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NORMALLY: Longtime classics and antiwar themes, wrapping up with "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte Marie, 1964) and "I Ain't Marching Any More" (Phil Ochs, 1965). Our host is a Vietnam War Veteran now devoting his life to ending war, violence, and injustice.

Kate Aronoff: Democratic Socialism on the Rise Across the U.S.; Anne White Hat: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Opponents Employ Direct Action to Block Construction; Lindsay Meiman: Rise for Climate Global Day of Action, Sept. 8, Demands Transition to 100% Renewable Energy; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary

On Space Force: A popular internet meme says, “I have a question about Space Force: when is Flint getting clean water?” On net neutrality: the federal agency meant to listen to and represent the public is so anti-interested in doing so that they will sabotage their own processes to avoid it.

Norman Richmond gives the backstory to the great Aretha Franklin, explaining that her father, a minister, was an early champion for civil rights in Detroit, leading marches and bringing political struggle into his sermons. The family was close to Martin Luther King and many militant activists. Richmond told of how Aretha came to sing Nina Simone's "Young, Gifted, and Black."

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging speech to the Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC on 5-22-2018, Mazin observes that almost every nation in the world is a colonizer or colonized, depending on whether it has nuclear weapons. He views the entire 8000-year history of homo sapiens as a mere click away from ending. An MD geneticist who taught at Duke and Yale Universities, he has returned to his home in Beit Sahour, Palestine where he continues to teach at Bethlehem University and Birzeit University. He is also founder/director of the Museum of Natural History at Bethlehem University. All this without pay!

Author and Public Banking Institute Chair Ellen Brown discusses the economic and political clout of the new entity. writer Nick Meyer speaks about the May 19th March Against Monsanto, Dr. Stephen Frantz challenges descriptions of the GMO/Agrochemical industry as safe, sustainable and benevolent, and Vandana Shiva shares her big picture views of agro-chemical agriculture as an artifact of a colonial, patriarchal system, and ways to move beyond it.

"Who's gonna be the master? Who's gonna be the slave? ... Count 'em all by hand ... on that great election day!"

Starts with more great cuts by Butch Hancock, a fitting segue from TJR to SMC. We salute Victor for his longtime steadfast commitment to peace and justice combined with 1st class music choices.