We mix the old and the new, and talk about the history of Activist Radio.

The virulent hatred of Palestinian refugees is stronger in Israel today than it was back in 1982. Two million refugees live in Gaza, cut off from the outside world by machine guns, rockets and barbed wire fences.

The biggest loss when the UFW broke apart was the Civil Rights morality that had spread from the workers struggling in the fields to those in the middle class talking about economic justice and going without grapes.

We seem to be on the brink again, in Ukraine. Once a nuclear warhead flies into the night sky, all humanity will pay the price for the militarism and brinkmanship of the few.

The resistance of US troops in Vietnam remains one of the best kept secrets of the US war against the Vietnam People. The very idea that a peasant army could defeat the mightiest empire in the world is so destabilizing that it is almost always left out of official US accounts.

The constant warmongering in our corporate controlled press is not reassuring. And both parties are fully into this war effort. As we can see, the first victim of war is the truth.

This is our time to question the insanity of a war with Russia and China. Our politicians will not do it, and our media refuses to tell us the truth.

One method, the dollars for bullets approach, uses bank loans and trade embargoes to force these countries to do what the US wants them to. The second method, called moral diplomacy, sends US troops or mercenary armies, all in the name of supporting human rights.

You would think that our history of indigenous oppression would make us particularly aware of other genocides in the rest of the world. Why is it that the United States supports the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Or the carpet bombing of Yemen? Both apartheid Israel and brutal Saudi Arabia receive billions of dollars in US military aid.

As civilians, we are seldom told the truth, especially when it comes to war. LBJ lied about an attack on US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. Bush II lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If we want to end these perpetual wars abroad, we the people must take back the power to declare war.