1). “Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: What Has America Become? A Global Power in Decline”, Sep 11, 2025, Nima Alkhorshid interviews Wolff & Hudson, Dialogue Works, duration of video 103:59, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
2). “Will the U.S. Empire Collapse or Retreat? Lawrence Wilkerson Weighs In”, Sep 10, 2025, Jyotishman interviews Lawrence Wilkerson, India and Global Left, duration of video 1:00:57, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
3). “Let's Talk About Political Violence: A few words from Jessica & Kylie”, Sep 11, 2025, Jessica Valenti & Kylie Cheung, Abortion, Every Day, at < https://jessica.substack.com/
4). “ 'Abortion worse than holocaust': Charlie Kirk's controversial views re-surface after Trump ally assassinated”, Sep 10, 2025, Anon, The Economic Times, at < https://economictimes.
5). “Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’. The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events”, Sep 11, 2025, Chris Stein, The Guardian, at < https://www.theguardian.com/
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Introduction by dmorista: On the Global Stage the U.S. now has a much reduced presence and degree of power as compared to the “Heyday of the Empire” from 1945 – about 2010. Item 1)., “Richard Wolff & ….”, discusses a wide variety of socioeconomic and political issues where the U.S. increasingly has the profile of a desperate declining entity whose leader can pound his chest and issue ultimatums that are now widely ignored. In Item 2). “Will the U.S. Empire ….”, Wilkerson points out many areas of deterioration and weakness. Most disturbingly he discusses the ascendancy of right-wing Christianity in the military with obligatory “Prayer meetings” now part of the Pentagon's daily routines. In another youtube discussion on the web a commentator pointed out the 1,000 – 2,000 virulent fascists from the Azov Batallion, having not been used in any of the murderous Ukrainian Operations are still intact and looking for a way to get out of Ukraine and avoid Russian presence; they would like to escape into Western Europe or the U.S. I can't recall if that was pointed out by Wilkerson of Larry Johnston (another military analyst who appears at various sites).
As a part of the increasingly violent and chaotic political scene in the U.S., there was an unusual event earlier this week, a political killing of a significant right-wing figure. Charlie Kirk, was killed "a'la' JFK" using a rifle at some distance. It is not possible to do a better job of stating the case for the real horrific and pervasive political violence that occurs regularly in the U.S. than was done in Item 3)., “Let's Talk About Political Violence: ….”. Valenti Wrote:
“.... conservatives are policing people’s reactions as if we don’t live in a country where political violence is the norm.
“After all, when a pregnant woman dies of sepsis in a hospital that could have helped her but is legally prevented from doing so, that’s political violence. It’s political violence when a child is shot in their classroom because lawmakers refuse to take action on guns. An abortion provider being assassinated after years of conservatives calling them ‘baby-killers’ is political violence, as is the death of a person who had their medical claim denied by companies more interested in their bottom line than people’s lives. (Emphasis Added)
“We live with this kind of violence, we experience it, every single day. We just don’t call it ‘political’. To conservatives, it’s not even violence. ….
“Conservatives’ insistence that we remember Kirk’s humanity comes in the same breath that they refuse to recognize our own. And they’re more interested in our loud condemnations than they are our actual lives.”
Cheung in Item 3 wrote:
“Meanwhile, Kirk himself has equated abortion with the Holocaust; anti-abortion leaders and some of the most powerful government officials in the nation constantly smear abortion providers and patients as murderers. Consequently, violence targeting abortion clinics has surged in recent years. Just earlier this summer, a Minnesota politician and leader on reproductive rights was assassinated over her politics.
“In the coming days, the right will relentlessly impress upon us that Kirk’s death is some extreme aberration of mounting political violence, all thanks to so-called left-wing extremists.
“But Kirk’s death is only aberrant in so far as most political violence in this country and around the world victimizes women, people of color, queer and trans people, immigrants, children, and certainly Palestinians in Gaza, subjected to daily, live-streamed U.S.-funded atrocities. This violence is overwhelmingly inflicted not by leftist social media users, but the government—which is currently, largely run by far-right zealots.” (Emphasis Added)
It is ironic that Kirk was killed this way making him a 2nd Amendment Martyr, as earlier he had stated publicly: “in April 2023 that he thought some gun deaths every year were 'worth it'. 'I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational,' Kirk said at the Turning Point USA Faith event on the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church.” (Emphasis Added) {See Item 4)., “ 'Abortion worse than holocaust': ….”. or Item 5)., “Charlie Kirk in his own words: ….”}. The irony is that Kirk, who espoused a long list of violent repressive policies, actually died “to protect the sacred 2nd Amendment”.
Obviously the far right wants to use this event as a pretext for a much wider attack on the left, on liberals, and on anybody with the guts to oppose them publicly. If you end up discussing this with decent, but typically ill-informed people, be sure to point out the endless violence perpetrated by Kirk's allies and supporters on many thousands of people. Remember that he thought it was just fine that 6 & 7 year old children were murdered in schools by AR-15 wielding creeps. Allocate the appropriate amount of time to lamenting the shooting of Kirk (I recommend about 5 seconds); then launch into a listing of the thousands of people harmed and killed by the fascist policies he espoused. Tell the deluded Fox-News type people you talk with that, if they loved him, they can console themselves with knowing he was martyred for the 2nd Amendment.
