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Original Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 27, 2026Unitary Executive Theory The US Supreme Court just ended a momentous term further entrenching the reactionary Republican agenda. Our sometimes consideration of relevant court cases and other legal developments, today includes a review of the conservative legal doctrine known as the Unitary Executive Theory, now favored by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and the conservative doctrine of Originalism. Well also look at a new opinion poll of Americans showing that at least half of Americans disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is doing. Guest - Stephen Rohde is...
2026-07-2757 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 20, 2026PEN America Writer’s Organization President Resigns Amid ControversyLast week, on July 9, a long-simmering controversy burst into the headlines pitting allies of robust freedom of expression against each other over how writers, publishers and literary agents should respond to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The dispute came down to a fundamental question: Should a boycott be imposed on Israeli writers? The dispute was so divisive that Professor Dinaw Mengestu resigned as president of the free expression group PEN America.Guest – Prof Mengestu the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities and Direct...
2026-07-2057 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 13, 2026[display_podcast] Billionaires and TrillionairesWhen Donald Trump came back to resume the office of presidency a year and a half ago the kind of government we were living under was unclear. It was a government where billionaires dominated our mass media, corporations, universities, courts, and government. Was this oligarchy authoritarianism or was it fascism American style? Last month, the media treated us to the spectacle of Elon Musk becoming the world‘s first trillionaire. One trillion is 1000 billion dollars. One billion is 1000 million dollars. The amount of money $1 trillion represents is difficult to...
2026-07-1349 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 6, 2026 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions July 2026Last week, the US Supreme Court ended its 2025-2026 Term with a barrage of long-awaiting blockbuster decisions altering the entire structure of the American government and seriously undermining the crucial separation of powers between Congress, the President, and the courts. The Supreme Court, which is dominated by a conservative super-majority of Republican justices - including 3 justices appointed by Donald Trump - confronted such important issues as Birthright citizenship; whether the President can fire the heads of independent agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal...
2026-07-0753 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 29, 2026U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Resetting Precedent There have been several major U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts.These decisions include abortion rights cases, anti-immigrant cases, cases enhancing administrative or executive power and, of course, voting rights cases. Well also learn about the role of the shadow docket. This is known as the emergency docket with a range of uses such as for routine procedural matters and last-minute requests. The cases we examine impact the fabric of democracy in the United States. We'll talk about broader implications...
2026-06-2957 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 22, 2026Communities Nationwide Unite Against Data Center Resource GrabAcross the nation, communities are becoming ground zero in a growing fight over data centers. The explosive growth of AI, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency has triggered a massive boom in their construction. These sprawling facilities often cover hundreds of acres and consume enormous amounts of electricity and water. Residents from Virginia to Pennsylvania, Georgia to Arizona, are asking a simple question: who benefits, and who pays the price?The answer has sparked one of the fastest-growing grassroots movements in the nation. In the past year, local campaigns...
2026-06-2257 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 15, 2026The Future of Cuba When the Cuban revolution succeeded on January 1, 1959, it drove the American supported Batista dictator out of their country. One of the first things that the revolution government did was to create a law " which is very popular because a lot of people would have fought on the side of the revolution and benefited directly from it " to initiate a comprehensive land reform. Previously, large tracks of land had been owned by American corporations. The average peasant worked part-time, seasonally, was not literate, and lived from hand to...
2026-06-1557 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 8, 2026 Cities Cancel Flock Camera Agreements After Brazen Privacy BreachesIn 2025, something shifted in the long, largely one-sided battle over surveillance technology in American cities. The Atlanta-based company Flock Safety sells AI-powered license plate readers, or ALPRs, to thousands of police departments. Last year, they started losing. At least two dozen cities and counties cancelled, rejected, or terminated Flock contracts after local communities organized and said no.In Austin, more than 30 community groups formed a coalition that forced the city to cancel its contract. The city government of Cambridge, Massachusetts, terminated its...
2026-06-0857 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 1, 2026The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israels Genocide in Gaza For more than two years, the world has witnessed not only a devastating war in Gaza, but also a fierce battle over how that war has been covered in the media. Weve seen headlines repeated before facts were verified. Weve seen civilian deaths described in passive language that obscures responsibility. Weve watched journalists, students, doctors, and even U.N. officials dismissed or marginalized when their accounts challenged official narratives " sometimes costing their lives. All the while, independent reporting and social...
2026-06-0158 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 25, 2026 Guilty of GenocideFor decades, activists in the United States have argued that racial violence, political repression, and systemic inequality are not simply domestic issues. They’re also violations of international human rights law. A new collection, Guilty of Genocide, revisits that argument through the lens of the 2021 International Tribunal on U.S. Human Rights Abuses Against Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples. The book gathers testimony, legal analysis, poetry, artwork, and organizing documents from a landmark people’s tribunal convened by the Spirit of Mandela Coalition.After hearing testimony on policing, inca...
2026-05-2558 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 18, 2026War And Debt Economy We are experiencing a great transformation in who holds economic, and therefore political power in America. This transformation is going on for the last 50 some years. There are now approximately 1000 billionaires in America. Our constitutional form of government, the government of checks and balances has been transformed. The three branches of government, the legislative, the judicial, and the executive were designed to hold each other in check and that is no longer the case. Executive power reigns supreme. Trump is not the disease, he's a symptom of...
2026-05-1854 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 11, 2026Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town Investigative reporter Michael Edison Hayden has spent years on the front lines documenting extremism in America. In his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town, Hayden tells the story of a quiet West Virginia town thrust into turmoil when a white nationalist organization moves its headquarters to a nearby 19th century castle. At the center of the story are the neighbors who suddenly find their community reshaped by a VDARE, a group...
2026-05-1150 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 4, 2026 Donald Trump vs HistoryThe article is titled, Donald Trump vs History: The Trump School of Falsification and it is not about Trump’s personal difficulties with telling the truth. The first paragraph of the article reads: “The rise to power of Donald Trump and his minions has sanctified and energized a campaign to revive the kind of triumphalist, exceptionalist version of U.S. history that reigned over both academic and public culture from the late 1940s through the early 1960s."The article goes on to say that “To drive that campai...
