Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
Speaking Truth to Empire w/Dan Yaseen (May 2017 Edition)
May 2017
On "Speaking Truth to Empire" on KFCF 88.1 Free Speech Radio for Central California, Dan Yaseen interviews Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange. Topic of discussion includes worsening famine in Yemen caused by Saudi/US war. She is a human rights advocate, an author and a peace & justice activist. She has worked for social justice and human rights in Asia, the Americas, and Africa for over 30 years.
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UPCOMING ON The People Speak w/Cindy Sheehan: Veganism and Liberation Guest: Bob Linden
Broadcasting Date:
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 06:00 pm (Pacific)
9:00 pm (Eastern)
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Guest Occupation:
Radio Host/Animal Rights/Environmental and Health activist
Guest Biography:
Bob Linden, vegan for 29 years, animal lover and dog-spoiler, is the host and executive producer of the listener-supported non-profit production GO VEGAN RADIO WITH BOB LINDEN (www.GoVeganRadio.com) – the first-ever mainstream-media vegan animal liberation, health, and environmental program, now broadcasting for 12 years, having been heard on the Air America radio network, CBS and Clear Channel radio stations, XM, iTunes, TalkStreamLive, www.stitcher.com/GOVEGAN), with archives at www.GoVeganRadio.com and syndication starting soon on the Genesis Communications Network, the fastest growing radio talk network in the world – where Bob’s program will become its first “food” show.
Prior to vegan animal liberation activism, Bob was Program Director and on-air at many successful rock, jazz, and world music radio stations around the country including CD-101 New York, JAZZY 100 Washington D.C., KIFM San Diego, LOVE 94 Miami, The Sound in Seattle, KKLZ Las Vegas, STAR 106 San Antonio, and z-92 Omaha.
Bob’s activism, community involvement, and promotional and marketing efforts have been featured on the CBS Evening News, CNN, in the New York Times, AP, UPI, and elsewhere. He was named Program Director of the Week by Billboard Magazine and received ADDY awards for writing the best radio commercial in Nebraska one year, as well as for TV spots and billboard campaigns.
Bob was honored to receive the “Shining World Hero Award” d from the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association.
He is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York and Stuyvesant High School and PS 152 in Manhattan.
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
John Pilger Returns to the Soapbox (SOAPBOX PODCAST MAY 28, 2017)
May 28th, 2017
GUESTS: John Pilger
John Pilger
Evan Greer
TOPICS: US Imperial Hanky Panky (Pilger)
Chelsea Manning is Free (Greer)
On The Soapbox this week, Cindy chats with journalist/filmmaker John Pilger about a wide variety of issues pertaining to US imperial/global hanky-panky and his new film The Coming War with China.
Cindy also interviews Evan Greer who is a close associate of Pvt. Chelsea Manning who was recently released from seven years of
federal incarceration for a courageous act of whistleblowing.
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
"For our Freedom and Other Stuff" by Cindy Sheehan
Casey's boots in the American Friends' Service Committee
Exhibit: Eyes Wide Open
This weekend is the 13th Memorial Weekend since my son Casey was killed in another US war for profit and global domination.
Memorial weekend is a "double whammy" for me because not only am I assaulted with "red, white, blue," gross displays of nationalism, and proclamations of "we honor them because they made the ultimate sacrifice;" but Casey's birthday was May 29th and it always falls on our around Memorial Day. Although, now 38 years in the past, as a mother, the labor's struggle of bringing him into this world and the joy of the culmination of that hard work is still fresh in my mind. As soon as his head emerged from me, he was crying and all eight pounds and two ounces of him were perfect; Tears are pouring from my eyes thinking about it. My body fed and nourished him inside and outside the womb and his sweet spirit and cheerful presence fed and nourished my soul for 24 years until he was wrenched from me for evil purposes.
I can't abide cable news and its devotion to Empire, so I usually put on local news in the morning to hear about weather and local happenings which is occasionally sprinkled with devotion to Empire, but not as bad as CiaNN, Faux News, or MSNBCia (for example). Predictably, today the local news was also spewing forth nationalistic bullcrap.
This morning, as I sipped my coffee and checked my overnight load of email, one local station was showing Cub Scouts putting flags on the graves of veterans at a cemetery in Sacramento. Not all veterans, or those killed in action, are buried at military cemeteries. Casey is buried here in Vacaville at the town cemetery. So, on Memorial Day, flags are placed at the grave of each veteran to distinguish between veterans and "norms" like us.
One leader of a Cub den was interviewed and asked why he was out there so early to do this and he actually said, he was there because many soldiers died for "our freedom, and other stuff." Well, the "freedom" part is a baldfaced lie, but that Cub leader probably doesn't know that because we here in the Empire of Lies have been conditioned our entire lives to believe that one essential fabrication: if the young people of the US weren't sacrificed on the altar of profit and if they didn't go and murder other people in foreign lands, then we wouldn't be "free."