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1). “Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: What Has America Become? A Global Power in Decline”, Sep 11, 2025, Nima Alkhorshid interviews Wolff & Hudson, Dialogue Works, duration of video 103:59, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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2). “Will the U.S. Empire Collapse or Retreat? Lawrence Wilkerson Weighs In”, Sep 10, 2025, Jyotishman interviews Lawrence Wilkerson, India and Global Left, duration of video 1:00:57, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Let's Talk About Political Violence
It’s been a scary 24 hours, and I know we’re all worried about the impact Charlie Kirk’s murder will have on our already-volatile political landscape. It doesn’t help that conservatives are already calling for retribution: Elon Musk tweeted, “our choice is to fight or die.” Misogynist influencer Andrew Tate called for “civil war,” while pundit Matt Walsh said, “We’re up against demonic forces from the pit of Hell.” Fox News host Jesse Watters even threatened on air that they “are going to avenge Charlie’s death.”
It’s a lot. That’s why we wanted to check in with you all, and start a conversation. Both Kylie and I shared a few words below, and are heading over right now to a live chat that we’ll keep open until the end of the day:
Please join us if you want to commiserate, rage, share ideas—or just be worried together. Live chats are feature for paying members, so if you haven’t upgraded your subscription yet and want to join, click here.
Abortion, Every Day’s daily report will return tomorrow. Thanks to all of you for being here and fighting alongside us. -Jessica
By Jessica Valenti
Years ago, I wrote about the issue I had with ‘man-hater’ being used as a slur. It struck me as ridiculous that in a world where women were regularly abused, raped, and killed by men, the mere act of not liking them for it was the true offense. That’s what I’m finding hardest about the national conversation around Kirk’s death: conservatives are policing people’s reactions as if we don’t live in a country where political violence is the norm.
After all, when a pregnant woman dies of sepsis in a hospital that could have helped her but is legally prevented from doing so, that’s political violence. It’s political violence when a child is shot in their classroom because lawmakers refuse to take action on guns. An abortion provider being assassinated after years of conservatives calling them ‘baby-killers’ is political violence, as is the death of a person who had their medical claim denied by companies more interested in their bottom line than people’s lives.
We live with this kind of violence, we experience it, every single day. We just don’t call it ‘political’. To conservatives, it’s not even violence.
That selective empathy, I think, so many Americans are having a difficult time with the Republican demand that we loudly perform horror and outrage over Kirk’s death—as horrible and outrageous as it was.
Conservatives’ insistence that we remember Kirk’s humanity comes in the same breath that they refuse to recognize our own. And they’re more interested in our loud condemnations than they are our actual lives.
As I wrote yesterday, no one wants this. It’s a nightmare, all of it. But let’s not pretend that the nation’s reactions to Kirk’s death are more important or dangerous than the policies he supported—or that the real issue is whether or not we have something nice to say.
By Kylie Cheung
Hours after Charlie Kirk’s death was confirmed, the perpetrator—and their politics—remained unknown. But that didn’t stop Donald Trump from sharing a bizarre video from the Oval Office blaming ‘the left’ for inciting political violence by calling Nazis, well, Nazis. This language, Trump suggested, puts a target on conservatives’ backs. Meanwhile, Kirk himself has equated abortion with the Holocaust; anti-abortion leaders and some of the most powerful government officials in the nation constantly smear abortion providers and patients as murderers. Consequently, violence targeting abortion clinics has surged in recent years. Just earlier this summer, a Minnesota politician and leader on reproductive rights was assassinated over her politics.
In the coming days, the right will relentlessly impress upon us that Kirk’s death is some extreme aberration of mounting political violence, all thanks to so-called left-wing extremists.
But Kirk’s death is only aberrant in so far as most political violence in this country and around the world victimizes women, people of color, queer and trans people, immigrants, children, and certainly Palestinians in Gaza, subjected to daily, live-streamed U.S.-funded atrocities. This violence is overwhelmingly inflicted not by leftist social media users, but the government—which is currently, largely run by far-right zealots.
The Trump administration has sicced the National Guard on liberal cities that Trump dislikes; ICE is disappearing people in the streets, sometimes merely for their political beliefs; and, most relevant to our work at AED, women and children are being tortured and killed by abortion bans and jailed for miscarriages. As much as the right obsessively reminds us that Kirk was a father survived by young daughters, he adamantly expressed his wish that should his toddler daughters ever be impregnated by rape, that they be forced to birth their rapists’ babies. Schoolchildren in the U.S. and Palestinian children in Gaza are routinely victimized by horrific, bone-chilling gun violence.
Political violence is all around us—and time and again, Kirk wielded his massive influence over our government to push for it. As IfNotNow’s Max Berger put it, referencing Kirk’s support for Jan. 6 rioters, “If you hate political violence, you should hate Charlie Kirk.” Kirk has justified Hiroshima and the genocide in Gaza; he’s argued in defense of everything from segregation to unregulated access to guns, enabling frequent school shootings like the one that ultimately claimed his life.
