Podcasts by Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese

For Human Rights Day: Poor People's Struggle To Survive In The USA from 2023-12-12T04:53

Sunday, December 10, was the International Human Rights Day to mark the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. Clearing the FOG spoke with human rig...

One Year After The Coup: The Struggle For Democracy In Peru from 2023-12-05T12:02

On December 7, 2022, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo made a poorly-calculated attempt to thwart right-wing plans to remove him from office. This resulted in his immediate imprisonment and the ...

International Delegation Pushes For Opening The Rafah Border To Gaza from 2023-11-28T04:21:17

Recently, an international delegation traveled to Cairo, Egypt to visit the Rafah border crossing and pressure the United States to allow aid to be brought into Gaza. Hundreds of trucks carrying...

As Wars Expand, Veterans And Others Plan Peace Walk To Washington, DC from 2023-11-07T03:15

The Israeli War on Palestine, made possible by US support, is beginning to become a regional conflict. In addition to this, the US is backing conflicts in Ukraine targeting Russia, in the Horn o...

Fighting Colonial Oppression, Genocide From The United States To Palestine from 2023-10-30T18:29:21

On November 4, people from across the country will gather in Washington, DC for the 15th Annual March to the White House organized by the Black is Back Coalition. Clearing the FOG speaks with Ch...

The Commons Is An Antidote To The Crisis Of Capitalism from 2023-10-24T05:04:31

Building on a recent interview with climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann where he talked about the severity of the climate crisis and the urgent necessity of action, Clearing the FOG speaks with D...

Palestinians' Legal Right To Resist; Their Fight And Showing Solidarity from 2023-10-16T17:01:23

On October 7, Hamas fighters broke out of Gaza, the world's largest open air prison, and directly attacked the Israeli State, including military facilities, illegal settlements and airports. Isr...

Every Degree Matters: Why We Can't Give Up On Climate Action from 2023-10-10T02:43:37

As the impacts of the climate crisis become more evident, people are understandably struggling with how to respond. Clearing the FOG speaks with climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, author of "Ou...

Julian Assange May Be Extradited To The United States This Month from 2023-10-03T04:21:47

Julian Assange may be extradited to the United States as soon as this month. His last avenues to appeal the United Kingdom's extradition order are being exhausted. Clearing the FOG speaks with K...

Journalists Fight Back Against Attacks On Our Right To Know from 2023-09-26T04:10:46

Information control in the United States is growing stronger as journalists face more restrictions on their ability to speak with people who work for the public good in agencies and institutions...

'Climate Bill' Enriches The Fossil Fuel Industry As Communities Suffer from 2023-09-19T02:07:22

One year after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which Big Green groups hailed as a 'climate justice bill,' the truth is surfacing that this legislation is lining the pockets of the fo...

As A Working Class-Led Global Movement Rises, Elites Are Panicking from 2023-09-12T02:32:10

Around the world, a major organizing effort is underway, led by civil society and unions with the International People's Assembly, to build a working class movement for alternative systems that ...

This Is How We Challenge The Power Of Big Pharma from 2023-09-05T03:11:12

People in the United States pay the highest prices for pharmaceuticals, and Big Pharma spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year for lobbying to keep it that way. The United States is al...

New Film: Colonialism And Capitalism Are Decimating Our Forests from 2023-08-29T02:10:44

Award-winning producer, activist and artist Eleanor Goldfield has a new documentary out, To The Trees, about forest defense in the Redwood Forests of No...

Niger Is The Latest West African Nation To Rise Up Against Neocolonialism from 2023-08-22T01:47:50

At the end of July, the Presidential Guard of Niger, backed by the military, unseated the current president, Mohamed Bazoum, in a coup supported by the people. In response, the United States and...

Victims Of The East Palestine Train Disaster Still Fighting For Their Lives from 2023-08-15T00:50:53

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern Railroad train carrying 150 cars, some containing toxic chemicals, derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio on the border with Pennsylvania. The...

Building Grassroots Power For National Universal Health Care from 2023-08-08T02:20:39

Profiteers are taking over health care in the United States and running it into the ground - firing health professionals and closing hospitals. Dr. Ana Malinow, a lead organizer of the group, Na...

The US Brings In Black Misleaders To Support Military Intervention In Haiti from 2023-08-01T04:06:17

At a recent meeting, CARICOM members, under pressure from the United States, changed their position to support western military intervention in Haiti. Black leaders from the US, Rwanda and Kenya...

New Broad Anti-Colonial Free Speech Movement Demands 'Free The Uhuru3' from 2023-07-25T03:09:46

Nearly one year ago, on July 29, 2022, the FBI simultaneously conducted a heavily-militarized raid on seven facilities associated with the African People's Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement...

Ukraine Is Dying For NATO; NATO Will Never Die For Ukraine from 2023-07-17T17:22:30

NATO leaders met in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11 and 12. The major topic of the summit was what to do about Ukraine. Clearing the FOG spoke with Scott Ritter, a former Marine intelligence offic...

Celebrating The Sandinista Revolution, Ongoing Resistance To US Intervention from 2023-07-10T21:02:45

On July 19, Nicaraguans will celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This month also marks the fifth anniversary of the defeat of the US-backed coup attempt against Presiden...

Rank-And-File UPS Workers Prepare To Strike And Refuse To Back Down from 2023-07-04T02:39:23

In 2013 and 2018, UPS workers were forced to accept contracts that failed to protect them and that created a growing underclass. In 2023, the rank-and-file are refusing to accept less than what ...

Daniel Ellsberg's Last Warning Was To Stop Nuclear War, Here's How from 2023-06-27T02:38:11

Daniel Ellsberg died on June 16, 2023 at the age of 92. In his final months of life, he spoke out about the importance of whistleblowing and the risk of nuclear war resulting from US aggression ...

Take Action To Stop The Growing Assault On Transgender Rights from 2023-06-13T16:35:16

In the first five months of 2023, over 500 pieces of legislation were introduced in the US to restrict the rights of transgender people. This is part of a growing assault, fueled by the corporat...

Growing Solidarity Movement Demands End To US War On Cuba from 2023-06-06T02:12:14

This May Day, youth activists from the United States traveled to Cuba to learn about the revolution and to show their solidarity with the struggle against US imperialism. Clearing the FOG spoke ...

Lee Camp: The Threat Of Dangerous Ideas And Why We Need Them from 2023-05-30T04:06:46

Political comedian Lee Camp recently published his second book, "Dangerous Ideas," which provides a bitter dose of reality in a way that makes it hard not to laugh. He explains that most journal...

Kshama Sawant Takes Successful Worker-Led Struggle Nationwide from 2023-05-23T02:46:03

Roughly ten years ago, Kshama Sawant won a seat on the Seattle City Council as an open socialist. Sawant eschewed politics as usual and led by example, taking only the average worker's salary fr...

How People's Movements Globally Are Resisting Western Imperialism from 2023-05-16T03:57:57

Leaders of the G7 countries, the United States and its Western Imperialist partners plus Japan, will meet this week in Hiroshima to discuss ways to escalate the war on China. As they lead us clo...

Chicago: Grassroots Organizing Wins Decisive Victory In Police Accountability from 2023-05-10T02:01:16

In July of 2021, after decades of grassroots organizing and pressure, the city of Chicago passed the Empowering Communities for Public Safety ordinance. As designated by the ordinance, 66 people...

Workers Fight Back On May Day, International Workers' Day from 2023-05-02T02:09:27

May 1 is celebrated around the world, and unofficially in the United States, as International Workers' Day. In honor of this, Clearing the FOG speaks with two workers who are fighting for their ...

Direct Action Succeeds In Weakening Support For Israeli Apartheid from 2023-04-25T03:11:29

In 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, a statement of support for a Jewish State in Palestine. The United Kingdom has been a key ally of the Israeli Apartheid State sinc...

Volunteers And Victims Of US Border Patrol Violence Demand Justice from 2023-04-18T02:01:35

Hundreds of people die every year at the hands of US Border Patrol agents, either from being beaten, shot, car chases or being left stranded in the desert, simply for exercising their right to m...

Democrats Are Failing On Net Neutrality And Other Digital Rights from 2023-04-11T05:23:33

In 2014-15, a broad social movement won net neutrality, but that victory was taken away by the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, under the Trump administration. President...

How The US Uses International Bodies To Manufacture Consent For Warfare from 2023-04-04T02:30:19

Both the Obama and Trump administrations used alleged chemical attacks in 2013 and 2018 to justify bombing Syria. When inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, w...

China And Russia Deepen Ties To Oppose US's Destabilizing Actions from 2023-03-27T18:52:12

The recent accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran, facilitated by China, signifies a seismic shift in geopolitical dynamics. This was followed by a three-day summit between the presidents of China...

Twentieth Anniversary Of The Invasion Of Iraq: Witness To The Horrors Of War from 2023-03-21T02:16:14

The twentieth anniversary of the US/NATO invasion and occupation of Iraq was March 19th. The day before that, thousands of people in the United States rallied and marched against the current war...

How The United States Is Preparing For Imminent War With China from 2023-03-14T01:58:26

US aggression toward China is escalating and China is shedding its usual restraint to more clearly call out this aggression and warn the US not to overstep its red lines. Clearing the FOG speaks...

Cop City Aims To Transform Police Into A Paramilitary Force from 2023-03-07T00:21:01

Atlanta, Georgia, with the support of the police force, banks and corporations, is trying to build a paramilitary police base in the Weelaunie Forest on 300 acres that was promised as a recreati...

To End War, We Must Fight Against Racism And Capitalism from 2023-02-28T02:47:49

On March 18, the twentieth anniversary of the US/NATO invasion of Iraq, major antiwar organizations and social movements from across the United States will Listen

Julian Assange's Family Members Are Touring The United States With Ithaka from 2023-02-20T23:47:04

This April will mark four years since Julian Assange was forcefully removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had been granted asylum, and jailed in Belmarsh Prison. Assange, whose...

