Courageous Thought Podcasts by Ray Hanania

Ray Hanania discusses the failings of American Democracy, the illegal vote held to change the Democratic Convention Platform to include Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, the slipshod actions of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villagairosa, and the failure of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama to embrace justice. Hanania talks about how ineffective American Arabs and Muslims are, and chastizes the poor leadership of the Washington American Arab organizations and the biased national Muslim organizations in this episode of Radio baladi on WNZK AM 690 radio in Detroit. Friday Sept. 7, 2012. www.RadioBaladi.com. www.TheMediaOasis.com

Radio Chicagoland Sunday Sept. 2, 2012 WSBC AM 1240 and WCFJ AM 1470 radio in Chicago Heights. www.RadioChicagoland.com Host Ray Hanania with Kheir Fakhreldin and Big Jon Vic. Guests included 8 am Adam Woodward of the Oak Lawn Children's Museum. 8:30 am Edith Garwood of Amnesty International discusses the Israeli ruling rejecting civil rights claims in the death of American Citizen Rachel Corrie who was murdered by an Israeli soldier during a non-violent protest to protect the home of Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Gaza Strip. A politically motivated Israeli judge ruled that Corrie was responsible for her own death, claiming she was in a war zone -- a defense denied to Palestinian resistance who not being in "war zones" are accused of terrorist violence. Hypocrites. Columnists 8:45 am Ruben Navarrette and 9 am Monroe Anderson discuss the aftermath of the Republican National Convention. Topics include Mitt Romney's speech, Clint Eastwood's antics, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, former President George W. Bush. President Obama and more. Hanania and Fakhreldin also have a chair in the studio that they use to talk to Clint Eastwood to bring out his hatred of liberals, Gays, minorities. Was Gran Torino, the 2008 movie, really a Clint Eastwood memoir rather than a fiction film?

Radio Baladi Friday August 31, 2012 8 am WNZK AM 690 radio. www.RadioBaladi.com with host Ray Hanania We talk with Craig Corrie, father of slain activist Rachel Corrie, about the lawsuit filed against Israel and the unjust ruling of the biased Israeli judge claiming that Rachel Corrie was defending the home of terrorists and that the ISM is associated with terrorist efforts. Corrie discusses the issues that the case has raised. We also talk with Edith Garwood of Amnesty International's Israel-Palestine section about the significance of the Rachel Corrie trial.

Radio Chicagoland Sunday August 26, 2012 with Ray Hanania and Kheir Fakhreldin 1240 AM WSBC and 1470 AM WCFJ radio. www.RadioChicagoland.com. 8 am Dan Rutherford, the Illinois Treasurer, talks about the Republican Convention and comments on remarks by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle that were critical of the late President Ronald Reagan. 9 am Steve Brown, top aide to Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, discusses the biased and slanted reporting of the Chicago Tribune and their targeting of Madigan's family members in "news" stories that are more opinion than fact. We also talk about the death of Neil Armstrong and how few Americans today were around but remember his quote. And we discuss other issues including the Navy Seal attacks against the commander-in-chief President Barack Obama, for political reasons, and the claim that Obama doesn't get credit for taking out Osama Bin Laden.

Radio Baladi WNZK AM 690 August 24, 2012 Friday morning Detroit, Michigan with host Ray Hanania. We discuss the deteriorating situation in Syria, the push for independence from Israeli and American control in Egypt and the need for American Arabs to better organize and increase their participation in the mainstream media to overcome bigotry and hatred by the media against Arabs in America. www.RadioBaladi.com

Radio Chicagoland Sunday August 19, 2012, 1240 AM WSBC and 1470 AM WCFJ radio www.RadioChicagoland.com. Monroe Anderson discusses the selection of Congressman Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney's chances to unseat President Barack Obama. We also discuss the man who killed a man who was a school classmate 50 years ago because 50 years ago the friend put a jock strap on the killer's head as a child and he never got over it. Evan Keliher discusses his new book "D.C. Shootout on K Street" and his theory that the Israelis have too much power in Washington D.C., a theme of his book. Hosts Ray Hanania, Kheir Kahreldin and Big Jon Vicc.

