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Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
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.
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
Sunday Mar 05, 2017
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. ...
Thursday Feb 23, 2017
Thursday Feb 23, 2017
02-23-17 Vanessa Redgrave's righteous courage at the 1978 Oscars
Actress Vanessa Redgrave is a righteous and true champion of justice, a quality she courageously demonstrated during the 1978 Academy Awards presentations of the Oscars. Redgrave won an Oscar for her performance in the Hollywood film Julia, about a woman who raised mone to help fight the Nazis and save Jews from the Holocaust.
But, she also produced a documentary showing the righteous struggle of the Palestinian people against the violence and atrocities of the State of Israel. As a result, members of the terrorist organization the Jewish Defense League protested against her during the Oscars. And when she got up to accept her Oscar, she responded to the racist anti-Arab and anti-Muslim terrorist haters promising to continue her fight to help the oppressed.
Racist and bigoted Hollywood producer Sidney Paddy Chayefsky, who produced the racist anti-Arab hate film Network, later got up and denounced Redgrave declaring ridiculously that the Oscars was no place for political speeches and that she should just shut up.
Redgrave was punished for standing up for justice but she never caved. As the mainstream American news media, which is the promoter of anti-Arab hate and anti-Muslim bigotry, reflected on the 88th Academy Awards this week, they remembered many of themost notable moments of the past but did not mention Redgrave's courageous stand for justice against the pro-Israel bullies.
This podcast is the audio version of my column that was published in the Arab News on feb. 23, 2017.
Click here to read the column at the Arab News in Saudi Arabia.
Get more information on Ray Hanania by visiting his personal website at www.TheDailyHookah.com.
Thursday Feb 23, 2017
Thursday Feb 23, 2017
02-23-17 Introduction to Ray Hanania's podcast
Ray Hanania describes his podcasts and websites where you can read all his column including at the ArabNews.com, Middle East Monitor, theArabDailyNews.com and on his personal website TheDailyHookah.com.
And Hanania explains some thoughts on why he launched BiasedReporting.com to document and confront bias and racism in the mainstream American news media:
Thanks for listening to my podcasts. I really appreciate it.
I’m not a journalist or a reporter but I do write Opinion Column Commentaries, like the one you just heard. I write about American politics and issues for a group of newspapers in Chicago, the Southwest Newspaper Group.
I also write about Middle East politics and issues for the Arab News in Saudi Arabia at ArabNews.com, and for the American Arab online news and opinion website, TheArabDailyNews.com.
I archive all my columns on my personal website at www.TheDailyHookah.com where you can also find info on my books, my biography, and contact me. I love to hear what you think, even if we don’t agree. I hope you will share your opinions.
Recently, I also launched a new website called BiasedReporting.com which documents instances of bias and bigotry by the mainstream American News Media. I believe today’s American mainstream news media is corrupt. Over the years, it has been the driving force fueling the racism and hatred against minorities, including Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, Arabs and especially Palestinians. Oh sure, some reporters do a great job but the system is corrupt and broken. The news media is the biggest political organization in America, and it excludes and attacks those who challenge their political biases and sacred cows.
Instead of being objective and fair reporters, many hide behind the concept of a free press and press freedoms to twist news to reflect their partisan and subjective views and opinions and favorites. They give you opinion under the fake guise of being objective, when they are not.
If they like you, they are fair. If they don’t like you, you have no chance. Biased reporters can be vicious and they are the biggest hypocrites. If you criticize them, they whine, cry foul and respond with even more venom and bias.
I want to change that.
America needs an objective and fair news media that reports the facts, not opinions. And when they do express opinions, they must claim them openly and honestly and be accountable for those views. That’s what I do.
I hope you check it out and support my efforts online, on Facebook and on Twitter.
Thank you again for your time and your support.
Thursday Feb 23, 2017
Thursday Feb 23, 2017
02-09-17 Moderate Arab nations must lead in Trump era
Columnist Ray Hanania discusses the importance of moderate Arab countries like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates forging a new leadership to work with President Donald Trump during the next four years to ensure that the moderate interests of the Arab people are protected and advanced.
Trump has shown he wants to be a centrist on Middle East issues, despite a strong friendship with Israel. But that friendship with Israel does not mean that Trump has to support Israel's far rightwing agenda. He has already expressed concerns with some critical Israeli policies.
This is the column commentary podcast of Ray Hanania's column which appeared in the Arab News in Saudi Arabia on Thursday Feb. 9, 2017.