Take Action To Demand Justice For Our Political Prisoners from 2023-02-14T03:58:47

This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with two advocates for the freedom of political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. Mumia Abu-Jamal is waiting to hear if Judge Lucretia Clemons wil...

Chris Hedges: A Declining US Empire Is Committing Suicide from 2023-02-07T00:33:20

The Unites States Empire is falling, just as previous empires have done. Clearing the FOG speaks with journalist and author Chris Hedges about his newest book, "The Greatest Evil is War," and th...

Nicaragua Is Run By Women With A Revolutionary Feminism from 2023-01-31T04:14:26

As the Sandinista Revolution is finally able to make its platform a reality, Nicaragua has made significant achievements in healthcare, education, housing, renewable energy and food sovereignty,...

Building A Global People's Movement To End US Imperialism from 2023-01-24T02:37:57

Following a two-year organizing effort, the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism will launch in New York City on January 28. The People's Tribunal will focus on US sanctions, blocka...

Martin Luther King Day Special Encore Program: Restructuring The Edifice That Produces Poverty from 2023-01-17T03:03:02

In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Clearing the FOG brought back an interview from ten years ago with Cheri Honkala of the Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign ...

Peru: Mass Protests And Major Challenges Ahead For The Left from 2023-01-10T05:30:03

On December 7, 2022, the President of Peru, Pedro Castillo, was removed from power, arrested and imprisoned in what is being called a coup. This followed multiple attempts by the right-wing poli...

Ajamu Baraka: The Left Must Draw Clear Political And Ideological Lines from 2023-01-03T16:49:02

As 2022 comes to an end and major crises abound, Clearing the FOG spoke with Ajamu Baraka, a long time human rights defender and co-founder of the Black Alliance for Peace, about the big picture...

The Nuclear Industry Is Trying To Come Back; Here's What They Don't Want You To Know from 2022-12-27T17:57:48

At the most recent United Nations COP27 meeting in Egypt, the nuclear industry had a strong presence pushing nuclear power as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. Clearing the FOG spoke to ...

Biden 'Brings' Selected African Leaders To US To Expand Neocolonialism from 2022-12-20T05:02:30

President Biden "brought" leaders of selected African nations to the United States for a summit to “demonstrate the United States’ enduring commitment to Africa," the White House claims. But jus...

Dan Kovalik: We Are Already In World War III from 2022-12-12T22:35:54

Clearing the FOG speaks with Dan Kovalik, an author and lawyer with expertise in human rights and international law, about his recent visit to Russia and the Donbass region that was formerly par...

A Report-back From The COP27: Building A People's Movement To Solve The Crisis from 2022-12-06T00:20:10

Clearing the FOG speaks with Kali Akuno, who is a member of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and the It Takes Roots delegation to the recent COP27, about what happened at the meeting and h...

Glen Ford And Kevin Zeese: A Discussion About The Nature Of Fascism from 2022-11-28T23:26:21

In this episode, Clearing the FOG brings back excerpts of a discussion from November 2018 with the now-deceased Glen Ford, the co-founder and Senior Editor of Black Agenda Report, and Kevin Zees...

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition Escalates Solidarity With Palestine from 2022-11-22T03:37:47

As the Israeli State intensifies its violence against and displacement of Palestinians from their homes, international Palestinian solidarity organizations are making new plans to challenge the ...

Miko Peled: 'The Danger To Palestinians Has Never Been So Severe' from 2022-11-14T19:49:29

The recent elections by the Israeli State will likely bring to power what author and activist Miko Peled calls "the most openly fascist government" in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Peled...

The United States And Its Media Mouthpieces Are Preparing For War On Iran from 2022-11-08T03:53:21

The United States seized the opportunity when protests over the death of Mahsa Amini started in Iran to push a narrative of mass dissent and repression in the country. This is a narrative the US...

Haiti: US Manufactures Crisis To Justify Repression Of Popular Movement from 2022-10-25T02:24:14

If you live in the United States, you probably believe that the problems in Haiti are cholera and gang violence and that the Haitians need our help in the form of a multinational military force ...

'Ridiculous Things Are Happening': NATO Begins Exercises That Risk Nuclear War from 2022-10-17T21:19:43

The proxy war between NATO and Russia being waged in Ukraine has taken a dangerous turn and the risk of nuclear annihilation is growing as a result. Clearing the FOG speaks with Scott Ritter, a ...

Building An Indigenous Agenda To Decolonize The United States from 2022-10-10T21:25:02

Today is Indigenous People's Day, still celebrated by some as the violent colonizer Christopher Columbus Day. Clearing the FOG speaks with Jean-Luc Pierite of the North American Indian Center of...

Workers Strike In The US And Honduras Against Capitalist Exploitation from 2022-10-03T20:58:45

Last week, more than 1,000 fast food workers at San Francisco International Airport went on strike for three days over low wages, health benefits and pensions. They had not received a raise in m...

All Out For Julian Assange On October 8: An Interview With Randy Credico from 2022-09-27T03:04:15

On October 8, people around the world will take action to demand that Julian Assange be freed. Tens of thousands of people have registered to surround the British Parliament on that day. In the ...

Struggle To Save Oak Flats Exposes Ravages Of Colonization And Capitalism from 2022-09-19T23:10:05

In 2014, Congress used a midnight rider added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to hand the Indigenous Sacred Land at Oak Flats in Arizona over to a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, Resol...

The Jackson Water System Has Been Failing For Decades Due To Racism from 2022-09-13T03:25:03

Residents of West Jackson are in the midst of a severe water crisis due to the failure of a water treatment facility and don't know when they will have clean water in their homes again. The stat...

The Pending Railroad Worker Strike Is A Fight For All Workers from 2022-09-06T01:45:02

Railroad workers voted overwhelmingly this year to go on strike after more than two years of contract negotiations. The Biden administration prevented a strike by appointing a Presidential Emerg...

Residents Refuse To Be Forced From Community Won Through Past Struggle from 2022-08-30T04:57:01

Forty years ago, residents of Philadelphia won a subsidized housing community in the area known as Black Bottom after fighting the discrimination and displacement being used to clear the way for...

Disaster In Cuba Highlights Biden's Disastrous (And Illegal) Foreign Policy from 2022-08-23T03:29:37

On August 5, lightning caused a fire at an oil supertanker base in Matanzas, Cuba. The fire caused the collapse of three large oil tanks, killed 16 people and wounded 146 people. Immediately, fr...

Anti-Russian Hysteria Used By FBI To Target Black Organizers from 2022-08-08T21:36:01

On July 29, the FBI conducted a surprise raid on the homes and offices of leaders of the African People's Socialist Party and Uhuru Solidarity Movement (APSP-Uhuru) in Florida and Missouri under...

As Congress Passes A 'Climate Suicide Pact,' The Fight To Declare A Climate Emergency Continues from 2022-08-01T20:13:26

As heatwaves, droughts and wild fires ravage the planet, pressure is building on the White House and Congress to take substantive action to address the climate crisis. More than a thousand organ...

The Sickness Of Our Healthcare System Is Rooted In American Exceptionalism from 2022-07-25T21:26:20

July 30 will be the 57th anniversary of the passage of Medicare, widely celebrated as Medicare's birthday. People are taking action across the country this week in support of a National Improved...

Resistance Grows As NATO Goes Global To Defend Profits Over People from 2022-07-18T19:17:54

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) recently met in Madrid, Spain where they launched their new strategy to go global, extending what Chris Hedges calls "the most dangerous military al...

Challenging The AFL-CIO's Labor Imperialism from 2022-07-11T21:00:42

A little known fact, even to those who work there, is that the AFL-CIO organizes in support of US imperialist policies that drive a global race to the bottom in wages and working conditions, neg...

Lawyers Speak Out On Supreme Court: 'This Is A Revelation Of The Future' from 2022-07-05T04:17:54

The recent US Supreme Court rulings set legal precedents that will further erode human and civil rights and empower corporations as well as open the door for more cases that will advance Christi...

Lessons From Colombia: A Victory For The People from 2022-06-28T02:34:31

On June 19, Colombians elected the first leftist president and the first Afro-Colombian vice president in history. This was possible, despite being in a repressive state, because of a strong nat...

It's Not The Conflict In Ukraine, Our Food System Is Broken from 2022-06-20T19:04:04

Much attention is being given to the impacts the conflict in Ukraine and the US sanctions on Russia will have on our food supply this year, but farmer Jim Goodman, president of the National Fami...

Walk For Appalachia's Future Connects Struggles In The Region from 2022-06-06T18:46:05

Activists just completed the "Walk for Appalachia's Future" through West Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia to highlight the impacts of fossil fuel extraction on communities and the land. At ...

The Biden Administration Is Escalating The War On China from 2022-05-30T18:52:11

The Biden administration is ratcheting up its provocations of China as part of the National Security Strategy of Great Power Conflict, with the President going so far as to say the United States...

Alternative Formations Challenge Biden's Sham 'Summit For The Americas' from 2022-05-23T17:55:08

From June 6 to 10, the Biden administration will host the 9th 'Summit of the Americas.' The event, organized by the US-dominated Organization of American States (OAS), is turning out to be anoth...

The United States Is Supporting A Brutal Occupation In Western Sahara from 2022-05-16T04:30:39

Immediately following the expulsion of the Spanish colonizers in the mid 1970's, Western Sahara was occupied by Moroccan forces. With support from the United States, those occupiers, who treat t...