2026-05-0457 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 27, 2026 Gaza Genocide Relief Effort LaunchThe war in Iran and Lebanon has pushed the war in Gaza off the front pages of our newspapers and from the screens of our televisions. But that war is still very real to the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Despite the so-called “cease-fire,” Palestinians continued to be killed by Israeli forces. They continue to starve for lack of food and water. They continue to die for want of medical care. They continue to lack sufficient schools for their children to attend, or houses in whic...
2026-04-2758 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 20, 2026Welcome to our annual special on the Armenian Genocide. This year, U.S.-Armenian relations made headlines in a revealing way. In February 2026, Vice President JD Vance became the first sitting U.S. vice president to visit Armenia. His office posted—then swiftly deleted—a message saying he was at the Armenian Genocide Memorial to "honor the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide." The White House called it a staff error. A replacement post went up with all mention of the word "genocide" stripped out. When pressed, Vance called the massacre "a very terrible thing that happened a little over 100 year...
2026-04-2058 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 13, 2026With God On Our Side: One Mans War Against an Evangelical Coup in Americas MilitaryPete Hegseth, the defense secretary and an Evangelical Christian, has explicitly framed the Iran war through the lens of his religious faith, weaving scripture into his remarks, praying for "overwhelming violence" against his enemies and insisting that God stands with the U.S. against Iran, a Muslim-majority nation of some 90 million people.The ex-Fox News host has long worn his faith on his sleeve " and on his flesh. He has a large Jerusalem cross tattooed on his chest...
2026-04-1358 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 6, 2026U.S. Aids Israel's Brutal Geopolitical Positioning We are living in a time of great peril to humanity. Two nuclear-armed countries, the United States of America and Israel, commenced a war of aggression against Iran, on February 28th. This war threatens to spread uncontrollably. It has already quickly become a regional war. A full world war could be triggered, creating the danger that the United States or Israel might use their atomic weapons. The radioactive fallout would bring about a nuclear winter.The current war of illegal aggression reminds us that on September 1, 1939, H...
2026-04-0654 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 30, 2026Prairieland Immigration Detention Center Protest Case Update In a case weve been closely following, a federal jury in Texas has delivered a verdict in what may become one of the most consequential protest-related decisions in recent memory. Nine activists connected to a 2025 demonstration outside the Prairieland immigration detention center were convicted on charges ranging from rioting to providing material support for terrorism. At the center of the governments case was the claim: antifa is a coordinated, violent enterprise"one rising to the level of domestic terrorism. Prosecutors leaned on expert testimony and political declarations to...
2026-03-3057 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 23, 2026 The Long War Against Iran: New Events, Old QuestionsThe war the United States and Israel started against Iran has been going on now since the last day of February. It will end Trump says “when I feel it in my bones.” For the US’s part, President Trump wants a regime change and a weak client state. He had hoped that assassinating Ayatollah Khomenei the Supreme Leader, as well as many others in the top tiers of the Iranian government would accomplish this. It did not.The Iranian people are protecting their soverei...
2026-03-2358 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 16, 2026 Stop and Frisk Policing Considered Despite Federal Court Ruling It UnconstitutionalIn the years after the September 11 attacks, New York City became the epicenter of one of the most controversial policing practices in modern U.S. history: stop-and-frisk. Under the policy, police stopped millions of people on the street, questioning and searching them without warrants. The overwhelming majority of those stopped were Black and Latino New Yorkers, and most were never charged with any crime.After years of litigation and community organizing, a federal court in 2013 ruled that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program wa...
2026-03-1654 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 9, 2026State of the Union Economically: Professor Richard Wolff President Donald Trump did not deliver the traditional State Of The Union address to the American people and Congress last week. Instead, for nearly two hours, he hosted what amounted to a MAGA campaign rally. Trumps approval rating is under 40% and sinking. The two uppermost concerns of the American people are their increasing economic difficulties and their opposition to ICE and its reign of terror in major American cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He put both forward as huge successes. Trump...
2026-03-0958 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 2, 2026 Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital SurveillanceCivil liberties attorney Cindy Cohn is widely recognized as one of the leading voices on digital freedom in the United States. As she prepares to step down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, she leaves behind a 25-year legacy at the forefront of the fight for online rights. Over the years, she has helped shape some of the most important debates around encryption, government surveillance, and freedom on the internet.Cohn first rose to national prominence in the 1990s a...
2026-03-0256 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 23, 2026Chris Hedges: Assessing The Political Landscape In 2026What we are going to do in this segment of today’s Law and Disorder is learn the thinking of our guest on the following questions. Is there a meaningful ceasefire in Gaza? When will the Palestinians have their own sovereign nation? Is it reasonable to still designate America as a democracy? Is President Trump an authoritarian and would-be dictator? Is it quite possible that the 2026 mid-term elections will be cancelled or so demeaned as to be totally unrepresentative of the true will of the American people?Guest...
2026-02-2357 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 16, 2026British Movement Lawyer Exposes Being Targeted By Senior Politicians and Cointel Police When repressive governments around the world attack their own people and liberal democracies fight back, some of the first responders are movement lawyers. Unlike cowardly law firms that capitulate in advance, as we have seen here in the United States, movement lawyers work hand-in-hand with activists not merely challenging what the government is doing but putting the government itself on trial. The roots of movement lawyering in the United States can be traced back to the civil rights movements...
2026-02-1657 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 9, 2026New York City Council Member Organizes Against ICE RaidsWe are at a turning point in the history of the United States. If the people in the city of Minneapolis, can defeat ICE, they will have demonstrated they can win anywhere. This is a strong momentum in rolling back fascism here in the USA. ICE, above all, is criticized as being a terrorist outfit with a purpose to terrorize the population. Yet in contrast, ICE claims to be looking to capture and deport illegal immigrant criminals. It has a massive budget of $179 billion for the next three y...
