President Trump’s cancellation of the CIA’s longstanding mission to train, arm and finance a jihadist overthrow of the Syrian government is recognition that “the Obama war has basically failed,” said Ajamu Baraka, spokesperson for the newly organized Black Alliance for Peace and the Green Party’s 2016 vice presidential candidate. Given that the military and intelligence services rebelled against President Obama’s attempts to cooperate with the Russians in Syria, last year, “it remains to be seen to what extent these elements of the ‘deep state’ are going to obey that directive,” said Baraka, who is also an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report.
In this week’s segment, we hear about the Southern Human Rights Organizers' Conference (SHROC), which will be held in Jackson, Mississippi, in December. But we begin with an analysis of the Michigan…
Abayomi Azikiwe is editor of the Pan-African Newswire and a Detroit-based activist. Abdul El-Sayed won his election and will represent Michigan as a United States senator. He defied the Democratic…
Jaribu Hill is the executive director of the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights in Greenville, Mississippi. She joins us from Greenville to discuss the upcoming Southern Human Rights…
Jemima Pierre joined Jamarl Thomas to discuss the ongoing occupation of Haiti, deaths at the hands of Eric Prince's mercenaries, El Salvador's intervention at the behest of the U.S., and the…
Public opposition to war with Iran has forced Trump to wait until after the midterm elections to commit more war crimes. But all signs point to an imminent attack.
