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Ochs wrote "I Ain't Marching Any More" as American involvement in the Vietnam War was beginning to grow. The song criticizes all of American military history from the perspective of a weary soldier who has been present at every single war since the War of 1812. The chorus notes that "it's always the old who lead us to the war, always the young to fall" and asks whether the price of military victory has been too high. Ochs said of the song that it "borders between pacifism and treason, combining the best qualities of both." He also wrote "the fact that you won't be hearing this song on the radio is more than enough justification for the writing of it."

Rev. Graylan Hagler: Minneapolis Police Murder of George Floyd Triggers Nationwide Week of Massive, Sustained Protests; Jessica González: Flagged for Lies and Glorification of Violence, Trump Attempts to Punish Twitter, Social Media; Giulia Gouge: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group Grows Crops, Distributes to Food Insecure Neighbors; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

Will police attacks on journalists lead reporters to back off, covering racial injustice from a safe distance? Or will they encourage them to work more deeply and consistently to amplify precisely those voices that the “forces of order,” as CNN called them, so vehemently want to silence? Also on the show: It’s hard not to fixate on the end of the nightmare that is the Donald Trump presidency. But we do need to remember that just as there was a lead-up to Trump, there will be a legacy—one powerful part of which will be the judicial appointments, nearly 200 so far, he has made to federal courts around the country.

Never let it be said that right-wing Trump-supporting propagandists' voices have been excluded from Truth and Justice Radio! These guys are telling us that Trump is right to go after Twitter for flagging his lies!

The next time you hear the White House assert that up is down and down is up, consider what paved the way for this template of mendacity. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with environmental attorney and author Barbara Freese about her new book, “Industrial Strength Denial.” Freese takes us on a historical tour of the havoc that big business has wreaked on the planet and on truth itself. We discuss the climate change denial movement and how it relates to the Trump Administration’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the pernicious legacy of leaded gasoline.

The first study demonstrating a relationship between COVID-19 outbreaks and the presence of 5G networks has emerged from Spain and is by Bartomeu Payeras i Cifre. Bartomeu is a biologist specializing in microbiology and is working at the University of Barcelona.

Helena Cobban is a veteran analyst of international affairs and an anti-imperialist activist who campaigns for human equality at all levels. Her company, Just World Books, has helped midwife the work of writers like Miko Peled, Laila El-Haddad, Leila Abdelrazaq, and David Swanson. She’s the head of the non-profit Just World Educational, which has some great web-based programming, most recently on Syria. She has also resumed blogging on her blog Just World News, where her major current preoccupation is the ways the coronavirus crisis affects the hegemonic role the United States has played in world affairs since 1945. See: justworldnews.org .

Anything Other than Ending Deportations is Disastrous. With Jorge Cullar professor of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College reporting from San Salvador. Deportations have been shown to put people in situations of danger and existential risk. Deportees leaving U.S. detention for their home countries face significant challenges as they return to the contexts that prompted their outmigration. Now, with COVID-19 affecting Central American countries and expected to worsen, there exists an immediate viral risk associated with return, to both deportees themselves and to Central American societies as they haphazardly maneuver through the developing pandemic.

Since the COVID-19 shutdowns, none of us has had access to a bona fide live mike. We've had to prerecord every word we've uttered. Bob speaks to this issue. Every show we've aired has required laborious prerecording, editing, and cutting and pasting of audio to meet the WZBC robot's strict requirement: upload exactly one hour minus 10 seconds for each hour of broadcast.