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Welcome to ClassWars, the home of Activist Radio, a weekly 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 Thursday from 5:00 to 6:00 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: Colonel Ann Wright, who retired from US Army to become an outspoken critic of the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. Code Pink SONG: Country Joe McDonaldl, Vietnam Experience...I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag Guests: the Radio Uprising crew, a program returning to WVKR. Guest: Iraq War vet talking about his combat experiences as part of the Winter Soldier Testimony. SONG: Eliza Gilkyson, Beautiful World...The Party's Over Guest: Cheryl Qamar, local social worker and political activist, talks about a new organization called the Children of Occupation Project. Children of Occupation Project SONG: Mikis Theodorakis, Mikis Theodorakis...Finale - to Yelasto Pedi (From the movie Z) Guest: Abigail Storm, founder of the Woodstock Nation Foundation, talks to us about Marijuana legalization. Citizens Against Marijuana Prohibition SONG: David Rovics, The Commons...After the Revolution Guest: Josh Stieber, veteran of the second Iraq War, who talks to us about his decision to become a conscientious objector. The Winter Soldier Testimony SONG: Blue King Brown, Stand Up...Come and Check Your Head Guest: Felice Gellman, a local activist back from a second trip to Gaza, shares her experiences with us. Middle East Crisis Response SONG: John McCutcheon, Spain In My Heart - Songs of the Spanish Civil War...The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Donations: The Thomas Berry Foundation, c/o Mary Evelyn Tucker. 29 Spole Dr., Woodbridge, CT 06525 Click below to bring up Activist Radio in iTunes:
Check out the News fashioned by the people in charge, the corporations and your government. Each week, we cover the stories that are just left out of the US propaganda machine. Some Favorite Lies
Crony capitalists have always been with us. Here is Boss Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall sometime in the 1860's.
Milton Friedman, guru of deregulation and self interest, made millionaires into billionaires by robbing everyone else. Was a high wall there that tried to stop me |
own practically everything and rule with an iron fist. Military overexpansion with its endless wars, another trademark of a debased and undemocratic 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 |
There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. Warren Buffet |
This ($700 billion bailout) was the largest single act of class warfare in the modern history of this country. Dennis Kucinich |
I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back. Naomi Klein |