2026-02-0957 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 2, 2026250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence Signing 2026 is the 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States of America. Festivities and events are being organized all over the country all year long. Here at Law and Disorder, we intend to invite guests throughout 2026 who can help us explore the Founding of our country in a way that is truthful, authentic, and comprehensive. But like so much else in these dangerous times, President Donald Trump is ruining this rare opportunity to celebrate the...
2026-02-0253 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder January 26, 2026How to Stop a Nuclear WarIn 1947, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created the “Doomsday Clock” to draw attention to the existential dangers posed by human technology. The time was set to seven minutes to midnight, with midnight symbolizing destruction of life on Earth. Just two years before, in 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The world saw firsthand the potential of a nuclear annihilation.As World War II was ending, a different kind of conflict was underway: the Cold War. And over the next four decades, the United Stat...
2026-01-2658 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder January 19, 2026 Federal Funding Capitulation: Northwestern Joins Columbia and Brown University The day after Thanksgiving last year, in an deserved win for Donald Trump and a sad loss for higher education, Northwestern University joined Columbia and Brown universities by capitulating to Trump's yearlong campaign to bribe American colleges and universities into paying ransom to restore millions of dollars of federal research grants he had illegally suspended on the pretext that the universities had failed to adequately monitor antisemitism on their campuses. Northwestern agreed to pay the Trump administration $75 million and entered into a three-year settlement a...
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Arkaro Insights: adapt and thrive in complexityThe Mother Rule: Why Your Strategy Should Be Simple Enough for Mum | James Michael LaffertyJim Lafferty spent 30 years leading in some of the world's most volatile markets. His secret weapon? A test so simple your mother could apply it.What if the smartest person to pressure-test your strategy isn't a consultant or an MBA — but your mum?Jim Lafferty didn't follow the traditional path to Fortune 500 leadership. He started as a fitness instructor, built his career across Nigeria, the Philippines, Poland and beyond, and learned that in volatile, uncertain markets, simplicity beats sophistication every time.In this conversation, Jim shares:The Mother Rule — If y...
2026-01-1644 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder January 12, 2026 Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded AgeBeing homeless is not a reflection on the inadequacy of a person. It is not a moral issue even though right wing figures such as President Trump‘s former lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and Andrew Cuomo, the failed candidate for mayor in the 2025 election in New York City maintain that essentially cruel position. They were against giving people subsidized homes and treatment, if they required it, for health problems, addiction problems, or job training.Homelessness is a consequence of ho...
2026-01-1257 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 29, 2025Remembering Michael RatnerHosts Heidi Boghosian and Michael Smith interviewed some of Michael Ratner’s closest friends and colleagues as part of a special broadcast highlighting Michael Ratner’s legal work and mentorship. The special also marked the upcoming release of Michael Ratner’s autobiography Moving The Bar: My Life As A Radical Lawyer published by OR Books. We hear from attorneys including Eleanor Stein, Richard Levy, Ray Brescia and David Cole.Michael Ratner’s pathbreaking legal and political work is unmatched. He provided crucial support for the Cuban Revolution and won the seminal c...
2025-12-2957 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 22, 2025Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and CitizenshipArtificial intelligence and democracy are two of the most charged words in the news right now. To hear the headlines tell it, AI is either about to save us—or quietly break everything that makes self-government possible. A new book refuses that false choice. It asks a more uncomfortable—and more political—question: who is using AI, how, and for whose benefit?The book is Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, published by MIT Press. It starts from a...
2025-12-2358 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 15, 2025 Jewish Voice For Peace: West Bank Divided and ConqueredOur guest today is Leta Hirschmann-Levy, a young Jewish New Yorker, who just returned from a solidarity delegation to the Israeli militarily occupied West Bank of Palestine. Ms. Hirschmann-Levy is a leading activist in Jewish Voice Peace, a writer and an actress. Her grandparents on her mother’s side were German Jewish refugees from the holocaust.Israel has killed at least 1000 Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7, 2023. The murders are part of their project to ethnically cleanse the We...
2025-12-1554 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 8, 2025 Locals On Edge As Right Wing Christian Company Builds CommunityA quiet rural county in Tennessee has become an unexpected frontline in a national struggle over identity, democracy, and belonging. Jackson County—a small Appalachian community of rolling hills, family farms, and a slowly revitalizing town center—is now at the center of a political and ideological clash. Longtime residents are facing a wave of out of state White Christian nationalists developers. Their stated goals include rolling back civil rights gains, discouraging women from higher education or voting, and expelling immigrants who...
2025-12-0855 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 1, 2025 From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American StyleFrom The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style is the title of a recently published anthology edited by Zachary Sklar and our own Michael Smith. Co-host Jim Lafferty wrote the introduction. The book draws from seven key interviews with prominent socialist thinkers in the United States and Canada. They include Margaret Kimberly, Henry Giroux, Dianne Feeley and Bill Mullen. Bill will also be joining Michael and Jim in the guest seat. He's Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Purdue University and author of...
2025-12-0152 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 24, 2025Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote The Constitution and Dismantled Our RightsEarly in his second term, after addressing a joint session of Congress, as he shook hands walking down the aisle, President Donald Trump turned to Chief Justice John Roberts, patted him on the back, and said, “Thank you again. Thank you again. I won’t forget.” What had Roberts done to deserve such gratitude? A lot.In her withering and revealing new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote The Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights...
2025-11-2452 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 17, 2025Socialist Democrat Voted Into NYC Mayoral Seat: What Happens Now?Thirty-three year-old Zohran Mamdani, an immigrant from Uganda, a Muslim, and a member of the Democratic Socialist of American won an overwhelming victory in New York City’s primary in September’s and then won the mayoral race in New York City December 4. His team of some 100,000 door knockers and canvassers swept the charismatic Mamdani into first place over the former governor and main line Democrat Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo was supported financially and politically by 28 different billionaires, Wall Street, and the real estate interests. The top of the...
