Ray Hanania On Politics, Media And Life

07-12-24 Ray Hanania on Radio in Michigan on the Biden-Trump presidential election Columnist Ray Hanania talks about the challenges facing President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the AbandonBiden movement, the challenges the nation faces from economy to crime, and what might happen in the presidential election as aguest host on WNZK AM 690 radio. Good morning everyone ... it is Friday July 12, 2024 ... I am Ray Hanania ... and this is the 4th Friday of the month here at Radio Baladi on WNZK AM 690 Radio I here on the 2nd Friday of every month ... during my off-season from Arab News Radio ... which should begin the six month season on August 1 ... overlapping the presidential elections We are broadcasting live on WNZK AM 690 radio and streaming live on the US Arab Radio Network at facebook.com/USArabRadio... check it out and share your comments there Make sure to check out my opinion and analysis columns at Hanania.com and my news stories and op-eds at ArabNews.com... And follow me on Tikto

06-29-24 Can Robert F. Kennedy Jr win in wake of distasrous Biden-Trump debate? Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania Biden's poor debate performance with Trump and if Biden should drop out for someone like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Biden-Trump debate was a complete disaster for the Democrats and a growing number of the public are feeling Biden cannot survive. Should Biden drop out of the presidential. race and should Democrats slate someone else? Or, can a third party candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., run against turmoil plagued Trump and a  very confused Biden and win? Should Democrats support someone else like Michelle Obama and abandon vice president Kamala Harris, who has been roundly criticized during Biden's first term in office?  Hanania was in Atlanta covering the Debate and discusses how the news media, CNN, tried hard to use the debate to strengthen Biden and undermine Trump, but in the end forced Trump to be "tempered" and controlled better leaving Biden to stumble, fumble and

06-06-24 S3E16 A look back at D-Day; Giving VA benefits to Americans serving in a foreign country, Trump's legal challenges and the Lewinsky scandal, and Illinois election restrictions   Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania discuss the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion and the sacrifice that American soldiers made to defeat the Nazis during World War II. Lipinski, a historian on World War II, discusses the challenges or soldiers faced that brutal morning on June 6, 1944 at Normandy, France.   The efforts of two members of congress to pass legislation that would grant full veteran benefits to Americans who serve in Israel's military. State Reps. Max Miller (R-OH) and Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), said they want Congress to provide protections and benefits to Americans who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), regardless of whether or not they first served in the U.S. Military.   Click here to read my column on the topic: ⁠https://hanania.substack.com/p/pro-israel-pac-recipients-urge-benefits⁠   A

05-30-24 Trump Trial, Kennedy censored by media and Sam Alito's upside down flag Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania discuss former President Donald Trump's trial on 34 charges of allegedly falsifying business records, the bias of the news media engaging in the trial and the Democrats doing everything they possibly can to prevent Trump from returning to the White House.Lipinski and Hanania questioned the validity of the charges noting how a conviction will only increase and strengthen Trump's popularity in the upcoming election, and throw American into further disarray. As they discussed the issue, the jury found Trump guilty on all 34 charges. Click this link read story.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/30/trump-hush-money-trial-verdict Lipinski and Hanania also talk about how the Democrats and the News Media are doing everything to prevent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from becoming president. Kennedy, a conservative, could take votes away not only from Trump but also from President J

5-03-24 Should Robert F. Kennedy Jr. be part of the Trump-Biden debates? And, comparing student protests today with 1968 S3E14 Two Guys on Politics: Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania discuss “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast presents a Reagan Democrat Perspectives from Chicagoland’s Southwest Side and the Midwest. Lipinski and Hanania explore the upcoming presidential debates. Should RFK Jr be included. And Lipinski and Hanania discuss the student protests at Universities and colleges over the Israel-Hamas in Gaza. They compare the student protests today over the Israel-Gaza war and the protests that divided America during the Vietnam war and how the protestors disrupted the 1968 Democratic Convention and had a negative impact on the candidacy of Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey. Assertions of outside influence today reflect the same assertions of outside influence in 1968, and the brutality used against student protestors then and now are compared. Bill Lipinski served as Democratic Committeeman/Alderman of

