http://www.federfiles.com/ en-us 2012-05-15T12:20:06-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000150.html Eliminate All Suffering (Or Your Money Back!) You know those ads on TV and in Magazines where a new drug cures every possible physical and mental illness? The ads where, in the first 20 seconds, they tell/show you the benefits, then for the next forty seconds they give the long list of side effects? Well, I’ve “invented” a new wonder-drug that also cures everything, and, being the responsibe fellow that I am, I haven’t neglected to list the side effects. Read all about it here.... Magazine mikefeder 2012-05-15T12:20:06-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000148.html Last fall a small production group spent 7,000 dollars on a very effective 30 second spot explaining and championing the Occupy movement. It wound up on major television channels and was seen by over Three million people! The same group, LoudSauce, will be spending more money this time to break through the corporate media's wall of censorship. Submissions for spots are being accepted now--so not only can you donate to this group if you want, but you can submit your own TV spot to air on major cable news stations. Here's the e-mail I got from one of the principles involved (check out the video explaining how it works): Hey Mike, Thought you'd like to know about the launch of Occupy the Airwaves by Occupy.com and LoudSauce -- a platform enabling the crowdfunding of TV time. You might remember LoudSauce's campaign last year where they raised less than $7,000 from... Magazine mikefeder 2012-04-29T09:38:21-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000147.html Please check out my "revision" of the 23rd psalm for modern Republicans on Youtube called New Republican Prayer. And my recent blog post on Huffington Post about American Exceptionalism.... Magazine mikefeder 2012-04-13T15:18:31-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000146.html Anybody familiar with Middlemarch by George Eliot? I'm in the midst of reading (as usual, with my old eyes, listening to an audio-recording of) Middlemarch... Eliot's writing is extremely cerebral; everything is observed in the most nuanced way. Sometimes, the narrative x-rays of the character's thoughts and feelings are over-extended; there’s a sense of icy dryness about... However, for the most part, these analyses of the characters' internals lives are pin-pointedly accurate and often sublime. There is a great deal of plot movement; a lot actually does happen—marriages, deaths, travel, accidents, reversals of fortune… But you don't really notice it very much—and you certainly don't get carried along by it in great emotional waves as you do with Dickens. And that's because Eliot's focus is almost always internal. There is, in Middlemarch, the inevitable theme of a woman trying to survive and even thrive in a man's world. I say... mikefeder 2012-04-09T12:10:17-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000145.html Friends, I read a very important and almost shocking article about the take-over of our Universities and colleges by the FBI, Defense (War) Department and Dept. of Homeland Security. It's astounding how deeply and widely these agencies are involved in every aspect of life in colleges... It's not a long piece but will be, I'm sure, eye-opening and a serious warning to anyone who thinks there is some privacy or security left in this country. The very agencies that are supposed to provide for security are the ones to fear the most. The writer is Michael Gould-Wartofsky and the piece is on TomDispatch: (there's a short intro before the piece that's worth reading too and please check out Michael's other work). **FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN'T SEEN IT, please take a look at my Youtube video: New Republican Prayer (if you like it, spread the word).... mikefeder 2012-04-08T10:16:32-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000144.html Pleaese take a look at my re-working of the 23rd Psalm on Youtube: New Republican Prayer Also, my recent piece on Huffington Post about American Exceptionalism (We're Number 1!!!!! Right? Aren't we? ... Is anybody listening?)... Magazine mikefeder 2012-04-05T19:59:18-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000142.html During my last Occupied Territory show on PRN.FM (March 29th)—I did a live phone interview with Brenton Lengel, who, along with some other people from a self-described "affinity" group (i.e. a self-appointed splinter posse) of Occupy Wall Street, "occupied" WBAI-FM radio in New York City the night before. Mr. Lengel orated at length—mutual conversation obviously not being his strong point—about why he and his affinity-raiders had occupied WBAI and what their "demands" were. I’ve interviewed a lot of people in my thirty plus years on the air, but I have rarely put up with a more narcissistic, clue-less individual intent on sucking up precious air time. Mr. Lengel is a self-identified actor and playwright who, before addressing any urgent political issues, made sure to tell me in detail about his new play and when it was going to be produced. In ”occupying” WBAI, he has clearly found a convenient stage... Magazine mikefeder 2012-04-01T22:00:52-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000140.html VIEW MY YOUTUBE VIDEO (A RE-WORKING OF THE 23RD PSALM)... IT'S CALLEDL, THE NEW REPUBLICAN PRAYER.... Magazine mikefeder 2012-03-17T12:42:14-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000138.html 1) Pity The Billionaire, The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of The Right, by Thomas Frank. His previous books include The Wrecking Crew and What’s The Matter with Kansas? (Frank is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who now writes for Harper’s magazine). This a wonderfully written, deeply researched analysis of the bizarre and, ultimately, moneybags-manipulated rise of the Tea Party. The book also asks and answers the question: How did the theory and practice of Free Market capitalism get tranmogrified into a religion, complete with its own holy texts (The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged), high priests and massive, organized media arm? This kind of subject is right on Frank’s beat—and he’s got a great writing style; a sort of professionally controlled disgust and disbelief, combined with a sharp sense of humor—and all of it based on objective observation and facts. 