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Internet radio 9-11 AM Saturdays. Archived below. Political commentary from Florida INDEPENDENT Non-partisan Libertarian-socialist Anti-war Green Pink Blue

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Bullies, the War on Drugs and the Fascist Shift

Interesting how they tie together: Bullies, our continuing deconstruction of the War on Drugs and the latest serialization of Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" on the fascist shift. + meat eating and porous streets.


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Labels: bullying, End of America by Naomi W, environment, war on drugs

Saturday, April 26, 2008

War Drums Pounding Louder on Iran

The Coming War on IRAN. With Hillary threatening to “obliterate” Iran in a nuclear war the war drums are beating louder and louder. Plus more on the new American police state and the War on the War on Drugs — cocaine and the hallucinogens.
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Labels: Clinton Hillary, drugs, fascist shift, Iran

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Understanding Hamas/Instant Runoff Voting

Special guests: Anthony Lorenzo of the Coalition for Instant Runoff Voting launches drive for Sarasota County; and Conceptual Guerilla talks about progressive radio. Hamas -- Readings from Jimmy Carter's "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" (at 2:00)
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Labels: Conceptual Guerrilla, election reform, Hamas, instant runoff voting, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Palestine, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, progressive radio

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Ending the War on Drugs & Assymetric Warfare in Pakistan

The War on Drugs. This one’s gonna be a classic. Also ruminations and shorts, a few words on Asymmetric Warfare in Pakistan.
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Labels: assymetric warfare, drugs, marijuana, Pakistan, war on drugs

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Public Financing of Campaigns and Environmental Conservation

More campaign finance tales and special guests Ben Wilcox of Florida Common Cause talking about the Republican move to kill off public financing of statewide campaigns, and Jay Liles of the Florida Wildlife Federation updating us on the current legislative session.
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Labels: campaign finance, Common Cause, conservation, environment, Florida Wildlife Federation, public financing

Saturday, March 29, 2008

The Breakdown of Florida's Tax System and the Need for a State Income Tax

More tears and drama on today's show: Callous Republican budget slashing and need for a state income tax. Backlash is forming but biggest problem in Florida is Progressives are cowering in fear of the Right Wing and need political psychoanalysis. We need a visionary bold movement. Republicans slashing $2 billion. My vision for nursing homes.

Sound bite
THIRD LARGEST STATE
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Labels: budget, nursing homes, property taxes
SOUNDBITE
Backlash brewing against Radical Republicans

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Saturday, March 22, 2008

FLORIDA'S FOX: THE MIAMI HERALD (part 2)

We continue our investigation of right wing bias at the state's biggest paper, The Miami Herald, and the disastrous effect it is having on progressive politics in Florida and the presidential election.

SOUNDBITE
THE FUNNIEST NEWSPAPER IN THE STATE
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Labels: media bias, Miami Herald

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Right Wing Bias at the Miami Herald (part 1 of 2)

"Florida's FOX", a special report on right wing media bias at the state's biggest paper, The Miami Herald. A content analysis of every story the paper ran on Iran, Israel/Palestine, Cuba and Venezuela in January reveals shocking, unprofessional, one-sided ideological bias. Special guests Mark Kmetzo of the Florida Media Project and new Florida Media Reform Coordinator Mark Hart.
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Labels: media bias, media reform, Miami Herald, Venezuela

Miami Vice



This is a snippet from my interview with Mark Hart of the Florida Media Coalition on my March 15th show. Click on blogtalk to the right to access the archive.
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Saturday, March 8, 2008

All About Impeachment

Impeachment Special! Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman of the House Judiciary Committee that impeached Nixon will tell how this time is worse; Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild will enumerate the charges; and David Swanson of After Downing Street.org will update and talk about the politics of impeachment -- why the Democrats and media keep it off the table.
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Labels: Bush, Cheney, constitution, impeachment

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Florida's Dysfunctional Regressive Tax System

Hey There, we've got yet another blockbuster this week, about the #1 issue in Florida, our dysfunctional, regressive tax system and the need for a comprehensive overhaul. Special guest is James Tait, executive director of the Florida Center for Fiscal & Economic Policy, coming on around 10am. Tait was Gov. Reubin Askew's economic advisor and chief of staff. But we start the show with the second installment of readings from Naomi Wolf's "The End of America" on the fascist shift.
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Labels: End of America, fascist shift, Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy, income tax, property taxes, tax reform

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Confronting Rightwing Israel