04-24-24 S3E13 Israel, Ukraine & Taiwan Aid; Tiktok influence; Hollywood's anti-Trump movie "Civil War," & Robert F. Kennedy Jr's challenge to become president Two Guys on Politics Episode Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania discuss “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast presents a Reagan Democrat Perspectives from Chicagoland’s Southwest Side and the Midwest. Lipinski and Hanania explore the impact of movies and Hollywood on American politics, including a look at the film "Civil War" which some call an anti-Trump propaganda film; and also GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson juggling his leadership and party politics; and updates on the RFK Jr candidacy. Lipinski and Hanania also discuss the role of GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson and his role in passing the 95 billion aid package for Israel Ukraine and Taiwan. Lipinski and Hanania talk about how American politics is being manipulated by the pro-Israel community to push through without challenge funding for Israel, one of the world

04-18-24 S3E12 The Iran attac on Israel and Reagan's strategic defense initiative; Kennedy Family abandon's RFK Jr, and Donald Trump on trial A Two Guys on Politics podcast Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania discuss “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast presents a Reagan Democrat Perspectives from Chicagoland’s Southwest Side and the Midwest. Lipinski and Hanania explore the continued deterioration of the role of the United States as a leader of the Free World as conflict expands and escalates in many different arenas. 1 - Strategic Defense Initiative that was set up by former President Ronald Reagan and our co-host, and Iran Drone attack. (Israel attacked Iran on April 1, 2024 killing 12 Iranians, and Iran responded with its drone strike that was taken out mainly by the United States which continues to prop up Israel's rightwing government. 2 - Kennedy family turns back on RFK Jr and endorses Joe Biden. But the Kennedy Family today is nothing like what it was 60 years ago when it was led by President J

04-11-24 S3E11 Two Guys on Politics: the OJ SImpson judicial flaw; non-citizens voting, and seniors turning to gambling when government doesn't do enough for them “Two Guys on Politics” Podcast presents a Reagan Democrat Perspectives from Chicagoland’s Southwest Side and the Midwest. Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania discuss: 1 - OJ Simpson finally gets justice, and the "OJ Simpson flaw" in our American justice system 2 - Voting by non-citizens on local elections in some states; courts strike it down 3 - cracking down on illegal immigrations 4 - how not enough is being done to help Seniors who flock to the false promise of gambling wins at casinos Bill Lipinski served as Democratic Committeeman/Alderman of Chicago’s 23rd Ward. Lipinski was elected to Congress in 1983 and served through 2005. He currently writes the “Right from the Center” opinion column at BillLipinski.com Ray Hanania covered Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 and writes mainstream opinion columns for The Southwest N

04-04-24 S3E10 Two Guys on Politics: WSJ poll shows Trump leading Biden; Israel losing American public support, RFK & No Label Updates. Is RFK addressing the right issues? A "TWO GUYS ON POLITICS" podcast for the "Ray Hanania on Politics" podcast series Hosts Bill Lipinski and Ray Hanania discuss a recent poll by the Wall Street Journal showing Trump leading Biden in the presidential race. Does that mean that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can sweep away the anti-Biden and anti-Trump supporters? Or is Kennedy failing to see the issues that Biden and Trump are fumbling? Is Kennedy focused on issues that are not the primary focus of the American people? And they discuss polling by the PEW Research Center and another by the Associated Press showing support for Israel diminishing the longer the Gaza war continues ... including the Israeli killing of 7 aid workers with the World Central Kitchen, a humanitarian group that provides food in crisis situations to refugees and victims of war. One of th

03-29-24 S3E9 Joe Lieberman, the neverending elections counts, Kennedy's vice president, and Council Wars II This is a TWO GUYS ON POLITICS podcast (merged with RAY HANANIA ON POLITICS podcast. Two Guys on Politics: Lipinski and Hanania discuss thew passing of Senator Joseph Lieberman; the fact that nearly two weeks since the March 19 Democratic Primary, the critical race for Cook County States Attorney is still undecided; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces his VP Choice Nicole Shanahan; and the growing fight in the Chicago City Council. Senator Joe Lieberman, a former candidate for VP with Al Gore in 2020 passed this week. Lipinski knew Lieberman well and talks about him. The critical race for Cook County State's Attorney is still up in the air nearly two weeks after the election with no clear decision, partly driven by the expanded voting system that seems uncontrolled and scattered with many ballots depending on the poorly performing U.S. Postal System to deliver them. The leader is retired Ap

