By Any Means Necessary

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Bill Honigman, California State Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of the Healthcare as a Human Right Issue Organizing Team for Progressive Democrats of America to discuss the effort to pass single-payer health care in California, the opposition that the measure faces from the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, how California’s proposed single-payer system would help reduce racial disparities in health, and how California’s effort can provide a starting point in the movement for medicare for all in the US.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie discuss the anniversary of the murder of World War II veteran Louis Allen and its significance in the context of the Biden administration’s failure to pass reforms like the Build Back Better Bill and voting rights protection, how his murder exposes the mythology of American exceptionalism and the necessity of Black leaders to kowtow to the carnage of the America

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Bill Honigman, California State Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of the Healthcare as a Human Right Issue Organizing Team for Progressive Democrats of America to discuss the effort to pass single-payer health care in California, the opposition that the measure faces from the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, how California’s proposed single-payer system would help reduce racial disparities in health, and how California’s effort can provide a starting point in the movement for Medicare for all in the US.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Maia McCall, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Washington, DC and a student at American University to discuss the DC Metropolitan Police Department’s recruitment of high school students into its ranks as it criminalizes them, how this program targets children who live in poverty to serve as an occupation force for their communities, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the MPD pushing this program as an anti-poverty program and using it to push the false narrative of so-called “community policing,” and how this policy exposes the anti-people program of Muriel Bowser.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dan Kovalik, author of The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil to discuss a recently revealed US military bombing of a dam in Syria that would have killed more people than the entire war, the US military’s continued operations in the country and the la

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Maia McCall, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Washington, DC and a student at American University to discuss the DC Metropolitan Police Department’s recruitment of high school students into its ranks as it criminalizes them, how this program targets children who live in poverty to serve as an occupation force for their communities, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the MPD pushing this program as an anti-poverty program and using it to push the false narrative of so-called “community policing,” and how this policy exposes the anti-people program of Muriel Bowser.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports to discuss the loopholes in recent Minor League Baseball housing rights that would allow teams to essentially continue its practice of exploiting players as Major League Baseball’s owner-driven lockout continues, the propaganda campaign against China ramping up as it prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics, and how sports plays into the broader cold war drive against China.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Chris Smalls, President of the Amazon Labor Union, founder of The Congress Of Essential Workers, and host of the podcast “It’s a Smalls World,” to discuss the struggle of Staten Island Amazon warehouse workers to unionize their workplace and the National Labor Relations Board’s granting of an election to the workers of the warehouse, how this fits into the broader movement to organize Amazon workers and the resurgent labor movement, and the propaganda campaign Amazon has deployed in schools.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Stephen Gowans, author of the forthcoming book “The Killer’s Henchman: Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster” to discuss the truth about the current tensions between the US and NATO and Russia over Ukraine, the media’s demonization of Russia as an aggressor rather than acknowledging NATO’s historic role as a threat to the sovereignty of other nations, and the role of Canada in

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Stephen Gowans, author of the forthcoming book “The Killer’s Henchman: Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster” to discuss the truth about the current tensions between the US and NATO and Russia over Ukraine, the media’s demonization of Russia as an aggressor rather than acknowledging NATO’s historic role as a threat to the sovereignty of other nations, and the role of Canada in aiding the US in playing up this crisis.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Jemima Pierre, Haiti/Americas Coordinator for the Black Alliance for Peace to discuss Joe Biden’s cruel record on immigration one year into his presidency, the continuation of cruel policies like Title 42 and the Remain in Mexico policy, the particular issues faced by Black migrants at the border and in Mexico, and the cruelty of the Biden administration deporting Haitians back to Haiti as it continues to destabilize the country and create conditions for danger.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Greg Palast, author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and investigative reporter, whose work you can find at gregpalast.com to discuss record rejections of mail-in ballot applications in Texas and the disproportionate impact on Black and Latino urban voters, the false idea of the fraudulent voter that is behind this voter suppression efforts and the economic elite behind the idea, the long-standing trend around voter ID laws and how they punish poor voters, and the lack of action from the Biden administration in protection of voting rights.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Paul Pumphrey, Founding Board Member of Friends of The Congo to discuss the recent coup in Burkina Faso and the resource and economic interests that neocolonial actors have that could be aided by the coup, why nations like France would be interested in the political disruption in

