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A Better Path for the U.S. in the Middle East? And the Green Shadow Cabinet
04/30/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: U.S. foreign policy, Iraq, Afghanistan, private contractors, terrorism, Taliban, David Rohde, drones, Social Security, Green Shadow Cabinet, Kevin Zeese
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll speak with Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Rohde about his new book BEYOND WAR: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East (Viking). Rhode has covered U.S. military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other parts of the Middle East and South Asia. He was held captive by the Taliban for seven months beginning in 2009.
Later we'll talk with Kevin Zeese who is the Attorney General in a new project-...
Be the first to commentBoston Marathon explosives were loaded with shrapnel inside pressure cookers listen
04/16/13 APWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Boston Marathon, terrorism, Barack Obama, FBI, Boston
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said this morning there were 176 casualties, 17 of them in critical condition, and three fatalities from yesterday’s bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
President Barack Obama said today the deadly bombings were an act of terrorism but investigators do not know if they were carried out by an international or domestic organization, or perhaps by an individual.
Be the first to comment"This was a heinous and cowardly act. And given what we now know about ...
Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict
02/05/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: patriarchy, terrorism, women's rights, David Jacobson, Of Virgins and Martyrs
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity-- in it's new time-- 11AM- Monday Through Friday. We'll be followed by Democracy Now every weekday at noon.
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On the first part of the program today we'll talk with a USF professor- Professor Davi...
Be the first to commentBenghazi attack still has holes, but extra security might not have been an option listen
10/25/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Anthony Zinni, Al Cardenas, Benghazi attack, Libya, terrorism
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been using the attack in Benghazi last month in his campaign against President Barack Obama. Republicans supporting Romney claim Obama withheld information about the attack that killed four Americans.
Speaking before a U.S. Global leadership Coalition event this month in Tampa, former head of the Republican Party of Florida and current chair of the American Conservative Union, Al Cardenas s...
Be the first to commentTampa Bay area college students march for peace on anniversary of invasion of Afghanistan listen
10/08/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 9/11, terrorism, peace, USF, Students for a Democratic Society, Afghanistan, SDS
The war in Afghanistan is now in its twelfth year and some students in the Tampa Bay area have had enough. Ten members of Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, rallied at USF Tampa today to speak out against the continued occupation of Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern countries. Matthew Hastings said the military spending can be better used to fund public education.
Be the first to comment“Well, if we’re spending trillions of dollars to maintain a military that is fighting overseas, we’re not going t...
Peace activists implore feds to call off "witch hunt" domestic terrorism investigations listen
09/24/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NDAA, Holder v Humanitarian, Barry Jonas, Committee to Stop FBI Oppression, Jared Hamil, peace, anti-war, terrorism, domestic terrorism, FBI
Peace activists nationwide are speaking out Monday against what they see as FBI oppression against protesters. In downtown Tampa, ten people protested anti-terrorism tactics and legislation in front of the Sam Gibbons Federal Courthouse. Jared Hamil heads the Tampa Committee to Stop FBI Oppression which is participating in a national call-in day to ask a U.S. attorney to call off investigations of 22 anti-war activists.
2 comments“Hi, my name is Jared Hamil. I’m from Tampa Bay. I’m a fellow acti...
9/11 remembered by peace activists for resulting in more violence listen
09/11/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 9/11, terrorism, peace, USF, Students for a Democratic Society, Islam
While groups around the country are remembering the victims of 9/11, other groups are marking the day for a different reason. A group of Peace activists rallied at USF and downtown Tampa today to remind people that American lives weren’t the only ones lost as a result of the attacks that day. Gonzalo Valdes with the group Tampa Against the War on Terror said more people were lost post 9/11.
1 comments“9/11 was the beginning of this war on terror. That’s when the world changed. I personally feel...
Republican convention protesters unveil threats of violence against them listen
07/19/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: RNC, ResistRNC, Republican National Convention, Romneyville, terrorism
An organization planning to protest at the Republican National Convention next month is claiming they are the target of violent threats. The group ResistRNC has listed several quotes they claim came from direct messages to their website.
Most of the alleged emails warn members of the group not to use violence during their demonstrations. But Amos Miers, one of ResistRNC’s organizers, said some of them are nothing more than threats – like this one:
1 comments“It’s from Nick Athan and the subjec...
Political Scientist Benjamin Barber discusses the importance of each citizen in solving global issues listen
03/05/12 Liz McKibbonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: ethics, economics, Media, Benjamin Barber, terrorism
Some of the most important issues affecting people today—disease, terrorism, climate change—are not defined by region, but instead are global problems. That’s the take of political scientist Benjamin Barber, who spoke Wednesday night on The Ethics of Global Citizenship at St. Petersburg College in Seminole.
Barber began by illustrating just how connected the United States is to the rest of the world. He said that many Americans focus on the borders that outline...
Be the first to commentTampa Bay History Center Exhibit: Spies Saboteurs and Traitors
02/10/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Tampa Bay History Center, Spies Traitors Saboteurs, Rodney Kite-Powell, terrorism, Red Sc are, Palmer raids
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up on the first part of the program we'll talk with Rodney Kite-Powell who is the curator at the Tampa Bay History Center about their new exhibit SPIES TRAITORS SABOTEURS. It's a look at 235 years of U.S. history involving domestic terrorism, divided loyalties, and sometimes misguided efforts to combat threats both internal and external. From the founding of our country, through the Palmer raids, two world wars, the Red scare and t...
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