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Josh Ruebner and Lamis Deek on the Trump administration's efforts to repress the Palestinian people

Josh Ruebner, Policy Director at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, is followed by Lamis Deek, Palestinian civil rights attorney in New York City. We see this repression in a myriad number of forms. For example, Trump's cutoff of the U.S. share of UNWRA funding; ending bilateral "humanitarian" assistance from AID; closure of the PLO office in Washington DC; transfer of the U.S. Embassy from TelAviv to Jerusalem; and the dissolution of the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem. Ruebner explains why this last slam may be the most significant of all. Ms. Deek expresses her admiration of the Palestinian protesters at the Gaza apartheid fence. They continue protesting in spite of a continuous rain of death-dealing US-made dumdum bullets, all approved by the Trump administration. But first: Having failed to pass its unconstitutional anti-BDS legislation in the open, the Israel Lobby and its allies in Congress are conniving surreptitiously to have it added to the must-pass congressional omnibus spending bill, where it will get no debate. [Post-show note: it appears that this "must-pass" bill, whether poisoned this way or not, did NOT pass when it "must," thus triggering Trump's notorious government shutdown.] The ACLU has seen an updated version being considered for inclusion in the spending bill. While Capitol Hill offices claim the First Amendment concerns have been resolved, this is nonsense. Knowingly supporting BDS could result in criminal financial penalties of up to $1 million. Were this legislation to pass and survive review by the new Supreme Court, federal officials would have yet another new weapon at their disposal to chill and punish activity supporting the rights of Palestinians.

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CPR News, January 7, 2019

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Martian Gardens Episode 960 Hour 3

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Martian Gardens Episode 960 Hour 2

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Martian Gardens Episode 959 Hour 2

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The Ominous Parallels - 4

In this segment, the salient point is driven home that to manipulate the masses, it's essential to dispense with facts and reality; to stress that action is primacy over thought. Hitler: "Faith is harder to shake than knowledge. Love succumbs less to change than respect. Hate is more enduring than aversion and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this Earth has at all times consisted less in scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in the fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in hysteria that drove them forward." Hitler on the Catholic church’s creed. "The church has realized that anything and everything can be built upon a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it." Goebbels' four commandments: Hear nothing that we do not wish you to hear See nothing that we do not wish you to see. Believe nothing that we do not wish you to believe. Think nothing that we do not wish you to think.

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That Swing Thing; 1/6/19; set 1

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That Swing Thing; 1/6/19; set 2

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Weekday World, January 7, 2019

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In France People Reject Macron, Rumblings From a Revolutionary Past

Macron did not miss his chance to make matters worse in France. True to his short history as a champion of the wealthy, he gave an end-of-year-talk scolding the working class and poor. But the Yellow Vests movement is not going to go away. Meanwhile, the Serbian people have not forgotten NATO's murderous attacks. Large demonstrations indicate a population leery of association with the European project.

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Urgent Issue - Mumia Abu Jamal Needs Our Support

Phil Conlon comments on a development in the campaign to support Mumia Abu Jamal. Your help is urgently needed.

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Halting Mass Suicide by Coal

The venerable Noam Chomsky on our climate crisis and Nicholas Rees on the startling impacts of air pollution on babies and toddler brain development. But first, we must prevent mass climate suicide by coal, with famous German environmentalist Heffa Schucking.

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0490

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Syria: The Anvil that Broke the Hammer

Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon reflect on Edith Piaf's rendition of La Marseillaise, and provide some end-of-year thoughts on Syria's resistance to the U.S. regime-change campaign. All those who have expended blood and treasure to topple the Syrian Arab Republic are themselves facing instability. The Gulf dictatorships have hurt themselves on the Syrian anvil, and are looking to make nice. The failed eight-year campaign against Syria revealed fractures among U.S. vassals, and the inadequacy of Western anti-war leadership, including Noam Chomsky.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1

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Lake Air 1901

Segment One Late Night Call by Eric Bolvin CD: No Boundaries (Innervision) Living in the Country by George Winston CD: Summer (Windham Hill) Real Thing by Bobby Caldwell CD: Heart of Mine (Sin-Drome) Angel by Richy Kicklighter CD: In the Night (Ichiban) Segment Two High Fidelity by Alan Hewitt CD: High Fidelity (Angelsong) Love on a Real Train by Tangerine Dream CD: Risky Business (Soundtrack) (Virgin) Everything Happens to Me by Ben Sidran CD: Too Hot to Touch (Go Jazz) Just as You Are by Everette Harp CD: In the Moment (Shanachie) Segment Three Moving Violation by Russ Freeman CD: Nocturnal Playground (Brainchild) Dolphins by Mike Marshall and Darol Anger CD: Chiaroscuro (Windham Hill) One by One by Enya CD: A Day Without Rain (Warner Brothers) Flame by Ronnie Laws CD: Flame (United Artists)

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Trumpocalypse Still 2019

HERE is the show blasting into 2019 with our weird evil President, shutting down the country like the super villain Penguin, we remember the year in lies, Giuliani steers the car off the cliff, Chris Hayes tells us to "Ignore that Nonsense," President Bone Spur commands, and Michael Moore's New Year wish is for orange jump suits for the whole Trump crime family.