Politicians Continue To Fail On Climate; We Must Fight For A Livable Future from 2022-05-09T19:09:09

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its sixth report in three phases beginning in August, 2021 and concluding in April 2022. The first report declared that the climate crisis is...

Workers Are Tired Of Being Exploited And They're Fighting Back from 2022-05-03T06:14:32

This past weekend, workers around the world celebrated May Day, also called Labor Day and International Workers Day. May Day marks the accomplishments and contributions of workers and reminds th...

To Save The Planet, We Must End Instruments Of Corporate Power from 2022-04-25T19:03:16

On April 10, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted in what is believed to be a US-backed soft coup. One of the likely reasons for the coup is that Khan was taking action to end excessi...

The Nazification Of Ukraine And How The War Is Changing The World from 2022-04-18T19:47:06

In follow up to a two-hour webinar hosted by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) with Scott Ritter, a former weapons inspector who blew the whistle on the lack of weapons of mass destru...

Lessons On Fighting Privatization From The Recent Postal Service Victory from 2022-04-04T20:13:47

Congress recently passed the Postal Service Reform Act - the result of 15 years of organizing to end the mandate to prefund 75 years worth of retirement benefits and other changes that were hurt...

Michael Hudson: US Dollar Hegemony Ended Abruptly Last Wednesday from 2022-03-28T21:02:02

On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, the United States announced that it would freeze Russia's access to its gold. Russia has the fifth highest amount of gold in the world. Economist Michael Hudson exp...

Venezuela: A Model Of Resistance To US Intervention from 2022-03-22T02:34:41

Unlike Ukraine, Venezuela successfully resisted the violent US-led coup attempt in 2014, and in other years, by right wing forces and the hybrid war being waged against it. Venezuela is recoveri...

Conflict In Ukraine Used To Silence Voices Of Dissent In The United States from 2022-03-15T04:22:25

Clearing the FOG speaks with political comedian Lee Camp about the sudden de-platforming that happened to him when RT America abruptly shut down after the Russian military intervention in Ukrain...

Ukraine Is A Pawn In The United States' Fight To Prevent A Multipolar World from 2022-03-08T02:20:16

This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with Brian Becker, a leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the host of The Socialist Program, for a socialist perspective of the war in Ukraine....

Russian Military Expert: We Can Choose Peace Or Risk A Nuclear War from 2022-03-01T02:56:04

On Feb. 24, Clearing the FOG spoke at length with Dr. Vladimir Kozin, a Russian military and global security expert. That happened to be the day that Russia launched a special military operation...

Every US President Has Worked To Uphold White Supremacy from 2022-02-22T04:35:07

For President's Day week, Clearing the FOG brings back this 2020 interview with Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report. She is the author of "Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents" t...

Puerto Rico: March Of Indignation Against 'Shakedown Plan' Of More Austerity from 2022-02-15T05:12:26

Tens of thousands of teachers and other public workers have taken to the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico in a March of Indignation to protest a debt restructuring plan given the green light by ...

Antiwar Groups Rally To Stop Us From Being Lied Into War With Russia from 2022-02-08T05:23:47

Clearing the FOG provides excerpts from the speakers at the National Online Rally to stop war with Russia over Ukraine that was held on Feb. 5 as part of the national actions that took place in ...

Ajamu Baraka: 'We Need To Demand The US Cease Operating As A Rogue State' from 2022-02-01T02:46:26

As the United States, with the aid of Western allies and the corporate media, escalates aggression toward Russia using Ukraine as the vehicle, it is necessary to take time to look at the bigger ...

Prosecution Of Ola Bini In Ecuador Threatens Digital Rights Everywhere from 2022-01-25T23:35:07

Last week, one of the most important digital rights cases took place in Quito, Ecuador. Ola Bini, a software designer who makes tools for activists to protect their privacy, was arrested at the Qui...

Oahu Water Protectors Demand Navy Stop Poisoning Their Community from 2022-01-18T04:21:45

A World War II Era underground storage tank containing over 100 million gallons of jet fuel at the Red Hill Fuel Facility has been leaking into the aquifer that provides water to the people of O...

More Than Ever, Food Not Bombs Needs To Become A Reality from 2022-01-10T21:08:45

Food Not Bombs was founded in 1980 to provide direct aid to people while educating about the perversion of spending so much on the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) while tens of millions of peo...

Occupy Biden Demonstrates What It Looks Like To Hold Politicians Accountable from 2022-01-04T20:25:34

During the 2020 presidential campaigns, it was common for people who planned to vote for Joe Biden to say that they recognized he was a corporate-friendly candidate but that we just needed to el...

Richard Wolff: US Capitalism Has Peaked And Is On The Way Down' from 2021-12-28T04:14:17

For the end of the year, Clearing the FOG speaks with economist Richard Wolff about the current state of United States capitalism. Wolff explains that the United States is experiencing the great...

New Program Is Secretly Privatizing Medicare And Threatening Our Healthcare System from 2021-12-21T12:07:11

A new program is placing Medicare recipients into private health insurance plans without their knowledge or consent in a final effort to fully privatize our national Medicare system. Known as "D...

The United States Is Using Nazis In Ukraine To Provoke War With Russia from 2021-12-14T00:07:31

If you listen to the corporate media in the United States, you may believe the lies that say Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine. In reality, it is the United States, led by then vice presiden...

New Study Finds The US Military Is Spreading Disease Around The World from 2021-12-07T04:44:37

A new study out of York University in Toronto, Canada finds that the US military plays a large role in the spread of diseases globally, including past and present pandemics. Clearing the FOG spe...

The US Puts A Democratic Veneer On The Military Coup In Sudan from 2021-11-29T18:50:52

Since achieving independence in 1956, Sudan has had a number of military coup governments and popular revolutions that overthrew them. Most recently, the Sudanese people ousted the thirty year l...

US Sends A Clear Message To African Nations As It Turns Its Back On Ethiopia from 2021-11-16T05:35:10

The corporate media in the United States is waging a misinformation campaign as part of the hybrid warfare being used to try to subjugate Ethiopia. Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace s...

As Nicaragua Resists Regime Change, The US Ramps Up Its Economic Warfare from 2021-11-08T22:31:35

The United States has tried to control the poor Central American country, Nicaragua, for more than 100 years. John Bolton designated Nicaragua as part of the "Troika of Tyranny" along with Cuba ...

COP26 Will Showcase False Solutions That Protect Corporate Profits, Not The Planet from 2021-11-02T02:39:50

The COP 26 United Nations climate meeting is underway in Glasgow Scotland. Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s recent “Code Red” report that proves urgent action is critica...

The US Will Break Any Laws To Protect The Elites: The Saab And Assange Cases from 2021-10-26T06:31:54

The United States government demonstrates repeatedly that it will do whatever it takes to protect the economic and political interests of the elites, even if it means total disregard for human r...

'Ten Year Plan' Will Destroy The Postal Service; Why We Must Save It from 2021-10-19T04:59:59

The current US Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, and the head of the Board of Governors, Ron Bloom, launched a ten year plan that will slow mail service and raise prices. This is the final blow t...

Building The Movement To Shut Down AFRICOM And End US Imperialism In Africa from 2021-10-12T02:41:29

The US Out of Africa Network, which is coordinated by the Black Alliance for Peace, launched a month of action on October 1, the 13th anniversary of the launch of AFRICOM (the US' Africa command...

Chris Hedges: Occupy And Building Power Now To Confront The Coming Autocracy from 2021-10-05T00:50:09

In his recent article, "America's Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy," Chris Hedges writes that bankrupt liberals have sold out to the oligarchic class to try to prevent an autocracy from rising but t...

Ten Years After Occupy: Building The Power We Need from 2021-09-28T02:48:19

Ten years ago, prominent activists and a variety of organizations came together early in the year to organize the October2011 Movement, styled on the occupations of space that were occurring dur...

New Report On US' Illegal Sanctions; A Day Of Reckoning Is Coming from 2021-09-20T20:49:53

One of President Biden's first statements included an intention to review the United States' sanctions, which are actually unilateral coercive measures, to determine if they 'unduly hinder' the ...

Farmers And Civil Society Reject Corporate UN Food Systems Summit from 2021-09-13T18:48:36

The World Economic Forum and Gates Foundation are convening a food summit through the United Nations on September 23. Global farmer, peasant and fishing coalitions have called a boycott of the s...

Science Shows We Must Stop Pipelines: This Is How We Do It from 2021-09-07T02:18:59

A new report finds that almost one-third of people living in the United States have been directly impacted by the climate crisis so far this year. This includes fires, floods and extreme heat. T...

Preventing A Dystopian Future: New Campaign To Ban Killer And Surveillance Drones from 2021-08-30T21:23:16

Drones are being used as weapons of terror and oppression throughout the world. Not only do they make it possible for the United States to colonize and occupy other countries, but police departm...

The Peace Movement Must Press For Diplomacy, Not More War, In Afghanistan from 2021-08-23T18:21:39

Col. Ann Wright was in Afghanistan to open the US Embassy in 2001. She recounts how the recommendation then was to get the US military out as quickly as possible. Instead, the Pentagon spent 20 ...

Calling Out The Greatest Culprit Behind The Climate Crisis from 2021-08-17T01:59:09

Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of The Empire Files are producing a new feature-length documentary that exposes the US military as "Earth's Greatest Enemy." Left out of the conversation about the c...

From Elder To Ancestor: Remembering Glen Ford from 2021-08-10T13:08:01

Glen Ford, a brilliant and powerful force in the media throughout his life, died recently at the age of 71. In this century, Glen was the founder of the Black Commentator in 2002 and then Black ...

'The Afghanistan War Was A Disaster;' Veteran Danny Sjursen On US 'Pullout' from 2021-07-26T22:29:13

The Pentagon has started closing military bases and pulling troops out of Afghanistan but confusion over what this means for the United States' longest war exists. For clarification, Clearing th...

