Bringing Light Into Darkness - News & Analysis

The convergence of wealth inequality and Media consolidation is explicated as the greatest risk to democracy. The degree of media consolidation is shocking and has led to the absence of so much of the dissenting evidence needed to form informed understandings regarding our collective foreign policy impact on the world stage. Without that we are unable of holding our government accountable and resp...

The convergence of wealth inequality and Media consolidation is explicated as the greatest risk to democracy. The degree of media consolidation is shocking and has led to the absence of so much of the dissenting evidence needed to form informed understandings regarding our collective foreign policy impact on the world stage. Without that we are unable of holding our government accountable and resp...

We continue our Black History & State of Black America series of conscious raising shows around systemic racism & oppression. This week we speak with two activists Amanda Jasso and Kellee Coleman, who work with the City of Austin Equity Office. They share the challenges, by race and gender, that particularly are faced by women of color, at the local level regarding inequities posed by systemic opp...

We continue our Black History & State of Black America series of conscious raising shows around systemic racism & oppression. This week we speak with two activists Amanda Jasso and Kellee Coleman, who work with the City of Austin Equity Office. They share the challenges, by race and gender, that particularly are faced by women of color, at the local level regarding inequities posed by systemic opp...

Last week we detailed how slavery period, the Jim Crow period, interrupted by a short decade long Reconstruction period, was followed by Modern Day Discrimination that that continues to manifest its inequality today. We defined it as three connected eras that used different means and methods to ensure the second-class status of black lives’, hence the nature of systemic racism. This week we shift...

Last week we detailed how slavery period, the Jim Crow period, interrupted by a short decade long Reconstruction period, was followed by Modern Day Discrimination that that continues to manifest its inequality today. We defined it as three connected eras that used different means and methods to ensure the second-class status of black lives’, hence the nature of systemic racism. This week we shift...

The show focus is on the impact of systemic racism on Black History and the State of Black America relative to White America. Three different periods of US history, ‘slavery’, ‘Jim Crow’ and ‘Modern Day Discrimination’ utilizing different means and methods to subject African Americans to second class status are presented as systemic racism. Examples are documented and described and presented as a...

The show focus is on the impact of systemic racism on Black History and the State of Black America relative to White America. Three different periods of US history, ‘slavery’, ‘Jim Crow’ and ‘Modern Day Discrimination’ utilizing different means and methods to subject African Americans to second class status are presented as systemic racism. Examples are documented and described and presented as a...

Dr King converged the spiritual critique with the economic and foreign policy missteps that is driving our world towards a premature and perhaps irreversible crisis oHof survival of our species. He called out our arrogance as a nation and violent foreign policy within the paradigm of racism and gross economic inequalities. Special guest Reverend Jim Rigby Pastor of St Andrew’ Presbyterian joins Pe...

Dr King converged the spiritual critique with the economic and foreign policy missteps that is driving our world towards a premature and perhaps irreversible crisis oHof survival of our species. He called out our arrogance as a nation and violent foreign policy within the paradigm of racism and gross economic inequalities. Special guest Reverend Jim Rigby Pastor of St Andrew’ Presbyterian joins Pe...

We believe we honor Dr. Martin Luther King every week on BLID by our weekly US Foreign Policy inquiries that MLK questioned, such as his concerns from studying US Vietnam intervention. Through the lens of MLK the framing of our foreign policy makes sense as driven by the ‘great triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism’. Tonight’s show is about terrorism, state sponsored terrorism, h...

We believe we honor Dr. Martin Luther King every week on BLID by our weekly US Foreign Policy inquiries that MLK questioned, such as his concerns from studying US Vietnam intervention. Through the lens of MLK the framing of our foreign policy makes sense as driven by the ‘great triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism’. Tonight’s show is about terrorism, state sponsored terrorism, h...

This episode’s show is on when medical care conflicts with Pharma corporate bottom lines, as a form of oppression. Oxycontin, Corporate Criminal Law and the Public Welfare, with guest and attorney, Kirsten Mayer who explains recent Supreme Court decisions that paved the way for prosecution of executives who were removed from the activity of the criminal behavior (i.e. the misbranding and its resul...

