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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 EST
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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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available. October 14GUESTS: Dr. Andrew Meade, director of the Office of International Services at Vassar College and co-founder of the Vassar Haiti Project, talks about project's goals, both on campus and in the surrounding community. We also have co-founder and executive director of the VHP, Lila Meade.Vassar Haiti Project Inhumane treatment and recent deportations of Haitians Haiti Action Committee SONG: Fred Nagel ... Temples of Crude Oil SONG: Eliza Gilkyson, Secularia ... In the Name of the Lord October 7GUEST: Jonathan Moore, senior partner in a New York law firm who has been seeking to end stop-and-frisk abuses as well as to hold the US chemical companies liable for the harm caused Vietnamese nationals by Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. We talk about some of the cases he has worked on to achieve justice for clients who have been injured or harmed by the police, the FBI or the US military.Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign Jonathan C. Moore Agent Orange use led to class-action lawsuit SONG: Fred Nagel ... Temples of Crude Oil SONG: David Bromberg ... Diggin' in the Deep Blue Sea September 30GUEST: John Shipton, political activist, citizen of Australia, and the father of Julian Assange, talks about the campaign to free his son from the grips of Belmarsh Prison and the possible extradition to the United States.Julian Assange’s father and brother “Until We Win” Assange’s Father John Shipton The US diplomatic assurances are inherently unreliable NOTE: Interview was done two days before the CIA plot to assassinate Assange was reported. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/27/senior-cia-officials-trump-discussed-assassinating-julian-assange SONG: J B Lenoir ... Shot on James Meredith SONG: Julie Parisi Kirby, In Her Dream ... World That's Safe September 23GUEST: Murtaza Hussain, reporter at The Intercept who focuses on national security and foreign policy, and has appeared on CNN, BBC, and MSNBC, talks about The Fort Dix Five, and how young Muslim men were entrapped by the FBI.Murtaza Hussain is a reporter at The Intercept Post-9/11 Stings Targeted People Who Posed No Threat. Secret Donors to Nonprofit pushing Trump's "Big Lie" SONG: Woody Guthrie ... All You Fascists Bound To Lose SONG: Arlo Guthrie ... The Pause of Mr. Claus September 16GUEST: Isis Benitez, community activist with End the New Jim Crow, member of the Healthy Black and Latinx Coalition, and former Liberty Partnership scholarship recipient, talks about why local policing must to be changed and how the community's needs can better be served.6 reasons why it’s time to defund the police A one-stop-shop for organizers and advocates 7 myths about “defunding the police” debunked Our local End the New Jim Crow Action Network SONG: David Rovics ... Jenin SONG: Holly Near, We Came to Sing ... 1000 Grandmothers September 9GUEST: Dr. Arnold Matlin. retired pediatrician and long time political activist in solidarity with the Nicaraguan Revolution since the 1980s, talks about the need to defend Sandinista gains from US imperial interventions.NicaNotes: Hands off Nicaragua! Hero of the Revolution A Different Focus on Nicaragua Two progressive viewpoints on current Nicaraguan reality SONG: John Lennon ... Attica SONG: Bruce Cockburn ... Nicaragua September 2GUEST: Thom Hartmann, top rated progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host, and New York Times bestselling author of over 30 books, talks about his latest work, The Hidden History of American Healthcare, Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich.The Hidden History of American Healthcare Thom Hartmann Program on YouTube Healthcare: Let's Have People over Profits Once And For All SONG: Tom Paxton, Ain't That News ... Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation SONG: Dan Bull ... America August 26GUEST: Dr. Jerry Lembcke, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the College of Holy Cross, researcher on media and myth-making, and co-author of the new book, Dissenting POWs, From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today.Monthly Review, An Independent Socialist Magazine Burns and Novick, Masters of False Balancing Jerry Lembcke - College of the Holy Cross Dissenting POWs - NY Press SONG: Dolly Parton, The Most Perfect Album ... A Woman's Right SONG: Tom Paxton ... George W. Told the Nation August 19GUEST: Robert Roth, activist in the Central America solidarity movement, organizer for various campaigns to free political prisoners in the US, and co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, talks about colonialism and how our media covers it up.Haiti Action Committee Robert Roth (activist) Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Popular Movement SONG: Mats Paulson ... Should I Ever Be A Soldier SONG: Nanci Griffith, The Dust Bowel Symphony ... It's a Hard Life August 12GUEST: 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 new article in Counterpunch, "Nationalism on the Decline."Nationalism on the Decline Profile of Lawrence S. Wittner Major powers increase military spending despite diseases and poverty SONG: Public Enemy ... Gotta Give The Peeps What They Need SONG: Fred Nagel ... Land of Plenty We Left Behind 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 |
| 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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