Why We All Need To Fight To End The US' Economic War On Cuba from 2021-07-20T03:17:29

The United States has waged war on Cuba since it dared to revolt and chart its own path more than 60 years ago. The US' illegal economic blockade is devastating Cuba's ability to meet the basic ...

The Truth About Plastics And Why We Need To Stop Production Now from 2021-07-13T02:30:33

More knowledge is being gained about and more attention is being given to the harm caused to our health and the planet by plastics, from the start of their production to their disposal as waste ...

Arts And Activism In Pandemic Times from 2021-07-07T18:49:25

This week, Clearing the FOG speaks with artist and activist Eleanor Goldfield about her new EP, "No Solo." This is her first solo production and it is her most personal and political piece. Gold...

The Horrific Truths About Indian Boarding Schools Are Gaining Attention In The United States from 2021-06-28T19:57:16

Due in part to Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the horrific truths about what children and their families endured and the graves of the children who were murdered in the residentia...

Delegation Visits Cabo Verde To #FreeAlexSaab As US Flaunts International Laws from 2021-06-22T04:38:12

Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, who is a businessman born in Colombia, has been held for over a year now in the small African island nation of Cabo Verde at the request of the United States, whi...

Home Run For Julian Tour Grows US Demand To Free Assange from 2021-06-15T03:20:16

Julian Assange's father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, are currently on tour in the United States to help organize a unified US movement in support of freeing Julian Assange and protecti...

A New Vision That Puts Health Over Profit And Drives Innovation from 2021-06-08T04:35:38

There is a struggle right now to push the World Trade Organization to waive patent protections for medicines, vaccines and technology used for the COVID-19 pandemic. James Love of Knowledge Ecol...

For Memorial Day, Here Is How We Stop All Wars from 2021-06-02T03:24:05

For Memorial Day week, Clearing the FOG speaks with David Swanson, the cofounder and executive director of World Beyond War, an international organization that is working to abolish all war. Wor...

The Self Determination Of Native Americans Hinges On This Supreme Court Case from 2021-05-25T02:26:18

A case brought before the United States Supreme Court by three Native American women, who have been representing themselves, may decide the future of the 1975 Indian Self Determination Act. Clea...

Repression Of National Protests In Colombia Is Backed By The United States from 2021-05-18T03:46:42

Colombians have been on a national strike since April 28 with protests in 500 cities and blockades that have shut down the major highway. The protests were sparked by a proposed bill that would ...

Hunger Strike Exposes Biden's Drive To Increase US Oil Exports from 2021-05-12T11:45:59

The Biden administration claims to care about the climate crisis but it is currently allowing a dredging project to proceed in the Matagorda shipping channel to open the way for crude oil export...

Whistleblower Daniel Hale, The Drone Program And The War On Our Right To Know from 2021-05-04T00:23:30

The United States' drone assassination program is illegal under international law, but the whistleblower who exposed it, Daniel Hale, is being prosecuted under the Espionage Act. Chip Gibbons of...

How The United States Stole Democracy In Ecuador from 2021-04-27T14:23:32

The second and final round of the presidential election took place in Ecuador on April 11. Clearing the FOG speaks with Leonardo Flores, the Latin American campaign coordinator for CODEPINK who ...

All We Have Now Is The People Versus The Pipelines from 2021-04-20T02:06:30

The northern portion of the Keystone XL Pipeline is stopped for now, but there is another pipeline under construction, Enbridge's Line 3, that will also carry tar sands from Canada. Resistance t...

The Myth Of Black Buying Power Is Robbing Black People Of Their Power from 2021-04-13T06:15:35

The myth of black buying power - that black people collectively hold trillions of dollars in wealth and that they could improve their economic status if only they 'spent their money more wisely'...

'Progressives' In The US Are Openly Supporting Biden's War On Syria from 2021-04-07T03:50:42

The Biden administration is doubling down on aggression toward Syria and a small group of progressives is openly supporting US intervention. Clearing the FOG speaks with Max Blumenthal of The Gr...

While Biden Plots To Divide Iraq, Resistance To US Occupation Is Growing Stronger from 2021-03-30T02:05:49

Last year, after the United States so brutally and openly assassinated the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al -Muhandis, th...

Nicaragua Is Teaching Us How To Put People Over Profits from 2021-03-16T04:25:48

Members of the Sanctions Kill coalition are currently in Nicaragua as guests of the Friends of the ATC (the Association of Rural Workers) to learn about the Sandinista Revolution and the impacts...

The Major Struggle For The Rights Of Transgender People Is In The States from 2021-03-09T01:15:40

While the Equality Act that passed recently in the House is getting attention, the critical struggle for the rights of transgender people is taking place in state legislatures. This year, 26 sta...

This Is Why It Is Imperative That President Biden, Not Congress, Cancels Student Debt from 2021-03-02T05:58:49

The current student debt burden is over $2 trillion and it is crushing the economy. Defaults on student loans are high and for most borrowers, especially those who are people of color, their loa...

Building Black Working Class Power In Maryland from 2021-02-23T01:14:44

The state of Maryland and Baltimore City in particular have been dominated by Democratic Party politics for decades, yet many residents struggle under a repressive police force, a lack of afford...

Firsthand Report On The Crisis In Haiti: 'The People Are Screaming For Help' from 2021-02-16T01:33:49

Jovenel Moïse's term as president in Haiti ended on Sunday, February 7, but he is refusing to leave office with the support of the Biden administration, the United Nations and other western impe...

The Black Antiwar Movement Demands Biden Take Concrete Steps To End The Wars At Home And Abroad from 2021-02-08T17:22:52

President Biden declared early in his presidency that he wants to advance racial equity. The new Secretary of Defense, General Lloyd Austin, the first Black person to serve in that role, announc...

As The Doomsday Clock Nears Midnight, We Can Abolish Nuclear Weapons from 2021-02-02T04:07:55

On January 22, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into effect. This treaty, which is supported by more than two-thirds of the countries in the world but none of the nuclear s...

Understanding The Politics Of Urban Apartheid In The United States from 2021-01-25T17:29:20

Baltimore Maryland is a majority-black but hyper-segregated city. Following the uprising in Baltimore in 2015 in response to the police murder of Freddie Gray, Dr. Lawrence Brown, a public healt...

Reclaiming The Radical Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 2021-01-18T22:26:54

In the last years of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rejected duopoly politics and challenged the roots of the crises we face, what he called the triple evils of racism, capitalism and mil...

History Teaches Us Three Critical Steps To Stopping Fascism from 2021-01-12T03:21:29

On January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters rallied in Washington, DC at the White House with President Trump and then marched to the Capitol as the presidential election was being certifi...

This Is The Time To Push For National Improved Medicare For All from 2021-01-05T00:05:57

This past weekend, new members of Congress voted for the speaker of the House. Given the slim majority of Democrats, progressives urged members of Congress who ran on a platform of Medicare for ...

The Fate Of Press Freedom To Be Decided On January 4 from 2020-12-29T01:14:07

Judge Vanessa Baraitser will announce her decision on the United States' request to extradite Julian Assange on January 4. Assange faces 18 charges, 17 of them under the Espionage Act, which has...

The Israeli Apartheid State May Be Reaching A Breaking Point from 2020-12-22T02:34:13

You won't hear this in the corporate media but the struggle for Palestinian rights is gaining power and that is why there is an escalation by the Zionists to hold onto their power. Author and ac...

As Millions Of People Face Evictions, Here Is How People Are Fighting Back from 2020-12-14T23:36:04

The federal eviction moratorium is set to expire in December leaving an estimated 30 million people at risk of eviction. Members of Congress are still unable to reach an agreement on a relief bi...

Elections and the Path to Socialism in Venezuela from 2020-12-09T14:51:35

On December 6, Venezuelans elected a new National Assembly with a left political majority. This election, which was well-run and legitimate despite what the imperialist media and countries say, ...

Upcoming Venezuelan Election Is Another Rejection Of US Imperialism from 2020-11-30T23:55:55

On December 6, Venezuelans will vote for a new National Assembly. Just as it has done for the past twenty years, the United States is interfering in the election process and has already falsely ...

Indigenous Peoples' Victory: Largest Dam Removal In The World from 2020-11-24T01:46:06

After nearly four decades, Indigenous Peoples win an agreement for the largest dam removal in the world. Four of the six dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon will be taken down, al...

Nigerian Government Revealing Its True Character In Response To Youth Protests from 2020-11-17T03:47:49

Youth protests against police violence in Nigeria, the #EndSARS movement, gained international attention with solidarity protests around the world. To understand those protests and the context o...

Shahid Buttar: The Crisis Is Constitutional from 2020-11-10T02:27:52

The presidential election has been called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I speak with Constitutional lawyer and activist Shahid Buttar about what that means for our work on issues of social ju...

Trump FCC Turned The Internet Into A 'Wild West' For The Telecoms from 2020-11-03T00:56:52

Five years ago, the movement for internet freedom won an important victory when the Federal Communications Commission reclassified the internet as a common carrier, making it like a utility that...

Why We Need To End Capitalism To Defeat Fascism from 2020-10-26T23:57:43

With the presidential election coming up, there is a lot of focus on how the election will go and who will win. One thing is certain, no matter which corporate candidate wins, the people and the...

Bolivia: People Power Prevails Over US-Backed Coup from 2020-10-20T03:04:21

Last October following the re-election of indigenous president Evo Morales in Bolivia, the United States backed a coup that successfully forced him out of power. The coup regime reversed many of...

Changing To An Ecological Way Of Valuing National Economies from 2020-10-13T04:41:47

The Global South is adversely impacted by the many crises that exist in this world - the climate crisis, pandemic, recession, war to name a few. Although the Global South is wealthy in terms of ...

