Participants: John Steppling, Aghogho Akpome, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the new artists against apartheid: summer rock festivals express the popular uprising against enablers of genocide, why Russia and China avoid direct confrontation with the zero-sum thinking of the US-NATO bloc, the latest “Washington Accord” for the ongoing resource extraction amid the Congo-Rwanda conflict, everyone is a socialist in their time of need, the class divide visible in who supports Zionism, pro-military themes in new television dramas, why you need to be an autodidact, Antonioni’s “The Passenger” (1975). Music track: “Betty” by Jack Littman (used with permission).
