 Welcome to ClassWars, the home of Activist Radio, a program for all Americans who are not in the wealthiest one percent of the US population. Class wars have been going on since the beginning of recorded history. As societies become more powerful and wealthy, they often become more corrupt. At the end of each cycle, a few rich families Class wars is a dirty term in our media, which always implies that America is above such crudeness. But the very rich are not above that at all. They have been waging an especially intense attack on working people since the 1970's, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, class wars are not fought with tanks and bombs, but with crooked politicians, right wing think tanks and corporate owned media. For the very rich to maintain and increase their share of the national wealth, they have to fool you. How else could one percent of our population call the shots for ninety-nine percent? Activist Radio will attempt to show you how the few richest of our citizens lie to the rest of us to expand their power and wealth. They are sick with greed, of course. But so far, the rest of us are what might be worse, and that is stupid. None of information presented is particularly new or really very hard to find, although you won't read it in the mainstream press or see it on TV. If that is what you are relying on for news, you are being suckered, my friend. I don't know how to put it any nicer. So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio every Wednesday from 4:00 to 5:00 PM on WVKR in Poughkeepsie (91.3 FM). And if the word spreads that the emperor has no clothes, and you want to be entertained from another part of the globe, point your browser to: Recent stories on Activist Radio may have you thinking about some important issues. Put another way, you could be wondering if most of what we say is totally made up, since you probably haven't heard it on TV. But here are some links on stories we have done:
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Listen to recent shows streamed for the Internet: Guest: Dr. Paul Bermanzohn, who was wounded in the 1979 massacre in Greensboro, NC, and now works as a physician in Poughkeepsie, NY Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Guest: Dr. Joel Kovel, author of "Overcoming Zionism" and professor at Bard College, discusses the origins of the Israeli/Palestine conflict. Dr. Kovel was a recent guest on Democracy Now. Middle East Crisis Response Guest: Kathleen Brady-Stepien and Tom Facchine, Vassar College students and members of the Class Issues Alliance. Northeast Class Issues Conference Guest: Paul Rehm, from Christian Peacemakers, who is living in a boys' orphanage in the West Bank to protect it from the Israeli Army. Guest: William Brandon Jourdan, whose award-winning independent film “July War” provides an in-depth look at the 2006 Lebanon War. WBJourdan Blog Guest: Kirkpatrick Sale, independent scholar and author who has written on environmentalism, technology and political decentralism. Breakdown of Nations Guests: Don DeBar, reporter for WBAI in NYC, and Omari Tariq Shakur, community activist whose son was killed by the Newburgh Police Dept. Why download podcasts of Activist Radio? Click below to bring up Activist Radio in iTunes:
Check out the The perfect place to go, where you only learn good things about the people in charge, the corporations and your government. Fantasyland Media, where the important stories are often just left out. Some Favorite Lies
Crony capitalists have always been with us. Was a high wall there that tried to stop me |
own practically everything and rule with an iron fist. Military over expansion with its endless wars, another trademark of an undemocratic and corrupt society, often brings about great poverty and suffering.
Abraham Lincoln |
And above all Fascism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society. Benito Mussolini |
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Surely, in the history of lies told to the population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets, withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret: that there are classes with different interests in this country. To ignore that--not to know that the history of our country is a history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant, corporation against worker, rich against poor--is to render us helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in power. Howard Zinn |
The clinical definition of “fascism” is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power. Ralph Nader |