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WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH RUSSIA?, and THE BLACKLISTING OF GARY NULL FROM PACIFICA RADIO STATIONS

Mitchel Cohen digs deep into the U.S. response to the country Georgia’s bombardment of South Ossetia. Drawing on reports by Seumas Milne in the Guardian (UK), by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Washington Post, Robert Knight on KPFK’s Flashpoints, Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power, and Ellen Brown (WebofDebt.com), Mitchel is scathing in attacking the lies and “nauseating hypocrisy” of U.S. politicians and media.

and, in the second half of the show, health expert GARY NULL responds to attacks on his health advice that led to him being blacklisted from Pacifica station WPFW in Washington D.C. This is Part One of a 3-Part segment on this important issue.

Tune in live on the internet on Thursdays at 11 a.m. and Tuesdays at 6 p.m. on TribecaRadio.net, and after that archived (podcast) at http://tribecaradio.net/wpradioblog/podcasts/stealthisradio/, where you can hear all of Steal This Radio for the last 1-1/2 years.

Please post your comments for each show you listen to on the podcast page, and send them to mitchelcohen@mindspring.com .

 

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ANTHRAX! ANTHRAX! ANTHRAX!

Digging for the truth behind the alleged suicide of microbiologist Bruce Ivins and the U.S. Army’s biowarfare laboratory at Fort Detrick Maryland.

 

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What’s behind the current economic crisis, and what to do about it?

This week on “Steal This Radio,” Southern California attorney and author Ellen Brown (WebOfDebt.com) and Mitchel Cohen get into a lively discussion, joined by Shaune Velazquez. Ellen Brown sees the book “The Wizard of Oz” as historical commentary on U.S. monetary policy, and along the way examines how to fight housing foreclosures, JP Morgan’s confiscation of Bear Stearns (with the assistance of the Federal Reserve), and other related matters.

Ellen Brown’s essays are available at www.webofdebt.com . You can also order her fascinating book, Web of Debt, at that site.

Music:
- Songs from the Wizard of Oz, including (of course!) “Over the Rainbow,” sung by Judy Garland, and
- Ray Bolger: “If I Only Had a Brain”
- ABBA: “Money Money Money”
- Dave Lippman: “Big Oil Drum”
- John Mellencamp: “Rain on the Scarecrow”
- Bruce Springsteen: “Pay Me My Money Down”

The show is broadcast over the internet on Thursday, July 31 at 11 a.m. and repeated next Tuesday, Aug. 5 at 6 p.m. on www.tribecaradio.net . Click on “Listen Live”.

You can hear archived shows — including the 2-part conversation with South African poet and activist Dennis Brutus (shows #49 & #50) — by clicking on http://tribecaradio.net/wpradioblog/podcasts/stealthisradio any time.

PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS TO THAT PAGE

 

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Part 2

Mitch Cohens Amazing interview with South African Activist and Poet Dennis Brutus continues.  Recording engineer Shaune Velazquez asks some tough questions of the two activists in regard to their ideas on some of the differences between Capitalism and Socialism.  Can Capitalism work at all?  Is it greed or capitalism that is the problem?  Can Socialism work or is the answer  maybe “a combination of regulated capital and with the emphasis on a society fabric built on social values”?

But this show is much more than just the answer to a couple of questions because the life of Dennis Brutus is absolutely fascinating.  The work that he has done and the sacrifices he has made can only be likened to our great American leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evars and all those who struggled for the equality of all people and all races.  At the ripe age of 84 Dennis Brutus is committed to and continues to peacefully fight hard for justice and civil rights.

 

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SOUTH AFRICAN POET DENNIS BRUTUS ON STEAL THIS RADIO!

PART ONE

Nelson Mandela hid out in Dennis Brutus’ house while the apartheid army searched for him. Then Dennis served hard time in jail with Mandela and other heros of the anti-apartheid freedom struggle, and was a member of the African National Congress.

Today, some of those same South African radicals are opposing a lawsuit that Dennis Brutus and others have brought in U.S. Federal Court in New York, which seeks to hold multi-billion dollar corporations accountable for their collaboration with apartheid and profiteering off of slave labor.

Tune in on your computer Thursday, at 11 a.m., to hear South African poet and freedom fighter Dennis Brutus, in Part One of a wide-ranging discussion with host Mitchel Cohen, with Shaune Valezquez, on this week’s Steal This Radio.CONTINUED WITH DENNIS BRUTUS NEXT WEEK…..

Date and Time: Thursday, July 10, at 11 a.m.,
and repeated on Tuesday, July 15th, at 6 pm.

How: Go to TribecaRadio.net and click on “Listen Live”.

