By Any Means Necessary

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, to discuss voting rights laws, why Joe Manchin is opposing the For The People Act, and the racist character of voter suppression and the filibuster.In the second segment Sean and Jacquie are joined by independent journalist, writer and researcher Denis Rogatyuk to discuss the elections in Peru between socialist Pedro Castillo and far right Keiko Fujimori. Rogatyuk explains the political and historical context behind this election and what a Castillo victory would mean for Latin America’s “Pink Tide.”In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Technologist and editor of TechForThePeople.org Chris Garaffa to discuss how the hack that took down Colonial Pipeline was traced back to a single compromised password, the negligence of companies in password encryption that makes them vuln