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“Extreme opposites resemble the other. Each believes that we have only two choices: appeasement or war, suicide or surrender, humiliation or holocaust, to be either Red or dead.”
—John F. Kennedy

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
—George W. Bush (joking at a Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, DC March, 2001)

In the last 50 years or so, I've watched the U.S. go from a country where most people felt they were getting a piece of the American Dream to one where two-income families can barely make ends meet; where jobs seem frighteningly insecure; where access to health care is not assured and could be lost with a layoff; where a secure retirement seems far from certain; where the media has all but stopped doing stories questioning authority; and where trade agreements and globalization are taking away what's left. The American people, and the people of the world, are being colonized by the largest corporations.   The American Dream seems a distant memory. Many Americans are disgusted with politics and have withdrawn from the broad-based discussion of issues that is the oxygen of Democracy. 

It took the 2000 elections, George W. Bush, and his cronies to finally wake me up.  Now I am trying to understand what is happening to our country.  The more I've learned, the more I've realized how hard it is for people to get the essential information to understand what the corporate mass-media news isn't telling us.

U.S. citizens seem to have gone to sleep, to be incapable of action, the way a trapped animal will act when it discovers that it is helpless. Party politics seem like a useless way to approach what ails the United States of America.  This is, perhaps, another kind of American Dream.

But what is there to do about any of it?  I am an individual citizen living near a small, semi-rural city.  I had to search hard to find the kind of balanced information that I felt I could rely on to form real opinions.  As you all know, it's not easy to come by, but that's the sort of content I try to provide on the station.

As I continue to awaken politically, I'm hoping to gently help other people start to awaken from what threatens to become the new American Dream, the denial trance of the disenfranchised-who-don't-know-it-yet.  

I am not playing all new programming every day, so American Dream Radio may be a place to send someone who wants to know about what some of the issues are that are most affecting the quality of our lives.  The station is intended to be a starting place for those who do not know these issues yet, more than a station to listen to all day every day.  American Dream Radio is a place where people can go, any hour of the day or night, to hear about these essential ideas and about what some people are doing about them. 

New content is being added all the time, but the essential issues remain and so do some of the excellent speeches and interviews that cover these issues.  I hope you will forgive the repetition, but our focus issues don't change very quickly; often not at all.  These are not half-baked, late-breaking news stories, but carefully considered and well-digested points of view about difficult and complex issues.

American Dream Radio is not going to cover all the worthy causes.  Our focus is on our core issues; the ones that most need to be resolved in order for the others to be resolvable.  If we can begin to harness the runaway influence of the corporations many other critical changes will be able to flow from that.

Primarily American Dream Radio covers issues regarding the way corporations have changed our U.S. democracy.  We talk about the shrinking of the middle class in America and, with it, the loss of the American Dream.  We cover corporatism in many of its forms; loss of influence with our representatives, election reform, media, globalization, economics, privatization of water rights, genetic engineering, and more.

Our plan is to shortly begin to offer more content from activists who are making a difference from their local communities and to begin to do interviews with people who typically don't get much air time.  We have been broadcasting since June, 2003 and are ramping up our content as quickly as possible, considering that all the work on the station is done between trying to earn a living in this difficult U.S. economic climate.

Any donations to the station will help with our work and will allow us to do things like eliminate the obnoxious Live365 audio and pop-up ads from our station.  Of course, individual listeners can eliminate ad content (including popups) by subscribing to Live365 as Preferred Members (under $4 a month).  Any financial support will be greatly appreciated.  Go to our "Support" page  to contribute by credit card via PayPal or other means of payment via snail mail.

Also, I am very interested in your ideas for content.  Please e-mail with your thoughts.

Jerry Krantman
jerry@americandreamradio.org

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