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The World Looks to Vladimir
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The world looks to Vladimir.” To most Americans, the unanticipated win of Donald Trump of the U.S. presidency was the biggest story in the world. That’s because most folks think the U.S. is the center… Full Transcript
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
Partisan Defense Committee Holiday Statement
Jaan Laaman
PDC [Partisan Defense Committee] Holiday Statement 2015. Hello to my PDC comrades and to all you good activists, organizers, revolutionaries, and PDC supporters who are here tonight for this Partisan Defense Committee holiday event. This… 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
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
An American Amnesty Law For Political Prisoners
Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall
Russian President Vladimir Putin scores yet another one against American President Barack Obama. First, President Putin outmaneuvered President Obama in America’s attempt to wage war against Syria by getting Syria to agree to destroy its… 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
International Law vs. International Outlaw
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As the U.S. embarks on its latest role as enforcer of international law, even as it avoids the United Nations, it does so from a position of profound weakness. That’s not to say that the… Full Transcript
Bombs Over Damascus
Mumia Abu-Jamal
President Barack Obama, long seen as an antiwar foil to the lunacy of the belligerent George W. Bush administration, has now almost completed his morphing into Bush three. With his war talk calling for the… Full Transcript
Cry Lebanon
One Down?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The bombs have fallen over Baghdad and the Hussein regime has apparently fallen. Whole armies have ditched their uniforms, shed their boots, dropped their weapons, and walked away from battles with the Americans. It seems… Full Transcript
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