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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 1970's, 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 will attempt to show you how the few So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio streamed live: Thursdays from 5 - 6 pm ET
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 Fred
Nagel is a Vietnam Era veteran and political
activist whose articles have appeared in CounterPunch,
Global Exchange, LA Progressive, Mondoweiss, Peace
& Planet News, Popular Resistance, and
Z Magazine. He also hosts 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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that is available. February 2GUEST: Dr. Larry Wittner, early civil rights and anti-apartheid activist, author of several books, and Professor of History emeritus at SUNY Albany, talks about his article in LA Progressive, "Imperialist Wars—and What Could Be Done About Them."Imperialist Wars—and What Could Be Done About Them Review: Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War SONG: David Rovics ... Saint Patrick's Battalion SONG: Evie T., Walk Into the Wind ... Fascist Swing January 26GUEST: David Schultz, Professor of Political Science at Hamline University and Minnesota School of Law, three-time Fulbright scholar, and author of numerous books quoted in The NY Times, Washington Post and The Economist, talks about how colleges became corporatized and lost their soul.Free Speech and Academic Freedom in the American Corporate University David Schultz: Lessons to be learned from Hamline’s errors David Schultz SONG: Richard Fariña ... Birmingham Sunday SONG: Holly Near, We Come to Sing ... Listen to the Voices January 19GUEST: Alan Robock, American climatologist and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, talks about the existential dangers of nuclear weapons as well as his conversations with Fidel Castro.Alan Robock - writings published and talks with Fidel Castro Nowhere To Hide: How a nuclear war would kill you Publications by Alan Robock on Nuclear Winter SONG: Nina Simone, Saga of the Good Life and Hard Times ... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Suite SONG: Ry Cooder, Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down ... If There's a God January 12GUEST: Zeina Azzam, Palestinian American poet, writer, community activist, and Poet Laureate of Alexandria, Virginia, reads some of her poetry and talks about the resistance of her people.Zeina Azzam background We Are Not Numbers Is it an occupation or an "occupation"? SONG: Rod MacDonald, A Tale of Two Americas ... With God On Our Side SONG: Ry Cooder, Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down ... If There's a God January 5GUEST: Jeffrey Mackler, longtime teacher and union activist, founder of Northern California Climate Mobilization, and Socialist Action Party presidential candidate for 2016 and 2020, talks about the crypto currency debacle and its links to neoliberalism.Behind Sam Bankman-Fried’s Cryptocurrency Crash Socialist Action Constitution International Viewpoint Online magazine SONG: John Lennon ... Happy Xmas (War Is Over) SONG: Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir ... The Great Outdoors December 29GUEST: Sofia Farah, human rights activist, Melton Fellow, and Development Director for Mondoweiss, talks about the organization's efforts to bring the struggle of the Palestinian people to larger audiences around the world.Mondoweiss Action Network Mondoweiss on Twitter SONG: Fred Nagel ... Sitting Bull Protects Us SONG: Roy Zimmerman, Peacenick ... Buy War Toys for Christmas December 22Holiday Special. We include some songs we never got to play during the year, as well as some parts of interviews that were just left out. Stay tuned for a Pandora's Box full of wishes and the unexpected gifts. And of course, we don't leave out that most important of treasures, which is our hope for a new world based on peace and love, rather than greed and militarism.Antiwar Opera: Roger Waters Rocks the Garden S Brian Willson: Election Meddling, Covert-Ops, and Propaganda The Church of Stop Shopping SONG: Melanie, Unchained Melanie ... Rainbow Race SONG: Eliza Gilkyson, Roses At the End of Time ... Roses At the End of Time SONG: Reverend Billy ... Love With SONG: Pete Seeger ... The Bourgeois Blues December 15GUEST: Dr. Helen Caldicott, long time peace and environmental activist, former faculty member at Harvard Medial School, and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, talks about the environmental and medical dangers of the nuclear age.Russia’s war could spell worldwide nuclear disaster If You Love This Planet The World Awaits SONG: Robert Cray, Twenty ... Twenty SONG: Ruthie Gorton, What Now People? Vol. 3 ... Free Palestine Now December 8GUEST: Jamie Jackson, human rights activist with Citizens for Justice in the Middle East and radio host for Understanding Israel Palestine on KKFI FM in Kansan City, talks about her transition from Zionism to Palestinian rights.We Are Not Numbers in Gaza “Can We Talk about Zionism?” with Jamie Jackson Jamie Jackson - Understanding Israel Palestine SONG: Nina Simone, Silk & Soul ... I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free SONG: Eric Bibb, Migration Blues ... This Land Is Your Land December 1GUEST: Dr. Diya Abdo, author, English professor at Guilford College, and second generation Palestinian refugee, talks about Arab feminism and the program she founded, Every Campus A Refuge.American Refuge, True Stories of the Refugee Experience Diya Abdo, Ph.D. Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR) initiative SONG: Pete Seeger ... Bring Them Home SONG: Eric Bibb ... Refugee Moan Take a minute to rate Activist Radio Click Icon:  Once
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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
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.
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 |
| A revolution is a class struggle. It was
one class - the oppressed, and that other class - the
oppressor.
Fred Hampton |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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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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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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