The Anti-Imperialist Archive

Included are several episodes taken across different years in the 80s from Alternative Views, a public access TV show in Austin, Texas. 159. INSIDE LEBANON In an interview and a documentary we get an intimate feel for the situation in Lebanon from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides. Israeli citizen and Peace Now activist Ilan Ziv is a photo-journalist who made a documentary inside Lebanon duri...

This lecture titled "The Hundred Year War in Palestine" was given by Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University) at the Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS University of London on 11 March 2016. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 launched what amounts to a hundred years of war against the Palestinians. This war had a unique nature – it was formally sanctioned and authorized by the great powers of the day a...

ABC Aus interview with Ashrawi (2011) Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a compelling and influential voice in the contemporary theatre of Middle Eastern politics, has been a central player in the struggle for a Palestinian homeland. Series: "Conversations with History" Second clip unknown source Palestinian scholar Hanan Ashrawi says Israel's latest assault on Gaza is turning life in the besieged territory into...

In this episode of Sidebar (Al-Jazeera), senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan dismisses accusations that the movement killed babies or used civilians as human shields. Hamdan says that Hamas' attack on October 7th was a preemptive one based on information the Al-Qassam Brigades had of an imminent war on Gaza being planned by Israel. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with specia...

In this year's Edward Said Memorial Lecture, Susan Abulhawa will provide valuable insight into Israel's global arms trade and exports, and how this ties into Israeli settler colonialism and oppression of Palestinians. Susan's website is https://susanabulhawa.com/ per her own bio: susan abulhawa is a novelist, poet, essayist, scientist, mother, and activist.  Her debut novel Mornings in Jenin  (Blo...

The first of two lectures by Ilan Pappé based on his book, of the same name as this lecture, and a semester long course that he teaches. In this lecture Pappé historicizes the Zionist movement, he discusses the historical period leading up to and proceeding the end of the British mandate in Palestine. Pappé discusses the US State Department's definition of ethnic cleansing, and argues that the for...

Decolonizing Israel - Full speech given by Ilan Pappe (Professor of History and Palestinian Studies at the University of Exeter) discussing how Zionist myths have shaped and perpetuated the Israel Lobby, and the need to change the lense which the Israel/Palestine conflict is viewed through in order to overcome these myths and resolve the conflict at the "Israel Lobby and American Policy" conferenc...

Salman Abu Sitta is best known for his work in geographically situating the Palestinian cause and how a practical Right of Return would restore the Palestinian people to their lands and homes. AlternateFocus feature: Professor Salman H. Abu-Sitta of the London-based Palestine Land Society gives a personal account of how he became a refugee in Palestine in 1948. Using data from his research, Abu-Si...

Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the "Jewish State"; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin wa...

Archive of "Moral Politics" series - a Seattle public access TV show. Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land uncovers distortion in U.S. media that reinforce false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This explains how - via manipulated language, framing and context - the Israeli occupation of the West Bank & Gaza remains hidden in our news. Worse still, the Israeli colonization of the...

Archive of "Moral Politics" series - a Seattle public access TV show. "Zionism is a racist ideology. We should all be proud anti-Zionists." Guest Ramzy Baroud - a Palestinian from Gaza Refugee Camp Nuseirat – rails against the twice victimization of Palestinians. First, Palestinians experienced "ethnic cleansing" for their land. Second, Palestinians suffer blame for terror so cruelly inflicted by...

Archive of "Moral Politics" alternatefocus series - a Seattle public access TV show. Hazem Jamjoum can be found at @ fightapartheid History of Palestine Zionism arrived in Palestine in the late 19th century as a colonialist movement motivated by national impulses. With the backing of Britain, the colonization project expanded and became a solid presence on the land after the war and with the estab...

Underground video was an important tool during the Marcos era and contributed to the Aquino revolution. In the rejuvenated atmosphere within traditional Philippine media institutions, President Aquino has become the protagonist in a soap opera and the brunt of ribald satiric humor. A skit on a weekly comedy show Six O'Clock News, where a genial Bush twists Aquino's arm for continued U.S. military...

The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) hosted a Book Launch and discussion with Najla Said (author) entitled "Looking for Palestine", at the American University of Beirut. 2014 Najla Said is a Palestinian writer and author, as well as the daughter of Edward Said, author of the Orientalism trilogy. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to...

COVERT ACTION (Part I) Our three-part series on covert action, featuring former CIA official John Stockwell and Louis Wolf, co-editor of Covert Action Information Bulletin, begins with an overview of the general nature and activities of the CIA. We then discuss how the "Intelligence Identities Protection Act" and the Reagan executive order on intelligence agencies would promote media self-censorsh...

Documentary Title: Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) Robert Greenwald compiles a number of arguments made around the hypothetical need to invade Iraq and thoroughly debunks them through this documentary - comparative as a more reasoned variant of Fahrenheit 9/11. Greenwald is also responsible for the creation of Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers (2006) - upcoming as Pt5 As always, edited by Ian An...

This is a compilation of three different clips - The first involving Eric Fair, a former Abu Ghraib interrogator, an unknown veteran, and Ethan McCord.  As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach...

First hour is two separate episodes on Mumia from DeepDishTV (2006, 2011), the third part is a feature Mumia had on Democracy Now in 2016, and we cap it off with two different interviews with Mumia's grandson Jamal Jr  (1) , and Jamal Jr with Noelle Hanrahan (2) , both done in 2021. Final two videos were filmed by hate5six. You can reach out to some of the Mumia support team through Prison Radio ,...

Documentary title: Iraq Warriors - a Graphic Story of Truth This documentary features a number of veterans speaking on the war crimes against the Iraqi people that they witnessed. We here at AIA make no endorsement of their status as veterans or anything otherwise. This was a project produced in 2011 by the now-defunct United National Peace Conference Media Project, sponsored by the Sanctuary for...

An Alternative Views feature - interview with a prominent Pravda commentator. With Gennadi Vassiliev, the chief Washington correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Pravda, we discuss the arms race and world peace. Vassiliev provides a touching and shocking account of the horrors the Soviet people have suffered as a result of wars and revolution the past seven decades, leaving them with a sincere des...

DeepDishTV feature - Documentary Anti-communism has been such a fixture of our conceptual landscape that many of us take it for granted. This film is lively compilation of clips from anti-communist propaganda films intercut with footage taken from an international conference at Harvard University in 1989. This show is an analytic and often humorous look at America's fear of red. Highlights of the...

HOLY TERROR Through an interview and an incredible documentary we take a comprehensive look at the radical Christian Right and its efforts to take over political power at all levels of society. Through information provided by undercover agents and by monitoring of Christian Coalition TV programs, the documentary shows the strategies, the deviousness, and the dangers which these religious fanatics...

070. NAGASAKI: A SURVIVOR'S STORY This powerful program recounts the horrors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing through slides and an interview with a man who was less than a mile from the hypocenter of the atomic bomb blast in Nagasaki. in addition to his experiences, we present comprehensive pictorial and narrative documentation, first, on the incendiary raids on Japan which preceded the atom...

A DeepDishTV production Per description - From One Prison: Women in jail for killing abusive husbands, Your daughter is here - young women at a detention center learn survival skills, Have You seen the Nueva Mujer Puertoriquena - puerto rican prisoners of war As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast

Export TV: Anatomy Of An Electronic Invasion This program investigates TV Marti, the US government propaganda broadcast aimed at Cuba. Experts in both Havana and Washington D.C. discuss the implications of the "electronic invasion" of Cuba. This activity violates Cuba's sovereign borders and the 1982 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) convention. This program raises the question, "What co...