Readings from Jimmy Carter's new book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid"; the Florida New Foreign Policy Project; Florida Campaign Finance Tales

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Labels: campaign finance, Gaza, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Palestine, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Saturday, February 16, 2008

On the Road Again

Live at the Florida Progressive Summit in Tampa. We're asking the activists what Progressivism means to them and what is their strategy for achieving that vision in Florida.
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Labels: Activism, Progressivism

Saturday, February 9, 2008

ACORN and Gaza

Special guest Sheena Rolle, Director of Special Projects for Florida ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the nation’s premiere veteran grassroots organization, talking about the hot issues on the streets and in the hoods around Florida right now. Also, part two of our look at Israel’s despicable total economic blockade and collective punishment of Gaza.
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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Pot Pourri

It's McCain vs. Clinton with Clinton winning, here's why; bike paths; Crist's phoney budget; property tax fallout; Israel's despicable collective punishment of Gaza; audio of Cynthia McKinney's announcement she's running for Green Party nomination for President.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Pot Pourri

Presidential climax - why Florida may actually decide the Republican nomination Tuesday; insurance companies defy the law; Crist the Environmentalist; life in the American police state; Bush's lies about Iraq.
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Five Shorts

New serial on America's "fascist shift", horrifying weekly excerpts from Naomi Wolf's new book 'The End of America';our first obituary: Phillip Agee, American Hero who exposed CIA torture, murder and subversion; Labor Report: two-tiered part-time jobs and the decline of the middle class; Insurance companies defy Crist and legislature; first heart grown from stem cells.
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Labels: CIA, End of America, fascist shift, Insurance, police state, stem cells, two-tier employment

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Instant Runoff Voting

Special guest Anthony Lorenzo of the Coalition for Instant Runoff Voting in Florida tells how we can get better choices in elections; New Hampshire - race and gender; When Fidel Dies.
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Labels: Coalition for Instant Runoff Voting, Cuba, elections, instant runoff voting

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Iowa Caucus+

Iowa result, Hillary to win nomination; the property tax battle; Crist takes on the insurance companies (and watch who wins)
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Labels: Crist, Insurance, presidential election, property tax, property taxes

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Terryifying Revival of Nuclear Power in Florida

Special guest Mary Olson of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service talks about the revival of nuclear power in Florida; FINAL pre-Iowa commentary; more on impeachment.
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Labels: impeachment, Iowa caucus, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, nuclear power

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Then and Now: Living Through the Nixon Impeachment

Wexler impeachment move smells fishy. Is it appeasement?; Iowa: our next president emerges in two weeks -- keep an eye on Edwards, and Huckabee might actually be your next president, the Republican Jimmy Carter.
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Labels: impeachment, Iowa caucus, Wexler Watch

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Pot Pourri

Special guest Ben Wilcox of Florida Common Cause tells us about his redistricting petition drive; the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran; supporting independent small business; Georgia Supreme Court throws out 1,000 foot law on "sex offenders"; Everglades restoration projects being prioritized for cutting.
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Labels: Everglades, gerrymandering, Iran, sex offenders

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Pot Pourri

Today is a potpourri of short commentaries on Florida issues: a special report on Fascism in Florida -- the selling of our highways to profit making corporations; plus the faltering Everglades restoration and an update on the fiscal mess.
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Labels: budget, fascist shift, privatization, property taxes

Saturday, December 1, 2007

The Florida Green Party

Special guest Spokesperson Alan Kobrin of the Florida Green Party plus Christian Sharia in Florida.
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Labels: fascist shift, Green Party
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A weekly internet radio show (9-11am Saturdays) out of Miami first aired in September 2007. This is one of the best sites in America to listen to independent, NOT Democratic Party, cutting edge moderate-Left thinking on a broad range of issues confronting us. Clicking on the colored description of each show takes you to that broadcast.White text is non-show commentary. On the right hand side you can browse the index of topics covered, along with a list of the interviews I've done.

