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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. Towards
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 1970s, and have accumulated immense wealth and power at the expense of the rest of us. Of course, America's 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 the other ninety-nine percent? Well, there is another way. The very rich can bankroll a fascist demagogue who then uses racial fears and hatreds to overcome any form of worker resistance. Mussolini and Hitler are examples of how this was done in the 1930s. Trump is, of course, the most dangerous demagogue of the 21st century. To understand how he has gotten this far, check out: "The Unspoken Spread of Fascism." Activist Radio has attempt to show you how the few I would like to thank all the stations that have
carried Activist Radio over the last twenty years. I
give special thanks to WVKR at Vassar College for
being my official host station. WVKR never once tried
to change my message, even when I was criticizing the
college for using antisemitism to suppress free speech
on campus. 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 seen it on TV. But here are some links to stories we have done recently. 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.  Fred Nagel is a
Vietnam Era veteran and political activist
whose articles have appeared in CounterPunch,
Global Research, LA Progressive,
Mondoweiss, Peace & Planet News,
Popular Resistance, and Z Magazine.
He also hosted a show on Vassar College
Radio, WVKR (classwars.org).
 #Candles4Assange  Eli wishing Assange a Happy Birthday  Eli and Fred "take a knee" for racial justice while Jimi Hendrix goes out over the airwaves.  Reporting from the veteran's encampment at Standing Rock  Fred at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, standing with a vigil for Julian Assange  Dave, Heather, Fred and DJ James Poe at WABG - AM 960 in Columbus, MS
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I have been doing this program for
about 20 years. That's a lot of guests and a lot of
history you didn't learn in high school. There has
even been a number of co-hosts too, as well as other
radio stations that carried Activist Radio. On a
good week, we had between 15 and 25 stations
downloading our program. For access to a large
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When I started the show, the word fascism meant Adolf Hitler. It was about half way through the twenty years when I could see the real danger to our democracy. The slaughter of the Palestinian people is another story that I followed more and more as the years went by. I refuse to be complicit in the American Genocide. History is a complex interaction of ideas. There are no easy answers to explain the relationship between corporate dominance, military expansionism, racism and human greed. That is what makes an informed discussion of these issues so thought provoking. I hope that Activist Radio has achieved that standard, at least in some shows. I probably won't keep this page updated. I will continue posting to Fantasyland Media and to our ClassWars blog. Both pages have a substantial number of readers each week. And I simply like to write. I am leaving the last 10 programs on this website so you can get a sense of what we did each week. I have certainly enjoyed our weekly cyber relationship. Thanks for listening! Fred  GUEST: Gerald Sussman,
Professor Emeritus at Portland State University
whose work extensively critiques neoliberalism,
particularly its impact on electoral politics,
technology, and social services.
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own practically
everything and rule with an iron fist. Imperial wars
for empire and military over-expansion are other
trademarks of a debased and undemocratic society.
Empire often brings about great poverty and suffering
not only in the occupied and exploited lands, but at
home as well. 
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 the 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.
Al Capone
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| And above all Fascism denies that
class-war can be the preponderant force in the
transformation of society.
Benito Mussolini
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| 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
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| A revolution is a class
struggle. It was one class - the oppressed, and that
other class - the oppressor.
Fred Hampton
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| 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
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| 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
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| There's class warfare, all right,
but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war,
and we're winning.
Warren Buffet
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| This [$700 billion bailout] was
the largest single act of class warfare in the modern
history of this country.
Dennis Kucinich
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| 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
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| The solution is revolution, first
in the spirit of the gospel; Jesus could not accept
people going hungry. It is a conflict between classes,
rich and poor. My role is to preach and organize.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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| The effect of the [European
Central Bank] policies is to weaken the welfare state
measures and to reduce the power of labor. That's
class war. It's fine for the banks, for financial
institutions, but terrible for the population.
Noam Chomsky
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| The US has a highly
class-conscious business class. If you read the
business literature, it's like reading Mao's "Red
Book." The values may be inverted, but the terminology
is the same. They're fighting a bitter class war
constantly. They never relax for a minute. Noam Chomsky
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| The breakdown [of American
society] is not caused by economic laws. They are
policies, a kind of class war initiated by the rich
and powerful against the working population and the
poor. This is what defines the neoliberalism period,
not only in the United States but in Europe and
elsewhere. Noam Chomsky
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| For 45 years there has
been a war in this country waged by the corporate
elite against the working class of America. Bernie Sanders
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| If there is going to be
class warfare in this country, it's about time the
working class won that war. Bernie Sanders
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| The theft of public
resources for the military and militarism domestically
and abroad represent a one-sided class war waged on
the working class in the U.S. The 6 trillion dollars
spent on U.S. wars since 2003 are resources that could
have been directed to address the increasing desperate
plight of workers and poor people in the U.S. Ajamu Baraka
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| You look at the reality,
neoliberalism translates as bitter class war. That's
the meaning of it, everywhere you look, every
component of it. Noam Chomsky
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| Now I'm finding out
there's just one kind of war. It's the one going on 'tween the rich and the poor. I guess that I don't know a lot about class, But the upper and middle can all kiss my ass. Utah Phillips
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