Episodes

Fascism on Trial: Education, and the Possibility of Democracy Fascist Germany’s industrial murder of Jews in Europe 80 years ago has been seared into the consciousness of humankind. Today its a great irony of history that the Israeli government, which claims to be the moral legatee of the holocaust, is carrying out a genocide against millions of Palestinians in Gaza. This is being done with the full support of the American government which supplies political, diplomatic, and propaganda cover f...

The Zionist's Long Term Plan The humanitarian catastrophe Israel has engineered, in Gaza has no president in the modern era, “ Patrick Lawrence recently wrote, in that “Israel hates the United Nations and all it stands for, international law above all, without limit." Last week using American airplanes and bombs, Israel illegally attacked Lebanon and then Syria. It is aiming to get the United States involved in a war against Iran. Israel’s action in overwhelming, displacing, and murdering the...

ACLU Vows To Protect Civil Liberties Today, with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, the nation is preparing for a devastating onslaught of civil rights and civil liberties abuses. Organizing, mobilizing, and resistance is going on all over the country. Within hours after the election, the ACLU made the following announcement. "Starting on day one, we’re ready to fight for our civil liberties and civil rights in the courts, in Congress, and in our communities. We did it during his fir...

Donald Trump Elected As The Next U.S. President The election of Donald Trump as our next president exposed a truth about where “we the people” are at. Because there could be no doubt in the minds of those who elected him what Trump intends to do once back in the White House. There was nothing vague about his platform. He made it clear he believes only he and other strongmen—and that’s “strong men”, not strong women-- should rule America. Women, in fact, are too weak to rule, or apparently, even...

Understanding Capitalism The great German playwright, and political figure, Berthold Brecht, observed that to understand fascism you have to understand capitalism, from whence it springs. Today, it is also helpful for us to understand that the rise of fascism in Germany 100 years ago, has parallels we can see now with the rise of fascism in the United States. Prior to World War I, which began in 1914, the German working class and middle class were relatively prosperous. The German unions were ...

Special Report: Global Threats To Freedom Of Expression Arising From Gaza Conflict On top of the devastating humanitarian crisis and the issues of genocide and violations of human rights in Gaza and the West Bank, there has been an unprecedented attack on freedom of the press and freedom of expression globally prompted by that war. In August, Irene Khan the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression issued an alarming report examining...

Today we turn to the status of press freedom in Israel. Since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and during the ensuing war in Gaza ever since, which is now moving into the West Bank, the pressure on journalists who are trying to cover what’s been happening there is increasing… and more dangerous. According to the New York-based Committee To Protect Journalists, the Israel-Gaza war has claimed the lives of more journalists over the course of a year than in any other conflict the organization ...

USPS: Concerns With Louis Dejoy And Election Integrity Free elections can too easily turn into hollow formalities when coercion, manipulation, or biased governance replace voter choice and participation. The United States Postal Service has historically been one of the most trusted government institutions in the United States, with a strong reputation for reliability and nonpartisanship. Until now. Louis DeJoy, a prominent Trump donor and former logistics executive, was appointed as Postmaster...

Fascism on Trial: Education, and the Possibility of Democracy Fascist Germany’s industrial murder of Jews in Europe 80 years ago has been seared into the consciousness of humankind. Today its a great irony of history that the Israeli government, which claims to be the moral legatee of the holocaust, is carrying out a genocide against millions of Palestinians in Gaza. This is being done with the full support of the American government which supplies political, diplomatic, and propaganda cover fo...

Complicity In Genocide: CCR Case Against The Biden Administration Update Last fall, the internationally acclaimed Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of several Palestinian groups and individuals against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, alleging that Israel's actions in Gaza have amounted to genocide and that Biden, Austin, and Blinken have failed their obligation under internati...

Understanding Capitalism The great German playwright, and political figure, Berthold Brecht, observed that to understand fascism you have to understand capitalism, from whence it springs. Today, it is also helpful for us to understand that the rise of fascism in Germany 100 years ago, has parallels we can see now with the rise of fascism in the United States. Prior to World War I, which began in 1914, the German working class and middle class were relatively prosperous. The German unions were ...

September 11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The George W Bush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law...