03-07-24 S3E8 Super Tuesday results with Trump Nikki Haley and anti-Biden protest, 3rd Party Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr and the effort to keep Trump off the ballot "Ray Hanania on Politics podcast" "Two Guys on Politics": Lipinski and Hanania discuss the Super Tuesday election results, the negative role the mainstream news media is playing int he election strengthening Trump, assertions that many of the voters supporting Nikki Haley were Democrat who crossover votes, and discuss the efforts by 3 states who sought to remove Trump from their ballots and the US Supreme Court's unanimous decision to block that illegal move. They discuss how the media's biased manipulation of news attacking Trump is actually strengthening Trump among voters. If Trump wins, it's the mainstream news media that should be blamed, not what failed candidate Hillary Clinton asserted were the immoral conduct of the "deplorables," wnyone, she said, who supported Trump. Both Lipinski and Hanan

02-29-24 S3E7 Biden, Trump #AbandonBiden Arabs in Michigan election, the No Labels Party & Robert F. Kennedy Jr's candidacy Two Guys on Politics: Lipinski and Hanania discuss the Michigan elections and the results involving President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, GOP challenger Nikki Halley, and the impact of the #AbandonBiden campaign of anti-Biden protests in the Arab and Muslim community. Will the anti-Biden Arab/Muslim protest vote prevent Biden from winning the November 5, 2024 Presidential/General election? Will Trump be convicted before the Republican Convention or before the election? WHy is Nikki Haley still in the election against Trump and what does or can she expect in the upcoming months? Hanania and Lipinski also discuss updates on the "No Label" independent political party, and the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Can a third Party candidate win? WOuld No Labels embrace Kennedy? What happens if no one gets enough Electoral College Votes in the election, if nei

02 28 24 Osama SIblani Publisher of Arab American News on Gaza and the anti Biden campaign Arab American News Newspaper publisher explains the depths of concerns of Arab Americans towards President Joe Biden and his inaction and failure to prevent Israel from continuing its genocide against Palestinians int he Gaza Strip. On Tuesday Feb. 27, 2024, Arab, Muslims and allies in the African American and Asian communities voted "uncommitted" in the Michigan Democratic Primary as a protest against Biden's primary nomination. Michigan is one of a handful of states in which Biden only narrowly defeated former President Donald Trump in 2020. More than 100,000 voters voted "uncommitted" rather than voting for Biden. Siblani discusses some of the insights that expose Biden's weakness, including that the Republican Primary attracted more than 1.1 million voters, while the Democratic primary barely received 750,000 total votes casts howing that the Democrtaic base in Michigan is in jeopardy.

02-15-24 Interview with Radio Host Mohammed Faheem S6E3 Ray Hanania on Politics for Feb. 15, 2024 interviews Mohammed Faheem, the cohost of The Lightning Strike Radio SHow on WCPT 820 AM Progressive Talk Radio. Faheem co-hosts the show with former 45th Ward Ald. John Arena and the two discuss a wide range of issues including politics. Hanania and Faheem discuss the challenges that Arab Christians and Muslims, Muslims and people of color including Indians and Pakistanis and others face in an America that doesn't always have the knowledge about issues they face each day. Faheem is Indian and offers a perspective that isnot often heard in America.Visit https://www.TLSChicago.com for more information on the program each week and the scheduled guests. For more information Ray Hanania, visit https://RayHanania.com

01 30 24 Mahnoor Ahmad candidate for the 6th District on bias in 6th District S6E2 By Ray Hanania Mahnoor Ahmad, who is running for the 6th Congressional District candidate seat in the March 19, 2024 Democratic Primary Election, has been the targeted of bias and attacks from members of the Illinois Democratic Party.Democrats, fearing that incumbent Congressman Sean Casten will loose to her int he primary election, have been banning her from participating in Democratic candidate forums. Ahmad participated in the forums hosted by the League of Woman Voters in Elmhurst and in a forum in Naperville, but has been criticized by Democrats because protestors angry with Casten's unresponsive policies over the past two years have demanded that he be accountable. They are blaming Ahmad for the protests -- because she happens to be Muslim, a woman of color, and a minority. Ahmad also supports a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war to prevent the killing of more civilians. More than 30,000 people have been massacred in Ga