"Free" in the United Police States of America?
One nation, Under Surveillance?
"Free" in the nation that incarcerates more of a percentage of its citizens (mostly people of color) than any other in the world?
Leave me a mother's indulgence to expand upon the "other stuff" of the Cub leader's imagination, as a matter of fact, I can do no better than to quote Major General Smedley Darlington Butler in War is a Racket:
“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the "war to end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure".
Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month!
All that they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill...and be killed”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
With sadness, I watched those darling, young Cub Scouts (Casey achieved rank of Eagle Scout) being force-fed patriotism and its even more terrible cousin, nationalism. As a recovering "good American" myself, I was a Girl and Boy Scout Leader, so, I can only imagine after they the little ones were finished with their task, they gathered for pizza or donuts and made a fun day out of it with carnivals and parades.
A few weeks after Casey was killed in Iraq was his birthday and Memorial Day. Casey's dad and I were invited to the cemetery where he is buried to participate in a service. I was in the stands in a place of "honor" with mothers whose sons had been killed in Vietnam. They weren't as distraught as I was, but they didn't look very "honored" to be there, either. Shortly after that, I embarked on my public career to not allow my grief to be "honored" but to shove it in the faces of everyone who supports war without having even the tiniest inkling of the profound despair US military mis-adventurism causes. Consequently, I was never again invited back to one of those "celebrations."
So, on Casey's birthday, I will do what I do every year since the first one: Go to where he is buried with tears on my face, remove the bloody flag of Empire from his grave and re-dedicate my life to ending the Empire.
In Casey's name and for his legacy.
Memorial Day by Anthony Freda
Image by Anthony Freda
Is human sacrifice really dead?
Or, are our wars religio-political rituals in which the precious, sacred lives of our young people are sacrificed at the altar of "democracy and freedom" by order of the new priest class?
22 U.S. veterans commit suicide a day. I would categorize these deaths as Assisted suicides.
Why are so many brave soldiers and veterans killing themselves?
Are they coming to the realization that they were never fighting for freedom and democracy as they were told?
Are they learning that the pretexts they are given as justification for endless war are actually warped, historical narratives designed to manufacture their consent?
Have they accepted the fact that the true, imperial geopolitical strategies at play are hidden from them and that their sense of patriotism has been cynically manipulated by those who benefit from enriching and empowering the military industrial complex?
Are they becoming aware that a complicit media uses psychological techniques to promote endless war as the inevitable solution to every crisis, ignoring and hiding the fact that these wars accomplish nothing but death, chaos and the empowerment of the very enemy they have ostensibly been sent to destroy?
Are they killing themselves not only because they have experienced the horrors of wars, but also the even greater horror of knowing that their criminal government sent them into harm's way on false pretexts and that those in power place
No value on their sacrifices or even their lives?
Anthony Freda
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Watch: Student Activist Clashes With Tucker Carlson Over Venezuela Opposition
"Dakotah Lilly, a leader of Students & Youth for a New America in New York City, defended Venezuela on a national US TV news broadcast. Appearing with Tucker Carlson, on a nightly program with 3 to 4 million viewers across the USA, Lilly called out the FOX news host for his blatant distortions of the harsh situation facing the Bolivarian Socialist Republic. Lilly pointed out that Venezuela is facing a wave of terrorism and food hoarding, and that while everyone acknowledges that reforms are desperately needed, neoliberalism is not the answer."
Dyln Namm, MintPressNews
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
TONIGHT! John Pilger and Evan Greer on TPS w/Cindy Sheehan
May 23, 2017
Listen tonight:
6pm Pacific
9pm Eastern
(and everything in-between)
CLICK IMAGE TO LISTEN
GUEST ONE: JOHN PILGER
TOPIC: THE HOT MESS OF THE US EMPIRE/CHINA
GUEST TWO: EVAN GREER
TOPIC: PRIVATE MANNING'S RELEASE AND GOING FORWARD
Monday, May 22, 2017
The 19th of May: California Independence Day by Cindy Sheehan
Since my son Casey was killed in Iraq on 04/04/04, I have consistently taken steps to remove myself from the government of the USA: I stopped paying income taxes (how can I fund more murder after I essentially funded the murder of my own son?); I sold my car; dumped my house; and vocally oppose just about everything America does. Unfortunately, I still have a passport and I feel like, not only do I want to live in California, my surviving children (5th generation Californians) and my five grandchildren (6th generation Californians) live here, so I need to live here.
Also, why should I be forced to "love it or leave it?" Mostly, almost all the people who can afford to be so mobile and move around the world are the people who create untenable conditions for the rest of us, anyway.
