ICSS Past Presentations

https://youtu.be/VoFQB_I2DZk BRAZIL ON THE RAZOR´S EDGE The fight for sovereignty under imperialist and fascist attack The victory of President Lula in 2022 put a brake on the fascist crescendo in Brazil. But the government faces enormous challenges to keep up to its campaign promises. There are combined pressures from the financial market and the business elites, which are intertwined with and dependent on international financial capital. The increased size and strength of agribusiness, with...

https://youtu.be/ysPm_2TXcYM Sun., April 6, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm PDT Weaponizing Antisemitism by Project Esther Speaker: Seth Morrison Project Esther is the Heritage Foundation’s roadmap to destroy the pro-Palestine movement in the US.  This McCarthy era-like project falsely conflates anti-zionism with antisemitism and then deceptively accuses pro-Palestine activists of antisemitism. Our speaker, Seth Morrison, is a leader in the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), an articulate advocate to peace...

https://youtu.be/af202Wxg5Nc Heightened ethnic and international tensions threaten balkanization in the Horn while Rwanda's Paul Kagame continues his brutal push to slice off a mineral-rich piece of Eastern Congo. Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger confederate and expel French and US troops, mining corporations, and media. Ann Garrison is a Black Agenda Report Contributing Editor and a Grayzone contributor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza...

https://youtu.be/y6XjMk87rtQ US President Donald Trump's policies, including shutting down NED and USAID, have engendered discussion about whether he intends to restrain U.S. imperialism or is simply adopting new approaches to US empire in an era of crisis. Discussion with Alexander McKay of the Marx Engels Lenin Institute.

https://youtu.be/EsRIcw1Ofiw Sarah Junkin Woodard comes to us from Nicaragua, representing the work of the Jubilee House Community, a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit she helped form in 1979.  Working with and on behalf of the poor in North Carolina for the first decade, the last 30 years have been spent in Nicaragua, with the project name of the Center for Development in Central America. The JHC-CDCA continues to respond to local needs, seeking resources to help the poor accomplish what they see...

https://youtu.be/Cec9Mj-pBQ4 Professor Rasmus will connect the dots between the Trump-Zelensky minerals deal, why the US wants out of Ukraine war and NATO, why DOGE proposes $2T cuts in foreign aid & domestic US spending. Reason: US empire’s maintenance cost is no longer affordable as currently structured and US elites are in process of restructuring it to reduce the cost and to prepare for future competition with BRICS and confrontation with China. Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy,...

https://youtu.be/IK1TBEywdaA Sun., March 2, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm PSTLatin America Resists Trump – Deportations, Drugs, and Economic WarfareSpeaker: John Perry   The main difference between Donald Trump and his predecessors is that the current CEO of the empire better exposes naked imperialism. With an ever more aggressive and virulent projection of hegemony, the Yankees view problems such as migration and drug trafficking as simply coming from the south, ignoring some of the underlying...

https://youtu.be/0y4Y5aeLjMk Sun., February 23, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm Pacific TimeUkraine War End Game?Speaker: Allan Miller and Slava Jalili   Events are unfolding rapidly as we approach November 24th, the third anniversary of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Our speakers, Allan Miller and Slava Jalili, will provide important background information on the war, and an analysis of these current events. Allan Miller is a member of the ICSS Program Committee. Slava Jalili...

https://youtu.be/6SvMZtytS2w Sun., February 16, 2025, 10:30 am-12:30 pm PSTSyria Report-backSpeaker: Dan Kovalik Our speaker, international human rights advocate and lawyer Dan Kovalik just returned from Syria, once a beautiful country and the cradle of civilization. He visited so that we could speak out for people there who can’t speak out because they fear violent repression. Dan will report back on the current situation in light of historical developments. The new de facto government was in...

https://youtu.be/DE7ZRz43Lt0 The ceasefire in Gaza after 15 months of the genocidal Israeli war upon the Palestinian people, backed, armed and funded by the major imperialist powers -- particularly the United States -- has revealed many truths, including the failure of the Israeli regime to achieve its goals and the persistence, steadfastness and strength of the Palestinian resistance. The resistance in Palestine is currently presiding over a prisoner exchange process that is also liberating a...