Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews John Whitehead, an attorney and
Talk World Radio: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children
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How Donald Trump Has Lowered the Wages of American Workers
On June 6, 2025, Donald Trump’s White House staff issued an upbeat statement proclaiming that what it called the “Trump Effect” was creating “higher pay for American workers.” The reality, though, is that Trump, during his second term in office, has deliberately reduced the wages of millions of workers and, despite substantial inflation, frozen the wages of millions more.
In March 2025, kicking off his assault on workers’ wages, Trump
Quiz: Are You a Foreign Policy and History Genius?
Grab paper and pencil. Write down the numbers 1 through 10 and get ready to mark down next to them either “True” or “False.” Think I can trick you? Ten items follow. Which are true and which false? See the answers at the end.
1. The grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, the guy who ruled over North Korea from 1945 to 1994, was more of a Presbyterian than a Communist. Kim Il Sung was raised in a Christian community created by U.S. missionaries, was a Sunday School teacher and church organist, and leader of a Christian youth group. Kim Il Sung did not turn against Christianity so much as choose to himself play the role of Jesus in the story. He changed his name to take the name of a mythical
Talk World Radio: The View From Iran
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Talk World Radio: Ben on Ben & Jerry’s and How We Can Save It
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Talk World Radio: Israel’s War Machine in the Virginia State Government
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It’s Possible to Salvage Canadian-American Friendship–and Much More
Canada and the United States have frequently maintained that they have a special relationship, characterized by the world’s longest undefended international border, peaceful interaction, common values, and a close defense partnership through NATO.
Nevertheless, the two nations are currently locked in an increasingly destructive battle.
In late 2024, shortly after his re-election as U.S. President, Donald Trump started provoking Canadians
Talk World Radio: Israel Is Using Drones to Shoot Children in the Head
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Silence = Death
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 26, 2026
When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough would be done to stop it.
I bring this up because Trump wants Congress to put 77.66% of federal discretionary spending into wars, and the vast majority, if not every single member, of Congress has