By Any Means Necessary

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Leo Flores, Latin America Campaign Coordinator at CODEPINK, to discuss the victory in Peru’s presidential claimed by union organizer Pedro Castillo last night, efforts by neoliberal candidate Keiko Fujimori to sow doubt on the certainty of Castillo’s election, and the kind of response Peruvians can expect from the US government and the transnational ruling class.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Zoe Pepper-Cunningham, a journalist with People’s Dispatch, to discuss the insistence by Vice President Kamala Harris that Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States “do not come,” and the role of the US government in creating the hellish conditions from which millions in the Northern Triangle seek to escape.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, to discuss voting rights laws, why Joe Manchin is opposing the For The People Act, and the racist character of voter suppression and the filibuster.


In the second segment Sean and Jacquie are joined by independent journalist, writer and researcher Denis Rogatyuk to discuss the elections in Peru between socialist Pedro Castillo and far right Keiko Fujimori. Rogatyuk explains the political and historical context behind this election and what a Castillo victory would mean for Latin America’s “Pink Tide.”


In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Technologist and editor of TechForThePeople.org Chris Garaffa to discuss how the hack that took down Colonial Pipeline was traced back to a single compromised password, the negligence of companies in password encryption that makes them vulnerable to these types of breaches, how Amazon’s doorbell camera Ring does not make neighborhoods safer despite their inflated claims, and how it is possible to get safety laws passed without the use of privacy-compromising cameras.


In the last segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Jared Ball, father, husband, Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, the curator of imixwhatilike.org and author of the book, “The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power to discuss cryptocurrency and its viability as an alternative form of currency outside of The Market, the implications of Naomi Osaka’s stance on avoiding required interviews on the role of corporate media in sports and mental health, the growth of the celebrity activist industry, the implications of the sports media juggernaut Osaka refuses to endure and how that translates to how the media writ large engages with radicals and revolutionaries, how Kwame Brown is exposing the avaricious nature of the sports media complex and is redefining the idea of success in the sports world, and how the current new cold war against China might play out in the coverage of the upcoming Olympics in Beijing.

In this segment Sean and Jacquie are joined by independent journalist, writer and researcher Denis Rogatyuk to discuss the elections in Peru between socialist Pedro Castillo and far right Keiko Fujimori. Rogatyuk explains the political and historical context behind this election and what a Castillo victory would mean for Latin America’s “Pink Tide.”

In this segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Technologist and editor of TechForThePeople.org Chris Garaffa to discuss how the hack that took down Colonial Pipeline was traced back to a single compromised password, the negligence of companies in password encryption that makes them vulnerable to these types of breaches, how Amazon’s doorbell camera Ring does not make neighborhoods safer despite their inflated claims, and how it is possible to get safety laws passed without the use of privacy-compromising cameras.

In this segment Sean and Jacquie are joined by Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, to discuss voting rights laws, why Joe Manchin is opposing the For The People Act, and the racist character of voter suppression and the filibuster.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Wyatt Reed, By Any Means Necessary producer, to give us an on-the-ground update on the elections in Mexico and the “information warfare” being waged to undermine the Morena Party and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.


In the second segment Jacquie and Sean are joined by Stepen Gowans Author of Washington's Long War on Syria; Patriots,Traitors and Empires; and Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East, to discuss what’s motivating the US government rehashing the Wuhan lab leak conspiracy, how the leak theory obscures how poorly the United States has handled the coronavirus pandemic and how Washington seems to only care about ‘authoritarianism’


In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kamm Howard, National Male Co-Chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) to discuss the current state of the demand for reparations in America in light of the renewed national focus on the 1921 Greenwood Massacre, whether Biden’s recognition of the massacre and the proclamation he issued to recognize it reflects the Administration’s stance and any expectation of progress proponents have on reparations, and the continued work of N’COBRA and legislators who have signed on to sponsor H.R. 40 to keep the issue as a focus of the Administration’s policy agenda.


In the last segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Monica Cruz, host of the ‘On the Picket Line’ Podcast and co-host of ‘It’s Not You It’s Capitalism’ with Breakthrough News, to discuss growing pro-Palestianian protests at major shipping ports to call attention to US support of Israel's crimes through importing its products, the pervasive role of propaganda in the way the Palestinian struggle is viewed in the US, the underreported ongoing coal miners’s strike in Alabama, the importance of the growing labor movement emerging in the US South among historically oppressed workers, and the need to continue to focus on international solidarity in labor struggles.

In this segment Jacquie and Sean are joined by Stepen Gowans Author of Washington's Long War on Syria; Patriots,Traitors and Empires; and Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East, to discuss what’s motivating the US government rehashing the Wuhan lab leak conspiracy, how the leak theory obscures how poorly the United States has handled the coronavirus pandemic and how Washington seems to only care about ‘authoritarianism’

In this Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kamm Howard, National Male Co-Chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) to discuss the current state of the demand for reparations in America in light of the renewed national focus on the 1921 Greenwood Massacre, whether Biden’s recognition of the massacre and the proclamation he issued to recognize it reflects the Administration’s stance and any expectation of progress proponents have on reparations, and the continued work of N’COBRA and legislators who have signed on to sponsor H.R. 40 to keep the issue as a focus of the Administration’s policy agenda.

On this episode of “By Any Means Necessary” hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dan Cohen, filmmaker and journalist with Behind the Headlines to discuss the coalition forming inside Israel to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the far-right racist politics of Naftali Bennet, who is set to be PM should the coalition succeed and how Israel will still remain an apartheid state even if Netanyahu is ousted.

In the second segment Sean and Jacquie are joined by Jose Cortes, working class Latino candidate for California’s 50th congressional district with the Peace and Freedom Party to discuss Jose’s congressional campaign, the appeal that a Socialist program has to conservative working class communities how capitalism maneuvers to keep progressive and radical candidates off the ballot and off the debate stage.


In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast for our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report” where they discuss the NFL promising to end “race norming”, Naomi Osaka and the tokenizing of mental health in professional sports and the whitewashing of “Coach K” Mike Krzyzewski’s history as he nears retirement.


Later in the show Sean and Jacquie and joined by Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, assistant professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College, Visiting Scholar with the Race and Capitalism Project at the University of Chicago, and author of the book, “W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History,” to discuss the skewed narrative around the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, how it reinforces faith in an exploitative capitalist system, the importance of a class analysis on Black History and how the Radical Black Peace Activism of W.E.B. DuBois resonates with social movements today.