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Friday Nov 08, 2013
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
Haiti: Very Poor, Yet So Very, Very Rich
Leid Stories returns to our continuing discussion (from Nov. 4) on Haiti, where an already calamitous situation, the result of overlapping crises, is further deteriorating.
This edition looks at the anomaly that Haiti is – the poorest nation in the hemisphere, yet exceedingly rich in oil, gold and other mineral deposits.
Veteran journalist Kim Ives, editor with Haïti Liberté, a news weekly serving the Haitian diaspora, discusses the vastness of Haiti’s wealth and the forces that seek to exploit and control it.
Wednesday Nov 06, 2013
Tuesday Nov 05, 2013
Tuesday Nov 05, 2013
What’s Your Opinion?
It’s Open Forum on Leid Stories. Listeners offer their takes on major issues and events for consideration and debate.
No need to panic; all opinions and points of view are welcome and respected. But be prepared to defend your position if prodded – with great love and respect, of course.
Monday Nov 04, 2013
Monday Nov 04, 2013
Haiti Continues to Unravel Into Chaos;
Pols Rev Up Grudge Match on Stand-Your-Ground Laws
Still reeling from the catastrophic 7.0-magnitude earthquake that destroyed its capital and several surrounding cities 2010, Haiti remains beset by intractable woes – very little progress in rebuilding; hundreds of thousands still living in hovels as refugees; a pandemic of cholera; a collapsed economy; and a two-year-old government showing disturbing signs of returning the country to its old days of dictatorship.
Journalist Kim Ives, who has produced several documentaries on Haiti, reports on the state of affairs in Haiti, including, most recently, the pullout of 9,000 U.N.-supervised Uruguayan troops.
With the continuing dustup over Obamacare, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing last week on “Stand Your Ground” laws in several states evaded attention. Leid Stories shows how, even at the outset, the Democrat-Republican grudge match that has long hobbled progress in Congress already has reared its ugly head in what should be an objective evaluation of the application of these laws.
Friday Nov 01, 2013
Friday Nov 01, 2013
The Taking of Detroit: Banksters Force An Exodus
In 2008, the same year President Obama made history being elected president, the City of Detroit made history, too. That year, Detroit had the highest foreclosure rate of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. More than 67,000 properties were upside-down in their mortgages.
While a legal battle rages on in federal bankruptcy court, with Gov. Rick Snyder and his appointed emergency city manager, Kevyn Orr, seeking the legal go-ahead to declare bankruptcy in order to restructure and discharge the city’s $18-billion debt -- a five-year struggle against “banksters” gains momentum with a call for a moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility cutoffs.
Abayomi Azikiwe, an organizer with Moratorium Now!, explains that the banks’ predatory lending practices and other unlawful actions have wreaked havoc in Detroit, causing an unprecedented foreclosure rate and a mass exodus of working-class people from the city.
Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Wednesday Oct 30, 2013
Wednesday Oct 30, 2013
Detroit: America’s Test Case in Large-Scale Urban Removal
An all-out legal battle in federal bankruptcy court in Detroit could set in motion an extreme form of urban warfare – a systematic, forcible emptying of the cityin order to reinvent it to suit social, political and economic interests that envision a “different” America.
Gov. Rick Snyder’s appointed emergency city manager, Kevyn Orr, is asking the court to approve a bankruptcy filing to restructure and discharge the city’s $18-billion debt. But bankruptcy will be a lethal blow to city workers, small businesses, pensioners and an already overburdened, dwindled population of 700,000.
Mike Nicholson, general counsel for the United Automobile Workers union (UAW), which forced the governor by subpoena to testify, discusses the legal challenge to bankruptcy. Elena Herrada, an elected school board member and longtime community activist, provides a detailed account of what’s behind the bankruptcy push.
Now, it’s Detroit. Soon, it could be Oakland, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
Go Ahead, Have Your Say! It’s Open Forum on Leid Stories!
Share your unique thoughts and opinions about the issues and events of the day with the sharpest minds on the planet. It’s Open Forum on Leid Stories, and you get to take the conversation wherever you want it to go.
Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
Tuesday Oct 29, 2013
If the Clintons Love You, You Just Ain’t Right;
14 Black Preachers’ “Devotion to God” Compels Support for ObamaCare
The scandal-ridden former co-presidents of the United States, Bill and Hillary Clinton, have pulled out all the stops for their man, former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, in a three-way gubernatorial race in Virginia in which he has a substantial lead. This should serve as an early warning to conscientious voters that their state is in grave danger of becoming a new conduit for Clinton-McAuliffe pay-to-play politics. African American voters are in a position to determine the outcome, but will they leave the Democratic Party’s plantation?
Fourteen prominent religious leaders representing millions of African Americans of many different Christian denominations have declared in a joint statement that their “devotion to God” requires them to actively enroll as many people as possible into the bedeviled ObamaCare program – proving why it’s difficult for African Americans to leave the Democratic Party’s plantation.