The Anti-Imperialist Archive

An archive of speeches, lectures, and interviews compiled by Ian Anderson and published by Sina Rahmani. For educational purposes only. This feed will not be monetized and all materials used in the episodes can be found free online.

Ajamu Baraka - Remix Morning Show / Black Liberation Media Interview - The Uhuru Three Trial (2024) 10/05/2024

Ismail Haniyeh - Euronews Interview (2007) 10/01/2024

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah - PressTV Interview (2019) 10/01/2024

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah - PressTV Interview (2019) 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 interview, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah points out Imam Khamenei’s prediction regarding the Oslo Accord as well as Netanyahu’s error concerning the accord. In an extensive interview with Masseer Especial Journal--which belongs to Khamenei.ir-- Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah pointed out formerly undisclosed facts regarding relations between Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Imam Khamenei's command of international issues. The first and second part of the interview have been published over the past few days. In the third part of the interview, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah makes reference to a letter by Imam Khamenei which was deliver to him through General Ghasem Soleimani before the war with the Zionist Regime began. In an extensive interview with Masseer Especial Journal--which belongs to Khamenei.ir-- Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah pointed out formerly undisclosed facts regarding relations between Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Imam Khamenei's command of international issues. Parts one to three of this interview have been published over the past few days. In the fourth part, the Secretary General of Hezbollah has talked about the behind-the-scenes of the war on Syria as well as Imam Khamenei’s promise regarding the collapse of the Saudi regime. In an extensive interview with Masseer Especial Journal--which belongs to Khamenei.ir-- Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah pointed out formerly undisclosed facts regarding relations between Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Imam Khamenei's command of international issues. In the fifth and final part of the interview, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah of Lebanon elaborates on previously undisclosed facts regarding the tough war by Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq against the U.S.-backed ISIS. Pt1: Pt2: Pt3: Pt4: Pt5: As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected] /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/33269817

Leila Khaled - Colin Edwards Interview (1970) 09/29/2024

Ramzy Baroud - My Father Was A Freedom Fighter (2011) 09/25/2024

Omali Yeshitela - on Obama (2008) and Harris (2020) 09/21/2024

Documentary - Nora Barrows-Friedman - Israeli Children Torture (2010) 09/17/2024

Jenny Barraclough - Zimbabwe Documentaries (1980, '83) 09/13/2024

Joseph Massad - Right of Return Conference Keynote (2013) 09/09/2024

Kate Raphael-Bender - Queers Boycott Pride in Jerusalem (2005) 09/05/2024

Therese Taylor - "Gay Girl In Damascus": Analysis of a Cyberhoax (2017) 09/01/2024

(AIA Interviews) Dr Kerry Sinanan - Palestine, the Caribbean, and International Solidarity - Preview (2024) 08/28/2024

(AIA Interviews) Dr Kerry Sinanan - Palestine, the Caribbean, and International Solidarity - Preview (2024) Quick note - this is a preview, the full interview will be released shortly Dr Sinanan and I get into her background and connect these heritages back to the ongoing genocide (and revolution) happening in Gaza. Dr Sinanan is currently working to produce a new edition of The History of Mary Prince (1831) Calls to defund or at this level during BLM 2020, represented a new aspect of these protests, one that asks us to consider the protests themselves as part of the centuries-long continuum of slave rebellion. "Mary Prince’s Undisciplining Lessons: Counter-Narrative and Testimonio in The History," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.13: Iss.1, Article 11. This essay discusses teaching The History of Mary Prince at a Hispanic Serving Institution via Ethnic Studies praxis. It develops Nicole Aljoe’s definition of Prince’s narrative as counter-story and testimonio and explores the undisciplining effects of reading Prince’s history as relevant to the lives of Borderlands students. To understand the multiple meanings of “undisciplining’ this essay draws on the theory of Sylvia Wynter and shows how Prince’s testimonio offers an alternative to Western epistemologies via communal resistance and resurgence. Several pedagogic tools are explored for teaching Prince in this way. What does it mean to learn, think with, and remember the Middle Passage? Artist KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner) and Dr. Kerry Sinanan discuss contemporary and historical glass, the violence of consumption, and the transatlantic slave trade. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected] /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/32755262