Shutting Down AFRICOM, International Solidarity And The US Elections from 2020-10-06T00:04:30

October 1, 2020, marked the twelfth anniversary of AFRICOM, the United States military's presence in Africa. An international day of action was organized to call for AFRICOM to be shut down and ...

Selling Ourselves For Safety: A Look At the Migration Industrial Complex from 2020-09-29T02:16:39

The climate crisis, wars, violent states and economic crashes are driving migration around the world and in this capitalist global environment, it is no surprise that a profiteering industrial c...

Portland Protests, The Fire And Organizing Eviction Defense from 2020-09-21T22:14:35

Portland, Oregon is one of the epicenters of the rebellion against police violence that broke out after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Portland has a long history of racism and abusi...

Cutting Through Western Imperialist Propaganda About China from 2020-09-14T21:31:14

As US empire wanes and China's economy and global reach grow, the United States has entered a Cold War with China that includes economic warfare, military antagonism, and a misinformation campai...

Chris Hedges: 'We Are In A Dangerous Time' from 2020-09-01T01:41:49

When we last interviewed Chris Hedges in December, we spoke about the coming uprising and whether...

The Banal Evil Of US Imperialism: A View From Inside The CIA from 2020-08-24T20:38:48

As the US Empire falls, the US government continues its regime change attempts around the world in an effort to hang onto power. We see the same tactics applied over and over again. We speak wit...

Beirut Explosion, Western Imperialism And Media Misinformation from 2020-08-17T16:47:23

On August 4, 2020, an explosion of tons of ammonium nitrate being stored at the port of Beirut Lebanon ripped through the city killing 0ver 170 people and injuring 6,000 people. This happened at...

After 300 Years, It's Time To End Capitalism, Not Reform It from 2020-08-10T23:01:05

The United States is facing multiple crises with no signs of improvement on the horizon - a deep recession, high unemployment, millions of people soon to be displaced from their homes, a failed ...

As Mass Evictions Loom, Practical Advice For Housing Takeovers from 2020-08-03T20:13:12

Federal protection against housing evictions has expired and local and state governments are not stepping up to fill in the gap leaving tens of millions of families vulnerable to homelessness du...

The Militarized Assault On Our Right To Protest from 2020-07-27T20:28:17

The Trump Administration sent federal law enforcement, including the paramilitary squad of Customs and Border Patrol, BORTAC, which has been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, to the streets of P...

Climate Justice Advocates Celebrate Important Victories But Big Oil And Gas Aren't Giving In from 2020-07-21T00:33:18

Climate justice advocates are justifiably celebrating recent victories such as stopping three major pipelines, a new court decision regarding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and nationa...

Green Party Nominates Two Workers For The White House from 2020-07-14T02:59:31

The Green Party of the United States held its presidential nominating convention, a virtual convention, this past weekend. The nominees are Howie Hawkins, a co-founder of the party and the first...

Update On Assange: The Most Important Press Freedom Case Of This Era from 2020-06-29T22:40:22

This past week, just as public sentiment and corporate media attention were shifting in favor of Julian Assange, the United States issued another superseding indictment in his extradition case. ...

Black Activists Expose The FBI Targeting Their Movements from 2020-06-23T01:43:20

In 2017, a leak from the FBI revealed they were targeting black activists organizing to end racist policies and practices calling them "Black Identity Extremists." This is consistent with the FB...

To Deal With Police, We Must Understand Why They Even Exist from 2020-06-15T20:27

The recent protests across the country following the murder of George Floyd have elevated the demands to defund and abolish the police. This comes on the heels of the nationwide resurgence of a ...

US Veterans, Including Active Duty, Reject Militarization Against Demonstrators from 2020-06-08T23:36:20

The United States is in the midst of a mass uprising against police violence, but also a whole list of grievances such as the lack of jobs, health care, education and more. Sustained protests ha...

Steven Donziger Challenged A Corporate Polluter And Won, Now They Are Trying To Ruin Him from 2020-06-02T00:13:52

Texaco was the first oil company to drill in the Amazon. To maximize profits, and because they thought they could get away with it, they did not take any steps to protect local communities or th...

Special Edition: Sanctioned Countries Speak Out On COVID-19 from 2020-05-26T18:26

On May 9, the Sanctions Kill coalition based in the United States held the first in a series of webinars on the United States' illegal economic coercive measures imposed on 39 countries and one-...

What We Know So Far: Dispelling The Myths About COVID19 from 2020-05-18T22:23:09

As we get close to two months of quarantine to stop the spread of COVID19 and the government has failed to put in place both public health infrastructure to effectively control the pandemic and ...

Mutual Aid: Building Networks Of Solidarity Not Charity from 2020-05-12T00:00:10

In the face of the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic collapse, people are organizing mutual aid networks to provide food, medicines and other basics to those in need. This is don...

Cancel The Rents Activists Say Housing Is A Human Right from 2020-05-04T22:35:03

There is a growing movement of people refusing to pay their rent whether they are not able to or whether they can but they are acting in solidarity with those who can't. In this recession, tens ...

The Struggle Against Neoliberalism Intensifies: Saving Our Postal Service And Workers from 2020-04-28T01:16:12

The wave of worker, student, and renter strikes is growing into a campaign for a general strike that begins on May 1 and continues at the first of each month from there. The government's respons...

General Strike Campaign Growing In The United States; Begins On May Day from 2020-04-21T00:37:10

Over the last two years, there have been record numbers of worker strikes in the United States not seen since the depression. Since the recession and COVID-19 pandemic started this winter, there...

Gig Workers Fight Back: 'We Don't Want To Deliver COVID-19 With Your Groceries' from 2020-04-14T01:39:11

The economy has shut down considerably in the United States so that people can shelter in place and slow the spread of COVID-19, but not all workers are able to do so. Essential workers include ...

Another Method Of US Censorship: Media Minders from 2020-04-07T04:01:36

The United States government often criticizes other countries for controlling their media, but over the past thirty years, it is the US media that has become tightly controlled. We speak with Ka...

On The Front Line Of COVID-19: Doctor Calls For System Change from 2020-03-31T03:44:49

New York is the area hardest hit by the coronavirus currently in the United States with over 60,000 cases and over 1,000 deaths, ranking it as the sixth highest number of cases in the world. The...

United Nations Expert: "The United States Is Committing Crimes Against Humanity" from 2020-03-24T02:05:46

It was recently confirmed that the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, won the last presidential election in October. He was forced to resign in a US-assisted coup that has brought a viole...

Twenty-First Century Neoliberalism Is Failing - Where Do We Go From Here? from 2020-03-16T23:39

Stock markets around the world have become very volatile over the past few weeks with record losses. We are in a global recession, which could become a depression in the United States. Panic ove...

The Struggle for Justice within Extinction Rebellion US from 2020-03-10T00:09:14

The Extinction Rebellion is a nonviolent direct action campaign that started in the United Kingdom in the Fall of 2018 to push governments to declare a climate crisis and to take action to rapid...

Syracuse Students Lead A National Movement To End Oppressive Campus Environments from 2020-03-03T03:06:01

For a long time, students and faculty of predominately-white universities across the country have been experiencing oppressive environments where racism and homophobia are tolerated. This academ...

Weaponizing Coronavirus in the US Propaganda War Against China from 2020-02-25T00:28:05

The United States changed its national security strategy from the "war against terror" to "great power conflict" targeting countries such as Russia and China. Some say the United States is alrea...

A Look At All The Presidents Reveals The System Is Hostile To Black People from 2020-02-18T00:35:30

As the presidential races heat up, Margaret Kimberley has a new book, "Prejudential: Black America and The Presidents," that exposes how every one of the forty-five presidents in the United Stat...

Trump Blows Cover Off Israeli Colonial Apartheid And Fuels Struggle For One Democratic State from 2020-02-10T05:29:21

The Trump administration has been one of the most aggressive toward supporting the Israeli colonialist and apartheid state in Palestine in cooperation with the extreme right-wing government unde...

If There Is A War In Space, Everybody Loses from 2020-02-04T01:02:34

Last December, the National Defense Authorization Act that was renewed with bipartisan support in Congress authorized the creation of a new branch of the military, a space force. In January, Pre...

Banking For The People, Not Wall Street Profits from 2020-01-28T07:35:56

It has been a hundred years since the first and only public bank was created in the United States, in North Dakota, but now there is renewed interest in starting more public banks. California pa...

How An African Cemetery Under A Parking Lot Galvanized A Community To Fight White Supremacy from 2020-01-20T23:11:49

The United States still has a long way to go to come to terms with its history of being founded on genocide and slavery. In recent years, we have heard about efforts to take down monuments to th...

New Federal Police Surge Targets Poor And Black Communities from 2020-01-14T04:53:46

In December, the Department of Justice announced a new $71 million program, Operation Relentless Pursuit, that will increase policing and the involvement of federal agencies such as the Drug Enf...

Our Responsibility As Citizens Of Empire from 2020-01-07T02:56:43

The United States reached a new height of recklessness on January 3 when the military assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes in Iraq, igniting ma...

We're Headed For An Uprising, But Are We Ready For It? from 2019-12-30T05:23:08

As 2019 comes to a close and we enter a new decade, we look back at the major events and issues that shaped the year with Chris Hedges. We discuss the rise of the Right, in part due to the weakn...

Report On The United Nations Climate Meeting: Capitalism Can't Solve The Climate Crisis from 2019-12-24T01:24:54

The United Nations Conference of Parties, COP25, climate meetings to continue working on the Paris Climate Agreement ended recently. They took place in Madrid Spain rather than Chile because of ...

Corbyn's Loss: What It Means for Sanders And Where The Left Goes From Here from 2019-12-17T01:36:14

On December 12, Jeremy Corbyn, head of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, suffered a great defeat as the conservative Boris Johnson became the new prime minister with a gain of 47 new seats...