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear to discuss the anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons becoming international law, the growing movement against nuclear proliferation, how geopolitics affects the campaign for denuclearization as major nuclear powers continue to refuse to ratify the prohibition, and the growing movement pushing the United States to disarm and end the threat of nuclear war.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Greg Palast, author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and investigative reporter, whose work you can find at gregpalast.com to discuss record rejections of mail-in ballot applications in Texas and the disproportionate impact on Black and Latino urban voters, the false idea of the fraudulent voter that is behind this voter suppression efforts and the economic elite behind the idea, the long-standing trend around voter ID laws and how they punish poor voters, and the lack of action from the Biden administration in protection of voting rights.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Mohamed Elmaazi, journalist and editor of the Interregnum to discuss a ruling from the UK High Court allowing Julian Assange to appeal US efforts to extradite and charge him for revealing crimes of the world’s most powerful governments, the smear campaign against Julian Assange while he was provided refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, how this persecution exposes the fraud that US claims about press freedoms are.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Adrienne Pine, retired Associate Professor of Anthropology at American University and co-editor of the book Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry to discuss an attempted legislative coup against president-elect Xiomara Castro and the Libre Party, issues of corruption and greed among elected officials in the Libre Party that may have contributed to this disruption, and the victory of the Honduran people in defending Castro and th

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by technologist Chris Garaffa, the editor of TechforthePeople.org to discuss US law enforcement agencies ordering Whatsapp to help spy on Whatsapp accounts belonging to Chinese users, reports that Israeli police have used NSO’s Pegasus program to spy on Israeli citizens and the program’s testing on Palestinians and targets of other nationalities, and the IRS requiring the use of a new identification system that requires uploading a selfie and the security risks it poses.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Mohamed Elmaazi, journalist and editor of the Interregnum to discuss a ruling from the UK High Court allowing Julian Assange to appeal US efforts to extradite and charge him for revealing crimes of the world’s most powerful governments, the smear campaign against Julian Assange while he was provided refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, how this persecution exposes the fraud that US claims about press freedoms are.

The Violence of The Biden-Harris Administration, WHO’s Tedros Caught Violating UN Rules, Ola Bini Prosecuted Amid War on Journalism

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Zoe Pepper-Cunningham, a journalist with People’s Dispatch to discuss the trial of software developer Ola Bini, irregularities in his arrest, detention, and trial which raise serious concerns about the fairness of his trial, how the US government may have played a role in the prosecution of Bini following the election of President Lenin Moreno, the connections between his case and that of Julian Assange, and how this case relates to the broader war on information and the freedom of journalists to expose crimes of the powerful.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Simon Tesfamariam, executive director of the New Africa Institute to discuss WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus violating UN rules to advance the interests of Tigray People's Liberation Front, his history of shady deeds as an official in the TPLF government of Ethiopia prior to the election of Abiy Ahmed, the TPLF’s alleged abuse of UN aid and targeting of vulnerable groups in Tigray, and the TPLF’s use of US influence in the current conflict in Ethiopia.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and author of “Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging” to discuss the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision outlining the right to abortion and attempts to roll back reproductive rights, how popular struggle, and not the benevolence of the Supreme Court, was responsible for the Roe decision and for reproductive care, and how women are organizing today against attacks on the right to abortion and the Supreme Court’s potential overturning of Roe.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss the New York Times’ use of far-right and racialized rhetoric in its coverage of China’s policies to combat COVID-19, its disgusting comparison of the bureaucracy of the Chinese response to COVID-19 to the bureaucracy involved in the Holocaust, why the mainst

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Ari Paul, Contributing Writer to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting to discuss the New York Times’ use of far-right and racialized rhetoric in its coverage of China’s policies to combat COVID-19, its disgusting comparison of the bureaucracy of the Chinese response to COVID-19 to the bureaucracy involved in the Holocaust, why the mainstream media’s biased coverage of China’s response is related to the abject deference of the US COVID response to capital, and the double standards employed by the mainstream media to magnify issues with China’s lockdown as it fails to cover the failures of the US response.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and author of “Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging” to discuss the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision outlining the right to abortion and attempts to roll back reproductive rights, how popular struggle, and not the benevolence of the Supreme Court, was responsible for the Roe decision and for reproductive care, and how women are organizing today against attacks on the right to abortion and the Supreme Court’s potential overturning of Roe.