Moderate Arab nations must lead in the new Trump era
For the Arab News Feb. 9, 2017, Updated for Audio Podcast
By Ray Hanania
Assertions that Donald Trump is unfair to the needs of the Arab World are misleading and contradict facts, much like the claim that the newly elected American president Donald Trump “hates” Muslims.
Trump’s efforts to crack down on Islamic extremists who have openly vowed to kill Americans has been widely misinterpreted and wrongly denounced as a “Muslim ban.” It is clearly also not true that Trump has abandoned core issues of justice in the Arab World.
So far, when you look more closely, Trump’s actions are those of a President who is clearly seeking to embrace a more “centrist” approach to Middle East challenges.
Although Trump is scheduled to meet next week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Iran and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Trump has already started to build a strong base of understanding with moderate Arab World leaders.
Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with a Middle East leader was with Jordan’s King Abdullah II. The Jordanian Monarch had also met with Vice President Mike Pence in Washington D.C.
Click here to read the full column
Saturday Feb 11, 2017
Saturday Feb 11, 2017
The Power of Hollywood Movies in the Palestine & Middle East conflicts
Ray Hanania's podcast is an audio version of his column published Jan. 26, 2017 in th Arab News in Saudi Arabia. It discusses the power of movies and how they can significantly alter, change and impact the beliefs of the American people. Why are not stories of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian suffering told to the American people in Hollywood Movies the way the Israelis use movies to distort and exaggerate theirown stories. The Israelis lie but all Palestinians need do is tell the truth through film to make a significant difference in the American understanding of the Palestine and Middle East conflict.
How Hollywood movies define American policies
Published in the Arab News Jan. 26, 2017
By Ray Hanania
The battle between the biased American news media and President Donald Trump wasn’t the only thing on the minds of Americans during these past few weeks.
Nearly 20 million Americans went to theaters to watch “Patriots Day,” a dramatization of how two Chechen Muslims killed four Americans and injured hundreds more during a five-day terror campaign that began at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Although the 143-minute movie vaguely presented some of the motives of the two bombers, brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the focus was on the suffering of the victims and the people involved in capturing them. In the end, the film brought American audiences together against terrorism by Muslims.
It was a very emotional film, only one of a dozen of movies that define Arab and Muslim terrorism against Americans.
Movies like this strengthen the American resolve against terrorism while reinforcing stereotypes such as the false notion that terrorism only occurs when an Arab or a Muslim kills and American civilian. Most Americans don’t consider it terrorism when an American or an ally like Israel kills Arabs or Muslims. ...
Friday Feb 03, 2017
Friday Feb 03, 2017
Understanding Trump's Suspension of Immigration
Ray Hanania's podcast Feb. 3, 2017 discusses President Donald Trump's suspension of immigration from radical Iran and six other Arab countries that are in total and violent disarray, and why it is important to strengthen our borders and protect Americans from terrorists.
The podcast is an expansion of his exclusive and award winning weekly columns published at the ArabNews.com, TheArabDailyNews.com and his personal website TheDailyHookah.com.
Understanding the reality of Trump’s immigration policy
By Ray Hanania
President Donald Trump ordered the suspension of immigration from seven Muslim countries for 90 days and the entrance of refugees for 120 days fulfilling his much maligned campaign vow to crackdown on illegal immigration.
The seven countries are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
Immediately, nearly every Arab and Muslim organization in America joined in condemning Trump’s Executive Order calling it “anti-Muslim,” and referring to it as a “Muslim ban.”
None of the organizations, however, denounced the mainstream American news media which roundly demanded to know why Trump did not expand that order to also include Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Jordan.
Sadly, many Arabs and Muslims in America have been duped once again into believing that the mainstream American news media, Americans as a society and the many protestors who have denounced Trump’s action the “Muslim ban” really care about Arabs or Muslims.
They don’t.
Here is the truth that the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim media doesn’t want to report, and that the protestors are ignoring. ... Continue reading the column by clicking here.
Thursday Jan 26, 2017
Thursday Jan 26, 2017
Jane Byrne, Donald Trump and fighting news media bias
Podcast of Ray Hanania's column on how former Mayor Jane M. Byrne tried to confront bias in the news media and almost succeeded, but how President Donald Trump can overcome news media bias by using the Internet, blogging and social media that was not available to Byrne in 1979.
