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Talk Nation Radio: Richard Wolff on Putting Workers in Charge at Work

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Richard Wolff is a professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Democracy at Work.  See http://democracyatwork.info

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
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Music by Duke Ellington.

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Talk Nation Radio: Robert Pollin: There Is No Fiscal Crisis

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There is no fiscal crisis. There is an unemployment crisis. And there is a solution: tax the banks. The support for this argument is explained by Robert Pollin, the co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.  His latest book and papers discussed during the program are here: http://backtofullemployment.org

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Talk Nation Radio: Marcy Wheeler: Brennan Is Obama's Cheney

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Marcy Wheeler blogs as Emptywheel at Emptywheel.net. She says John Brennan, the nominee for CIA director, has been Obama’s Dick Cheney, operating outside the law, lying about bin Laden, and lying about drones; the White House has killed an American for his speech; the CIA has stopped lying to Congress only by starting to tell Congress nothing read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Zunes on Kerry, Hagel, Brennan, and Obama Part II

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Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent action, Professor Zunes discusses the nominations of John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, and John Brennan, and the direction charted for the second term of Obama’s presidency.

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Talk Nation Radio: Sam Pizzigati: What Serious Progressive Taxes Would Look Like

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Sam Pizzigati provides perspective on what serious progressive taxation (and labor organizing and populist activism) would look like via the lessons of his new book “The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970.”  Pizzigati is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and editor of http://toomuchonline.org

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A Way to Stop the Violence

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The troubled souls (generally known in the media as “monsters” and “lunatics”) who keep shooting up schools and shopping centers, believe they are solving deeper problems.  We all know, of course, that in reality they are making things dramatically worse.

This is not an easy problem for us to solve.  We could make it harder to obtain guns, and especially guns designed specifically for mass killings.  We could take on the problem with our entertainment: we read more

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