Speaking Truth to Empire

On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Camille Russell (substituting for Dan Yaseen) interviews Alison Weir, she is an

author, researcher and columnist. She is the founder and executive director of “If Americans Knew,” a nonprofit organization dedicated to educate and inform Americans on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is misreported or under-reported in the American media. She is the author of Against Our Better Judgment: read more

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Another Major War in 2024?

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Honestly, as 2021 ended, if I had predicted a Russian invasion of and unrelenting globalized war in Ukraine in 2022 and, in 2023, an explosion in the Middle East, beginning with a horrific Hamas incursion into Israel followed by the utter devastation of Gaza (while the Greater Middle East read more

Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, This Holiday Season, We’re Lonely

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Today, TomDispatch regular Mattea Kramer and Doctor Sean Fogler offer a vivid, moving, and deeply personal look at addiction in America as 2023 ends. They focus above all on perhaps the most dangerous, even devastating, addiction around. I’m thinking, of course, read more

Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Peace When?

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It’s now more than two months since Hamas savagely assaulted Israeli border settlements and this round of the war in Gaza began. As a matter of habit, I watch NBC Nightly News and the PBS NewsHour and, in those eight weeks, I don’t think there was a single night when both of those broadcasts didn’t start with the latest news from Israel and Gaza. Other read more