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Foreign Policy
Radioactivity listeners chime in on Thursday’s GOP debate.
BY Rob Lorei On today’s Radioactivity, we open up the phone lines to listener comments on Thursday’s GOP debate from Charleston, South Carolina. Highlights from last night’s discourse include criticism of President Obama’s handle on gun control...
Women’s Show discusses SOTU – Guantanamo?…TPP?…1/14
https://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/10734398214 Did you hear the SOTU Tuesday night? Powerful words. However, although President Obama has promised for the last 7 years that he would close Guantanamo, he has not; even though he has executive power...
Women Discuss Climate Change Through The Lens Of Their Lives
There has been a lot of talk about the recent COP 21 agreement in Paris, where almost 200 countries came together and agreed to cut emissions and the global temperature to under 2 degrees Celsius....
Veteran journalist Molly McCartney on the growth of the defense industry
By Rob Lorei Today we are have an interview with Molly McCartney, a veteran journalist and author of America’s War Machine: Vested Interests, Endless Conflicts, a book she co-wrote with her late husband, journalist James...
GOP debate: Radioactivity breaks down candidates’ foreign policy
On Wednesday’s Radioactivity we look the back on last night’s Republican Presidential debate that centered on foreign policy and national defense. Listeners chime in via phone and email to discuss the candidates’ stance on using military...
Women’s Show on “Standing Up to Terrorism” 12/3
With the recent Paris attack, terrorism is in all of our minds….. Congress seems to be obsessed with the dangers from Syrian widows and orphans. Women throughout this country are in daily fear when they...
By Rob Lorei Today we listen to a special Thanksgiving edition of Florida this week in which host Rob Lorei interviews Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn, touching on a variety of topics such as the Vinik...
Human rights activist speaks out against Columbian paramilitary training in the US
On Midpoint Wednesday, Host Rob Lorei speaks with Deborah Barros Fince, a Columbian Attorney, artist and human rights advocate for the Wayuu , an indigenous ethnic group in Columbia and Venezeula. In 2004, Fince witnessed a massacre...
Florida This Week discusses political opposition to Syrian refugee resettlement.
BY Rob Lorei Today we listen back to the latest episode of Florida This Week, a political talk show moderated by Rob Lorei and broadcast by local PBS station WEDU. This week, the panel of...
CAIR responds to threats to St. Pete mosques
Update: On Tuesday the man was arrested. Listen to the story here: http://staging.wmnf.org/cair1117/ Late Friday attacks in Paris killed at least 129 people, ISIS has claimed responsibility — and there have been threats to local mosques,...
Tampa resident eyewitness to violence in West Bank
Violence has increased in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. So much so that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he has no interest in an “escalation” and is ready to talk...
Students want Bill Young’s name off USF building
Some University of South Florida students are circulating a petition online to change the name of a building on campus that’s named after a former member of Congress who was also part of the Johns...
