Episodes
Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
Leid Stories—What’s Causing Elevated Levels of Radiation in New York City?—11.29.17
Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
Wednesday Nov 29, 2017
Investigative reporter, author, teacher and activist Paul DeRienzo, has been doing an ongoing series of reports on Leid Stories about the scary state many U.S. nuclear facilities are in, and the government’s repeated denials and coverups of leaks, explosions and widespread contamination at several plants throughout the country. His most recent reports were on the Hanford Site in Washington state, the nation’s most contaminated site.
DeRienzo files a new report that focuses on nuclear contamination in New York City, the epicenter of radiation-producing industries decades ago. But a 2005 control sampling found elevated levels of radiation in 80 spots across the city, including in a national park that was ordered closed.
Where is the radiation coming from? Do New Yorkers know? DeRienzo unfolds the story of his hunt for the truth.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Leid Stories—Finding A Safe Place In A World Going Crazy (Part 2)—11.28.17
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Yesterday’s discussion—on how we cope with day-to-day stresses and adversities and continue toward our commitment to activism and self-realization—generated an extraordinary response, both on-air and via email. So, Leid Stories returns to the topic today to accommodate those who weren’t able to join the conversation yesterday due to time constraints, and others who’d like to add to their thoughts.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Leid Stories—Finding A Safe Place In A World Going Crazy—11.27.17
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
Tuesday Nov 28, 2017
From time to time, the travails of the world seem far more daunting, far more powerful, than our capacity to cope, let alone resist. Yet we go from day to day, trying we’re doing our best, we say.
Is it our best? Or, are we living within boundaries already set, constantly trying to find a safe place within ourselves in a world going crazy?
Leid Stories goes philosophical.
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Leid Stories—Do Some Mental Maintenance and Free Your Mind!—11.23.17
Monday Nov 27, 2017
Monday Nov 27, 2017
It’s Friday. Time to defrag, and Leid Stories is here to help.
Select from the zillion thoughts swimming around in your brain the one you’d most like to share. Then call in (888-874-4888) and free your mind. You just might be freeing ours, too.
You’re cordially invited to join us for “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories. It’s our weekly open forum for the exchange of information, opinions and ideas, and everyone takes the conversation wherever they want it to go.
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Wednesday Nov 22, 2017
Historian and political scientist Dr. Gerald Horne discusses several developments around the world and at home that have serious implications for U.S domestic and foreign policy.
Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. A prolific author, he has written more than 30 books and 100 scholarly papers on struggles against imperialism, colonialism, fascism and racism. His most recent book is The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox.
He regularly decodes complex social, political and economic issues on Leid Stories.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
As many as 60,000 Haitians given shelter in the United States after an earthquake devastated their country in 2010 must return to Haiti by July 22, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday. This is in keeping with provisions of the Temporary Protected Status program under which they were allowed into the United States, DHS Acting Secretary Elaine Duke said.
Kim Ives, an editor with Haïti Liberté, discusses this move by the Trump administration, in light of the Clinton and Obama administrations’ policies on Haiti, and promises President Trump had made to U.S.-based Haitians during his election campaign.
Leid Stories offers more notes on the ongoing Sex-scandal tsunami.
Monday Nov 20, 2017
Monday Nov 20, 2017
Thousands of people marched on the National Mall of the nation’s capital yesterday, demanding President Trump and his administration deliver promised help for the storm-ravaged island of Puerto Rico. In addition, the coalition of humanitarian and activist organizations that staged the march is calling for legislative action on eliminating an unfair maritime law that imposes prohibitive taxes on imports, cancellation of the island’s $73 billion debt burden, and rebuilding critical infrastructure.
Two months after Hurricane Maria gutted most of Puerto Rico, the island’s residents remain despondent about living conditions. Does the U.S. really intend to restore Puerto Rico, or is there another plan?
City Councilwoman LaToya Cantrell, who earned her political stripes as a community organizer fighting efforts to wipe out the Broadmoor neighborhood after Hurricane Katrina, is the new mayor—the first African-American woman, to boot—of New Orleans. Leid Stories discusses the significance of her victory.
Friday Nov 17, 2017
Leid Stories—Speak Your Mind About Matters That Matter!—11.17.17
Friday Nov 17, 2017
Friday Nov 17, 2017
You’re no idle bystander; you have an opinion on the issues of the day. Well, let’s hear it on “Free Your Mind Friday,” Leid Stories’ weekly open forum.
Speak your mind about matters that matter. Call 888-874-4888.
Thursday Nov 16, 2017
Leid Stories—Doomsday for the Clinton Foundation?—11.16.17
Thursday Nov 16, 2017
Thursday Nov 16, 2017
The Clinton Foundation yesterday ostensibly met a hard Nov. 15 IRS deadline for current fiscal reports on its operations as well as key information and documents missing from old reports. But the information submitted raises new questions about whether the foundation fully or truthfully accounted for its complex operations.
The IRS had given the foundation an extended deadline in August, when the foundation said it could not compile all that was asked for by that time. A new due date was set, and complete records for the foundation and all of its affiliated projects were to be submitted by Nov. 15, with no additional extensions.
Charles Ortel, a retired Wall Street banker turned financial investigator, has been tracking the Clinton Foundation and its affiliated spinoffs all over the world for two years. He blew the lid off Wall Street crime during the 2008-2009 crash when he proved that several major corporations were overvaluing their stock.
Ortel’s self-initiated probe of the Clinton Foundation has led him to conclude that a cleverly designed slush fund for the Clintons and “the largest unprosecuted fraud in U.S. history.”
He presents his initial analysis of the documents the foundation submitted to the IRS yesterday.
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing yesterday that, though understated, was explosive in its import. The hearing’s focus: What measures are in place, or need to be in place, to check President Donald Trump’s sole authority to use nuclear weapons?
It’s not accidental that the issue is being raised now. “We are concerned that the president of the United States is so unstable and is so volatile … that he might order a nuclear weapon strike that is so wildly out of step with U.S. national security interests,” Mother Jones’s Davis Corn reports committee member Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) as saying.
Leid Stories says it also is significant that Trump’s mental state is being tied to official policy.