Radio Baladi every Friday morning 8 am Eastern EST on WNZK AM 690 radio live www.RadioBaladi.com with host and author Ray Hanania. We interview Evan Keliher the Dearborn teacher who wrote the political satire book "Wanted! An Honest Politician: D.C. Shootout on K Street" (2012). We also talk with listeners about changes that may be made in the US Census to include Arabs, Middle Easterners, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Christian Arabs, Muslims and more. The changes are a long time coming and the census count is important to assessing a community's strength, but more importantly, how much Federal and State funding they should receive. if you are not counted in the Census by race and ethnicity you don't get money. Visit www.hanania.com or www.Creators.com or www.SaudiGazette.com.sa to read Ray Hanania's columns on fighting the Census to make them honest and fair.

Radio Chicagoland Sunday August 12, 2012 with host Ray Hanania, Kheir Fakhreldin and Big Jon Vic www.RadioChicagoland.com 8 AM - Oak Lawn Attorney Jim Gierach discusses how drug laws feed the violence in Chicago 8:30 AM - Rob Warden, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law. CWC client Kristine Bunch is a step closer to freedom after languishing 16 years behind bars for the arson murder of her 3-year-old son in Decatur County, Indiana. The Indiana Supreme Court today denied the prosecution’s request to review an Indiana Court of Appeals decision reversing and remanding the case. Kristine is represented by a team led by CWC Advisory Board Member Ronald Safer, of Schiff Hardin; Kelly M. Warner, a Schiff Hardin partner, and CWC staff attorneys Jane Raley and Karen Daniel. Read the Indiana Court of Appeals opinion. Also, we discuss the Arabs at the Olympics and the challenges facing American Arabs with unfamiliar Middle Eastern names to survive in America. We talk about alternatives for them. Should they change their names? And which names are "safest?"

Radio Baladi Friday August 10, 2012, Detroit broadcast WNZK AM 690 Radio www.RadioBaladi.com with host Ray Hanania We discuss the Arab participation in the Olympics. 2012 marks the 100th Year of Arab participation in the Olympics and we discuss the performance of the Arab teams winning 10 medals including 1 Gold and the first Saudi Woman to compete in track in full hijab and modesty clothing. Also, we discuss the changing face of Egypt, Syria and deteriorating Palestinian-Israeli relations with scholar and columnist at The Daily Beast Hussein Ibish. Read his columns at the Daily Beast and also at NowLebanon.com.

Radio Chicagoland Sunday August 5, 2012. www.RadioChicagoland.com. Host Ray Hanania and side kick Kheir Fakhreldine and technician Bigg Jon Vic discuss topics including Gay Rights and the Boy Scouts; how Mitt Romney's election will, in a bizzare way, help bring peace to the Middle East by provoking more violence and hatred, rather than voting for the wishy-washy ineffective Barack Obama; The Olympic results -- the Arab countries Qatar, Tunisia and Egypt have medals but not Israel. And we talk with Emin, whose family lives in Aleppo, Syria under the brutality of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Radio Baladi Friday August 3, 2012 www.RadioBaladi.com with host Ray Hanania WNZK AM 690 radio. 8-10 am EST Detroit, Michigan. Our guest is the Editor of the prestigious Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Janet McMahon discusses the most recent issue of the magazine and stories including an overview of how members of the US Congress voted on important Middle East issues, the Israeli destruction of a Mosque in Jerusalem as a part of their ethnic cleansing policies, and the situations in Egypt and Syria. www.WRMEA.org

Radio Chicagoland Sunday July 29, 2012, www.RadioChicagoland.com with Ray Hanania and Kheir Fakhreldine. 8 AM - Creators Syndicate Columnist Ruben Navarrette discusses the issue of immigration and how the Hispanic vote may play out in the tight race for president between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Navarrette discusses why Hispanic voters often have a low voter turnout, especially among Mexican Americans. And he analyzes why only 67 percent of Hispanics support President Obama. 9 AM - International Private Investigator Paul Ciolino discusses the case against mass murderer James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado. Ciolino is a frequently tapped professional guest on CBS 60 Minutes investigation reports. Click for more details. We also take calls and talk to a researcher exploring the settlement of Arabs in South American countries like Chie, Venezuela and Columbia.