After that, the show will be archived (”podcast”) at http://tribecaradio.net/wpradioblog/podcasts/stealthisradio/

Also, listen to Steal This Radio’s tribute to comedian George Carlin, who died a few weeks ago. Go to Show #48
http://tribecaradio.net/wpradioblog/podcasts/stealthisradio/ and click on the arrow below the show description.

 

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This week Mitch Cohen and Shaune V pay tribute to the legendary comedian Goerge Carlin. If you have listened to Goerge Carlin you know that he said the things that people are scared to say but he did in a way that made people laugh. Goerge Carlin was an individual and included within his comedy acts political satire that made us laugh and question who we are as Americans and he brought together the things we have in common more so than our differences. We would like to thank Amy Goodman and Democracy Now since we are taking some clips from their show that aired in the wake of Mr. Carlins death. We will miss Goerge Carlin tremendously and may his essence stay in our hearts.

Please enjoy this weeks show.

Peace

 

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This week, Mitchel reads the first half of “The Secret Bailout of J.P. Morgan: How Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns and the American Taxpayer”, an extremely informative article by Ellen Brown, http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/banking-bailout.php , which holds that far from “rescuing” Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan Chase — one of the largest banks in the world — had a hand in intentionally sinking Bear Stearns’ stock and STOLE that company with the help of a $55 billion loan from the Federal Reserve. But before that, Mitchel discusses the news items, below.

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***Mohawk elders beaten and hospitalized at Canadian border. Read article at http://narcosphere.narconews.com/ and send letters of protest to:

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper harper.s@parl.gc.ca
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty mcguinty.D@parl.gc.ca
United Nations unat@un.org
Indian Affairs Minister Strahl.c@parl.gc.ca
Brantford Mayor Michael Hancock 519-759-3330 nborowicz@brantford.ca
Ontario Attorney General 416-326-2220 or 1-800-518-7901
Minister Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Michael Bryant Lars.Eedy@ontario.ca ;

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Mitchel continues his discussion of the death of the world’s oceans, today focusing on dozens of dolphins who beached themselves and died in England, as a result of British military operations in their waters. Story from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/06/10/eadolphin410.xml

Also:
- Rhode Island School to implant computer chips in students’ bags
http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html

- Kids born in Los Angeles will have breathed 344 times more toxic air by the time they are 18 years old than the EPA considers acceptable for lifetime exposure.
http://counterpunch.org

- Pinkwashing: Corporations seduce us into buying, buying, buying …. to supposedly fight against breast cancer.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/7436

- Sign a new petition to the presidential candidates demanding that they endorse a new treaty banning cluster bombs signed by 111 nations (but not the U.S.) http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1493/t/2765/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2214
MUSIC:
The Neville Brothers, With God on Our Side (Dylan)
Sweet Honey in the Rock, Wanting Memories
Hoyt Axton, Epistle

OPENING THEME:
Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers

Save New York City’s Parks from its Predatory Mayor, Mike Bloomberg!
<http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com” target=_blankhttp://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com/>http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com

Rejin Ley’s blog on ecology and urban environment
<http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/” target=_blankhttp://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/>http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/

And, send in your own songs, poems and ideas to
mitchelcohen@mindspring.com

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Order a copy of Mitchel Cohen’s two Poetry Books:

One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight, and
The Permanent Carnival

both available for $14 + $1.81 each in stamps
beautiful artwork on the covers painted by Haideen Anderson.

write to MitchelCohen@mindspring.com (or paypal to that address)

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Upcoming

June 28-29 Major Anti-War Conference in Cleveland, OH
http://natassembly.org/

July 10-12 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Chicago IL
http://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

August 15-18, 2008
2008 Union of Radical Political Economists Summer Conference
“Poverty & Unemployment: The Permanent Violence of Capitalism ”
Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY
http://urpe.org/conferences/summer.html Contact the URPE National Office if you have further questions:
urpe@labornet.org or 413-577-0806
Download and make copies of our flyer — let others know about our conference!
http://urpe.org/conferences/SumFly2008.pdf

August 25-28 Democratic Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Denver. Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

September 1-4 Republican Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

November 6-9, 2008 “Art, Praxis, and Social Transformation: Radical Dreams and Visions”
The Eighth Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference
November 6-9, 2008, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
http://home.grandecom.net/~jackgm/RPA.html

 

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GUEST: Robert Roth, editor of the journal “And … Then” and author of a beautifully written memoir, “Health Proxy,” published by Yuganta Press <http://Yuganta.com> You can write to Robert Roth at RobLRoth(at)juno.com

In addition, Mitchel discusses the death of the world’s oceans, with have over 150 “dead zones”, some the size of Ireland. He reads from an article by Anneli Rufus, who reviews a a new book about the subject by Canadian journalist Taras Grescoe, Bottomfeeder (Bloomsbury, 2008).
http://www.alternet.org/environment/86789/?page=1

