Leid Stories

Leid Stories--What's Your Political Capital?--06.17.20

The times are fraught with chaos and contention, pulling us psychologically in this direction and that, and challenging us almost daily to react, to decide, to align/realign/not align at all with views and actions that are not our own. How do we decide?

Listeners discuss how they acquired their political capital and how they use it.

Leid Stories---Some Leaders Are On Both Sides of the Fence On Protests-- 06.16.20

The people demand systemic change NOW, even as they continue their protests across the nation against social, political and economic oppression, and systemic racism--the centuries-old pillars of organized American life. 

 

But many leaders are playing both sides. They espouse solidarity with popular action, but they're not openly supporting their constituents.

Leid Stories--- A Call to Action to Reclaim and Rebuild Ourselves and Our Communities. We've Wasted Too Much Time--06.15.20

Recent social, political and economic developments in the United States might encourage some to think we're witnessing something of a rebirth of the  people-powered, people-centered civil-rights mass movements of the 1960s. But looking objectively at the situation, we can see how oversimplified such a conclusion would be. 

Are we in fact moving forward on a people's agenda? Is this what we want? How do we make it happen?

 

Leid Stories--- It's 'Free Your Mind Friday!' Analyze Or Opine, Your Views Matter!

What a week. It's not yet over, but you can talk about it, or most anything you wish. Because it's "Free Your Mind Friday" on Leid Stories, and you get to take the conversation where you want it to go.

Have a strong opinion about an issue? Here's your chance to prove your point. But don't be surprised if someone challenges you. 

Leid Stories--Trump's Re-election Campaign Will Herald "True (White-Supremacist) American Values" and the Glory of the South--06.11.20

Trump's Re-election Campaign Will Herald "True (White-Supremacist) American Values" and the Glory of the South 

A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal survey found that a whopping 80 percent of the people it polled felt that the United States was "out of control." Only 15 percent found the situation not so extreme.

(Keep in mind that a lot was happening nationally at the time the poll was taken.)

But the seeming popular indictment of President Trump and his administration could change in the coming weeks, as Trump ramps up his re-election campaign with a series of rallies that will once again call on his troops to defend the sacred South and "true" (white-supremacist) "American" values. 

Will Trump recover his base of support?

Leid Stories--And Now, Politics Becomes Everything--And the Only Thing--06.10.20

Still dealing with and reeling from social, political, economic and pandemic catastrophies that have beset us, the nation nonetheless is trying to get back on its feet and reclaim lost ground. For most it's a major struggle, and far from easy--especially when politics plays a major role in just about everything and right now, in election season, the only thing.

Leid Stories asks callers: Is it possible to develop community power without allegiance to or control of party politics?

Leid Stories--Looking Back At the Week That Was, And Looking Ahead -- Part 2-- 06.09.20

We continue our discussion about the extraordinary,  tumultuous, past week we experienced as a nation, and the significant issues and developments the week unleashed.

Today, George Floyd, 46, whose May 25 torture killing by a Minneapolis police detail ignited massive global protests, will be buried in Houston.

Leid Stories--Looking Back At the Week That Was, And Looking Ahead--06.08.20

Looking Back At the Week That Was, And Looking Ahead

Callers are asked to identify the most significant issues and developments of the past week, and to what degree they think their analysis reflects a broader

view. 

Leid Stories--Say It As You See It, Then Hear the Sparks Fly!--06.05.20

Say It As You See It, Then Hear the Sparks Fly!

It's "Free Your Mind Friday" on Leid Stories our weekly open forum where we dispense with our regular format and leave it up to you to take the conversation whever you want it to go, with a topic of your choosing. But you've must have a strong opinion about it, whatever you choose to talk about. Others may want to challenge you, so you'll want to be quite clear. We like when you dazzle us with solid reasoning and prove your point.

Call 888-875-4888 to free your mind.

Leid Stories--"A Senate Hearing's Focus: ‘Unstable,’ ‘Volatile’ Trump and His Sole Power Over Nuclear Weapons--06.04.20

The topic was, "A Senate Hearing's Focus: ‘Unstable,’ ‘Volatile’ Trump and His Sole Power Over Nuclear Weapons."

"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?" the program description read.

"It’s not accidental that the issue is being raised now, the description noted. “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 David Corn reported 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."

Looking at Trump's role in recent and current matters, Leid Stories asserts that Congress appears to have abandoned its own mandate. It must be brought to account.

Call 888-874-4888 to join our live discussion and to share your views.