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Listen to/stream the February 29, 2012 edition of AFRICENTRIC RADIO for: Minister Faust’s exclusive conversation with Alternative Radio founder David Barsamian in advance of his speech for the Edmonton Public Library’s Freedom to Read Week, a free event this Saturday night at the Stanley Milner Branch. Ralph Nader on medicare and the global threat of energy inefficiency A commentary by journalist Mumia Abu Jamal on one of the most significant revolutionary thinkers of the 20th Century, the Martiniquan psychiatrist and national liberation insurgent, Frantz Fanon!

How do we as African peoples, anywhere in the world, free ourselves from economic and political domination? Maybe that question makes losers of us from the beginning. Maybe the question should be, "Since we're living in what seems destined to be the Chinese Century, what giant leaps can we make now so that the 2100s will be the Pan-African Century?" We could begin by asking Fred Swaniker. He's the founder of the African Leadership Academy, and he's recently launched the African Leadership Network Conference, which features a pan-African array of energetic leaders in a TED-style speakers’ forum. Participants expand their social networks, allowing them to build the continent intellectually, culturally, economically, and politically with a range of allies they would otherwise never meet. The ALN provides a context in which the continent is not ignored, and is not a target for contempt disguised as compassion. New generation of Africa's Leaders must rise t...

"'Just War' is Just Words" by Ralph Nader President Obama, the Afghan war escalator, received the Nobel Pe ace Prize in Oslo, Norway, and proce eded to deliver his acceptance speech outlining the three criteria for a “just war” which he himself is violating. The criteria are in this words: “If it is waged as a last resort or in self-defense; if the force used is proportional; and if, whenever possible, civilians are spared from violence.” After 9/11, warmonger George W. Bush could have used the international law doctrine of hot pursuit with a multilateral force of commandoes, linguists and bribers to pursue the backers of the attac kers. Instead, he blew the cou ntry of Afghanistan apart and started occupying it, joined forces with a rump regime and launched a divide-and-rule tribal strategy that set th e stage for a low-tiered civil war. Eight yea rs later, Obama is expanding the war within a graft-ridden government in Kabul, fraudulent elections, an Afghan army of ...

Misusing professional cadets at West Point as a political prop, President Barack Obama delivered his speech on the Afghanistan war forcefully but with fearful undertones. He chose to escalate this undeclared war with at least 30,000 more soldiers plus an even larger number of corporate contractors. He chose the path the military-industrial complex wanted. The military planners, whatever their earlier doubts about the quagmire, once in, want to prevail. The industrial barons because their sales and profits rise with larger military budgets. A majority of Americans are opposed or skeptical about getting deeper into a bloody, costly fight in the mountains of central Asia while facing recession, unemployment, foreclosures, debt and deficits at home. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), after hearing Mr. Obama’s speech said, “Why is it that war is a priority but the basic needs of people in this country are not?” Let’s say needs like waking up to do something about 60,000 fatalities a year i...

"The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same " by Ralph Nader While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, I counseled “prepare to be disappointed.” His record as a Illinois state and U.S. Senator, together with the many progressive and long overdue courses of action he opposed during his campaign, rendered such a prediction unfortunate but obvious. Now this sam e intelligentsia is beginning to howl over Obama’s transition team and early choices to run his Administration. Having defeated Senator Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries, he now is busily installing Bill Clinton’s old guard . Thirty one out of forty seven people that he has named so far for transition or appointments have ties to the Clinton Administration , according to Politico. One Clintonite is quoted in the Washington Post as saying – “This isn’t lightly flavored with Clintons. This is all Clintons, all the time.” Obama’s “ foreign policy tea...

In the Public Interest Between Hope and Reality by Ralph Nader Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs to contrary centers of power that want not "hope and change" but the continuation of the power-entrenched status quo. Far more than Senator McCain, you have received enormous, unprecedented contributions from corporate interests, Wall Street interests and, most interestingly, big corporate law firm attorneys. Never before has a Democratic nominee for President achieved this supremacy over his Republican counterpart. Why , apart from your unconditional vote for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, are these large corporate interests investing so much in Senator Obama ? Could it be that in your state Senate record, your U.S. Senate record and your pres...