2025-11-1751 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 10, 2025 Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is Abusing its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future PolicingAround the world, governments are quietly stockpiling one of the most intimate forms of personal data imaginable: our DNA. What began as a tool for identifying suspects and reuniting families has become a global infrastructure for surveillance—an invisible archive of our genetic code, stored and searchable.In 2024, Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology sounded the alarm in a report titled Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is A...
2025-11-1058 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 3, 2025We’re Coming for You and Your Whole Rotten SystemTens of thousands of socialists, union members, and working people fought alongside Kshama Sawant and her city council office to win historic victories, like the $15 an hour minimum wage, Amazon tax on businesses, renter rights and more. Long before AOC and Bernie Sanders became household names, Kshama won elections as a socialist to the office of city council in Seattle in 2013.Twelve years ago the demand for $15 an hour was dismissed as utopian by the Democrats in Seattle and the corporate media. They won and mo...
2025-11-0358 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 27, 2025From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style: Live Event From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style is the title of a newly published book edited by Zachary Sklar and our own Michael Smith. The book draws from seven key interviews with prominent socialist thinkers in the United States and Canada. They include Margaret Kimberly, Henry Giroux, Dianne Feeley and Bill Mullen. Last month publishers OR books held a live book launch event taking place at Live On Avenue C in the East Village. Speakers included economist Rick Wolff, New York-based writer...
2025-10-2754 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 20, 2025 Non Citizens And Free Speech Rights: AAUP v RubioOn September 30, 2025 a federal judge in Boston issued one of the most important decisions that has been rendered during the 9 months of Donald Trump's second term. Following a nine-day trial in July that included the testimony of 15 witnesses and the admission of scores of documents, US District Judge William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian ad...
2025-10-2057 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 13, 2025Court Watchers Monitor Deportation CasesIn New York City, a quiet act of resistance is taking place every week inside the federal immigration courts. Members of the Professional Staff Congress—the union representing faculty and staff across the City University of New York—have been showing up not as lawyers or law enforcement, but as witnesses. They call themselves court watchers. Their goal: to stand beside immigrants facing possible deportation, document abuses, and assert the public’s right to observe what happens inside these halls of power.The union’s Immigrant Solidari...
2025-10-1353 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 6, 2025Taxpayers Against Genocide and the National Lawyers Guild Submit Petition To UNEighty years ago, after 2 world wars claimed millions of lives, nations worldwide — including the United States — came together and established the UN system “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The UN Charter requires that all states settle their disputes peacefully and refrain from the use of armed force, except in self-defense after an armed attack against a UN state by another state, or when the Security Council authorizes it.But, motivated by American exceptionalism — the notion that the U...
2025-10-0654 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 29, 2025The Library Freedom ProjectSoon after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when federal agents demanded library circulation records under the USA Patriot Act, librarians became unlikely whistleblowers for democracy. The “Connecticut Four” successfully sued the FBI in 2005 over secret National Security Letters that sought patron data and imposed gag orders. They reminded the nation that a book borrowed in silence should never be grounds for suspicion.The Library Freedom Project was born in this climate of intrusion. It equips librarians with new skills: teaching prompt literacy so they can critically evaluate generative AI o...
2025-09-3052 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 22, 2025 Corporate Media Coverage Analysis of NYC Mayoral RaceThe majority campaign of Zohran Mamdani in New York City is the most hopeful development on the left in America today. Mamdani is a charismatic 33 year-old Uganda born one time state legislator and a wholehearted supporter and member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He is challenging former governor Andrew Como, who was recently forced to resign in disgrace after being credibly accused by 13 women of sexual harassment.Cuomo represents the establishment, the real estate, financial, and big tech interests in America’s largest city. He...
2025-09-2255 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 15, 2025 Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in AmericaAt the heart of Trump's blizzard of chaotic, cruel, and corrupt attacks on our democracy is one of the most turbulent, disruptive, and consequential assaults on freedom of speech in American history. Trump and his obedient underlings have enlisted the full force of the federal government’s overwhelming criminal, civil, administrative, immigration, and national security apparatus to illegally crush protest, dissent, and free speech.On an unprecedented scale, directly and indirectly, Trump is violating the First Amendment ri...
2025-09-1550 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 9, 2025From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American StyleFrom The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style is the title of the recently published anthology edited by Zachary Sklar and our own Michael Smith. Co-host Jim Lafferty had written the introduction. The book draws from seven key interviews with prominent socialist thinkers in the United States and Canada. They include Margaret Kimberly, Henry Giroux, Dianne Feeley and Bill Mullen. Bill will also be joining Michael and Jim in the guest seat, he's Professor Emeritus of American Studies at Purdue University and author of We...
2025-09-0852 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 1, 2025Paul Le Blanc On Democratic Socialist TrendIn a remarkable come from behind victory in the Democratic primary over disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic Socialist Zorhan Mamdani is likely to become the next mayor of New York City in November when he wins the election. This comes a decade after the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) exploded onto the stage of US politics. The organization is full of vibrant campaigns, discussion, and experimentation. How can democratic socialists build a working-class political alternative powerful enough to defeat Trump’s a...
2025-08-3157 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder August 25, 2025The First Amendment Heavily Tested Under Trump AdministrationThe First Amendment is being tested in many arenas not only in response to various Executive Orders which Donald Trump has issued in his second term, but also in state legislatures which are experimenting with how far the government can go in restricting freedom of speech.In Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the US Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring age verification for access to Internet porn sites. In 2024, Mississippi enacted House Bill 1126 after a Mississippi teen became the victim...
2025-08-2457 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder August 18, 2025University Capitulates To Censorship PoliciesVI. Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, observed that sometimes decades go by without very much happening and other times decades happen within weeks. In a sense we are living through such a time. It is comparable to the great transformation several centuries ago, when feudalism was finally subdued and capitalism flowered. The obligations of the master to the serf were severed and workers were left on their own in the new ruthless capitalist society.The harshness of capitalism was ameliorated by social legislation, most notably by...
