Global Alert News – 04.04.18

On a recent interview from New Zealand a front-line climate researcher has given an update on the severity and immediacy of our collective fate on a dying planet. Is he telling the whole truth? On the opposite side of the spectrum, Brietbart “News” is telling us that air pollution and chemicals like DDT are not harmful. Does humanity’s propensity toward denial have …

The Plutocracy Report – 03.23.18

The Plutocracy Report 3\23\18 In this show Vince starts with an angry commentary about our skies. Then he talks about solving problems by looking at things from a different mindset, as he touches on creating a new currency, Fukushima, and the gulf oil spill disaster. Next he plays a song by Roger Waters that he connects to Israeli oppression over …

Black Agenda Radio – 04.17.17

This is Black Agenda Radio, a weekly hour of African American political thought and action.  Coming up: People that are sent to prison are supposed to be given back their freedom when they’ve served their time. But that doesn’t seem to apply to Black political prisoners, many of whom are now elderly and sick the Black Is Back Coalition for …

Trump Draft Executive Order: No Funding for UN Abortions

A draft executive order from the Trump administration orders the federal government to stop funding any United Nations organization that promotes “the performance of abortion or sterilization as a method of family planning.” It’s one of a number of prohibitions in the order obtained by The Daily Beast that sets up a process for reviewing all American contributions to the …

Philip Weiss – Former AIPAC Official Says Israel Should get no US Aid without Ending ‘Oppressive’ Settlements

Here is another sign that what had been quiet disagreement between American Jews and Israel is breaking out in the open, thanks to the approaching jubilee year of the occupation. Citing “nearly half a century” of occupation, a former AIPAC official comes out for conditioning US aid to Israel on that country agreeing to freeze its illegal settlements in the West …

Henry A. Giroux – Radical Politics in the Age of American Authoritarianism: Connecting the Dots

The United States stands at the endpoint of a long series of attacks on democracy, and the choices faced by many in the US today point to the divide between those who are and those who are not willing to commit to democracy. Debates over whether Donald Trump is a fascist are a tactical diversion because the real issue is …

Kevin Gosztola – CLINTON BELIEVES SHE’S SPECIAL KIND OF POLITICIAN WHO CAN’T BE INFLUENCED BY MONEY

If one listens to the remarks of Hillary Clinton, her campaign staff, and any spokesperson from the network of super PACs helping her challenge Bernie Sanders, it becomes clear they believe Clinton is a rare and special breed of politician. They think she is someone who cannot, has never been, and will never be corrupted by large sums of money …

Sarah Lazare – Here’s What Happens When a U.S. Senator Calls for Israel to Be Held Accountable for Atrocities

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy has piqued the temper of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and faces a rebuke from within his own party after demanding for an investigation into “gross violations of human rights” by Israel and Egypt, the top recipients of American military aid. Released just days after an Israeli soldier was recorded [3] extra-judicially assassinating a wounded Palestinian man in the …

Trump angst pours in from overseas

Lobbyists in Washington say they are being flooded with questions and concerns from foreign governments about the rise of Donald Trump. Officials around the globe are closely following the U.S. presidential race, to the point where some have asked their American lobbyists to explain, in great detail, what a contested GOP convention would look like. After a recent trip to London, …