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Posted on April 24, 2018April 24, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Ray McGovern: Russia and U.S. Senators Want Disarmament, U.S. Media Does Not

Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s five most senior read more

Posted on April 17, 2018April 17, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Scott Ritter: Syria and the Myth of Ethical Wars

Scott Ritter is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer who worked in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD. He is the author of Deal of the Century: How Iran Blocked the West’s read more

Posted on April 10, 2018April 10, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Norman Finkelstein: Gaza Finds Nonviolence

Norman Finkelstein received his PhD from the Princeton University Politics Department in 1988. He is the author of ten books that have been translated into 50 foreign editions, including The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering and, most recently, Gaza: read more

Posted on April 3, 2018April 3, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Keeping the F-35 Out of Burlington

Our guest, James Marc Leas, is a Vermont attorney and a past co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Free Palestine Subcommittee. He has been a leader of a campaign to block the stationing of F-35 jets in Burlington, Vermont, and of the formation of a Vermont chapter of World Beyond War. Jimmy Leas, welcome read more

Posted on March 27, 2018March 27, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Mitchell Plitnick on John Bolton

Mitchell Plitnick is former vice president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is the former director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and was previously the director of education and policy for Jewish Voice for Peace. read more

Posted on March 20, 2018March 20, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Shahid Buttar on Why He’s Running to Unseat Nancy Pelosi

Shahid Buttar, who should be familiar to peace and justice activists, is now running for public office in an open California primary for the seat in Congress now occupied by Nancy Pelosi. Learn more: https://shahidforchange.us

Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
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Posted on March 13, 2018March 13, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Jeffrey Kaye on U.S. Bioweapons Used in North Korea and China

Jeffrey Kaye is a retired psychologist and the author of Cover-up at Guantanamo: The NCIS Investigation into the “Suicides” of Mohammed Al Hanashi and Abdul Rahman Al Amri. He has written for Alternet, The Guardian, Shadowproof, and Al Jazeera America. He has just published read more

Posted on March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Sarah Williams Goldhagen on How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

Sarah Williams Goldhagen is a contributing editor at Architectural Record and served as the Architecture Critic of The New Republic from 2005-2013. Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The American Prospect, and Art In America, and she has contributed read more

Posted on February 27, 2018February 27, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: David Sheen on Israel Deporting African Refugees

David Sheen is an independent journalist and filmmaker born in Canada, now reporting from Israel/Palestine. His work focuses primarily on racial tensions and religious extremism. In 2017, Sheen was named a Front Line Defenders Human Rights Defender, the only person in Israel to receive that honor in a read more

Posted on February 20, 2018February 20, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Michael Knox on the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation

Michael Knox is an Emeritus Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida, Chair of the US Peace Memorial Foundation, and Editor of the US Peace Registry. His antiwar activities began in 1965 in opposition to the war in Vietnam. As a delegate to the 20th National Student Congress, read more

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Talk Nation Radio

Talk Nation Radio is a 29-minute show, with a new episode released every Wednesday at TalkNationRadio.org and available free to any station. The host, David Swanson, interviews guests — usually one per show, occasionally two — on a wide range of topics but with a particular focus on peace, justice, and political action. Guests have included authors, artists, activists, and elected officials. The length of the interviews allows some in-depth exploration of topics often under-reported elsewhere. All past shows are available on the website.

Talk Nation Radio is syndicated by Pacifica Network and is free to any station or website.  Please ask your local stations to air it.  There’s a new 29-minute show here every Wednesday.

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Talk Nation Radio airs on WTJU, Charlottesville, VA; WCSX-Detroit, MI; KGHI, Westport, WA; WHUS, Storrs, CT; WPRR, Grand Rapids, MI; KRFP-LP, Moscow, ID; KZGM, Cabool, MO; KMUD, Garberville, CA; WAZU, Peoria, IL; WXRD, Crown Point, IN; Geneva Radio, Geneva, NY; KKRN, Round Mountain, CA; KSKQ-LP, Ashland, OR; WUOW-LP, Oneonta, NY; No Lies Radio, Pinole, CA; WYAP-LP, Clay, WV; The Detour, Johnson City, TN; WZRD, Chicago, IL; WEFT, Champaign, IL; WXPI, Pittsburgh, PA; WDRT, Viroqua, WI; Veracity Now, online; Liberty and Justice Radio, Shirley, MA; Ithaca Community Radio, Ithaca, NY; WMCB, Greenfield, MA; PRX.org; KAOS 89.3fm, Olympia, WA; WUSB 90.1 FM, Stony Brook, NY; WOOL-FM, Bellow Falls, Vermont; WSLR-LP 96.5 in Sarasota, Florida; Activate Radio in Boston, MA; Grateful Dread Public Radio in Nashville, TN; KWRK-LP 90.9 FM, Fairbanks Open Radio; WIDE-LP 99.1 FM Madison WI; WEJP-LP, Wheeling, WV; WJVA-LPFM 106.5. Portsmouth, VA; KDNK – 88.1 FM Glenwood Springs, CO; WZBC, Newton MA; WGRN Columbus, Ohio;

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Some of Talk Nation Radio’s past guests (listen to them all on this website) include:

