There are some simple truths surrounding all the nonsense being spewed by Israel’s agents and its cheerleaders in the United States, Canada, Europe as well as elsewhere in the Anglophone world. First of all, Israel is no democracy and never has been one since its foundation over seventy-five years ago. It used massacres of entire villages and other assorted terrorism to drive three quarters of a million indigenous Palestinians from their homes. It then passed laws to forbid any return home by those refugees. Many of those displaced are to this day still living in United Nations (UNRWA) funded settlements, up until recently in Gaza, and also in neighboring countries. Diaspora Jews with no roots in the historical Palestine were by way of comparison allowed to enter and settle freely and were given the stolen Palestinian properties. The Palestinians who did not flee and unfortunately found themselves within the new Israeli borders had only limited rights compared to their Jewish neighbors even though many of them were nominally Israeli citizens.

The City of Columbus, high-end developers, and mining companies have been hoarding local quarries for two centuries. Now one of Columbus’s last remaining quarries – which is not surrounded by high-end development or a fake metro park – will remain a dumpster of sorts, even though a Native American burial mound could be on a small island in the middle of its rain-filled crater.

In the 1800s, thousands of Italian immigrants flooded into the near west side of Columbus to make $1 a day hacking out limestone with pickaxes and were often beaten by their Upper Arlington bosses if they slacked. Many decades later, after the limestone was extracted, the quarries turned into lakes from rainfall, sold to developers, and ringed with high-end developments, such as at Runaway Bay.

Chair SUSAN YOUNG of the Pacifica Radio National Board pitches your participation in the current national delegate election and the need for impartial observers to guarantee a fair outcome.

We then hear from activists NINA KELLER and HEDY TRIPP about a great victory won by grassroots campaigning against a proposal battery storage facility once slated for western Massachusetts.

RAY MCCLENDON reports from Georgia on the terrifying campaign being waged to strip the voter rolls and block certification of the legitimate outcome in the November 5 election.

WENDI LEDERMAN & JAMIE FRIEND raise issues about the vote counts and ballot integrity in Georgia, Florida and elsewhere.

We then hear from LYNN FEINERMAN, MYLA RESON, ELISSA MATROSS & SLUGGO WASSERMAN remember the amazing perils & passions of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.

GEORGE CROCKER introduces his new book About Power & tells us about the birth of the renewable energy industry in Minnesota in the 1980s & 1990s.

Californian PAUL GIPE, a major pioneer in the wind industry, fills in the blanks from his office in Bakersfield.