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Connecting Sam Cook, Otis Redding, and "Muhammad Speaks"

Bluesologist Norman Otis Richmond draws the connection between (singer) Sam Cook, Otis Redding, and "Muhammad Speaks."

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Celt In A Twist January 6 2019

Out with the old (we blow the dust of a few less spun Celtic gems from 2018) and in with the new (all new Sver, Floating Sofa Quartet & We Banjo 3)!

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worldbeatcanada radio january 5 2019

Brand new for 2019: Idan Raichel with Bombino, Norwegian fiddleworks from Sver and Alonso recorded at Real World from Shhh. Good Noise!

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Microchips: BioTeq and BioHax consider mandatory implants for UK employees

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/39368/

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Banks deliberately ruining & asset stripping small businesses, persecuting whistleblowers

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/39368/

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Africa in Focus

Africa in Focus with Professor Milton Allimadi, publisher Black Star News, New Yorks leading Afro-centric perspective investigative newspaper and who also teaches community based journalism seeks to empower community journalists and break the monopoly of corporate media Building Bridges speaks with Milton Allimadi, author of The Hearts of Darkness about how white writers created the racist image of Africa. He critiques Western media's "tribalization" of African news coverage, beginning with the accounts of the European so-called explorers who went to "discover" Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries and including the coverage of Africa by Western newspapers such as The New York Times. He goes on to telescope the election in Congo, discusses Chinas interventions on the continent and critiques AFRICOMs ongoing military incursions and US foreign policy to various of the African countries.

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As Other African Countries Advance, Kagame's In a Tight Spot

Some time ago there were regular reports of Rwanda, under General/President Paul Kagame, making miraculous progress. Other African states were advised do go and do likewise. But facts are stubborn things. Objective studies are showing that economic conditions are very tough for the people and the vaunted progress is, in the words of David Himbara, a "mirage." Meanwhile, there are encouraging signs of democratic resistance, embodied by the likes of Victoire Ingabire and Diane Rwigara.

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The Internal Corruption(s) of Radical Afro-American Political Science: Stratigic Commonsense or more pro-Putin/IRA Chaos?

4thWorldRadyo commentator and host @TheAngryindian looks further into recently reported events connected to the Russian Information Research Agency (IRA) and its efforts to buttress the floundering Trump administration by surreptitiously persuading the Afro-American community in the USA to either support Dr. Jill Stein's presidential campaign or to not vote at all as a viable political option. The question is: why are Black radicals in the United States willing to make arguments that support Trump’s sudden military withdrawal from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; effectively leaving the left-wing leaning Kurds of Rojava (Democratic Federation of Northern Syria and their female-dominated armed defence forces, the People's Protection Units/YPG unprotected, (yet again) after having abandoned them politically during ‘Operation Desert Storm’ following Saddam Hussein’s rule. A number of Afro-radicals have praised President Donald J. Trump as a laudable anti-war politician while tacitly defending his presidency through (seemingly) scripted commentary that (oddly) dismisses both Russian government interference in the US election system by defending any attempted efforts that may have occurred due to the documented history of US intelligence interference in the voting machinations of other nations; as if that justifies the work of the Putin government’s conscious decision to give support to the (violent) White Supremacists ripping US civil society apart by defending their ‘right’ to bamboozle Black Americans through Internet trickery and their visible support for White Power in Russia and the United States.

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UpFront Soul #2019.01-January 7-13 hr 2

We'll warm up with the Ohio Players' cover of Summertime, get even warmer with Nina Simone's "Go to Hell," and Cry Like a Baby with the late, great Aretha Franklin.

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Reviewing the Most Significant Stories of 2018 and Projections for 2019

This week's Global Research News Hour debuts in 2019 with a special look at key stories from the past year and what they portend for 2019. Andy Lee Roth, Associate Director of Project Censored, speaks to some of the key themes running through the top 25 most censored stories of the past year, and this year's CENSORED 2019 compendium. Dr. Jack Rasmus, a political economist and instructor at St. Mary’s College in California, assesses the fundamentals underlying the global economy and the key events from 2018 affecting those fundamentals. Rick Rozoff, journalist, anti-war activist and manager of the STOP NATO list-serve, takes a look at the geostrategic developments in 2018 on the world stage and what they indicate about near future military conflicts. Finally, Dmitry Orlov brings us his end of year take on the ongoing collapse of the US Empire in the context of Russia's military capability, the global energy map, and climate change impacts.

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UpFront Soul #2019.01-January 7-13 hr 1

We'll warm up with the Ohio Players' cover of Summertime, get even warmer with Nina Simone's "Go to Hell," and Cry Like a Baby with the late, great Aretha Franklin.

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