This episode’s show is on when medical care conflicts with Pharma corporate bottom lines, as a form of oppression. Oxycontin, Corporate Criminal Law and the Public Welfare, with guest and attorney, Kirsten Mayer who explains recent Supreme Court decisions that paved the way for prosecution of executives who were removed from the activity of the criminal behavior (i.e. the misbranding and its resul...

This episode's focus is to ‘Bring Light Into Darkness’ around what the US public should know about the cost of war. Over the last couple of shows we have focused on - among other things - the developing cabinet of President-Elect Joe Biden and the foreign policy history of Joe Biden along with those cabinet members he has already selected or is reportedly considering. The disturbing finding is tha...

This episode's focus is to ‘Bring Light Into Darkness’ around what the US public should know about the cost of war. Over the last couple of shows we have focused on - among other things - the developing cabinet of President-Elect Joe Biden and the foreign policy history of Joe Biden along with those cabinet members he has already selected or is reportedly considering. The disturbing finding is tha...

This episode's focus includes a continuation of our examination of President Elect Joe Biden’s cabinet. We examine Samantha Power and her likely United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Director appointment and what to expect based on her well documented foreign policy positions under the Obama administration, particularly her humanitarian intervention rationalizations for US int...

This episode's focus includes a continuation of our examination of President Elect Joe Biden’s cabinet. We examine Samantha Power and her likely United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Director appointment and what to expect based on her well documented foreign policy positions under the Obama administration, particularly her humanitarian intervention rationalizations for US int...

Host Pedro Gatos is joined by S Brian Wilson, a former commander of a USAF combat security unit in Vietnam who has been a justice activist for 50 years. The two focus on the Nicaragua example, with special attention paid to the evolution of the different means and methods of illegal violations of international law in the US foreign policy’s toolbox of promoting sovereignty violations within third...

Host Pedro Gatos is joined by S Brian Wilson, a former commander of a USAF combat security unit in Vietnam who has been a justice activist for 50 years. The two focus on the Nicaragua example, with special attention paid to the evolution of the different means and methods of illegal violations of international law in the US foreign policy’s toolbox of promoting sovereignty violations within third...

Host Pedro Gatos is joined by Nan McCurdy, editor of NICA Notes. The two zero in on and detail yet another case study of US foreign policy seeking to override the democratic will and best interests of another majority population’s interest, in this case, Nicaragua. They discuss why Nicaragua was identified and called out by the US White House as one (along with Cuba and Venezuela), of the ‘troika...

Host Pedro Gatos is joined by Nan McCurdy, editor of NICA Notes. The two zero in on and detail yet another case study of US foreign policy seeking to override the democratic will and best interests of another majority population’s interest, in this case, Nicaragua. They discuss why Nicaragua was identified and called out by the US White House as one (along with Cuba and Venezuela), of the ‘troika...

Host Pedro Gatos is joined by Dr. H Bruce Franklin, an American cultural historian, scholar, and author of 19 books. The two discuss the provocative article, "Which Side Are You On?" by Bruce Franklin, recently published in Counterpunch on 8/21/20. Dr Franklin provides a compelling historical context that describes how the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were undermined by the post- Reconstruction...

Host Pedro Gatos is joined by Dr. H Bruce Franklin, an American cultural historian, scholar, and author of 19 books. The two discuss the provocative article, "Which Side Are You On?" by Bruce Franklin, recently published in Counterpunch on 8/21/20. Dr Franklin provides a compelling historical context that describes how the 13th, 14th,  and 15th  Amendments were undermined by the post- Reconstructi...

Host Pedro Gatos is joined by Alan McLeod, Staff Writer for Mint Print News. The two focus on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and the disturbing reality of the US & UK complicity in creating a crisis in a country of 30 million people, in which nearly a quarter of a million people have been killed directly by fighting and indirectly through lack of access to food, health services, and infrastructu...