Jeremy Scahill - On The Record With Hamas (2024) 08/25/2024

Omar Barghouti - The Case for Global BDS (2010) 08/21/2024

Omar Barghouti - The Case for Global BDS (2010) Co-founder Omar Barghouti makes the case for the global BDS campaign Omar Barghouti, a human rights activist and co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel , said on a Canadian speaking tour, that he is among the most optimistic in the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement against Israeli apartheid, but is himself surprised at the rapidity of its growth. The support for BDS / PACBI campaign, launched in 2005 by Palestinian civil society groups, is growing among student activist groups on campuses around the world, human rights and community groups, major musicians (American rock band The Pixies, Britain's Elvis Costello, rock guitarist Carlos Santana, and poet-musician Gil Scott-Heron), leading academics and cultural figures, trade unions across the globe, queer groups ( ), and others. "We never thought we would get here so fast because in the South African experience of the anti-apartheid movement it took about 25 years... to see anything happen in the mainstream of Western society." [part 2 of 11] Barghouti explains the dramatic growth of the BDS movement not only because of the "wonderful activists" in "saia, CAIA, QuAIA... Faculty for Palestine... Independent Jewish Voices and [groups in Palestine], but it's not just about that." There was also an "objective opening in the political spectrum" related to changes in public opinion, even in the establishment, that emerged in the wake of the United States and its allies' wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. [part 4 of 11] The BDS / PACBI campaign is based on the "application of international law consistently to everyone," and basic, liberal human rights principles. Its primary goals, says Barghouti, are to pressure Israel to uphold international law and end its illegal occupation of the Occupied Territories and to introduce universal human rights principles involving full equality rights for Palestinians: "The main aspect of the BDS call is its rights-based approach... Its focus is on three basic rights of the Palestinian people, which together constitute the minimum of the requirement to realize the right to self-determination: (1) [ending] the occupation of the 1967 Occupied Territories, all of them, (2) ending the system of racial discrimination within Israel, which is a system of apartheid, and (3) [instituting] the right of return for Palestinian refugees, who constitute the majority of the Palestinian people." [part 4 of 11] Barghouti says, "Ultimately, as the indigenous population, the most generous offer we can give to our colonial settlers is equality, but nothing more. Don't ask for colonial privileges. You will not get it." [part 6 of 11] In the Q&A period, Bargouti said the PACBI campaign is a mainstream, consensus movement focused squarely on BDS. Although Barghouti says he personally supports other progressive agendas, such as the anti-neoliberal globalization movement, women's rights, and so forth, the BDS movement focuses narrowly on BDS goals in order to remain broad-based and effective. It, however, defers to groups around the world on how to implement BDS in their local communities, whether they are full steps, half measures, 1/100th measures, anything that works. But Barghouti does not support the Sullivan Principles promoted by some in South Africa, which called for codes of conduct by transnational corporations in apartheid regimes, such as equal treatment of employees, regardless of race, because those companies' presence and taxes still support and legitimize apartheid in the state. [part 8 of 11] He supports the critical statement Bishop Desmond Tutu made in reference to the Sullivan Principles: "We don't need anyone to polish our chains. We want to break the chains altogether." The conversation with Barghouti, entitled "Questioning the Boycott of Israel: A Path to Justice or an Obatacle to Peace?" was presented by the University of Toronto Middle East History and Theory Workshop, and endorsed by the Political Spaces Research Cluster of the Department of Geography and the Graduate Students Union Social Justice Committee at the University of Toronto. The event was introduced and moderated by Jens Hanssen, Associate Professor of Middle East and Mediterranean History at the University of Toronto. October 26th, 2010 Bahen Centre, University of Toronto As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected] /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/31018478

Nada Elia - Confronting Apartheid (2012) 08/13/2024

Thomas Pettigrew - Dynamics of Desegregation: Caught on the Face of a Cliff (1962) 08/09/2024

Ilan Pappe - The False Paradigm of Peace: Revisiting the Palestine Question (2012) 08/05/2024

