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Murder Inc. US Empire History
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Several years ago, my co-author, Steven Victoria and I wrote a series of books called Murder Inc.– I-N-C, not I-N,-K. Incorporated. And we were writing about American history from below. We were writing in the… Full Transcript
Message for Maduro: Live from Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal: Hi! Group: Hello, Mumia. Mumia Abu-Jamal: I’m ready when you are. Group: We are! We’re ready! Mumia Abu-Jamal: Hey, Venezuela, this is a stick up! It is time for all of us to… Full Transcript
Venezuela, This is a Stick Up
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Hey, Venezuela, this is a stick up. It is time for all of us to say what we see right before us. An empire attacks a poor, weaker state and demands the lion’s share of… Full Transcript
The Puzzle of Afghanistan
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The Puzzle of Afghanistan.” The flag of the United States rustles in the dry wind of its bases in Afghanistan, but the bases are bereft of ideas on what to do except harass and humiliate… Full Transcript
President Trump At War With The World
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
In the eight months since Donald Trump has been the President of the United States of America, he has intervened militarily in the nations of Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and the Philippines. And he… Full Transcript
9/11: Fifteen Years After
Chickens Coming Home to Roost
America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars Are an Utter Failure
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
“America’s So-Called Humanitarian Intervention Wars Are an Utter Failure,” By Shakaboona. If America’s humanitarian intervention wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria were to bring the people of those nations humanitarian aid, democracy, peace, and… Full Transcript
Boots and Brutes on the Ground
Mumia Abu-Jamal
When the U.S. armed so-called rebels in Syria, it is replicating the efforts undertaken decades ago in Afghanistan, with the same predictable results. These efforts of regime change, in addition to being violations of international… Full Transcript
In the Name of Al-Qaeda
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For well over a decade, since the events of 9/11, the group Al-Qaeda has performed quite a service for the West and its imperialist ambitions. Since then, the Mideast has been hurled into hell, and… Full Transcript
Obama and MLK
Shaka Zulu
Barack Obama. Do we represent or embody the values and principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? One is sworn in tomorrow as a Black president of the United States; the other died fighting against… Full Transcript
911 Plus 10 (Long Version)
911 Plus 10
Echos of Empire (Long Version)
Echos of Empire (Short Version)
On The MOVE: Long Live John Africa
Mumia Abu-Jamal
If history teaches us anything it’s that war changes everything, for wars by their very nature are both external and internal affairs. The Civil War, the most violent war in U.S. history, brought us the… Full Transcript
The Israeli war machine is amok. I would say run amok, but perhaps the proper term is fly amok, given their air power. Like the Americans after 9/11, Israel is engulfed in a war-fever sparked… Full Transcript