Ralph Nader called out Obama, AGAIN, and deservedly so. Will Obama have the guts to debate him? I think not. Nader said the following: "Senator Obama said earlier today that I haven't been paying attention to his campaign. Actually, I have. And it's clear from Senator Obama's campaign that he is not willing to tackle the white power structure - whether in the form of the corporate power structure or many of the super-rich - who are taking advantage of 100 million low income Americans who are suffering in poverty or near poverty. Senator Obama is opposed to single payer national health insurance. Why? Because he favors the health insurance giants over the millions of Americans in poverty or near poverty who are uninsured or under-insured. Eighteen thousand Americans die every year because they cannot afford health insurance, according to the Institute of Medicine. Senator Obama wants to expand the military budget which is loaded with waste, fraud and abu...

And, for those whose hopes for a better America are so strong and so heartfelt that they've placed their hopes in Barack Obama , I strongly suggest you examine the following: Part 1 of Ralph Nader on Barack Obama: “It is Quite Clear He is a Corporate Candidate from A to Z” Part 2 of Ralph Nader on Barack Obama: “It is Quite Clear He is a Corporate Candidate from A to Z” Part 3 of Ralph Nader on Barack Obama: “It is Quite Clear He is a Corporate Candidate from A to Z”

CJSR FM88 www.cjsr.com 6 PM Mountain Time I have never seen a movement in the United States gather as much excitement and momentum as the campaign to deliver the nomination of the US Democratic Party to Barack Obama. It’s easy to get excited by it, and I get it. I never expected to see, in my own lifetime, any African-American achieve the presidency, and its looks as of this broadcast—recorded on Tuesday night before the results of the March 4th primaries are in—as if Obama will get the nomination and win the White House. But my own excitement, based in part on seeing a man from my own so-called race get this far—indeed, like me, Obama is half-Kenyan—doesn’t overpower my determination to see justice advanced, not just image. From what I can see, the primary appeal of the Obama campaign is what it wants to symbolise: that the United States has overcome racial discrimination, that the US need not be a warlike society driven by an economic and cultural imperative to dominate and...

SCI FI Wire writes: "SF author Minister Faust, whose novel From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain is a finalist for this year's Philip K. Dick Award, told SCI FI Wire that he wrote the book to satirize self-help books, psychoanalysis and the Bush administration . "'Maybe because each of those sources is either telling u s how to live or forcing us to live a certain way,' Faust said in an interview. 'Am I satirizing superheroes? Sure, but they were just col lateral damage for the larger satire.' "On the surface, From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain is presented as if it is actually a self-help book for superheroes, Faust said. 'It's o ne analyst's take on the world's mightiest super-team, the F*O*O*J, after they've defeated all their enemies,' he said. 'Without external enemies, the federally funded F*O*O*Jsters turn on themselves, inadvertently revealing all their kinks , issues and aggression. Ordered [to enter] group therapy ...

Br. Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report writes: "Finally, the most accomplished slickster in presidential history, Bill Clinton , was compelled to expose Barack Obama's 'fairy tale' anti-war history - some truth for a 'change.' Black Agenda Report knows the story very well, after more than four years of observing Obama's descent from vaguely progressive rhetoric to shameless pandering (to whites) and vapid 'Change!' mantra nonsense. Only the rich can win this game." Ralph Nader's Nader.org carries this "Obama Fable": "Guy number four—'You’re one of those smart Haavard lawyers, Barack. You were a constitutional law teacher. You were against the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. So, why aren’t you putting two and two together—impeachment of the war criminals in the White House followed by conviction in the Senate?' "Obama—'You don’t understand (testily), impeachment talk is just more of the same old Washi...