2025-08-1853 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder August 11, 2025The Trump Administration and ACLU Legal Counteraction Strategy The very day President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, the American Civil Liberties Union celebrated the beginning of its 106th year. Based on its long experience combating repressive governments, the ACLU had been carefully planning for the possibility of Trump's reelection. That day it announced that it was fully prepared for the threat Trump posed to our constitutional democracy. The ACLU recalled that "Since first leaving office in 2020, Trump has threatened to enact policies that would endanger immigrant families...
2025-08-1156 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder August 4, 2025The Dual State: A Contribution to Theory of Dictatorship. The German Jewish lawyer Ernst Fraenkel escaped from fascist Germany and settled in the United States. In 1941 he wrote an extremely important book which were going to discuss today. The book is titled The Dual State: A Contribution to Theory of Dictatorship. The book explains how Hitler availed himself of two systems of law. The first Fraenkel called the normative state. This is your traditional law that regulates things like contracts and property. It was practiced in Nazi Germany and kept things...
2025-08-0457 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 28, 2025AI Generated Police ReportsPolice departments across the U.S. are beginning to use artificial intelligence tools like Axon's “Draft One” to automate the writing of police reports based on body-worn camera audio. While the goal is to save time and reduce paperwork, digital rights advocates are raising serious concerns. The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns that Draft One lacks transparency, making it hard to tell whether errors or biases in reports come from the AI or the officer. They argue this could compromise accountability and justice. The ACLU has also flagged risks tied to AI's potential for inac...
2025-07-2855 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 21, 2025Checks, Balances And Separation Of PowersThis half-hour, we continue our ongoing effort to understand in real time, the upheavals taking place within our US government, as well as the blitz of attacks on the rule of law – and that includes attacks on judges, lawyers, academics, students, and virtually anyone else who is critical of the Trump Administration’s policies and actions.Today, we’ll be particularly focused on recent Supreme Court decisions that have paved the way for Trump to dismantle the Department of Education and numerous government agencies. The decisi...
2025-07-2158 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 14, 2025 American Association of University Professors v. RubioSadly, listeners to Law & Disorder are all too familiar with how the Trump administration has systematically created a climate of repression and fear on our university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, including Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from protests, and withdraw from...
2025-07-1454 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 7, 2025 Trump v Casa : Presidential ImmunityOn June 27, the last day of the Supreme Court's official term, the 6-member ultra-conservative majority issued one of the most dangerous decisions in its history, which the 3 dissenting judges called "shameful" and a "grave attack on our system of law."In three lawsuits consolidated as Trump v, CASA Inc, 22 state attorneys general, several pregnant women who are not American citizens, and a variety of civil rights organizations challenged Donald Trump's Executive Order banning birthright citizenship. That's the principle enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution tha...
2025-07-0757 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 30, 2025 Dangerous Threshold: Long Range Implications Of Bombing Iran's Nuclear FacilitiesIn a dangerous escalation of U.S. foreign policy, Donald Trump announced on June 22 that the U.S. had bombed 13 Iranian nuclear facilities in support of Israel. The Israeli-Iranian conflict has already left hundreds dead—including scores of civilians—and now risks igniting a wider regional, if not global, war.While Trump claimed to broker a ceasefire, Israeli missiles struck Iranian targets just hours later. Iran denied any retaliation but was quickly blamed for alleged missile fire—charges used to justify furthe...
2025-06-3057 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 23, 2025 Law Firms Targeted By Trump AdministrationTrump and the MAGA movement behind him have taken huge steps to upend and overturn the kind of democracy, however limited by race and class, that we have lived with since our independence from England some 250 years ago. In order to secure their rule, these fascists, like those in the Hitler movement 90 years ago, attempted to get control of the various apparatuses of our society. They aimed at the major media, the universities, the states like California, the scientific establishment, the medical profession, the cultural apparatus, the t...
2025-06-2353 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 16, 2025Leadership Failure Within The Democratic PartyThe unfolding events in Los Angeles after Donald Trump called up the National Guard in violation of federal law and his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act are but his latest assault on democracy and the Constitution. Lawyers, social justice organizations, and watchdog groups are fighting back in over 245 lawsuits against the Trump administration winning over 180 injunctions. Last Saturday, thousands of NO KINGS rallies were held in every state of the Union.But many are asking: Where is the Democratic Party in all this? Opinion surveys show the public...
2025-06-1653 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 9, 2025A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. The world looks on in horror as Israel continues its genocidal assault on the Palestinian people. According to Benjamin Netanyahu, the only inevitable outcome will be the wish of Gazans to emigrate outside of the Gaza Strip, he told this to lawmakers at a leaked closed-door meeting. But our main problem is finding countries to take them in. According to our guest today, Chris Hedges, the Israeli war in Gaza marks the end of a world where humanitarian law, conventions that protect...
2025-06-0953 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder June 2, 2025Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded AgeHomelessness in the USA has reached catastrophic proportions. In New York City alone 125,000 people are homeless. One out of eight children in public school are homeless. Shelters for homeless people are overflowing. Many sleep outside or in the subway system. Their conditions of life have driven many of these people over the edge.The problem is long-standing and quite evident.There’s a lack of affordable housing. Why? Because building affordable housing is not as profitable as building luxury housing. How realistic is it to get money for af...
2025-06-0257 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 26, 2025 Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad VibesToday, Republicans are the ruling party in the United States. They control the presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. But they also control the Supreme Court, which is the one institution that is supposed to oversee the legality and constitutionality of what the other two branches do. The Supreme Court has a super majority of six conservative justices, all of whom were appointed by Republican presidents, and three of whom were appointed by Donald Trump himself.
