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The State of American Imperialism – The Classroom & The Cell Podcast with Marc Lamont
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Marc Lamont Hill: Peace family, you are listening to The Classroom and the Cell podcast. This is your brother, Marc Lamont Hill, and I am joined by… Mumia Abu-Jamal: Your other brother, Mumia. Abdu Jamal. … Full Transcript
After 9/11
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“After 9/11.” Today, 18 years after the events of 9/11, after the great war in Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, and various smaller military engagements in other areas of the world, where is the U.S.?… 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
The Killing Fields
Wilbert Sanders
This is Wilbert Sanders as Jazz the Poet with a piece I call “The Killing Fields.” Instead of providing safety to communities, Police are executing Blacks and minorities. Inner cities are concrete killing fields With… Full Transcript
Flint: Crimes of Capital
Mumia Abu-Jamal
From the beginning of human communal time, people built cities adjacent to rivers, for water, fresh water, was the source of life. Cairo (and before it grew into Cairo, Fustat), relied on the Nile; London… Full Transcript
Message for Black Radical Tradition Philly Conference
Conference of the Herds
Mumia Abu-Jamal
I confess to not watching the entire presidential ‘debate’. By 20 minutes, I could stand no more. I saw nothing more than a pack of dogs, yelping fear, hatred, ignorance and enmity at the world… Full Transcript
States of Fear
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Within hours of the terror strikes in Paris, governors representing nearly half the United States, 23 states in all, bum rush the mic to announce that they’re issuing orders to ban refugees from Syria into… Full Transcript
The Kurdish People’s Workers’ Party – PKK
Shaka Zulu
Chew on this—on the border of Turkey and Syria, an assembly of young people is taking place. A bomb explodes, killing everybody inside. ISIS claimed responsibility. The autocrat, Erdogan, the president of Turkey, uses the… Full Transcript
Democracy, Dictatorships & Empire
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Democracy, Dictatorships and Empire. December 28, 2003. An essay from the new collection, Writing On The Wall. There is a profound contradiction at the heart of American political life, the claim to be a democracy… Full Transcript
War, Misinformation and Lies: Syria and ISIS
Jaan Laaman
Everywhere we look, the news is filled with reports of U.S. bombing raids and battles in Syrian and Iraqi towns. Meanwhile, government officials and media commentators are talking fast to us, the American public, about… Full Transcript
Goddard Commencement Speech
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Dear fellow Goddardites, students, graduates, parents, professors, I thank you for your kind invitation to join you in voice today. I’ve been away from Goddard College perhaps longer than most of you have been alive.… Full Transcript
911 Plus 10 (Long Version)
911 Plus 10
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
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