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What Would Have Worked Better Than Building Back Anything
The most well-known problem with lesser-evil, two-party, winner-take-all elections, at least in a system of legalized bribery and corporate-state media, is the absence of virtually any really good candidates. Naturally this results in (or is at least one major cause of) the tendency of many to not vote at all — with the United States claiming a lower voter turnout than many other countries it loves to look down on.
But the most serious problem is the tendency of those voters who do vote to
Talk World Radio: Is Wall Street Taking Over Ownership of Nature?
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Conscientious Objection: A Right and a Duty
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 16, 2021
I want to recommend a new film and a new book. The film is called The Boys Who Said NO! There’s more courage and moral integrity in this documentary than in any fictional blockbuster. With the wars now underway and threatened being as unjust as those 50 years ago (and with women now being added to U.S. draft registration) we need more saying No! We also need to recognize, as
VIDEO: David Swanson Discusses Syria on RT International
The Persistence of Pinkerism
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 12, 2021
I’m old enough to remember when you couldn’t do a speaking event related to war and peace without being asked numerous reasonable and not so reasonable questions about 9/11 (each accompanied by a stack of DVDs and flyers presented to you as a revelation from on high). There was a long period when you could count on the inevitable question about “peak oil.” I’ve been around enough to know that you can’t talk to peace-oriented people
Feel Like NPR Is Spewing Corrupt Propaganda? Here’s Why.
NPR posted a story called “Feel like you don’t fit in either political party? Here’s why.” Of course I knew why. Neither party supports anything remotely close to my views on government budgets, climate, environment, taxation, militarism, healthcare, retirement, housing, education, transportation, or any other significant policy area.
But NPR’s story was about a Pew poll that asked 16 questions
COPOUT 26 Left Out the Topics and People It Needed
By David Swanson, Labour Hub, November 9, 2021
I’m not sure what we should have expected from a 26th UN climate meeting after 25 previous meetings had generated the opposite of the purportedly intended result. What we got was a festival of greenwashing that included in the meetings more fossil fuel lobbyists than the delegates from any one actual government,
AUDIO: Mel Figueroa, Marjorie Cohn, David Swanson
By Chris Nelson, People Powered Radio KZFR, November 9, 2021
First segment: tekchico.org Chico Traditional Ecological Stewardship Program.
Second segment: www.marjoriecohn.com, www.assangedefense.org
Third segment: www.worldbeyondwar.org, www.cop26.info for the petition to demand militaries be included in the climate agreement.
Music:
Leave It in the Ground by The Bushwackers on The
Talk World Radio Debate: Reform War or Abolish It?
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm (except when it doesn’t work, and then Zoom is used). Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.