Regardless of which candidate makes it to the White House, the real winner will once again be the one or another section of the imperialist, neoliberal, financialized, warmongering, pro-genocide US ruling class. Both appear set to keep the conflagrations raging in West Asia and Ukraine going, while provoking China and Russia and pushing the world ever closer to nuclear war. Both will keep increasing the burdens of working people in the US while favoring a few dozen big corporations. Our panel asks whether and how the duopoly’s stranglehold on the political system may be broken.

Speakers

  • Margaret Kimberley: Executive Editor and Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report; Author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents.

  • Sara Flounders: Contributing Editor of Workers World Newspaper and a leader of the United National Antiwar Coalition.

  • Ajamu Baraka: Coordinating Committee Chairperson of the Black Alliance for Peace, 2016 candidate for vice president on the Green Party ticket, and serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).

  • Wilmer Leon III Ph.D: Lecturer/Teaching Associate in the Political Science Department at Howard University in Washington, D.C and nationally broadcast radio talk show host of Connecting the Dots with Dr. Wilmer Leon on SiriusXM Satellite radio channel 126.

MODERATOR: Radhika Desai: Professor at the Department of Political Studies and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the convenor of the International Manifesto Group.

Organizers and Sponsors: The United National AntiWar Coalition, Black Agenda Report, Black Alliance for Peace, and International Manifesto Group.