MUSIC:
Stevie Wonder, Superstition
Simon & Garfunkel, Flowers Never Bend
Judy Garland, Get Happy
Linda Ronstadt, Am I Blue

Opening Theme

Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers

Save New York City’s Parks from its Predatory Mayor, Mike Bloomberg!
<http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com” target=_blankhttp://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com/>http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com

Rejin Ley’s blog on ecology and urban environment
<http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/” target=_blankhttp://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/>http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/

And, send in your own songs, poems and ideas to
mitchelcohen@mindspring.com

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Order a copy of Mitchel Cohen’s two Poetry Books:

One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight, and
The Permanent Carnival

both available for $14 + $1.81 each in stamps
beautiful artwork on the covers painted by Haideen Anderson.

write to MitchelCohen@mindspring.com (or paypal to that address)

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Upcoming
Saturday, June 14, 12:30 pm Mitchel Cohen moderates a top-level panel on “Cloning”. With scientists Stuart Newman (Professor at New York Medical College. He writes extensively about social and cultural aspects of biological research and technology and is a founder of the Council for Responsible Genetics), Sheldon Krimsky (Professor at both the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Medicine at Tufts University. His research focuses on the linkages between science, technology, ethics, values and public policy), and Michael Hansen (Researcher and spokesperson for Consumers Union of the United States. Dr. Hansen is the author of Biotechnology and Milk: Benefit or Threat?). At Sixth Street Community Center, 638 East Sixth Street, between Avenue B & C, in Manhattan.
http://sosfood.org

June 28-29 Major Anti-War Conference in Cleveland, OH
<http://natassembly.org/” target=_blankhttp://natassembly.org/>http://natassembly.org/

July 10-12 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Chicago IL
<http://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page” target=_blankhttp://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>http://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

August 25-28 Democratic Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Denver. Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

September 1-4 Republican Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

 

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GUEST: Chris Kinder, coordinator of The Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
<http://www.laboractionmumia.org”

TOPIC: The Frame-Up of Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Real Story.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a journalist and former Black Panther who was found guilty of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981 and who is facing state execution. He has remained on Death Row in Pennsylvania for the last 26 years. Mumia said he was parked in his cab when he “heard what sounded like gunshots.” He ran over to the scene and was shot by a cop. He has always maintained his innocence, and never “confessed.” Witness William Singletary saw the whole thing; he said that Mumia arrived unarmed, and only AFTER the cop was shot; he said the real killer fled the scene. Other witnesses corroborated this account. Mumia Abu-Jamal arrived on the scene and was shot by cops and almost died. Evidence shows that the cops present at the scene knew Mumia and didn’t like his articles exposing of their crimes and brutality.
His case has become a cause cêlebre around the world, as Mumia is a brilliant political analyst and supporter of radical progressive movements. His case is a symbol of the racist frameups that were rampant in the U.S. in the 1970s and 80s, and that in fact continue to this day.
In this show, Chris Kinder examines the evidence for Mumia’s innocence and looks at a new book, “The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal,” by J. Patrick O’Connor which is the first book to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police Department and the District Attorney’s office worked in tandem to efficiently and methodically frame him.

Beth Youhn joins us near the end to discuss the importance of the Longshore Workers’ May Day port shutdown against the war in Iraq.

LINKS:
White Cops Defend Black Cops, Suffer Terribly, Win $10 Million: Brotherly Love in Philly’s Badlands
<http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna05192008.html” target=_blankhttp://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna05192008.html>http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna05192008.html

Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
<http://www.laboractionmumia.org” target=_blankhttp://www.laboractionmumia.org/>http://www.laboractionmumia.org
email: LACFreeMumia@aol.com

Mumia Abu-Jamal - in his own words
http://www.prisonradio.org

Funds for Mumia’s legal defense urgently needed
Make checks payable to:
National Lawyers Guild Foundation
(earmark check: “for Mumia Abu-Jamal”)
Send to: Committee to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
PO Box 2012, NYC 10159

Book:
J. Patrick O’Connor, The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Lawrence Hill Books
<http://www.lawrencehillbooks.com” target=_blankhttp://www.lawrencehillbooks.com/>The author, a seasoned crime reporter, writes in the language of hard facts, without hyperbole or exaggeration, to reveal the truth about one of the most hotly debated cases of the twentieth century. O’Connor is the editor and publisher of Crime Magazine. He has worked as a reporter for UPI, editor of Cincinnati Magazine, associate editor of TV Guide, and editor/publisher of the Kansas City New Times.

