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Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Historian and prolific author Gerald Horne, Ph.D., looks at a few contemporary issues and events through the lens of history.
Horne, the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, has written more than 30 books and 100 scholarly papers on globalstruggles against imperialism, colonialism, fascism and racism. His most recent books include Paul Robeson: The Artist As Revolutionary (2016); Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (2015); Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow (2014); and The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. NYU Press (2014).
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Start a brand-new conversation of your own or add your two cents to someone else’s. It’s up to you. Either way, it’s all about what you think, and that’s what “Free Your Mind Friday” is all about.
Call 888-874-4888 and think out loud!
Monday Jun 05, 2017
Monday Jun 05, 2017
They’re at full tilt at the moment, each competing for the who’s-been-more-wronged prize.
Donald Trump says his campaign vow to “drain the swamp” of Washington bureaucrats, insiders and hack politicians who’ve been running a parallel government working against the interests of the people has made him a target of that system. Hillary Clinton says she was robbed of the nation’s top job. Trump’s win is not legitimate because Russia interfered in the election to help him win, she says (A federal probe is ongoing.)
Four months into Trump’s tenure, at least one thing is clear: Neither he nor Clinton, who hasn’t let up on her campaign, is a gift to America. They’re creatures of the swamp and the sinkhole.
Wednesday May 31, 2017
Wednesday May 31, 2017
Yesterday on Leid Stories financial research expert and former banker Charles Ortel said that leading indicators show a major downturn in the U.S. economy has already begun and will, under prevailing conditions, likely develop into a full-scale crash. He warned listeners to change their money-management and spending habits now.
The program generated far more calls than could be answered in our allotted time, so Mr. Ortel graciously agreed to return today.
Tuesday May 30, 2017
Tuesday May 30, 2017
We’ve been so distracted by the high-wire acts in the bizarre circus of American politics the past few years, we pay little or no attention to the huge elephant in the ring. A massive economic crash is coming, and in many ways it’s already here.
Financial research expert and former banker Charles Ortel, who proved that several major U.S. corporations were overvaluing their Wall Street-traded stocks around the time of the 2008-2009 crash, says there’s little doubt a serious economic downturn is close. The financial investigator’s research into the Clinton Foundation, reported in detail on Leid Stories, has unearthed fraud so massive, he calls it “the largest unprosecuted charity fraud in U.S. history.”
Ortel discusses what people can do to brace themselves for what’s coming.
Monday May 29, 2017
Monday May 29, 2017
Leid Stories dedicates today’s Memorial Day program to those who have served, or currently are serving, in any branch of the U.S. military, and families of loved ones lost to war who wish to acknowledge and honor them.
Friday May 26, 2017
Friday May 26, 2017
It’s the best open forum on the planet—a free-form, unscripted hour dedicated to your thoughts, opinions and ideas. Whether on what’s in the news or what ought to be, choose your subject and opine away. But don’t be surprised if someone picks up the gauntlet you throw down.
Call 888-874-4888 and free your mind.
Thursday May 25, 2017
Thursday May 25, 2017
The national crisis America currently is experiencing is scary. It’s being regarded as just the latest in a long line of intense moments we’ve had, but hey, the one thing we admire about ourselves is our ability to handle tough situations.
Indications are, however, that this time is different—or ought to be. Solutions will require radical surgery and very few will agree it ought to done. But first, we must answer the question: Are our political and governmental systems, which are at the heart of our current crisis, beyond repair?
Wednesday May 24, 2017
Wednesday May 24, 2017
His Middle East tour behind him, President Trump began the European leg of his multipurpose tour with a visit to the Vatican and, later, in meetings with President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. The firebrand Trump was on the receiving end of masterful diplomacy by the pope, who maintained his regular business hours and held his meeting with Trump in his office, with Trump on the other side of his desk.
U.K.’s home secretary is fuming that information her office shared with counterparts in the United States about the suspect in the deadly May 22 bombing that killed 22 and left 59 wounded may have compromised the investigation.
U.S. Al Franken (D-IL) exposes the lie that the Trump health-care plan will provide better coverage to more people at a cheaper price.
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
President Trump wraps up his “Peace in the Middle East” tour today, heading next to the Vatican and Rome. Surely his theme and demeanor will change by the time he gets there. Pope Francis had said of him, without naming him directly: “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian.”
Trump’s tour, he said, is an attempt to build bridges—for peace, trade, and war against “radical Islamist terrorism.”
Today on Leid Stories we look at how Trump conveyed his message of engagement to the Muslim world and to Israel.