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 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. 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 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. So sit back, relax, and listen to Activist Radio streamed live: Thursdays from 5 - 6 pm ET
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podcast, or anytime on the web at ClassWars.org. STREAM ACTIVIST RADIO FROM WVKR Sundays from 5 - 6 pm ET STREAM ACTIVIST RADIO FROM PRN.LIVE 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 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 Dahr Jamail and Gary Fred and Gary with Pete Seeger |
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that is available.October 3GUEST: Pete Dolack, writer of the Systemic Disorder blog, activist with the National People's Campaign and author of "It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment," talks about US propaganda and Venezuela.Claims about Venezuela election are false Systemic Disorder Blog Pete Dolack on CounterPunch SONG: Woody Guthrie (with Sony Terry and Brownie McGee), This Land is Your Land ... Going Down The Road Feeling Bad SONG: Woody Guthrie, This Land is Your Land ... Hard Traveling September 26GUEST: Arvind Dilawar, independent journalist whose articles, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine and The Daily Beast, talks about the all powerful Israel Lobby and how it has used its nonprofit status to distort the news.I found a major error, but The New York Times didn't care Arvind Dilawar, Independent Journalist Articles in the Progressive SONG: Tom Paxton, Ain't That News ... Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation SONG: Tom Paxton, The Best of Tom Paxton ... My Son, John September 19GUESTS: Tarak Kauff and Ellen Davidson, long time activists for Veterans For Peace and editors of the Peace and Planet News, a publication dedicated to "Abolishing War, Establishing Justice and Fighting Climate Disaster," talk about truth telling in the US Media.Peace and Planet News Genocide, how to prevent the next stage Does the Truth Matter? SONG: Malvina Reynolds, Ear to the Ground ... The Little Mouse SONG: God Bess This Mess ... Sheryl Crow September 12GUEST: Natasha Lennard, author, columnist for The Intercept, and associate director of the Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism graduate program at the New School for Social Research, talks about free speech and student resistance.Being Numerous:Essays on Non-Fascist Life MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism Dreaming Up Ways to Squash Gaza Protests SONG: Peter Gabriel, Playing For Change ... Biko September 5GUEST: Robert Roth, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, and part of the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s and 1990s, talks about Haiti, its history and its long term oppression by the United States. Haiti Solidarity NetRobert Roth (activist) Haiti: “The truth speaks for itself” SONG: Kingsmen ... Louie Louie SONG: Haiti Cherie ... Harry Belafonte August 29GUEST: Joel Kovel, deceased American scholar, author and founder of eco-socialism, discusses the book that got him fired from Bard College, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. The Emergence of EcosocialismOvercoming Zionism The Lost Traveller's Dream: A Memoir SONG: Arrested Development ... Revolution SONG: The Relief Effort ... Palestine August 22GUEST: Jeff Cohen, founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media as well as Fairness and Accuracy in Media, talks about genocide and media reform. (repeat)Jeff Cohen on Common Dreams LA Progressive August 15GUEST: Gerald Sussman, professor emeritus of international studies at Portland State University and author of several books, including The Propaganda Society: Promotional Culture and Politics in Global Context, talks about Gaza and his latest research.Israel's war psychosis SONG: Fred Nagel ... Land of Plenty We Left Behind SONG: Fred Nagel ... Chosen People August 8GUEST: Penny Hess, chair of the African People's Solidarity Committee and author of Overturning the Culture of Violence, talks about white reparations to African people as well as the racist genocide in Gaza.UHURU Solidarity The Road to Socialism is Painted Black Drop the Charges on the UHURU 3 SONG: Anne Feeney ... Have You Been to Jail for Justice? SONG: Anne Feeney, Have You Been to Jail for Justice? ... The Corporate Welfare Song August 1GUEST: Marcy London, community human rights activist and member of Jewish Voice for Peace and Mideast Crisis, talks about the dangers of confusing criticism of apartheid Israel with antisemitism.Mideast Crisis Response How to Define ‘Antisemitism’ Antisemitism Has Been Weaponized SONG: Paul Robeson ... Song of the Warsaw Ghetto SONG: Rhiannon Giddens ... Birmingham Sunday Take a minute to rate Activist Radio Click Icon: Once
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We often use Peacebutton's calendarto do our History of Social Struggle each week.Check them out at www.peacebuttons.info Some Favorite Lies
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Abraham Lincoln
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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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