Historian and prolific author Gerald Horne, Ph.D., looks at a few contemporary issues and events, domestic and global, through the lens of history. Horne, the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, regularly decodes complex social, political and economic issues on Leid Stories. He has written more than 30 books and 100 scholarly papers …
Expanding Mind – Being Anarchist – 05.10.18
A conversation with Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside about Henry Miller, the flight from society, sexual braggadocio, folk ballads, Taoism, and his arresting book On Henry Miller: or How to Be an Anarchist (Princeton). Download this episode (right click and save)
Leid Stories—A Big Win Against Corruption and Injustice in Benton Harbor, Michigan—05.09.18
Last Tuesday, May 1, the Rev. Edward Pinkney, a longtime grassroots activist, received some good news—albeit after serving a full 30-month prison sentence on a bogus conviction for election fraud. The Michigan Supreme Court, finally reviewing his case, unanimously ordered his convictions vacated and all charges against him dismissed. Pinkney, a leading voice against corrupt political leadership and massive corporate …
The Gary Null Show – 05.09.18
Another potentional post-911 war in the Middle East — Israel-US military aggression against Iran Nicolas Davies in a geopolitical researcher and author investigating America’s wars and their cost to human life, militarism and the Middle East, and US aversion to international laws. He grew up in a British naval family in the last outposts of the British Empire and became …
The Natural Nurse And Dr. Z – Swami Tirtha, the Orange Cowboy, is the host of the TV show, “Talking with Our Angels” – 05.08.18
He is a #1 bestselling author and has presented to the White House alternative medicine commission and Johns Hopkins U. Swami has more than four decades teaching wellness & consciousness. At the age of 10 Swami began having spiritual experiences that altered his life in divine ways. He survived a devastating tragedy at the age of 17 by seeking spiritual …
Leid Stories—Who/What Can Stop Trump from Lying?–05.07.18
He lies about big things and small. He lies to make himself look good, and others bad. He even lies about lying. There is no hope, it seems, that the lying will stop. But President Trump’s lies are quite consequential. And as we have seen, his lying ways have caught on in his administration. Leid Stories discusses Trump’s compulsive lying—not …
Black Agenda Radio – 05.07.18
Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Inmates at prisons across the nation will go on strike, in August, against slavery behind the bars; the Democratic Party sides with CIA spies and the FBI, in its suit against Wikileaks; and, Winnie Mandela is remembered …
The Gary Null Show – 05.04.18
The failures and health risks of the biopsychiatric view of mental disorders Dr. Al Galves is a psychologist practicing in Las Cruces, New Mexico. For the past 15 years, he has been active in the movement to defeat biological psychiatry — the psychiatric school that understands mental disorders solely in terms of the biological function of the nervous system and …
A Just Cause Radio – Spotlight on Capitol Hill Encore Series: Senator Dianne Feinstein – 04.29.18
The host Cliff Stewart, Lisa Stewart and Lamont Banks our Hosts will be Shining a Spotlight on Capitol Hill ENCORE Series: United States Senator from California Dianne Feinstein, who has built a reputation as an independent voice, working with both Democrats and Republicans to find commonsense solutions to the problems facing California and the nation. Download this episode (right click and save)
The Plutocracy Report – 04.27.18
On this eighth show Vince presents his highly anticipated commentary on human nature. The term has been misused and misunderstood and he will prove it. But first he gives a short update on Syria and how it is being perceived by people who support killing Assad. In the musical segment Vince explains that he doesn’t hate America like some righties …