Decolonization Requires Black, Brown And Indigenous Voices At The Forefront from 2019-12-10T04:07:59

Native Americans and allies recently commemorated the 50th Annual National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. Next year will be the 400th anniversary of the pilgrims landing as p...

United States Takes Drastic Measures As It Loses Control Of Latin America from 2019-12-03T03:40:30

This week, Latin American countries allied with the United States are meeting in Colombia to invoke a post-World War II treaty, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, TIAR in Spanis...

If Americans Knew Tells the Truth About the Israeli State from 2019-11-26T13:55:57

As an independent journalist, Alison Weir went on her own to see what was happening during the Second Intifada (uprising) in Occupied Palestine. What she found was the complete opposite of what ...

Stopping The FBI From Spying On Social Movements from 2019-11-19T07:30

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has a long history of monitoring, infiltrating and entrapping activists and social movements engaged in First Amendment activity. A new report by Rights...

A Deeper Look At Uprisings Around The World from 2019-11-11T07:50:35

Revolts are arising all around the world and it can be hard to keep track of them. We speak with Andre Vltchek, a photographer, writer and documentarian who travels all over to cover world event...

Campaign for Community Control of Police Goes National from 2019-11-06T00:49:43

From November 22 to 24, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, founded in 1973, will be relaunching itself in Chicago, IL. A major part of the conference will be focused ...

Why Nicaragua Is Under Attack from 2019-10-29T19:17:20

Latin America is in a revolt against neoliberalism and the austerity measures that go with it. Ecuador and Chile have had mass protests in recent weeks. Bolivia re-elected President Morales, who...

Understanding Trump's 'Withdrawal' From Syria And Advocating For Peace In The Middle East from 2019-10-22T00:33:05

President Trump recently announced he was withdrawing US troops from northeastern Syria where they had fought and imprisoned ISIS members with the Kurds. This move gave the green light for Turke...

Ecuadorians Protest Neo-liberal Austerity And Win from 2019-10-15T16:35:41

President Lenin Moreno restored neo-liberalism to Ecuador, accepting a $4.2 billion dollar loan from the US-dominated International Monetary Fund that required measures call 'structural adjustme...

Court Decision On Net Neutrality Opens Doors To Next Steps from 2019-10-08T14:06:57

In 2015, under great pressure from a broad media justice movement, the FCC passed Net Neutrality policies that guaranteed the universal right to go where users want to go on the Internet. In 201...

The United States' Declining Power Was On Display At United Nations Session from 2019-10-01T02:49:38

As the United Nations wraps up its General Assembly session, we speak with Bahman Azad, a professor who heads the United States Peace Council, about the unprecedented steps the Trump administrat...

Former Customs and Border Protection Agent Blows the Whistle on Culture of Corruption from 2019-09-24T19:09:21

Customs and Border Protection is in the news with the recent article in the New York Times on the lowered morale among CBP officers. Much of it stems from public opposition to the detention and ...

US Veterans Held In Ireland For Protesting US' Violations of Neutrality from 2019-09-17T01:37:42

Ireland has been a neutral nation since the 1930s, meaning it doesn't join military alliances and under numerous treaties is not supposed to assist other countries in military endeavors. However...

A Frontline View Of The Palestinian Great March Of Return from 2019-09-09T22:04:09

On March 30 2018, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip started a weekly peaceful protest they call "The Great March of Return." The purpose was to go to the wall separating them from their previous ho...

New Jersey Tried To Hide The Fact That Newark Is Another Flint from 2019-09-03T00:44:25

Residents of Newark New Jersey learned last year that their water was poisoned with high levels of lead, something the government failed to inform them about even though it knew about it in June...

Climate Activists Are Building Power To Declare We Have An Emergency from 2019-08-26T23:44:34

Wildfires are raging around the world, creating a negative feedback loop for the climate by releasing greenhouse gases and destroying the forests' capacity to sequester carbon. The United States...

Hong Kong Protests And The Shifting Global Power Dynamics from 2019-08-19T15:20:12

Protests have been escalating in Hong Kong this year with tens of thousands of people taking the streets and aggressive actions such as occupying the airport and attacking journalists. What star...

The Hawaiian Kingdom Still Reigns: Alleged Statehood is Illegal from 2019-08-13T20:14:40

In a textbook United States regime change operation, wealthy businessmen manufactured a revolution in Hawai'i and executed a coup d'état in 1893. The Queen of the Hawai'ian Kingdom surrendered t...

Busting the Myths of American Exceptionalism and Innocence from 2019-08-05T22:52:30

The United States has long considered itself to be above the law, and it has gotten away with it by manufacturing public support for its actions, no matter how heinous, through the myths that we...

Puerto Ricans' Revolt is Deeper than the Governor's Chats from 2019-07-23T13:08:52

Puerto Ricans have suffered over the past several years from deep debt, a faltering economy and the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Struggling to hold on, the final straw came when hundreds of cha...

Militarized Fossil Capitalism is the Problem; There are Solutions from 2019-07-16T14:35:17

"The Earth Is Not For Sale." That is the title of David Schwartzman's new book, written with his son Peter. Both are environmental scientists who have worked on climate change issues for a long ...

What To Do In An Age When Crossing the Border is a Crime from 2019-07-08T12:18:35

It wasn't always a crime to cross the border, but now it is not only a crime but we are also housing immigrants in concentration camps under severe conditions and prosecuting those who try to as...

How Many Coups (And Lives) Will It Take Before The US Surrenders In Venezuela? from 2019-07-01T22:16:20

Venezuela used to be an "oil republic," which made oil executives from the United States and the wealthy class in Venezuela very rich. That lasted until the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 when ...

Moving Away From the Brink of War With Iran from 2019-06-26T16:15:27

The United States has been waging an economic war against Iran ever since the Iranian Revolution overthrew the US-backed brutal shah in 1979, but that war has escalated recently with the US-impo...

How To Move Away From The Brink Of War With Iran from 2019-06-25T16:24:13

The United States has been waging an economic war against Iran ever since the Iranian Revolution overthrew the US-backed brutal shah in 1979, but that war has escalated recently with the US-impo...

The Ongoing American Genocide Against Indigenous Women and Girls from 2019-06-18T16:55:54

Canada issued a report two weeks ago on thousands of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) calling them victims of Canadian Genocide and connecting a root cause to colonization...

A Look at Cuba: Democracy and Resistance to US Interference from 2019-06-11T03:13:25

The Trump administration designated Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela as a "Troika of Tyranny" and has been ratcheting up pressure on all three countries through economic blockades, creating dissent...

What's In An Eco-Socialist Green New Deal? from 2019-06-03T22:03:54

Each new report indicates the need to take urgent action on the climate crisis. The impacts in the US so far this year are already devastating - much of the farmland in the Midwest is still unsu...

The Power To Withdraw Our Consent From Systems Of Violence from 2019-05-28T13:56:33

According to the director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Renata Dwan, the risk of nuclear war is the highest it has been since World War II. Last year, seven plow shar...

The US-Led Coup in Venezuela Comes to Washington from 2019-05-22T01:42:16

For 37 days, from April 10 to May 16, activists calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective stayed at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC 24/7 to prevent the United States from per...

Activists Stay In Venezuelan Embassy 24/7 To Protect It from 2019-04-24T14:58:38

On March 18, opposition leader Juan Guaido's people took over the Venezuelan consulate in New York  City and the military attaché office in Washington, DC. They announced they will take over the...

How Momentum Is Growing To Tax The Rich And Reduce Inequality from 2019-04-16T04:03:51

In the middle of the last century, there was a large and secure working class. Then, changes to the tax structure distributed more and more of the wealth to the richest and hollowed out the midd...

Busting The Myths About NATO; Why NATO's Got To Go from 2019-04-09T15:09:51

On April 4, 2019, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) foreign ministers met in Washington, DC to celebrate its 70th anniversary. While both parties in Congress applauded NATO, peace and ju...

Assange And Manning Sacrifice Their Freedom For Our Right To Know from 2019-04-04T20:35:14

Julian Assange, the editor of Wikileaks, a media outlet for information provided by whistleblowers, has been in confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for almost seven years and is expe...

How Venezuelans Are Holding Their Own Against US Imperialism from 2019-03-28T15:47:42

The United States and its allies are waging a long term battle for Venezuela's abundant resources, which include oil, gas, gold, diamonds and minerals. The Venezuelan government, through the Bol...

The Politics Of Pesticides: Monsanto Under Fire from 2019-03-22T20:35:40

Through a series of mergers, pesticide companies are consolidating, taking over seed companies and pushing genetically-engineered foods. Companies such as Monsanto, now merged with Bayer, and Do...

The Racial Wealth Divide is Vast, But It doesn't have to be from 2019-03-13T04:48:35

In a new report, "Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide," researchers at the Institute for Policy Studies outline how the racial wealth gap has widened over the p...

Demonizing Iran: An Inside Look Into What the US is Trying to Hide from 2019-03-05T15:44:13

The United States has a long history of interfering in Iranian politics. Perhaps the most famous is the coup of the democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 followed by t...

Mass Protests Again; Haiti And Revolutionary Struggle In Latin America from 2019-03-04T21:36:50

After years of corruption and neglect of the Haitian people, a popular revolt is demanding the current president's resignation. The US-led attempted coup in Venezuela played a role in sparking t...

How Democrats Are Blocking Progressives And What To Do About It from 2019-02-18T23:00:50

Progressives have been trying to make the Democratic Party move to the left and adopt their agenda since Senator Bernie Sanders started running for president in 2015. Like the many who have trie...

