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Courageous Thought Podcasts, Audio and Video, address and analyze political issues from Chicago to the Middle East in several show formats, reflecting his award-winning writings at Substack at www.CourageousThought.com. (Also at www.RayHanania.com and www.Hanania.com.)
A professional journalist for more than a half century, Ray Hanania entered political reporting assigned as a desked reporter at Chicago City Halll covering from 1977 through 1992, covering 7 mayors (Richard J. Daley, Michael A. Bilandic, Jane M. Byrne, Harold Washington, David Orr, Eugene Sawyer and Richard M. Daley). He has written news and feature stories on politics for newspapers around the world, including for the Chicago Sun-Times, Houston Chronicle, Newsday, Orlando Sentinel, Arab News, and more.
Through Courageous Thought Podcasts, Hanania produces and co-hosts several audio and video podcasts, including:
Two Guys on Politics with former Congressman Bill Lipinski addressing national and international politics, issues and events
Political-Review with political analyst and consultant Frank Calabrese on Chicago and Chicagoland politics, issues, and events
Ray Hanania on Politics, occasional perspectives by Ray Hanania complementing his political Opinion Columns on Substack (www.RayHanania.com, www.Hanania.com and www.CourageousThought.com)
The Arab Street Radio & Audio Podcast, where Ray Hanania focuses on Middle East and Arab World issues.
You can reach Ray Hanania at rghanania@gmail.com or, on his Substack website at www.CourageousThought.com.
Ray Hanania's podcasts are also vailable on Youtube.
Episodes
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
49 min
Faisal Abbas discusses Middle East issues on Detroit Radio
Arab News Editor-in-Chief Faisal Abbas joins Ray Hanania on Radio Baladi on live radio in Detroit to discuss issues in the Middle East and the growth of the Arab News newspaper, the leading English Language newspaper in the Middle East ... Topics include the Arab League Summit, the destruction in Syria and use of chemical weapons by Syria's tyrant Bashar al-Assad, American politics, Israel's influence in US Politics, and the Arab World's perception of American Arabs.
Broadcast on Friday March 31, 2017 on WNZK AM 690 Radio in Detroit live.
For more information visit the website at www.TheDailyHookah.com
Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
1 hr 3 min
Radio Baladi on Palestinian Diaspora Conference in Istanbul
Radio Host and columnist Ray Hanania hosts Radio Baladi on live radio in Detroit with guest Ali Younes, the reporter and editor at Al Jazeera English, discussing his recent coverage of the Palestinian Diaspora Conference at the end of February 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey and his observations about the different factions that were represented and those that did not attend or boycotted. More than 5,000 Palestinians attended, but what was achieved and what obstacles do Palestinians face as extremism and violence by Israel increases against peace. Broadcast on WNZK AM 690 Radio through the US Arab Radio Network live Friday March 17, 2017.
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Click here to read Ali Younes' article on Al Jazeera English.
Mar 5, 2017
Mar 5, 2017
10 min
Ellison affair exposes anti-Trump hypocrisy
By Ray Hanania
Democrats and their haters of President Donald Trump want you to believe that they love Muslims and they love civil rights.
And yet, when the opportunity came to actually love a Muslim by electing Congressman Keith Ellison as chair the Democratic National Committee, they bailed on Ellison.
Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to the U.S. Congress. He was nominated by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who was backstabbed by the hypocrite Democrats and anti-Trump haters and should have been the party presidential nominees.
But when the Democrats and the anti-Trump haters got together, they took a dive on Ellison and instead voted to elect a nobody who happened to be “Latino” (from the Dominican Republic) and was appointed to the post of U.S. Secretary of Labor by President Barack Obama. Perez never lobbied or campaigned for the spot but was pushed in to it by Obama and by the Democratic leadership and cheered by the anti-Trump haters who continue to disguise their hatred by asserting that they love Muslims, they love minorities, they love civil rights.
The truth is, their “love” is selfish politics and the suffering of Muslims, Arabs and other minorities is little more than just an opportunity for them. The anti-Trump haters will step on the backs of these “victims” in order to empower themselves politically.
You can read this column in the Arab News Newspaper in Saudi Arabia.
Mar 5, 2017
Mar 5, 2017
10 min
We must support Trump's War on the biased new media
By Ray Hanania
I’m not a big fan of the mainstream news media, which I define as the national press, (excluding the local community media).
President Trump’s attacks on the mainstream news media are justified and we should be supporting it.
The national news media lies. They exaggerate. They fuel racism and bigotry with their reporting. Their mantra “if it bleeds it leads” is the driving-force in determining what gets covered and what doesn’t.
In truth, the national news media is no longer independent, but owned by a small handful of multi-national conglomerates and corporations whose purpose is not fair reporting, but greed.
Mar 5, 2017
Mar 5, 2017
8 min
Commonsense approach to illegal immigration neededPodcast
By Ray Hanania
Not being a politician, President Trump probably rushed too quickly to crack down on the nation’s immigration problem.
America has an immigration problem that’s not about losing jobs or even protecting civil right, but rather is about being able to control who enters this country to keep the criminals out.
An estimated 13 million illegal immigrants live in America. President Trump and others estimate about 3 million of them are engaged in crimes, other than being illegal.
A common problem involves illegal immigrants who drive without insurance and get in accidents with other citizens who are left holding the bag. The illegal immigrant can hide and “disappear” leaving the victim dealing with the terrible costs of bad accidents that sometimes involve serious injuries and hospitalization costs. That’s unfair.
Mar 5, 2017
Mar 5, 2017
9 min
02-09-17 Tornadoes Hit Illinois 50 Years ago, Belvidere and Oak Lawn
Column Commenray Podcast by Ray Hanania
1967 was a tragic year in Illinois
Published in the SW Newspaper Group Feb. 9, 2017
By Ray Hanania
This year is the Golden Anniversary of one of the most tragic years in the lives of many Baby Boomers who still remember that far back to 1967.
It was kind of a wake-up call for many of us as we climbed out of mental nuclear bomb shelters made of wooden elementary school desks and realized that Sputnik was just a steel ball with antennas.
1967 started out with many momentous anniversaries, like the one that just passed January 26-27, when 23 inches of snow slammed Chicagoland and buried us forever in memories. A second major snow storm hit Chicago 12 years later in 1979, changing Chicago politics forever, although I am surprised that today, many young people don’t know of Jane Byrne, an icon of women’s achievement as Chicago’s first woman mayor.
The blizzard blurred, at least for Chicagoans, the other big news of Jan. 27 that shook the country. During a pre-launch test of Apollo 1 at Cape Kennedy (Cape Canaveral) in Florida, the interior command module of NASA’s Apollo spacecraft exploded in fire killing astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Grissom was the first of the Mercury Seven astronauts to die. ...