In the opinion of the US Department of State, Cuba is a “terrorist state." It is part of a list of a few countries determined by the United States to receive that designation. This list is used as a way to punish countries that the US is in conflict with. At the coffee hour we will focus on the list and its impact on Cuba. This list has damaged the people of Cuba and similarly affected other countries on the list. We are pleased to have as our primary speaker David Ramírez Álvarez, Second...

Lebanon and Israel have agreed on a historic maritime border deal. The new demarcations will help both sides exploit oil in the Mediterranean. The lead negotiator from Lebanon is the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon, Elias Bou Saab. He explains the role of Hezbollah in the Lebanese government and negotations as well Interviewer: Ghadi Francis of WIONews As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our...

Interview with today's special guest, Palestinian OB/GYN and peace and justice activist Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose daughters and niece were recently murdered by Israeli bombers. This Week In Palestine (a weekly part of Truth and Justice Radio) is a three-quarter-hour segment of news from Palestine and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization, and now bombing, devastation, and murder, of their...

Criminalizing Peoples' Liberation Movements: Scrap the so-called terrorist list This public forum calling for an end to the designation of liberation movements as "terrorist" took place in Vancouver on February 15, at Simon Fraser University, organized by the Red Sparks Union. Here, Khaled Barakat speaks on impact of 'terror' designations and lists on Arab people's struggles and Arab communities in Canada. Khaled Barakat is a Palestinian activist, journalist and writer based in Vancouver. His...

Glen Ford, the editor in chief of Black Agenda Report, speaking at Black Is Back Conference. Glen passed away in 2021 - but his legacy, words, and work remain. This is our election day special in his honor https://www.blackagendareport.com/ As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at:...

Jon Elmer provides an in depth look at Yahya Sinwar's life and death. This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada's day 383 livestream. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by writer and analyst Justin Podur. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/cor7VqVAtxE  As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive,...

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian...

Listen to an interview with Mohamed Omar, an independent Palestinian journalist from Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Mohamed is the creator of the independent news website Rafah Today, which documents life and death in the Gaza Strip. Mohamed, whose home was recently demolished by the Israeli military, speaks about the importance of an independent media movement in Palestine to document and uncover the often hidden realities of the Israeli occupation. The interview outlines the...

Statement by the ISM - Prison for 100,000 at the stroke of a Pen: Israeli Military Unmasks New Plan for Wall to Surround Tulkarem The town of Tulkarem has been dealing with the devastating consequences of the Apartheid Wall since its construction started last year. On the morning of 29th January 2003 farmers arrived at their fields to find that the future of the local community is being further assaulted. A new military order had been nailed to their trees. It informed them that...

On Sunday October 13th anti-apartheid activist Na'eem Jeenah presented a lecture at McGill University in Montreal entitled "The African Apartheid and the Palestinian Plight." During his lecture Jeenah made mention of various practices of the South African government during apartheid and showed how these practices share commonalities with the current Israeli government's treatment of  the Palestinian people. Jeenah, a South African Muslim, is also an author, journalist, community leader,...

Khalida Jarrar is a leading member of the PFLP, deputy at the PLC (Palestinian Legislative Council), heads the PLC’s prisoners’ committee and acts as the Palestinian representative in the Council of Europe, an international organization promoting human rights and democracy around the world.  Khalida, who has spent 34 months of the last four years in Israeli jails, speaks of her imprisonment without trial by the Israeli military courts that control Palestinian lives, Israel's limiting of Red...

Discussion centers on SNCC, voting registration in Lowndes County, the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr.'s views on the Vietnam War, the tactic of nonviolence, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the James Meredith March and many other subjects. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly...

(2012) This is Hassan Nasrallah's his first interview in the West since 2006. From a secret location in Lebanon, Nasrallah gives Assange a rare and frank insight into his vision for the future of the Middle East. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]

Original Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhqt0Agklg Black Liberation Media can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackLiberationMedia Joining and speaking with Ajamu were Erica Caines, Kamau Franklin, and Hiram Rivera - all important organizers in their own right. The Remix Morning Show airs Friday mornings 8-10 EST. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is...

The leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, sacked as Prime Minister by President Mahmoud Abbas, has launched an appeal for a long-term ceasefire with Israel. In an exclusive interview with EuroNews:, he also urged Europe to play an active role in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like...

Masseer Especial Journal, which belongs to Khamenei.ir, has conducted an interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is published for the first time. The following is part one of the interview: In an extensive interview with an Especial Journal belonging to Khamenei.ir, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah elaborated on formerly unrevealed issues regarding the relations between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the second part of the...

Colin Edwards interviews Miss Leila Khaled, a young Palestinian woman who has become a heroine to the whole Arab world through leading a two-man team in taking over a TWA airliner between Rome and Athens and ordering it to proceed first to Lydda, to circle over her homeland to challenge the Israelis, and then to Damascus where she blew up the entire front end. A member of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she describes the origins of that movement, its...

On 25th March 2011, Palestinian activist Maha Rahwanji hosted a mesmerising evening in conversation with Ramzy Baroud, the editor-in-chief of the Palestine Chronicle, about his recent book 'My Father Was A Freedom Fighter - Gaza's Untold Story'. The book can be described as a 'peoples history' of Palestine - by following the lives of one family - the authors, the heart-rending history of the Palestinian people from the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba, to growing up as refugees under Israeli...

Chairman Omali speaks on the current crisis of US Imperialism and the Presidential elections. The Chairman explains how Barack Obama's run for US presidency is essentially another case of White Power in Black Face. Omali Yeshitela live on Uhuru Radio.com on Nov. 9, 2008 discussing the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president and the growing movement for African Liberation. With Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford, Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Luwezi Kinshasa, Nyabinga D'zimbabwe and...

Long documentary about kids in Palestine (one of them in Dheisheh Refugee camp) arrested, beaten, interrogated, tortured, and imprisoned by Israeli forces. (Nora Barrows-Friedman, 47 minutes) As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected] As always, edited by Ian...

1: "Portrait of a 'terrorist' (Robert Mugabe)" (1980) 2: "Not In A 1000 Years (Mugabe)" (1983) As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]

Joseph Massad teaches Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. He is the author of Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (Columbia University Press, 2001), The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism (Routledge, 2006), Desiring Arabs (University of Chicago Press, 2007). His book Desiring Arabs received the Lionel Trilling Book Award in 2008. Professor Massad has written extensively on the...

World Pride, an international queer celebration and festival, was scheduled to take place in the city of Jerusalem from August 18-28, 2005. Under the slogan 'love without borders", the event aimed to bring queer people from all over the world to Jerusalem, one of the most militarized, divided, and segregated cities in the world. Here, we speak with Kate Raphael-Bender, a Palestine solidarity activist based in San Francisco, and a member of QUIT - Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism. QUIT...

Audio taken from the Syrian Conflict Conference in Sydney Australia. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @AntiImpArchive, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected]