Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 05-23-24

12 AM
For the Record with David Emory
Uncle Sam & the Swastika - 25 years later
Dave says he will be producing new programs again soon, and recommends we air this archival episode for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday next Monday. Reprising the first of the Archive Shows (originally recorded on 5/23/1980), this program examines the corporate relationships between German and American firms that were instrumental in the rise of the Third Reich. "Uncle Sam and the Swastika: U.S Industrial Support for Nazi Germany” contains insights that are even more relevant and more frightening than they were in 1980. As the 25th anniversary of the original broadcast passed, Mr. Emory re-broadcast the show, with editorial comment before and after its playing. In particular, Mr. Emory noted the hauntingly contemporary insights that author James Stewart Martin imparted at the conclusion of his landmark text All Honorable Men. Mr. Martin warned that the American component of the trans-Atlantic fraternity that had funded and armed Hitler might chose to bring fascism to America “as a calm judgment of business necessity.”
Program Highlights Include: Henry Ford’s financing of Hitler and Ford’s contribution to Hitler’s anti-Semitic ideology; the role of American investment bankers in re-capitalizing Germany after World War I; how that re-capitalization led to the growth of the great German cartels that funded and armed the Third Reich; the German firms’ use of cartel agreements with US companies as weapons of economic warfare (gaining the Third Reich access to key raw materials and technology while denying the Allies access to those same materials and technical capabilities); analysis of several significant cartel agreements between Standard Oil of New Jersey and I.G. Farben that gave the Third Reich technology essential for the successful prosecution of modern industrial warfare; the Nazis’ skillful use of reinsurance treaties with the US to gain critical intelligence about Allied shipping to Europe; the Nazi U‑boats’ use of that intelligence to deadly effect; the appointment of personnel from the same US firms that had funded Hitler to key positions overseeing the economic reconstruction of Germany; the subversion of the de-nazification and de-cartelization of Germany by these individuals.

1 AM
Grayzone Radio with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate'
The Occupation Comes Home
Max Blumenthal spoke on May 8, 2024 at UMass-Amherst hours after state police brutally repressed an encampment of students protesting the US-backed genocide in Gaza. There, he addressed the Palestine solidarity uprising on campuses across the country, and explains how the elite reaction triggered by October 7 has exposed Israeli influence over the major American institutions, from academia to Congress to local law enforcement agencies.

2 AM
Final Straw Radio
Asheville (NC)'s Southside Community Farm
This is a recent interview with Chloe Moore, a steward, farmer and educator at the Southside Community Farm, in the historically Black neighborhood of Southside in Asheville, NC. The farm has been serving the neighborhood and the region with free and inexpensive, fresh produce for a decade, providing educational opportunities, grocery deliveries, an herb garden and a BIPOC farmers market. The farm sits on land owned by the public Housing Authority of the City of Asheville (HACA) and there is currently a threat that HACA will destroy the farm. For the hour we talk about the work of the farm, the legacy of a community farm in the wake of government policies that destroy Black communities, and ways that community members can support the SCF and help it thrive.
https://southsidecommunitygarden.org/

3 AM
Out-FM
Queers Protest LGBTQ Advocacy Group's Collaboration with Pro-Israel Propaganda Organization
GLAAD Media Awards Protest
OutFM presents voices from the protest of the Gaza genocide last Saturday during the annual Media Awards ceremony of one of the largest, best-funded LGBTQ defense organizations, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation or GLAAD. GLAAD is a 40-year-old media watchdog against negative representations of queer and trans people.
The 150-strong rally outside the New York City Hilton Hotel was sponsored by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power or ACT UP, and Jewish Voice for Peace. It demanded the severing of GLAADs joint work with the Anti-Defamation League or ADL, which decided last fall to add ALL Palestine solidarity events to its tallies of anti-semitic incidents. The ADL also brings U.S. police to Israel to be trained in crowd control by high-level military personnel.
Margaret Rhee is an assistant professor at the New School who has also taught at SUNY Buffalo and UCLA; Pauline Park speaks with the published poet, scholar and new media artist about queer Korean American and Asian American identity and her innovative work at the intersection of queer, feminist and ethnic studies, getting her thoughts about robots and her queering of robotics.
Out-FM is a weekly progressive, intersectional queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio.

4-6 PM
The Thom Hartmann Program
final two hours from 5/22/24