Having written the above, you can imagine that I was extremely excited when I saw that there was a renewed interest in California Independence! I quickly contacted leadership of the movement and became involved myself and am now on the board of the California Freedom Coalition.
On May 19, 2017 we joyfully, yet with a sense of gravitas, filed paperwork in Sacramento at the office of the Attorney General to put California Independence in front of Californians in the form of a ballot initiative. Right now, we are awaiting final approval (around 50 days) to begin collecting signatures for this historic and righteous effort.
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| In front of Cal Capitol. Cindy Sheehan (Young Lady), Steve Gonzales of CFC |
As with the first American Revolution in 1776 (an effort which few colonists supported, at first, so the "Patriots" also had to wage a battle to win the "fence-sitters" over), it has become "self-evident" to some of us here in California that the US government (USG), way across the country in Washington, DC does not represent us, or our values, in anywhere near a competent, or even, humane way. We feel like we are treated as vassals to unrestrained capitalism and war. Even California's federal contingent that are sent to DC are a club of millionaires who have lost touch with California and the average Californian. How else are reps like Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) and Nancy Pelosi (D) able to constantly vote for wars, war funding, and work to protect out of control US regimes and corporate interests?
While California is one of the leading economies in the world, there is still an appalling unemployment and homeless problem. Following the trajectory of the US, California's good, manufacturing jobs have fled for greener pastures and what's left for us: service jobs or the military. Californians send billions to the USG to support US military adventurism, and while we mostly don't support the wars, our young people and families pay the highest and irredeemable prices in war deaths, injuries, and the deepest cut: suicide.
If left in the Republic of California, what we here in the state could do with our human, natural, and financial resources, is almost limitless. Similarly, the potential of a free California to lead the world in peace, education (the wealthy state of California consistently rates in the bottom 10% in education in the US), meaningful and full-employment with good wages and benefits, sustainable energy production, clean agriculture, clean water, clean air, etc; unleashes what my colleague in the movement Tim Vollmer has called, the "sociological imagination."
There have been independence movements in California since before it was quickly absorbed by the USA (because of the discovery of massive amounts of gold) in 1850 and it is only a matter of time before we are again successful.
We, the patriots and matriots of Californian Independence not only want a healthier country to live in, we also feel that if California does become independent from the bloody US Empire, it will ultimately deal a death blow to that Empire. Without California, the US will have to scale back its sick habit of regime change/carnage around the world, or perish. I would rather have the US voluntarily follow California on a much more peaceful and sensible path for humanity, but if it perishes, that is fine, too. Anything to stop the Empire's reign of terror around the world.
This is in no way a rightwing "Free State of Jefferson" movement (CalSplit) that wants to add another state to a nation that has, beyond a shadow of any doubt, demonstrated its psychopathic tendencies. We don't advocate for an independent California to further separate the rich and the poor, but to retain the beautiful diverse nature of our state; and to elevate everyone in equality and prosperity (some people will have to de-elevate, but, that's only a matter of time, too).
However, this is also not a "liberal" initiative that only wants to skedaddle because Trump is the current CEO of Murder, Inc; only to return to again beg for scraps from our "master's" table when a Democrat assumes that position. This is an a-partisan effort that strives to leave the divisions of the US behind and join as Californians of all demographics to put the power and future of California back where it rightfully belongs: in our hands and in our communities.
I was honored to be asked to sign the "California Declaration of Independence," and the significance of this was not lost on any of us.
We are working hard for success and we all know that it will happen and it will be good for everyone (except the 1%, at first), but we wondered how did the signers of the Declaration of Independence feel on the sweltering day (it was also hot in Sacramento on 19 May) of 4 July, 1776? I am sure, like we, they were optimistic, excited, and a little fearful of what terror would be unleashed by the major Empire of that day.
Nothing can be achieved without people willing to take the risks of ridicule, demonization, marginalization, or worse. We won't become free until we demand freedom. As the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass stated in 1857, "power concedes nothing without a demand."
Some things are worth fighting for and the very future of sustainable life on this planet is the thing we are fighting for. If the USG cannot be stopped, then the rest of us will be.
Join us in this very worthy struggle!
Thursday, May 18, 2017
"Russiagate" Conspiracy Theory: A Pretext to a Coup by Anthony Freda
I am not a supporter or defender of Trump, I Am a supporter and defender of Truth.
When
political operatives in the Deep State collude with the discredited,
but still oddly influential mainstream media to destroy someone, this dastardly duo cannot be stopped.
Even by arguably the most powerful person in the world.
The same intelligence agencies and media who lied us into the Iraq War now tell us the president is colluding with Russia.
There
are plenty of reasons to resist Trump. His continuation of Obama's
illegal spying campaign and Hillary's hawkish foreign policy are good
places to start.
