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Posted on May 4, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Grant Smith on Israel Within the Virginia State Government

This week on Talk Nation Radio, our guest is Grant Smith whose latest and ninth book about the Israel Lobby is called The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise Of The Virginia Israel Advisory Board. You can find it at https://virginia.israellobby.org. read more

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Richard Tucker on What WWII Did and Is Doing to the Environment

This week on Talk Nation Radio we talk with Richard Tucker, who is one of the editors of the new book, Nature at War: American Environments and World War II. Richard Tucker is an environmental historian at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the read more

Posted on December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

Talk Nation Radio: The Need to Ban Nuclear Weapons and Energy

This Week on Talk Nation Radio, we speak with two of the key people behind Beyond Nuclear International, which you can find at beyondnuclearinternational.org


Linda Pentz Gunter and Cindy Folkers

Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist as well as its read more

Posted on July 30, 2019July 30, 2019

Talk Nation Radio: Jeremy Kuzmarov on Obama’s Unending Wars

Jeremy Kuzmarov has taught at numerous colleges across the United States and is author of four books on U.S. foreign policy including The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce, with John Marciano and the new book that we will be discussing and which I read more

Posted on June 4, 2019June 4, 2019

Talk Nation Radio: Joe Emersberger on the Media, Assange, Venezuela

Joe Emersberger is a Canada-based writer who writes primarily these days for FAIR.org, the Canary, and Counterpunch, and previously for Telesur English. You can find him on Twitter at rosendo_joe We discuss the media, Julian Assange, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
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Posted on May 28, 2019May 28, 2019

Talk Nation Radio: Ross Caputi on the Sacking of Fallujah

Ross Caputi is a PhD student in History at UMass and a coauthor of the critically important new book The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History. Ross Caputi’s experience as a U.S. Marine in Fallujah in 2004 compelled him to speak out against the war and to organize solidarity efforts read more

Posted on May 21, 2019May 21, 2019

Talk Nation Radio: Danny Haiphong on American Exceptionalism and Innocence

Danny Haiphong is an activist, journalist, and scholar. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles have also appeared in The American Herald Tribune, MintPressNews, and CounterPunch. His work was featured read more

Posted on April 9, 2019April 9, 2019

Talk Nation Radio: Vijay Mehta on How Not to Go to War

Vijay Mehta is an author and peace activist. He is Chair of Uniting for Peace and founding Trustee of Fortune Forum Charity. His notable books include ‘The Economics of Killing’ (Pluto Press, 2012) and ‘Peace Beyond Borders’ (New Internationalist, 2016). His current book is ‘How Not To Go To read more

Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

Talk Nation Radio: Liz Remmerswaal Hughes on Peace Activism in New Zealand

Liz Remmerswaal Hughes is a member of the Coordinating Committee of World BEYOND War. She is the Country Coordinator for World BEYOND War in New Zealand / Aotearoa where she works with a number of peace organizations. In 2017 she was awarded the Sonia Davies Peace Award which enabled her to study Peace read more

Posted on September 25, 2018September 25, 2018

Talk Nation Radio: Hawes Spencer on Charlottesville’s Summer of Hate

Hawes Spencer is a journalist who has reported for the New York Times, NPR, the Hook, and other publications. He has taught journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University and James Madison University. For over two decades, Hawes Spencer edited two weekly newspapers in Charlottesville, read more

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