The American mainstream news media is racist and biased and often act like a political party rather than an objective journalism profession that they claim to be. There is a difference between reporting and Journalism, with opinion, column and commentary writing. Many journalists and reporters act as opinion commentators. Journalists on TV News report not as objective reporters and journalists but as powerful opinion commentators asserting their opinions and their interpretations of facts rather than reporting the facts.
There is nothing wrong with opinion commentary but there is somethign wrong with reporting that claims to be objective but in fact is tainted with commentary, subjective opinion and political partisan interpretation.
(Ray Hanania is an award winning political columnist, feature writer and author. He covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992. Permission is granted to republish column in its entirety with full attribution. Email him at rghanania@gmail.com with comments. Hanania writes on Middle East issues for TheArabDailyNews.com and on mainstream issues for TheDailyHookah.com .)
The Podcast Opinion Editorial Commentary (Op-Ed) is from a version of this column that appeared on Tremr.com and shorte rversions that were published in Chicago newspapers and on Hanania's online news and opinion websites listed above.
Don't forget to follow Ray Hanania on Twitter at Twitter.com/rayhanania and on Facebook at Facebook.com/rghanania.
Friday Jan 13, 2017
Friday Jan 13, 2017
01-13-17 Arab Radio on Obama and Trump presidency's
Radio Podcast with host Ray Hanania, Friday Jan. 13, 2017, sitting in to host Radio Baladi on WNZK AM 690 radio.
Hanania writes a weekly column on Thursdays for the Arab News at ArabNews.com and publishes his own writings and columns at TheArabDailyNews.com and at his personal website TheDailyHookah.com
Hanania supports peace, justice for the Palestinians, non-violence and a rejection of the ikhras fanatics who are a cancer in our Arab culture. He also rejects the identity of us being Muslim and Christian, and believe the focus should be on both by identifying ourselves as ARAB and ARAB FIRST.
The show topic is the reaction of Obama’s farewell speech and the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Guests are:
Dr. Sahar Khamis is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland and an expert on Arab and Muslim Media. She is a media communicator, a public speaker, a human rights commissioner, and a radio host.
David Alexander Bullock is a graduate of Morehouse College. He received a Masters of Arts in Philosophy from Wayne State University in 2003. He has served as an adjunct college professor in Michigan and Illinois. He is the past President of the Highland Park NAACP. He is a past President of the Detroit Chapter of the Operation Rainbow Push and the state of Michigan Coordinator. He is nationally recognized as a key organizer of the successful campaign to repeal the Controversial Emergency Manager Law PA4. He is currently the Pastor of the Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park, Michigan. Davidalexanderbullock.com
Wednesday Jan 11, 2017
Wednesday Jan 11, 2017
01-11-17 Sprint Automated Voicemail Hell system
I called Sprint becauseI changed my account and they have been double billing me now for a month. They sent me a bill for my old account and charged me $274, and then sent me a bill for my new account and charged me $260. The new account covered the billing period of Dec. 5 through Jan. 4, 2017. That second bill came last week. I paid both.
Then I got a new bill for the old account with a -189 credit. And then a new bill for the new account for the same period Dec. 5 through Jan. 4, 2017 but this time for $259.97.
I figured, OK, something is out of whaack with Sprint.
So, I called the "Contact Us" number 1-888-211-4727.
I found myself in a 2 and 1/2 minute long voice mail hell of choices, most of which were marketing choices to push me to pay my bill automatically instead of by mail, or advertising pitches to get me to buy more services.
I waited patiently to each group of options, 1 through 5 and selected each number. When I finally got to where I wanted to be, the system gave me options -- none of which helped -- and then told me to go to Sprint.com to get my answeres.
When I touched Zero to get a live human being, the system simply said "Thank you for calling, Good bye."
And they hung up on me.
What a piece of crap Sprint is. I have been with them for some 15 years. I live in the suburbs but they have been charging me $24 in Chicago taxes and I have been trying to get them to stop that tax. I live in the suburbs The account is in the suburbs. I have one 312 number and three 708 numbers.
So now I am left with the only real option, taking my cell phones to another cell phone provider, maybe one that cares more about their customers than about making money.
I pay my bill on time every month. A Perfect record. And yet I can't get service. Worse, is that I have to suffer through those crappy Sprint TV Commercials which offer non-Sprint users a huge discount to trade in their phones from other providers to Sprint.
But as a Sprint customer for some 15 years, I don't get that option at all.
Read my column by clicking here.