2) Uprising, How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of... Magazine mikefeder 2012-02-21T11:58:25-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000136.html THE UNITED STATES OF FEAR by Tom Englehardt, long-time book editor --now manager/editor of TomDispatch (a wonderful on-line political cultural commentary site). An historical review and current summary of the way the Pentagon and a combination of crazed right-wing ideologues and corporate interests served us up two unnecessary and criminal wars; and how a national security state, in league with the CIA and the Defense Dept. has progressively swallowed up American freedoms-- Strangelovian but true details of the great cost; in money, lives and to our basic freedoms of our military empire overseas and our "security" empire here at home. Tom is a journalist par excellence and writes with style and passion. CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE, Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It by Jeffrey Clements (with a foreword by Bill Moyers). Clements is a former Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and... Magazine mikefeder 2012-02-02T12:29:38-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000135.html The CURRENT RADIO SHOWS page (See link to your left) has finally been updated. Info on the various radio shows I do is yours for the clicking. This website, which I was considering donating to the Museum of Ancient Websites (MAW), will slowly but surely be rebuilt so that it reflects the modern world; or at least as much of it as I can reasonably be expected to deal with.... mikefeder 2012-01-18T11:48:05-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000134.html Friends, For several weeks now, I've been devoting one hour of my SiriusXM program on Saturday night to the Occupy movement. I've had people calling in live from various cities (Chicago, Oakland, Denver, Boston, Atlanta, and several other places) and I've been interviewing activists, economists, historians, lawyers and journalists familiar with the issues this movement is concerned about. With all it's faults, I believe this Occupy movement, including all it's international antecedents and parallel groups, is, possibly, a last ditch stand against an increasingly Corporate/Military controlled government in the USA and the rest of the world. As a lot of you know, I've won the Gold medal in pessimism many times over the years, but, for once, I actually see some hope--as expressed in these various protests, demostrations, et. al. With all this in mind, I've started a new program on PRN (Progressive Radio Network It's on Wednesdays from 1-2pm... mikefeder 2011-11-02T09:47:47-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000133.html SINCE I'M HAVING TROUBLE UPDATING VARIOUS PAGES ON MY WEBSITE, A REMINDER ABOUT MY RADIO LIFE... I'M ON EVERY THURSDAY AFTERNOON FROM 1-2PM EASTERN ON THE PROGRESSIVE RADIO NETWORK (PRN) AT: http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com Archives of all shows are available at: http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-turning-point/ I'M ALSO ON EVERY SATURDAY FROM 5-8PM (EASTERN) ON SIRIUSXM 127. (I'm not on WBAI right now but that's always a possibility-- the management and I are only a couple of million apart on my contract) A FEW OF THE BEST OF MY RADIO STORIES ARE ON THE VINTAGE RADIO SHOWS PAGE. LISTENER RESPONSES TO ALL RADIO SHOWS, NEW OR OLD, ARE COMPULSORY--THEY COUNT FOR 75% OF YOUR FINAL GRADE.... Magazine mikefeder 2011-10-28T10:21:52-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000132.html I know we're all worried about the state of our Republic and whether or not anyone seems to understand what America means anymore… Also, what can we do to heal things? Well, there's one guy who has the answers and I thought I'd just extend this recent invitation from a prominent PR firm so that you might drop in and find out for yourselves... The following is the first paragraph of a notice sent to me just yesterday: "Hi Mike- For consideration, please see a media advisory for a special panel discussion with HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER ERIC CANTOR (R-VA) on Sunday October 9, 2011 at 7:30 pm at the West Side Institutional Synagogue located at 120 West 76th Street in New York City. The public panel [.addresses the question], "ARE AMERICAN VALUES IN DECLINE AND HOW CAN THEY BE FIXED?" So, there you go, bunky-- The man who has almost... mikefeder 2011-10-06T12:01:44-05:00 http://www.federfiles.com/archives/000131.html For new (and some old) visitors… Please take the time to check out my Vintage Radio Shows and MP3 page. There are some selected stories that I consider to be among the best of my 30 year career. Some are funny, some sad, some a mixture of both; and, occasionally even (not to be grandiose) inspiring— All are, at the very least, extremely good entertainment. As always, if you like them, get in touch with me and consider telling other people...... mikefeder 2011-09-02T18:28:14-05:00