Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox September 1, 2014 "Workers of the world unite, the only thing you have to lose is your chains!" Karl Marx On Labor Day (May Day, USA style), Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox Presents an exclusive interview with  Ray Light: General Secretary of The Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA Ray and Cindy chat about the organization, it's goals, the essential link between the working-class and oppressed peoples of the world AND do a little myth busting about the Soviet Union and Stalin.

CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX AUGUST 31, 2014 GUEST: BRANDON TURBEVILLE  www.BrandonTurbeville.com Truth on the Tracks  SUBJECT: ISIS in Syria and Iraq AND Why doesn't Israel ever get attacked by ISIS and al Qaeda 

MICKEY HUFF is director of Project Censored and serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation. To date, he has edited or coedited six volumes of Censored and contributed numerous chapters to these works dating back to 2008. Additionally, he has coauthored several chapters on media and propaganda for other scholarly publications, most recently Flashpoint in Ukraine from Clarity Press (2014). He is currently professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is cochair of the history department. Huff is cohost with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips of The Project Censored Show, the weekly syndicated public affairs program that originates from KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley CA. For the past several years, Huff has worked on the national planning committee of Banned Books Week, working with the American Library Association and the National Coalition Against Censorship, of which Project Censored is a member. He

click to play show On this week's Soapbox Podcast, Cindy Sheehan chats with two of our newest podcast hosts: Anthony Freda of Freda Rants and Jon Gold of We Were Lied to About 9/11 CLICK TO HEAR JON'S FIRST SHOW

Jenna Orkin is the author of "The Moron's Guide To Global Collapse." After 9/11, she was among the first to question the EPA's announcement that the air was safe to breathe. She went on to co-found the World Trade Center Environmental Organization as well as other lower Manhattan activist organizations that revealed and testified to the EPA's lies. Later, she wrote for fromthewilderness.com, the website founded by 9/11 investigative journalist Mike Ruppert who sadly killed himself in April of this year. The name of the song is "Killing In The Name Of" by Rage Against The Machine. www.fromthewilderness.com wtceo.org www.fealgoodfoundation.com www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox GUEST : STEVE EARLY TOPIC : SAVE OUR UNIONS DISPATCHES FROM A MOVEMENT IN DISTRESS CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THE BOOK

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox August 10, 2014 CLICK PLAYER TO HEAR SHOW GUEST: Rick Jahnkow TOPIC: Alternatives to Youth Joining the Military NNOMY (NATIONAL NETWORK OPPOSING MILITARIZATION OF YOUTH) ProjectYANO The project on Youth and Non-military Options  If you know young people or want to help keep our kids out of the military, please listen and spread the word!  

--> August 6th is certainly a day that has gone down in infamy. From Hiroshima, August 6, 2011 Undoubtedly, the most notorious event that occurred on 8/6 was the 1945 US a-bombing of Hiroshima followed closely by the bombing of Nagasaki. The tragedy of those war crimes still has have many repercussions to this day.  I was honored to be invited to visit Japan on the anniversaries and I met survivors and the family members of those that were obliterated. I met a Japanese woman who was in Havana and she had lost a young daughter to cancer because of the never-ending after effects of radiation. What the US did on that day was beyond shameful, but what is even more shameful is the vast number of USAians who still consider those bombings justified. Now, let’s jump over about 56 August 6ths to the year 2001. Remember this is one month and five days before the terrible events of September 11, 2001. A little known, or remembered event happened on 8/6/2001 in teeny, tiny

  It is tempting to write another piece, given the urgency of the current political situation - it is tempting to compile the usual statistics and economic details into a mosaic - some larger picture that will give legitimacy to the financial arguments for things regarding the human right to Healthcare, or for that matter, the human right to shelter, or food, or water. However, those arguments have been well-established elsewhere - for example, by organizations like the Physicians for a National Health Program, or the variety of organizations - from UNICEF to the United Nations - on the non-scarcity of food and water.   It is evident, however, that such arguments do not rupture cynical attitudes or reverse feelings of powerlessness. Observation of the political culture of the United States, its effects on the psychological existences of the population, and the attitudes of the political elite might lead us somewhere in our inquiry. The question is "what is preventing changes

Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox August 3, 2014 This week, on a Special Edition of  the Soapbox, Don DeBar from  CPR Metro interviews journalist  Patrick Lancaster who is  reporting from Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine