Episodes
Friday Dec 28, 2012
Leid Stories - A Massive Power Failure - 12/28/12
Friday Dec 28, 2012
Friday Dec 28, 2012
An empty House of Representatives. A sparsely populated Senate. A president holed up in the White House, unable to call his troops to action. And an anxious, bewildered nation holds its breath in anticipation of blows to the gut. It's all part of hardball politics, we're told; not to worry, both sides will come to terms and things will work out in the end. But a massive power failure occurred on Dec. 27, Utrice says, and it was a planned, deliberate effort to sabotage the welfare and security of the American people -- legislative terrorism. Voters should neither forgive nor forget. Plus, the high-volume outbound traffic from Barack Obama's Cabinet: Trouble in River City?
Thursday Dec 27, 2012
Leid Stories - Behind America's Debt-Based Economy - 12/27/12
Thursday Dec 27, 2012
Thursday Dec 27, 2012
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis, author of The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy, turns prevailing economic theory about debt and the global economy on its head. There is no debt crisis -- either in the United States or in individuals countries of the West currently experiencing sharp economic downturns -- he says. To the contrary, he says, the economic crisis is the result of "too much savings with no place to go."
Wednesday Dec 26, 2012
Leid Stories - The Fiscal Cliff: Legislative Malpractice - 12/26/12
Wednesday Dec 26, 2012
Wednesday Dec 26, 2012
The so-called fiscal cliff, dramatic as it is, is nonetheless the end result of the refusal by Congress to approve a budget for the last three years. Leid Stories makes the case that this is not mere political dealings; it's legislative malpractice, and ought to carry a penalty in much the same way that any other professional found derelict in his/her duties to a client. Listeners chime in with their points of view.
Monday Dec 24, 2012
Leid Stories - FRIENDLY FIRE: THE NRA'S SCHOOL-SAFETY PLAN - 12/24/12
Monday Dec 24, 2012
Monday Dec 24, 2012
Leave it to the NRA to solve America's gun problem with ... more guns. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the NRA proposes schools have armed guards (and even administrative personnel and teachers) with firepower to stop mass killers. No need for worrisome debates and legislation, the NRA says, schools can enact their specially-designed counteroffensive right away. Leid Stories reads between the lines of the NRA's plan and deciphers what the gun lobby really wants. Plus, updates on what's not happening in Congress with the so-called fiscal cliff.
Friday Dec 21, 2012
Leid Stories - BENGHAZI PROBE: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS - 12/21/12
Friday Dec 21, 2012
Friday Dec 21, 2012
Thursday Dec 20, 2012
Leid Stories - Harlem: A Case Study in Plantation Politics - 12/19/12
Thursday Dec 20, 2012
Thursday Dec 20, 2012
Not long ago, Harlem was a model of black urban achievement and the epicenter of black political power in the United States. Today, Harlem is but a shadow of its former self in almost every way; Harlemites openly concede it. How did this come to be? Kermit Eady, founder of the Black United Fund, attributes the decline of Harlem, and the Harlems of the United States, to "plantation" politics -- black elected officials and leaders willingly becoming stand-ins for political and economic interests bent on exploiting, and ultimately destroying, these once-thriving communities.
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Leid Stories - Mrs. Clinton Sends Her Regrets ... - 12/19/12
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
but, as Leid Stories predicted, she will not be appearing before any congressional committees looking into the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. She's still woozy from fainting and hitting her head -- even has a doctor's note. But members of the Accountability Review Board that probed the Benghazi attack will be talking to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in closed session today about the State Department's "systemic failures" and two deputy secretaries of state will testify in a public session before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday about how the State Department is run. Leid Stories stays on the case, along with other news stories of the day.
Tuesday Dec 18, 2012
Leid Stories - Descending The Cliff - 12/18/12
Tuesday Dec 18, 2012
Tuesday Dec 18, 2012
Monday Dec 17, 2012
Leid Stories - The Deaths of Innocents - 12/17/12
Monday Dec 17, 2012
Monday Dec 17, 2012
In the aftermath of the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the nation finds itself once again dealing with questions that are hard to answer (Why did it happen? Could it have been prevented?) and harder still to ignore (How many more mass killings will it take before something is done to de-escalate America's homegrown arms race?) Official messages of mourning and half-masted flags won't stop the carnage. Decisive action at all levels of government is long overdue.
Friday Dec 14, 2012
Leid Stories - Hillary's Take-Out: Fried Rice - 12/14/12
Friday Dec 14, 2012
Friday Dec 14, 2012
Hillary Clinton, the feminist, winds up her brand-enhancing tenure as secretary of state with a death blow to the ascendancy of Susan Rice. There'll be no climbing on her shoulders. By deftly playing her cards, Clinton landed a choice slot in the Obama administration and now leaves on a high note, nicely poised for a slew of lucrative options, including a 2016 presidential run. Rice, on the other hand, is left to pick up the pieces of a career shattered by being the face of Clinton's failure in Benghazi. This, plus "Cliff Notes" (a different take on the so-called fiscal cliff) and listeners' views on what mattered most this week.