The Gaza Flotilla Massacre (2010) (Revised Episode) 08/01/2024

The Gaza Flotilla Massacre (2010) (Revised Episode) Note: This has been updated with an additional few pieces of audio and the original audio has been corrected for mistakes. 1st: Sherif Fam speaks to Greta Berlin on launch day. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla consists of six ocean vessels bearing about 10,000 tons of vital building and living materials and 700 unarmed civilians, pledged to nonviolent defiance of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, the only land in the world being denied access to its own sea. The passenger list includes prominent activists, even celebrities and parliamentarians from the world over. One such is a member of the Israeli Knesset, clearly facing prison or worse upon arrival back home. This exclusive historic interview was conducted and aired live from Cyprus just hours before the Gaza Freedom Flotilla launched and was later brutally attacked by Israeli gunfire in international waters, in defiance of international law and common decency. From reactions around the world, there is new hope that Israel has finally lost its impunity. We have not yet learned the names of the dead or the imprisonment/torture situation of the survivors. Various (mostly foreign) websites are carrying update information, among them: gazafreedommarch.org. This Week In Palestine (a weekly part of Truth and Justice Radio) is a monumentally important program 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, imprisonment, and murder, of their homeland, thanks in part to U.S. "leaders" and U.S. taxpayer funding. It's part of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-9:30am ET on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming (and also archived for two weeks) at wzbc.org. Our website, truthandjusticeradio.org, links to audio archives of 2008-2010 editions of This Week In Palestine 2nd: Kevin Neish, Flotilla survivor, speaks about his experiences abord the Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli commandos, and gives eyewitness accounts of the raid, and his time in detention. 3rd: Jesse Rosenfeld speaks on the media portrayal of the Gaza Flotilla Massacre Jesse is a Canadian print and video journalist based out of Ramallah and Tel Aviv-Jaffa since 2007. He is the print editor of The Daily Nuisance and has written from the Middle East for The Guardian, The Nation, The National (Abu Dhabi English language newspaper), Haaretz English, The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, NOW Magazine, Z Net and Electronic Intifada. He has also blogged forAllvoices.com, Mondoweiss and produced video content for The Daily Beast and The Real News. 4th: Farooq Burney is the Director of Al Fakhoora (http://www.fakhoora.org), an international campaign to defend the education rights of Palestinian students living in Gaza and the West Bank. He was transporting 65 computers to students in Gaza as part of the humanitarian mission. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/29535173

Ahmad Abuznaid - Black and Palestine Solidarity (2018) 07/29/2024

John Voll, Amjad Atallah - Hamas: Past and Present (2008) 07/25/2024

Kamau Franklin, Shar Bates, Mary Hooks, Marlon Kautz, Keyanna Jones - Stop Cop City Press Conference (2024) 07/21/2024

Kamau Franklin, Shar Bates, Mary Hooks, Marlon Kautz, Keyanna Jones - Stop Cop City Press Conference (2024) Recorded February 8, 2024 - Law enforcement officers from a joint task force that included the Atlanta Police Department, FBI, GBI and ATF executed one arrest warrant and three search warrants on two homes in the Lakewood Heights area and one in the Starlight Heights neighborhood that police say are associated with the Stop Cop City movement. At a press conference, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said the search warrants were for evidence related to a series of arson and vandalism attacks that took place over the last few months. The arrest warrant was for an arson against police motorcycles that took place in July at an APD facility at 180 Southside Industrial Pkwy, and the arrested individual was charged with first degree arson. Chief Schierbaum also said he anticipated additional arrests related to the acts of arson in the coming weeks. A second individual was taken from one of the three houses and detained for several hours at police headquarters. Due to an ongoing outage of Fulton County e-services after a hacking attack in January, phone lines at Fulton County Jail and the county’s online detainee registry are both offline, and the status of the arrested individual cannot be confirmed at this time. The Atlanta Community Press Collective obtained a copy of one of the search warrants, which were issued by a magistrate judge in United States District Court of Northern Georgia. Collected evidence included: laptops; cell phones; memory cards; a modem; and stickers, a flier, and a poster for Defend the Atlanta Forest. The search warrant alleged violation of federal statutes on destruction of motor vehicles or motor vehicle facilities, conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, transfer of explosives knowing or believing it will be used to commit a crime of violence, interstate domestic violence, and interstate and foreign travel or transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises. Police did not announce any charges related to these statutes. “These raids are an escalation at the federal level and an attack on the movement to disappear dissenters against Cop City,” said media contacts within the opposition movement to Cop City. Residents of one of the houses searched by police say the FBI busted down a side door and called for everyone to come outside where they were put into flex cuffs, placed into police vehicles, and eventually photographed by GBI agents. All residents and guests of that home were allowed to leave on their own power. A press release sent out by representatives of the Stop Cop City movement said that one officer found a nude photograph of resident of another house, which was then displayed to other officers. Another individual—who was not arrested—reported that policed dragged them by the hair while executing the search warrant. Representatives from the Atlanta Solidarity Fund told ACPC they plan to post bail for the arrested individual when possible. Activists announced a 5 p.m. press conference Thursday at 191 Peachtree Street, where the Atlanta Police Foundation is headquartered. The APF is the non-profit entity the city is using to build the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, called “Cop City” by opponents. Many of the acts of arson that occurred over the last few months were directed at companies contracted to construct the training center, which is the subject of a multi-year protest movement. The arsons are just one tool amongst a “diversity of tactics” used by opponents of the training center. Since 2021, activists have provided dozens of hours of public comment in front of the Atlanta City Council, held teach-ins and learning sessions, and engaged in acts of civil disobedience. The Stop Cop City vote coalition says it collected over 116,000 signatures on a petition for a referendum question that would allow voters to decide the fate of the facility. Despite turning in the referendum signatures in September, the city has yet to begin the process of validating those signatures and has spent over $1.2 million in legal fees fighting the referendum and other legal challenges in federal courts. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @, and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at: [email protected] We have AIA business cards with QR codes - please email or DM us to have one mailed to you /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/31091813