Also:
Murdering Mumia: Anatomy of a Frame-Up
April 15th and April 28th, 2008
at http://www.takingaimradio.com
where LAC cooordinator Chris Kinder is interviewed by Maya Shone and Ralph Schoenman
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MUSIC & WORDS:
- Mumia Abu-Jamal: When Votes Matter, a new statement recorded on 6-01-08
<http://www.prisonradio.org” target=_blankhttp://www.prisonradio.org/>http://www.prisonradio.org
- Mumia Abu-Jamal: In Support of the ILWU Shutdown of the West Coast ports against the War and Occupation of Iraq, May 1, 2008
- Bruce Springsteen, American Skin (41 Shots)
- Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (excerpt)
- Sweet Honey in the Rock, Wanting Memories

OPENING THEME:
Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers

Save New York City’s Parks from its Predatory Mayor, Mike Bloomberg!
<http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com” target=_blankhttp://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com/>http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com

Rejin Ley’s blog on ecology and urban environment
<http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/” target=_blankhttp://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/>http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/

And, send in your own songs, poems and ideas to
mitchelcohen@mindspring.com

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Order a copy of Mitchel Cohen’s two Poetry Books:

One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight, and
The Permanent Carnival

both available for $14 + $1.81 each in stamps
beautiful artwork on the covers painted by Haideen Anderson.

write to MitchelCohen@mindspring.com (or paypal to that address)

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Upcoming:

June 28-29 Major Anti-War Conference in Cleveland, OH
<http://natassembly.org/” target=_blankhttp://natassembly.org/>http://natassembly.org/

July 10-12 Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Chicago IL
<http://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page” target=_blankhttp://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>http://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

August 25-28 Democratic Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Denver. Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

September 1-4 Republican Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

 

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GUEST: Frank Morales, Episcopal Priest and author of “Police State America”

TOPIC: “Operation Garden Plot” and U.S. government plans for rounding up
dissenters in today’s America

LINKS:
https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/JAGCNETInternet/Homepages/AC/CLAMO-Public.nsf
Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates,
Especially Chapter 4, “Military Assistance for Civil Disturbances,” on Operation
Garden Plot.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/ED5OUPQJ7.DTL
San Francisco Chronicle,  Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg, Monday, February 4, 2008,
“Rule By Fear, or Rule by Law?”

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/24/enemy.combatant.ap/index.html
CNN, May 2008, “Does Constitution Apply to Enemy Combatant on US Soil?”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198456,00.html
“Critics Fear Emergency Centers Could be Used for Immigration Round-Ups,” Fox
News, June 7, 2006

http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/
“Bush Moves Toward Martial Law,” by Frank Morales, the ominous reworking of the
Insurrection Act allowing Bush to station troops anywhere he wants.

http://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22130.pdf
“Detention of US Citizens,” Congressional Research Service, April 28, 2005

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/258.html
“Official Touts Nonlethal Weapons for Use,” (AP), September 12, 2006, on the
microwave crowd dispersal weapon.

http://demilitarizethepolice.netfirms.com
“Campaign to Demilitarize the Police” - (inactive) website, but by scrolling
down to “articles” section you’ll find numerous pieces on the subject of Garden
Plot, non-lethal weapons and the militarization of the police.

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ALSO:
- Brown University student Molly Little expelled for throwing a whipped cream
pie in face of NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Sign the on-line petition
defending Molly Little:
http://www.petitiononline.com/422buml/petition.html

- Genetically engineered monkeys are being bred to suffer horribly and die from
brain disease, in the name of “research”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-567201/Monkeys-bred-die-brain-disease–As-scientists-search-cures.html

MUSIC:
- Edwin Starr, “War”
- Simone White, “The American War”
- Credence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”
- Sweet Honey in the Rock, “No Mirrors in my Nana’s House”

OPENING THEME:
Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
Jefferson Airplane, “Volunteers”

Save New York City’s Parks from our Predatory Mayor, Mike Bloomberg!
http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com

Rejin’s blog on ecology and urban environment
http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/

And, send in your own songs, poems and ideas to
mitchelcohen@mindspring.com

*********************************
Order a copy of Mitchel Cohen’s two Poetry Books:

“One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight,” and
“The Permanent Carnival”

both available for $14 + $1.81 each in stamps

beautiful artwork on the covers painted by Haideen Anderson.

write to MitchelCohen@mindspring.com (or paypal to that address)

********************************
Upcoming:

June 28-29  Major Anti-War Conference in Cleveland, OH
http://natassembly.org/

July 10-12  Green Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Chicago IL
http://www.greenparty2008.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

August 25-28  Democratic Party Presidential Nominating Convention, Denver.
Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

September 1-4  Republican Party Presidential Nominating Convention,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Prepare for anti-war demonstrations

 

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