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Brook Hines reviews the week: Tara Reade sues Sally Albright and Bravenak. The Gulf of Mexico and Caspian Sea are both on fire. LAPD bombs neighborhood. Assange case falls completely apart...and much more.  Also "intellectual capture" is the new regulatory capture: Matt Taibbi's latest on freedom of speech is a perfect July 4 read.  Jeanine Molloff on Exxon lobbyist CAUGHT on camera...

Poets of the East Season 2 - Episode 4 - Bulgarians-PLUS! This weeks featured poets are Ivan Hristov (Musician and Performer), Claus Ankersen (Poet Storyteller Multimedia Artist) Georgi Gavrilov (Physicist-Poet) Join us as Co-Host and Associate Producer Mircea Dan Duta and Rick Spisak Co-Host/ Executive Producer speak with these fine Eastern European poets. Each one has a splendid international re...

This week, (days before Independence Day), over 500 groups converged in D.C. to demand that the president stop the historic taxpayer subsidies of the fossil fuel industry. Many of us didn't even realize until very recently that our tax dollars have been subsidizing the very industry that is destroying the planet--namely--fossil fuels.  Today's episode with discuss the long history of this...

Brook Hines on Mike Gravel, RIP Esha Krisnaswarmy joins to help us understand who's behind Florida's new curriculum law.  Jeanine Molloff on The Great Bipartisan Infrastructure RIPOFF. CITATIONS Historic_ly Soundcloud Historic_ly YouTube Historic_ly Substack Historic_ly Twitter    

Poets of the East Season2 Episode 3 - Featuring Pal Saljuta, Marissa Prada, and Eddy Forman CoHosted by Mircea Dan Duta and Producer Rick Spisak Pal from India and Marissa and Eddy are from the US - each brings a very unique perspective and a special poetic voice TUNE In Saturday June 26th or Anytime after  Rick Spisak Poets of the East  

The alleged 'bipartisan' infrastructure bill being pushed by faux democrats Joe Manchin and his apprentice--Krysten Sinema--in conjunction with alleged GOP 'moderates' is nothing but a privatization scheme that also keeps billionaire tax cuts intact. Public services which would be partially or completely privatized through the tired 'public-private partnerships' con--includ...

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POETS of the East, Season2 Episode 2 Our featured guests: Kevin Kiely Irish Poet and Story Teller, Anna-Maria-Stepien poet and translator, Ante Stehn Poet founder of the International RuckSack Poetry Project and Andrew Singer founder of Trafica Europe Radio - Literary Radio. Co-Hosted by Mircea Dan Duta and Producer Rick Spisak The Show will be live Saturday 2pm Eastern Time / 7pm London / 9pm Buc...

Last week's G7 talks were an abysmal failure, but we shouldn't be shocked by that obvious conclusion. The G7 talks were always meant to serve the casino capitalists, while allowing the planet to burn. The Guardian reported that while the G7 ..."reaffirmed goals.." they ..."failed to provide funds needed to reach them," according to multiple experts in a piece published...

Brook Hines with Sam Husseini, reporter/activist talks to PNN on biological warfare programs and how the left failed us with a sectarian approach to facts and science vis-a-vis the pandemic. Jeanine Molloff on a new "minority report" situation in Florida schools (Pasco County Sheriff's program that harasses students). CITATIONS Perspectives on the Pandemic video series, excellent Sam...

POETS of the EAST - Season Two Episode One We start up our Second Season with TWO AMAZING POETS Lesley Constable and Noah Levin. Lesley is an amazing poet with years of experience as a writer, journalist, art critic, painter and poet. Noah is an amazing New York poets with a power voice and street cred that comes from the street to the heights. Both of these poets are remarkable voices - TUNE IN ...

The net-zero scam is not the solution environmental warriors have been hoping for. 