(Ray Hanania is an award winning political columnist and former Chicago City Hall reporter. Email him at rghanania@gmail.com. Read his columns in the Des Plaines Valley News, the Southwest News Herald, the Regional News, the Reporter Newspapers, TheArabDailyNews.com and TheDailyHookah.com.)
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Data on anti-Muslim racism being distorted for politics
American Muslims are being exploited like pawns in a giant political football game between the left and the right. The data is being twisted to reflect the needs of the political groups at the expense of Muslims and Arabs in America. Just look at the statistics
By Ray Hanania
American Muslims are being exploited like pawns in a giant political football game between the left and the right.
Each side wants to twist and distort data regarding anti-Muslim discrimination to suit their own agenda, and narrowing it to address the generic concerns of “Muslims” while avoiding the more controversial issues of Arabs that leads to an unwanted discussion of anti-Palestinian biases.
The concern isn’t about what’s best for Muslims, or even for Arabs in America. Keep in mind that most Americans don’t distinguish between Arab Muslims and Arab Christians so when someone says they hate Muslims, they also mean they hate Christian Arabs, too.
Click here to read the full column ...
Thank you for listening to my column commentary Podcast at TheDailyHookah.com … My columns address issues from around the world including news, politics and slice-of-life topics from Chicago to Jerusalem. This podcast is an audio production of those print newspaper columns, and also features other independent audio.
My mainstream columns appear in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, and the Reporter Newspapers every Wednesday and Thursday and are viewable online, too, at TheDailyHookah.com.
My columns on Middle East topics appear every Thursday in the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com.
Download my Free Podcast App from the Apple Store or visit my website at www.TheDailyHookah.com.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Ruthless Thanksgiving this year with politics as side dish
Thanksgiving will be under more pressure this year in dining rooms across America if Facebook is any indicator of how Americans feel. The politics of the recent presidential election campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will have an impact, according to recent polls. Here’s my look at the annual food festival, American heritage commemoration and expected conflicts from my seat at the head of the table
Published in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, the Reporter Newspapers, Illinois News Network, Thursday Nov. 24, 2016.
By Ray Hanania
It doesn’t look like we can save Thanksgiving from the fall-out of the presidential election.
A recent survey of more than 1,000 Americans conducted by Meyocks Benkstein Associates in Iowa said more than half of the respondents said they expect the presidential elections and politics to be a concern this Thanksgiving.
It’s all about Donald Trump defeating Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 presidential elections. More than in any other election, the post-election animosity has reached record levels. (Clinton supporters were so convinced she would win, they just can’t get over it.)
Click here to read the full column ...
Thank you for listening to my column commentary Podcast at TheDailyHookah.com … My columns address issues from around the world including news, politics and slice-of-life topics from Chicago to Jerusalem. This podcast is an audio production of those print newspaper columns, and also features other independent audio.
My mainstream columns appear in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, and the Reporter Newspapers every Wednesday and Thursday and are viewable online, too, at TheDailyHookah.com.
My columns on Middle East topics appear every Thursday in the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com.
Download my Free Podcast App from the Apple Store or visit my website at www.TheDailyHookah.com.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Reminder Arabs forgotten even in Obama era
By Ray Hanania
President Barack Obama and the U.S. Census released data recognizing the commemoration of Native American Heritage during the month of November, but have never acknowledged the achievements of American Arabs in this country.
It’s a true reflection of Obama’s hypocrisy in limiting the definition of “diversity” to include only certain minorities. Although Obama was nurtured in an Arab community environment in Chicago, with close associations with prominent American Arabs who helped him grow his political career, the president has been little more than a stranger to American Arabs.
That tragic truth was reinforced this week when the U.S. Census released its celebration of Native American Heritage Month this month in data through the U.S. Census.
November is also Arab American Heritage month in Illinois, and also celebrated in April in several east coast states including Washington D.C., New York and New Jersey. But, there is no consistency in the celebration ad no acknowledgement.
Click here to read the column online ...
Thank you for listening to my column commentary Podcast at TheDailyHookah.com … My columns address issues from around the world including news, politics and slice-of-life topics from Chicago to Jerusalem. This podcast is an audio production of those print newspaper columns, and also features other independent audio.
My mainstream columns appear in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, and the Reporter Newspapers every Wednesday and Thursday and are viewable online, too, at TheDailyHookah.com.
My columns on Middle East topics appear every Thursday in the Arab News newspaper and online at the ArabNews.com.
Download my Free Podcast App from the Apple Store or visit my website at www.TheDailyHookah.com.
