By Any Means Necessary

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by By Any Means Necessary producer Wyatt Reed to discuss the massive celebrations commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, how the revolution—both in that country and in others on the continent—have their roots in Augusto Sandino’s successful military campaign to end US occupation nearly a century ago, and the corporate media disinformation campaign in defense of opposition figures tied to the deadly US-backed coup in the socialist country.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Tunde Osazua, Coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace’s U.S. Out of Africa Network, to discuss the recent drone strikes on Somalia by the US military under Joe Biden, the bizarre legal rationale of ‘collective self-defense’ which AFRICOM employed in defense of the deadly attack despite a complete lack of evidence that US forces were under threat, and the consistency of US imperialism under both Democrats and Republicans.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon & Jaqueline Luqman are joined by Frank Chapman, Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and author of the book, “Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism,” to discuss the new civilian oversight board being established over the Chicago Police Department, the furious reaction from the police union in Chicago, and why advocates for community control over policing view the board as an important victory over “police tyranny.”


In the second segment, Sean & Jaqueline are joined by Richard Becker, author of “Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire,” to discuss the recent decision by Ben & Jerry’s to end sales of its ice cream in Occupied Palestinian Territory, the outraged response from both liberal and conservative Zionists in the US and Israel, and why the move points to a “huge change” away from associating with Israeli apartheid among the Jewish population in the US and the international peace activist community.


In the third segment, Sean & Jaqueline are joined by international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda to discuss the new agreement between the United States and Germany by which the former will allow its ostensible ally to complete the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the bizarre accusation by the Ukrainian regime that the Russian government represents a threat to the global energy supply, and why Ukraine is so eager to prevent Russia from trading freely with the rest of Europe.


Later in the show, Sean & Jaqueline are joined by Dr. Jared Ball, a father, husband, Professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, the curator of imixwhatilike.org and author of the new book, “The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power,” to discuss a new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education called “The Pernicious Fantasy of the Nikole Hannah-Jones Saga,” how rappers like Jay-Z have been used to inject reactionary politics into Black consciousness, and why crypto-currency is unlikely to liberate many working people anytime soon.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda to discuss the new agreement between the United States and Germany by which the former will allow its ostensible ally to complete the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the bizarre accusation by the Ukrainian regime that the Russian government represents a threat to the global energy supply, and why Ukraine is so eager to prevent Russia from trading freely with the rest of Europe.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, host Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Frank Chapman, Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and author of the book, “Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism,” to discuss the new civilian oversight board being established over the Chicago Police Department, the furious reaction from the police union in Chicago, and why advocates for community control over policing view the board as an important victory over “police tyranny.”

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space to discuss billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson taking trips to space, the likelihood of a space tourism and colonization industry emerging out of this, and how commercialized casual space travel can exacerbate climate change.


In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie or joined by Zoe Pepper-Cunningham, a journalist with People’s Dispatch to discuss Pedro Castillo being declared the next President of Peru more than a month after elections, what this could portend for his far-right opponent Keiko Fujimori and what a socialist government in Peru means for the politics of the Latin American region.


In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Margaret Flowers, Co-Founder of Popular Resistance, Director of the Health Over Profit for Everyone Campaign, and host of the Clearing The Fog podcast to discuss the upcoming national marches for Medicare For All, the role the US response to the pandemic has played in exposing the need for M4A, how politicians’ push for the COVID-19 vaccine to save lives reveals the hypocrisy in other life-saving medications like insulin not being free and available to all, and the vaccine apartheid that the US has also contributed to the worsened an already deadly pandemic but reflects the true capitalist values of the US healthcare system.


Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Executive Director of One People’s Project to discuss the DEA agent charged in the Jan 6 fascist attack and the larger question the fascists and racists in law enforcement, whether the Congressional panel will accomplish that kind of accountability that it claims to pursue, the root of ongoing community violence in American cities, and how reactionary forces co-opting radical left language highlights the need for real revolutionary political education.

In this segment Sean and Jacquie are joined by Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space to discuss billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson taking trips to space, the likelihood of a space tourism and colonization industry emerging out of this, and how commercialized casual space travel can exacerbate climate change.

In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie or joined by Zoe Pepper-Cunningham, a journalist with People’s Dispatch to discuss Pedro Castillo being declared the next President of Peru more than a month after elections, what this could portend for his far-right opponent Keiko Fujimori and what a socialist government in Peru means for the politics of the Latin American region.

On this episode of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Christopher Bernadel with the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti and the Americas Committee to discuss who The Core Group is that is behind the announcement of a new Prime Minister and government in Haiti, who the dueling actors are in Haiti vying to head the country, and whether the people of Haiti are likely to be represented better than they were under Jovenel Moise or any other imperialist-installed leader.


In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Maritza Perez, Director, Office of National Affairs of the Drug Policy Alliance to discuss the draft bill to legalize marijuana proposed by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, whether the draft legislation sufficiently addresses the damage to Black, Latinx, immigrant and poor communities imposed through the War on Drugs, the questions raised by opponents on ways to continue criminalizing marijuana even as legalization is approved by a large majority of Americans, and how the legislation proposes to address curbing the capitalist nature of the legal cannabis business to ensure workers rights and retroactive justice.


In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Chris Garaffa, technologist and editor of TechForThePeople.org to discuss the spyware firm NSO’s ties to repressive states like Israel and Saudi Arabia, how the spyware is used to target human rights lawyers, activists, and journalists, how cellphone’s unique IDs like mobile advertising IDs (MAIDs) can be used to collect users’ personal data, and how facial recognition software has proven to be unreliable and racist once again, twice.


Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Danny Haiphong, Contributing Editor of Black Agenda Report, Co-Host of The Left Lens, and co-author of “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror” to discuss US President Joe Biden ordering a ‘review’ of remittances to Cuba, how progressives must maintain an anti-imperialist stance because of the material impacts of people on the ground in Cuba, how the New Cold War against China is connected to imperialist attacks on Cuba and the hypocrisy of the US government claiming suppression in other countries while it’s still such as issue within its borders.

In this segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Maritza Perez, Director, Office of National Affairs of the Drug Policy Alliance to discuss the draft bill to legalize marijuana proposed by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, whether the draft legislation sufficiently addresses the damage to Black, Latinx, immigrant and poor communities imposed through the War on Drugs, the questions raised by opponents on ways to continue criminalizing marijuana even as legalization is approved by a large majority of Americans, and how the legislation proposes to address curbing the capitalist nature of the legal cannabis business to ensure workers rights and retroactive justice.