Israel & Palestine Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show

It’s starting to fade. The unquestioned backing by Jewish Americans for the State of Israel is slipping.  As author Allan C Browfield discusses, Zionism actually has a short shelf life among Jewish Americans. Before 1948, it was condemned by most

The post Israel: Nationalism Replaces Religion appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Through twelve administrations, the US has been tight with the Saudi government. On part one, Medea Benjamin talks about her new book: Kingdom of the Unjust: behind the US-Saudi Connections. She argues it’s time to cut the cord, they are

The post Time to Ditch The Saudis?//Clinton Foundation: Smoke But No Fire? Really? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

Is the dream over? The socialist democratic Israel our parents generation dreamed of is not the right wing Israel we see today.What’s happening with Jewish Americans who are under 70? Why does the right wing Israel lobby still have so

The post Under and Over 70: The Israel Divide appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

It’s been called the most progressive Democratic Party platform ever, but in terms of foreign policy, it’s pretty much as militaristic as ever. On this show, Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute for Policy Studies dissects the foreign policy aspects of

The post DNC Platform on War: Not Hopeless appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

With Trump as president, it would be a major effort to just move back to the center. With Hillary Clinton, and sustained  pressure from progressives, forward motion is possible, if difficult. This is for progressives thinking about the election. Michael

The post A Tough Vote Forward appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

How do you like paying interest to use your own money? According to Mike Krauss of the Public Banking Institute, it doesn’t have to be that way. We can replace the privately held Federal Reserve system and use the treasury

The post Serfs on a Debt Plantation//Palestine at the Democratic Convention appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

From ruthless cold warrior to taking on his nemesis LBJ over the war in Vietnam, was Bobby Kennedy an opportunist? Who was the “runt” of the Kennedy litter?  In this remarkable interview, bestselling author Larry Tye tells us how Bobby’s

The post What Could Have Been: RFK, The Making of a Liberal Icon appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

They sought a better life from the Jim Crow South and freedom, but what they found was something else. It may not be bricks and mortar prison, but black citizens have been intentionally limited to specific areas on the map

The post Spatialized Blackness In Chicago appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

And not just for Palestinians. With the ascent of the nationalistic right, even Jewish Israelis are feeling the sting of government assaults on democracy. Allan Brownfeld, editor of the magazine of The American Council for Judaism, explains how democracy is

The post Democracy Endangered in Israel appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.

They’ve been the big boys ruling their neighborhood for half a century. They really don’t want to give it up, but with their war in Yemen hurting their standing (and America’s) and the dropping price of oil, they are being

The post Making Saudis Share the Neighborhood appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show.