Hello everyone welcome to another edition of 1+1, your place for inconvenient truthtelling and mythbusting. On the program we welcome back our returning champion Joe Emersberger media critic, NGO critic, anti-imperialist campaigner and superb leftist thinker, whose articles have appeared in FAIR, Z-net, Venezuela Analysis, the Canary, and Redsails, nowadays do subscribe and follow his writings or typings hehe! At his own substack, and he’s the co-author along with Justin Podur historian, journalist, media and NGO critic and anti-imperialist thinker of the Anti-Empire Project, he’s the co-author of “Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela” and on the program for the hour we’ll be exploring the subject of religion.
How did the propaganda around Jesus and Christianity come to be, was Jesus even a real person, can we truly advance into a better world with religion? all of this and more on the program, we also examine how religious institutions often kneecap popular and the most radical factions of leftist/people power movements, while also acknowledging that great religious people and movements are on the frontlines of building a better and more just world, but ultimately Joe and I denounce religion but don’t worry to our religious friends we do denounce the liberal bigotry of atheists and secularists, we denounce the New Atheist movement led by voices like the repugnant Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, the late Christopher Hitchens, and Bill Maher. And also denounce Zionism and the often Liberal Zionists/Leftist Zionists who continue to tone police and denounce non-existing antisemitism towards those at the frontline of Palestine Solidarity/justice movements.
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3. Check out all of Joe’s appearances on 1+1 here and other great interviews he’s given to other platforms – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAly-dqynbfgYQwnsbHSqFDdvPH-5D2C7
4. Check out Joe’s interview on 1+1 about his review of Mein Kampf, how Zionism is the Nazism of our current times, why we should defend Palestinian armed resistance and pushing back against the perfect victim/perfect resistance complex on Palestinian, and rejection of the left-right alliance and giving people like Piers Morgan the time of day – https://youtu.be/WSb949RzHjo?si=GuFZZNCw2qf1nZ67 & recently Joe’s co-author/friend Justin Podur did an excellent article on the “fake” anti-war right/ fake Anti-Zionist right and why leftists need to not fall for it and drop calls for a left-right alliance – https://open.substack.com/pub/justinpodur/p/the-mirage-of-the-antiwar-right?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
5. regarding the need for secularism and no religion check out my interview part 2 of two part interview with Diallo Kenyatta former co-host of Earn Your Liberation of Black Liberation Media and host of the Bro Diallo on, Diallo is an outspoken Black Leftist and is outspoken on his secualist/atheist mindset and this was him talking about it on 1+1. https://youtu.be/9iCx7xRb7oI?si=jji8MLv3kuSxC0ot
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