Finding Hope in the Midst of Climate Disruption from 2019-02-11T23:12:33

The climate crisis is no longer an abstract concept, it is here and it is getting worse. Each new report finds the temperatures are getting hotter, the ice is melting faster and the seas are ris...

The Rise of a Fake President in Venezuela from 2019-02-05T00:18:11

On January 23 2019, Juan Guaidó, the current president of the defunct Venezuelan National Assembly, pronounced himself the president of the country. The United States, Canada, the European Union...

The Yellow Vests as Part of the Global Revolt Against Neoliberalism from 2019-01-29T00:57:22

The Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) movement of workers in France just completed its eleventh act this past weekend. They are revolting against neoliberalism and austerity and rule by and for the w...

Breakthrough For Mumia Abu-Jamal And All Victims Of The Injustice System from 2019-01-22T01:54:48

The case of Mumia Abu Jamal, who was framed with the murder of a police officer, has had some important breakthroughs in the last month including allowing him appeal rights and the finding of si...

Canada Violently Violates First Nation Sovereignty Over Pipeline from 2019-01-14T23:18:16

The Wet'suwet'en Nation, which has never ceded its territory, has been working to stop a number of pipelines that Canada wants to build through their territory for the past ten years. This strug...

After 1,600 Days Of Protest, Okinawans Bring Fight To Washington from 2019-01-08T22:57:02

The United States military is building another base on Okinawa in an environmentally-sensitive area, on top of the second most diverse coral reef in the world, against the will of Okinawans who ...

Winning the Green New Deal from 2019-01-01T16:49:48

The Green New Deal, a plan to transform the economy to one based on clean, renewable energy sources and other measures to adapt to the climate crisis and protect human rights, gained widespread ...

This is How We Build and Fight from 2018-12-26T20:11:42

As 2018 comes to a close, we bring back this interview with Kali Akuno from January, 2017, just prior to President Trump's inauguration. Akuno has been an organizer in the South for decades and ...

You Can Handle the Truth from 2018-12-18T23:57:47

Sometimes the truth is painful to hear, but if we don't know what is going on or what we are up against, it's impossible to change it. We speak with political comedian Lee Camp about how he bega...

Do You Know You are a Wage Slave? from 2018-12-12T00:07:58

The majority of people in the United States are in a position of wage slavery, in which they depend on their boss for the ability to survive, but it has been so normalized that many do not quest...

We Can Stop Rigged Corporate Trade, If We Act Now from 2018-12-04T17:03:06

On November 30, leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada signed the revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the G20 in Argentina. The new NAFTA is an updated version of rig...

The Decline of Empire and the Rise of Trumps from 2018-11-27T10:34:47

In his new book, "America: The Farewell Tour," based on his travels around the United States, Chris Hedges describes the decline of society and how that brought President Trump into power. Trump...

Understanding U.S. Fascism: Past and Present from 2018-11-21T16:36:20

People often think that fascism began with Hitler and Mussolini, but fascism actually has its roots in the United States and was exported to other countries. In this extended interview, we speak...

New Movement Arises to Force Action on Climate Change from 2018-11-14T00:11:36

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a conservative body, estimates that humans have twelve years to take effective action to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Give...

To Change The World, Treat Your Rebels Well from 2018-11-06T03:31:01

Throughout history, there has been tension between those who desire obedience to authority and those who question authority. It is those who question authority that contribute to social change, ...

At the Border; When Survival Becomes a Crime from 2018-10-30T00:18:37

For decades, US policies have created economic crises and violence that drive people from their homes in search of a place where they can work and live. Rather than recognizing that US imperiali...

Why We Need to Understand U.S. Imperialism from 2018-10-23T01:29:08

The United States has been at war or involved in military aggression for all but a few years since its founding. This is not surprising when we understand that the US is the largest empire in th...

The United States is More Socialist Than You Know from 2018-10-16T00:24:16

Compared to other wealthy countries, large sectors of the US economy are more socialized than is realized. From energy to water to transportation, land and more, and from cities and states to th...

Ever Wonder Who "They" Are? from 2018-10-08T22:02:01

In 2017, eight men controlled half of the world's wealth and 70% of the world controls 5% of the wealth. Global elites, the 1%, are consolidating their fortunes without regard for the remaining ...

Beyond Laughing at Trump, What Happened at the UN Last Week from 2018-10-01T12:49:20

The 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly is taking place right now. President Trump spoke before the General Assembly and chaired a session of the Security Council. While the medi...

The National Prison Strike Isn't Over from 2018-09-25T02:28:25

From August 21 to September 9, prisoners in 17 states went on strike to protest inhuman living and working conditions and to promote ten basic demands. Although the formal strike is over, some p...

Surviving in a Post-Crash Economy from 2018-09-18T19:09:21

The current generation is the first one in history that will have a lower standard of living than its predecessors and a shorter life expectancy. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, wh...

So, You Want To End Capitalism? Here's How from 2018-09-11T00:32:19

There is a rising awareness that capitalism is at the root of many of the crises that we face, from the economy to the environment and climate change to the absence of democracy. We need to end ...

What You Need to Know About Yemen from 2018-09-03T18:35:12

We speak with Medea Benjamin, who has traveled to and written about US conflicts in the Middle East, about the war on Yemen, the origins, the extent of US involvement and how it connects to othe...

What We Learned From Standing Rock: Chase Iron Eyes' In-Depth Analysis from 2018-08-27T23:36:51

Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project, describes the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and his almost two-year...

Why The US Lets Israel Get Away With Murder from 2018-08-20T21:22:32

Seventy years ago, the Israeli military attacked a US Naval vessel and, mysteriously, the President prevented the US military from protecting the people on that ship and the investigation was a ...

How to Make National Improved Medicare for All Inevitable; from 2018-08-14T15:48:20

The national movement for improved Medicare for All is gaining momentum, which means that we have the real potential to win a national universal public health insurance and means that our oppone...

How Do You Deal With White Supremacists? from 2018-08-06T18:56:17

People in the United States have a long way to go to achieve the social and economic gains that other countries, such as the Nordic ones, have. The big question is - how do we make those gains? ...

A Sign of the Times; US Journalist detained at Helsinki Summit from 2018-07-31T16:23:04

During the scripted Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki, Finland, a US journalist, Sam Husseini, was taken into police custody for holding a small sign. Husseini, a long time advocate for e...

UPS and Teamsters in Collusion Against the Workers; from 2018-07-23T22:09:23

UPS workers are in a critical struggle with both their employer and their union, the Teamsters, which are pushing a poor contract on them. Like many workers in the United States, UPS workers are...

What is Really Happening in Nicaragua? from 2018-07-17T13:14:10

Violent protests have been going on since April of this year, forcing residents to stay indoors.  While the corporate media and an army of online trolls have been making false claims about the O...

Labor has made Two Grave Errors; Will it Recover? from 2018-07-02T22:41:20

Labor unions have been on the decline in the United States for over fifty years, which has caused a decline in wages, working environments and overall social conditions. In other countries, a st...

Red Green Revolution – Victor Wallis on the Ecosocialist Future from 2018-06-26T22:39:18

Two major crises of our era are growing wealth inequality and its resultant poverty and climate change, which is connected to a variety of environmental issues. Neither of these crises can be re...

Juneteenth: Still Fighting to End Jim Crow, from 2018-06-19T00:54:50

This Juneteenth, there are actions around the militarization of police and community-based efforts to create security without the police. Eugene Puryear, who works with Stop Police Terror DC, di...

Poor-Led People's Campaign Marches to Resurrect Resurrection City from 2018-06-10T20:37:34

For the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City, poor and houseless people marched from the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia to Wash...

Venezuela Needs Our Solidarity, Not Charity from 2018-06-05T22:05:40

The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela just succeeded against the forces of US imperialism through the election of Nicolas Maduro for a second term as president. US officials were openly calling...

Our Healthcare System is So Broken, Even Non-Profits are Failing Us from 2018-05-21T15:59:11

Since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, there has been an unprecedented consolidation in the healthcare industry. Giant medical corporations are investing in "vertical integration," which ...

Entering the "Brave New World" of Corporatized Education, from 2018-05-15T14:21:36

First there were charter schools and high stakes testing, and now we are entering a whole new realm of corporate education that treats students as commodities and views schools and teachers as o...

"Climate change is more of a problem than we anticipated" from 2018-05-08T02:36:36

Each new study on climate change shows that not only is the crisis here now, but changes are happening a century earlier than predicted. We speak with respected climate scientist, Dr. Michael Ma...

Historic Opportunity for Peace on the Korean Peninsula from 2018-05-01T13:50:01

The meeting between President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea resulted in an agreement to end the Korean War and work toward unity. Their declaration was a maj...

"We need to act now": An Interview with Chelsea Manning from 2018-04-25T14:03:20

Chelsea Manning is running for U.S. Senate in Maryland in the Democratic Party primary against career politician, Ben Cardin. She explains why she is running, her concerns about the future, whic...

On Syria - "The United States is not in Control" from 2018-04-15T22:04:32

We speak with Vijay Prashad, who provides insightful analysis of the situation in Syria and the aerial bombing of Damascus by the US. The US' claims, which were used to justify the bombing, of a...

50 Years Later, the Poor People’s Campaign Continues, from 2018-04-09T12:56:38

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Poor People's Campaign, called for by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although Dr. King was murdered a month prior to the Poor People's Campaign, it ...

"Israel has No Legitimacy": An Interview with Miko Peled from 2018-04-03T14:13:26

In Palestine, on Friday, March 30, Land Day, thousands of Palestinians demonstrated. This began six weeks of protests leading up to the 70th anniversary of the Nakba on May 15. Israeli soldiers ...

