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The Bush Blair Doctrine
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Iraq War is over. Or is it? With a spate of attacks that have cost American lives almost daily, the newly-minted general in charge of the region, Abu Zayd, has been forced to admit… Full Transcript
The Other Central Park Rapes
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Scholar-activist Angela Davis once wrote, “The ideological space for the proliferation of this racialized fear of crime has been opened by the transformation in international politics created by the fall of the European socialist countries.… Full Transcript
Have We Seen This Before? (B)
Have We Seen This Before? (A)
Safiya Asya Bukhari: Lioness for Liberation
Bush Comes Begging to the UN (B)
Bush Comes Begging to the UN (A)
Is the UN Still Relevant?
African Holocaust (B)
African Holocaust (A)
George W. Bush in Africa
Mumia Abu-Jamal
What in the world is George W. Bush doing in Africa? Rarely has a world leader seemed more lost, more ill at ease than the recent portrayal of the incumbent US president strolling around in… Full Transcript
Affirmative Distraction
Mumia Abu-Jamal
With a pair of cases announced days before their summer retirement, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, the US Supreme Court decided the constitutionality of affirmative action, at least for the next generation. The… Full Transcript
Frying The French
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The great French thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, once said, “In politics, a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.” The American people, through the corporate media, have been exposed to an unprecedented… Full Transcript
Above All Laws
Mumia Abu-Jamal
If there has been any constant in the last several millennia, besides change, there’s been the raging appetite of empires to remake the world in their various images. All of them, the Roman, the Ottoman,… Full Transcript
Alan’s Lament v2
50 Years After Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Soldiers of Misfortune
Mumia Abu-Jamal
This is “Soldiers of Misfortune.” Every politician worth his or her salt speaks sweet words of endearment about the young soldiers on the periphery of the American empire. They’re brave, courageous, and defenders of our freedoms.… Full Transcript
Iraq, Inc.
Beyond Oil
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For many Americans, perhaps millions, what lay beneath the alleged threat of Iraq was the tempting possibility of U.S. control of oil. “No blood for oil” became a powerful rallying cry that echoed around the… Full Transcript
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