The largest pro-Israel lobbying group held its annual conference this week. Several Democratic candidates for president promised to skip the meeting of AIPAC, or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, because of its support for the policies of Israel and its current hard-right government. The local Progressive Democrats of America chapter is screening a documentary… Read more »
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Syrian Refugee Ammar Mohrat on Radioactivity Thursday
What should be the U.S. policy on Syrian refugees? There’s a big debate in the country about Syrian refugees. Should they be barred from the U.S., as the Trump administration wants? Host Rob Lorei spoke with Ammar Mohrat – a Syrian refugee who lives in the Tampa Bay area. He was born and raised in Homs,… Read more »
Professor William Orman Beeman Discusses U.S.-Iran Relations on Radioactivity Friday
The Trump Administration’s tough talk on Iran: Is it true? This week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States will conduct a “comprehensive review” of its policy toward Iran, warning that leaving the country “unchecked” could increase threats around the world. Tillerson told Congress late Tuesday that the White House will consider… Read more »
MidPoint for Thursday, April 6 – Alia Malek
Syrian-American journalist and attorney Alia Malek was our guest for the first part of today’s program. She’s just written a new book, The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria, about living in Syria just as the Arab Spring was taking root in early 2011, and how the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad… Read more »
Are Better US-Iran Relations Possible?
2 7 17 Good morning, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Today —we get the perspective of an American professor who has spent forty years traveling to Iran. President Trump has had some tough talk about Iran in the past few days— we’ll talk about the heightened tension between the US and Iran in… Read more »
USF freezes email of student stuck in Iran after Trump executive order
WMNF interviews a University of South Florida student who is stuck in Iran after President Trump’s immigration executive order; his email access has been cut off by USF. We hear that interview with Mehdi Zeyghami and speak with another person who is being directly affected by Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly-Muslim nations; a judge has… Read more »
Radioactivity Friday: Whats really going on in Syria?
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160826_110617_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Friday, we looked at the current state of affairs in Syria. The country has been ravage by 5 years of civil war that many people think is consisted of rebels vs. the Assad Regime. But the situation is much more complex. We listened to an interview by Mitch Jeserich,… Read more »
A Palestinian Promotes Peaceful Resistance to the Israeli Occupation
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160722_110617_radioactivityF1_337.MP3 By Rob Lorei On radioactivity Friday, our first guest was Palestinian peace activist Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour (Abed). Dr. Abed is the founder and director of Al-Rowwad, a cultural center located in Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine. As the theater director, he teaches that the arts, which include music, dance, theater and sports, are tools for empowerment to… Read more »
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Max Richtman looks at GOP plan for Social Security and Medicare; Former Sen. Bob Graham says declassified 9/11 papers show link to Saudi Arabia.
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160719_110617_radioactivityT1_187.MP3 By Rob Lorei First on Radioactivity Tuesday we discussed the Republican platform on Social Security and medicare with Max Richtman, president and CEO of The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. The current GOP stance declares that the Social Security program is in dire need of a overhaul and that Medicare is too… Read more »
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“I Will Be With You, Whatever” (on Life Elsewhere)
Our headline is taken from the voluminous, seven-year official investigation into how and why Britain went to war in Iraq. Britain’s investigation by the independent Iraq Inquiry was unequivocal in its findings. Britain, like the United States, used flawed intelligence to justify the invasion, that Iraq posed no immediate national security threat, that the allies… Read more »
Special Operations industry conference in Tampa
It takes a lot of equipment to perform military special operations and a company could strike it rich by scoring a contract to sell to the Department of Defense; that’s why dozens of them were at the Tampa Convention Center this week for the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference. Lori VanBrocklin is the director of… Read more »
Reporter Dan Christensen discusses the latest on the 28 redacted pages of the 9/11 report
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160518_110617_radioactivityW1_189.MP3 By Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday our guest was Dan Christensen, an investigative journalist whose news website the Florida Bulldog has been closely following the story of the 28 redacted pages of the 2003 9/11 commission report which many, including former Florida senator Bob Graham, believe contains information on the role of Saudi Arabia in the attacks. The Obama Administration… Read more »
In Ybor City pro-refugee group marks the Palestinian Nakba
On Sunday Palestinians marked the anniversary of being uprooted sixty-eight years ago — the Nakba. When Israel was created in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven out of their land. Now there are several million Palestinian refugees and their descendants living in the region and throughout the world. Here in Tampa, supporters… Read more »
Radioactivity Thursday: A Debate about US Policy Toward Israel and the Palestinians.
http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160421_110617_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 On Radioactivity Thursday we hold a debate on one of then most contentious topics in US Policy: US relations with Israel and the Palestinians. Our guests today are Jonathan Ellis, a Tampa-based attorney and chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Tampa JCC Federation, and Alison Weir, a freelance journalist who traveled… Read more »
