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The Power of Nightmares

Last week, the US military presented videos seized in Iraq apparently from Al Qaeda hideouts. The videos show fighters training children who could be as young as ten years old to kidnap and kill. The images were broadcast widely and came on the heels of twin suicide bombings in Baghdad carried out by explosives strapped to two mentally ill women. Violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many other countries in South and West Asia, has become commonplace and a seemingly inevitable part of our post-9-11 world.

But what are the origins of today’s international conflict that the US calls the “Global War on Terror”? A three-part documentary produced by British film maker Adam Curtis …

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This week on Uprising: a one-hour Black History Month special on the Black Panther Party

* Conversation with Elaine Brown, the only woman to have chaired the BPP
* Framing the Black Panthers: The Rise of a Black Power Icon

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Today we spend the hour celebrating Black History Month with a special focus on the Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as it was originally called, was established to promote the civil …

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The Legacy of Malcolm X

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska to Earl and Louise Little. Like all black Americans, his family experienced violent racism even from before his birth. Malcolm’s mother was threatened by the KKK while pregnant with him. The Klansmen warned the family to leave Omaha, because of Malcolm’s father’s political activities with the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Three of Malcolm X’s uncles died violently at the hands of white men and his grand uncle was lynched. When he was 4 years old, after his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they were harassed by a white supremacist group called The Black Legion; two years later, his father died a violent death …

“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.” Malcolm X, 1965

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Mad About Chomsky

Today we spend the hour hearing in-depth analysis of domestic and foreign policy over 4 decades by philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer, Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The year he will turn 80 years old, we celebrate the brilliance of Chomsky, who has become so much an institution, that Robert Barsky wrote a book last year called “The Chomsky Effect.”

Chomsky is well known for several things – in his field of academic study, he is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive …

“There are many ways to promote democracy at home, carrying it to new dimensions. Opportunities are ample, and failure to grasp them is likely to have ominous repercussions: for the country, for the world, and for future generations.” — Noam Chomsky

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John Pilger’s War on Democracy

What do Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Bolivia have in common? These Latin American countries are the focus of a brand new documentary by award winning film maker John Pilger called the War on Democracy. All these countries and more, have been at one point or another, the targets of American military intervention, usually for the sake of promoting US corporate interests.

John Pilger, an Australian journalist and documentary film maker, now based in England, has made over 50 documentaries for British television – none of which have ever aired in the United States, although many deal with US policy. Pilger is a seasoned journalist who has worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Cambodia, …

“The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague [Latin] America with misery in the name of liberty.” — Simon Bolivar

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Poets and Philosophers, Rabble Rousers and Revolutionaries

Today we spend the hour listening to some remarkable audio history from the Pacifica Radio Archives, a treasure trove of recorded speeches, collected interviews and radio documentaries spanning decades of programming from the Pacifica Radio Network. The Pacifica Radio Archives is home to nearly 50,000 tapes, featuring the words and wisdom of a broad diversity of leaders and participants in the movements for peace and social justice. Housed in the archives are such voices as Bertolt Brecht, Rachel Carson, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and hundreds of others, whose names we may not even know.

Each week, the Pacifica Radio Archives creates a one-hour program focusing on a particular person …

“I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -that history is a protective armor against being misled.” –- Howard Zinn