50th Anniversary of Catsonville 9 On May 17, 1968, 9 Catholic peaceniks burned hundreds of draft files protesting the American War against Vietnam, thereby saving lives of American workingclass men who were about to be drafted....
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:39PM
The Shortwave Report 05/18/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:36PM
Dianne Feinstein's Promotion of War, Secret Animal Abuse, Military Profiteering Feinstein has a long history of voting for war appropriations. She quietly cosponsored the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act which criminalizes many exposures of institutional torture of animals. She has profiteered personally from war....
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 3:46PM
The Endless War According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Corker-Kaine bill is "broader and more dangerous than the current law." Article 1 of the US Constitution grants Congress the exclusive right to declare war. The new AUMF (Authorization to Use Military Force) will undermine this to the maximum and delegate the right to declare war to the office of the president....
Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 3:03AM
Coming back to life in Iraq's Sinjar Almost four years ago, tens of thousands of Yazidi people were forced to flee Sinjar, in north west Iraq, after being subjected to appalling violence. Returning takes courage, and determination....
Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 3:59AM
The Shortwave Report 05/11/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Sputnik Radio, NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio....
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 4:08PM
War in Syria For diversion, an attack was commanded on alleged chemical weapon facilities in Syria with 100 "beautiful missiles" (Trump's words). The misanthropist Trump is not concerned about the people in Syria suffering under a dictatorship and civil war. A power demonstration was on the agenda in the interest of the powerful arms industry....
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:21AM
The Shortwave Report 05/04/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu May 3, 2018 5:00PM
Democracy Now’s “Alt Media” Platform for Humanitarian Imperialism in Syria Amy Goodman and Democracy are doing damage control for US imperialism according to reports....
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:57PM
Ultimatums instead of Diplomacy In what phase is NATO's confrontation with Russia? Contrary to a promise to Gorbachev, NATO expanded eastward from 16 to 28 states. A missile system is built along the Russian border in former eastern bloc states newly accepted in NATO. Military maneuvers with 10,000 soldiers are staged at Russia's border. Imagine Russia carrying out such a maneuver at the Mexican border to the US!...
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 4:49AM
The Shortwave Report 04/27/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, NHK Japan, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:06PM
What Gun-Control Activists Should be Talking About Gun-control activists should be pushing for Extreme Risk Protection Orders, not the repeal of the Second Amendment....
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:24PM
The Shortwave Report 04/20/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:03PM
The Shortwave Report 04/06/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Sputnik Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu Apr 5, 2018 4:29PM
The US, the Dollar, IS and Saudi Arabia Like his predecessor Obama, President Trump did not say a single word against the ruling house in Saudi Arabia. The US treats IS and the Saudi royal house differently. For decades, Saudi Arabia has been the US' closest ally in the Middle East and therefore enjoys Washington's unrestricted solidarity despite all its crimes....
Posted: Thu Apr 5, 2018 3:31AM
The Shortwave Report 03/30/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio....
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:18PM
3/24/18 SF March for Our Lives was Huge San Francisco’s March for Our Lives on March 24, 2018 was easily over 100,000 strong since the Civic Center rally filled up the entire Civic Center from the library to city hall during the first half hour, and people kept streaming to the rally even as the march started at 2:30 p.m. down Market Street to the Embarcadero. Teenagers turned out by the thousands, unlike the Dump Trump rally on January 20, 2018. Despite the narrow focus on gun control, there was a sense that the tide has turned ...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:26PM
John Bolton Avoided Draft, As did Trump and Bush, Jr. John Bolton, Nazi Trump's latest National Security Adviser, born in 1948, avoided the draft to fight the American War against Vietnam the same way Bush, Jr., born in 1946, by joining the National Guard. His new boss, Trump, also born in 1946, got a medical exemption for "bone spurs" while he played college sports, namely squash, football and tennis. The rich do not fight wars; they promote them to maximize the profits of the oil companies and munitions makers, the only reason the military e...
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:06PM
The Shortwave Report 03/16/18 Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Sputnik Radio, and NHK Japan....
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:27PM
Bay Area Student Protestors Threatened by Administrators/Teachers Over National Walkout In the San Francisco Bay Area thousands participated in a national walkout against gun violence, with 1500 leaving school to march in the suburb of Menlo Park alone. However, not all went smoothly for some Bay Area students seeking to express their opinions on March 14th....
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 3:14AM