01-30-24 Washington Post attack on Women in Saudi Arabia is political hypocrisy S6E1 By Ray Hanania S6E1 Jan. 30, 2024 Tennis stars Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova co-wrote an Op-Ed for the Washington Post, one of America'smost influential and hypocritical newspapers in the country. The Washington Post is not the same fiercely independent newspaper of the 1970s Watergate years, but rather is today a biased partisan political platform that slams the Arab World, denigrates Arabs and Muslims, closes its eyes to anti-Palestinian brutality and hypocrisy -- publishing only enough, but not enough -- and pandering to the far Left against mainstream and conservative Americans. The Evert/Navratilova column urges that Saudi Arabia not be permitted to host the Women's Tennis Association finals because of "discrimination against women." The problem of course is that Evert/Navratilova are silent on the continued discrimination against women that exists right here int he United States. Are women equa

12-01-23 Israeli carnage in Gaza wipes out family of American NGO professional By Ray Hanania Chicago -- All 14-year-old Siwar Almadhoun wanted to do was play basketball while her nine-year-old brother, Omar, dreamed of one day playing soccer. But the dreams of the two young children were violently shattered in the early morning on Friday, November 24 while they slept when Israeli forces dropped massive bombs on their home in Beit Lahia in the Gaza Strip. Also killed in the indiscriminate Israeli carnage were their parents, Majed, 41, and Safa, 38, and two other children Reman, 18, who had just started college, and Ali, 7, said Hani Almadhoun, Majed's brother and an American who supervises charitable fundraising for needy families for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA-USA) in Washington D.C. Only two of Majed's daughters, Roa and Salam, survived the onslaught because they were married living with their families in Rafah. "Siwar, the basketball player. A 14-year-old girl. She

11-10-23 Ray Hanania Interviews Amer Zahr on Israel propaganda and the war on Gaza won Radio Baladi in Detroit Radio Baladi Friday Nov. 10, 2023 with Ray Hanania WNZK AM 690 Good morning everyone ... it is Friday Nov. 10, 2023 and I am Ray Hanania here at Radio Baladi on WNZK AM 690 Radio I host the program on the 2nd Friday of every month ... Today we're going to take your calls at 248-557-3300 and talk with our guest Palestinian American standup comedian and lecturer Amer Zahr about the Israel carnage of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the rising anti-Arab hate promoted in Congress, the news media and across the American political spectrum ... but mainstream Americans are increasingly questioning's Israel's violence which many have called "war crimes" ... Amer has a powerful narrative about the Israeli assault against Palestinian civilians in Gaza and we need to get the word out so Americans can hear the truth. His presentations are effective especially with American audiences ...

When it comes to helping Arabs, call me Arab, not MENA, 3-18-23, S5E3 March 18, 2023 S5 E3 Ray Hanania gives an impassioned argument on why the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) category will undermine the effort to provide equal rights to Arab Americans. State Rep. Cyril Nichols introduced a law in 2022 that would recognize Arabs as an MBE (Minority Business Enterprise category) when it comes to received preferential treatment in the award of 25-30 percent of the state's $100 billion in annual contract awards. MBE status has been given to African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians and Women, to ensure that they can compete for the contract set-aside, with the majority of contracts, more than 70 percent, going to mainstream businesses. Instead, a group of self-serving Arabs have introduced their own bill in response to the Nichols legislationt o grant MBE status to the MENA category, which is mostly non-Arabs from th Middle East and from North Africa including African Americans who already q

Former Orland Park Asst Village Manager analyzes misguided referendum to eliminate Managerial form of government Video of former Orland Park assistant village manager discusses the referendum to eliminate the village managerial form of government proposed by controversial Mayor Keith Pekau. In a political move, Pekau introduced an ordinance to replace the managerial form of government at a meeting on Monday Feb. 20, 43 days before the citizens could vote on the referendum. The ordinance outlines his plans to take control by appointing a village manager he controls directly By Ray Hanania Karie Friling the former Director of Development Services and former Asst. Village Manager for Orland Park, Illinois, discusses with host Ray Hanania, the proposed referendum introduced and pushed by Mayor keith Pekau to eliminate the professional Village Manager and Managerial Form of Government. If passed, the referendum on April 4, 2023 would open the way for Pekau to become a full time mayor with a larger salary. Friling