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September 18th, 2019 || Iran, News and Public Affairs, Peace.

Rob Neff discusses his positive experience during a recent trip to Iran

Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 09/17/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Since the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement there has been rising tension between the two countries. In addition the proxy war between Iran and Saudi… Read more »

New Book by Veteran NYT Reporter Chronicles Some of the Major Events of Civil Rights Movement

November 30th, 2018 || African American

Second Amendment Scholar Says Gun Regulations Were Part of Original Intent of Founders

November 28th, 2018 || American History

The Nazis Next Door in Tampa; and Heightened War Tensions in the Middle East Between Iran and Israel

May 10th, 2018 || American History

International Law Expert Says US Attack on Syria Would Violate US Constitution and UN Charter

April 12th, 2018 || American History

Jewish Survivor of Nazi Germany Discusses His Neighbor Adolph Hitler

March 20th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

Will the US End Participation in the Iran Nuclear Accord Under President Trump's New Secretary of State?

March 14th, 2018 || Foreign Policy

Signs from The Women's Rally 2018 in St. Pete

January 23rd, 2018 || blog

Anti Killer Drone Activist Says Tiny Robot Assassins Might Be Built Within Next 18 Months

January 11th, 2018 || Civil Liberties

Cool, Imaginative Suggestions on Life Elsewhere

December 16th, 2017 || blog

Sleepwalking to Nuclear War? And President Trump Is About to Change US Policy Toward Israel.

December 6th, 2017 || American History

Where Do Your Pentagon Tax Dollars Go? And Official Tampa Delegation Visits Cuba

October 24th, 2017 || Foreign Policy

August 15th, 2017

Charlottesville Terror: The Rise of the Fascist Right and Why Were Those Confederate Monuments Built?

August 15 2017 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity…..I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— after the terrorist attack on peaceful demonstrators last weekend in Charlottesville—- what’s next? We’ll talk with a futurist and historian about the efforts by far right groups to build a movement. Our first guest is Sara Robinson a Seattle-based futurist and veteran blogger… Read more »

July 10th, 2017

Roger Waters brings politics, music, activism to Tampa

The singer and bassist of one of rock’s most popular bands is coming to Tampa this week. No, we’re not talking about Paul McCartney. In this recorded special we hear from one of the most politically outspoken musicians: Roger Waters – a co-founder of Pink Floyd. As you’ll hear in these songs and interviews, Waters’ current tour… Read more »

June 3rd, 2017

Military Veterans Look at the Cost of War

Three Veterans Weigh in on War and Issues Faced by Service Members When They Come Home Memorial day is a day when we remember the sacrifices made by soldiers on behalf of our country. On Monday, Radioactivity host Rob Lorei interviewed three veterans about healthcare and other issues of concern to service members. First some… Read more »

April 24th, 2017

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 »

April 3rd, 2017

50 years ago: MLK’s controversial Beyond Vietnam speech

Tuesday is the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s famous and controversial speech called “Beyond Vietnam;” we hear the full speech from MLK via Alternative Radio. It was recorded at Riverside Church in New York on April 4, 1967. By then, King had become one of the country’s most prominent opponents of the… Read more »

February 21st, 2017

A War Tax Resistor and One of the Country’s Leading Advocates for Seniors Discuss Donald Trump’s Views on Military Spending and Social Security

WMNF’s Radioactivity 2 21 17 Tuesday Good morning, welcome to radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today—President Trump wants to increase the military budget…. But what if you are religious and object to military spending and your money used for wars, and drones and instruments of killing? We’ll talk about that on the first part… Read more »

Melissa Gallagher Indivisible Tampa Marco Rubio town hall

February 20th, 2017

Will Marco Rubio show for Tampa town hall meeting?

Four topics on this MidPoint: 1) an activist in Tampa is organizing a town hall meeting and has invited Senator Marco Rubio, 2) Monday is Presidents’ Day, but one of our guests is helping to organize a protest in Pasco County called “No Presidents Day,” 3) [Now dis-invited] CPAC keynote speaker Milo Yiannopoulos appears to endorse… Read more »

January 23rd, 2017

Trump’s Inauguration and Upcoming Veterans for Common Sense Award Dinner

WMNF 88.5FM’s Radioactivity with Rob Lorei 1 -23-17 Coming up toady we’ll hear Florida This Week from this past Friday night on WEDU-TV where we talked about the inauguration of President Donald Trump. And we’re going to talk about this Saturday’s 280th birthday celebration of Founding Father Thoma Paine the author of the influential pamphlet… Read more »

October 12th, 2016

Jill Stein says cabinet could include Richard Wolff or Medea Benjamin

In a C-SPAN interview Tuesday night Green Party Presidential nominee Jill Stein was asked to name some people who might make up her cabinet if she is elected president; her answer included some names like Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin and economist Richard Wolff. “So, for example, on Secretary of State, we would certainly consider someone like… Read more »

August 20th, 2016

Tuesday is Keith Moon’s birthday The Who are celebrated on the Freak Show

Keith Moon’s explosive drumming propelled The Who through their first intoxicating, and intoxicated years. His death cemented the rock’n’roll legend. We remember him on the Freak Show. What songs by the Who would you like to hear? Tune in to the Freak Show on Tuesday night 6-8pm and here the best live and studio performances… Read more »

August 18th, 2016

Peace Activist Medea Benjamin Gives her thoughts about President Obama, Drone warfare, and US military spending

http://sound.wmnf.org/sound/wmnf_160818_110618_radioactivityR1_191.MP3 BY Rob Lorei On Radioactivity Wednesday, our guest was Peace Activist Medea Benjamin. You may have seen her as she’s disrupted hearings and speeches, trying to unfurl banners carry a message of peace. She unfurled a banner that read “Build Bridges Not Walls” last month during Donald trump’s closing speech at the Republican Convention in… Read more »

July 25th, 2016

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 »

July 7th, 2016

“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 »

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