GUEST: Al Glatkowski (part 2), radical war resister and political prisoner for ten years
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Frederick Nagel
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Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:
GUEST: Al Glatkowski (part 2), radical war resister and political prisoner for ten years, talks about his role in hijacking a munitions ship loaded with napalm and bound for US troops in Vietnam.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/columbia-eagle-mutiny/
We have WVKR to thank for Democracy Now each morning. In addition, the station has allowed me to interview progressives on many issues including Palestine. This week Activist Radio interviews Al Glatkowski who commandeered a US Navy ship carrying napalm to Vietnam and sailed it to Cambodia. It is a miraculous story of resistance; what other station would let Activist Radio do that interview?
Our yearly WVKR pledge drive is happening this week. Give the station a call this coming Thursday from 5 - 6 pm to make a pledge for Democracy Now and Activist Radio. Any amount would be fine.
(845) 437-7178
Thanks for supporting independent radio!
Fred Nagel
https://classwars.org
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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.
The Guardian UK:
"Politicians in at least 51 countries used homophobic or transphobic rhetoric during elections last year, from depicting LGBTQ+ identity as a foreign threat to condemning 'gender ideology', according to a new study of 60 countries and the EU. ...
As the visibility of LGBTQ+ people has risen in many countries in the last decade, so too has a backlash from conservative parts of societies, fuelled in many cases by far-right activists and politicians using gay and transgender people as scapegoats for other problems.
There is a growing 'weaponisation of hate', said Alberto de Belaúnde, a director at Outright International, an NGO that promotes LGBTQ+ rights globally. He said: 'You talk with a politician from Peru … or Hungary or the UK, you start to see common trends and you realise that it’s a global, coordinated and increasingly well-funded effort to diminish LGBTIQ people.' "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/politicians-in-at-least-51-countries-used-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-elections-ngo-finds
-->This story isn't to be found in the NYT. Yet so many people have been put in danger by this homophobic trend in our elections. Why isn't that "fit to print"?
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The Guardian UK:
"A growing number of universities, academic institutions and scholarly bodies around the world are cutting links with Israeli academia amid claims that it is complicit in the Israeli government’s actions towards Palestinians. ...
According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 63,000 people have been killed in the territory – the majority of them civilians – with the true toll likely far higher. UN-backed experts have confirmed parts of Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble, are now in a 'man-made' famine.
In response, a growing number of academic bodies are now distancing themselves from Israeli institutions. Last year the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil cancelled an innovation summit with an Israeli university, while a host of universities across Norway, Belgium and Spain have cut ties with Israeli institutions. Others, including Trinity College Dublin, followed suit this summer."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/13/universities-around-the-world-cut-ties-with-israeli-academia-over-gaza-war
-->The NYT didn't cover this story that shows how unpopular Israel's war crimes are in the rest of the world. Our newspaper of record had stories about BDS, but not on this recent proliferation of academic criticism.
=====
Common Dreams:
"The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets are facing widespread criticism after publishing a false report that the assassin who shot right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah this week had left behind symbols of 'transgender ideology' at the scene of the crime.
On Thursday, with the assassin still at large, the Journal published a news update stating that 'investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.' The report did not identify what these markings were nor the source of the report, instead attributing it to 'an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.'
The New York Times reported hours later that the bulletin came from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), but noted that 'a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that the report had not been verified by ATF analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/charlie-kirk-2673989947
-->The NYT wasn't as bad printing stories about this assassination as other national media. But our newspaper of record never criticized these false stories either.
GUEST: Al Glatkowski (part 2), radical war resister and political prisoner for ten years, talks about his role in hijacking a munitions ship loaded with napalm and bound for US troops in Vietnam.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/columbia-eagle-mutiny/
We have WVKR to thank for Democracy Now each morning. In addition, the station has allowed me to interview progressives on many issues including Palestine. This week Activist Radio interviews Al Glatkowski who commandeered a US Navy ship carrying napalm to Vietnam and sailed it to Cambodia. It is a miraculous story of resistance; what other station would let Activist Radio do that interview?
Our yearly WVKR pledge drive is happening this week. Give the station a call this coming Thursday from 5 - 6 pm to make a pledge for Democracy Now and Activist Radio. Any amount would be fine.
(845) 437-7178
Thanks for supporting independent radio!
Fred Nagel
https://classwars.org
=====
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.
The Guardian UK:
"Politicians in at least 51 countries used homophobic or transphobic rhetoric during elections last year, from depicting LGBTQ+ identity as a foreign threat to condemning 'gender ideology', according to a new study of 60 countries and the EU. ...
As the visibility of LGBTQ+ people has risen in many countries in the last decade, so too has a backlash from conservative parts of societies, fuelled in many cases by far-right activists and politicians using gay and transgender people as scapegoats for other problems.
There is a growing 'weaponisation of hate', said Alberto de Belaúnde, a director at Outright International, an NGO that promotes LGBTQ+ rights globally. He said: 'You talk with a politician from Peru … or Hungary or the UK, you start to see common trends and you realise that it’s a global, coordinated and increasingly well-funded effort to diminish LGBTIQ people.' "
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/politicians-in-at-least-51-countries-used-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-elections-ngo-finds
-->This story isn't to be found in the NYT. Yet so many people have been put in danger by this homophobic trend in our elections. Why isn't that "fit to print"?
=====
The Guardian UK:
"A growing number of universities, academic institutions and scholarly bodies around the world are cutting links with Israeli academia amid claims that it is complicit in the Israeli government’s actions towards Palestinians. ...
According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 63,000 people have been killed in the territory – the majority of them civilians – with the true toll likely far higher. UN-backed experts have confirmed parts of Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble, are now in a 'man-made' famine.
In response, a growing number of academic bodies are now distancing themselves from Israeli institutions. Last year the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil cancelled an innovation summit with an Israeli university, while a host of universities across Norway, Belgium and Spain have cut ties with Israeli institutions. Others, including Trinity College Dublin, followed suit this summer."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/13/universities-around-the-world-cut-ties-with-israeli-academia-over-gaza-war
-->The NYT didn't cover this story that shows how unpopular Israel's war crimes are in the rest of the world. Our newspaper of record had stories about BDS, but not on this recent proliferation of academic criticism.
=====
Common Dreams:
"The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets are facing widespread criticism after publishing a false report that the assassin who shot right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah this week had left behind symbols of 'transgender ideology' at the scene of the crime.
On Thursday, with the assassin still at large, the Journal published a news update stating that 'investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.' The report did not identify what these markings were nor the source of the report, instead attributing it to 'an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.'
The New York Times reported hours later that the bulletin came from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), but noted that 'a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that the report had not been verified by ATF analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted.' ”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/charlie-kirk-2673989947
-->The NYT wasn't as bad printing stories about this assassination as other national media. But our newspaper of record never criticized these false stories either.
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