Radical Leftist Scum is a fearless space for unfiltered conversations about the world we live in. Hosted by Valdet Selimaj, this podcast dives into the issues shaping our lives—from politics and culture to identity and justice—with candor, passion, and zero apologies.
It’s about speaking truth, challenging the noise, and fighting for the change we deserve. If you’re ready for bold takes and real talk, turn it up—because it’s time to get louder than ever.
Corruption in Broad Daylight? Trump, Saudi Arabia, and Affinity Partners
What happens when billions of dollars from foreign governments flow into the investment firm of someone sitting at the edge of American power?
In Corruption in Broad Daylight? Trump, Saudi Arabia, and Affinity Partners, we follow the money around Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, the Al-Khayyat brothers, and a network stretching from the Gulf to Albania, Syria, Israel, and Gaza.
Using congressional letters, investigative reporting, and corporate documentation, this episode examines how Gulf sovereign wealth, politically connected business networks, sanctions policy, Israeli investments, and postwar redevelopment plans may be converging around one central issue: influence.
This is not just a story about private equity.
It is a story about leverage, access, and whether foreign money can shape American power through private investment structures that face far less scrutiny than traditional lobbying.
22 Jul 2026
Kosovo Was Never Serbia: History, Myth, and the Fight Over Identity
What does the slogan “Kosovo is Serbia” leave out?
This episode looks at the longer history behind the claim: the pre-Slavic Balkans, the Dardani, Slavic migration, medieval Serbian rule, Ottoman transformation, the expulsions of Albanians, and Kosovo’s modern political path. The core distinction is simple but crucial: political control is not the same thing as ancestral origin.
Blog post: https://valdetselimaj.com/kosovo-is-not-serbia-debunking-the-myths-behind-the-claim/
24 Jun 2026
Albania is Not for Sale: The Flamingo Revolution. Thirty Years of Corruption and What It Means for Albanian Democracy
Albania's government just handed a billion-euro resort deal on protected coastline to Jared Kushner — without public consultation, without environmental review, without competitive bidding. When people showed up to protest, private security guards beat them while police watched.
What happened next was the Flamingo Revolution. Over 100,000 people in the streets of Tirana. Diaspora protests on five continents. Chants demanding not just the cancellation of the project, but the end of a 35-year political system built on corruption, clientelism, and the quiet sale of public assets to private interests.
To understand why this exploded the way it did, you need the full history: the Hoxha regime and the country it left behind, the 1997 pyramid collapse that killed 2,000 people and nearly became a civil war, a Socialist Party that is the direct institutional heir of the communist apparatus, and an anti-corruption body that the government tolerated — until it came for the deputy prime minister, and then tried to defang.
This episode covers all of it. The history. The deal. The money trail. The movement. And what it means when a government calls its own citizens foreign agents for demanding to know what was done with their coastline.
This is about corrosive capital, political capture, and what democratic legitimacy actually requires. It's also about a people who were silenced for half a century and have decided, loudly, that their country is not for sale.
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