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Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan are never going to give you up as they pick the most overplayed and potentially annoying songs in advance of April Fool's Day on the first Cliche song program.
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Distinguishing real news from fake can be challenging today with bots spreading disinfo far and wide, deep fakes on our feeds and the amplification of bad information by influencers. We all see the impact that disinformation has on politics in our country. Are you ready to take a stand and fight back against it? Join us to learn what exactly is disinformation, how to recognize it, and what we can do to fight its spread.
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We open the GREEP Zoom #260 with a report from HEDY TRIPP on the Minnesota boycott of Target & the on-going resistance there to the ICE/Gestapo.
From MAYOR HEIDI LAMPERT of Waldport, Oregon, we hear that the recall against her has failed while the recall against the right-wing city council will proceed.
Legendary California activist DOROTHY REIK lauds this year’s Academy Awards & Topanga Canyon’s upcoming March 28 NO KINGS/NO NUKES marches.
No Nukes author/activist ANNA GYORGY tells us how to plug in for the March 28 upheaval.
From Houston we’re updated by SUSAN YOUNG, Chair of the Pacifica Radio National Network, telling us about the gerrymandering surprises in the Lone Star state & more.
From Atlanta we are updated by RAY MCCLENDON on the illegal FBI attack on the Fulton County election board and the expected coming mega-billionaire assault on the fall balloting....plus the grassroots opposition that will stand up to it.
From southern California RAY LUTZ fills in our tech needs and examines the dubious ownership of the voting machines that could turn the American future in 2026.
Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world.
Israel has bombed the world’s largest natural gas field in southwestern Iran, reportedly in coordination with the United States. Now that a major red line for Tehran has been crossed, retaliatory strikes have already begun pummeling the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region, with Qatar reporting that its primary gas facility has sustained “significant damage” from an attack after Iran issued evacuation warnings for energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
As spring approaches, a huge dump of snow pummels the Midwest. I look out my window, here in Appleton, Wisconsin, and shrug in awe. I’m still warm and safe. Do I deserve to be?
What is my relationship to this world I’m a part of? What do I contribute to it? Is humanity an invasive species – step on the gas, man! – or are we part of a larger purpose? I don’t know. I just live the life that was give to me, with all its technological advantages. But sometimes I claw my way beyond what I know, occasionally with the help of poetry. Welcome, William Blake! His 1794 poem, “The Tyger,” got stuck in my mind back when I was in college, and a few years ago, when I still lived in Chicago – still had a backyard, still did gardening – Blake’s “tyger” met a smaller critter. This poem I wrote is titled: “Worm.”
I pray
by digging my hands
into black compost
and lo I find the
heart of William Blake,
the heart of
the tiger and the heart of
the worm.
I pray, I pray
oh rich mother,
When the governing body of the Democratic Party convenes next month, it will face a challenge to its support for Israel. The Democratic National Committee has evaded the fact that large majorities of Democrats oppose continuing military aid to Israel and believe it has committed genocide in Gaza. The stage is set for jarring discord when the DNC’s 450 members gather in New Orleans.
An NBC poll released this week underscores the depth of the DNC’s political folly. The results were lopsided, by a 67-17 percent margin in favor of Palestinians, when the survey asked Democrats: “Are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?”
The ‘Great America’ that President Trump has been promising the public looks too often more like Al Capone’s gangster-ridden Chicago of the 1920’s - except even more violent.
At least a senior member of Trump’s government has come out and spoken the truth: Joe Kent, the former US counter-terrorism official just resigned over the US-Israeli war against Iran. Kent, a true American hero and war veteran, asserted he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war” against Iran. He stated that Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation” and that the conflict was initiated “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” What heresy!
The move comes weeks into active strikes targeting Iranian nuclear sites, leadership, and infrastructure, with Iranian retaliation underway and global oil markets feeling the strain. So far, US and Israeli strikes, guided by America’s galaxy of formidable intelligence satellites that blanket the Mideast, have truly managed to decapitate Iran’s technical, military and political leadership.
The Honorable Letitia James
Attorney General of the State of New York
Office of the New York State Attorney General
The Capitol
Albany, NY 12224-0341
BY EMAIL
March 9, 2026
Dear Attorney General James,
We¹ write to urge your office to initiate an independent investigation into multiple vote miscounts in the November 4, 2025 elections in Rensselaer County, New York. As organizations committed to ensuring New York conducts free and fair elections, we work to preserve all eligible voters’ right to cast a ballot, and to have that ballot counted as cast to ensure that our elections reflect the will of the voters.
The election debacle in Rensselaer County revealed important and consequential vote count errors, (in more than one election), that would have gone uncorrected if not for the persistence of the Stephentown Memorial Library to press the Rensselaer County Board of Elections (RCBOE) for a recount. Further,
In The Manchurian Candidate trilogy novel, Richard Condon imagines a decorated American soldier who thinks he’s acting of his own free will but is, in fact, executing a program planted in his mind by others. It’s a story about the illusion of autonomy—about how easily agency can be hijacked while the subject remains convinced he’s in control.
A similar idea appears in the Golem of Jewish folklore: a being animated to serve its creator, moving and acting without any real independence. It is not a decision-maker; it is an instrument.
Now look at Donald Trump and the pattern of controversies surrounding his rise and behavior on the world stage. His deference to Vladimir Putin, his alignment with Benjamin Netanyahu, and his rhetoric and rage around war with Iran don’t read like the moves of a steady, independent leadership. They look erratic, reactive, and at times disturbingly aligned with the interests of others.