Brook Hines and @JustinInBmore discuss insidious Twitter initiative to blacklist and censor the left. Also, unity for me but not for thee. And what's the deal with AOC's Courage To Change PAC?  Jeanine Molloff on freedom of speech and January 6 insurrection.  CITATION: @JustinInBmore Medium article: AOC's PAC donates to RW incumbents

The filibuster is unconstitutional. Always was--and always will be. Now, I'm not talking about the Jimmy Stewart, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" brand, but rather the SILENT FILIBUSTER which grants the GOP slim minority an unconstitutional veto--and thus denies ALL OF US equal representation in Congress. Now, what does this have to do with ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE? EVERYTHING. There can...

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This week is all about WATER, WATER, WATER. Erin Brockovich exposed unsafe water in parts of Louisiana which rivals the crisis in Flint, Michigan. Towns such as Sulphur and Shreveport, (both in Louisiana), have orange water flowing through their taps. Other towns in Illinois report that the water smells like raw sewage. Many small cities are anticipating help from the America Rescue Plan proposed...

Brook Hines — pandemic gets personal. Forcing low-wage and unsafe work by cutting off unemployment benefit is cruel and stupid (i.e. totally unsurprising for Republican Governors). SARS-CoV-2 origin: US funded gain of function research in Wuhan. Everything we thought we knew about the virus might actually be wrong. Jeanine Molloff: The Justice Report on Vote Suppression, Constituional Crises, and...

This episode will speak to the way public relation firms subvert the true debate on climate change, and the corporate polluters who contributed most heavily to this looming global disaster. By deflecting the facts, public relation firms essentially 'reverse the blame' regarding global climate devastation. A new, peer reviewed study, published in the journal, One Earth, by Harvard research...

Greenpeace just released a report this week aptly titled : Dollars vs. Democracy: Companies and the Attack on Voting Rights and Peaceful Protest. This report details how large corporations are bankrolling the majority of anti-democracy bills being pushed in state legislatures all over the country. These bills all have a few things in common, they not only suppress the voting power of minorities, b...

Poets of the East - We occaisionally focus on just one poet in a special episode, called Poet Showcase: This Episode features the Poet Corina Oproae - an amazing poet of Romanian heritage who has lived in Barcelona for many years." Corina Oproae has been feted from South America across Europe and featured in Asia as well. Tune into Our Poetry Showcase which features the Poetry of Corina Oproa...

POETS OF THE EAST - EPISODE 20 - We bring the remarkable Corina Oproae and the talented David Leo Sirois and Dan Bonsanti of Orchestra 14 The Serene the Sublime and the Synchopated Mircea Dan Duta Associate Producer and CoHost and Rick Spisak Producer and Co-Host welcome three talented poets to our microphones. Corina Oproae a Romainian Poet and translator who's work has been celebrated across...

This week on EJR, I will discuss how the EPA was de-fanged in 1995 by a GOP dominated Congress, when they allowed the "polluters pay" rule to expire. Most Americans still assume that the EPA can demand that those responsible for these environmental crimes--pay. That is not the case.  SInce the GOP allowed the "polluters pay" rule to expire, the taxpayer has been saddled with th...

Brook Hines with @mugrimm on his FDRvsBiden 100 days project <-- FDRvBiden timeline on Twitter. Also, "How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously," in The New Yorker (really!) Jeanine Molloff with UN Rapporteur Marjorie Cohn on the new UN report on policing in the US. "Commission finds anti-Black police violence constitutes crimes against humanity," Truthout, by Marjorie...

Poets of the East - Episode 19 Doctor Poets  Cristina Draghici, Miruna Romanciuc and Amalia Cwermac Each we bring you talented poets of the east. This week Co-Host and Associate Producer Mircea Dan Duta has arranged to bring us voices of these fine young Poets. Each poet-doctor has committed their lives to the science of healing and as you listen to their inspired voices they will enrich our lives...

Noted legal scholar and civil rights advocate Marjorie Cohn is here today to discuss the newly released international report on systemic racist police violence in the United States. Marjorie served as a Rapporteur for the Commission.  The report was created by the UN in respnse to requests made byy families of those unjustly slain by police. The report is the final product of weeks of live hearing...