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On this episode of First Voic­es Radio, Tiokasin wel­comes back ANDRE VLTCHEK. Andre is a rev­o­lu­tion­ary, inter­na­tion­al­ist and glo­be­trot­ter who fights against West­ern impe­ri­al­ism and the West­ern régime imposed on the world. He is a philoso­pher, nov­el­ist, film­mak­er, inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist, poet, play­wright, and pho­tog­ra­ph­er who trav­els wide­ly around the world report­ing on the plight of oppressed peo­ples every­where, includ­ing the world’s Indige­nous peo­ples. He has cov­ered dozens of war zones and has pro­duced and direct­ed sev­er­al doc­u­men­tary films. A few of Andre’s books include: Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Opti­mism, West­ern Nihilism; The Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion: Impact on the World and Birth of Inter­na­tion­al­ism; and the best-sell­ing Expos­ing Lies of the Empire. His inves­tiga­tive works appear in count­less pub­li­ca­tions world­wide. Andre’s lat­est book, just pub­lished in May, is New Cap­i­tal of Indone­sia: Aban­don­ing Des­ti­tute Jakar­ta, Mov­ing to Plun­dered Bor­neo. It is avail­able at https://​amzn​.to/​2​A​WfwsM. Today, Tiokasin and Andre will dis­cuss one of his lat­est essays, The World Can­not Breathe: Squashed by the U.S., a Coun­try Built on Geno­cide and Slav­ery. More about Andre can be found at andrevltchek​.wee​bly​.com. He tweets @AndreVltchek.

In the sec­ond half-hour, STEVEN T. NEW­COMB (Shawnee, Lenape) is a schol­ar, edu­ca­tor, author, jour­nal­ist, film pro­duc­er, pub­lic speak­er and work­shop leader/​facilitator. He is inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized for his more than three decades of research and writ­ing on the ori­gins of fed­er­al Indi­an law and inter­na­tion­al law dat­ing back to the ear­ly days of Chris­ten­dom, most notably focused on the reli­gious doc­trine now known in his­to­ry as the Doc­trine of Chris­t­ian Dis­cov­ery. He is author of Pagans in the Promised Land: Decod­ing the Doc­trine of Chris­t­ian Dis­cov­ery” (Ful­crum Pub­lish­ing, 2008) and a Pro­duc­er of the 2015 doc­u­men­tary film, The Doc­trine of Dis­cov­ery: Unmask­ing the Dom­i­na­tion Code direct­ed and pro­duced by Shel­don Wolfchild (Dako­ta). Stevens web­site is http://​orig​i​nal​freena​tions​.com/. Tiokasin and Steven will dis­cuss his lat­est col­umn, Dom­i­na­tion and the Mur­der of George Floyd (Coun­ter­punch, June 42020).