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WATCH: Dr. Sohail Daulatzai: “Welcome to the Terrordome”

"In framing white supremacy as a global phenomenon, and understanding the systemic roots of inequality, Malcolm X provides us with a historic lens and contemporary frame for thinking about the role and place of Muslims in the United States, as endless war is waged, racism persists and capitalism wreaks havoc around the world."

Islam, Hip Hop and the Liberation Struggle w/ Daulatzai & Almustafa

"Islam, Hip Hop, and the Black liberation struggle as discussed with acclaimed author and professor, Dr. Sohail Doulatzi. Plus the People's Poet, Kahlil Almustafa."

Western Intervention and The Colonial Mindset

"Those of good will in the imperial cultures might like to reflect on the need to decolonise the western mind."

Book Review: This Changes Everything

"The infrastructure of capitalism needs to be physically dismantled, using a diversity of tactics, and the culture of domination that legitimises extraction and exploitation must be confronted, and replaced with land-based cultures that value relationship with all living beings."

350 Sacrilege

"350’s shameless usurping of Civil Rights icons in their propaganda is ripe for ridicule. Comparing the Rockefeller-sponsored Blue Team to the Freedom Riders, or the police-escorted People’s Climate March to the marches from Selma to Montgomery, or college campus divestment to BDS in South Africa is a sacrilege."

Movement Ferguson, Beware the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Black Agenda Report (Image & Video courtesy of Libya360) January 21, 2015...

FLASHBACK: CrossTalk on Haiti: Year of Agony

"On this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk, he asks his guests why aid efforts in Haiti have largely failed. Who is to blame? Is it the U.N., the U.S. and its NGOs or is it the fault of the Haitian people?"

What’s Worked in the Past Learning From Ferguson [Part II]

"Clearly, people on the ground in Ferguson have responded with a variety of forms of resistance. It turns my stomach when outsiders basically go shopping and choose the form that fits their preconceived preferences and notions of resistance, and then claim they’re in solidarity with “Ferguson,” as though that were some homogenous body."

WATCH | Eritrea: On the Hit-list of the West Because it Serves Eritreans Instead of Serving Empire

WATCH | Eritrea: On the Hit-list of the West Because it Serves Eritreans Instead of Serving Empire

"Eritrea is under fire; it is clearly on the hit-list of the West, because it serves its people, and because it is refusing to aid the Empire and the corporate world."

How I Sanitized the Feminist Outrage over the Montreal Massacre

"Twenty-five years later, as I re-evaluate my stories and with the benefit of analysis of the coverage that massacre spawned, I see how journalists— male and female producers, news directors, reporters, anchors — subtly changed the meaning of the tragedy to one that the public would get behind, silencing so-called “angry feminists.” We were “social gatekeeping,” as filmmaker Maureen Bradley later asserted in her 1995 film, Reframing the Montreal Massacre: A media interrogation."