Radio Baladi Friday July 27, 2012 www.RadioBaladi.com with Ray Hanania 8 AM (Detroit): Actor Amin El-Gamal joins us to discuss his recent role as an Egyptian blogger in the HBO hit series The Newsroom. Click for more info. Not well publicized is the fact that Jessica Redfield, one of the murder victims in the Aurora, Colorado massacre, is actually a Palestinian American journalist by the name of Jessica Ghawi. Click to read her story Ray Hanania's interview on national radio about the Arabs on the Titanic. Click to listen to the interview

Radio Chicagoland Sunday July 22, 2012. 8-10 am. Host Ray Hanania. co-host Kheir Fakhreldin. www.RadioChicagoland.com. Chicago political and breaking news talk radio discussion, opinions and commentary. 8 AM - Professor Sam Staley Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation and Lead author of the Transportation plan for Chicago. He is Managing Director, DeVoe L. Moore Center at Florida State University. He discusses new findings on the challenges facing Chicagoland's transportation problems. Full Report Online: The full study is online here: http://reason.org/studies/show/chicago-mobility-reduce-congestion http://reason.org/files/chicago_transportation_plan.pdf Reason Foundation's transportation research is here: http://reason.org/areas/topic/transportation 8:30 AM - Creators Syndicate Columnist Ruben Navarette discusses the issue of immigration and how the Hispanic vote may play out in the tight race for president between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. .... AND the "Movie Theater Massacre" in Aurora, Colorado and the need for stronger gun controls. Read my column on why it's not the "criminals" who are doing all the killing, but rather regular people who can go out and legally get weapons. Click here. 9 AM - Columnists Monroe Anderson and Ali Younes discuss the Michele Bachmann attack against Huma Abedin. On the eve of Ramadan, we discuss the religious attacks by Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann against a Muslim staffer with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Many Republican leaders like John McCain have come out and criticized Bachmann for singling out Huma Abedin, Clinton's logntime aide, because she is Muslim. Bachmann has charged that Abedin's relatives are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Ironically, Abedin's husband is disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, who before being forced to resign from office in June 2011 one year ago because of lewd conduct. Weiner was one of the most vicious anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian members of the US Congress. Is there a difference when it comes to justice in palestine between non-Arab Muslims and Arab Muslims? How could a Muslim marry someone so viciously anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian. The incident reminds us of the vicious attack directed at Mazen Asbahi, also by rightwing members of the Tea Party and Congress. .... AND the "Movie Theater Massacre" in Aurora, Colorado and the need for stronger gun controls. Read my column on why it's not the "criminals" who are doing all the killing, but rather regular people who can go out and legally get weapons.

Radio Baladi July 20, 2012 with Ray Hanania WNZK AM 690 radio, 8-9 AM Eastern (EST) www.RadioBaladi.com. On the eve of Ramadan, we discuss the religious attacks by Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann against a Muslim staffer with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Many Republican leaders like John McCain have come out and criticized Bachmann for singling out Huma Abedin, Clinton's logntime aide, because she is Muslim. Bachmann has charged that Abedin's relatives are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Ironically, Abedin's husband is disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, who before being forced to resign from office in June 2011 one year ago because of lewd conduct. Weiner was one of the most vicious anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian members of the US Congress. Is there a difference when it comes to justice in palestine between non-Arab Muslims and Arab Muslims? How could a Muslim marry someone so viciously anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian. The incident reminds us of the vicious attack directed at Mazen Asbahi, also by rightwing members of the Tea Party and Congress. We also discuss the battle in Syria and the impending demise of Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad, and also the hypocrisy that signles out and demonizes Christians in the Arab and Muslim World with callers. Guests include columnist Ali Younes.