Economic Update – Capitalism Provokes Workers – 05.13.18

Updates on Univ of California workers’ strikes, privatizing fire departments, big money buys academia, fast-food workers unionize, the capitalism-loneliness-scapegoating links, Hillary Clinton pro-capitalist/anti-socialist, VW CEO is not the problem: system is. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on capitalism’s destruction of the family and “family values”. Download this episode (right click and save)

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 …

iEat Green – David Montgomery; Author: Growing a Revolution and The Hidden Half of Nature – 04.26.18

David R. Montgomery is a MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington. He is an internationally recognized geologist who studies landscape evolution and the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies. An author of award-winning popular-science books, he has been featured in documentary films, network and cable news, and on a wide variety of TV and radio programs, including …

Keeping Democracy Alive – INTERNATIONAL HERO BILL RICHARDSON AND INTERNATIONAL THREAT TRUMP – 04.15.18

He’s brought back hostages from North Korea, Cuba,Iraq  and Sudan. He was governor of New Mexico, US ambassador the UN. He won my vote for president in 2008. Bill Richardson’s record is exceedingly impressive. On the first half, Governor Richardson talks about Myanmar, North Korea, and what American leadership could and should look like. And on part 2 international journalist …

Leid Stories—Muller Goes Off the Rails, Possibly Botching Several Federal Corruption Probes; The Trump-Clinton Ukrainian Connection–04.10.18

Special Counsel Robert Muller’s hardball legal tactics in sanctioning an FBI raid yesterday on the office of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, has set off a legal bomb that could blow several federal probes apart. Muller, using broad authority as special counsel investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and related matters, made a referral …