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Late in 2005, I got an email with a link to an Orlando Sentinel article reprinted on Truthout.org with the headline “Orlando holds hope for young war victim,” about a beautiful 2 year old girl name Alaa.  In May, 2005, her two brothers and three of her cousins were killed and she and her mother were injured when an American tank shell hit their home in western Iraq.  Tiny bits of shrapnel lodged in her eyes, and, in December 2005, she was in Orlando with her father in hopes of saving one of her eyes.  A number of people, notably Alan Pogue and Cole Miller of www.nomorevictims.org and Ashley Severance, then a law student in Orlando, brought Alaa and her father to the U.S. and arranged lodging and medical care. For the Thanksgiving 2013 edition of Tell Somebody,  I re-aired my 2005 conversations with Alan Pogue and Ashley Severance, and gave a little bit of an update. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody  and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio

Emmy Award-winning journalist, television producer, blogger and author Danny Schechter the News Dissector  made his first appearance on Tell Somebody  on the November 21, 2013 edition of the show. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store  or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Nuclear Watch New Mexico Executive Director Jay Coghlan, in Kansas City for a couple of speaking engagements about the new and old nuclear weapons parts production plants in Kansas City, stopped by to talk to Tell Somebody right after a three hour meeting with representatives of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and right before his second speaking engagement.  Coghlan has some doubts as to whether the feds will live up to their responsibility to clean up the highly contaminated Bannister Federal Complex, and some suggestions as to how Kansas Citians can pressure them to do the right thing. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or othe

On the November 7, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley talked about her recent trip to Moscow with Ray McGovern, Jesselyn Radack, and Thomas Drake to present NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with the Sam Adams award. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow  Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Nuclear Watch New Mexico executive director Jay Coghlan returned to Tell Somebody on October 31, 2013 ahead of a couple of speaking engagements in Kansas City about the Kansas City Nuclear weapons parts plants, old and new, billed “KC: Linchpin in Nuclear Weapons Production, or 50 Ways to Leave Your Nukes!” This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the evening of October 21, 2013, there was a preview screening of the film "Money for Nothing, Inside the Federal Reserve" at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). After the film, there was a panel discussion about the film with the filmmaker, Jim Bruce, and UMKC professors Dr. Stephanie Kelton, chair of the UMKC department of economics, economics professor Dr. L. Randall Wray, and Dr. William Black, former financial regulator and associate professor of law and economics. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email t

On the October 24, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody,  Richard Tripp, Executive Director of Care of Poor People, Inc. returned and brought Duane Skjervem, executive director of Hope Faith Ministries along with him to talk about Coppinc’s Survival 13 event for the homeless on November 30.  This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow  Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

The IPCC Fifth Amendment Report (AR5) on climate change was released in Stockholm on September 27th. The New York Times reported on what it called the report’s “near certainty” that humans are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades. On this week’s Tell Somebody, one of its contributing authors, Michael J. Prather, will be on hand to talk about it. Prather is a professor of earth system science at the University of California-Irvine. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Te

Hendrik (Hank) van den Berg is a professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, visiting the UMKC economics department for a year.  Professor van den Berg got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about the September 30, 2013 government shutdown, the looming debt ceiling situation, and other issues. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebook: www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

On the September 26, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan  about Michigan's democracy-slashing emergency manager law, and then, just a day ahead of the release of a major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, we hear from Geoffrey Feinberg, research director for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy ot the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody on Twitter: @tellsomebodynow. "Like Tell Somebody on facebo

On the September 19, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we take a look at the upcoming Supreme Court case McCutcheon v Federal Election Commission, a case brought by a wealthy donor and the Republican National Committee seeking to overturn limits to contributions by individuals to candidates and committees. First we hear from Scott Nelson, attorney at the Public Citizen litigation group in Washington D.C., and then we listen in on a telephone press conference put on by ReThink Media, "a non profit communications organization supporting the work of advocacy groups fighting back against the corrupting influence of money in our political system." Representatives of three of six organizations supporting campaign finance reform that filed briefs in this case, The Campaign Legal Center, The Brennan Center, and The Constitutional Accountability Center, spoke on the telephone conference.  This podcast includes an additional 10 minutes from the conference that had to be cut from the broadcast due to time constraints. This

Ray McGovern returned for the September 12, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody to talk about Syria.  How much confidence should we have in the Obama administration's 'high confidence' that the Assad regime was responsible for the August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria?  What about claims by President Obama and Secretary Kerry about Iran's possible nuclear weapons ambitions?  Why did Ray tear a page out of the pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution given to him by Dennis Kucinich?   This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email

On the September 5, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, broadcast the day after The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to give President Barack Obama the power to a launch a military attack to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, and as debate heated up in the rest of congress and the public, Alternative Radio's  David Barsamian returned to the show to talk about Syria.   This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook.  Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

Investigative journalist and best-selling author Greg Palast, www.gregpalast.com, returned for the August 29, 2013 editon of the show to talk about Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo. What is so striking about this 1997 memo from Timothy Geithner to Larry Summers?  What was illegal about it?  Why would Larry Summers be such a bad choice to head the Federal Reserve?  If he is formally chosen by President Obama, will Senator Elizabeth Warren stand up for the public interest, or sit with the banksters? This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send

On the August 22, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Malcolm Byrne, deputy director of the National Security Archive, about their release of recently desclassified documents on the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh that are believed to be the first formal acknowledgement by the CIA of their role in the coup. In a segment recorded the day that whistleblower Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, we hear from Nathan Fuller of the Bradley Manning support network.  The morning after this was recorded, Manning released a statement through her attorney that she wished to be known henceforth as Chelsea. In the final segment, as a deadline for hundreds, possibly thousands, of new low power FM radio stations rapidly approaches, we re-air a March, 2012 interview with Brandy Doyle of the Prometheus Radio Project about the potential of LPFM. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect

Iranian-American Moji Agha is on his  Mossadegh Awareness Begets American Nonviolence Tour, and we heard from him about on the August 15, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free,at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook.   Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

On the August 8, 2013, edition of Tell Somebody,  Professor Robert McChesney talks about Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, his new book with co-author John Nichols. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow

On the July 30, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we talk to Dr. Stephanie Kelton, chair of the economics department at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.  Kelton discusses the state of the U.S. economy and what to do about it generally, and responds to statements made on the NPR "Here and Now" program by an economist at the investment banking firm BNP Paribas. After that, we have an update on the Bradley Manning verdicts, announced at noon on the day of the broadcast. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Cli

Guest host Nilufar Movahedi took the Tell Somebody microphone for the July 23, 2013 edition of the show, speaking with Michael Liimatta, president and co-founder of Connecting for Good, a nonprofit organization that is bridging the Digital Divide in Kansas City with free and affordable in-home wireless internet, low cost refurbished PC's, and digital life skills training.    This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes Store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

On the July 16 edition of Tell Somebody, Mike Murphy sat in for Tom Klammer and talked about the 24 citizens arrested for civil resistance when they sought to open a door to a nuclear weapons-free world during their peaceful protest at the newest U.S. nuclear weapons complex facility opened here in Kansas City, and their quest for fair trials. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. follow me on Twitter:  @tellsomebodynow