2025-05-2656 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 19, 2025Law and Disorder co-hosts Heidi Boghosian and Stephen Rohde discuss Israel’s continued assault on Gaza and the West Bank and the Trump administration doubles down—backing military aid to Israel while cracking down on pro-Palestinian voices at home. Student visas are being revoked, protests labeled “antisemitic,” and university funding slashed. Historian and Jewish Voice for Peace board member Barry Trachtenberg joins them to explore the dangerous implications for academic freedom, dissent, and the weaponization of antisemitism to silence solidarity.Hosts then uncover a growing movement pushing back against what critics call an...
2025-05-1956 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 12, 2025Co-hosts Michael Smith and Jim Lafferty get a closer look at the latest U.S. negotiations with Iran and Israel's demand to dismantle Iran's nuclear energy program. Richard Becker will join hosts. He's the Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Act Now to Stop War and End Racism explains in detail what is at stake.Hosts then speak with Nadia Ben-Youssef, the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights about a new report submitted by four human rights groups denouncing the accelerated disintegration of democracy in the US. The report is titled Entrenching Authoritarianism...
2025-05-1252 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder May 5, 2025A Constitutional Crisis In The United States America is in the midst of a constitutional crisis. More than 200 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration during his first 100 days in office, resulting in more than 100 injunctions and stays, as he lays waste to fundamental constitutional protections and laws passed by Congress. On the first day of his second term, Donald Trump had the audacity to sign an executive order claiming he was "restoring freedom of speech." Instead, his administration is systematically destroying the right to speak freely, to write freely...
2025-05-0557 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 28, 2025Chris Hedges: Trump 2.0 Trump 2.0 is qualitatively different from his first term in office. This time Trump and his allies have brought down a tsunami on us, creating fear and chaos.Tens of thousands of government workers have been fired. Thousands have been deported, some to a torture prison in El Salvador. Due process was ignored. The court orders challenging this have been ignored, as well. With his extreme tariff measures, Trump has damaged our economy, and it looks like there may be a recession down the road. Trump has promised to...
2025-04-2854 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 21, 2025Radio Documentary – It Was Genocide: Armenian Survivor StoriesAround the world, April 24 marks the observance of the Armenian Genocide. On that day in 1915 the Interior Minister of the Ottoman Empire ordered the arrest and hangings of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. It was the beginning of a systematic and well-documented plan to eliminate the Armenians, who were Christian, and who had been under Ottoman rule and treated as second class citizens since the 15th century.The unspeakable and gruesome nature of the killings—beheadings of groups of babies, dismemberments, mass...
2025-04-2157 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 14, 2025Oligarchs, Billionaires And Reshaping The Economic-Political LandscapeWe’re living at a time of profound changes in the institutions that previously governed our society. One hundred years ago V.I Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, observed that sometimes nothing changes for decades and at other times decades-long changes occur within several days.This is what is happening now in America as the old institutions, the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the universities, the media, the government, including Congress, governmental agencies, the elite law firms, educational institutions and most recently lo...
2025-04-1456 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder April 7, 2025The Dangerous Militarization of AI and the Profiteering Behind ItA recent exposé by investigative journalist Peter Byrne, titled One Ring to Rule them All, and published by Project Censored, reveals the unsettling extent of Silicon Valley's deepening ties to the military-industrial complex. Byrne traces the rise of Palantir Technologies—founded with seed money from the CIA and ominously named after the all-seeing stone in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Today, Palantir stands as a $200-billion powerhouse, fueling AI-driven military operations across the globe.Byrne’s investigation uncovers how Palantir and its...
2025-04-0758 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 31, 2025The Silencing of Genocide CriticsThe International Court of Justice, known as the World Court, found it plausible that Israel was committing genocide against the Palestinian people living in Gaza. Thereafter the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister Yoav Gallant.Since October 8, 2023 Israel has murdered, on an industrial scale, upwards of 70,000 people and reduced most of the Gaza strip to a pile of rubble. They used American bombs and received American diplomatic cover and financial aid. On March 18, 2025...
2025-03-3158 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 24, 2025James Goodale: Fighting for the Press and Freedom of SpeechDonald Trump has wasted no time in his second term attacking free speech and freedom of the press. He arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card and a student visa, and is trying to deport him (until restrained by a federal judge) because Khalil led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. He has threatened to deport other students for their pro-Palestinian protests. Trump banned the Associated Press from White House press briefings and Air Force One for using the term "...
2025-03-2454 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 17, 2025Weak Opposition Strengthened Capitalist OrderWe, as ordinary people, are experiencing a profound change in the nature of who holds power in America today. Our constitutional democracy, however limited by race and class, is being replaced by an oligarchy, that is to say, the rule by the super rich few over the many. The separation of powers between the Congress, the Executive, and the Supreme Court has all but been eliminated. We are getting what the oligarchs wish for, “a unitary executive” where Trump is attempting to rule by executive decrees.He and Musk...
2025-03-1758 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 10, 2025Federal Court Challenges to Trump Administration Arguments The number of active lawsuits in federal courts challenging Trump administration arguments has now topped 100. In 21 of those cases, judges have already issued temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions, effectively stopping, at least for now, parts of Trumps agenda. For example, as reported in the New York Times this past Sunday, trial court judges have blocked for now Trumps mass firings of civil servants, Musks access to sensitive federal agency data, the relocation of transgendered women inmates to mens prisons, the pursuit of immigrants...
2025-03-1058 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder March 3, 2025Emphasis On Christian Nationalism Several recent developments in the United States have highlighted an increased emphasis on Christian Nationalism within government policies, raising concerns about the separation of church and state and its impact on daily life. This heretical form of Christianity is being forced upon us. It is super masculine, misogynist, nationalist, homophobic, white, supremacist, and racist. It is Christian in name only. The religion of egalitarian Jesus, who preached the values of the sermon on the mount, is not their religion. The Christian nationalists want to use the power...