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About Me

Mark Weaver
broadcasts from northern Miami. A long-time political activist, he holds degrees in Political Science from Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has been active in numerous political campaigns, including policy research for the Reno for Governor campaign.
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Interviews

  • Adam Rivera, Environment Florida on Offshore Oil Drilling
  • Brent McMillan, Green Party of the USA on the alternative to the corrupted Democratic Party
  • Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report, on the Gaza massacre
  • Congressman Alan Grayson on Defunding the Irafghanistan Wars
  • David Swanson of Democrats.com on his book "Daybreak"
  • Erik Leaver, Institute for Policy Studies on an Afghan Exit Strategy
  • Florida Public Interest Research Group, Richard Polangin on Health Reform
  • George Cavros, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy on Florida Nuke Applications
  • Gina Downs, Citizens Transportation Coalition on Privatization and Road Tolls
  • Greg Gerritt, U.S. Green Party
  • Harold Wanless, Prof. of Geological Sciences, University of Miami
  • Jeff Hauser, Accountability Now, Executive Director
  • Jeff Nall of Florida Peace Congress (4/4/2009)
  • Jeff Nall, Humanists for Peace on the anti-war movement
  • Jeff Smith, Missouri State Senator on Life After His Movie Career
  • Just Foreign Policy's Robert Naiman on the Pakistan Disaster
  • Kim Russell of People United for Medical Marijuana on the Florida MM Initiative
  • Malou Innocent, CATO Institute on Iran and Israel
  • Michael Schwartz, Prof. of Sociology, Stonybrook Sate U., on the Neo-Colonization of Iraq
  • Neill Franklin of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition on Legalizing Drugs
  • Patricia DeGennaro of World Policy Institute on Afghan Exit
  • Phyllis Bennis, Instiute for Policy Studies on the Gaza Blockade
  • Rachel Nardin, Prof. of Neurology, Harvard Medical School on the Massachusetts model of health reform
  • Raymond Bellamy, M.D., Physicians for a National Health Program on Dems' Convoluted Health Reforms
  • Richard Carroll, Arkansas State Rep. (Green Party)
  • Ross Eisenbrey, Economic Policy Institute on the Freedom of Choice Act
  • Sinfoninan on Crashing a Tea Party and Making Keith Olberman
  • Sydney Levy, Jewish Voice for Peace
  • U.S. Public Interest Research Group's Lisa Gilbert and Larry McNeely talk on health reform and public financing of campaigns

