Episodes
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.12.16
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Bring It On! Make Your Point on ‘Free Your Mind Friday!’
Another news-filled week comes to a close, and “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories is open to hear what you made of it. Call in (888-874-4888) and add your own special intellectual flavor to this delicious, simmering soup of information, opinions and ideas.
Thursday Feb 11, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.11.16
Thursday Feb 11, 2016
Thursday Feb 11, 2016
In Like Flint: Hillary Clinton Sees Victory in Lead Poisoning
Congressional Black Caucus PAC Adds Insult to Injury with Its Endorsement
Abayomi Azikiwe, editor in chief of Pan-African News Wire and a Detroit organizer for the Workers World Party, has been coursing us through the process of Detroit’s forced bankruptcy and its devastating social, economic and political impact, including it ripple effects throughout the state and across the country. He discusses Hillary Clinton’s foray into Flint, Mich., trolling for votes from people whose water system has left untold thousands poisoned by lead.
The Congressional Black Caucus Political Action Committee today endorsed Clinton’s candidacy for president. Leid Stories explains why (a) this is no surprise and (b) black communities must reassess their political leadership and options.
Wednesday Feb 10, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.10.16
Wednesday Feb 10, 2016
Wednesday Feb 10, 2016
Election 2016: White Bread and Corn Bread Politics
Leid Stories looks at how the media and the candidates have used, and are using, race to shape the course of the 2016 presidential election and, eventually, its outcome.
Tuesday Feb 09, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.09.16
Tuesday Feb 09, 2016
Tuesday Feb 09, 2016
Leak at NY Nuclear Power Plant Again Raises Safety Issue
Haiti: A Horror Show As Clinton’s Toady President Leaves Office
It was to be a raucous Mardi Gras in Haiti today, the annual carnival celebration coinciding with the election of a new president. Instead, a somber mood envelops the country. Michel Martelly, the singer Hillary Clinton helped install as president, left office on Feb. 7 and left total chaos in his wake—postponed elections, a now-leaderless country, violence and turmoil in the streets, and a legacy of corruption that harkens back to the Duvalier regime of 30 years ago. Kim Ives, editor of Haïti Liberté, discusses the current situation.
Paul DeRienzo, who has been reporting on “America’s Fukushima”—actual and looming disasters of America’s nuclear program and at several nuclear power plants—discusses a radioactive leak into the ground water beneath the Indian Point nuclear facility in Buchanan, N.Y., that was found to be 65,000-percent higher than “normal” levels.
Monday Feb 08, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.08.16
Monday Feb 08, 2016
Monday Feb 08, 2016
For the Record: Reporting on Underreported Reports
The din of the presidential election seems to have drowned out several noteworthy reports. Leid Stories starts the week off discussing a few of them—including reports on U.S. employment and the income gap; hunger and food aid; human rights violations; a record number of exonerations due to false convictions; and new tactics cops and city governments are using to avoid paying judgments won against them.
Friday Feb 05, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.05.16
Friday Feb 05, 2016
Friday Feb 05, 2016
It’s Our Town Hall! Speak Up and Free Your Mind!
A “town hall” meeting every four years is good for democracy? We beg to differ. Leid Stories’ “Free Your Mind Friday” is a weekly town hall on the critical issues of the day. Call in (888-874-4888) and share your thoughts, opinions and ideas.
Thursday Feb 04, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.04.16
Thursday Feb 04, 2016
Thursday Feb 04, 2016
President Obama on Islam, Terrorism, Race and the American Way
In a highly publicized speech he delivered yesterday at the Islamic Society of Baltimore—his first visit to a U.S. mosque as head of state—President Barack Obama ostensibly was playing the role of Domestic Peacemaker in Chief, calling for religious tolerance and a rekindling of the Jeffersonian/Founding Fathers’ commitment to religious freedom for all Americans.
Lawdy, Lawdy, so wrong in so many ways, says Leid Stories of Obama’s speech.
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.03.16
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Wednesday Feb 03, 2016
Analyze This!: Is ‘Feeling the Bern’ A Viable Option and Strategy?
Expanding on yesterday’s discussion (the Iowa caucuses and implications of the results), Leid Stories asks, especially of those who reject duopoly politics: Given the situation as it stands, is Bernie Sanders, the self-titled Democratic Socialist who virtually tied Hillary Clinton’s caucus votes, a viable choice? What is to be gained by supporting his candidacy? What is the biggest hurdle you’ll have to overcome to consider supporting him?
Tuesday Feb 02, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.02.16
Tuesday Feb 02, 2016
Tuesday Feb 02, 2016
So, What Have We Learned from the Iowa Caucuses?
Leid Stories deconstructs the Iowa caucuses. The first voting event in the 2016 presidential election, it defied predicted outcomes and winnowed the ranks of both Republican and Democratic contenders. But it also confirmed the validity of and need for serious grassroots political movements that challenge the status quo, says Leid Stories.
Monday Feb 01, 2016
Leid Stories – 02.01.16
Monday Feb 01, 2016
Monday Feb 01, 2016
Starting in Iowa: It’s Open Season, and Hapless Voters Are the Quarry
All eyes are on Iowa, where voting in the 2016 presidential race gets off to a high-pitched start, and by night’s end will be fodder for political analysts’ predictions about who the next occupant of the White House might be. No run-of-the-mill runoff, it’s a history-making contest—though not for the reasons most often cited. For, behind the media-manufactured excitement is a sordid truth, says Leid Stories: Voters are merely the quarry in a well-organized, big-money hunt for power among self-appointed guardians of America’s Old World Order.