2025-03-031h 00Original Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 24, 2025Lawyers Defending American DemocracyThe early days of the Trump administration have ushered in a series of assertive executive orders that are rapidly reshaping the federal landscape. While new administrations typically bring change, most Americans expect such shifts to respect the rule of law. Project 2025, however, diverges from legal norms, challenging birthright citizenship, dismantling crucial federal agencies like USAID without congressional approval, and attempting to criminalize support for lawful diversity and anti-bias initiatives.Today’s guest is Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Executive Director of Lawyers Defending American Democracy. She argues that the media has in...
2025-02-2458 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 10, 2025Trump Executive Orders Erasing Protections For UnderclassThis is the first week of Black History Month, and we at the Law and Disorder show are eager to celebrate it. But that's not what's happening in the Trump administration. The Defense Department under the headline "Identity Months Dead at DoD" has eliminated various Heritage Months, including Black History Month. Meanwhile, the Defense Intelligence Agency has "paused" the recognition of Black History Month.Even more alarming is Trump’s Executive Order eliminating the use of D.E.I., that is “diversity, equity and inclusion”, as factor...
2025-02-0947 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 3, 2025A Golden Age of OligarchsLast month, Elon Musk said something about the Trump election with which we agree. He said “this was no ordinary victory. This was a fork in the road of human civilization.“ How true. Now our democracy, however, restricted by class and race, is in the process of being replaced by a super wealthy oligarchy. There are more than 800 billionaires in the United States. They are now in the saddle.The Citizens United Supreme Court case of 2010 eased the process. Trump was elected with money, truly big mone...
2025-02-0355 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder February 17, 2025Dismantling Progress, Deportation And Sanctuary CitiesOn Law and Disorder, we're celebrating Black History Month. We remember and honor the ongoing struggle of Black Americans and their allies to achieve equality, justice and fairness. But the forces of white supremacy have opposed that struggle at every turn. Today, the President of the United States and his enablers are at the forefront of not only dismantling the progress that has been made but creating new obstacles to impede further progress.On day one, Trump claimed to end birthright citizenship and he terminated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...
2025-02-0356 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder January 27, 2025The First Amendment And TikTokOn January 17, for the first time in modern American history, a unanimous US Supreme Court upheld a sweeping prior restraint on free speech imposed by Congress banning over 170 million users in the United States from having access to the popular social media platform TikTok that the Court itself admitted allows users to create, publish, view, share, and interact with short videos overlaid with audio and text. In 2023 alone, U. S. TikTok users uploaded more than 5.5 billion videos, which were in turn viewed more than 13 trillion times around the world. The...
2025-01-2755 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder January 20, 2025Malcolm X Shabazz et al. v. USAA groundbreaking legal case seeks justice for the family of most iconic civil rights leaders, Malcolm X. In an unprecedented lawsuit filed by his daughters, the Shabazz family is challenging the U.S. government, the City of New York, and several high-ranking law enforcement agencies. At the heart of the case is the claim that state actors, including the FBI and NYPD, played an active role in the assassination of Malcolm X on February 22, 1965, and that this involvement has been systematically covered up for decades.This...
2025-01-2055 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder January 13, 2025Remembering The Legacy of Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter passed away on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100. His legacy in human rights has left an indelible mark on global diplomacy. Elected in 1977 as the 39th President of the United States, Carter made human rights a central theme of his administration. He believed that as a global power, the US had a responsibility to champion freedom, dignity, and justice for all people, regardless of nationality or political system. This vision led to the introduction of policies aimed at addressing both the internal injustices within the U.S...
2025-01-1358 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder January 6, 2025We Are the Union: How Worker to Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big.The bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. He famously replied, “because that’s where the money is.” We’re interested in the labor movement not only for humanitarian reasons but because that’s where the power is. Union members can withhold their labor and bring the economy to a standstill. Unionized workers gained ground in 2024. Union workers in the private sector saw a 6% rise in real wages last year. But overall, the...
2025-01-0654 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 30, 2024Taxpayers Against Genocide: Lawsuit Filed Against Congress Members For Approving $26.38B In Military Aid To Israel On December 19, 2024, a coalition of human rights activists and organizations filed a class action lawsuit against California Congress members Mike Thompson and Jared Huffman. The lawsuit alleges that the representatives misused their authority by approving $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel, despite evidence that these funds contribute to ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Supported by more than 500 plaintiffs across Northern California, the case highlights growing public demands for accountability in U.S. foreign policy. It was filed by the group T...
2024-12-3057 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 23, 2024 Charting A Way Forward: A Billionaire President, Economies and PoliciesThe corporate media has been working to normalize Trump and his cabinet nominees who are waiting in to take the reins of the US government on January 20, 2025. Trump won the popular vote by less than his three predecessors Biden, Obama, and Bush. He lost in 2020 and attempted to stay in power by a coup that failed. But last month he succeeded in staging a comeback. He will be more focused, organized, and more brutal than he was the last time.During...
2024-12-2451 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 16, 2024U.S. Attorney General Choice: Florida Attorney General Pam BondiBondi, Florida's first woman attorney general for eight years from 2011-2019, was part of Trump's defense team during his first impeachment trial and supported his false claims of fraud following the 2020 election. She's remained in Trump's orbit since then, continuing to advise him on legal matters.In announcing Bondi as his new choice, Trump signaled the role he expects her to play. "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore. ... Pam will...
2024-12-1656 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 9, 2024Attacking Those In Academia Who Condemn The Israel-Gaza WarAll across this country, academic freedom is once again under severe attack. Why?…because at colleges and universities, professors who dare to speak out in defense of the Palestinian people and condemn Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people, are being censored, disciplined and fired. These attacks on academic freedom are not limited to actions by university administrators, but include those by the federal government, as well. Visiting scholars, adjuncts and lecturers without tenure have also had their contracts terminated, or not renewed. Some had their classes sudd...
2024-12-0957 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder December 2, 2024Fascism on Trial: Education, and the Possibility of DemocracyFascist Germany’s industrial murder of Jews in Europe 80 years ago has been seared into the consciousness of humankind. Today its a great irony of history that the Israeli government, which claims to be the moral legatee of the holocaust, is carrying out a genocide against millions of Palestinians in Gaza.This is being done with the full support of the American government which supplies political, diplomatic, and propaganda cover for what Israel is doing. It supplies the bombs, planes, artillery shells, ta...