Index

  • 4th of July
  • 911
  • Aaronson Burt
  • Accountability Now
  • ACORN
  • Activism
  • Adam Hasner
  • Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan talking points
  • Afpakistan
  • Ahmed Bedier
  • AIPAC
  • Al Jazeera
  • Al Qaeda
  • Alan Grayson
  • Alligator Alley
  • alligators
  • Amnesty International
  • anarchy
  • anti-war movement
  • Armed Forces Radio
  • assymetric warfare
  • atheists
  • auto industry
  • Biden
  • Bill Nelson
  • Boyd Allen
  • Brevard Patriots for Peace
  • Brooksley Born
  • bubbles
  • budget
  • bullying
  • Bush
  • campaign finance
  • campaigns
  • cap and trade
  • capitalist crisis
  • carbon tax
  • Cheney
  • CIA
  • civil liberties
  • Clinton Bill
  • Clinton Hillary
  • Clintons
  • cluster bombs
  • Coalition for Instant Runoff Voting
  • Cold War II
  • Common Cause
  • Conceptual Guerrilla
  • conservation
  • conservatives
  • constitution
  • contractors
  • criminal justice reform
  • Crist
  • Cuba
  • Dan Gelber
  • David Swanson
  • Democratic Party
  • depression of '09
  • deregulation
  • Deutch Ted
  • drug war
  • drugs
  • economy
  • education
  • election reform
  • elections
  • elections 2008
  • electoral college reform
  • End of America
  • End of America by Naomi W
  • End of America by Naomi Wolf
  • energy conservation
  • energy efficiency
  • environment
  • environmentalists
  • Everglades
  • Fair Elections Now Act
  • fascist shift
  • Feingold Russ
  • financial crisis
  • financial oligarchy
  • Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy
  • Florida Peace Congress
  • Florida Progressive Coaltion
  • Florida Progressive Radio
  • Florida Voters Coalition
  • Florida Wildlife Federation
  • foreclosures
  • Foreign Policy
  • Free Radio Network
  • gasoline tax
  • Gay rights
  • Gaza
  • Gaza blockade
  • Geithner
  • Georgia
  • gerrymandering
  • global warming
  • Goldman Sachs
  • grassroots organizing
  • Green Party
  • Greg Gerritt
  • Guantanamo
  • Hamas
  • Hastings Alcee
  • health reform
  • healthcare
  • hip hoppers
  • hurricanes
  • impeachment
  • imperialism
  • income tax
  • initiative
  • instant runoff voting
  • Insurance
  • interrogation
  • Iowa caucus
  • Iran
  • Iran Diplomacy Disenhancement Act
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Israel lobby
  • Israel map
  • Israeli settlements
  • Jeff Hauser
  • Jeff Nall
  • Jewish Voice for Peace
  • Jimmy Carter
  • judicial elections
  • Just Foreign Policy
  • Kendrick Meek
  • Kenneth Quinnell
  • Klein Ron
  • Kosmas Suzanne
  • Kucinich Dennis
  • labor
  • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
  • Liberalism
  • liberals
  • marijuana
  • mass transit
  • Matt Damon
  • McCain
  • media bias
  • media reform
  • Miami Herald
  • middle class decline
  • Middle East map
  • mortgage meltdown
  • Neill Franklin
  • Nelson Bill
  • No End in Sight
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Nuclear Information and Resource Service
  • nuclear power
  • nuclear proliferation
  • nude beaches
  • nursing homes
  • Obama
  • Obama administration
  • Obamacare
  • ocean acidification
  • oil drilling
  • Olmert
  • origin of life
  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
  • Palestine settlements
  • Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
  • Palestinians
  • passive buildings
  • Patrick Walsh
  • patriotism
  • permatemp work
  • Phoney War on Terror
  • Physicians for a National Health Program
  • PIRG
  • police state
  • polls
  • presidential election
  • prison reform
  • privatization
  • Progressive movement
  • progressive radio
  • Progressivism
  • property tax
  • property taxes
  • public financing
  • Public Interest Research Group
  • racial voting
  • Rader Kevin
  • Raymond Bellamy M.D.
  • recession
  • refugees Made in America
  • rendition
  • Republicans
  • Richard Carroll
  • Richard Polangin
  • Robert Naiman
  • Russia
  • sadistic interrogation
  • Sasan Fayazmanesh
  • Schale Steve
  • sea level rise
  • Senate
  • sex offenders
  • sex stings
  • Sinfonian
  • single payer
  • Socialist Party USA
  • solar electricity
  • solar energy
  • Sotomayor
  • Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
  • Space Coast Progressive Alliance
  • speculation (oil)
  • Star Spangled Banner
  • stem cells
  • Stonewall Riots
  • student loans
  • Summers Larry
  • Supreme Court
  • Taliban
  • tax policy
  • tax reform
  • tax relief
  • Taxes
  • taxes: stock transfer
  • taxes:gas
  • tea parties
  • Ted Kennedy
  • terror
  • terror attacks - U.S.
  • terror war
  • terrorism
  • third parties
  • toll roads
  • torture American style
  • torture memos
  • traveling
  • two-tier employment
  • unions
  • United Voices for America
  • Venezuela
  • voting
  • voting age
  • Wall Street
  • war
  • war crimes
  • war on drugs
  • War on Terror
  • Wasserman Schultz Debbie
  • waterboarding
  • Wexler Watch
  • whales
  • Woodstock

RATINGS, SO FAR

ESSENTIAL SITES FOR PROGRESSIVES

  • Fair Vote
  • CBS 60 Minutes on Israel's Occupation
  • BEST SITE ON IRAN
  • IRAN BLOCKADE RESOLUTION 362
  • (Jewish) Americans for Middle East Peace and Security
  • Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran
  • STATE INCOME TAX
  • GLOBAL WARMING, FLORIDA FLOODING
  • COALITION FOR VOTING INTEGRITY
  • IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY
  • FLORIDA PROGRESSIVE COALITION BLOG

MUST SEE FILM REVIEWS

  • Oliver Stone's "W"
  • Frost/Nixon
  • National Geographic: Inside Hurricane Katrina
  • Iraq for Sale
  • Occupation 101 (Israel)
  • Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
  • You Belong to Me
  • Black Book
  • American Blackout
  • Manufactured Landscapes
  • Zodiac
  • Sicko
  • No End in Sight
  • Rendition

MUSIC FROM THE MARK WEAVER SHOW

  • Capitol Steps
  • David Carter
  • Lori Rosolowsky
 

Welcome to the Mark Weaver Show

A weekly internet radio show (9-11am Saturdays) out of Miami first aired in September 2007. This is one of the best sites in America to listen to independent cutting edge moderate-Left thinking on a broad range of issues confronting us. Clicking on the description of each show takes you to that broadcast. On the right hand side you can browse the index of topics covered, along with a list of the interviews I've done.