Scottish independence vote may put Cameron's job at risk, NATO puts our lives at risk
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Talk Nation Radio: Kevin Zeese on Activist Media, TPP, Climate, Wars
Kevin Zeese (at right in image) is an organizer at http://PopularResistance.org We discuss activist journalism, stopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saving the climate, and ending the wars.
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
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Nixon's Treason Now Acknowledged
A George Will column this week, reviewing a book by Ken Hughes called Chasing Shadows, mentions almost in passing that presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon secretly sabotaged peace talks that appeared likely to end the war on Vietnam until he intervened. As a result, the war raged on and Nixon won election promising to end the war.
Will treats the matter as a technicality, citing the law against private diplomacy rather than the principle that one shouldn’t undermine a government’s
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We Won't Forget Wisconsin
A new film called Wisconsin Rising is screening around the country, the subject, of course, being the activism surrounding the mass occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011. I recommend attending a planned screening or setting up a new one, and discussing the film collectively upon its conclusion. For all the flaws in Wisconsin’s activism in 2011 and since, other states haven’t even come close — most have a great deal to learn.
The film tells a story of one state,
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Talk Nation Radio: Keane Bhatt: Human Rights Watch Must Close Revolving Door to U.S. Government
Keane Bhatt is an activist and writer who has organized a campaign to close Human Rights Watch’s revolving door with the U.S. government. Sign this petition.
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Nobel Peace Laureates
United We Stand and Shout and Dance and Make it Better
I’m looking forward to speaking on Saturday, May 10, at the United We Stand Festival in Los Angeles (and at an earlier event) where dozens of speakers and musicians will be standing together against such evils as: “the PATRIOT Act, NDAA, NSA, war on drugs, drones, … war, GMO, … central banks, corporatism,” and in favor of “Internet freedom, election reform, honest media/music/art, education/student leadership, the environment, ….”
This is nice timing,
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Tim Carpenter Will Be Badly Missed
Tim Carpenter seemed unstoppable. He was part of the WarIsACrime website from day 1, when its name was AfterDowningStreet. He was part of activism in this country from long before that. He was an organizer, a lobbyist, a rabble rouser, and a talker. The cell phone never left his ear, but that didn’t prevent him talking to you in person, and getting in more words per minute — and all of them right to the point — than an auctioneer. His emails were shorter,
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Here Comes Ukrainian Hemp
So the United States wants to buy hemp from the Ukraine. I suppose we should be happy. Anytime the U.S. government gives a country money that is not earmarked for weapons, we probably shouldn’t too closely examine the unelected neo-liberals and neo-Nazis handling the cash. Nobody pays attention to the Saudi government or the oil, wars, and terrorism it provides in exchange for U.S. largesse.
Of course if the hemp buy is part of a larger package deal that impoverishes the Ukraine for
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There Is A Deeper Wave Than This
A wave of action is coming on April 4th, the date they killed MLK, the date Cindy Sheehan lost her son, the date cherry blossoms and resisters to fascism begin to show after an endless winter of many, many years. Take a look at https://waveofaction.org
Electing a different president six years ago was not a partial step, a failed attempt, a warm-up round. It was a halftime show of circus clowns and cheerleaders. The partial step, the failed attempt, the warm up, the ground work, the
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Can We Really Blame Sociopaths?
I’ve been hearing increasingly from multiple quarters that the root of our problems is psychopaths and sociopaths and other loosely defined but definitely different beings from ourselves. Rob Kall has produced a quite interesting series of articles and interviews on the subject.
I want to offer some words of caution if not respectful dissent. I don’t think the “because chickenhawks” dissent found, for example, in John Horgan’s “The End of War”
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Talk Nation Radio: Zoltan Grossman on Nazis in New Ukrainian Government
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We discuss this article: “Ukraine: the Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Always Your Friend,” with its author Zoltan Grossman. Dr. Zoltán Grossman is a political-cultural geographer who teaches at The Evergreen State
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Arrest Bush in Richmond, Va.
To: Richmond, Va., Mayor Dwight C. Jones, Police Chief Ray J. Tarasovic, Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr,
From: David Swanson, author; Phil Wilayto, editor, The Virginia Defender; Ana Edwards, chair, Defenders’ Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project
We hope you will consider this request from deeply concerned Virginians on its legal merits rather than its acceptability in certain social circles or how it might be received by certain television talking heads.
Conspiracy to torture has long been
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Talk Nation Radio: Portland Oregon Supports Its Teachers and Students
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Portland Oregon is sitting on a budget surplus while overworking and undersupporting its teachers. And it’s not just the teachers who aren’t going to take it anymore.
Eric MacCartney is a member of the Portland Association of Teachers (PAT). He has been teaching for over six years, and now teaches fifth grade at Kelly Elementary, a Title I school in Portland’s Lents neighborhood. Before that he taught
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Talk Nation Radio: Edward Herman on the International Criminal Court (for Africa)
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This show opens with an awesome poem about drones by Misty Rowan.
Edward S. Herman says that Desmond Tutu is wrong to support the International Criminal Court, given its bias for prosecuting only Africans and only those Africans not working with the United States. Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he gave courses in micro- and macro-economics and financial regulation for
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The Story of Gaza
Young authors of fiction from Gaza, some of whom say they are finding Palestine on the internet while unable to see it exist in reality, have just published a collection of stories, written in English, marking the five-year anniversary of the 23 days from December 27, 2008, until Obama’s inauguration, during which Israel bombed the people of Gaza far more heavily than usual. They’re publishing a new excerpt of the book each of these 23
Talk Nation Radio: Andy Shallal on Why He Should Be Mayor of Washington D.C.
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Andy Shallal is running for mayor of Washington, D.C. Learn more and support him at http://andy4dc.com
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
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I Googled "Evil" And It Took Me to Google
Google may have been, unil now, the Obama of hip internet monopolies. No matter how many nations the President bombs, people still put Obama peace-sign stickers on their cars. No matter how many radical rightwing initiatives Google funds, people still think it’s a “progressive corporation” — How could it not be? It’s making progress!
Google is funding Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union,
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Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Kinzer on The Dulles Brothers
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Stephen Kinzer’s latest book, which he discusses, is called The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War.
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It's Not a Family and Those Aren't Jewels
Fats: In the family jewels?
Gary: In the family jewels, man!
Wyatt: Worst pain there is.
Gary: Broke my heart in two!
Fats: She broke more than your heart.
–Weird Science
It turns out that procreation of secretive criminal government agencies doesn’t require a male or a female, and family jewels have little to do with it. The CIA (short for Criminal Implementation of Arrogance) calls certain reports on its immoral and illegal activities its “family jewels.” John Prados, author
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