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Cindy's Picks: Top 10 Soapbox Podcasts of 2017!

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Soapbox Top 10 The harvest of imperial crimes, injustices, and pure b.s. was ripe this year, sometimes riper than usual, and the Soapbox never missed an opportunity to oppose those crimes. It was SUPER hard to choose, because I am justifiably proud of all of my shows, but here are my Top 10: End of the Obama Error and Beginning of Another Brother Larry Pinkney  *** Russo-phobia: The Breakfast of Charlatans Mike Whitney  *** Ray Light Sheds Light on the Evil Empire (and more) Ray Light  *** Myth-busting: Syria Eva Bartlett  *** Erin Brockovich *** US: Hands off of California Shankar Singham and Tim Vollmer  *** John Pilger *** Why the Russian Revolution Matters Today Professor Lucianna Bohne *** "From the River to the Sea" Amal from the West Bank *** Big Picture Activism Helena Norberg-Hodge  Bonus: Young Activists on US Imperialism Guests: Dakotah Lilly and Caleb Maupin   TOP BLOGP

REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION OF LABOR, USA NEWSLETTER #105 (NOV-DEC, 2017)

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Newsletter #105 November-December 2017 CLICK HERE FOR ENTIRE NEWSLETTER Jump to Individual Articles __________________________________________________________________ Reflections on the 100th Anniversary Year of The Great October Socialist Revolution by Ray Light  *** The Emancipation of Women by Cindy Sheehan *** Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution: The October Revolution and the Communist International  by RAY LIGHT   ****** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX   

World Citizen Wire with Activst Cindy Sheehan

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In this episode, we interview peace activist Cindy Sheehan. We discuss many subjects including the peace movement, her book The Obama Files: Chronicles of an Award Winning War Criminal, and much more. ******** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Cindy Sheehan on the Prospects for War & Peace in 2018 (On Loud & Clear)

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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE 10 MINUTE SEGMENT As the year draws to a close, war continues to rage around the world, from Yemen to Myanmar to Syria, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, usually with the United States in the middle of it. We look at the prospects for peace in 2018 with activist  Cindy Sheehan.  *********************************** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Speaking Truth to Empire with Dan Yaseen (December 2017 Edition)

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December 2017 https://soundcloud.com/ speaking-truth-to-empire/ 171220-speaking-truth-to- empire-cindy-sheehan Cindy in Cuba   On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno. Dan Yaseen interviews “Peace Mom” Cindy Sheehan, a n author, blogger, and radio talk show host. She is America’s leading antiwar activist. Her website is http://cindysheehanssoapbox. blogspot.com/ **************** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Turn the Guns Around (SOAPBOX PODCAST DECEMBER 17, 2017)

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December 17, 2017 TOPIC : GI Resistance and Rebellion and Breaking the Chain of Command GUEST: John Catalinotto ABOUT JOHN: Mr. Catalinotto has been active in the anti-war movement since the October 1962 missile crisis and has worked on some of the peoples' war crimes tribunals that the IAC organized regarding the U.S. wars against Iraq and Yugoslavia. Since 1982 John has been a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. And specifically from 1967 to 1970 he was a civilian organizer with the American Servicemen's Union, a circulation manager of the newspaper, The Bond, and must have read and answered some thousands of letters from GIs around the world, and once in a while got into the direct struggle. Draftees and enlistees — eighteen-year-olds from the South Bronx, factory workers from Buffalo, miners’ sons from Kentucky, unemployed youth from Watts — hate the military and the Vietnam War. They throw a wrench into the Pentagon’s war ma

Millionaires, Molesters, and Monsters! Oh, my! by Cindy Sheehan

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Millionaires Should millionaires have the power to reduce taxes on the wealthy? The average wealth of the US Senate hovers around eight-million dollars per senator. Of course, in this age where three people own more wealth than the bottom-half of the nation, eight-million could be considered chump change. So, the elitist Club of Millionaires aka The US Senate just passed a tax cut bill for those wealthiest USAians and puts the onus for paying for the crimes of the US Empire on the backs of those who make 10-20k per year. To me, and, to be sure, to any socialist/humanist this is abominable, to say the least. This Club of Millionaires remains in service to the billionaire class of War and Wall Street. Case in point: Jeff Bezos of Amazon infamy recently surpassed ONE HUNDRED BILLION dollars in hoarded wealth. Naturally, his wealth has been accumulated on the backs of his workers, where in India, Amazon pays $222 a year and here in the states, $12.40 an hour. 

