New York City's mayoral race has become embroiled [11] in the national and global dilemmas, with progressive candidate Brad Lander [12] getting arrested by ICE [13] and progressive frontrunner Zohran Mamdani [14] being aggressively baited as an anti-Semite by the campaign [15] of the overall frontrunner, disgraced [16] former governor Andrew Cuomo. Joining Cuomo in this propaganda offensive, not surprisingly, is the pro-Israel doxxing operation Canary Mission [17]. In the current fraught atmosphere [18], this is a serious matter; Mamdani has received death threats [19] and his campaign is boosting security measures [20]. In Episode 283 [21] of the CounterVortex podcast [21], Bill Weinberg examines the accusations [22] against Mamdani that have been hyped [23] by the New York Post [24] and even the supposedly more objective Politico [25], and weighs them against Mamdani's own responses [26].
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