GUEST: Michael Ansara, author, former 1960s activist

[Frederick Nagel]

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Michael Ansara, author, former 1960s activist, and leader of the SDS in Boston, talks about his latest book, "The Hard Work of Hope."
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501782145/the-hard-work-of-hope/

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Thanks,

Fred
Activist Radio

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Activist Radio's Fantasyland Media:
https://fantasylandmedia.org

Each week, we cover the stories that are just left out of the US propaganda machine. News that the people in charge, the corporations and your government want to keep from the public eye.

Aljazeera:
"In the first three months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in 2023, only four deaths were officially attributed to starvation by health officials in Gaza. By 2024, that number rose to 49. But it was in 2025 – the year the siege reached its suffocating zenith – that the death toll exploded, reaching 422 deaths in a single year.
This represents a staggering 760 percent increase in starvation deaths in just 12 months.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri told Al Jazeera in August 2025 that the global standard for famine analysis, known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), tends to be “conservative”.

'The reality on the ground was unequivocal. We raised the alarm when we started seeing the first children dying,' Fakhri explained, noting that the crisis met the strict technical criteria for famine."
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/5/starvation-by-design-how-israel-turned-food-into-a-weapon-of-war-in-ga

-->It is hard for our mainstream media to report starvation as a war crime. Recently, there has been even less coverage. You just won't find it recently in the NYT.

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Mazin Qumsiyeh ... A bedouin in cyberspace
"We are ruled by the worst people on the planet. The Epstein files have
revealed just how morally depraved, intellectually mediocre, stunningly
arrogant, extremely entitled, deeply racist and sexist, thoroughly Zionist,
and fundamentally corrupt the richest and most powerful people in the US
and the broader West are.

Is it any wonder that they so ruthlessly pillage the planet, impose austerity on the masses while they siphon off all wealth into their own pockets, create wars and aggression everywhere, orchestrate colonialism, and perpetrate genocide without the slightest constraint of conscience, guilt, shame, or pity? And still we vote for them, buy their products, consume their media, and use their services. We are the engine of
our own oppression. The Israeli regime may have created Epstein, but we gave him his operating license. It’s time to take it back"
https://www.palestinenature.org/

-->Mazin is part of the Palestinian resistance to the occupation. Reading about his work gives one a different picture than our mainstream media.

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Common Dreams:
"Less than a week after NPR revealed that 'the Trump administration has overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it is charged with regulating, without making the new rules available to the public,' the US Department of Energy announced Monday that it is allowing firms building experimental nuclear reactors to seek exemptions from legally required environmental reviews.

Citing executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in May, a notice published in the Federal Register states that the DOE 'is establishing a categorical exclusion for authorization, siting, construction, operation, reauthorization, and decommissioning of advanced nuclear reactors for inclusion in its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing procedures.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/nuclear-power-trump

-->The NYT has done articles in the past about exemptions for nuclear reactors. But a don't see the story covered in 2026. The NYT has always had a warm spot in its heart for nuclear power plants. It didn't report this story.