The "Trump-is-a-Russian-Stooge-
The tall tale is a
conjured, faux scandal designed to undermine the president's legitimacy
(According to Julian Assange) and lay the pretext for impeachment.
The
Machiavellian scheme is going brilliantly according to plan as the lies
are repeated ad-nauseum to a gullible and receptive public.
In
a feeding frenzy of vitriolic and politically motivated yellow
journalism, the corporate fake news masters vomit up a daily menu of
Russophobic and NeoMcarthyistic headlines written to misinform the
populace and foster support for a coup.
It does
not matter to the conspiracy theorists that Sen. Diane Feinstein
(D-Calif.) said publicly on May 4 that the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence has seen no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump's
campaign aides and Russian officials, or that the former Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee
on May 8 that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals.
Putin
himself recently addressed the increasingly volatile state of affairs
in American politics, saying that pushers of the ‘Russian conspiracy
theory' are either "stupid" or "dangerous and corrupt."
"You
know what surprises me? Those who are destabilizing the internal US
political situation using anti-Russian slogans either don't understand
that they are bringing this nonsense in on their own side, and then they
are just stupid, or else they understand everything, and then they are
dangerous and corrupt people."
Trump clearly
has enemies in his cabinet leaking to the press. I don't recall the MSM
reporting any high-level private conversations of Obama or Hillary in
the last eight years, and now it happens every day. They refused to
report the misdeeds of Hillary revealed by Wikileaks and actively worked
to obfuscate her sins.
The MSM ignores the facts that Hillary
Clinton and John Podesta were paid by Russia, or that Democratic
National Committee computer expert Seth Rich was the one who leaked DNC
emails, sending 44,000 DNC emails to Julian Assange at Wikileaks.
The
idea that the Trump administration is colluding with Russia becomes
even more absurd in light of the anti-Russian and even provocative
stances and policies the president is advocating.
Is he strengthening the US military to help Russia?
Is he empowering the coal industry to help Russia?
Only
profound cognitive dissonance can explain how one can conclude that he
is working with Russia, but trying to destroy them at the same time.
Candidate
Trump promised to pursue detente with the Kremlin and have a less
adversarial relationship with Putin than Hillary Clinton, who compared
Vladimir to Hitler.
I wish Trump kept his promise and took a
more diplomatic stance with Russia to avoid the whole pesky nuclear Armageddon that the Russophobes seem to be cheering for.
Inverted reality seems to be what the public yearn for in the age of fake news.
The
media and Deep State may just have their dream of impeaching and
deposing Trump come true. What comes next is hard to predict.
Civil War II? Impeachment of the next dirty Russian traitor, President Penceski!!??
(I hear he likes Russian Dressing)
Anthony Freda
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
#CalExit May 19th March in Sacramento
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
DNC Staffer Murder Cover-Up by Anthony Freda
Julian Assange has suggested before, it was not the Russians who leaked verified email evidence of DNC malfeasance, it was staffer Seth Rich.You know, the same guy who also just happened to be murdered soon after Wikileaks published the damning information.
Now there is evidence that Rich was in contact with Wikileaks.
During
a subsequent television interview in August, Wikileaks Julian Assange
appeared to confirm that Rich was the source for the DNC leak,
dismantling the claim that Russia was responsible for the leak.
Rod
Wheeler, a private investigator hired by the Rich family, has now
stated that Rich’s laptop contains proof that he was in contact
with WIkileaks before his death and that DC Police were ordered to cover
it up.
“I have a source inside the
police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and said,
‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any
information with you.’ Now, that is highly unusual for a murder
investigation, especially from a police department,” said Wheeler.
Rich was murdered in a posh area of Washington DC on June 8 last year but the killers did
not steal anything from the victim, making the police’s explanation
that the incident was a robbery and murder doubtful.
In an apparent attempt to distract from this powerful news, The Washington Post published a dubious story on President Trump
leaking classified information to the Russians less than an hour after
the bombshell news broke that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was in
contact with Wikileaks and that DC Police were ordered to cover it up.
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Monday, May 15, 2017
ROL, USA NEWSLETTER #102 (MAY-JUNE 2017)
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INCLUDED ARTICLES:
Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution: The October Revolution and the Working Class of Russia and the World Achieve Unprecedented Victories: Part 2 of 2 Part Series by RAY LIGHT
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Outrage at the World’s Number #1 Terrorist by CARL PAPPOS and PAT KELLY
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REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION OF LABOR,USA (ROL,USA) AND CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX DENOUNCE AND CONDEMN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CRIMINAL MISSILE ATTACK ON THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF SYRIA
USA: Hands off California (SOAPBOX PODCAST 5/15/17)
May 15, 2017
Guests:
Tim Vollmer
Shankar Singam
Topic:
California Independence Movement
#CalExit
#CalExit
March to the Capitol on May 19th!
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