Episodes
Friday Oct 30, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.30.15
Friday Oct 30, 2015
Friday Oct 30, 2015
You’re Cordially Invited … to Free Your Mind!
It’s Friday, “Free Your Mind Friday,” on Leid Stories, and you’re in the driver’s seat, taking the conversation wherever you want it to go.
Call in (888-874-4888) and give us your take on this week’s bumper crop of news issues and developments.
Friday Oct 30, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.29.15
Friday Oct 30, 2015
Friday Oct 30, 2015
Whip, Lash: Mainstream Media Gets Outed at Republican Q&A
History Redacted: CNN Assists in Tony Blair’s Cleanup on Iraq Invasion
A clear winner in the third two-tiered Q&A session (erroneously called a “debate”) Republican presidential candidates had last night was a point made about the role of the media (“liberal” media, two panelists claimed) in shaping coverage and influencing public opinion.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, skewered CNBC’s panel of questioners on the issue, though from the predictable point of view that mainstream media has been functioning almost as a PR arm of the Democratic Party, favoring Hillary Clinton. Leid Stories explains why the senators couldn't go all the way with their argument.
CNN is all but gloating over Fareed Zakaria’s interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Interviewed as part of a special report Zakaria did on Iraq, Blair “apologized” for his and Britain’s role as partners in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein, wreaked havoc in the country and spawned ISIS.
Blair’s blame-shifting act of contrition was shameful enough, says Leid Stories. But Zakaria’s and CNN’s editorial assist with deft political scutwork was even more so.
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.28.15
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015
U.S. Foreign Policy: A History of Empire, Racism and Genocide
What informs U.S. foreign policy? Noble ideas about fostering freedom, justice and democracy all over the world? Not at all, says our guest, peace activist Robert Fantina.
U.S. foreign policy is a mere cover for military involvement and intervention, the true purposes of which are power and wealth, Fantina says.
In a wide-ranging interview, Fantina elaborates on this theme, drawing from his most recent book, Empire, Racism and Genocide: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy.
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.27.15
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015
Wednesday Oct 28, 2015
Happy Motoring?: Behind the UAW-GM Tentative Agreement
The Benghazi Hearings: What Gave Hillary Her Big Break (Part 2)
Averting a midnight-Sunday threatened strike by mere minutes, the United Auto Workers union and General Motors announced a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract for 52,700 workers. They now must vote on the deal. Veteran auto worker and bargaining committee member Gary Walkowicz says worker solidarity is keeping both union leadership and corporate bosses in check.
We pick up from where we left off with the discussion on Hillary Clinton’s “triumph” at last week’s hearing on the attack on two mysterious U.S. “diplomatic” compounds in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012that left four Americans dead—including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, foreign service information management officer Sean Smith , and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Leid Stories listeners ask questions about Clinton that committee members never intended to.
Monday Oct 26, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.26.15
Monday Oct 26, 2015
Monday Oct 26, 2015
The Benghazi Hearings: What Gave Hillary Her Big Break
Hillary Clinton, basking in the afterglow from the embers of last week’s congressional hearing on Benghazi, appears to have slithered through yet another rough—and potentially damaging—political patch.
Leid Stories explains what gave Hillary her big break, and listeners ask the basic questions that the former secretary of state still has not been asked, and likely won’t answer, even under oath.
Monday Oct 26, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.23.15
Monday Oct 26, 2015
Monday Oct 26, 2015
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Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.21.15
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
Wednesday Oct 21, 2015
Leid Stories Poll: What’s Shaping Your Political Attitudes, Choices?
Seems it’s a poll-driven presidential race. Who’s running, waiting, quitting, leading, lagging, or doesn’t have a prayer—it’s all in the polls. Running the spectrum between unbiased (few in this category) and blatantly partisan (way too many in this category), the intent, more and more, is not merely to ascertain or reflect what people are thinking or doing, but to sway and skew public opinion so as to influence political attitudes and choices.
Leid Stories conducts its own unofficial poll today, asking listeners an open-ended question: “What’s shaping your political attitudes and choices?”
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.20.15
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015
Tuesday Oct 20, 2015
Capitalism and Democracy: A Plausible Coexistence?
The answer to the above proposition, generally, would be a resounding “Yes!” But ask Tariq Ali, renowned political commentator, author and leftist thinker, whether capitalism and democracy can coexist, and you’ll get an entirely different point of view.
With both elements deeply embedded in the American psyche and political discourse, Leid Stories joins Ali at a presentation in which he goes to the heart of the matter.
Monday Oct 19, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.19.15
Monday Oct 19, 2015
Monday Oct 19, 2015
St Louis Nuclear Waste Dump Near Ferguson Threatened by Fire
The Tamir Rice Case: Are Legal Strategies Failing Once Again?
Investigative journalist Paul DeRienzo, who has been reporting on the catastrophic consequences of America’s military and corporate nuclear-development and waste-disposal operations and programs, reports that the City of St. Louis has come up with an evacuation plan, should a “catastrophic event” occur at a landfill, near Ferguson, containing radioactive waste.
“Much has been written about the poverty and deep-seated racism in Ferguson,” DeRienzo says, “but little has been said of the environmental racism” besieging the city.
Samaria Rice—the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by a rookie police officer in Cleveland last Nov. 22—and lawyers representing the family on Friday called for an independent special prosecutor to handle the case. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty has not yet presented the case to a grand jury, but has released two “expert” reports concurring that the officer’s actions were “reasonable.”
Alton H. Maddox Jr., an expert on police-brutality cases, including cases that set a precedent for the appointment of special prosecutors, raises questions about the lawyers’ strategies.
Friday Oct 16, 2015
Leid Stories – 10.16.15
Friday Oct 16, 2015
Friday Oct 16, 2015
Why Fret? There Are So Many Ways to Free Your Mind?
It’s better than psychotherapy. It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, an open forum for the exchange of information, opinions and ideas.
Call in (888-874-4888) and share your thoughts about the issues of the day or whatever you think is worthy of wider discussion.