Husain Abdulla
Elliott Adams
Christine Ahn
Shireen Al-Adeimi
Sarah Ali
Gar  Alperovitz
Robert Alvarez
Pat Alviso
Rooj Alwazir
Randall Amster
Rocky Anderson
Mary  Anne Grady-Flores
William Arkin
Erin Aubry Kaplan
Patricia Axelrod
Aspen Baker
Natylie Baldwin
Ajamu Baraka
Amanda Bass
Colin Beavan
Judith Bello
Medea Benjamin
Nell Bernstein
Keane Bhatt
William Blum
Max Blumenthal
Leah Bolger
Eric Bonds
Francis Boyle
James Bradley
Reiner Braun
Rose Braz
Jeremy Brecher
Jean Bricmont
Dale Brumfield
Thomas Buonomo
John Burroughs
Shahid Buttar
Nick Buxton
Leslie Cagan
Richard Cahan
Lee Camp
Stephen Canty
Meike Capps-Schubert
Sheila Carapico
Silvio Carrillo
Maurice Carney
Dave Chaddock
Paul Chappell
Nasim Chatha
Erica Chenoweth
Kristin Christman
David Cochran
Patrick Cockburn
Jeff Cohen
Marjorie Cohn
Inder Comar
Marada Cook
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Bryce Covert
Sandy Davies
Suzie Dawson
Alice Day
Lincoln Day
John Dear
Charlotte Dennett
Fahad Desmukh
Karen Dolan
Thomas Drake
Timeka Drew
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Mel Duncan
Vincent Emanuele
Paul Engler
Peter Enns
Deirdre M. Enright
Benjamin Ferencz
Mike Ferner
Paul Findley
Norman Finkelstein
Bill Fletcher
Margaret Flowers
Jeff Fogel
Glen Ford
Brad Friedman
Doug Fry
Bruce Gagnon
Johan Galtung
Arun Gandhi
William Geimer
Lindsey German
Chip Gibbons
Jennifer Gibson
Ted Glick
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Rebecca Gordon
Kevin Gosztola
Jonathan Granoff
Mike Gravel
Alan Grayson
Zoltan Grossman
Karl Grossman
Arun Gupta
Michael Hadfield
John Hanrahan
David Hartsough
Edward Hasbrouck
Oona Hathaway
Wenonah Hauter
Michael Heaney
Kermit Heartsong
Richard Heinberg
Edward Herman
Joseph Hickman
Patrick Hiller
Adam Hochschild
Matthew Hoh
Joshua Holland
Elizabeth Holtzman
Steve Horn
Ken Hughes
Sam Husseini
Daniel Hyslop
Dahr Jamail
Jay James
Taif Jany
Raed Jarrar
Emily Johnston
Diana Johnstone
Ann Jones
Antonia Juhasz
Rob Kall
L.A. Kauffman
Jeffrey Kaye
Michael Kazin
Kathy Kelly
Sonia Kennebeck
Bruce Kent
Seth Kershner
Rania Khalek
James Kilgore
Margaret Kimberley
Ed Kinane
Stephen Kinzer
John Kiriakou
Annette Klapstein
Michael Knox
Charles Komanoff
Daniel Kovalik
Heidi Kramer
Allison Krause
Dennis Kucinich
Peter Kuznick
George Lakey
Jonathan Landay
Jonathan Latham
Jackson Lears
James Marc Leas
Barbara Lee
Hyun Lee
Betsy Leondar-Wright
Bruce Levine
Cynthia Levinson
Sanford Levinson
Charles Lewis
Amirah Lidasan
Dave Lindorff
Lisa Ling
James Loewen
Chase Madar
Benjamin Madley
Mairead Maguire
Colman McCarthy
Ray McGovern
Cynthia McKinney
Ntebo Mokuena
Nick Mottern
Bill Moyer
Farah Muhsin Al-Mousawi
Elizabeth Murray
Greg Muttitt
Winslow Myers
Michael Nagler
Celine Nahory
Stephen Nash
Judith Newman
Jonathan Newton
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Samantha Nutt
Greg Palast
Robert Parry
Trita Parsi
James Paul
Miko Peled
Manuel Perez-Rocha
Khury Petersen-Smith
John Pilger
Sam Pizzigati
Mitchell Plitnick
John Lindsay Poland
Robert Pollin
Gareth Porter
Vijay Prashad
Fred Ptucha
Mathias Quackenbush
Jesselyn Radack
Ted Rall
Karter Reed
Renato Reyes
Scott Ritter
Paula Rogovin
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David Rothauser
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Coleen Rowley
Rick Rozoff
Ahmed Salah
Brian Salvatore
Maria Santelli
Elaine Scarry
Maya Schenwar
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Ellen Schrecker
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Jon Schwarz
Eric Schwitzgebel
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Andy Shallal
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Tim Shorrock
Laurence Shoup
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Lisa Simeone
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Christopher Simpson
Aman Singh
Alice Slater
Aaron Smith
Norman Solomon
Eve Spangler
Barry Spector
Jill Stein
Holly Sterling
Rick Sterling
Rivera Sun
Lia Tarachansky
Sarah Thompson
Jean Trounstine
Hallie Turner
Nick Turse
Julianne Tveten
Sarah Van Gelder
David Vine
Andre Vltchek
George Vradenberg
Jon Walker
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