The F Word with Laura Flanders

"I was thinking about impeachment when a bird fell out of the sky. ......Dazed, on the sidewalk, she stood perfectly still, protected by gentle cops and generous yards of yellow caution tape... It happened to be the same week, five years ago, that Tanisha Anderson died on the street in front of her home, when she was having one of her bad days." The F-Word, Laura Flanders' bi-weekly commentary. Go...

"In a system that's unequal, corruption is not just the way we swim, it’s the water we swim in..." The F-Word, Laura Flanders' bi-monthly commentary. Help us thrive and not just survive, by becoming a member you'll unlock additional audio extras and more. https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

"Almost fifty thousand workers went on strike at General Motors Sept 16th, 2019, after management and United Auto Workers Union negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. GM has bounced back from recession thanks to a taxpayer bailout, government tax breaks and contracts and a brutal restructuring of the workforce. Now even though the company’s made $35 billion in the last few years - they wan...

"I don’t know about you but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the sound of shattering." Laura Flanders' bi-weekly commentary, The F-Word. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribers receive the weekly show, plus audio extras like Laura's commentary The F-Word. Help us thrive and not just surv...

One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New York, I'm pondering what’s happened since. What’s taken so long? You can see a mash up picture of Laura Flanders at Woodstock, and a picture of that Janis Joplin lunch box – and take a listen to this week's podcast re-share of a popular interview with mu...

This week's commentary comes by way of Jerome Roos, an LSE Fellow in international political economy at the London School of Economics and founding editor of ROAR Magazine. He paints a grim picture of a global finance system that's taken a gamble having sought to solve the problem of too much debt with even more debt. And this precarious pile-up of gambling chips might also point to another, less...

"Are rights things to be granted by the powerful to the deserving few, contingent on their obedience, someone’s convenience, and adherence to the prevailing rules and conventions? Or...." Help us thrive and not just survive, by becoming a member https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

No matter the result of the elections, Barcelona's Ada Colau and Barcelona en Comú continue to put principles into practice. Subscribe to theLFShow Podcast to receive Laura Flanders' commentary. Support theLFShow! Help us thrive and not just survive, by becoming a member. https://Patreon.com/theLFShow soundcloud include the entire URL https://Patreon.com/theLFShow

Today on the F-word we have a report from Spain. 80 years ago this April Spain fell under a brutal 30 year dictatorship after right beat left in a brutal civil war, General Franco's rebels backed by Mussolini and Hitler and the religious extremists of his days defeated the republic and its' cobbled together army of anarchists, communists, and internationalists. Today, Spain holds the largest Socia...

"The Attorney General’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and his standoff with the House may be important. Something, sometime, may come of it. But let’s consider the opportunity cost of all that one-note coverage." Support the LFShow! https://patreon.com/theLFShow Subscribe to the podcast, https://LauraFlanders.org/podcast

"white nationalists have been targeting bookstores and libraries across the country for a while"....."It’s not the hate that’s new. It’s the apparent sense of entitlement. ....they’re out in plain sight, and not just in the media’s backwaters but in the nation’s capital...." The F-Word, Laura Flanders' commentary. Support the LFShow! become a member during our May Day to Memorial Day membership dr...

"These days, establishment journalists spend inordinate amounts of time, bemoaning their own welfare and the state of their beleaguered industry. but it’s rarely been journalism fed and watered by the establishment that’s asked anything uncomfortable and McKee called for us to have uncomfortable conversations." The F-Word, Laura Flanders' commentary. Support the LFShow! You'll receive a copy of La...

Oh no! What will the money media report on now that Russia-gate has proven to be a dud? Not to worry, there’s plenty of collusion in plain sight, and it wouldn’t take a twenty-two month inquiry to find Trump conspiring with enemies of US democracy. Let’s start with Trump’s relationship with killer corporations and hate groups. The F-Word, Laura Flanders' commentary. Support the LFShow! https://www...

The State of Washington has declared a public health emergency due to spreading outbreaks of Measles. The World Health Organization credits "Vaccine Hesitancy" as a cause of the resurgence. And Trump tops it off by tweeting his doubts about vaccines and what he's called doctor inflicted diseases—it looks like more than just the measles are contagious! Help us not just survive, but thrive by becomi...

The same miserable mob that mauled main street banks has plundered and pillaged newspapers across the country. Pursuing only profits, private hedge funds bought and stripped even long-lived legacy papers leaving them for dead. One in five local papers has shut up shop in the last 10 years, according to a recent report from the Knight Foundation. Check out Laura Flanders report for the Next System,...

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Like a macho man in the pre-feminist era, Amazon wanted things their way or no way. That’s how monopolies roll. Don’t ask questions, don’t consider options, and whatever you do, don’t conduct a background check. Becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content! www. LauraFlanders.org/subscribe

Hour after hour of hands hammering on windows at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn was chilling, until the President’s State of the Union Speech. Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content! http://www. LauraFlanders.org/donate

"By many accounts Macron's paying the price not so much for taxing carbon as for ignoring inequality and passing tax breaks for the rich, while pushing more austerity on people already at breaking point." Laura Flanders, weekly commentary. Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content! http://www. LauraFlanders.org/Donate

HUD NY official Lynne Patton is planning on moving into NYCHA projects, but why not move big money OUT of housing instead? Make a year end donation. Support 10 years of the Laura Flanders Show. http://www. LauraFlanders.org/donate

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Building a new economy for and by Native Americans requires election level attention beyond election week.  That new book out from the Democracy Collective, "An Indigenous Approach to Community Wealth Building: A Lakota Translation". https://democracycollaborative.org/community-wealth-building-a-lakota-translation Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our indep...

"The particular patriarchs whom white women have put in office this November are on the record, anti-female. " Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content! http://www. LauraFlanders.org/Listen

Someone scrawled KILL N@%gers on the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York this week, not thirty five feet from the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the FBI. Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content! http://www. LauraFlanders.org

Is Donald Trump responsible for unhinged violence against innocent people? Absolutely. You only have to look at Yemen to see that. Our goal is to thrive, not just survive. By becoming a member, you sustain our independent, and grassroots-driven content!