Black Agenda Radio – 05.22.17

This is Black Agenda Radio, a weekly hour of African American political thought and action. Obamacare remains in a kind of limbo in the U.S. Congress, having been repealed in the House but with no action pending in the Senate. On the single payer health care front, a majority of House Democrats have finally signed on to Congressman John Conyers’ …

The Conspiracy Guy – 05.17.17

The Conspiracy Guy Show #25: NYT headlines today included “TRUMP APPEALED TO COMEY TO HALT INQUIRY OF FLYNN” and others including “Calls mount to hear more from Comey” and “Secrets President Bared to Russia Said to Come From Israeli Sources”. But they do not take into account that Flynn had already been cleared by the FBI. The Washington Post had …

Leid Stories—Hillary Wants Us to Move ‘Onward Together’—05.16.17

Hillary Clinton, bitter and embattled, as of yesterday has a new political slogan that she’s marketing to her bereft “I’m With Her” supporters and others eager to see her make a comeback: “Onward Together.” Now, she’s teamed up with ex-Democratic National Committee chairman and former presidential candidate Howard Dean, and they’ve launched Onward Together, a political action group that will …

Leid Stories—So, What Do We Have Here?: Surveying the Carnage—05.15.17

President Chaos is living up to his Leid Stories moniker, and is at the center of several swirling political storms that have transfixed the nation—chief among them his dramatic firing of the former FBI director, James Comey; a federal investigation into Trump’s possible “collusion” with Russia to sway the 2016 presidential race in his favor and against Hillary Clinton; and …

Meria Heller – Hell and High Water with Meria and Chuck Ochelli – 05.14.17

Hell and High Water with Meria and Chuck Ochelli. Hanford plutonium finishing plant tunnel collapses -real and present nuclear danger; back to Yucca Mountain with trump? “Last Man on Earth”; Fukushima is everywhere, the Oceans;trump and de-regulations;trump a front man;Ivanka/Jared/China/handlers;did we say we’d prefer Hillary? Bush Jr. looking good; the Ethics committee – where are they? Russia-Gate; Michael Flynn-blaming Obama? …

Leid Stories—Questions Worth Asking About James Comey—05.11.17

Washington is still reeling from the seemingly out-of-nowhere firing Tuesday of FBI Director James Comey by President Donald Trump. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, delivered a one-two punch that knocked Comey out of his prized position. Comey had done a bad job with the Hillary Clinton email investigation, they told Trump. By implication, other major …

The Conspiracy Guy – 05.10.17

The Conspiracy Guy Show #24: The dismissal of James Comey, FBI Director, who was conducting an investigation of alleged relations between the Trump administration and Russia, has set off a fire storm of controversy and attacks, most of which are not well founded. There was no Russian hacking where the DNC emails appear to have been transmitted to Julian Assange …

Leid Stories—Trump Serves Up A Doozie, and Gets Instant Backlash After Firing [FBI Director] James Comey—05.10.17

FBI Director James Comey was on a recruiting trip in Los Angeles yesterday when he learned that he’d been fired by President Trump and that his deputy, Andrew Mc Cabe, temporarily will head the bureau.