trade. The other, ignited in 1791, led to the Haitian Revolution, which precipitated a general crisis of the entire slave system that could be resolved only with its collapse — not least in the U.S. itself in 1865. Unfortunately, those who feasted on free labor have not forgotten and will never forgive Haiti, including today when the USA, Canada and the European Union (especially France) continue to interfere maliciously in Haiti's internal affairs. Moderator: Henry Lowendorf Speakers: Professor Gerald Horne, University of Houston Professor Jemima Pierre, University of California Los Angeles Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

This event was organized by Stand with Assange NY and the Assange Defense Committee and was held at the People's Forum in NYC on June 10, 2021. Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent Speakers: Patricia Dahl, Jocelyn Gay, Randy Credico, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Roger Waters, Gabriel Shipton, John Shipton Essential Dissent Online: Subscribe to the iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_Dissent

Audio from a webinar convened by the International Action Center: iacenter.org Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent Please consider donating $1 per month to Essential Dissent via Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/EssentialDissent A delegation from the International #FreeAlexSaab Solidarity Committee traveled to Cabo Verde attempting to meet with Alex Saab, who is imprisoned on orders from the U.S, and to document the conditions of his confinement and demand his release. Bishop Filipe Teixeira OFSJC, from Cabo Verde community in Boston Sara Flounders, International Action Center Roger Harris, Task Force on the Americas Moderator: Ted Kelly, Philadelphia branch of the Worker World Party Sign the petition now to demand Alex Saab's freedom! bit.ly/FreeAlexSaabVZ Read more about the delegation here: https://orinocotribune.com/freealexsaab-delegation-first-day-in-cabo-verde-access-denied-to-alex-saab/

Audio from a webinar produced by the International Action Center (IAC): iacenter.org Buy Essential Dissent a coffee ($3): https://ko-fi.com/essentialdissent On May 26, 2021 14 million Syrians voted in Presidential elections, overwhelmingly reelecting President Bashar al-Assad. An independent, international delegation of observers called the election "the legitimate, democratic expression of the Syrian people" and noted that "for many Syrians, the election represents the imminent ending of the war, the defeat of foreign plots, and hope for the future." Join 4 participants from the delegation for an eyewitness account of the situation in Syria as the country continues to push back U.S. intervention, reassert its sovereignty, and rebuild after years of imperialist war. Panelists: Johnny Achi, E.E. Co-founder, Arab Americans for Syria Kobi Guillory Co-Chair, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Wyatt Miller Minnesota Anti-War Committee Ted Kelly International Action Center Co-Editor, Tear Down the Walls! Hosted by Scott Williams  International Action Center, Participant in 2014 Delegation to Syria Essential Dissent Online: iTunes podcast: https://tinyurl.com/yyq9w8sy YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxz8ehks Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y64ufjeh a-Infos Radio Project: https://tinyurl.com/y5k6t4ub Twitter: @e_Dissent