Olive Senior, Author of acclaimed book, Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal, had to delay interview due to family responsibilities. The Taylor Report hopes to have interview within next two weeks.
Black Lives Matter (BLM): Movement is capturing people's imagination. Reminds him of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) with different chapters working at different awareness levels, sometimes different focus on issues and sometimes having conflicting tactics. BLM meeting with Hillary Clinton needs to be analyzed. Black Agenda Report (BAR) analyzes the encounter and addresses issue of politicians exploiting people to get the vote. Phil Conlon refers to an article that catalogs all 2015 shootings of Black Americans by the police --47 states had at least one fatal shooting.
Phil Taylor summaries Stephen Gowans recent articles re North/South Korea/USA latest controversy, the downside of procedural democracy and why Cuba has limited access to the Internet. Gowans' very interesting and facts-on-the-table with great analysis interview is second half of show.
Roy Jones, former world-champion boxer, visited with Putin in the Crimea and asked Putin for a passport for the purpose of doing business. Phil gives a very intriguing account of that visit and continues with wide range of boxing facts --from Roy Jones' accomplishments to Benny Leonard, greatest lightweight fighter who was a master of "ring generalship" --gaining control of the ring via boxing without throwing a punch, which throws the other boxer off when he cannot land a punch. Phil Conlon makes a very apt political analogy comparing President Putin to a "ring general," especially in UN negotiations. Taylor elaborates on that analogy.
Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon commentary
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