And We Both Fell off Mt. Baldy (SOAPBOX PODCAST DECEMBER 2, 2017)

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Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox December 2, 2017 Guest: Randy Credico Topic: The Deep Police State Left-wing, journalist, activist, and political comedian  Randy Credico Journalists Must be Protected  has come under the scrutiny of the government after he interviewed Julian Assange--- he has been subpoenaed by the House of Representatives to  testify on December 12th, 2017. He is being accused by the lying corporate media of being a link between Julian Assange and Trump. Stay-tuned for more information! (Plus Cindy and Randy discover that the two Southern Californians both, at different times, fell off of Mt. Baldy). Randy Credico, gadfly New York candidate, drawn into Russia probe  FOLLOW RANDY ON TWITTER COPY OF SUBPOENA    ***   CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX       

Speaking Truth to Empire w/Dan Yaseen (NOVEMBER 2017 EDITION)

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November 2017 https://soundcloud.com/ speaking-truth-to-empire/ 171115-speaking-truth-to- empire-steve-lendman     “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno Dan Yaseen interviews Steve Lendman, an author, a progressive blogger and an internet radio host. He writes on vital international and national topics, including war and peace, American imperialism, corporate dominance, political persecutions, and a range of other social, economic and political issues. His website is: www.stephenlendman.org ****************** CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Washington's Long War in Syria (Dakotah Lilly interviews Stephen Gowan for the Soapbox: Nov, 26, 2017)

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November 26, 2017 Cindy Sheehan's co-host, Dakotah Lilly, interviews author and activist, Stephen Gowans on: "The empire's assault on the People of Syria and the DPRK. Dakotah talks with Canadian author and activist Stephen Gowans about Washington’s grudge against the DPRK and Syria, as well as busting some myths about planned economies and capitalism."  CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE INFO ON BOOK   DAKOTAH IN VENEZUELA ********* CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Storming the Gates and Long Live Robert Mugabe (SOAPBOX PODCAST 11/19/17)

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November 19, 2017 TWO FOR THE PRICE OF NONE! This week, on the Soapbox, we present two wonderful interviews. Guest: Richard Becker Topic: Storming the Gates: How the Russian Revolution Changed the World (On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution) CLICK FOR ORDERING INFORMATION  ************************ LONG LIVE ROBERT MUGABE! Guest: Caleb Maupin TOPIC: Zimbabwe and the non-coup Cindy chats with RT correspondent, Caleb Maupin, about the recent events in Zimbabwe AND the  history of the socialist revolution and counter-colonialism there. Caleb WWW.CALEBMAUPIN.COM ********* CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Speaking Truth to Empire with Dan Yaseen (October Edition)

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October Edition CLICK HERE TO LISTEN  ANN WRIGHT   On Speaking Truth to Empire on FM 88.1 KFCF, an independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Ann Wright. She is a retired Army Reserve colonel and a 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She was also a diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She received the State Department’s Award for Heroism for her actions during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She resigned from the Department of State on March 19, 2003, in opposition to the Iraq war. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience and and appeared in the documentary “Uncovered". ********* CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX 

Erasing the Blackboard guest blog by Vietnam Veteran Mike Hastie

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When I left Vietnam in September 1971 after being in the Central Highlands for one year, I remember an event that I could only see its importance many years later. Three days before I left Vietnam at the out processing center in Cam Ranh Bay, I was with a couple of hundred soldiers who were also heading home from a war that was drenched in Lies. I was sleeping in one of the large barracks with a lot of other anxious people who just wanted out of this place. One of the things we had to wait for was the results of a piss test to determine if we had been using heroin while in Vietnam. If you tested positive, you had to stay in Vietnam for another 2-3 weeks to be detoxed. It was obviously a temporary shake and bake treatment that would only last until they got home, where they would no doubt continue the assault on destroying their lives with a drug that was having a powerful impact on the morale of American troops in Vietnam. While I was in Vietnam, I saw