Nelson Mandela - Ted Koppel Town Hall Interview (1990) 07/17/2024

Roy Casagranda - Dreams & Genocide: Yemen (2019) 07/13/2024

Steven Salaita - First Peoples, Palestine and the Crushing of Free Speech (2015) 07/09/2024

Mustafa Barghouti, Jumana Odeh - Myths and Facts of the Second Intifada (2001) 07/05/2024

Shireen Al-Adeimi - Speaking Out on the Imperialist War on Yemen 07/01/2024

Shireen Al-Adeimi - Speaking Out on the Imperialist War on Yemen 1: Clip from Liberation/Stop the War Coalition online event on March 26 2022: Yemen: A 7-Year-Long Crime – End the Conflict Now! . Shireen refers to a video in her speech Hunger War - you can watch it here: More about Liberation: liberationorg.co.uk More about Stop the War Coalition: (2022) 2: Professor Shireen Al-Adeimi explains the US-Saudi war on the Yemen people including why it’s happening, who is responsible and how we can stop it. (2018) 3: For the last six years, Saudi Arabia and its allies with American military assistance have conducted an inconclusive proxy war in Yemen that, according to the United Nations, has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, especially for children. President Biden has now withdrawn U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia, but this is not enough. We need to mobilize support from our senators and representatives to push our President to help end the war and to support humanitarian aid for the Yemeni people. The Peace Education Center of Greater Lansing has invited Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi to give us a talk via Zoom on this topic. Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi is an expert on the war and humanitarian crisis in her country of birth, Yemen, and has been advocating for an end to US involvement there since 2015. She writes for In These Times and has been featured on NBC, NPR/PRI, The New York Times, Aljazeera, The Nation, Current Affairs, and others. She is also an assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University, where her research focuses on dialogic talk and student outcomes. (2021) 4: The United States and Britain launched dozens of military strikes on Yemen on Thursday, raising fears of an escalation of conflict in the region. The strikes, launched in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea that have disrupted global trade, left at least five people dead. The Houthi movement began targeting ships in November "essentially using a naval blockade in the Red Sea to prevent the blockade against civilians in Gaza," according to our guest, Yemeni American scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi. "This is an offensive act. This is a breach of Yemeni sovereignty," she says about the U.S. coalition's strikes, which were launched without approval from Congress, and which Al-Adeimi additionally characterizes as "a defense of capitalism." (2024) /episode/index/show/4084a94f-b1ea-4146-9e99-6bd47e9ddcef/id/31015053

July Update 06/30/2024

Radio 786, Hamid Rezk - Interview with Ansarallah (2023) 06/29/2024

Jon Elmer - The Gaza Pullout, After Effects ('05-'06) 06/27/2024

Fawaz Turki - Violence and Resistance in the Struggle for Palestine (1975) 06/24/2024

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