Resistance is Necessary to Overcome the Climate Crisis, from 2018-04-03T01:09:10

The science is clear that we must no longer build new fossil fuel infrastructure and we must invest in clean sources of energy, yet oil and gas companies continue to receive permits to build mor...

Farming for the Health of People and the Planet from 2018-03-29T13:20:30

Our current food system has a large negative impact on the climate crisis and our health. Factory farms produce large amounts of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), pollute the land, air and water and depl...

"Put the Brakes on U.S. Empire": An Interview with Ajamu Baraka from 2018-03-21T22:38:59

Ajamu Baraka of Black Alliance for Peace attended an historic meeting, with over 100 countries represented, in Caracas Venezuela in early March. We discuss the current situation in Venezuela and...

The Public Banking Movement is taking off in the United States from 2018-03-19T21:34:41

Public Banks exist around the world. They are used to hold public dollars, such as taxes and fees, to keep the money local so it serves the public interest, instead of giving it to Wall Street b...

Two Marches on Washington to End Wars from 2018-03-13T18:59:49

President Trump formally requested the Pentagon to organize a military parade in Washington, DC on November 11, celebrated as Veteran's Day. However, groups of veterans want to stop the glorific...

Clearing the FOG on the Attacks on Public Sector Unions and the Fightback from 2018-03-05T23:06:38

The Supreme Court has entered the final phase in its deliberation of Janus vs AFSCME and is expected to announce its decision this June. If the decision is made against public sector unions, as ...

Clearing the FOG on Indigenous Wisdom Provides Path for Positive Change from 2018-02-28T14:16:39

Sherri Mitchell, Penobscot, an Indigenous lawyer, writer and activist, has a new book, “Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change,” which explains her personal journe...

Clearing the FOG on Latin American Resistance and United States Imperialism from 2018-02-14T01:48:09

Latin America is described as the back yard of the United States. There is a long history of US intervention in Latin American countries and vibrant resistance both to the US and to vicious righ...

Clearing the FOG on AFRICOM and US Interference in the Congo from 2018-02-12T03:23:40

The United States has a long history of intervention in Africa that is not widely discussed. Africa is a continent with tremendous resources that has been colonized and exploited by Western coun...

Clearing the FOG on the New National Defense Strategy: Great Power Conflict and Arms Race from 2018-02-05T22:44:18

The new National Defense Strategy announced last week moves from the ‘war on terror’ toward conflict with great powers. The move from military conflict against non-state actors, i.e. ‘terrorists...

Clearing the FOG on the Fight for Immigrant's Rights; DACA and Beyond from 2018-01-29T21:05:13

In 2017, President Trump repealed Obama's executive order for young immigrants, Dreamers, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allowed them temporary status in the United ...

Clearing the FOG on Jeff Sessions' Assault on Marijuana Legalization from 2018-01-23T17:53:29

Jeff Sessions, head of the Department of Justice, reversed the “Cole Memo” that allowed states to pursue marijuana legalization without fear of the federal government stepping in and prosecuting...

Clearing the FOG on the decline of the United States Empire from 2018-01-16T15:37:09

In his latest book, "In the Shadow of the American Century: The rise and decline of US global power," Alfred McCoy writes about the tools used by the United States to maintain global domination ...

Special Report: Are Long-Term US Regime Change Efforts behind Iran Protests? from 2018-01-06T03:02:18

We talked to Mostafa Afzalzadeh from Tehran about what the current protests in Iran are about and where they are going. Mostafa has been an independent journalist in Iran for 15 years and a docu...

Clearing the FOG on Movement Strategy for our Times from 2018-01-03T01:38:47

In 2017, more people became activated for social justice. At the same time, white supremacist groups became more visible, marching with torches and chanting words of hatred. There were conflicts...

Clearing the FOG on Issues that Drive the Coming Trasformation from 2017-12-27T18:21:15

The year 2017 has been another active year for people fighting on a wide range of fronts. The Trump administration has brought many issues that have existed for years out into the open where the...

Clearing the FOG on our Rights to the Internet from 2017-12-19T23:37:50

On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), lead by chairman Ajit Pai, voted to dismantle the hard-won net neutrality rules, going against widespread public support for th...

Clearing the FOG on the Great and Growing Wealth Divide from 2017-11-21T14:56:23

A new report released by Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie of the Institute for Policy Studies, "Billionaire Bonanza 2017: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us," reveals that only 3 people in the US hol...

Clearing the FOG on Divesting from the War Machine and Wall Street from 2017-10-24T17:44:44

Two new divestment campaigns launched this year. One is the Divest from the War Machine campaign, led by CODEPINK and endorsed by more than 60 organizations, which is targeting weapons manufactu...

Clearing the FOG on Corporate Assaults on our Rights and the Environment from 2017-10-11T02:46:26

We discuss two of the many assaults on our communities by corporations that put their profits above the health and safety of people. The first is the re-negotiation of the North American Free Tr...

Clearing the FOG about the Vietnam War, from 2017-09-19T14:13:24

PBS is currently airing a ten-part documentary about the Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that is financed by the Koch Brothers and Bank of America and promoted by the Pentagon. We speak...

Clearing the FOG on Empire, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Environment, from 2017-09-12T04:43:30

With Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, wildfires and droughts fresh in our minds and threats of greater global aggression, we take a look at the connections between Empire, war, Indigenous rights and ...

Clearing the FOG on Dismantling White Supremacy from 2017-08-23T19:15:33

White supremacist rallies and counter protests, especially the events in Charlottesville that led to the murder of Heather Heyer and many people injured, are bringing the issues of institutional...

Clearing the FOG on the Right to Boycott Israeli Apartheid from 2017-08-01T03:26:32

Members of Congress are currently trying to outlaw a form of free speech – the boycott. For over a decade now, hundreds of Palestinian organizations have been calling for the world to impose boy...

Clearing the FOG on the Fight for Housing as a Human Right, from 2017-07-26T00:14:50

July 26 to 29, 2017, there will be national actions to raise awareness that housing is a human right and to pressure the federal government to lift spending caps and increase funds for housing. ...

Clearing the FOG on the People's Congress of Resistance, from 2017-07-18T21:19:16

As wealth inequality grows in the United States and people struggle to afford basic necessities, civil unrest is growing. Rather than responding with policies to address these unmet needs, the s...

Clearing the FOG on Civil Rights and the Fight for Health Care from 2017-07-04T19:17:22

The health care fight is hot right now. The Republicans are working to repeal the Affordable Care Act, possibly without a replacement until a later date, and the Democrats are largely ignoring t...

Clearing the FOG on Pipeline Fights that Threaten Our Lives from 2017-06-27T15:28:04

There are fights against new pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure around the country as people demand an end to carbon-based energy. We speak with three people who are deeply involved ...

Clearing the FOG on Juneteenth; The Struggle for Black Liberation Continues from 2017-06-20T03:35:01

June 19 is known as Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when black slaves in Texas were freed. It was two and one half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is recognized as a holiday by...

Clearing the FOG on RussiaGate and the Trump Administration from 2017-06-13T13:48:55

This week on Clearing the FOG Radio we examine the issue of RussiaGate and the special counsel examining the Trump administration and President Trump. We will talk with former FBI agent, Coleen ...

Clearing the FOG on Banning Bombs and Ending Wars from 2017-06-06T20:48:03

The United States is now in its 17th year of the "War on Terror" with no end in sight. President Trump is escalating aggression and tension in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan and is threateni...

Clearing the FOG on the Attack on Net Neutrality from 2017-05-10T01:19:45

In 2015, a large coalition of organizations and tech groups together with millions of people forced the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify the Internet as a common carrier under Tit...

Clearing the FOG about the Climate Crisis from 2017-05-02T16:44:11

Recently, hundreds of thousands of people marched for climate justice. The science is clear that climate change is here and is happening at a more rapid rate than was expected. The United States...

Clearing the FOG on the Mass Mobilizations for May Day from 2017-04-25T16:31:07

Immigrant's rights activists have ramped up their organizing and protests this year in response to ongoing ICE raids that are now targeting undocumented organizers. Leading up to mass marches an...

Clearing the FOG on the Need for a Student Debt Jubilee from 2017-04-18T01:59:39

The level of student loan debt has risen to $1.5 trillion and defaults are 40% and rising. Underneath the crisis are rising tuition costs, a predatory student loan industry and an absence of con...

Clearing the FOG on How We Win National Improved Medicare for All from 2017-04-04T02:56:48

This has been a tumultuous time for health care in the United States,. The Affordable Care Act has plateaued in the number of people that it covers, leaving 29 million out altogether and tens of...

Clearing the FOG on Korea at the Crossroads from 2017-03-20T16:37:06

Mainstream media in the US are complicit in drumming up support for US aggression against North Korea. They fail to place North Korea’s actions in the context of the long history of US hostility...

Clearing the FOG on Maryland's Jim Crow Higher Education System from 2017-03-10T15:36:16

Kevin Zeese interviews two alumni of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Rashad Staton of Morgan State University and DeJuan Patterson of Bowie State University, about an ongoi...

Clearing the FOG on Alternatives to Neo-liberalism: The Commons from 2017-03-06T18:42:25

Last week we discussed the ongoing push towards privatization and commodification of everything. We are in a disastrous cycle: As wealth inequality grows and the rich successfully avoid taxes, t...

Clearing the FOG on the Waves of Privatization from 2017-02-27T20:44:45

For decades, the neo-liberal agenda, first tested outside of the United States and then brought home, has driven waves of privatization. Today, it is proceeding in an unchecked way and without r...

Uniting in the Fight for Immigrant Rights from 2017-02-20T20:07:48

The Trump administration has taken the attack on immigrants in the United States to a higher level, and people are responding in some areas with escalated fight back. From Sanctuary Cities to Ra...

Education is Under Attack, How We Fight Back from 2017-02-13T21:35:42