So, Say It Already! It’s Open Forum! The conversation goes wherever listeners direct it. It’s Open Forum on Leid Stories. Share your brilliant ideas, state your considered opinions, pose thought-provoking questions. But as usual, be prepared to be challenged—with love and respect, of course! – Podcast: Play in new …
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The Media, the Messenger and the Message: The NSA Story In Black and White (Part 2) The conversation continues about media coverage of a highly touted series of stories alleging wholesale abuses of Americans’ privacy rights by the Obama administration’s National Security Agency. The story broke on June 5 in The …
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The Media, the Messenger and the Message: The NSA Story In Black and White The media’s ongoing coverage of the alleged unbridled abuses of power by the Obama administration’s National Security Agency is a case study in black and white.Since the story broke on June 5 in The Guardian (London)—with …
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A Public Discussion of Secret Plans On the Leid Stories agenda today: The American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, a three-pronged legal attack against the U.S. government’s expansive covert surveillance of citizens; Israel’s plan to deport 60,000 African refugees (the state calls them “infiltrators”), most …
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It’s Open Forum! Unleash Your Inner Pundit! Have an angle on a news issue you’d like to share? Want to introduce us to new ideas or ways of thinking? Need to express an opinion that you have all bottled up inside? Well, now’s your chance! It’s Open Forum on Leid …
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Nelson R. Mandela: A Contemporary View of His Global Impact What? Gov’t Is Spying on Citizens? That’s Old News to Black Folk! Noted historian, political scientist and author Dr. Gerald Horne places the protracted freedom struggle in South Africa in the larger context of similar struggles in the Black world …
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Taking On the Vatican and Other Unholy Alliances Excommunicated from the Catholic Church and expelled, after 46 years, from the Maryknoll order of priests by the Vatican for championing the ordination of women and leadership involvement in other human-rights causes, the now-laicized Roy Bourgeois returns to Leid Stories for an …
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McCain Talks War; Snowed by Snowden; Zimmerman’s Real ClaimSen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pushes for U.S. “intervention” in Syria to deal a fatal blow to Bashar al Assad’s regime. But a fellow Republican lays bare his error in judgment.Is Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old defense contractor who leaked classified documents on two …
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Immigration Reform: Will Marco Rubio Quit ‘Gang of Eight?’ Lawyer for Trayvon Martin’s Family Voices Concerns As Trial Starts Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the politically ambitious wunderkind of the Senate’s Gang of Eight, is showing all the signs of a defector. He’d been credited with bringing the stodgy set far …
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Recent Study: Immigration-Reform Objectives All Wrong; Nine Justices, But Any Justice At U.S. Supreme Court? Predictions of a done deal on immigration reform by the end of July may be overstated, as opposition mounts in the Republican-controlled House against the Senate’s version of the bill. Dr. Steven Camarota, director of …
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It’s the Court of Public Opinion; Your Take Rules! It’s Open Forum on Leid Stories. Listeners offer their observations and on news issues and events—or anything else they deem worthy of consideration, for that matter. Of course, your views are your own, but be prepared to defend them, for you …
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Alienation Or Alien Nation?: The Racial Hustle Behind Immigration Reforms Five years into planned, spite-driven legislative gridlock in Washington, the nation is encouraged to rejoice that, finally, there’s a bipartisan effort to get on with the people’s business. The pull-and-tug on immigration policies currently is feeding the illusion that Congress …
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Oligarchs Trump Plutocrats; They’re America’s New Ruling Class They’re young, absurdly wealthy, supercorporatist tech gurus—and, with the Obama administration, have become a de-facto and “potentially dominant” ruling class in America, says Leid Stories guest Joel Kotkin, who for more than 30 years has been tracking the footprints of power and …
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There’s Room for Your View on Open Forum! Have an opinion about a news issue or event? Want to give us something to think and/or talk about? Well, share it on Leid Stories’ Open Forum, “the gathering place for the exchange of information, opinions and ideas.” In this intellectual give-and-take with …
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Lawsuit In Paris Opens Closed Chapter on Reparations; Lawsuit in Chicago Seeks to Reopen Doors of Closed Schools A lawsuit filed in Paris by a group of black civil-rights organizations has revived a vexing question that continues to haunt many in the post-colonial/post-slavery world: Does a former colonial/imperialist country or …
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