But we’re now implicitly being told by most of our leaders and the president that Kirk’s murder is the only political violence that matters. Some of the same right-wing voices that recently called for Greta Thunberg to be bombed for trying to deliver aid into Gaza are now condemning social media users for not expressing appropriate amounts of grief for a man who wanted us to lose our most basic rights. It’s not enough that their policies are killing us—they need us to celebrate them as heroes, too.
So, let’s let recent events be a reminder: Right-wing figureheads aren’t the only people we should recognize as victims of political violence. Poverty is political violence. A sexual abuser and alleged child sex trafficker skirting accountability and becoming the president of the U.S. is political violence.
Abortion bans that reduce women and pregnant people to second-class citizens and, in some cases, kill us, are political violence.
Abusers and fascist political movements share many of the same strategies: They paint their victims as the real oppressors to justify further victimizing them. By doing so, they attempt to erase the suffering that they themselves are inflicting. This strategy is the very crux of conservative grievance politics and their war on the most vulnerable populations. When we feed into narratives that uniquely condemn Kirk’s murder but not, say, the abortion bans he championed as political violence, we’re playing right into the right’s hands.
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Charlie Kirk's controversial views re-surface after Trump ally assassinat
Right-wing conservative analyst Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University. The 31-year-old young MAGA champion and Trump loyalist was assassinated and a video of the incident shows him clutching at his neck after a loud gunshot is heard, while the large crowd listening to him flees.
Kirk, a controversial figure in many US circles, was known for his uncompromising stance on abortion, a position that often drew both fervent support and fierce criticism. He had a history of making inflammatory, racist and controversial remarks against Indians, women, trans people and Palestinians. He had also remarked that gun deaths are “worth it” in order for the US to continue having the Second Amendment.
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Charlie Kirk on abortion
An old video of Charlie Kirk has now re-surfaced in which he controversially compared abortion to the Holocaust. In the video, Charlie Kirk is heard saying, “We allow the massacre of a million and a half babies a year under the guise of women's reproductive health. We are allowing babies to be taken away and discarded every single year, just saying they are not humans.”
“You are using dehumanising language, saying ‘ohh it's an embrayo’; no, that's a baby, made in the image of god, deserving protection. It is never right to justify the mass termination of people under the guise of saying that they are unwanted. That's how we get Auschwitz, that's how we got the greatest horror of the 20th century," Kirk said.
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When one of the participants at the event questioned, ‘So you are comparing abortion to the Holocaust?’ he responded, saying, ‘Absolutely, I am. In fact, it is worse. It's worse.’
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Kirk on daughter's rape
In another exchange that has now gone viral, Charlie Kirk was asked what if his own daughter, at the age of 10, were raped and became pregnant. He responded by saying that the baby would be delivered.
“So, if you had a daughter and she was 10 and she got raped, and she was gonna give birth, and she would gonna give birth, would you want her to go through that and carry her baby?" Kirk was asked. Interrupting the question, Kirk said, “I do have a daughter," and opined that the question was “awfully graphic".
“No, but it’s a real-life scenario that happens to many people," the reporter continued. “The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered," Kirk responded, adding, “Let me tell you why, hold on, let me ask you a question.
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The reporter, meanwhile, said, “Oh, okay, great, so that’s insane." Kirk has also made several derogatory remarks about women during his career. The latest came on 8 September, just days before his death.
Appearing on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, he claimed that young women do not value having children. He stated, “This is one of the reasons why we are seeing a fertility collapse in the West.”
Kirk’s previous controversial remarks about gun violence have now resurfaced. A staunch Second Amendment advocate, Kirk said in April 2023 that he thought some gun deaths every year were “worth it”. “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational,” Kirk said at the Turning Point USA Faith event on the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church.
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Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
Charlie Kirk, the far-right commentator and ally of Donald Trump, was killed on Wednesday doing what he was known for throughout his career – making incendiary and often racist and sexist comments to large audiences.
If it was current and controversial in US politics, chances are that Kirk was talking about it. On his podcasts, and on the podcasts of friends and adversaries, and especially on college campuses, where he would go to debate students, Kirk spent much of his adult life defending and articulating a worldview aligned with Trump and the Maga movement. Accountable to no one but his audience, he did not shy away in his rhetoric from bigotry, intolerance, exclusion and stereotyping.
Here’s Kirk, in his own words. Many of his comments were documented by Media Matters for America, a progressive non-profit that tracks conservative media.
On race
If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024
If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022
Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023
If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024
If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023
On debate
We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.
– Kirk discussing his work in an undated clip that circulated on X after his killing.
Prove me wrong.
– Kirk’s challenge to students to publicly debate him during the tour of colleges he was on when he was assassinated.
On gender, feminism and reproductive rights
Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.
– Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025
The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.
– Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024
We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024
On gun violence
I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
– Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023
On immigration
America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025
The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024
The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024
On Islam
America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025
We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025
Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.
– Charlie Kirk social media post, 8 September 2025
On religion
There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022
Dani Anguiano contributed reporting.
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