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
Rebranding ourselves as “Arabs” in the new Trump era
Why Arabs need to reinforce their identification as "Arabs" rather than as Muslims in the new era of President Donald Trump. Branding ourselves as Arabs will also help us fight the religious extremists and counter the rising anti-Muslim fears in the West and in the United States
Arab News Thursday November 17, 2016
By Ray Hanania
It’s time for the Arab World and Arab people to rebrand themselves in the era of newly elected President Donald Trump if we expect to see our issues addressed fairly.
Arabs can sit back and let events overtake us the way they always do. Or, we can become active and do what needs to be done that we haven’t done so far.
What can we do? We need a new Arab Spring, one driven by people with a clear, unified and achievable goal.
We need to replace emotion with reason, effective communications messaging, and goals that are more clearly defined to build bridges, not create obstacles with the West.
Arabs need to stop allowing others to define us. We need to define ourselves. And we have to answer a very important question: Are we “Muslim,” or are we “Arab?”
Click here to read the column at the Arab News
This is Ray Hanania’s column commentary Podcast … Hanania’s columns are published each week in newspapers throughout the United States and in the Middle East.
He writes on American politics and life in Chicagoland every week in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, and the Reporter Newspapers.
Hanania also writes a weekly column every Thursday for the Arab News at www.ArabNews.com. And, writes news and features for his website at TheArabDailyNews.com and for the Daily Hookah at www.TheDailyHookah.com.
An award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter named Best Ethnic Columnist by the New America Media, and recipient of the Sigma Delta Chi award for writing, Hanania is of Palestinian Arab heritage.
You can reach him and share your opinions and thoughts by emailing him at rghanania@gmail.com. All his columns are archived at RayHanania.com.
This podcast is available at Podbean.com and also for free subscription on iTunes.
(An award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter and columnist. American Palestinian Arab, Hanania writes a weekly column for the Arab News at www.ArabNews.com. He also writes each week for several mainstream American newspapers on American politics and life in Chicagoland. Reach him at rghanania@gmail.com.)
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
Why Donald Trump won the Nov. 8 election
Trump won by promising “change.” Trump won because he connected with mainstream American voters. Trump won because Americans are sick and tired of the racism and bigotry of the mainstream American news media. The more the media beat up on Trump, the more Trump's supporters came out to vote. Trump won because Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate. Trump won because he had the backing of the middle class Americans, the "Reagan Democrats."
Nov. 17, 2016, Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, The Regional, The Reporter newspapers
By Ray Hanania
Hillary Clinton lost the election because many mainstream Democrats tired of her arrogance, hypocrisies and insider elitism, and they abandoned her.
Just look at her numbers: In 2012, Barack Obama won 65.4 million votes against Mitt Romney (who got 61 million votes). In 2008, Obama won 69.6 million votes against John McCain (who got 60 million votes).
Hillary Clinton only received 60.9 million votes, slightly more than the 60.4 million votes Donald J. Trump received. But Trump defeated Clinton in the “battleground” states where it counted most, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin and North Carolina, earning 289 delegates while Clinton earned only 228.
One voting block that rejected Clinton and supported Trump were the “Reagan Democrats,” conservative Middle America Democrats disappointed with Obama.
Trump’s supporters connected with criticism of ObamaCare, which failed to provide affordable healthcare. Insurance and prescription costs are rising through the roof. Something must be done.
This is Ray Hanania’s column commentary Podcast … Hanania’s columns are published each week in newspapers throughout the United States and in the Middle East.
He writes on American politics and life in Chicagoland every week in the Des Plaines Valley News, Southwest News-Herald, The Regional News, and the Reporter Newspapers.
Hanania also writes a weekly column every Thursday for the Arab News at www.ArabNews.com. And, writes news and features for his website at TheArabDailyNews.com and for the Daily Hookah at www.TheDailyHookah.com.
An award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter named Best Ethnic Columnist by the New America Media, and recipient of the Sigma Delta Chi award for writing, Hanania is of Palestinian Arab heritage.
You can reach him and share your opinions and thoughts by emailing him at rghanania@gmail.com. All his columns are archived at RayHanania.com.
This podcast is available at Podbean.com and also for free subscription on iTunes.
(An award winning former Chicago City Hall reporter and columnist. American Palestinian Arab, Hanania writes a weekly column for the Arab News at www.ArabNews.com. He also writes each week for several mainstream American newspapers on American politics and life in Chicagoland. Reach him at rghanania@gmail.com.)