2024-12-0254 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 25, 2024The Zionist's Long Term PlanThe humanitarian catastrophe Israel has engineered, in Gaza has no president in the modern era, “ Patrick Lawrence recently wrote, in that “Israel hates the United Nations and all it stands for, international law above all, without limit."Last week using American airplanes and bombs, Israel illegally attacked Lebanon and then Syria. It is aiming to get the United States involved in a war against Iran.Israel’s action in overwhelming, displacing, and murdering the native Palestinians was baked into the Zionists plan and ca...
2024-11-2554 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 18, 2024ACLU Vows To Protect Civil LibertiesToday, with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, the nation is preparing for a devastating onslaught of civil rights and civil liberties abuses. Organizing, mobilizing, and resistance is going on all over the country. Within hours after the election, the ACLU made the following announcement. "Starting on day one, we’re ready to fight for our civil liberties and civil rights in the courts, in Congress, and in our communities. We did it during his first term – filing 434 legal actions against Trump while he was i...
2024-11-1852 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 11, 2024Donald Trump Elected As The Next U.S. PresidentThe election of Donald Trump as our next president exposed a truth about where “we the people” are at. Because there could be no doubt in the minds of those who elected him what Trump intends to do once back in the White House. There was nothing vague about his platform. He made it clear he believes only he and other strongmen—and that’s “strong men”, not strong women-- should rule America. Women, in fact, are too weak to rule, or apparently, even to know what...
2024-11-1158 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder November 4, 2024 Understanding CapitalismThe great German playwright, and political figure, Berthold Brecht, observed that to understand fascism you have to understand capitalism, from whence it springs. Today, it is also helpful for us to understand that the rise of fascism in Germany 100 years ago, has parallels we can see now with the rise of fascism in the United States.Prior to World War I, which began in 1914, the German working class and middle class were relatively prosperous. The German unions were strong and influential. Prior to World War I, Germany...
2024-11-0359 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 28, 2024Special Report: Global Threats To Freedom Of Expression Arising From Gaza ConflictOn top of the devastating humanitarian crisis and the issues of genocide and violations of human rights in Gaza and the West Bank, there has been an unprecedented attack on freedom of the press and freedom of expression globally prompted by that war.In August, Irene Khan the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression issued an alarming report examining the impact of the conflict in Gaza on freedom of expression...
2024-10-2858 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 21, 2024Today we turn to the status of press freedom in Israel. Since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, and during the ensuing war in Gaza ever since, which is now moving into the West Bank, the pressure on journalists who are trying to cover what’s been happening there is increasing… and more dangerous.According to the New York-based Committee To Protect Journalists, the Israel-Gaza war has claimed the lives of more journalists over the course of a year than in any other conflict the organization has documented. They estimate 128 journalists killed and 69 imprisoned.
2024-10-2058 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 7, 2024 USPS: Concerns With Louis Dejoy And Election IntegrityFree elections can too easily turn into hollow formalities when coercion, manipulation, or biased governance replace voter choice and participation. The United States Postal Service has historically been one of the most trusted government institutions in the United States, with a strong reputation for reliability and nonpartisanship. Until now.Louis DeJoy, a prominent Trump donor and former logistics executive, was appointed as Postmaster General in May 2020, just months before the 2020 presidential election. His tenure has been marked by a series of...
2024-10-0757 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 14, 2024Fascism on Trial: Education, and the Possibility of DemocracyFascist Germany’s industrial murder of Jews in Europe 80 years ago has been seared into the consciousness of humankind. Today its a great irony of history that the Israeli government, which claims to be the moral legatee of the holocaust, is carrying out a genocide against millions of Palestinians in Gaza.This is being done with the full support of the American government which supplies political, diplomatic, and propaganda cover for what Israel is doing. It supplies the bombs, planes, artillery shells, ta...
2024-10-0656 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 30, 2024Complicity In Genocide: CCR Case Against The Biden Administration UpdateLast fall, the internationally acclaimed Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of several Palestinian groups and individuals against President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, alleging that Israel's actions in Gaza have amounted to genocide and that Biden, Austin, and Blinken have failed their obligation under international law to prevent Israel from committing genocide in Gaza.The lawsuit claimed that the 1948 International Convention Against Genocide...
2024-09-2951 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 16, 2024Understanding CapitalismThe great German playwright, and political figure, Berthold Brecht, observed that to understand fascism you have to understand capitalism, from whence it springs. Today, it is also helpful for us to understand that the rise of fascism in Germany 100 years ago, has parallels we can see now with the rise of fascism in the United States.Prior to World War I, which began in 1914, the German working class and middle class were relatively prosperous. The German unions were strong and influential. Prior to World War I, Germany also had the largest and strongest...
2024-09-1558 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder September 9, 2024September 11, 2001: Lessons Learned And OverlookedIt has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The George W Bush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged endless wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, pushed through Congress the USA Patriot Act, opened the notorious...
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Post Media TeamJim Adams Coaching Tree Show 3-22-18It’s a special edition of Prep Sports Weekly on Thursday 3/22/18:
While they call Snohomish County the “Cradle of Coaches” for football in the 1960s; including such luminaries as Mike Price, Dennis Erickson and Keith
Gilbertson Jr. How about Snohomish High School in the late 1980s and their basketball coaches?
Head coach Jim Adams planted his “coaching tree,” and in just a four-year span, contributed five successful coaches to high school basketball.
On Thursday’s edition of Prep Sports Weekly, hosts Tom Lafferty and Steve Willits will welcome Coach Jim Adams to the studio, along...
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What Keeps You Up At Night?Episode 18 - Jim BentonPolytech Plastic Molding has created a new faceshield that owner Jim Benton says aids in halting the spread of COVID-19 in more than one way.
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